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It is crucial for the protection and sustainable development of villages in China to effectively determine the changes that have occurred in traditional villages’ architectural features and the causes of such changes in order to provide timely...

This paper deals with the mediator–wrapper architecture and observes it in more modern aspects by relating it to architectural quanta. It is an important architectural pattern that enables a more flexible and modular architecture in opposition...

Architectural color significantly impacts the quality of built environments and is closely related to the physical and mental health of residents. Previous studies have conducted numerous valuable explorations in this field; however, the challenge of...

This paper proposes a new research method for braided river sedimentation on the beach shore based on the action of tidal currents. This study conducts a statistical analysis of the length and width of a single braided river and channel bar sand body...

The characterization, analysis, and evaluation of morphology and structure are crucial in wheat research. Quantitative and fine characterization of wheat morphology and structure from a three-dimensional (3D) perspective has great theoretical signifi...

Three-dimensional architectural greening (TAG) enables the integration of ecological, economic, and social advantages via the effective use of multidimensional space in a variety of forms, making it a significant method for enhancing spatial quality...

Data collection from distributed automated production systems is one of the main prerequisites to leverage information gain from data analysis in the context of Industrie 4.0, e.g., for the optimization of product quality. However, the realization of...

Background: Recently, shear wave elastography (SWE) has been recognized as an effective tool for evaluating Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) patients. The purpose of this study was to assess the parotid glands with SWE, especially for quantitative...

This study addresses the strategic requirements for cultural heritage preservation as specified, alongside the needs of high-quality urban-rural development. It highlights the inefficiency, subjectivity, and lack of intelligence in traditional manual...

Architecture form has been one of the hot areas in the field of architectural design, which reflects regional architectural features to some extent. However, most of the existing methods for architecture form belong to the field of qualitative analys...

The bell tower of Nanking University, built in 1888, is a milestone of modern educational architecture in Nanjing. It fully introduced Western architectural concepts and is an important historical witness to the cultural exchange between China and th...

This study employs Western Anhui as a case study, establishing a three-dimensional quantitative analytical framework comprising ‘genetic map analysis—architectural feature coding—distribution pattern analysis’ to systematicall...

This study focuses on the interpretability of diabetic retinopathy classification models. Seven widely used interpretability methods—Gradient, SmoothGrad, Integrated Gradients, SHAP, DeepLIFT, Grad-CAM++, and ScoreCAM—are applied to asses...

An innovative approach is utilized in this paper to solve the fractional Fokker–Planck–Levy (FFPL) equation. A hybrid technique is designed by combining the finite difference method (FDM), Adams numerical technique, and physics-informed n...

The impact of regional architecture on residents’ identities varies, involving complex emotional aspects. We conducted an in-depth study of the deep connection between regional architecture and identity in China’s Huizhou and Minnan regio...

(1) Background: In this paper, an artificial neural network approach for effective and real-time quantitative microwave breast imaging is proposed. It proposes some numerical analyses for the optimization of the network architecture and the improveme...

Three-dimensional (3D) information technology has become an important technical support in digital heritage preservation practice. However, due to the lack of systematic quantitative research, it is difficult to form a comprehensive understanding of...

With the impact of urbanization and other factors, the vernacular architectural heritage faces the problem of how to carry on and innovate for sustainable development with originality and authenticity in the process of redesigning and planning. There...

Amid accelerating global urbanization, the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, as a repository of multi-ethnic architectural heritage, plays a crucial role in preserving plateau cultural diversity and sustaining harmonious human–environment relationsh...

This paper seeks to create a comparative framework for evaluating transformative experiences for different types of ritual contexts found in sacred architecture by bridging the gap between the phenomenology of human experience and architecture’...

The Kekeya oilfield is located at the southwestern edge of the Tarim Basin, in the southern margin of the Yecheng depression, at the western end of the second structural belt of the northern foothills of the Kunlun Mountains. It is one of the importa...

PM2.5 air pollution is a critical global health issue. This paper introduces an innovative framework to explore the multi-scale relationship between urban morphology and PM2.5 concentrations. An enhanced Land Use Regression (LUR) model integrates geo...

The Church of the Company of Jesus in Quito (1605–1765) is one of the most remarkable examples of colonial religious architecture on the World Heritage List. This church has multiple constructive phases and several interventions with no clear record...

As an important sustainable architecture, vernacular architecture plays a significant role in influencing both regional architecture and contemporary architecture. Vernacular architecture is the traditional and natural way of building that involves n...

Small data sets make developing calibration models using deep neural networks difficult because it is easy to overfit the system. We developed two deep neural network architectures by revising two existing network architectures: the U-Net and the att...

This study explores the acoustic properties of European Churches, influenced by architectural design, historical context, and spatial configurations. A comparative analysis of 83 Churches from different regions and periods combines literature reviews...

Mobile application workloads are inherently driven by user interactions and are characterized by short execution phases and frequent behavioral changes. These properties make it difficult for traditional micro-architecture analysis approaches, which...

This study introduces a design transformation model for AI-generated Chinese traditional architectural images (SD Lora&Canny) based on Stable Diffusion (SD). By integrating parameterization techniques such as Low-Rank Adaptation (Lora) and edge d...

Sustainable manufacturing is essential for boosting resource allocation efficiency, as well as sustainable economic development, while the construction industry is one of the main sectors affecting it. However, the complexity of multidisciplinary int...

Individual tree architecture and the composition of tree species play a vital role for many ecosystem functions and services provided by a forest, such as timber value, habitat diversity, and ecosystem resilience. However, knowledge is limited when i...

Historic towns serve as vital carriers of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage, preserving unique historical memories. Quantitative analysis of their architectural facades is crucial for scientific conservation and cultural continuity. Whil...

This article presents BiomiMETRIC, a quantitative performance tool for biomimetic design. This tool is developed as a complement to the standard ISO 18458 Biomimetics—terminology, concepts, and methodology to quantitatively evaluate the biomime...

The safety of autonomous driving is closely linked to accurate depth perception. With the continuous development of autonomous driving, depth completion has become one of the crucial methods in this field. However, current depth completion methods ha...

The modernist architecture of the twentieth century, often referred to as the International Style, exhibited diverse forms and urban layouts shaped by local cultural, economic, and political factors. To comprehensively understand the architectural he...

Plant architecture is one of the key factors affecting maize yield formation and can be divided into secondary traits, such as plant height (PH), ear height (EH), and leaf number (LN). It is a viable approach for exploiting genetic resources to impro...

An effective strategy for sustainable development is to conduct research on vernacular architecture in response to urbanisation as well as environmental and climate change challenges. However, focused discussion has been limited to date due to the di...

Understanding the genetic basis of a crop’s qualitative and quantitative traits is vital to designing market preferred varieties. The aim of this review is to present a retrospective genetic analysis of qualitative and quantitative phenotypic t...

The judgment of facade styles is an important part of the sustainable utilization and restorative process of historical architectures. Contemporary Harbin needs the help of modern architectural facade forms in the planning of the famous historic city...

Recently, 6G-enabled Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining attention and addressing various challenges of real time application. The artificial intelligence plays a significant role for big data analytics and presents accurate data analysis in real tim...

Studying the architecture of nuclear lamina networks is significantly important in biomedicine owing not only to their influence on the genome, but also because they are associated with several diseases. To save labor and time, an automated method fo...

This study conducted a big data mining and lexical co-occurrence network analysis on design texts sourced from architectural media over the past decade, systematically evaluating the application trends of materials in architectural design. This appro...

The proliferation of digital technologies considerably changed the field of architecture. Digital fabrication pushes architecture into an unexpected new domain of previously unachievable complexity, detail, and materiality. Understanding these techno...

This paper addresses the challenges of architectural higher education to cope with a state of continuous change within the relationship between heritage and sustainability. The initial assumption is that research activities based on design taxonomies...

Pavilion construction projects are an emergent paradigm in architecture education. Nevertheless, their efficiency has not yet been assessed in terms of their added contribution to learning experience and pedagogical outcomes. This paper reviews the d...

Academies were a distinctive type of educational and cultural institution in ancient China, centers of private education, scholarly debate, and cultural preservation, and their architectural complexes typically integrated lecture halls, library build...

Condition-based hydraulic cylinder maintenance necessitates quantitative fault diagnostics. However, existing methods are characterized by either qualitative or limited quantitative capabilities. In this paper, a quantitative fault diagnostic method...

A quantitative analysis of the fault transient is critical for system resilience assessment and protection coordination. Focusing on hybrid modular multilevel converter (MMC)-based HVDC architecture with enhanced fault ride-through (FRT) capability,...

The public perception of buildings belonging to different architectural movements is a largely unexplored area from a quantitative scientific perspective. However, a better scientific understanding of perceptions of architectural movements is importa...

The importance of innovation for architectural products in the building industry increases due to global competitive markets and users’ increased value given to the visual aesthetics of products. Visual appearance is crucial in architecture and...

While establishing where to preserve in a world heritage site is critical for heritage protection, management and cultural sustainability, the approach to delineating protection scopes under the integrity principle remains less discussed in literatur...