A Multi-Purpose Realistic Haze Benchmark With Quantifiable Haze Levels and Ground Truth.

Imagery collected from outdoor visual environments is often degraded due to the presence of dense smoke or haze. A key challenge for research in scene understanding in these degraded visual environments (DVE) is the lack of representative benchmark datasets. These datasets are required to evaluate state-of-the-art object recognition and other computer vision algorithms in degraded settings.

K(+) , Na(+) , and Mg(2+) on DNA translocation in silicon nitride nanopores.

In this work, we report on how salt concentration and cation species affect DNA translocation in voltage-biased silicon nitride nanopores. The translocation of dsDNA in linear, circular, and supercoiled forms was measured in salt solutions containing KCl, NaCl, and MgCl(2) . As the KCl concentrations were decreased from 1 to 0.

DNA conformation and base number simultaneously determined in a nanopore.

When dsDNA polymers containing identical number of base pairs were electrophoresed through a nanopore in a voltage biased silicon nitride membrane, the measured time integral of blocked ionic current (the event-charge-deficit, ecd, Fologea, D., Gershow, M., Ledden, B.

Slowing DNA translocation in a solid-state nanopore.

Reducing a DNA molecule's translocation speed in a solid-state nanopore is a key step toward rapid single molecule identification. Here we demonstrate that DNA translocation speeds can be reduced by an order of magnitude over previous results. By controlling the electrolyte temperature, salt concentration, viscosity, and the electrical bias voltage across the nanopore, we obtain a 3 base/micros translocation speed for 3 kbp double-stranded DNA in a 4-8 nm diameter silicon nitride pore.