Modification of the LK system by excluding the subscores of scarring and crusting improves its reliability and its correlation with PROMs. In addition, the MLK system retains the familiarity of the widely used LK system and is applicable to any patient irrespective of surgical status. The MLK system may be a more suitable and reliable endoscopic scoring system for clinical practice and outcomes research.

The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System is expected to provide a global positioning and navigation service by 2020. To achieve this goal, the new-generation navigation satellites that have been launched since March 2015 are equipped with inter-satellite links (ISLs), with the objective of testing new navigation signals and the ISLs themselves. Using these new-generation navigation satellites and several ground facilities in China, a combined orbit determination experiment was carried out during August 2016. The orbit mechanical model, orbit determination method, and accuracy evaluation method used in this experiment are presented here. The accuracy of the combined orbit determination method is evaluated, and the performance-related improvements resulting from the ISLs are analyzed. The performance of orbit determination has been increased about 37-76% for different satellites in orbit-only signal-in-space range error (orbit-only SISRE).

We report an end-pumped and passive mode-locking all-solid-state laser. The laser consists of a Nd:GdVO4 crystal and a linear resonator with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror that yield mode locking. We achieved stable continuous-wave mode locking with an 8-ps pulse duration at a 154-MHz repetition rate. The average output power was 600 mW with 4 W of pump power. To our knowledge this is the first report of the use of a Nd:GdVO4 crystal for mode locking with a semiconductor saturable absorber mirror.

In this paper, we present a novel integral imaging pickup method. We extract each pixel's actual depth data from a real object's surface using a depth camera, then generate elemental images based on the depth map. Since the proposed method generates elemental images without a lens array, it has simplified the pickup process and overcome some disadvantages caused by a conventional optical pickup process using a lens array. As a result, we can display a three-dimensional (3D) image in integral imaging. To show the usefulness of the proposed method, an experiment is presented. Though the pickup process has been simplified in the proposed method, the experimental results reveal that it can also display a full motion parallax image the same as the image reconstructed by the conventional method. In addition, if we improve calculation speed, it will be useful in a real-time integral imaging display system.