A sensor registry system (SRS) registers sensor metadata and provides them for a seamless semantic process. Recently, network coverage information-based SRS (NC-SRS) was developed to provide sensor information filtering by combining path prediction a...
Background: Delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), also known as exercise-induced muscle damage (EIMD), is typically caused by strenuous and/or unaccustomed physical exercise. DOMS/EIMD manifests itself in reduced muscle strength and performance level...
Image super-resolution (SR) is a significant technique in image processing as it enhances the spatial resolution of images, enabling various downstream applications. Based on recent achievements in SR studies in computer vision, deep-learning-based S...
Sugarcane is an important sugar and biofuel crop with high socio-economic importance, and its planted area has increased rapidly in recent years. China is the world’s third or fourth sugarcane producer. However, to our knowledge, no study has i...
The primary objective of this research was to enhance the quality of semantic segmentation in cytology images by incorporating super-resolution (SR) architectures. An additional contribution was the development of a novel dataset aimed at improving i...
In recent years, critical and secondary raw materials (CRMs and SRMs, respectively) have received great interest within the circular economy model. In this work, the mycorrhizal-assisted phytomining (MAP) system, composed of Helianthus annuus–a...
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The satellite–rocket separation shock environment involves transient structural responses during spacecraft release. Although its direct influence on the main structure of the satellite is limited, it can easily cause shock-sensitive precision...
The lack of detect technology hinders the understanding of host-guest (H-G) chemical properties for thiolate-protected tiara-like structural nanoclusters (Mn(SR)2n). In this work, NMR spectroscopy is demonstrated as a powerful tool to probe the H-G s...
Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy is a high-speed imaging modality based on intrinsic molecular vibrations, producing chemical maps in living systems. Such capability, allowing for direct visualization without the perturbation of biologica...
This study aimed to propose a mapping framework with entropy-based metrics for validating the effectiveness of the transition between International Classification of Diseases 10th revision (ICD-10)-coded datasets and a new context of ICD-11. Firstly,...
Object detection models are commonly used in yield estimation processes in intelligent walnut production. The accuracy of these models in capturing walnut features largely depends on the quality of the input images. Without changing the existing imag...
The microstructure, dielectric response, and nonlinear current-voltage properties of Sr2+-doped CaCu3Ti4O12/CaTiO3 (CCTO/CTO) ceramic composites, which were prepared by a solid-state reaction method using a single step from the starting nominal compo...
Lakes have been identified as an important indicator of climate change and a finer lake area can better reflect the changes. In this paper, we propose an effective unsupervised deep gradient network (UDGN) to generate a higher resolution lake area fr...
Climate change is driving the spread of transboundary wheat diseases, necessitating the development of resilient wheat varieties for sustainable agriculture. Wheat rusts, including leaf rust (LR), yellow rust (YR), and stem rust (SR), remain among th...
The driver’s attentional state is a significant human factor in traffic safety. The executive control process is a crucial sub-function of attention. To explore the relationship between the driver’s driving performance and executive control function,...
Medical imaging technology plays a crucial role in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. However, the captured medical images are often in a low resolution (LR) due to the limited imaging condition. Super-resolution (SR) technology is a feasible s...
The lack of independent and identically distributed (IID) training range cells is one of the key factors that limit the performance of conventional space-time adaptive processing (STAP) methods for airborne radar. Sparse recovery (SR)-based and convo...
Machine learning classifiers are being increasingly used nowadays for Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) mapping from remote sensing images. However, arriving at the right choice of classifier requires understanding the main factors influencing their per...
The increasing intensity of rainfall resulting from climate change is projected to worsen the inundation of urban areas by floods. As a viable alternative, stormwater harvesting presents an opportunity to enhance water supply reliability while reduci...
Assessing the quality of super-resolved images is important for comparing reconstruction algorithms, but pixel fidelity, perceptual appearance, and structural preservation do not always agree. We investigate whether keypoint detector response maps an...
Leaf rust (LR) and stem rust (SR) pose serious challenges to wheat production in Kazakhstan. In recent years, the susceptibility of local wheat cultivars has substantially decreased grain yield and quality. Therefore, local breeding projects must be...
In this paper, the phase transformation in a gaseous heat treatment and re-calcination (GTR) process for preparing nanocrystalline Sr-hexaferrite powder using methane (CH4) was studied. The process included gaseous heat treatment and subsequent re-ca...
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Roma is the largest ethnic minority of Europe with deprived health status, which is poorly explored due to legal constrains of ethnicity assessment. We aimed to elaborate health indicators for adults living in segregated Roma settlements (SRS), repre...
As a powerful feature extraction tool, a convolutional neural network (CNN) has strong adaptability for big data applications such as bearing fault diagnosis, whereas the classification performance is limited when the quality of raw signals is poor....
This paper proposes a robust multi-frame video super-resolution (SR) scheme to obtain high SR performance under large upscaling factors. Although the reference low-resolution frames can provide complementary information for the high-resolution frame,...
Accurate detection of explicit faults in substation equipment is critical for intelligent substation inspection. However, practical inspection scenes often involve small objects, blurred boundaries, background clutter, occlusion, and large-scale vari...
Floods are severe natural disasters that are harmful and frequently occur across the world. From May to July 2022, the strongest, broadest, and longest rainfall event in recent years occurred in Guangdong Province, China. The flooding caused by conti...
Gaofen-4 is China’s first geosynchronous orbit high-definition optical imaging satellite with extremely high temporal resolution. The features of staring imaging and high temporal resolution enable the super-resolution of multiple images of the same...
Image super-resolution (SR) techniques can improve the spatial resolution of remote sensing images to provide more feature details and information, which is important for a wide range of remote sensing applications, including land use/cover classific...
Perovskites of strontium cobalt oxyhalides having the chemical formulae Sr2CoO4-xHx (H = F, Cl, and Br; x = 0 and 1) were prepared using a solid-phase synthesis approach and comparatively evaluated as electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution in an alkal...
Objective: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is frequently diagnosed in patients with late-stage disease who are ineligible for curative surgical therapies. The majority of patients become resistant to sorafenib, the only approved first-line therapy for...
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Background/Objectives: Trace metals, including copper (Cu) and zinc, are associated with the development and prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, their interference with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) limits their use as potential...
Since the COVID-19 outbreak, buildings have been viewed as a facilitator of disease spread, where the three main transmission routes (contact, droplets, aerosols) are more likely to happen. However, with proper policies and measures, buildings can be...
We aimed to compare systemic and cerebral hemodynamics and coughing during emergence after pituitary surgery after endotracheal tube (ETT) extubation or after replacing ETT with a laryngeal mask airway (LMA). Patients were randomized to awaken with a...
Geochemical baselines are crucial to explore mineral resources and monitor environmental changes. This study presents the first Laos geochemical baseline values of 69 elements. The National-scale Geochemical Mapping Project of Lao People’s Demo...
Straw return (SR) has been widely recommended as a conservation agricultural practice in China. However, the effects of SR on crop yield and soil properties are inconsistent across studies of rice–oilseed rape cropping systems in China. This st...
A high-definition mapping catheter has been introduced, allowing for bipolar recording along and across the spline with a rapid assessment of voltage, activation, and directionality of conduction. We aimed to evaluate differences in mapping density,...
Super-resolution (SR) plays an important role in the processing and display of mixed-resolution (MR) stereoscopic images. Therefore, a stereoscopic image SR method based on view incorporation and convolutional neural networks (CNN) is proposed. For a...
Dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE)-MRI metrics are evaluated against volumetric DCE-CT quantitative parameters as a standard for tracer-kinetic validation using a common 4-dimensional temporal dynamic analysis platform in tumor perfusion measurements fo...
Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) are potential sources of natural polyphenols. Solid residues (SRs) from the essential oil (EO) industry are produced in significant volumes and may be used as natural sources of bioactive compounds. Therefore, thi...
Frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar system synchronization using external clock signals can cause repeated Range-Doppler (R-D) map corruption when clock signal asynchronization problems occur between the transmitter and receiver. In this...
Panchromatic (PAN) images contain abundant spatial information that is useful for earth observation, but always suffer from low-resolution ( LR) due to the sensor limitation and large-scale view field. The current super-resolution (SR) methods based...
The main geological structures in the Dammam Dome are defined by integrating geophysical measurements and applying new methodological approaches. Dammam Dome is characterized by a well-developed fracture/joints system; thus, high complexity of the su...
The detection of aerial imagery captured by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is widely employed across various domains, including engineering construction, traffic regulation, and precision agriculture. However, aerial images are typically characteriz...
High sampling density in digital soil mapping improves accuracy but increases costs. This study optimized sampling density for soil organic matter (SOM) mapping in Longjiang County using an XGBoost model, integrating Sentinel-2 imagery (April–M...
This work mainly focuses on the continuity and analyticity for the generalized Benjamin–Ono (g-BO) equation. From the local well-posedness results for g-BO equation, we know that its solutions depend continuously on their initial data. In the p...
The structural and electrical properties of double perovskite compounds SrLaFe1−xMnxTiO6−δ (x = 0, 0.33, 0.67, and 1.0) were studied using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and dielectric impedance measurements. The reparation of perovskite c...
This manuscript establishes the boundedness results for a class of singular integral operators to a more general framework by imposing conditions on the Hardy–Littlewood maximal function. We establish the results where we construct a suitable r...
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