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30 July 2025

Unsupervised hyperspectral image (HSI) clustering is a fundamental yet challenging task due to high dimensionality and complex spectral–spatial characteristics. In this paper, we propose a novel and efficient clustering framework centered on ad...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,505 Views
27 Pages

9 January 2020

Translation is spatiotemporally regulated and endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-associated mRNAs are generally in efficient translation. It is unclear whether the ER-associated mRNAs are deadenylated or degraded on the ER surface in situ or in the cytosol....

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,316 Views
13 Pages

18 August 2022

The novelty of the present study is to address the durability of corroded anchors for prestressing CFRP laminates. Two types of steel anchors, clamp anchors and wedge anchors, were used to prestress CFRP laminates and then subjected to steel corrosio...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,215 Views
19 Pages

25 September 2022

Aiming at the problems of a large number of corrosion and fatigue damage of the current prestressed steel strands, this paper adopts carbon fiber-reinforced composite (CFRP) strand with better corrosion resistance and fatigue resistance and uses it i...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,173 Views
14 Pages

This research aims to investigate the bearing capability of deep helical anchors and grouped helical anchors under uplift or lateral loads using field experiments. Grouped helical anchors may serve as a viable alternative to traditional deep foundati...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,827 Views
14 Pages

Effect of the Number of Anchoring and Electron-Donating Groups on the Efficiency of Free-Base- and Zn-Porphyrin-Sensitized Solar Cells

  • Raheleh Nasrollahi,
  • Luis Martín-Gomis,
  • Fernando Fernández-Lázaro,
  • Saeed Zakavi and
  • Ángela Sastre-Santos

21 February 2019

A series of porphyrin compounds, free base (H2P) and their Zn (II) metallated analogues (ZnP), bearing one, two or three carboxylic acid groups, have been synthesized, characterized, and used as sensitizers in dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,919 Views
17 Pages

CFRP has the potential to replace steel cables in large-span cable-stayed bridges due to its high strength and lightweight material properties. However, the weak lateral force performance of CFRP material creates the challenge of anchoring. This stud...

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  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,866 Views
18 Pages

A New Series of EDOT Based Co-Sensitizers for Enhanced Efficiency of Cocktail DSSC: A Comparative Study of Two Different Anchoring Groups

  • Ganesh Koyyada,
  • Ramesh Kumar Chitumalla,
  • Suresh Thogiti,
  • Jae Hong Kim,
  • Joonkyung Jang,
  • Malapaka Chandrasekharam and
  • Jae Hak Jung

30 September 2019

Herein, we report the design and synthesis strategy of a new class of five EDOT based co-sensitizers (CSGR1-5) by introducing different donors (2,3,4-trimethoxypheny, 2,4-dibutoxyphenyl, and 2,4-difluorophenyl) and anchoring groups (rhodamine-3-aceti...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,711 Views
14 Pages

Long High-Performance Sustainable Bolt Technology for the Deep Coal Roadway Roof: A Case Study

  • Houqiang Yang,
  • Changliang Han,
  • Nong Zhang,
  • Yuantian Sun,
  • Dongjiang Pan and
  • Changlun Sun

13 February 2020

High-efficiency maintenance and control of the deep coal roadway roof stability is a reliable guarantee for safe production and sustainable development of a coal mine. With belt haulage roadway 3108 in MenKeqing coal mine as the research background,...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,173 Views
21 Pages

Cognitive Biases in Building Energy Decisions

  • Maic Rakitta and
  • Jannis Wernery

6 September 2021

Research on sustainability in the building sector currently focuses mainly on technical solutions while little attention is given to how behaviour influences the uptake of these solutions. Bounded rationality may have a significant impact on the effe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,930 Views
32 Pages

The object detection algorithm of the PCB (Printed Circuit Board) assembly scene based on CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) can significantly improve the production capacity of intelligent manufacturing of electronic products. However, the object cl...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,435 Views
18 Pages

Achieving multi-scene electronic component detection is the key to automatic electronic component assembly. The study of a deep-learning-based multi-scene electronic component object detection method is an important research focus. There are many anc...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,538 Views
15 Pages

An Improved YOLOv5 Model for Concrete Bubble Detection Based on Area K-Means and ECANet

  • Wei Tian,
  • Bazhou Li,
  • Jingjing Cao,
  • Feichao Di,
  • Yang Li and
  • Jun Liu

8 September 2024

The appearance quality of fair-faced concrete plays a crucial role in evaluating the engineering quality, as the abundance of small-area bubbles generated during construction diminishes the surface quality of concrete. However, existing methods are p...

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  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,003 Views
17 Pages

19 December 2019

Ultra-wideband technology has the merits of high temporal resolution and stability, and it has been widely used for high-accuracy localization and tracking. However, most ultra-wideband localization systems need multiple anchors for trilateration, wh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,964 Views
20 Pages

A2S-Det: Efficiency Anchor Matching in Aerial Image Oriented Object Detection

  • Zhifeng Xiao,
  • Kai Wang,
  • Qiao Wan,
  • Xiaowei Tan,
  • Chuan Xu and
  • Fanfan Xia

27 December 2020

Object detection is a challenging task in aerial images, where many objects have large aspect ratios and are densely arranged. Most anchor-based rotating detectors assign anchors for ground-truth objects by a fixed restriction of the rotation Interse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,321 Views
19 Pages

Bioinspired Kirigami Structure for Efficient Anchoring of Soft Robots via Optimization Analysis

  • Muhammad Niaz Khan,
  • Ye Huo,
  • Zhufeng Shao,
  • Ming Yao and
  • Umair Javaid

15 July 2025

Kirigami-inspired geometries offer a lightweight, bioinspired strategy for friction enhancement and anchoring in soft robotics. This study presents a bioinspired kirigami structure designed to enhance the anchoring performance of soft robotic systems...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,455 Views
19 Pages

5 December 2024

In industrial mixing processes, impeller design, rotational speed, and mixing conditions play a crucial role in determining process efficiency, product quality, and energy consumption. Optimizing the performance of stirring systems for non-Newtonian...

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  • Open Access
1,848 Views
21 Pages

Drag embedment anchors (DEAs) play a vital role in maintaining the stability and safety of offshore structures, including floating wind turbines, oil rigs, and marine renewable energy systems. Accurate prediction of anchor performance is essential fo...

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  • Open Access
163 Views
23 Pages

Multi-view clustering (MVC) is a fundamental unsupervised learning task for exploring latent structures from heterogeneous multi-view data. Existing MVC methods face critical challenges including the high computational cost of full-graph tensor model...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,711 Views
21 Pages

29 July 2022

As a key technology in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), target tracking plays an essential role in many applications. To improve energy efficiency, clustering is widely used in tracking to organize the network to achieve data fusion and reduce commun...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,421 Views
17 Pages

24 March 2025

Accurate and reliable localization is crucial for various wireless communication applications. A multitude of studies have presented accurate localization methods using hybrid received signal strength (RSS) and angle of arrival (AOA) measurements. Ho...

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  • Open Access
1,412 Views
21 Pages

Graphene Oxide-Anchored Cu–Co Catalysts for Efficient Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction

  • Haosheng Lan,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Le Ding,
  • Xin Li,
  • Zhanhong Zhao,
  • Yansen Qu,
  • Yingjie Xia and
  • Xinghua Chang

26 May 2025

Electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia (ENRA) presents a promising strategy for simultaneous environmental remediation and sustainable ammonia synthesis. In this work, a Cu–Co bimetallic catalyst supported on functionalized reduced graph...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,998 Views
14 Pages

Single-Atom Anchored g-C3N4 Monolayer as Efficient Catalysts for Nitrogen Reduction Reaction

  • Huadou Chai,
  • Weiguang Chen,
  • Zhen Feng,
  • Yi Li,
  • Mingyu Zhao,
  • Jinlei Shi,
  • Yanan Tang and
  • Xianqi Dai

21 April 2023

Electrochemical N2 reduction reaction (NRR) is a promising approach for NH3 production under mild conditions. Herein, the catalytic performance of 3d transition metal (TM) atoms anchored on s-triazine-based g-C3N4 (TM@g-C3N4) in NRR is systematically...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,064 Views
14 Pages

Anchoring of Copper(II)–Schiff Base Complex in SBA-15 Matrix as Efficient Oxidation and Biomimetic Catalyst

  • Mihaela Mureseanu,
  • Irina Bleotu,
  • Cezar-Ionuț Spînu and
  • Nicoleta Cioatera

16 January 2024

A new mononuclear Cu(II) complex [Cu(L2)(H2O)2], where L is the Schiff base 2-[2-(3-bromopropoxy)benzylideneamino] benzoic acid, was synthesized and covalently anchored onto an amino-functionalized SBA-15 mesoporous silica in order to obtain an effic...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
2,882 Views
18 Pages

Electrospun Membranes Anchored with g-C3N4/MoS2 for Highly Efficient Photocatalytic Degradation of Aflatoxin B1 under Visible Light

  • Ruixin Song,
  • Liangtao Yao,
  • Changpo Sun,
  • Dechao Yu,
  • Hui Lin,
  • Guisheng Li,
  • Zichao Lian,
  • Songlin Zhuang and
  • Dawei Zhang

6 February 2023

The degradation of aflatoxin (AF) is a topic that always exists along with the food and feed industry. Photocatalytic degradation as an advanced oxidation technology has many benefits, including complete inorganic degradation, no secondary contaminat...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,387 Views
11 Pages

26 November 2022

Rational design and construction of cost–effective electrocatalysts for efficient hydrogen production has attracted extensive research attention worldwide. Herein, we report the construction of a transition metal selenide/carbon composite catal...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,742 Views
13 Pages

9 October 2024

Electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction (NRR) is a promising route for realizing green and sustainable ammonia synthesis under ambient conditions. However, one of the major challenges of currently available Single-atom catalysts (SACs) is poor ca...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,338 Views
10 Pages

Regulating TiO2 Deposition Using a Single-Anchored Ligand for High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells

  • Zhanpeng Xu,
  • Zhineng Lan,
  • Fuxin Chen,
  • Chong Yin,
  • Longze Wang,
  • Zhehan Li,
  • Luyao Yan and
  • Jun Ji

2 August 2024

Planar perovskite solar cells (PSCs), as a promising photovoltaic technology, have been extensively studied, with strong expectations for commercialization. Improving the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of PSCs is necessary to accelerate their prac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,139 Views
26 Pages

20 January 2021

One of the requirements for ships equipped with dynamic positioning system is the ability to maintain a given position in various hydrometeorological conditions. At the same time, efforts at reducing electricity consumption are made in order to reduc...

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  • Open Access
1,222 Views
27 Pages

11 September 2025

Detecting arbitrarily oriented ships in remote sensing images remains challenging due to diverse orientations, complex backgrounds, and scale variations, leading to a struggle in balancing detector accuracy with efficiency. We propose EfficientRDet,...

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  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
59,930 Views
51 Pages

Review on Efficiency and Anomalies in Stock Markets

  • Kai-Yin Woo,
  • Chulin Mai,
  • Michael McAleer and
  • Wing-Keung Wong

The efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) is one of the most important economic and financial hypotheses that have been tested over the past century. Due to many abnormal phenomena and conflicting evidence, otherwise known as anomalies against EMH, some...

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  • Open Access
45 Citations
12,076 Views
15 Pages

11 April 2014

This paper presents an elastic shear stress distribution theoretical model at the carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP)-adhesive interface of a single-rod and a multi-rod straight-pipe bonding anchor. A comparison between theoretical and finite elem...

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  • Open Access
837 Views
15 Pages

In Situ Anchored, Ultrasmall, Oxygen Vacancy-Rich TiO2−x on Carbonized Bacterial Cellulose for the Efficient Adsorption and Separation of Organic Pollutants

  • Man Zhou,
  • Yanli Zhou,
  • Minmin Ni,
  • Yuzhe Zhang,
  • Song Xu,
  • Hao Ma,
  • Jian Zhou,
  • Jin Zhao,
  • Liwei Lin and
  • Zhongyu Li

28 March 2025

Superior selective adsorption of organic dye is still a big challenge in the process of dye wastewater treatment. Meanwhile, low-price and environmentally friendly biomass-based adsorbents show huge potential in the fields of separation and purificat...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,738 Views
14 Pages

A Novel Non-Enzymatic Efficient H2O2 Sensor Utilizing δ-FeOOH and Prussian Blue Anchoring on Carbon Felt Electrode

  • Karoline S. Nantes,
  • Ana L. H. K. Ferreira,
  • Marcio C. Pereira,
  • Francisco G. E. Nogueira and
  • André S. Afonso

9 September 2024

In this study, an efficient H2O2 sensor was developed based on electrochemical Prussian blue (PB) synthesized from the acid suspension of δ-FeOOH and K3[Fe(CN)6] using cyclic voltammetry (CV) and anchored on carbon felt (CF), yielding an enhanc...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,668 Views
19 Pages

29 November 2021

Deep learning is a relatively new branch of machine learning in which computers are taught to recognize patterns in massive volumes of data. It primarily describes learning at various levels of representation, which aids in understanding data that in...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,090 Views
22 Pages

27 February 2024

Helical anchors have been extensively employed as foundation systems for carrying tension loads due to their installation efficiency and large uplift capacity. However, the installation influences of helical anchors are still not well understood, esp...

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  • Open Access
1,630 Views
19 Pages

12 August 2024

The precise positioning of anchoring-hole centers on the steel belts used for anchor support in coal mines is essential for improving the automation and efficiency of roadway support. To address the issues of poor positioning accuracy and the low sup...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,801 Views
20 Pages

20 February 2024

A drill-anchor robot is an essential means of efficient drilling and anchoring in coal-mine roadways. It is significant to calculate the position of the drill-anchor robot based on the positioning information of the supported anchor rod to improve tu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
168 Views
20 Pages

Global Anchor-Guided Local Anchor Learning for Multi-View Clustering

  • Guangzheng Zhu,
  • Chundan Liu,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Kehan Kang,
  • Yunhong Hu and
  • Chong Peng

Multi-view clustering (MVC) is crucial for exploiting complementary information from multi-view data. Anchor-based MVC methods are efficient for large-scale tasks but lack the ability to balance view-specific local complementarity and cross-view glob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,667 Views
15 Pages

11 May 2022

In order to improve the impact resistance mechanical properties of bolt, the requirements of rock burst roadway support must be met. Based on the requirements that the anchor should have a reasonable deformation load threshold, high stroke efficiency...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,937 Views
20 Pages

Anchors may exhibit various complicated behaviors in the seabed, especially for deepwater anchors including gravity installed anchors (GIAs) and drag embedment plate anchors (drag anchors), stimulating the development of an efficient analytical tool...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
937 Views
12 Pages

20 February 2025

Sea anchors are crucial for stabilizing fishing vessels and improving operations, specifically for jigging vessels. Their effective performance depends on design and material choice, with the canopy material playing a key role. We compared the draina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,347 Views
19 Pages

The offshore wind industry is expanding from shallow water to deep water. As a cost-effective and efficient anchoring solution, drag embedment anchors have been widely used for mooring floating offshore structures. However, there is currently no well...

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  • Open Access
1,231 Views
17 Pages

Numerical Simulation and Experimental Study of Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Single-Bar Extrusion Anchorage Structure

  • Wanxu Zhu,
  • Chengyang Xiong,
  • Boxuan Cheng,
  • Quanxi Shen,
  • Hongbin Cheng and
  • Shangqi Guo

7 August 2024

The reliable anchorage of carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) tendons is a critical issue influencing the stable bearing capacity of bridge cables. This study introduces a novel CFRP single-strand extrusion anchoring structure, where the strand is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,422 Views
18 Pages

30 December 2022

Based on a previously designed variable-stiffness load transfer component (LTC), a novel dispersed-tendon cable anchor system (CAS) was developed to increase the anchoring efficiency of large-diameter basalt-fiber-reinforced polymer (BFRP) cables. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,467 Views
9 Pages

Improved Matching Algorithm with Anchor Argument for Rotate Target Detection

  • Kangkang Wang,
  • Bowen Chen,
  • Xianyun Wu and
  • Yunsong Li

14 November 2022

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used in the task of object detection in remote sensing. Remote sensing targets can have arbitrary angles, and many anchor-base methods use a lot of anchors with different angles which cause effici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
492 Views
24 Pages

Drag embedment anchors (DEAs) are anchors that generate holding capacity by embedding into the seabed under tension. DEAs are widely used in offshore mooring. This study presents a data-driven framework using decision tree regression (DTR) and random...

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  • Open Access
1,158 Views
17 Pages

The addition of fins to suction anchors has been proposed to enhance bearing capacity in combined loadings. This study examines the failure envelope of finned suction anchors subjected to combined vertical–horizontal loadings in normally and li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
731 Views
25 Pages

Mechanism of Enhanced Control and Technological Application of Surrounding Rock Anchoring in Fully Mechanized Caving Face of Extra-Thick Coal Seams

  • Deqiu Wang,
  • Fulian He,
  • Dongdong Chen,
  • Marc Bascompta,
  • Xiao Wang,
  • Chenyu Xu,
  • Bingquan Liu and
  • Wang Tian

17 April 2025

With respect to the problem of the anchorage failure of a broken roof in the roadway of extra-thick coal seams by using a traditional unconstrained pushing anchoring agent, a new anchoring agent installation technology with a push–pull device w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,472 Views
16 Pages

16 April 2023

Conventional FRP anchor rods have low elongation and poor impact resistance, both of which do not meet the support requirements of rock burst roadways. Therefore, a pressure energy-absorbing FRP anchor rod composed of an FRP rod body, tray, energy-ab...

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