Background: Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) delivered through the Fp3–Fp2 montage reduces the face inversion effect (FIE), a result now used to argue that perceptual expertise underlies face recognition. Because beliefs ab...
Face identity recognition (FIR) in humans is supported by specialized neural processes whose function is spectacularly impaired when simply turning a face upside-down: the face inversion effect (FIE). While the FIE appears to have a slow developmenta...
Background: This study aimed to investigate how myopia affects early event-related potential (ERP) components and neural oscillatory activity during a face inversion task in adolescents, in order to clarify the potential mechanisms by which degraded...
Sex categorization from faces is a crucial ability for humans and non-human primates for various social and cognitive processes. In the current study, we performed two eye tracking experiments to examine the gaze behavior of participants during a sex...
With the introduction of the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and other classical algorithms, facial and object recognition have made significant progress. However, in a situation where there are few label examples or the environment is not ideal,...
Visual perception is an important part of human life. In the context of facial recognition, it allows us to distinguish between emotions and important facial features that distinguish one person from another. However, subjects suffering from memory l...
The accurate and efficient inversion of permeability coefficients is significant for the scientific assessment of seepage safety in concrete face rockfill dams. In addressing the optimization challenge of permeability coefficients with few samples, m...
Using tunnel boring machine (TBM) to construct inclined shafts in coal mines has become the main way for large-scale coal mines to enter deep mining faces. However, some engineering disasters such as water in rush and rock burst will occur when TBM c...
Gravity inversion can be used to obtain the spatial structure and physical properties of subsurface anomalies through gravity observation data. With the continuous development of machine learning, geophysical inversion methods based on deep learning...
Background: Nursing students need to acquire knowledge through active methods that promote critical thinking and decision making. The purpose of this study is to analyze whether there are differences in the acquisition of knowledge by nursing student...
To address the difficulty in determining underground working face geometry when mining records are incomplete or mining activities are concealed, this study proposes an InSAR-constrained method for inverting the geometric parameters of concealed work...
Neurological disorders pose a substantial health and economic burden to the individual and society, necessitating strategies for effective prevention and disease management. Lifestyle behaviours play a role in risk and management of some neurological...
High-precision detection of the underground pipelines is an indispensable part of the development and construction of cities. At present, the inversion technology for ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data is an effective means of realizing shallow-unde...
Microseismic monitoring is an effective and widely used technology for dynamic fault disaster early warning and prevention in deep-buried hard rock tunnels. However, the insufficient understanding of the distribution of native faults poses a major ch...
As a new type of pre-reinforcement material for tunnel faces, glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) bolts can effectively and safely improve the stability of tunnel faces in soft surrounding rocks and speed up excavation. Therefore, in this paper, sy...
The multi-parameter full waveform inversion (FWI) that integrates velocity and density can make full use of the kinematic and dynamic information of the measured data to reconstruct the underground model. However, it faces problems of crosstalk betwe...
As an advanced real-time monitoring technique, optic fiber downhole sensing has been widely applied in monitoring fracture propagation during hydraulic fracturing. However, existing fracture shape inversion methods face two main challenges: firstly,...
Geological anomalies within the working face likely induce geological disasters, such as water, gas, and coal mine roof fall, directly impacting the rational planning and safe mining of underground resources. Constrained by the conditions of undergro...
Shelling is the delamination of growth rings and the projection of woody tissue from wood surfaces. Shelling disrupts coatings and makes refinishing difficult, and a better understanding of the phenomenon is needed to help alleviate its unwanted effe...
The traditional aircraft controller design is usually based on the off-line aerodynamic model. Due to the deviation of the off-line aerodynamic model, the flight quality is difficult to meet the requirements when the aircraft is flying in the real at...
29 October 2022
Primary healthcare services have changed from face-to-face to tele-consults during the two COVID-19 years. We examined trends before and during the COVID-19 pandemic years based on groups of professionals, patient ages, and the associations with the...
Facial expression processing mainly depends on whether the facial features related to expressions can be fully acquired, and whether the appropriate processing strategies can be adopted according to different conditions. Children with autism spectrum...
Facial symmetry is believed to have an evolutionary significance and so its detection should be robust in natural settings. Previous studies of facial symmetry detection have used front views of faces where the decision could be made on 2D image prop...
The airborne transient electromagnetic (TEM) method is widely used in land applications but faces challenges in marine applications due to the strong masking effects of seawater. The accuracy of the inverse Laplace transform algorithm strongly affect...
Black poplar (Populus nigra L.) is a fast-growing hardwood whose use in furniture and joinery is limited by its low density and strength. This study combined bending tests with a laminated-beam analysis to quantify and generalize the effect of symmet...
This study proposes a fast material parameter evaluation method for multilayer thin-film structures based on machine learning technology to solve the problems of long time and low efficiency in the traditional material parameter inversion process. Na...
Generally, ground grouting is used to treat confined water areas before mining at the working face, but there is a lack of testing methods for determining the effectiveness of such a grouting treatment on the floor of ultrawide working faces. Therefo...
With the continuous scaling-down of integrated circuit feature sizes, inverse lithography technology (ILT), as the most groundbreaking resolution enhancement technique (RET), has become crucial in advanced semiconductor manufacturing. By directly opt...
Reversible emulsion drilling fluids integrate the advantages of water-based and oil-based systems, offering solutions to critical challenges in shale oil and gas development. However, conventional reversible emulsions face limitations including poor...
Quantification of the soil hydraulic conductivity is key to the study of water flow and solute transport in unsaturated soils. Rapid advances in measurement technology have provided a large number of observations at different scales, offering unprece...
Ahead geological prospecting, which can estimate adverse geology ahead of the tunnel face, is necessary in the process of tunnel construction. Due to its long detection range and good recognition effect on the interface, the seismic method is widely...
With the increasingly complex electromagnetic environment faced by radar, random stepped frequency (RSF) has garnered widespread attention owing to its remarkable Electronic Counter-Countermeasure (ECCM) characteristic, and it has been universally ap...
The geological environmental damage caused by coal mining has become a hot issue in current research. Especially in the western mining area, the size of the mining working face is large, the mining intensity is high, while the surface movement and de...
29 September 2017
The main objective of this study is to estimate the monetary value of the gains of healthy days and life expectancy due to the ambient air quality standard that came into effect in 2014 by estimating the country-specific value of a life year (VOLY) a...
Experimental evidence have proved that punching shear capacity of flat slabs deteriorate with the presence of openings located within the critical perimeter around columns. It is understood that this deterioration varies inversely with the distance o...
The proliferation of media-sharing platforms has led to issues with illegally edited content and the distribution of pornography. To protect personal information, de-identification technologies are being developed to prevent facial identification. Ex...
Studies in the literature have shown how the preference towards local or global processing can vary according to different characteristics of the stimuli involved, such as stimulus type and stimulus time duration. In the present study, we investigate...
In-seam seismics is one of the main methods for detecting small geostructures in a coal seam working face, using the velocity and energy attenuation characteristics. When the receiver coupling is poor or geological anomaly is strong, the stability an...
This article describes an approach for optimizing sensor-controlled systems through minimal intervention, utilizing fuzzy linear systems of equations (FLSEs). Starting with a generalized model of the system behavior, we incorporate an array of contro...
In this paper, the derivation of a concise closed form for the gravitational field of a polyhedron is presented. This formula forms the basis of the algorithm for calculating the gravitational field of an arbitrary shape body with high accuracy. Base...
The precise control of an aerial manipulator presents a formidable challenge due to the inherent mobility of its base, which is subject to both external disturbances and dynamic disturbances due to manipulator motions. In this paper, we introduce two...
Background: The reddening of the face and neck following alcohol consumption is known as Asian flush. Although genetic factors related to Asian flush have been reported to be inversely associated with duration of sleep, no study has reported an assoc...
Background: Pakistan has subpar childhood immunization rates and immunization activities have faced several challenges over the past years. We evaluated the social-behavioral and cultural barriers and risk factors for refusal of polio, Routine Immuni...
Ground penetrating radar (GPR) data inversion, especially in parallel-layered homogeneous media with multiple subsurface targets, still faces challenges in accurately reconstructing geometric structures due to weak reflections and complex target&ndas...
Based on the governing equations of the electromagnetic radiation field and the theory of multi-layer media propagation, the governing equations for electromagnetic wave attenuation are derived. A stable solution to the resulting large-scale sparse l...
Objectives: The purpose of the study was to test the hypothesis that high anxiety is associated with biased processing of threat-related stimuli and that anxious individuals may be particularly sensitive to facial expressions of fear or anger. In add...
In the intelligent operation and maintenance of core process equipment in semiconductor manufacturing, the thickness and morphological parameters of sub-micron multilayer transparent films on wafer surfaces are critical quality indicators that govern...
In a typical application scenario for electric aircraft, the emerging urban air mobility is faced with uncertain environmental conditions. To investigate the potential influence of uncertainties, this paper first develops comprehensive models of airc...
We present a high-throughput nanoindentation study of in situ bending effects on incipient plastic deformation behavior of polycrystalline and single-crystalline pure aluminum and pure copper at ultranano depths (< 200 nm). We find that hardness d...
7 December 2021
This research uses structural equation modeling to determine the influence of uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic as an independent variable in the negative emotional states and resilience (as mediating variables) vs. drug addiction, alcoholism,...
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