The most popular approach to large scale image retrieval is based on the bag-of-visual-word
(BoV) representation of images. The spatial information is usually re-introduced as a post-…

Background The risk of sexual HIV transmission in serodiscordant couples when the HIV-positive
partner has full virologic suppression on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) is …

Background Obesity is a global epidemic with the Mediterranean island of Malta being no
exception. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified Malta as one of the European …

Pyrolysis is the first step of gasification and combustion. The pyrolysis process of biomass is
complicated, which is generally considered to consist of the pyrolysis of the three major …

In this work, an ultrasensitive electrogenerated chemiluminescence (ECL) biosensor for
exosomes and their surface proteins was developed by the in situ formation of gold …

This study aimed to understand gender and ethnicity differences in HIV-related stigma
experienced by 1026 HIV-positive individuals living in Ontario, Canada that were enrolled in the …

Dual-band electrochromic smart windows have become a research hotspot owing to their
unique ability to selectively control near-infrared (NIR) and visible (VIS) light. However, the …

Household consumption has great potential to reduce CO 2 emissions from the demand side
which is an important way to achieve carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals. However…

The local feature based approaches have become popular for activity recognition. A local
feature captures the local movement and appearance of a local region in a video, and thus can …

Digital technologies have been rapidly changing traditional industries. In the given context,
this study reveals the internal influence mechanism of digital transformation on the corporate …