Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are equipped with optical systems including an infrared (IR) camera such as electro-optical IR (EO/IR), target acquisition and designation sights (TADS), or forward looking IR (FLIR). However, images obtained from IR cameras are subject to noise such as dead pixels, lines, and fixed pattern noise. Nonuniformity correction (NUC) is a widely employed method to redu...

Since 2012 August Voyager 1 has been observing the local interstellar energy spectra of Galactic cosmic-ray nuclei down to 3MeV nuc and electrons down to 2.7 MeV. The H and He spectra have the same energy dependence between 3 and 346MeV nuc, with a broad maximum in the 10–50MeV nuc range and a H/He ratio of 12.2 ± 0.9. The peak H intensity is ∼15 times that observed at 1 AU, and the observed lo...

We studied genotype by environment interaction (G × E) for body weight (BW) of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) from the National cod breeding program in Norway. Records of 13,811 fish in a nucleus farm (NUC) and two test farms (PENorth, PESouth) in year-class (YC) 2007, and for 9149 fish in NUC and one test farm in YC 2010 were available. Heterogeneity of variances and heritabilities ( ) were es...

Those kinds of infinite direct sums are characterized for which NUC (NUS, respectively) is inherited from the component spaces to the direct sum. 1. NUC and the lower KK-modulus. The Banach space X is said to be nearly uniformly convex, abbreviated NUC (cf. [2]), if: for every ε > 0, there exists δ > 0 such that the convex hull conv{xn} of every sequence {xn} in the unit ball BX of X with separ...

BACKGROUND Most patients come to the catheterization laboratory without prior functional tests, which makes the cost-effective treatment of patients with intermediate coronary lesions a practical challenge. METHODS We developed a decision model to compare the long-term costs and benefits of 3 strategies for treating patients with an intermediate coronary lesion and no prior functional study: ...

Staphylococcus aureus is the most frequently isolated pathogen from bovine mastitis including subclinical, clinical, and chronic infections. Virulence factors possessed by S. aid in causing infection inflammation producing toxins proteins, which are responsible for pathogenesis of disease. In current study out 51 animals presented with clinical mastitis, was milk 18 animals. confirmed genus spe...

The authors proposed a novel approach to non-uniformity correction (NUC) of microbolometer focal plane arrays in microbolometer thermal cameras. This approach includes thermal drift correction without interrupting the thermal observation. For this purpose a translucent shutter is used instead of an opaque one. The authors provide detailed description of the proposed thermal drift correction app...

Rainbow trout is a globally important fish species for aquaculture. However, fish for most farms worldwide are produced by only a few breeding companies. Selection based solely on fish performance recorded at a nucleus may lead to lower-than-expected genetic gains in other production environments when genotype-by-environment (G × E) interaction exists. The aim was to quantify the magnitude of G...

Kaon and pion coupling constants to hyperons are calculated in the bound-state approach to strangeness in the Skyrme-soliton model. The pion and kaon coupling constants are properly defined as matrix elements of source terms of the mesons sandwiched between two single-baryon states. Numerical calculation of the coupling constants shows that the bound-state approach well reproduce the empirical ...

Background: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) exert their anticancer effects by modulating the interaction between tumour and immune cells. ICIs are more active in ‘hot’ tumours characterised high density of infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). The cell contexture (cell type, spatial location) microenvironment (TME) influences outcome such interactions. Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs...