Human visual perception and visual preferences affect how people perceive and experience the urban environment. Constrained by their methodologies and data availability, the previous studies have struggled to precisely quantify the subjects and objec...
In order to meet the people’s growing aspirations for a better life and to improve the efficient supply capacity of the citizens’ diversified needs, our government has made the optimization of the supply of public services in urban commun...
29 December 2021
PM2.5 pollution in China is becoming increasingly severe, threatening public health. The major goal of this study is to evaluate the mortality rate attributed to PM2.5 pollution and design pollution mitigation schemes in a southern district of China...
Zhenwu (Perfected Warrior), one of the most influential Daoist martial deities, was historically shaped by the northern celestial emblem Xuanwu and later personified and integrated into the Daoist pantheon. While scholarship on Zhenwu has largely rel...
As an exemplary and quintessential representation of China’s late-stage religious stone-carving art, previous research on the Dazu Rock Carvings has primarily concentrated on the typical cave remains in core areas like Baoding and Beishan. Thes...
Bikeshare, as a convenient transport mode, can address the first- and last-mile travel needs of metro trips while generating many environmental benefits, such as reducing the use of environmentally unfriendly transport modes and lowering the carbon e...
Dockless bike sharing plays an important role in residents’ daily travel, traffic congestion, and air pollution. Recently, urban greenness has been proven to be associated with bike sharing usage around metro stations using a global model. However, t...
For urban waterlogging alleviation, green infrastructures have been widely concerned. How to carry out scientific green infrastructure planning becomes an important issue in flood control and disaster relief. Based on historical media records of urba...
Investigating the future land use patterns and carbon emissions are of great significance for carbon reduction. This study established the relationship between land use types and carbon emissions from energy consumption and adopted three future scena...
The population aggregation and economic development caused by urbanization significantly influence the efficiency of urban resource consumption. However, the coupling interactions between crucial resource consumptions such as food, energy and water (...
Mucin1 (MUC1) is abnormally glycosylated and overexpressed in a variety of epithelial cancers and plays a critical role in tumor progression. MUC1 has received remark attention as an oncogenic molecule and is considered a valuable tumor target for im...
Sustainable Development Goals propose to build inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable cities and human settlements, which requires us to scientifically evaluate the carrying capacity of current urban public service facilities, but there is still...
This paper takes the central area of Shenzhen as an example to explore the correlation and differences between 2D and 3D green spaces on urban roads during the summer of 2023. By collecting street view image data and using convolutional neural networ...
This study examined the reversal error phenomenon in Chinese students’ algebra word problem-solving, focusing on how sentence structures influence performance and problem representation strategies across educational levels. Using a person-cente...
Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) can visualize a target with multiple imaging contrasts, which were demonstrated individually previously. Here, to improve the imaging quality, the dynamic speed of sound (SoS) map derived from the transmission US...
Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) has been widely implemented in data centers (DCs) due to its high-bandwidth, low-latency, and low-overhead characteristics. In recent years, as various applications relying on inter-DC interconnection have continuou...
To realize two-way power transfer without physical connections under a grid-connected application, bidirectional wireless power transfer (BDWPT) is introduced. This paper proposes an LCC-S compensated BDWPT system based on dual-active-bridge (DAB) to...
Inspired by classical polar codes, whose coding rate can asymptotically achieve the Shannon capacity, researchers are trying to find their analogs in the quantum information field, which are called quantum polar codes. However, no one has designed a...
Characterizing the taxi travel network is of fundamental importance to our understanding of urban mobility, and could provide intellectual support for urban planning, traffic congestion, and even the spread of diseases. However, the research on the i...
Low-illumination images can seriously affect or even limit the performance of the human eye or a computer vision system, making image enhancement processing necessary. Traditional image enhancement methods, such as those based on image fusion, freque...
New amphiphilic star or multi-arm block copolymers with different structures were synthesized for enabling the use of hydrophobic oxygen probe of platinum (II)-tetrakis (pentafluorophenyl) porphyrin (PtTFPP) for bioanalysis. The amphiphilic star poly...
The increase in motorized vehicles in cities and the inefficient use of parking spaces have exacerbated parking difficulties in cities. To effectively improve the utilization rate of parking spaces, it is necessary to accurately predict future parkin...
CFRP exhibits a low specific gravity, good rigidity, and high strength and is widely used in the automobile, aerospace, and biomedical fields. Against this background, the demand for composite components prepared using CFRP and polymers has increased...
This paper proposes a novel hybrid recursive method for distribution system reliability evaluation to deal with the computational limit and low-efficiency problem which exist in previously developed techniques as the system becomes larger. This metho...
Bradford’s law of bibliographic scattering is a fundamental principle in bibliometrics, offering valuable guidance for academic libraries in literature search and procurement. However, Bradford curves can exhibit various shapes over time, and p...
This study investigates the coevolution of coauthorship and citation networks and their influence on scientific metrics such as the h-index and journal impact factors. Using a preferential attachment mechanism, we developed a model that integrated th...
When a network has relay nodes, there is a risk that a part of the information is leaked to an untrusted relay. Secure network coding (secure NC) is known as a method to resolve this problem, which enables the secrecy of the message when the message...
14 March 2014
Background: Hepatoma associated with hepatitis B infection is a major public health problem in Shenzhen (China) and worldwide. China has the largest number of people infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV), and many studies have demonstrated that H...
Natural killer (NK) cells can be widely applied for cancer immunotherapy due to their ability to lyse tumor targets without prior sensitization or human leukocyte antigens-matching. Several NK-based therapeutic approaches have been attempted in clini...
The article proposes a novel modulation scheme with a low peak-to-average ratio (PAPR), referred to as offset rotation interpolation modulation (ORIM), which is particularly suitable for low-power consumption and enhanced coverage scenarios in the si...
As the urbanization and industrialization processes in developing countries continue to advance, environmental issues caused by carbon dioxide emissions (CDEs) have become a significant research topic in the field of sustainable development. However,...
Urban renewal provides opportunities to improve urban transport structures during the process of improving built environments. It is necessary to clarify the impact of different elements of the built environment on travel behaviors in the context of...
Real-time monitoring of dissolved oxygen (DO) and pH is of great significance for understanding cellular metabolism. Herein, a dual optical pH/O2 sensing membrane was prepared by the electrospinning method. Cellulose acetate (CA) and poly(ε-c...
Radix Rehmanniae (RR) is a kind of herb which is widely used in the clinical and food processing industry. There are four forms of RR used in traditional Chinese medicine practice, which include fresh RR (FRR), raw RR (RRR), processed RR (PRR), and a...
Background: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a malignant tumor with high prevalence in southern China. Aberrant DNA methylation, as a hallmark of cancer, is extensively present in NPC, the detection of which facilitates early diagnosis and prognosti...
Since bus prioritization policies can help mitigate urban traffic jams, the planning of bus lanes has drawn considerable attention. Existing methods suffer from a common limitation, which is that the limited spatial adaptability resulting from certai...
As street imagery and big data techniques evolve, opportunities for refined urban governance emerge. This study delves into effective methods for urban perception evaluation and street refinement governance by using street view data and deep learning...
It is essential to develop a novel and versatile strategy for constructing electrically conductive adhesives (ECAs) that have superior conductivity and high mechanical properties. In this work, easily synthesized polyaniline@cellulose (PANI@CNs) nano...
Localization and perception play an important role as the basis of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications, providing the internal state of movements and the external understanding of environments. Simultaneous Localization And Mapping...
Collaborative exploration in environments involving multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) represents a crucial research direction in multi-agent systems. However, there is still a lack of research in the areas o...
In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm that integrates diffusion models with reinforcement learning, called Diffusion-Q Synergy (DQS). The methodology formalizes an equivalence relationship between the iterative denoising process in diffusion mo...
The in-image machine translation task involves translating text embedded within images, with the translated results presented in image format. While this task has numerous applications in various scenarios such as film poster translation and everyday...
The widespread application of multi-agent robotic systems in domains such as agricultural collaboration and automation has accentuated the challenges faced in seeking to achieve rapid synchronization and sustain high-performance control under conditi...
Background/Objectives: Previous research has investigated the impact of cognitive as well as emotional predictors, including WMC and language anxiety on language production. These studies often adopt the Complexity, Accuracy and Fluency (CAF) framewo...
Tachyplesin I is a cationic peptide isolated from hemocytes of the horseshoe crab and its anti-tumor activity has been demonstrated in several tumor cells. However, there is limited information providing the global effects and mechanisms of tachyples...
Urban land cover (ULC) serves as fundamental environmental information for urban studies, while accurate and timely ULC mapping remains challenging due to cloud contamination in tropical and subtropical areas. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has excel...
Two different phase-pure cobalt(II) cyanoguanidine bromide coordination compounds, Co(C2N4H4)2(H2O)4·2Br·2H2O (1) and Co3(C2N4H4)8(H2O)8·6Br (2), were precipitated from aqueous and methanol solutions, respectively, and their struct...
In ITU-T standards, auxiliary management and control channels (AMCCs), as defined, facilitate the rapid deployment and efficient management of wavelength division multiplexing passive optical network (WDM-PON) systems. The super-imposition of an AMCC...
The phase-shifted full-bridge high-frequency-link (PSFB-HFL) inverter adopts a DC to sinusoidal-half-wave to sinusoidal-wave conversion structure, which uses few passive components with small parameter values, and the switching frequency of the subse...
A voltage detection current compensation (VSCC) type analog active electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter is proposed to compensate for the performance shortcomings of passive filters in the low-frequency range. Firstly, an equivalent model for th...
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