Abstract: Under factor graph-based visual-inertial odometry (VIO), is usually used to limit the continuously increasing numbers of nodes (states) and edges (observations). However, this approach will ...

A large share of medicines developed today may never reach patients for a surprisingly simple reason: they cannot dissolve well enough in water. For most treatments, the oral route remains the gold ...

Full cost (FC) accounting allows companies to capitalize all operating expenses related to locating new oil and gas reserves, regardless of the outcome.

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The appropriate duration of anticoagulation for venous thromboembolism (VTE) in patients who have a transient provoking factor (e.g., surgery, trauma, or immobility) and concomitant enduring risk ...

Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of ...

Hardly anyone is interested in my tax return—there’s not much to it. And that’s a good thing, given that an attacker might have fairly easily intercepted the encrypted communication between my laptop ...

1 Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Gene Regulation and Systems Biology, School of Life Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China 2 Department of Systems Biology, ...

Method acting, the practice of experiencing a role as opposed to merely representing it, has been maligned and venerated in equal measure. Many famous and flashy performances exist by virtue of actors ...

A new CDC report details risk factors for developing severe flu. People hospitalized with the virus over the past 13 years were more likely to have at least one of these risk factors. Doctors stress ...

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