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Magnetic cilia carpets with programmable metachronal waves

open access: yesNature Communications, 2020
Metachronal waves commonly exist in natural cilia carpets. These emergent phenomena, which originate from phase differences between neighbouring self-beating cilia, are essential for biological transport processes including locomotion, liquid pumping ...
Hongri Gu   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A bacterial ratchet motor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Self-propelling bacteria are a dream of nano-technology. These unicellular organisms are not just capable of living and reproducing, but they can swim very efficiently, sense the environment and look for food, all packaged in a body measuring a few ...
Aditi Simha   +19 more
core   +2 more sources

Trackly: A Customisable and Pictorial Self-Tracking App to Support Agency in Multiple Sclerosis Self-Care

open access: yesInternational Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020
Self-tracking is an important part of self-care. However, predefined self-tracking approaches can impede people's agency in managing their health. We investigated a customisable and pictorial self-tracking approach in multiple sclerosis self-management ...
Amid Ayobi, P. Marshall, A. Cox
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Reading and Analysis of the Elements of the Carpet Named “The Story of Majles-e Zulaikha and Yousef” Woven in Tehran based on Genette’s Theory of Transtextuality [PDF]

open access: yesنگره
Different literary theories represent various approaches and systems that have been used for the past one or two centuries to read, to analyze, and to interpret verbal and visual texts and intertextual relationships in literary and artistic works and to ...
Mohammad Afrough
doaj   +1 more source

Vanishing in Plain Sight [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Playfully negotiating the historical constructs of theatrical vanishing and its disturbingly female trappings this paper centers on the creation of Bautier de Kolta’s l’Escamotage D’une Dame, an illusion used to screen the anxieties of the male British ...
Williams, Grace Alexandra
core   +2 more sources

Pictorial methods to assess heavy menstrual bleeding in research and clinical practice: a systematic literature review

open access: yesBMC Women's Health, 2020
Background Pictorial blood loss assessment charts (PBACs) represent the most widely used method to assess menstrual blood loss (MBL) in clinical trials.
J. Magnay   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Interior Life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Interior Life was curated by Tim Renshaw, Mary Maclean and Bernice Donszelmann who together form ‘Outside Architecture’. The aim of this project was to argue that interior space should not be negatively defined as a retreat from the public realm. Instead,
Donszelmann, Bernice   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Contributions of pictorial and binocular cues to the perception of distance in virtual reality

open access: yesVirtual Reality, 2021
We assessed the contribution of binocular disparity and the pictorial cues of linear perspective, texture, and scene clutter to the perception of distance in consumer virtual reality.
Rebecca L. Hornsey, P. Hibbard
semanticscholar   +1 more source

No Reference Quality Assessment for Screen Content Images Using Stacked Autoencoders in Pictorial and Textual Regions

open access: yesIEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2020
Recently, the visual quality evaluation of screen content images (SCIs) has become an important and timely emerging research theme. This article presents an effective and novel blind quality evaluation metric for SCIs by using stacked autoencoders (SAE ...
Jiachen Yang   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

DataQuilt: Extracting Visual Elements from Images to Craft Pictorial Visualizations

open access: yesInternational Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020
Recent years have seen an increasing interest in the authoring and crafting of personal visualizations. Mainstream data analysis and authoring tools lack the flexibility for customization and personalization, whereas tools from the research community ...
J. Zhang   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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