Leaf Area Index (LAI) is a key input parameter in many eco-physiological and climate models. Therefore, the development of methods to accurately and timely retrieve LAI over large areas is essential to fully understand the Earth system. The inversion of radiative transfer models is a “universal” method to retrieve LAI from remotely sensed images because it is independent from the study area and...

Aptitude tests analyse the aptitude of persons for studying at a specific school or university as well as for working within a specific company. Due to the recent technology advances, web-based solutions are increasingly used for the implementation of aptitude tests. These web-based aptitude tests can be utilised for rather standardized test methods, testing a large amount of users. Based on th...

Direct analysis in real time (DART) is a recently developed ambient ionization technique for mass spectrometry to enable rapid and sensitive analyses with little or no sample preparation. After swab-based field sampling, the organothiophosphate malathion was analyzed using DART-Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry (MS) and tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS). Mass r...

The DART framework is one of the most appreciated theoretical arguments about the co-creation of new products and services by firms with the support of customers. In the internet age, companies very often started using web and social media in order to develop and/or design their new products and services with the support of users. This spread innovation approach made the DART framework somehow ...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) provide low-cost, embedded sense-and-respond capability, and are therefore an integral part of the vision of pervasive computing. Most research on WSNs to date has focused on the development of efficient protocols for infrastructure establishment. Application development for WSNs is still very daunting for the non-expert. This paper proposes hierarchical layers o...

Operator Discretization Library (ODL) is an open-source Python library for prototyping reconstruction methods for inverse problems, and ASTRA is a high-performance Matlab/Python toolbox for large-scale tomographic reconstruction. The paper demonstrates the feasibility of combining ODL with ASTRA to prototype complex reconstruction methods for discrete tomography. As a case in point, we consider...

This study investigated whether expert dart players utilize hand trajectory patterns that can compensate for the inherent variability in their release timing. In this study, we compared the timing error and hand trajectory patterns of expert players with those of novices. Eight experts and eight novices each made 60 dart throws, aiming at the bull's-eye. The movements of the dart and index fing...

One approach to Imitation Learning is Behavior Cloning, in which a robot observes a supervisor and infers a control policy. A known problem with this “off-policy” approach is that the robot’s errors compound when drifting away from the supervisor’s demonstrations. On-policy, techniques alleviate this by iteratively collecting corrective actions for the current robot policy. However, these techn...

Aegilops tauschii Coss. is the D-genome donor to hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) and is the most promising wild species as a genetic resource for wheat breeding. To study the population structure and diversity of 81 Ae. tauschii accessions collected from various regions of its geographical distribution, the genomic representation of these lines were used to develop a diversity array t...