Cigarette smoke can be fatal to human health, as it contains a plethora of hazardous compounds such as volatile organic compounds (VOCs). To assess the toxic effects of cigarette smoke, both qualitative and quantitative information about the VOCs in cigarette smoke are essential. However,...

Recently, we proposed a sampling algorithm for diffusion networks that locally adapts the number of nodes sampled according to the estimation error. Thus, it reduces the computational cost associated with the learning task when the error is low in magnitude, e.g., during steady state, and...

Pupil segmentation is a first and important topic of iris recognition, identity recognition and eye movement information extraction for mental analysis. However, due to the negative effects of eyelash occlusion, eyelid occlusion and off-gaze deflection, making a precise pupil segmentation is a...

Two parallel Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC) are the components of 2-Channel TI-ADC (for Time-Interleaved ADC). They are addressed at times nT and is the clock period). ”Timing skews” are biases of these sampling times. They vary slowly, and they have to be estimated and corrected. In...

Determining Adequate Sample Size (ASS) and Minimum Plot Size (MPS) are two fundamental issues in urban vegetation investigations. To estimate ASS and MPS of urban plants, we introduced sampling completeness into MPS calculation and examined the species-area curves method and CV Jack1 (the...

The use of irrigation is a practice that brings numerous advantages to the rural producer, however, the precision in its management depends on an adequate representation of the Available Water Capacity (AWC), obtained by the analysis of the Soil Water Retention Curve (SWRC) in undisturbed...

We address a concern about the external validity, in particular, the representativeness of the sampled population, of an experiment conducted with university students. We do so by conducting large-scale (partly) incentivized online surveys of students at a Japanese university and of a sample of...

Internal and surface imperfections are known to reduce the fatigue strength of parts fabricated by laser powder bed fusion (LPBF). Post-treatment can play a key role to ameliorate the adverse effects of these defects. In this study, severe vibratory peening, as a novel surface treatment based on...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and mesoporous silica such as SBA-15 as a family of mesoporous materials have received much attention for preparing analytical chemistry specimens. In this work, electrospun polyacrylonitrile/MIL-53(Al)@4,4 ʹ -bipyridine silica hybrid nanocomposite...

Carbon nitride framework materials, two-dimensional layered nanomaterials composed of triazine ring units, have great exploration and application potential in solid-phase extraction technology due to their facile synthesis, unique structure and excellent physicochemical properties, which has...