Face animation aims to render the source image according to the motion of the driving images while preserving the identity information of the source image. Despite significant advancements with the introduction of additional information, the literatu...
Deep convolutional neural networks have demonstrated significant performance improvements in face super-resolution tasks. However, many deep learning-based approaches tend to overlook the inherent structural information and feature correlation across...
This study investigates the microenvironment under face masks and respirators, focusing on the influence of material and design characteristics on carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration, temperature, and relative humidity. Masks and respirators were sele...
A sandwich structure consists of a light core and two thin laminates bonded on both sides of the core. Sandwich structures have applications in structural constructions such as wind turbine blades and marine boats. These structures may experience low...
Currently, almost 70% of the world’s population occupies urban areas. Owing to the high population density in these regions, they are exposed to various types of air pollutants. Fine particle air pollutants (<2.5 μm) can easily invade the human re...
Environmental datasets are often characterized by complex spatial structures and the presence of atypical observations that may influence the interpretation of landscape patterns. This study proposes a comparative framework for identifying spatial ou...
Structure and nonlinear spectra of the basal surface of ice Ih were investigated by molecular dynamics simulations. At a temperature significantly lower than the melting temperature
In this work, two new face structures of the open-air protection fence were investigated, where a method was proposed for analyzing the condensation of water vapor in the protection fence to search for a condensation zone. Another method for calculat...
This paper investigates the potential of a novel vibration-based thermal health monitoring method for continuous and on-board damage detection in fiber reinforced polymer sandwich structures, as typically used in aerospace applications. This novel st...
Facial recognition is one of the most challenging and interesting problems within the field of computer vision and pattern recognition. During the last few years, it has gained special attention due to its importance in relation to current issues suc...
A novel dual-face hot-roll inlaying technique was developed to fabricate a Ag/Cu through-layered composite for use in melt elements for fuse production, including two stages of grooving in a Cu strip followed by separate inlaying of Ag strips at the...
Six 3-methylpyridine zwitterions and six quinoline zwitterions were synthesized through the reaction of 4-hydroxycoumarins, p-benzoquinone and the corresponding N-aromatics. The novel pseudo-cyclic face-to-face rigid structure of the zwitterion was e...
This work presents a new approach of surface measurement of human face via the combination of the projection of monochromatic structured light, the optical filtering technique, the polarization technique and the Fourier-transform-based image-processi...
Coherent vortex structures (CVS) are discovered for more than half a century, and they are believed to play a significant role in turbulence especially for separated flows. An experimental study is conducted for a pressured backward-facing step flow...
The structural planes exposed on tunnel faces reflect the integrity and geological conditions of surrounding rock, and their accurate segmentation is important for geological logging and surrounding rock assessment. However, these targets are typical...
Accurately identifying coherent vortex structures (CVSs) in backward-facing step (BFS) flows remains a challenge, particularly in reconciling visual streamlines with mathematical criteria. In this study, high-resolution velocity fields were captured...
Biomimetic perception systems integrate heterogeneous cues selectively rather than treating all available information as equally reliable. Inspired by this principle, this study proposes QGFace-LLaVA, a multimodal large language model (MLLM)-centered...
Mining operations in fold structure zones are often subject to dynamic disasters due to the influence of tectonic topography. To explore the interaction between the tectonic stress field and the mining-induced stress field throughout the entire minin...
Background/Objectives: To develop a binarization workflow for structural en face OCT images of the choroidal Haller layer and examine how postprocessing parameters affect measurements, using chronological age as an exploratory reference. Methods: We...
Selective laser melting has a great potential to manufacture biocompatible metal alloy scaffolds or implants with a regulated porosity structure. This study uses five face-centered cubic (FCC) lattice structures, including FCC, FCC-Z, S-FCC, S-FCC-Z,...
In this paper, we present a non-rigid point cloud matching method based on an invariant structure for face deformation. Our work is guided by the realistic needs of 3D face reconstruction and re-topology, which critically need support for calculating...
Longwall fully comprehensive mechanized mining is mainly used for the working faces of shallow coal seam with large mining height, which usually have a large suspended roof at the face end. The overhang at the face end leads to stress concentration,...
Concrete-face slabs are the primary anti-permeability structures of the concrete-face rockfill dam (CFRD), and the resistance of face slab concrete to permeability is the key factor affecting the operation and safety of CFRDs. Herein, the influences...
In order to study the development height of the water-conducting fracture zone in a fully mechanized top coal caving face. The E2311 working face of Gaohe Coal Mine was chosen as the research object, and the combined-strata structure and the rock lay...
The gyroid structure is a bio-inspired structure that was discovered in butterfly wings. The geometric design of the gyroid structure in butterfly wings offers a unique combination of strength and flexibility. This study investigated sandwich panels...
Despite progress in the past decades, 3D shape acquisition techniques are still a threshold for various 3D face-based applications and have therefore attracted extensive research. Moreover, advanced 2D data generation models based on deep networks ma...
Soil-nailing is a simple and economical method of stabilizing cut slopes and retaining excavation. Most of the soil-nailing related studies, in particular the experimental work, were conducted in idealized or homogeneous ground, but such a result mig...
This study systematically investigates the overburden movement and strata behavior at a fully-mechanized top coal caving (FMTCC) face in a thick coal seam in a loess-covered gullied region by field measurement and theoretical analysis. A comparative...
The content of this study combines city safety, optimum excavation situation, mining, geology, and civil engineering principles. Tunnel boring machines (TBM) are the most commonly used machines in the excavation of urban tunnels. These machines preve...
The development of cities often involves the construction of new tunnels buried underneath densely distributed existing structures. When tunnels experience complicated and difficult conditions, coupling failure mechanisms often develop, in which the...
An even ring system G is a simple 2-connected plane graph with all interior vertices of degree 3, all exterior vertices of either degree 2 or 3, and all finite faces of an even length. G is angularly connected if all of the peripheral segments of G h...
Lightweight and high-strength sandwich panels are used across aerospace, transportation, marine, energy, civil and protective systems because large face separation can provide high flexural rigidity and specific load capacity at low mass. This review...
Solutions for the maintenance of safety in an isolated working face has not been well achieved; this is attributed to its unique overburden structure and the strong mining-induced stress during the advancement. This paper is devoted to filling this r...
The application of fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) composites as structural elements of air vehicles provides weight saving, which results in a reduction in fuel consumption, fuel cost, and air pollution, and a higher speed. The goal of this research...
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...
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Although creating a high-quality urban green space (UGS) is of considerable importance in public health, few studies have used individuals’ emotions to evaluate the UGS quality. This study aims to conduct a multidimensional emotional assessment metho...
In this paper, we analyze the state of conservation of ceramic building materials (clay masonry units) containing a large share of waste materials in the form of ash and slag from coal combustion and sawdust from wood processing, operated for several...
The present study examines the influence of material and structural parameters on the fit and air permeability of textile face masks, surgical masks, and certified respirators. Nine samples were tested using the AccuFIT 9000 for quantitative fit fact...
Anthropogenic activities during the last century have increased levels of atmospheric CO2. Forest net primary productivity increases in response to elevated CO2, altering the quantity and quality of carbon supplied to the rhizosphere. Ectomycorrhizal...
X-ray diffraction analysis is essential in studying stacking faults. Most of the techniques used for this purpose are based on theoretical studies. These studies suggest that the observed diffraction patterns are caused by random stacking faults in c...
Ensuring the accurate prediction, prevention, and control of coal bursts in isolated working faces is crucial for ensuring safe mining operations. Coal bursts are typically caused by the accumulation of stress and energy released in coal seams and th...
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This research focused on the study of structure, and dynamic of families containing one member diagnosed with Alzheimer´s disease. The interest in the changes during the cycle life and the study in the family psychology area have brought about new in...
Objective: This study used optical attenuation coefficient (OAC)-based optical coherence tomography (OCT) en face images to assess the ellipsoid zone (EZ) in the foveal region. Methods: This retrospective, observational, cross-sectional study of 41 h...
This study investigates the passive control of backward-facing step flows using rigid and elastic cantilevered plates, with emphasis on flow reattachment, pressure recovery, and fluid–structure interaction effects. The numerical methodology was...
Backward-facing steps are commonly formed on wings and blades due to misalignment between segments or the addition of protective films. A backward-facing step (BFS) is known to degrade the airfoil performance. To mitigate these adverse effects, a thr...
The article presents the results and process analysis of the face milling of aluminium alloy 2017A with the CoroMill 490 tool on an AVIA VMC 800 vertical milling centre. The study analysed the effects of the cutting speed, the feed rate, the actual n...
The anti-seepage performance of concrete directly affects the anti-seepage effect and durability of the concrete face slab of the rockfill dam. Since the panel concrete is often in a complex stress state in practical engineering, its permeability coe...
The internal steady and unsteady flows with a frequency and amplitude are examined through a backward facing step (expansion ratio 2), for low Reynolds numbers (
Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used to determine the crystal structure of sodium chloride (NaCl) powder and to evaluate the accuracy with which a simple laboratory diffraction dataset can recover the crystallographic parameters of a well-known io...
This study investigates the feasibility of landfill expansion using the limit equilibrium and finite element methods. A 15.5 m high reinforced fill structure (RFS) was analyzed to assess how fill type, consolidation rate, geometric configuration, was...
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