Origin traceability is critical for food safety, and the strontium isotope ratio (87Sr/86Sr) has been widely used in this field due to its accuracy and stability. Establishing a regional baseline map of bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr is essential for precise...
Alder yellows (ALY) phytoplasma (16SrV-C) is associated with ALY, a disease of several Alnus (alder) species in Europe and A. rubra in North America. In all affected species, the symptoms are similar. However, latent infections are common. ALY phytop...
Within the complicated and controversial taxonomy of cosmopolitan genus Salvia L. (Lamiaceae) are valuable species Salvia officinalis L. and Salvia sclarea L., which are important for the pharmaceutical, ornamental horticulture, food, and perfume ind...
The present study aims to investigate the behavioral outcomes and the antecedent brain dynamics during the preparation of tasks in which the discrimination is either about the choice (choice response task; CRT) or the action (Go/No-go), and in a task...
Hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) is a valuable crop and model plant for studying sex chromosomes. The scientific interest in the plant has led to its whole genome sequencing and the determination of its cytogenetic characteristics. A range of cytogenetic ma...
This paper develops explicit equations for setting the reorder point s and the order-up-to level S in a periodic-review (R, s, S) inventory policy in a lost-sales environment. The objective is to support direct policy parameterization from demand lev...
The day-ahead electricity market is closely related to other commodity markets such as the fuel and emission markets and is increasingly playing a significant role in human life. Thus, in the electricity markets, accurate electricity price forecastin...
Cigarette smoke (CS) exacerbates symptoms in Crohn’s disease (CD) patients while protecting those with ulcerative colitis (UC). CD has been associated with immuno-dysregulation, mucosal dysfunction, and infection. Among the CD-debated pathogens...
Cigarette smoke (CS) has adverse effects in patients with Crohn’s disease (CD), an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that has been associated with microbial infection, immuno-dysregulation, and mucosal dysfunction. However, CS seems to provide r...
This study aimed to assess the potential of a multidimensional approach to differentiate body hairs based on their physico-chemical properties and whether body hairs can replace the use of scalp hair in studies linked to forensic and systemic intoxic...
The purpose of multisource map super-resolution is to reconstruct high-resolution maps based on low-resolution maps, which is valuable for content-based map tasks such as map recognition and classification. However, there is no specific super-resolut...
Jiama is a super-large porphyry copper–polymetallic deposit located in the Gangdese metallogenic belt of southern Tibet. The deposit consists of a combination of a polymetallic skarn, Cu–Mo mineralization at the contact between the Jiama Porphyry and...
Elemental and chemical state maps of p/n-controlled SrB6 bulk specimens are presented by using a soft X-ray emission spectroscopy electron microscope. Those bulk specimens were obtained by sintering powder specimens, prepared by the molten-salt metho...
The Ug99-effective stem rust resistance gene Sr48 was mapped to chromosome 2A based on its repulsion linkage with Yr1 in an Arina/Forno recombinant inbred line (RIL) population. Attempts to identify markers closely linked to Sr48 using available geno...
This study was conducted to evaluate the 5S rDNA site number, position, and origin of signal pattern diversity in 42 plant species using fluorescence in situ hybridization. The species were selected based on the discovery of karyotype rearrangement,...
Wheat stem rust caused by Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt) had been a devastating foliar disease worldwide during the 20th century. With the emergence of Ug99 races, which are virulent to most stem rust resistance genes deployed in wheat variet...
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) reflected signals can be used to remotely sense the Earth’s surface, known as GNSS reflectometry (GNSS-R). The GNSS-R technique has been applied to numerous areas, such as the retrieval of wind speed, a...
Interactive 3D visualizations of geospatial data are currently available and popular through various applications such as Google EarthTM and others. Several studies have focused on user performance with 3D maps, but static 3D maps were mostly used as...
Chimonanthus campanulatus R.H. Chang & C.S. Ding is a good horticultural tree because of its beautiful yellow flowers and evergreen leaves. In this study, fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) was used to analyse mitotic metaphase chromosomes...
Contemporary urban commercial complexes have expanded beyond their role as retail facilities and have come to operate as urban architectural interfaces that connect buildings, users, and the surrounding urban context. Their exterior architectural qua...
In recent works, many authors generated strongly relatively nonexpansive sequences of mappings by the sequences of firmly nonexpansive-like mappings. In this paper, we introduce a new method for construction of strongly relatively nonexpansive sequen...
Reacted bioactive-glass surfaces often contain Ca–P-rich deposits beside Si-rich regions, but qualitative overlap in SEM–EDS maps cannot establish whether Ca and P are spatially associated or merely co-occur because clustered maps occupy...
Regional multi-isotope mapping provides an effective means of investigating deep crustal composition and crustal reworking processes. The western margin of the Yangtze Craton has experienced multiple episodes of magmatism, crustal reworking, and mine...
During field surveys carried out in 2021 at two farms in Lombardy (North Italy), leaf samples were collected from 113 plants (both symptomatic and asymptomatic) belonging to 18 medicinal and aromatic species. Amplification and nucleotide sequence ana...
Information about the chlorophyll a concentration of inland water bodies is essential for water monitoring. This study focuses on estimating chlorophyll a with remote sensing data, and machine learning (ML) approaches on the real-world SpecWa dataset...
Image reconnaissance systems are critical in modern applications, where the ability to accurately detect and identify objects is crucial. However, distortions in real-world operational conditions, such as motion blur, noise, and compression artifacts...
Flavescence dorée (FD) is the most important phytoplasma-associated disease of the grapevine yellows complex in Europe. Recent studies highlighted a great genetic diversity within FD phytoplasma (FDp) strains and demonstrated that their diffus...
In the present work, the profiles of bacterial communities of whole and filleted European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax), during several storage temperatures (0, 4, 8 and 12 °C) under aerobic and Modified Atmosphere Packaging (MAP) conditions, w...
In the Campania region of southern Italy, a formerly undescribed witches’-broom disease of cultivated strawberry characterized by symptoms similar to those of strawberry witches’-broom and multiplier diseases occurring in North America, h...
(1) Background: The volume-viscosity swallow test (V-VST) is a clinical tool for screening and diagnosis of oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD). Our aims were to examine the clinical utility of the V-VST against videofluoroscopy (VFS) or fiberoptic endoscop...
Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) traditionally relies on explicit reasoning chains, which, despite being interpretable, impose severe constraints on inference efficiency and scalability in long-range environments. Existing multimodal large langua...
The Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) has a panchromatic band (503–676 nm) that can be used to derive a novel virtual orange band (590–635 nm) by using the multispectral green band and red band components. The orange band is useful...
Long-term immobilization ratios of strontium (Sr2+) and cesium (Cs+) in paper sludge ash-based geopolymer (PS-GP) were investigated in one year. PS-GP paste specimens were prepared in the conditions of 20 °C and 100% R.H., using two kinds of pape...
Remote sensing techniques based on medium resolution satellite imagery are being widely applied for mapping plastic covered greenhouses (PCG). This article aims at testing the spectral consistency of surface reflectance values of Sentinel-2 MSI (S2 L...
Continuous maritime surveillance increasingly relies on optical remote sensing, yet small ships are difficult to detect in low-resolution imagery because limited spatial resolution, complex sea backgrounds, and sensor noise suppress the fine-grained...
Accurate estimation of forest height is crucial for the estimation of forest aboveground biomass and monitoring of forest resources. Remote sensing technology makes it achievable to produce high-resolution forest height maps in large geographical are...
Phengaris alcon is one of Europe’s emblematic invertebrate species and is currently classified as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List. In Portugal, this endangered species occurs mainly in Alvão Natural Park (ANP). This study investigat...
Despite the achievements of deep neural-network-based object detection, detecting small objects in low-resolution images remains a challenging task due to limited information. A possible solution to alleviate the issue involves integrating super-reso...
Timely and accurate estimation of the winter wheat planting area and its spatial distribution is essential for the implementation of crop growth monitoring and yield estimation, and hence for the development of national agricultural production and fo...
Rough set approaches encounter uncertainty by means of boundary regions instead of membership values. In this paper, we develop the topological structure on soft rough set (
Recently, many deep neural networks (DNN) have been proposed to solve the spectral reconstruction (SR) problem: recovering spectra from RGB measurements. Most DNNs seek to learn the relationship between an RGB viewed in a given spatial context and it...
The variability in the intensity and frequency of extreme hydro-meteorological events due to climate change have an enormous impact on managing water resources in developing countries. Frequently it has been recognized as sudden droughts and severe f...
Background: T1 mapping has become a valuable technique in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) for evaluating myocardial tissue properties. However, its quantitative accuracy remains limited by noise-related variability. Super-resolution deep lea...
Stem rust (SR) and leaf rust (LR) are currently the two most important rust diseases of cultivated rye in Central Europe and resistant cultivars promise to prevent yield losses caused by those pathogens. To secure long-lasting resistance, ideally pyr...
Background/Objectives: Vedolizumab (VDZ), a monoclonal antibody targeting α4β7 integrin, is used in Crohn’s disease (CD) management, yet patients’ responses vary, underscoring the need for pharmacogenomic (PGx) markers. This st...
Quantification of suspended particulate matter (SPM) measurements—together with statistical tools, polar contour maps and backward air mass trajectory analyses—were implemented to better understand the main local and remote sources of con...
Multi-focus-image-fusion is a crucial embranchment of image processing. Many methods have been developed from different perspectives to solve this problem. Among them, the sparse representation (SR)-based and convolutional neural network (CNN)-based...
Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), the causal agent of wheat stem rust, poses a significant threat to global wheat production. Genetic resistance offers a cost-effective and sustainable solution. The durum wheat landrace PI 94701 was previo...
The estuarine tapertail anchovy Coilia nasus is distributed throughout the Dayang River. However, the life history and habitat use of this fish remain unknown. Here, the microchemistry patterns of Sr and Ca in 23 otoliths collected from the lower rea...
With rising demand for cross-camera person re-identification (ReID) in smart cities, low-resolution (LR) images severely hinder practical ReID performance due to detail loss and weakened identity features. This paper proposes two solutions to address...
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