The present dataset comprises a collection of RGB-D apple tree images that can be used to train and test computer vision-based fruit detection and sizing methods. This dataset encompasses two distinct sets of data obtained from a Fuji and an Elstar apple orchards. The Fuji apple orchard sub-set consists of 3925 RGB-D images containing a total of 15,335 apples annotated with both modal and amodal apple segmentation masks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere is a growing body of literature that recognises the importance of UAVs in precision agriculture tasks. Currently, flowering thinning tasks in orchard management rely on the decisions derived from time-consuming manual flower cluster counting in the field by an agrotechnician. Yet it is hard to guarantee the counting accuracy due to numerous human factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFResearch has shown that social support is generally associated with better adaptation to chronic disease. However, the role that social support plays in adjustment to chronic pain syndromes has received less research attention. The present study was designed to examine the relation of high versus low levels of social support to pain behavior in chronic pain patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHistological measures of cochlear vasculature and blood flow were examined in 20 guinea pigs. Sixteen were exposed to octave band noise at 120 dB SPL for 30 min and then permitted to survive after the exposure for 6 h, 18 h, 48 h, or 4 weeks (N = 4 in each group). Control animals were exposed to the laboratory and apparatus but not to the noise and then sacrificed after 48 h (N = 2) or 4 weeks (N = 2).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt has been demonstrated that exposure to men has the capacity to shorten the menstrual cycle in women. In the present study, the impact of the variables of sleeping arrangements and sexual activity were examined on both menstrual cycle length and the occurrence of ovulation as determined by basal body temperature charts. It was found that women who spent at least two or more nights with men during a forty day period exhibited a significantly higher rate of ovulation (p less than 0.
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