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The effect of the presence of ultra-fines (d < 10 μm) on the fluidization of a bed containing fine particles (d < 100 μm), is the subject of this paper. Practically, it can happen due to breakage or surface abrasion of the fine particles...

As a foundation of large language models, fine-tuning drives rapid progress, broad applicability, and profound impacts on human–AI collaboration, surpassing earlier technological advancements. This paper provides a comprehensive overview of lar...

Car fine recognition is a typical scenario for fine-grained image classification, which has great research and application value in both civilian and military fields. However, current research on fine-grained classification is often limited to improv...

The mechanical properties of commercially pure titanium can further be improved through the grain refinement processes; however, welding fine-grained materials is challenging due to the grain coarsening in the weld area and hence the weakening of the...

Stand density directly affects the distribution of ecological factors such as light, heat, and water in forest communities and changes the diversity and structure of undergrowth species, thereby affecting soil health. Fine roots can provide water and...

Magnetite ores are among the most important sources of iron, which is in high demand in the global economy. Metallurgical properties of the magnetite concentrate significantly depend on impurities of silicon- and aluminum-bearing minerals. These impu...

Fiber fineness is a critical determinant of wool quality and is of great significance in enhancing the overall quality of wool. The aim of this research was to pinpoint the key proteins that participate in the regulation of wool fineness. To achieve...

The subgrade serves as the foundation of road construction, typically involving a significant amount of earthwork during its establishment. However, in coastal and desert areas, soil sources are often scarce. Local soil extraction significantly damag...

The first stream of economic studies on public policy responses during the COVID-19 pandemic focused on the stringency, the effectiveness, and the impact of the countries’ interventions and paid rather little attention to the corresponding means used...

Worsening wildfire seasons in recent years are reversing decadal progress on the reduction of harmful air pollutants in the US, particularly in Western states. Measurements of the contributions of wildfire smoke to ambient air pollutants, such as fin...

This article explores the role of glass as a medium in the fine arts rather than as a craft form. It includes a short history of glass as an art medium, the development of glass technologies and their application in the field of fine art. It reflects...

As urbanization accelerates and surface space becomes increasingly scarce, the development and utilization of urban underground space have become more critical. The sand–fine mixture soils commonly found in river-adjacent and coastal areas pose...

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) for pancreatic tumors and subepithelial lesions (SEL) of the gastrointestinal tract are effective for histological diagnosis. There are also reports that tissue sampling is possible with a...

The recovery of fine wolframite is low when using traditional flotation that does not use a microbubble. In this study, a microbubble was introduced into the fine wolframite flotation system; −20 μm wolframite was used as an experiment sample and oct...

A new evaluation method for the dilatancy of fine-grained soils based on monotonic and cyclic undrained triaxial tests has been established using two elasticity approaches: isotropic and transverse isotropic hypoelasticity. The evaluation of two clay...

As an indispensable part of the vehicle environment perception task, road traffic marking detection plays a vital role in correctly understanding the current traffic situation. However, the existing traffic marking detection algorithms still have som...

Steel balls as traditional grinding media are prone to excessive fines generation and high energy consumption. Therefore, in light of this problem, the authors investigated another media—ceramic balls based on the output characteristics of fine...

This paper analyses the basic obstacles preventing the fine particles from floating and suggests solutions for the wetting zone between the bubble and the particle during their collision. It has been shown in our recent paper that the basic problem o...

Fine roots (φ ≤ 2 mm) play an important role in the process of material and nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems, but the effect of tree species diversity on the functional characteristics of fine roots is unclear. In this study, 1−7 su...

The aim of this study was to analyse the relationship between fine motor skills (FMSs) and visual performance. Thirty young participants with normal binocular vision performed five fine motor tasks: Purdue, Grooved, and O’Connor pegboards, a ne...

In China, there are currently different degrees of arbitrariness in setting environmental administrative fines, and in many areas the faults are not equal to the penalties. To construct a more reasonable and feasible environmental punishment strategy...

Methods based on deep learning have achieved great success in the field of video action recognition. When these methods are applied to real-world scenarios that require fine-grained analysis of actions, such as being tested on a tea ceremony, limitat...

Gross and fine motor competence have a close relationship during development and are shown to correlate to some extent. However, the study of the interaction between these domains still requires further insights. In this study, we investigated the de...

Supervised fine-tuning is key for model alignment, but its mechanisms are debated, with conflicting evidence supporting either a superficial alignment hypothesis or significant task improvements. This paper examines supervised fine-tuning’s imp...

Understanding the response characteristics of fine roots to soil drought of different degrees is essential for revealing the ecological adaptability of trees to different water environments and diverse plant resource absorption strategies. This study...

This paper develops Mark D. Linville’s brief description of “a sort of moral fine-tuning argument”. I develop the argument in four ways: I unpack the argument and give it a clear formulation, I unpack the theistic explanation of why...

Research Highlights: A detailed picture of the seasonality in fine root biomass (FRB), necromass (FRN), and the biomass/necromass ratio (FRBN) throughout the whole year is crucial to uncover profound effects of long-term environmental changes on fine...

Fine-grained image classification is a challenging problem because of its large intra-class differences and low inter-class variance. Bilinear pooling based models have been shown to be effective at fine-grained classification, while most previous ap...

Fine-mesh exclusion netting is a potential alternative to organic and conventional insecticide application to control numerous pests of fruit crops. We tested whether fine-mesh exclusion netting would reduce pest abundance and increase marketable yie...

Pre-trained models have achieved success in object detection. However, challenges remain due to dataset noise and lack of domain-specific data, resulting in weaker zero-shot capabilities in specialized fields such as fashion imaging. We addressed thi...

Conventional altimetry has greatly advanced our understanding of mesoscale eddies but falls short in studying fine-scale eddies (<150 km). The newly launched Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) altimeter, however, with its unprecedented high...

Fine-grained image classification is a hot topic that has been widely studied recently. Many fine-grained image classification methods ignore misclassification information, which is important to improve classification accuracy. To make use of misclas...

This paper focuses on the effect of ultra-fine ( d < 10 µm) powders in mixtures with fine ( d < 100 µm) bulk material on compression processes and also evaluates the re-fluidization behavior of the compressed bed (history...

The practical use of recycled concrete aggregate produced by crushing concrete waste reduces the consumption of natural aggregate and the amount of concrete waste that ends up in landfills. This study investigated two methods used in the production o...

The leaf area index (LAI) is a critical parameter for characterizing the structure and function of vegetation in ecosystems. Currently, operational LAI products always have coarse spatial resolution, and fine-resolution LAI maps are urgently needed f...

Fine registration of point clouds plays an important role in data analysis in Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS). This work proposes a block-to-point fine registration approach to correct the errors of point clouds from TLS and of geodetic networks obs...

The criminal justice system routinely imposes financial sanctions on probation clients. These fines, fees, and restitution debts often amount to more than what many clients can reasonably afford to pay. Until recently, Massachusetts courts have incar...

Background: Particulate matter and urban air pollution affect the human body and can lead to death. Epidemiological studies should consider exposure to pollutants and the diverse responses of individuals, depending on their sensitivity to the polluta...

Aggregates are essential in the production of composite building materials and their properties and characteristics influence the performance of these materials in use. Nevertheless, despite the existence of several standardized and other methods for...

This article conducts a systematic review on the fine-grained interpretation of remote sensing images, delving deeply into its background, current situation, datasets, methodology, and future trends, aiming to provide a comprehensive reference framew...

This work analyzes the use of sewage sludge, generated in wastewater treatment plants, as an alternative for small aggregate to be used in concrete. Concrete cylindrical specimens with height h = 20 cm and diameter D = 10 cm were prepared using diffe...

In this study, locally produced recycled fine aggregate from concrete demolition waste was investigated for potential replacement of sand in new concrete mixes. Tests for the waste material included visual examination, chemical composition, grain siz...

Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle biopsy (EUS-FNB) or fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) from focal liver lesions are indicated in selected cases, but there has been no previous comparison of needle types of the same size. The aim of our study w...

Evidence comparing ultrasound endoscopy-guided fine-needle biopsy (EUS-FNB) with EUS-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) in deep-seated lymphoma tissue sampling is insufficient. This study aims to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of immunohistoch...

Fine root-soil interactions fundamentally affect the terrestrial carbon (C) cycle and thereby ecosystem feedbacks to climate change [...]

Elevated nitrogen (N) deposition may further acidify soils in tropical forests. Yet, we have limited evidence on this prediction and it remained unclear how this would affect fine root growth therein. Here, we report responses of fine root biomass, v...

Stability condition is of critical importance for methane hydrate exploitation, transportation, and reserves. This study measured the stability conditions of methane hydrate in fine-grained sediment with different dry densities (ρd = 1.40, 1.50 a...

The continuous deposition of coal fine in the well can lead to complex problems, such as pump blockage and reduced capacity. The traditional critical velocity model applicable to rigid spherical particles, such as sand grains and glass beads, finds i...

Gaze estimation is a cornerstone of applications such as human–computer interaction and behavioral analysis, e.g., for intelligent transport systems. Nevertheless, existing methods predominantly rely on coarse-grained features from deep layers...

Fine-grained image classification is a challenging computer visual task due to the small interclass variations and large intra-class variations. Extracting expressive feature representation is an effective way to improve the accuracy of fine-grained...