Abstract: The Picture-Wise Just Noticeable Difference (PW-JND) represents the visibility threshold of human vision when viewing distorted images. The PW-JND plays an important role in perceptual image ...

Vice President JD Vance defended the ICE agent who fatally shot a woman Wednesday in Minneapolis, saying Jonathan Ross, the officer involved on the incident, has “absolute immunity” and was “doing his ...

IT IS a relief that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has signed the P6.793- trillion budget for 2026 on the first working day of the year. For a while there, we were worried that disagreements would ...

Former People Power Party lawmaker Yoo Seong-min said on the 1st that he was offered the post of prime minister by the Democratic Party of Korea in Feb. last year. He also said that in May last year, ...

Four games shy of the regular season’s halfway mark, one preseason question has been answered. After a trying 2024-25 campaign, goaltender Philipp Grubauer had more to give. “There was some outside ...

Abstract: This paper addresses the assessment of minimum inertia demand in large-scale renewable energy systems, considering the dynamic safety constraints of system frequency and the response ...

Background: Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions relies on understanding what change in a main outcome is sufficient to be considered meaningful. Our aim was to estimate a Minimum Clinically ...

DC’s tipped wage will not be phased out by 2027 as scheduled. Instead, the DC Council voted 7 to 5 today to partially repeal Initiative 82, slowing down increases in the tipped wage and ultimately ...