The contiguity of a hardmetal is a measure of the proportion of the carbide grain boundaries that are in direct contact with other carbide grain boundaries. Recent analysis of data available in the literature shows a large scatter in results and a si...
Cultivated land concentration and contiguity, as a core element of agricultural modernization development, holds strategic significance for enhancing agricultural production efficiency and ensuring national food security. This study employs vector pa...
Cervical disc degenerative disease (CDDD) is a common spinal pathology that is often treated with anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), cervical disc arthroplasty (CDA), and/or hybrid cervical surgery (HCS). The purpose of this first-time s...
The evolution of the urban agglomeration is a significant development in urban geography. Determining its spatial range for effective measurement remains a challenge for researchers. In previous studies, determining spatial range has primarily been d...
In general dynamic scenes, blurring is the result of the motion of multiple objects, camera shaking or scene depth variations. As an inverse process, deblurring extracts a sharp video sequence from the information contained in one single blurry image...
Given the crucial role of the personalized management and treatment of hearing loss (HL), etiological investigations are performed early on, and genetic analysis significantly contributes to the determination of most syndromic and nonsyndromic HL cas...
Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome (GCPS) is a rare genetic disorder (about 200 cases reported), characterized by macrocephaly, hypertelorism, and polysyndactyly. Most of the reported GCPS cases are the results of heterozygous loss of function muta...
Organic fluorides are widely used in pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, material sciences, and other fields due to the special physical and chemical properties of fluorine atoms. The synthesis of alkyl fluorinated compounds bearing multiple contiguous s...
The study offers a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imaging concept called Strip-Spot SAR, which uses linear Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar arrays, which are becoming increasingly attractive for short-range sensing in a variety of growing...
Gaze data visualization constitutes one of the most critical processes during eye-tracking analysis. Considering that modern devices are able to collect gaze data in extremely high frequencies, the visualization of the collected aggregated gaze data...
Harmonious interactions among multiple functions form the foundation of sustainable rural development. This study proposes an innovative network-based framework to analyze the relationship between the Concentrated-Contiguous Conservation and Utilizat...
The streambed median grain size (D50) has been an integral part of many sediment transport and stream power equations seeking to characterize stream channel stability conditions. However, its previous usage is constrained by regional applicability, l...
A heatwave (HW) is a spatiotemporally contiguous event that is spatially widespread and lasts many days. HWs impose severe impacts on many aspects of society and terrestrial ecosystems. Here, we systematically investigate the influence of the selecte...
Accurate information on the spatial distribution of poverty is of great significance to the formulation and implementation of the government’s targeted poverty alleviation policy. Traditional poverty mapping is mainly based on household survey data a...
Seasonal alternations of extreme weather such as continuous drought and rare rainstorms significantly influence farmers’ adoption of agricultural technologies. Compared with traditional tillage, no-tillage technology has more advantages to cope...
High spatial resolution carbon dioxide (CO2) flux inversion systems are needed to support the global stocktake required by the Paris Agreement and to complement the bottom-up emission inventories. Based on the work of Zhang, a regional CO2 flux inver...
The long-term accumulated remote sensing data and the emerging cloud-based geospatial processing platform Google Earth Engine (GEE) enable the mining of the spatiotemporal pattern of land-use (LU) functional changes in the contiguous area of large co...
The forests and grasslands in the U.S. are vulnerable to global warming and extreme weather events. Current satellites do not provide historical vegetation density images over the long term (more than 50 years), which has restricted the documentation...
Satellite-retrieved solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) provides an advanced proxy for global vegetation productivity. Recently, new high-quality remote sensing SIF datasets and reanalysis products have significantly advanced the application...
Human activities exert a profound influence on land use and land cover, and these changes directly influence habitat quality and ecosystem functioning. In the Gansu–Qinghai contiguous region of the upper Yellow River, habitat quality has underg...
Contiguous destitute areas (CDAs) in China, characterized by deep poverty and difficulty in alleviating it, have garnered attention for their spatial–temporal development. Using nighttime light (NTL) data from 2000 to 2020, we developed a novel...
Evapotranspiration (ET) is a key process in the eco-hydrological cycle of a basin and a reliable indicator of climate change. However, the spatiotemporal alterations of ET in the contiguous United States (CONUS) over the recent two decades remain lar...
The Grain for Green Project (GGP) is one of many Nature-based Solutions (NbS), which aims to address the challenge of ecological restoration while providing livelihood security for farmers in poverty-dominated regions. Evaluating the success of such...
Background: In clinical practice, the possible diagnosis of tuberous sclerosis or polycystic kidney disease is primarily based on clinical criteria, which can later be verified by genetic testing. But in the case of TSC2/PKD1 contiguous gene syndrome...
Motor vehicle crashes are a persistent cause of unintentional deaths in the United States. Scholarship on how manmade interventions and natural phenomena interact to effectuate such calamitous outcomes is longstanding. One manmade intervention of int...
In the past century, local-scale warming caused by a strengthening urban heat island effect has brought inevitable systematic bias to observational data from surface weather stations located in or near urban areas. In this study, the land use situati...
This paper presents the use of a 700 mm-diameter contiguous bored pile (CBP) wall for a main basement deep excavation project with cut-and-cover tunnel. Due to the presence of cement grout columns between piles behind the CBP wall, the main basement...
Background: Nephrocalcinosis, characterized by the deposition of calcium salts within the renal parenchyma, is frequently identified incidentally in pediatric patients and may be associated with underlying genetic disorders. Sotos syndrome, a rare co...
To solve the technical problem of supporting a water-dripping roadway below contiguous seams at the Tuanbai coal mine, the deformation law of surrounding rocks for the roadway was studied using Fast Lagrangian Analysis of Continua in Three Dimensions...
Surface bare soil albedo is an important variable in climate modeling studies and satellite-based retrievals of land-surface properties. In this study, we used multiyear 500 m albedo products from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MO...
To consolidate the achievements in the elimination of absolute poverty in China and prevent rural populations from returning to poverty as a result of meteorological disasters, this study analyzed the spatiotemporal characteristics of rainstorms and...
Flooding remains one of the most disruptive and costly natural hazards worldwide. Conventional approaches for estimating flood damage cost rely on empirical loss curves or historical insurance data, which often lack spatial resolution and predictive...
Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) vertical displacements are widely used to infer terrestrial water storage (TWS) variations. The traditional Laplacian inversion requires dedicated efforts to determine the optimal parameters, which has an imp...
Agricultural drought assessment is based on soil moisture deficit during the plant-growing season. The available long-term in situ soil moisture data can be used to evaluate the drought indices’ performance. Drought indices have different sensi...
Water, land, and other environmental conditions restrict marginal land (ML) conversion into newly cultivated land. Accurately evaluating ML’s development and utilization potential (DUP) can provide critical support for increasing new cultivated...
Temporal action proposal generation is a method for extracting temporal action instances or proposals from untrimmed videos. Existing methods often struggle to segment contiguous action proposals, which are a group of action boundaries with small tem...
This work aims to construct various properties for basic Horn functions
The domestic dog has evolved to be an important biomedical model for studies regarding the genetic basis of disease, morphology and behavior. Genetic studies in the dog have relied on a draft reference genome of a purebred female boxer dog named “Tas...
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An eco-label is an important tool for identifying green products in the marketplace. Most eco-labels, however, present a single icon that is simple and carries limited information, thus creating cognitive barriers for consumers. As a result, eco-labe...
The resolution of isolated cases of the well-known quadratic transformation due to Kummer was thoroughly examined in two recent publications by Atia as well as Atia and Al-Mohaimeed. The objective of this paper is twofold. We establish generalization...
Behavioral studies demonstrate that not only humans, but all other animals including dogs, can suffer from depression. A quantitative molecular evaluation of fatty acids in human and animal platelets has already evidenced similarities between people...
Traditional villages are vital repositories of China’s historical and cultural heritage. To enhance protection precision, this study develops a novel risk assessment framework integrating three dimensions: the natural environment, tangible heri...
Current generation high-throughput sequencing technology has facilitated the generation of more genomic-scale data than ever before, thus greatly improving our understanding of avian biology across a range of disciplines. Recent developments in linke...
Duplex stainless steels (DSS) and superduplex stainless steels (SDSS) are important classes of stainless steels, because they combine the benefits of austenite and ferrite phases. This results in steels with better mechanical properties and higher co...
Merging satellite products and ground-based measurements is often required for obtaining precipitation datasets that simultaneously cover large regions with high density and are more accurate than pure satellite precipitation products. Machine and st...
In this paper, we consider the problem of estimating the interaction parameter p of a p-spin Curie–Weiss model at inverse temperature
This article addresses the problem of unequal representation in Chile, where the current districting does not effectively consider its socio-economic diversity. An innovative methodology is proposed that uses the socio-economic dissimilarity distance...
The industrially-important WC-Co composite materials provide a useful, albeit complicated materials system for understanding the combined influences on hardness and strength properties of the constituent WC particle strengths, the particle sizes, the...
The Chinese government aims to deal with poverty by 2020 for people living in ethnic and rural regions, including mountainous ethnic regions with the highest concentration of poverty and chronic poverty. Based on a sustainable livelihood Framework, f...
In this paper, a geometric body-centered model to simulate the periodic structure of unidirectional fibrous composites is presented. To this end, three prescribed configurations are introduced to predict in a deterministic manner the arrangement of i...
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