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Barrier islands are vital dynamic landforms that not only host ecological resources but often protect coastal ecosystems from storm damage. The Waisanding Barrier (WSDB) in Taiwan has suffered from continuous beach erosion in recent decades. In this study, we developed a SiamUnet network compared to three basic DeepUnet networks with different image sizes to effectively detect barrier waterlines from 207 high-resolution satellite images. The evolution of the barrier waterline shape is obtained to present two special morphologic changes at the southern end and the evolution of the entire waterline. The time periods of separation of the southern end from the main WSDB are determined and discussed. We also show that the southern L-shaped end has occurred recently from the end of 2017 until 2021. The length of the L-shaped end gradually decreases during the summer, but gradually increases during the winter. The L-shaped end obviously has a seasonal and jagged change. The attenuation rate of the land area is analyzed as -0.344 km 2 /year. We also explore two factors that affect the analysis results, which are the number of valid images selected and the deviation threshold from the mean sea level.

Infrared thermography can be applied in different medical systems, for example it can be used to catch the images of living blood vessels. Far infrared rays can be used in a heating machine, which can be applied in the clinical hemodialysis patients. Infrared electronically sensitized images, which are generated by near-infrared Charge-coupled Device (CCD), are used to detect blood vessels, and used as a long-wavelength external stimulating therapeutic tissue repair system. When an infrared sensor detection and actuator treatment is applied during hemodialysis, a missing needle can be detected, and far infrared rays have a therapeutic effect on blood vessels. Because a far-infrared actuated light source can improve blood circulation, it is currently used to prevent fistula embolism in hemodialysis (HD) patients and reduce vascular occlusion after hemodialysis. Sensors used for sudden changes in heart rate variability (HRV) are used as predictive and evaluation indicators for our new method. Far-infrared actuated radiation can increase sympathetic nerve activity and regulation of parasympathetic and sympathetic nerves. We performed baseline measurements of the low-frequency/high-frequency ratio of autonomic nerve activity before hemodialysis (low frequency (LF), high frequency (HF), LF/HF, before HD) and after hemodialysis (LF/HF, after-HD). Based on data from the HRV continuity tracking report, 35 patients with autonomic nerve activation were treated and evaluated. We have demonstrated that the resulting near-infrared (NIR) sensor imaging and far-infrared actuator illumination can be used for the detection and treatment of hemodialysis patients.

This study reports a CMOS-MEMS condenser microphone implemented using the standard thin film stacking of 0.35 μm UMC CMOS 3.3/5.0 V logic process, and followed by post-CMOS micromachining steps without introducing any special materials. The corrugated diaphragm for the microphone is designed and implemented using the metal layer to reduce the influence of thin film residual stresses. Moreover, a silicon substrate is employed to increase the stiffness of the back-plate. Measurements show the sensitivity of microphone is -42 ± 3 dBV/Pa at 1 kHz (the reference sound-level is 94 dB) under 6 V pumping voltage, the frequency response is 100 Hz-10 kHz, and the S/N ratio >55 dB. It also has low power consumption of less than 200 μA, and low distortion of less than 1% (referred to 100 dB).