Background Ground-based snow monitoring stations have long supported water management, forecasting, and planning. Recent advancements in remote sensing technology have improved the ability to monitor snow cover at broader scales. Satellite imagery, such as that from the Moderate Resolutiion Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), have been used to track...

Event-based cameras that asynchronously detect changes in pixel brightness with high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and low-power, have been very successful for robotic vision and autonomous navigation. Depth estimation from monocular or stereo event cameras is an important task which helps improve downstream robotic localization and mapping...

The blood brain barrier (BBB) is a highly selective semipermeable complex, and only about 2% of small molecules in the blood can penetrate it. Because of this, drug delivery to the brain is fairly ineffective. Research into receptors expressed on the BBB is promising, however, many receptors (glucose transporter 1, transferrin receptor, LDL-receptor...

The importance and health benefits of routine exercise are widely recognized. Because of this, there have been numerous devices and methods devised to track and quantify exercises. Some devices count steps, like the pedometer, while others measure body responses to exercise, suhttp://azte.technologypublisher.com/files/sites/ncs-m14-180l.pdfch as heart...

Background Mid to long-wave infrared detectors capture and interpret infrared radiation emitted by objects, and convert it into additional data. These detectors have wide ranging applications including gas sensing, thermal imaging, environmental monitoring, and defense applications. Typically, these detectors use micro- or nano-scale microwave-frequency...

SDS-PAGE is a ubiquitous analytical technique for separating proteins based on molecular weight. Existing loading buffers used in SDS-PAGE and other protein analyses techniques have difficulty in effectively solubilizing and stabilizing hydrophobic or lipidated proteins, particularly membrane proteins. These proteins tend to aggregate or precipitate...

Cellular force is important in activities including migration, proliferation and differentiation, which are mediated by interactions between the cell and the ECM. Monitoring these interactions helps to understand how and when mechanical cues play a role in cellular events and underlying mechanisms. However, there are limitations in spatial and temporal...

Radio Frequency (RF) coils transmit and receive RF signals in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Designing FR coils is a challenge because they often have to operate at multiple frequencies and it is difficult to enable them to resonate at multiple frequencies or switch their resonating frequencies. Positive-intrinsic-negative (PIN) diodes are commonly...

Molecular interactions are integral to virtually all biological processes including cell signaling, enzyme activity, protein functionality, and disease development. Understanding the kinetics of these interactions is crucial for providing detailed quantitative and mechanistic insights, at the molecular level, which are essential for advancements in...

Histological whole slide image (WSI) processing techniques are critical for identifying and classifying tissues, particularly cancerous tissues. AI-aided methods for analyzing these WSIs have become increasingly important to enhance diagnostic precision and high throughput processing. However, WSIs have gigapixel resolution, leading to computational...