LiDAR point clouds often suffer from sparsity and uneven distributions in outdoor scenes, leading to the poor performance of cutting-edge 3D object detectors. In this paper, we propose Point-Rich, which is designed to improve the performance of 3D ob...
Developments in the field of artificial intelligence have made great strides in the field of automatic semantic segmentation, both in the 2D (image) and 3D spaces. Within the context of 3D recording technology it has also seen application in several...
Robust monitoring techniques, capable of showing change in the savanna when change has occurred, are a prerequisite for better managing this ecosystem. The Step Point Method is a well-established technique in South African range surveys (Short and Mo...
Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) of the cervicoscapular girdle—most typically involving the upper trapezius and the rhomboid muscles—is among the most frequent causes of chronic regional musculoskeletal pain, yet the mainstays of interventi...
This observational study reports the process for the manufacture of RAPIDTM Biodynamic Haematogel and explores the properties of the platelet and leukocyte-rich plasma gels formed. Gels were manufactured from 60 mL of human blood using the protocol o...
Complex and wicked problems characterized by high levels of uncertainty motivate the use of multimethodology (or methodological pluralism) in which different methodologies and methods are combined to better approach problems and develop solutions. Th...
Exploring a novel approach for the synthesis of oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalysts with inexpensive and high-activity is desirable. Herein, we report a bubble templating method to synthesize the graphene-l...
Excessive nutrient loss from farmland located on the west bank of Erhai Lake has resulted in significant non-point source pollution within the Lake Erhai basin. However, mitigating this issue proves challenging due to the intricate nature of soil pro...
Reality-capture has made point clouds a primary spatial data source, yet processing and integration limits hinder their potential. Prior reviews focus on isolated phases; by contrast, Smart Point Clouds (SPCs)—augmenting points with semantics,...
A generalized notion of species richness is introduced. The generalization embeds the popular index of species richness on the boundary of a family of diversity indices each of which is the number of species in the community after a small proportion...
Lysyl oxidase-like 2 (LOXL2) has emerged as a promising therapeutic target against metastatic/invasive tumors and organ and tissue fibrosis. LOXL2 catalyzes the oxidative deamination of lysine and hydroxylysine residues in extracellular matrix (ECM)...
The impact of malaria on global health has continually prompted the need to develop effective diagnostic strategies. In malaria endemic regions, routine diagnosis is hampered by technical and infrastructural challenges to laboratories. These laborato...
Karstic sinkholes are peculiar structures hosting specific biological communities. Birds are still little studied in this regard. This note reports, for the first time, original data relating to the density of breeding species occurring within a sink...
Here, we synthesized the research trends in conservation priorities for terrestrial fauna and flora across the globe from peer-reviewed articles published from 1990 to 2022, following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Anal...
Background/Objectives: Orofacial myofascial pain (MFP) is one of the leading causes of chronic orofacial pain, often resulting in functional limitations and a compromised quality of life. Intramuscular injection therapies appear to be a promising alt...
Point defects are inevitable, at least due to thermodynamics, and essential for engineering semiconductors. Herein, we investigate the formation and electronic structures of fifteen different kinds of intrinsic point defects of zinc blende indium ars...
The robotic mapping problem, which consists in providing a spatial model of the environment to a robot, is a research topic with a wide range of applications. One important challenge of this problem is to obtain a map that is information-rich (i.e.,...
Liquation cracking is a common type of hot cracking in the heat-affected zone (HAZ) of welded Cu-rich nanoprecipitate-strengthened steels, and its formation is closely related to the remelting of low-melting-point phases at grain boundaries and contr...
This study investigated a diamond-like carbon (DLC) coating formed on stainless steels (disk and wire specimens) using a plasma-based ion implantation/deposition method with two different parameters (DLC-1, DLC-2). These specimens were characterized...
The assessment of mosquito diversity in remnants of the Atlantic Forest, which are considered biodiversity hotspots, is crucial for studying patterns of behavior and adaptation, performing environmental monitoring, and public health. These studies pr...
Polyamide 4 (PA4) is a biobased and biodegradable polyamide. The high hydrogen bond density of PA4 bestows it with a high melting point that is close to its thermal decomposition temperature, thereby limiting the melt processing of PA4. In this study...
This paper proposes a single-stage adaptive multi-scale noise filtering algorithm for point clouds, based on feature information, which aims to mitigate the fact that the current laser point cloud noise filtering algorithm has difficulty quickly comp...
Point cloud registration is pivotal across various applications, yet traditional methods rely on unordered point clouds, leading to significant challenges in terms of computational complexity and feature richness. These methods often use k-nearest ne...
Arabidopsis EARLI-type hybrid proline-rich proteins (HyPRPs) consist of a putative N-terminal secretion signal, a proline-rich domain (PRD), and a characteristic eight-cysteine-motif (8-CM). They have been implicated in biotic and abiotic stress resp...
We set up a rich bilateral bargaining model with four salient points (disagreement point, ideal point, reference point, and tempered aspirations point), where the disagreement point and the utility possibilities frontier are endogenously determined....
This study was conducted as an effort to examine the association between mammalian species richness and environmental, anthropogenic, and bioclimate factors in the Province of Chungnam, Korea, using a stacked species distribution model (SSDM) approac...
Methionine-rich prion-like proteins can regulate liquid–liquid phase separation processes in response to stresses. To date, however, very few proteins have been identified as methionine-rich prion-like. Herein, we have performed a computational...
Tripalmitin-(PPP, 81.2%), 1,3-dipalmitoyl-2-oleoylglycerol-(POP, 64.4%), 1,2-dipalmitoyl-3-oleoylglycerol-(PPO, 86.5%), and 1,3-dioleoyl-2-palmitoylglycerol-(OPO, 50.2%)-rich lipids with different regiospecific positions of palmitic acid (P) were syn...
Urban bird diversity plays an important role in sustaining urban biodiversity and ecosystem health. Previous studies often rely on conventional field surveys to investigate bird diversity and focus on micro-scale urban green spaces such as parks and...
This paper formulates a new particle motion system. The dynamic behaviors of the system are studied including the continuous dependence on initial conditions of the system’s solution, the equilibrium stability, Hopf bifurcation at the equilibri...
Gas-fired boilers, gas stoves, and wall-mounted gas boilers are the main consumers of gas fuel, but they generally encounter problems when operating at high altitudes, such as reduced thermal efficiency and increased pollutant emissions. Previous stu...
The digital documentation of cultural relics plays an important role in archiving, protection, and management. In the field of cultural heritage, three-dimensional (3D) point cloud data is effective at expressing complex geometric structures and geom...
Recent studies point out that not only the daily intake of energy and nutrients but the time of day when they are ingested notably regulates lipid metabolism and cardiovascular risk (CVR). Therefore, the aim of the study was to assess if the type of...
The Nama Karoo biome is one of the least well-studied biomes in the semi-arid region of South Africa, and essential baseline biodiversity data for this region are lacking. The aim of the present study was to examine the influence of environmental fac...
Two main aspects of the study of diversity can be distinguished: the first is related to the inventory of living organisms, the second is related to the organization of life at the level of biotic communities. Quantitative assessment of diversity is...
Histological structure of thrombi is a strong determinant of the outcome of vascular recanalization therapy, the only treatment option for acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients. A total of 21 AIS patients from this study after undergoing non-enhanced...
The purpose of this paper is to study the existence of periodic solutions for the first-order nonlinear neutral differential equation on time scales. Burton–Krasnoselskii’s fixed point theorem will be sufficiently general for application...
The phase equilibrium and phase transformation of the Al–Si–Y ternary system were investigated in 80 annealed alloys using an electron probe microanalysis (EPMA), X-ray diffractometry (XRD) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The...
Geometrids are a species-rich group of moths that serve as reliable indicators for environmental changes. Little is known about the Mongolian moth fauna, and there is no comprehensive review of species richness, diversity, and distribution patterns o...
In this paper, we study the complete quadrangle. We started this investigation in a few of our previous papers. In those papers and here, the rectangular coordinates are used to enable us to prove the properties of the rich geometry of a quadrangle u...
The purpose of this paper is to present some fixed-point results for self-generalized contractions in ordered rectangular b-metric spaces. We also provide some examples that illustrate the non-triviality and richness of this area of research.
Reservoir computing (RC) is an attractive paradigm of a recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture, owning to the ease of training and existing neuromorphic implementation. Its simulated performance matches other digital algorithms on a series of be...
Deforestation in the tropics is mainly driven by the need to expand agriculture and forestry land. Tropical cropland has also undergone a process of intensification, particularly evident in regions that are the main exporters of deforestation-driven...
Polygonatum rhizomes are rich in various compounds with many biological activities and are widely used in functional foods and pharmaceutical products. In order to screen for superior Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua (P. cyrtonema) germplasm and also t...
The wonderful American poet, Adrienne Rich, pointed out in a recent lecture that: “This year a report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics finds that 1 out of every 136 residents of the United States is behind bars—many in jails, unconvicted.”[...]
In this paper, a method to obtain the CuInGaSe2 (CIGS) absorber layer with an appropriate selenium content is put forward, in which a Se-rich target is used to deposit a CIGS thin-film and this film is annealed in a Se-free inert atmosphere. The key...
We evaluated the hourly dynamics of ground-dwelling invertebrate communities in farmland using infrared camera traps between August and September 2022. No significant variations within 24 h nor between any two time points of each day were observed in...
To address the problem of system instability during vehicle low-speed driving, we propose improving the visual odometer using ORB (Oriented FAST and Rotated BRIEF) features. The homogeneity of ORB features leads to poor corner point properties of som...
Oil-contaminated soils represent a significant environmental challenge due to the presence of petroleum hydrocarbons and associated pollutants. At the same time, such materials may contain valuable hydrocarbon-rich organic fractions that can potentia...
As a rare metal, lithium plays a pivotal role in strategic critical metal mineral resources and is one of the critical metals for developing the contemporary social economy. The Li-rich layers in the Xian’an coalfield in Guangxi Province were t...
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