Object detection in remote sensing (RS) images is a challenging task due to the difficulties of small size, varied appearance, and complex background. Although a lot of methods have been developed to address this problem, many of them cannot fully ex...
Object detection is an essential task in computer vision. Many methods have made significant progress in ordinary object detection. Due to the particularity of remote sensing images, the detection target is tiny, the background is messy, dense, and h...
Based on the features of cracks, this research proposes the concept of a crack key point as a method for crack characterization and establishes a model of image crack detection based on the reference anchor points method, named KP-CraNet. Based on Re...
Radiomics of pancreas magnetic resonance (MR) images is positioned well to play an important role in the management of diseases characterized by diffuse involvement of the pancreas. The effect of image pre-processing configurations on these images ha...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression involves morphological changes in the kidney, such as decreased length and thickness, with associated histopathological alterations. However, the relationship between morphological changes in the kidneys and g...
The recent elevation of cases infected from novel COVID-19 has placed the human life in trepidation mode, especially for those suffering from comorbidities. Most of the studies in the last few months have undeniably raised concerns for hypertensive p...
Conventional filters for air filtration typically feature compact nonwoven structures, which not only lead to high pressure drop, significant energy consumption, and a decay in filtration efficacy, but are also uncleanable, resulting in substantial p...
The use of whole blood and some biological specimens, such as urine, saliva, and seminal fluid are limited in clinical laboratory analysis due to the interference of proteins with other small molecules in the matrix and blood cells with optical detec...
Electrospinning is an efficient method of producing nanofibers out of polymers that shows a great potential for the filtration territory. Featuring water-soluble chitosan (WS-CS), a low-pollution process and a self-made needleless machine, PVA/WS-CS...
In the offshore oil and gas sector, produced water is discharged into the sea, but increasing environmental concerns and stricter governmental regulations require new technologies to be considered. Membrane filtration is a promising technology to imp...
The escalating industrial emissions have dramatically increased airborne particulate matter (PM), particularly submicron particles (PM0.3), creating substantial health risks through respiratory system penetration. Current fiber-based filtration syste...
The effect of electrospun nylon-6 nanofibrous membranes (NFMs) on the concentration of bitter compounds and antioxidants of grapefruit juices during dead-end filtration processes was studied. Filtration experiments with aqueous standard solutions of...
Nanoparticles with aerodynamic diameters of less than 100 nm pose serious problems to human health due to their small size and large surface area. Despite continuous progress in materials science to develop air remediation technologies, efficient nan...
Spectral image filtration by means of acousto-optical tunable filters (AOTFs) has multiple applications. For its implementation, a few different optical schemes are in use. They differ in image quality, number of coupling components, dimensions and a...
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) causes secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT). The cardinal features of SHPT are persistence of normocalcemia as CKD progresses and dependence of the parathyroid hormone concentration ([PTH]) on phosphate influx (IP). The t...
Cross-view vehicle re-identification (ReID) between aerial and ground perspectives is challenging due to limited computational resources on edge devices and significant scale variations. We propose CVNet, a lightweight network with two key modules: t...
To meet the increasingly strict emission limits imposed by regulations, internal combustion engines for transport applications require the urgent development of novel emission abatement systems. The introduction of biodiesel or other biofuels in the...
A cell filtration platform that affords accurate size separation and minimizes fouling was developed. The platform features an ultra-thin porous membrane (UTM) filter, a pumping head filtration with backflush (PHF), and cell size measurement (CSM) so...
This works aims to propose and demonstrate the accuracy of a novel method of characterization aimed for non-destructive analysis of microfiltration (MF) membrane cartridges. The method adapts conventional liquid–liquid displacement porosimetry (LLDP)...
In order to relieve pain due to oral mucositis, we attempted to develop mucoadhesive microparticles containing indomethacin (IM) and gel preparations with IM microparticles that can be applied to the oral cavity. The mucoadhesive microparticles were...
Accumulating evidence indicates that inflammatory and immunologic processes play a significant role in the development and progression of glomerular diseases. Podocytes, the terminally differentiated epithelial cells, are crucial for maintaining the...
The acceleration of urbanization has disrupted natural water cycles, resulting in increased impervious urban surfaces and non-point source pollution from stormwater runoff. Addressing urban stormwater recharge has become crucial. This study introduce...
Existing works on the influence of spatial effects on flux and permeation of proteins in microfiltration (MF) have focused on ceramic membranes. There is little information on spiral-wound membranes (SWMs). Since the inner core of a SWM is practicall...
The features occurring during borehole uranium mining in deposits with low filtration characteristics, as well as the conditions and reasons for the reduction of geotechnological parameters of uranium mining by the well are considered in this study....
The material most commonly used to filter and clean the intake air of vehicle internal combustion engines is pleated filter paper, which in most cases is shaped in the form of a cylinder or panel. The production technology has a low cost and is not c...
The mussel-inspired method has been investigated to modify commercial ultrafiltration membranes to induce antifouling characteristics. Such features are essential to improve the feasibility of using membrane processes in protein recovery from waste s...
Solar photovoltaic-thermal (PV/T) technology is the main strategy for harvesting solar energy due to its non-polluting, stability, good visibility and security features. The aim of the project is to develop a mathematical model of a PV/T module integ...
Novel ultrafiltration (UF) polymer membranes were prepared to enhance the antifouling features and filtration performance. Several ultrafiltration polymer membranes were prepared by incorporating different concentrations of water-soluble cationic pol...
In this paper, we propose an imagined speech-based brain wave pattern recognition using deep learning. Multiple features were extracted concurrently from eight-channel electroencephalography (EEG) signals. To obtain classifiable EEG data with fewer s...
Microbial interactions, which regulate the dynamics of eco- and agrosystems, can be harnessed to enhance antagonism against phytopathogenic fungi in agriculture. This study tests the hypothesis that plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) can als...
The first step of urine formation is the selective filtration of the plasma into the urinary space at the kidney structure called the glomerulus. The filtration barrier of the glomerulus allows blood cells and large proteins such as albumin to be ret...
Kidney microphysiological systems (MPS) serve as potentially valuable preclinical instruments in probing mechanisms of renal clearance and osmoregulation. Current kidney MPS models target regions of the nephron, such as the glomerulus and proximal tu...
This study investigates the air filtration capabilities of fibrous membranes fabricated via electrospinning, with a focus on optimizing processing parameters. Specifically, Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV), a well-characterized bio...
Deposition of UiO-66 metal–organic framework nanoparticles onto a porous polymer support is a promising approach to designing highly-permeable, size-selective, flexible, and stable membranes for water filtration. In this article, a series of Ui...
Colloidal fouling can be mitigated by membrane surface patterning. This contribution identifies the effect of different pattern geometries on fouling behavior. Nanoscale line-and-groove patterns with different feature sizes were applied by thermal em...
In the development of ultra-deep wells, extremely high temperatures can lead to inefficiency of additives in drilling fluids. Hence, there is a need to prepare additives with a simple preparation process and good effects at ultra-high temperatures to...
Rapid sand filtration is a critical step in the water treatment process, as its effectiveness directly impacts the supply of safe drinking water. However, optimising filtration processes in water treatment plants (WTPs) presents a significant challen...
The broad context of this literature review is the connected manufacturing enterprise, characterized by a data environment such that the size, structure and variety of information strain the capability of traditional software and database tools to ef...
Foam acidization has unique advantages such as low damage, low filtration, low friction, high efficiency, excellent retardation, and fast liquid discharge rate, which is suitable for stimulation and reconstruction of low-pressure oil and gas reservoi...
Membrane filtration methods were applied in this study to research natural waters specification (and speciation). Lysimetric waters (soil waters) of background territories in different seasons are considered. Features of the change in molecular weigh...
Approved medical face masks have been shown to prevent the spread of respiratory droplets associated with coronavirus transmission in specific settings. The primary goal of this study was to develop a new strategy to assess the filtering and transmis...
This paper presents an approach to eliminate one of the most common defects in hyperspectral images—the appearance of spiked points at some wavelengths. The elimination of this defect was carried out by means of polynomial regression. The Bayes...
Diatom frustules are a type of natural biomaterials that feature regular shape and intricate hierarchical micro/nano structures. They have shown excellent performance in biosensing, yet few studies have been performed on flow-through detection. In th...
In this paper, an explainable AI-based fault diagnosis model for bearings is proposed with five stages, i.e., (1) a data preprocessing method based on the Stockwell Transformation Coefficient (STC) is proposed to analyze the vibration signals for var...
Filtration bleb (FB) fibrosis represents the primary risk factor for glaucoma filtration surgery (GFS) failure. We reviewed the most recent literature on post-GFS fibrosis in humans, focusing on novel molecular pathways and antifibrotic treatments. T...
The current state of separation technology often neglects the multidimensional nature of real particle systems, which are distributed not only in terms of size, but also in terms of other properties, such as surface charge. Therefore, the aim of this...
Due to the versatility of its features and capabilities, chitosan generated from marine crustacean waste is gaining importance and appeal in a wide variety of applications. It was initially used in pharmaceutical and medical applications due to its a...
Kidney disease management and treatment are currently causing a substantial global burden. The kidneys are the most important organs in the human urinary system, selectively filtering blood and metabolic waste into urine via the renal glomerulus. Bas...
This work is focused on the computational complexity (CC) reduction of the locally-adaptive processing of 3D tensor images, based on recursive approaches. As a basis, a local averaging operation is used, implemented as a sliding mean 3D filter (SM3DF...
Hemodialysis (HD) is a critical treatment for patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). The effectiveness of conventional dialyzers used there could be compromised during extended use due to limited blood compatibility of synthetic polymeric mem...
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