Progress in a broad range of scientific and technological fields is hampered by the difficulty of understanding and predicting the behavior of highly complex systems. ... Read more

The alarmingly sharp increase in type 1 diabetes mellitus incidence in recent years has been coupled with a marked rise in the development of closed-loop systems aimed at continuously monitoring blood glucose levels, predicting glucose behavior and delivering adjusted insulin doses. ... Read more

Molecular photoswitches are light-responsive molecules with potential applications in a broad range of systems with on-demand functionalities. ... Read more

A major part of human communication is conveyed through intonation, or prosody – the music of speech. ... Read more

A major part of human communication is conveyed through intonation, or prosody – the music of speech. ... Read more

Optical and dimensional limitations of images can be partially overcome today using signal enhancement technologies which typically rely on supervised, deep-learning methods. ... Read more

Searchable symmetric encryption with practical big-data performance and strong security Highlights ... Read more

Although images search engines are available online, offline networks and databases (in governmental offices, banks, etc.) require an efficient and reliable image search engine. ... Read more

Many imaging devices produce signals of unsatisfactory resolution (e.g. a photo from a cell-phone camera may have low spatial resolution or a video from a web camera may have both spatial and temporal low resolution). ... Read more

Data storage of images and videos became a real issue in the last years when pictures and videos are taken and shared more often, and the memory devices aren’t being minimized fast enough. ... Read more