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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,256 Views
18 Pages

27 September 2024

To reasonably allocate emergency supply reserve warehouses and enhance the utilization efficiency of emergency supply reserves, this paper proposes a new optimization method for the site selection of emergency supply reserve warehouses based on gray...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,149 Views
21 Pages

Variable Weight-Projection Gray Target Evaluation Model of Degree of Protection of Protective Layer Mining

  • Bing Qin,
  • Zhanshan Shi,
  • Jianfeng Hao,
  • Bing Liang and ,
  • Weiji Sun and
  • Feng He
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 June 2022

In order to quantitatively evaluate the degree of protection in protective layer mining and provide guidance for the design of a secondary outburst elimination scheme, a variable weight-projection gray target dynamic evaluation model for the effectiv...

(This article belongs to the Topic Mining Safety and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,444 Views
16 Pages

28 September 2023

Considering carbon neutral development strategies, ecological ports and green growth concepts have become the future development trend of ports. As an important technology for green port construction, the stable operation of port shore power systems...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,327 Views
30 Pages

As sponge city construction is gradually promoted globally, it is very important to construct a scientific and reasonable performance evaluation framework. This paper establishes an indicator system with 5 primary indicators and 15 secondary indicato...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Life Cycle Management of Buildings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,140 Views
32 Pages

Can China Achieve the 2020 and 2030 Carbon Intensity Targets through Energy Structure Adjustment?

  • Ying Wang,
  • Peipei Shang,
  • Lichun He,
  • Yingchun Zhang and
  • Dandan Liu

11 October 2018

To mitigate global warming, the Chinese government has successively set carbon intensity targets for 2020 and 2030. Energy restructuring is critical for achieving these targets. In this paper, a combined forecasting model is utilized to predict prima...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling and Simulation of Carbon Emission Related Issues)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,736 Views
10 Pages

1 August 2006

A large number of texture classification approaches have been developed in the past but most of these studies target gray-level textures. In this paper, supervised classification of color textures is considered. Several different Multispectral Random...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,512 Views
17 Pages

Food Security and Health Outcomes following Gray Divorce

  • Hang Zhao,
  • Tatiana Andreyeva and
  • Xiaohan Sun

24 February 2024

The study evaluates the immediate and long-term consequences of gray divorce (i.e., marital dissolution after age 50) for the food security, depression, and disability of older Americans. Staggered Difference-in-Difference models were fitted to a nat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nutrition Status in Vulnerable Groups)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,590 Views
17 Pages

The Gray-Box Based Modeling Approach Integrating Both Mechanism-Model and Data-Model: The Case of Atmospheric Contaminant Dispersion

  • Bin Chen,
  • Yiduo Wang,
  • Rongxiao Wang,
  • Zhengqiu Zhu and ,
  • Liang Ma,
  • Xiaogang Qiu and
  • Weihui Dai
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

6 February 2020

With the profound understanding of the world, modeling and simulation has been used to solve the problems of complex systems. Generally, mechanism-models are often used to model the engineering systems following the Newton laws, and this kind of mode...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,096 Views
15 Pages

A Driving System for Fast and Precise Gray-Scale Response Based on Amplitude–Frequency Mixed Modulation in TFT Electrowetting Displays

  • Zichuan Yi,
  • Linwei Liu,
  • Li Wang,
  • Wei Li and ,
  • Lingling Shui and
  • Guofu Zhou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 October 2019

The gray-scale display which is driven by PWM (pulse width modulation) in TFT (thin film transistor) electrowetting displays (EWDs) has some shortcomings, such as large amplitude of oil oscillation in pixels and slow response speed for displaying gra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electrokinetics in Micro-/nanofluidic Devices)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,967 Views
21 Pages

Exemplar-Based Face Colorization Using Image Morphing

  • Johannes Persch,
  • Fabien Pierre and
  • Gabriele Steidl

31 October 2017

Colorization of gray-scale images relies on prior color information. Exemplar-based methods use a color image as source of such information. Then the colors of the source image are transferred to the gray-scale target image. In the literature, this t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Color Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,967 Views
19 Pages

Low-Carbon Economic Dispatch of Integrated Energy Systems in Industrial Parks Considering Comprehensive Demand Response and Multi-Hydrogen Supply

  • Bohua Su,
  • Ruiqi Wang,
  • Ming Wang,
  • Mingyuan Wang and ,
  • Qianchuan Zhao,
  • Yisheng Lv and
  • He Gao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 March 2024

To address the increasing hydrogen demand and carbon emissions of industrial parks, this paper proposes an integrated energy system dispatch strategy considering multi-hydrogen supply and comprehensive demand response. This model adopts power-to-gas...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,662 Views
16 Pages

Design Optimization of Counter-Flow Double-Pipe Heat Exchanger Using Hybrid Optimization Algorithm

  • B. Venkatesh,
  • Mudassir Khan,
  • Bayan Alabduallah,
  • Ajmeera Kiran and ,
  • J. Chinna Babu,
  • B. Bhargavi and
  • Fatimah Alhayan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 May 2023

Double-pipe counter-flow heat exchangers are considered more suitable for heat recovery in the heat transfer industry. Numerous studies have been conducted to develop static tools for optimizing operating parameters of heat exchangers. Using thi...

(This article belongs to the Section AI-Enabled Process Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,084 Views
16 Pages

21 November 2019

The uncertainty and complexity of the geological parameters of coalbed methane (CBM) reservoirs may result in the assignment of atypical exact values to a whole block. Therefore, the influence of different resources and productivity characterization...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,418 Views
13 Pages

The control of non-point source pollution (NPS) is an essential target in urban stormwater control. Green stormwater control measures (SCMs) have remarkable efficiency for pollution control, but suffer from high maintenance, operation costs and poor...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,344 Views
19 Pages

Interpretation for Individual Brain Age Prediction Based on Gray Matter Volume

  • Jiancheng Sun,
  • Zongqing Tu,
  • Deqi Meng,
  • Yizhou Gong and ,
  • Mengmeng Zhang and
  • Jinsong Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 November 2022

The relationship between age and the central nervous system (CNS) in humans has been a classical issue that has aroused extensive attention. Especially for individuals, it is of far greater importance to clarify the mechanisms between CNS and age. Th...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational Neuroscience, Neuroinformatics, and Neurocomputing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,081 Views
24 Pages

12 August 2025

Digital core refers to the use of three-dimensional physical imaging equipment and mathematical modeling to image the internal microstructure of a core and the use of computers to study the connectivity and pore distribution of the core microstructur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,966 Views
21 Pages

Research on the Laser Scattering Characteristics of Three-Dimensional Imaging Based on Electro–Optical Crystal Modulation

  • Houpeng Sun,
  • Yingchun Li,
  • Huichao Guo,
  • Chenglong Luan and ,
  • Laixian Zhang,
  • Haijing Zheng and
  • Youchen Fan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 October 2024

In this paper, we construct a laser 3D imaging simulation model based on the 3D imaging principle of electro–optical crystal modulation. Unlike the traditional 3D imaging simulation method, this paper focuses on the laser scattering characteris...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical and Laser Material Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,455 Views
14 Pages

9 October 2024

Aiming to improve the efficiency of the online process in path planning, a novel searching method is proposed based on environmental information analysis. Firstly, a search and rescue (SAR) environmental model and an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) mot...

(This article belongs to the Section Aerospace Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
477 Views
37 Pages

10 June 2026

Monocular distance measurement estimates the target distance from the apparent size of a known target, and its accuracy is strongly affected by edge localization accuracy. Conventional pixel-level edge detectors provide only integer-pixel positions,...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,851 Views
11 Pages

Altered Processing of Visual Food Stimuli in Adolescents with Loss of Control Eating

  • Stefanie C. Biehl,
  • Ulrich Ansorge,
  • Eva Naumann and
  • Jennifer Svaldi

22 January 2019

Loss of control eating (LOC) constitutes a common eating pathology in childhood and adolescence. Models developed for adult patients stress a biased processing of food-related stimuli as an important maintaining factor. To our knowledge, however, no...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Childhood Eating and Feeding Disturbances)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,113 Views
25 Pages

13 September 2023

Smart production ecosystems are a valuable target for attackers. In particular, due to the high level of connectivity introduced by Industry 4.0, attackers can potentially attack individual components of production systems from the outside. One appro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technological Challenges and Trends in Sensor-Based Smart Production Ecosystems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,920 Views
20 Pages

8 November 2023

For underwater target exploration, multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) have shown significant advantages over single AUVs. Aiming at Multi-AUV task allocation, which is an important issue for collaborative work in underwater environments,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Artificial Intelligence in Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,186 Views
22 Pages

19 October 2023

In the context of long-term infectious disease epidemics, guaranteeing the dispatch of materials is important to emergency management. The epidemic situation is constantly changing; it is necessary to build a reasonable mechanism to dispatch emergenc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Computational Intelligence, Volume 2)
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,595 Views
18 Pages

Effectiveness Analysis of Systematic Combined Sewer Overflow Control Schemes in the Sponge City Pilot Area of Beijing

  • Yongwei Gong,
  • Ye Chen,
  • Lei Yu,
  • Junqi Li and ,
  • Xingyao Pan,
  • Zhenyao Shen,
  • Xiang Xu and
  • Qianying Qiu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Combined sewer overflow (CSO) pollution poses a serious threat to the urban water environment and is more severe in old urban areas. This research uses the old urban area in the sponge city pilot area in Tongzhou District, Beijing, as the study area....

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,042 Views
15 Pages

Merchant ships sometimes fail to detect small ships at night and in poor visibility, leading to urgent situations and even collisions. Infrared (IR) cameras have inherent advantages in small target detection and become essential environmental awarene...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,891 Views
24 Pages

Intelligent Detection of Low–Slow–Small Targets Based on Passive Radar

  • Tingwei Chu,
  • Huaji Zhou,
  • Zizheng Ren,
  • Yunhao Ye and ,
  • Changlong Wang and
  • Feng Zhou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 March 2025

Due to its unique geometric configuration, passive radar offers enhanced surveillance capabilities for low-altitude targets. Traditional passive radar signal processing typically relies on energy accumulation and Constant False Alarm Rate (CFAR) dete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,280 Views
31 Pages

Dim and Small Target Detection Based on Energy Sensing of Local Multi-Directional Gradient Information

  • Xiangsuo Fan,
  • Juliu Li,
  • Lei Min,
  • Linping Feng and ,
  • Ling Yu and
  • Zhiyong Xu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 June 2023

It is difficult for traditional algorithms to remove cloud edge contours in multi-cloud scenarios. In order to improve the detection ability of dim and small targets in complex edge contour scenes, this paper proposes a new dim and small target detec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Vision and Advanced Image Processing in Remote Sensing II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,495 Views
23 Pages

5 August 2022

The economy and rationality of the typical structural scheme for asphalt pavement are directly related to the formation of its service target. Based on the original highway asphalt pavement structure in Jilin Province, the evaluation index system was...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asphalt Pavement Materials and Surface)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,359 Views
16 Pages

A Real-Time Fish Target Detection Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv5

  • Wanghua Li,
  • Zhenkai Zhang,
  • Biao Jin and
  • Wangyang Yu

Marine fish target detection technology is of great significance for underwater vehicles to realize fish automatic recognition. However, the complex underwater environment and lighting conditions lead to the complex background of the collected image...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,566 Views
21 Pages

Deformation Detection of Mining Tunnel Based on Automatic Target Recognition

  • Changqi Ji,
  • Haili Sun,
  • Ruofei Zhong,
  • Mingze Sun and ,
  • Jincheng Li and
  • Yue Lu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 January 2023

Mining tunnels have irregular and diverse cross-sectional shapes. Structural deformation detection using mobile laser measurement has some problems, such as the inconvenient positioning of the deformation, difficulties in unifying the multiphase data...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
471 Views
24 Pages

Research on Planning and Dispatching Strategy of Grid-Side Energy Storage Power Station Considering Regional Power Grid Interconnection

  • Pude Yu,
  • Wenxuan Xu,
  • Yichen Shao,
  • Yingjiang Zhao and ,
  • Cheng Chen,
  • Renfei Wo,
  • Wencai Peng,
  • Shuaiwei Ren,
  • Qing Wang and
  • Yongqing Deng
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Energy storage planning and optimal dispatch in real power grids are restricted by high-dimensional nonlinear constraints. The solution process involves a heavy calculation burden. This paper studies the site selection, capacity sizing and optimal di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forecasting and Optimization Methods for High Renewable Penetration Power Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,250 Views
19 Pages

A Correlation-Based Joint CFAR Detector Using Adaptively-Truncated Statistics in SAR Imagery

  • Jiaqiu Ai,
  • Xuezhi Yang,
  • Fang Zhou,
  • Zhangyu Dong and ,
  • Lu Jia and
  • He Yan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 March 2017

Traditional constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detectors only use the contrast information between ship targets and clutter, and they suffer probability of detection (PD) degradation in multiple target situations. This paper proposes a correlation-base...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,204 Views
16 Pages

19 June 2024

To mitigate problems concerning small-sized spots on apple leaves and the difficulties associated with the accurate detection of spot targets exacerbated by the complex backgrounds of orchards, this research used alternaria leaf spots, rust, brown sp...

(This article belongs to the Section Precision and Digital Agriculture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,326 Views
21 Pages

A Novel Localization Method of Wireless Covert Communication Entity for Post-Steganalysis

  • Guo Wei,
  • Shichang Ding,
  • Haifeng Yang,
  • Wenyan Liu and ,
  • Meijuan Yin and
  • Lingling Li
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 November 2022

Recently, some criminals have begun to use multimedia steganography to conduct covert communication, such as transmitting stolen trade secrets. After using steganalysis to find covert communication entities, obtaining their locations can effectively...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multimedia Smart Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,292 Views
15 Pages

20 December 2021

This paper investigates the problem of spacecraft relative navigation with respect to an unknown target during the close-proximity operations in the on-orbit service system. The serving spacecraft is equipped with a Time-of-Flight (ToF) camera for ob...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Instrument and Measurement Based on Sensing Technology in China)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,658 Views
17 Pages

22 April 2021

In the medical field, guidance to follow the surgical plan is crucial. Image overlay projection is a solution to link the surgical plan with the patient. It realizes augmented reality (AR) by projecting computer-generated image on the surface of the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Infra-Operative Imaging, Sensing and Augmented Reality in Image-Guided Surgery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,325 Views
29 Pages

17 March 2025

Along with the progression of globalized climate change, flooding has become a significant challenge in low-lying plain river network regions, where urban areas face increasing vulnerability to extreme climate events. This study explores climate-adap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Design and Planning for Socio-Environmental Sustainability of Landscapes and Communities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,696 Views
13 Pages

31 October 2021

Forest fire smoke detection based on deep learning has been widely studied. Labeling the smoke image is a necessity when building datasets of target detection and semantic segmentation. The uncertainty in labeling the forest fire smoke pixels caused...

(This article belongs to the Collection Deep Learning for Computer Vision: Algorithms, Theory and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,222 Views
32 Pages

Spatial–Temporal Decoupling of Urban Carbon Emissions and Socioeconomic Development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

  • Kerong Zhang,
  • Dongyang Li,
  • Xiaolong Ji,
  • Ying Zhang and ,
  • Yuxin Wang and
  • Wuyi Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 September 2025

The spatial–temporal pattern, influencing factors and driving variables of carbon emissions are essential considerations for achieving China’s carbon peak and neutrality targets, which support high-quality development. This study was desi...

(This article belongs to the Section Social Ecology and Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
127 Views
30 Pages

Structural magnetic resonance imaging supports the characterization of Alzheimer’s disease (AD)-related cognitive impairment. But existing cross-cohort AD classification methods remain limited in addressing acquisition and population shifts whe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional and Fractal Methods in Biomedical Imaging and Time Series Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
8,506 Views
23 Pages

A Hierarchical Maritime Target Detection Method for Optical Remote Sensing Imagery

  • Fang Xu,
  • Jinghong Liu,
  • Mingchao Sun,
  • Dongdong Zeng and
  • Xuan Wang

16 March 2017

Maritime target detection from optical remote sensing images plays an important role in related military and civil applications and its weakness lies in its compromised performance under complex uncertain conditions. In this paper, a novel hierarchic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Big Data: Theory, Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,327 Views
13 Pages

Assessing the Potential of Molecular Imaging for Myelin Quantification in Organotypic Cultures

  • Ander Egimendia,
  • Susana Carregal-Romero,
  • Iñaki Osorio-Querejeta,
  • Daniel Padro and ,
  • Jesús Ruiz-Cabello,
  • David Otaegui and
  • Pedro Ramos-Cabrer
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Ex vivo models for the noninvasive study of myelin-related diseases represent an essential tool to understand the mechanisms of diseases and develop therapies against them. Herein, we assessed the potential of multimodal imaging traceable myelin-targ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomimetic and Functional Nanomaterials for Molecular Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,870 Views
19 Pages

26 May 2023

Velocity estimation of space moving targets is a key part of space situational awareness. However, most of the existing methods do not consider the satellite observation process, and the performance mainly depends on the preset target motion state, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,785 Views
19 Pages

In order to address the issue of low tracking accuracy caused by particle depletion in the particle filter, a mobile target tracking algorithm tailored for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is presented. This algorithm, based on the golden-section gray...

(This article belongs to the Section Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,559 Views
13 Pages

26 June 2024

Adjusting the energy structure of various industries is crucial for achieving China’s carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals. Given the significant proportion of carbon emissions from the logistics industry in the tertiary sector, the research...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Metaheuristic Algorithms, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
186 Views
25 Pages

14 October 2026

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) denoising requires large paired datasets that preserve weak target echoes while representing realistic underground clutter, but field measurements are difficult to label, and high-fidelity electromagnetic simulations ar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Innovations for Enhanced Signal Intelligence: Applications in Radar and Biomedical Imaging Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,730 Views
20 Pages

13 April 2020

The objective of this study is to develop an optimization methodology to find a layout that traces a prescribed force–displacement curve through a topology optimization approach. To this end, we propose an objective function to minimize the dif...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
583 Views
30 Pages

24 September 2026

Research on large language models as linguistic judges has focused primarily on numerical outcomes, while their accompanying explanations remain understudied. This article qualitatively analyzes 750 explanations generated by five publicly accessible...

(This article belongs to the Section AI Systems: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
3,906 Views
16 Pages

1 August 2021

Bad meteorological conditions may reduce the reliability of power communication equipment, which can increase the distortion possibility of fault information in the communication process, hence raising its uncertainty and incompleteness. To address t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Information Theoretic: From Theory to Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,672 Views
14 Pages

A Competing-Risks Approach to the Progression, Regression and Persistence of High-Grade Cervical Dysplasia in Patients over 30 Years Old—A Prospective Study

  • Iulian-Valentin Munteanu,
  • Demetra Socolov,
  • Razvan Socolov,
  • Ana-Maria Adam and ,
  • Gigi Adam,
  • Ingrid-Andrada Vasilache,
  • Petronela Vicoveanu,
  • Valeriu Harabor,
  • Anamaria Harabor and
  • Alina-Mihaela Calin
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

6 September 2025

Background/Objectives: In Romania, where cervical cancer incidence remains among the highest in the European Union, a risk-based management strategy could support more precise allocation of limited resources. The aim of this study was to test the pro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Risk Prediction for Gynecological Cancer)

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