Hyperspectral imaging is a new remote sensing technique that generates hundreds of images, corresponding to different wavelength channels, for the same area on the surface of the Earth. Supervised classification of hyperspectral image data sets is a challenging problem due to the limited availability of training samples (which are very difficult and costly to obtain in practice) and the extreme...

Ceramic tiles are bacteriostatic materials; however, the COVID-19 emergency has pushed tile producers to improve surfaces’ antibacterial properties. The aim of this work was validate a silver-based treatment applied porcelain stoneware based on natural and waste materials, thus correlating surface functionalization composition relevant physical, microstructural, textural parameters. before firi...

Background Stentor coeruleus is a large ciliated protist, about 1mm in length, with the extraordinary ability to fully regenerate each fragment after being cut into pieces, perfectly restoring cell polarity and morphology. Single-cell regeneration in Stentor remains one of the greatest long-standing mysteries of biology, but the recently published Stentor genome now enables studies on this orga...

Morphological signatures are powerful descriptions of the image content which are based on the framework of mathematical morphology. These signatures can be computed on a global or local scale: they are called pattern spectra (or granulometries and antigranulometries) when measured on the complete images and morphological profiles when related to single pixels. Their goal is to measure shape di...

Rock joints morphological characteristics strongly influence the shear strength dilatancy response of discontinuity. Morphological features rock are commonly identified with a roughness descriptor along standard 100 mm-length profile detected by instrumentation such as profilometers. This work extends method proposed for fractal analysis particle contours to describe joint profiles in terms qua...

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to assess the relationship between postsurgical cephalometric changes and quality of life and satisfaction after orthognathic surgery. MATERIAL AND METHODS Sample size consisted of 30 patients with class III and 25 patients with class II malocclusion treated with bilateral sagittal split osteotomy and Le Fort I osteotomy. Profile convexity, lower facial heig...

In this paper, we describe the design of a profile generator toolkit, which aims to automatically create realistic user profiles for a mobile personalized portal service. These profiles simulate actual user behavior and are utilized to experiment with a personalized crawling system, called eRACE. With the help of this tool, we will assess the performance and scalability of the eRACE system by c...

Experimental chronic (45-day-old) skin lesion in hamster hind foot induced by Leishmania (Viannia) lainsoni infection showed the presence of promastigote forms in the tissue, inside parasitophorous vacuoles, as assessed by transmission electron microscopy. Experimental in vitro interaction (24 and 48 h) between Leishmania (V.) lainsoni and J774-G8 macrophage cells also demonstrated the same pro...