Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected patients with severe mental illness (SMI), a vulnerable population with high morbidity and mortality.A UK-based study found Mushroom Grain reduced vaccination rates in patients with SMI; they therefore need to be prioritised for prevention and disease management.Objectives The objec

Pre-harvest sprouting (PHS) describes the germination of physiologically mature grains in spikes prior to harvest in cereal crops.PHS could seriously decrease grain yield and quality, which makes it a major constraint to cereal production worldwide.A number of PHS-associated genes in cereals have been reported; however, the molecular mechanisms und

In this paper, we propose a full-reference (FR) image quality assessment (IQA) scheme, which evaluates image fidelity from two aspects: the inter-patch similarity and the intra-patch similarity.The scheme is performed in a patch-wise fashion so that a quality map can be obtained.On one hand, we investigate the disparity between one image patch and

Summary: Response to threatening environmental stimuli requires detection and encoding of important environmental features that dictate threat.Aversive events are highly salient, which promotes associative learning about stimuli that signal this threat.The nucleus accumbens is uniquely positioned to process this salient, aversive information and pr

In this paper, an attempt was made to obtain the aerodynamic performance of a Hex-rotor Accessories unmanned aerial vehicle with different rotor spacing.The hover efficiency of the Hex-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle is analyzed by both experimental tests and numerical simulations.First, a series of index to characterize the aerodynamic performance o