Motion detection is vital for consumer electronics and the Internet of things (IOT). For a scenario where the motion is slow and gentle, the resolution of the motion sensor is critical for the detection, while the algorithm development is another critical issue to differentiate the motion signal from noise measurement. This paper investigates the feasibility of using higher order statistics ...

Thrombin activation of C5 connects thrombosis to inflammation. Complement research in whole blood ex vivo necessitates anticoagulation, which potentially interferes with the inflammatory modulation by thrombin. We challenged the concept of thrombin as an activator of native C5 by analyzing complement activation and C5 cleavage in human whole blood anticoagulated with Gly-Pro-Arg-Pro (GPRP), a peptide ...

The grain-size distribution of sediment particles is an important aspect of the architecture of submarine fans and lobes. It governs depositional sand quality and reflects distribution of particulate organic carbon and pollutants. Documenting the grain-size distribution of these deep-marine sedimentary bodies can also offer us an insight into the flows that deposited them. Submarine lobes ...

We investigate the generation of charge due to collision between projectiles with sizes below ∼1 µm and metal surfaces at speeds ∼0.1 to 10 km s⁻¹. This corresponds to speeds above the elastic limit and well below speeds where volume ionization can occur. Impact charge production at these low to intermediate speeds has traditionally been described by invoking the theory of shock wave ...

I dette arbeidet er det undersøkt om kvaliteten på saltfisk vurderes likt av norske saltfiskprodusenter og spanske importører. Det ble gjennomført spørreundersøkelse og intervjuer, samt praktisk kvalitetsvurdering av saltfisk. Både spørreundersøkelsen og kvalitetsvurderingen viste at de spanske kjøperne var strengere på kriteriene for å klassifisere fisken som primera enn de norske produsentene. Det ...

Bottom trawlers are engaged in multi-species fisheries and fish for profit. In quota-regulated fisheries, intra- and inter-temporal substitutions of fishing effort is regarded as a key mechanisms that influences the profitability of the fishing portfolio. The feeding and spawning migration patterns of the available fish species in the fishing portfolio alter the bio-economic conditions of the different ...

Dust impact detection by electric field instruments is a well-established technique. On the other hand, not all aspects of signal generation by dust impacts are completely understood. We present a study of events related to dust impacts on the spacecraft body detected by electric field probes operating simultaneously in the monopole (probe-to-spacecraft potential measurement) and dipole (probe-to-probe ...

Within the scope of Industry 4.0, Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are used to streamline logistics through the usage of efficient path finding methods. The current path finding methods in the industry rely on excessive usage of guidance in the shape of magnets, tapes or QR codes on the floor that the AGVs follow to reach their destinations. However, the current methods lack operational flexibility ...

Background - Long-term complications of venous thromboembolism (VTE) hamper physical function and impair quality of life; still, it remains unclear whether VTE is associated with risk of permanent work-related disability. We aimed to assess the association between VTE and the risk of receiving a permanent work-related disability pension and to assess whether this association was explained by ...

Text classification is one of the widely used phenomena in different natural language processing tasks. State-of-the-art text classifiers use the vector space model for extracting features. Recent progress in deep models, recurrent neural networks those preserve the positional relationship among words achieve a higher accuracy. To push text classification accuracy even higher, multi-dimensional ...