Super-resolution (SR) of remote sensing images (RSIs) is essential for advanced image analysis, yet its progress is challenged by the ill-posed nature of SR and the geometric displacement errors commonly found in paired low-resolution (LR) and high-r...
This article discusses the role of academics in knowledge diffusion among various stakeholders using a case study of a sustainability-oriented workshop to address issues of a local forest in central Japan. This research employs thematic analysis thro...
Online maps are of great importance in modern life, especially in commuting, traveling and urban planning. The accessibility of remote sensing (RS) images has contributed to the widespread practice of generating online maps based on RS images. The pr...
We address the task of point cloud denoising by leveraging a diffusion-based generative framework augmented with adversarial training. While recent diffusion models have demonstrated strong capabilities in learning complex data distributions, their e...
Recent denoising methods based on diffusion models typically formulate the task as a conditional generation process initialized from a standard Gaussian distribution. However, such stochastic initialization often leads to redundant sampling steps and...
This paper presents selected characteristics of the metallic porous materials produced by the sintering of metal powders. The authors focus on materials produced from the iron powder (Fe) of ASC 100.29 and Distaloy SE. ASC 100.29 is formed by atomiza...
Chloride-induced reinforcement corrosion primarily contributes to the deterioration of concrete structures. Cracks provide natural pathways for chloride ions, which accelerate the corrosion process and shorten the service life of structures. In this...
Solar radiation is one of the most important factors influencing the temperature distribution on bridge girder cross-sections. The bridge temperature distribution can be estimated using estimation models that incorporate solar radiation data; however...
Harmonic Path Integral Diffusion (H-PID) provides an analytically tractable framework for sampling from a target density
Laser active imaging systems can remedy the shortcomings of visible light imaging systems in difficult imaging circumstances, thereby attaining clear images. However, laser images exhibit significant modal discrepancy in contrast to the visible image...
In order to ensure the safety of bridges and ships, non-navigable channel arresting facilities for ships have become an important part of cross-sea bridges, and the diffusion of suspended sediment caused by their implementation has an impact on seawa...
Infrared images have garnered significant interest due to their superior performance, driving extensive research on visible-to-infrared image translation. However, existing cross-domain generation methods lack specialization for infrared image genera...
Ovarian cancer is one of the deadliest malignancies among women. Approximately 75% of the patients with ovarian cancer are diagnosed with advanced disease that already has metastasis, particularly to the omentum. The omentum constitutes the ideal soi...
This work explores the implications of assuming time symmetry and applying bridge-type, time-symmetric temporal boundary conditions to deterministic laws of nature with random components. The analysis, drawing on the works of Kolmogorov and Anderson,...
We investigate the bridge problem for stochastic processes, that is, we analyze the statistical properties of trajectories constrained to begin and terminate at a fixed position within a time interval
The interest of calculating the effects of thermal bridges in buildings energy consumption is growing, due to recent energy saving regulations applied in different countries. The widespread use of insulating materials to reduce energy requirements of...
Chloride-induced deterioration is a major threat to the durability of marine concrete structures, especially in tidal and submerged zones. This study simulated these environments by immersing C45 concrete specimens in NaCl solutions (5%, 10%, 15%) un...
Background: Contemporary coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) is often performed in patients with diffuse atherosclerosis, severe calcification, prior percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and fragile myocardium, creating intraoperative scenari...
Ground wire breakage accidents can destroy the stable operation of overhead lines. The excessive temperature increase arising from the contact resistance between the ground wire and armor rod in the contact terminal is one of the main reasons causing...
We studied photonic electric-field sensors using a 1 × 2 YBB-MZI modulator composed of two complementary outputs and a 3 dB directional coupler based on the electro-optic effect and titanium diffused lithium–niobate optical waveguides. Th...
Computing sample means on Riemannian manifolds is typically computationally costly, as exemplified by computation of the Fréchet mean, which often requires finding minimizing geodesics to each data point for each step of an iterative optimizat...
Corrosion factors enter the cable via diffusion and penetration from the defect position of the cable or the connection position between the anchoring system and the cable section, seriously affecting the cable’s durability. Exploring the trans...
The entropy production rate is a well established measure for the extent of irreversibility in a process. For irreversible processes, one thus usually expects that the entropy production rate approaches zero in the reversible limit. Fractional diffus...
In recent decades, China has been on a new journey toward a digital economy of which e-commerce accounts for a substantial proportion. Despite some controversy, the innovation diffusion hypothesis and efficiency hypothesis of online shopping have bee...
In this paper we utilize the Tsallis relative entropy, a generalization of the Kullback–Leibler entropy in the frame work of non-extensive thermodynamics to analyze the properties of anomalous diffusion processes. Anomalous (super-) diffusive behavio...
SiO2-Al2O3-CaO-MgO is the main type of refining slag in a ladle furnace. Here the effects of the CaO/Al2O3 mass ratio on the structural properties of the refining slag system are studied by molecular dynamics simulations. The pair distribution functi...
A laminar flow micro fuel cell comprising of bridge-shaped microchannel is investigated to find out the effects of the cross-section shape of the microchannel on the performance. A parametric study is performed by varying the heights and widths of th...
The entropy production paradox for anomalous diffusion processes describes a phenomenon where one-parameter families of dynamical equations, falling between the diffusion and wave equations, have entropy production rates (Shannon, Tsallis or Renyi) t...
Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction serves as a key technology bridging the real and digital worlds, with broad application in remote sensing, autonomous driving, and robotics. In recent years, its technical paradigm has shifted from geometry-based...
Social capital influences community disaster preparedness, response, and recovery. In 2020, Kyne and Aldrich introduced the Social Capital Index (SoCI), a pioneering, publicly available county-level measure capturing bonding, bridging, and linking so...
It is not easy to dynamically analyze thermal bridges that require multi-dimensional analysis in building energy simulations, which are mostly one-dimensional platforms. To solve this problem, many studies have been conducted and, recently, a study w...
Score-based diffusion models are a class of generative models whose dynamics is described by stochastic differential equations that map noise into data. While recent works have started to lay down a theoretical foundation for these models, a detailed...
Purpose: Diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma is a rare disease requiring management in specialized referral centers. We report our institutional experience with epithelioid diffuse malignant peritoneal mesothelioma, focusing on a standardized t...
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) is a systemic condition characterized by new bone formation and enthesopathies of the axial and peripheral skeleton. The pathogenesis of DISH is not well understood, and it is currently considered a non...
Lattice-based models have been broadly applied in mathematical and computational modeling of biological and biomedical systems for which spatial effects are important. These discrete models commonly include diffusion of mobile constituents as a key u...
A numerical simulation has been conducted to investigate the oscillatory mechanism of a solutocapillary convection and the influence of different aspect ratios on the flow characteristics in a liquid bridge. The SIMPLE algorithm is applied to figure...
The microstructure, ionic transport, diffusivity-based viscosity estimates, and surface tension of CaO–SiO2–FeO–MgO(–Al2O3) steelmaking slags were investigated in the homogeneous liquid state by molecular dynamics simulation....
The results of numerical calculations on the resistance of the reinforced concrete bridge deck to chlorides are compared with a different approach to the diffusion coefficient of the input parameter, and presented. The aim is to point out the necessi...
The great diffusion of masonry arch bridges, sometimes of historical interest, requires the development of simple but effective methodologies for a preliminary but reliable evaluation of their static and seismic capacity. In this paper, the behaviour...
Identifying the tourist flow of a destination can promote the development of travel-related products and effective destination marketing. Nevertheless, tourist inflows and outflows have only received limited attention from previous studies. Hence, th...
Based on nanoarchitectonics and molecular dynamics simulations, we investigate the structural properties and diffusion pathway of Na atoms in sodium trisilicate over a wide temperature range. The structural and dynamics properties are analyzed throug...
This paper presents a stochastic reaction–diffusion framework to analyze the dual role of multiplicative noise in coupled population–economic systems. The model incorporates density-dependent diffusion, realistically representing migratio...
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The population-level implementation of innovative, evidence-based medical recommendations for adopting health-behaviors depends on the last link in the translation chain: the users. “User-friendly” medical interventions aimed at engaging users to ado...
Diffusion models have emerged as the state-of-the-art generative paradigm, surpassing GANs in synthesizing high-fidelity images, videos, and audio. However, their reliance on iterative denoising processes imposes substantial computational burdens and...
In this paper, we study the optimal stopping-time problems related to a class of Itô diffusions, modeling for example an investment gain, for which the terminal value is a priori known. This could be the case of an insider trading or of the pin...
Hydrated anatase (101) titanium dioxide surfaces with oxygen vacancies have been studied using a combination of classical and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. The reactivity of surface oxygen vacancies was investigated using ab initio calcul...
A bond interface between new and old concrete is inherently present in bridge widening and rehabilitation projects. Under marine environmental conditions, this interface provides a preferential pathway for chloride ion transport, thereby accelerating...
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is commonly modeled using classical heat diffusion equations; however, growing evidence suggests that heat transport in biological tissues exhibits nonlocal and scale-dependent behavior driven by capillary perfusion. In...
This study explores the influence of vibration timing on the performance of high early-strength cement-based composites used in bridge wet joints. A series of experimental techniques, including SEM, MIP, and RCM tests, were employed to evaluate micro...
Two metallacyclic tetranuclear Fe(III) complexes, [{Fe2(μ-O)(μ-RCOO)2(tpon)}2](BPh4)4 [R = Me (1), Ph (2)], where the flexible ditopic ligand tpon (N,N,N′,N′-tetrakis(2-pyridylmethyl)octane-1,8-diamine) links two μ-oxo-bis(μ-c...
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