Parameter setting and information redundancy are essential issues for the non-local means (NLM) algorithm. This paper introduces a new factor based on the Hessian matrix to adapt the smoothing parameter. Then, a strategy is proposed to implement the...
Regulatory interventions, such as Local Content (LC) requirements, have been incorporated to counter market forces to maximise petroleum revenues. This has been undertaken with the hypothesis that the governments of petroleum-producing countries depe...
Objectives: To provide insights for breeding high-quality rice varieties, we analyzed local rice (Oryza sativa L.) germplasm from Yunnan Province, China, focusing on the relationships among Waxy gene alleles, indica–japonica differentiation, an...
Localized phosphorus (P) application stimulates root proliferation in nutrient-rich zones, aligns root growth with soil P distribution, and enhances nutrient uptake efficiency. However, whether localized P supply benefits pitaya remains unclear. In t...
High moisture content (MC) harms wheat storage quality and readily leads to mold growth. Accurate localization of abnormal/high-moisture regions enables early warning, ensuring proper storage and reducing economic losses. The present study introduces...
Kava is the traditional intoxicating beverage of the Pacific with mild sedative and muscle relaxant effects, which are attributed to a group of compounds known as kavalactones. This paper aims to evaluate the quality of kava sold in the local markets...
In recent years, the growing importance of platforms for producing, sharing, and consuming news has been evident. However, several challenges associated with this growth have emerged, such as those linked with disinformation and news authorship. In t...
Proline is one of amino acid that usually accumulates inside the plant cell when facing drought stress. The accumulation of proline can protect the plant cell from damage during drought. The aim of this research was to determine proline content and y...
The silicon content in industrial blast furnaces is difficult to measure directly online. Traditional soft sensors do not efficiently utilize useful information hidden in process variables. In this work, bagging local semi-supervised models (BLSM) fo...
Detailed knowledge of the local fiber orientation and the local fiber volume content within composite parts provides an opportunity to predict the structural behavior more reliably. Utilizing forming simulation methods of dry or pre-impregnated fabri...
Local markets have been a special setting throughout human history. Apart from their important social role, they had immeasurable economic importance as primary forms of exchange of goods (trade). Nonetheless, they experienced numerous transformation...
Job role localization is a strategic local content solution used by countries bearing natural resource stocks to maximize the long-term benefits of exploring and producing them. Currently, there is significant variation in how countries and organizat...
Local authorities in the UK often try to improve their residents’ financial well-being by promoting changes in behaviour. The extent to which these behaviour change activities are based on relevant theory or evidence is unknown. This research a...
There has been growing interest in constructing mid- and high-rise wooden buildings in recent years. To ensure the feasibility of these structures, it is necessary to provide evidence that their long-term reliability can be guaranteed. While long-ter...
Job role localization is the replacement of expatriates by competent host country nationals. This study investigates the viability of localizing job roles in the oil and gas industry in two stages. The first stage addresses the global level using a s...
Image analysis has many practical applications and proper representation of image content is its crucial element. In this work, a novel type of representation is proposed where an image is reduced to a set of highly sparse matrices. Equivalently, it...
A local leaf burning causes variation potential (VP) propagation, a decrease in photosynthesis activity, and changes in the content of phytohormones in unstimulated leaves in pea plants. The VP-induced photosynthesis response develops in two phases:...
The historical agrarian landforms (AL) represent man-made features that alter the hydrological process on cultivated hillslopes. Soil water content (SWC) and its spatial and temporal variability represent an important state indicator for understandin...
This multidisciplinary comparative study investigates consumption patterns, health-related properties, and quality attributes of trademarked and local extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) samples. It highlights the importance of localization in promoting ag...
Saudi Arabia’s 2030 Vision plans to install 40 GW of photovoltaic capacity in the country by 2030. This includes a requirement that deployed systems achieve a local content threshold of 33–35% for 2024–25, increasing to 40–45%...
The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the content of a number of bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity of fruits of selected local and commercial sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) cultivars. The experiment showed that the selected cul...
Local chronicles are a kind of historical record in China that are written in detail and play an important role in the transmission of local history and culture. Due to the single-text-carrier form of local chronicles, people have limited access to i...
Coix lacryma-jobi L., an annual or perennial plant belonging to the Poaceae family, has long been cultivated as a food and medicine plant in China. In recent years, coix cultivation for high yields and good quality has become a research hotspot in So...
This study espouses a multi-strategy method comprising of a qualitative study and system dynamics (SD) to deliver the long-term dynamic behaviour of human resource development (HRD) in Ghana’s oil and gas sector. The adoption of the SD differed from...
Quantifying the information content of remote sensing images is considered to be a fundamental task in quantitative remote sensing. Traditionally, the grayscale entropy designed by Shannon’s information theory cannot capture the spatial structu...
Wolf–Rayet stars (WRs) represent the end of a massive star’s life as it is about to turn into a supernova. Obtaining complete samples of such stars across a large range of metallicities poses observational challenges, but presents us with...
This study examines the role of local media in fostering a sense of community belonging among readers in the Ecuadorian context, focusing on how geographical coverage, news sources, and covered themes reinforce community identity. Through content ana...
Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas), an important root crop, has storage roots rich in starch that are edible and serve as a raw material in bioenergy production. Increasing the storage-root starch contents is a key sweet potato breeding goal. Phosphogluc...
A novel efficient method for content-based image retrieval (CBIR) is developed in this paper using both texture and color features. Our motivation is to represent and characterize an input image by a set of local descriptors extracted from characteri...
Earthen dams with greater fines are more susceptible to failure from the piping. This study employed the coupled computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-discrete element method (DEM) to investigate the impact of the piping erosion process. Results display...
Currently, screen content images (SCIs) are widely used in our modern society. However, since SCIs have distinctly different properties compared to natural images, traditional quality assessment methods of natural images cannot precisely evaluate the...
The relationship between ionospheric research and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) can be analysed through two approaches. The direct approach utilises ionospheric models to mitigate its influence, while the indirect approach leverages GNSS...
Graphs are a very useful framework for representing information. In general, these data structures are used in different application domains where data of interest are described in terms of local and spatial relations. In this context, the aim is to...
With the advent of medical endoscopes, earth observation satellites and personal phones, content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has attracted considerable attention, triggered by its wide applications, e.g., medical image analytics, remote sensing, and...
Among the stimuli able to prevent early decreases in bone mineralization, exercise has a noticeable role per se as the source of mechanical stimulus or through lean tissue enlargement by its increasing of tensional stimulus. However, prevention strat...
Development of accurate data-driven quality prediction models for industrial blast furnaces encounters several challenges mainly because the collected data are nonlinear, non-Gaussian, and uneven distributed. A just-in-time correntropy-based local so...
Mulberry (Morus sp.) trees, traditionally cultivated for their leaves used in sericulture, have recently gained recognition for their adaptability and valuable ecosystem services. The biochemical composition of mulberry leaves varies both qualitative...
In this study, big data analysis on Korea’s “online tour”, which emerged as an alternative to satisfy tourism needs after COVID-19, was conducted. After extracting keywords through text mining for 24,073 posts from the top three mos...
Hyperspectral imaging is capable of acquiring the rich spectral information of scenes and has great potential for understanding the characteristics of different materials in many applications ranging from remote sensing to medical imaging. However, d...
Aceh is the only province in Indonesia with an exceptional degree of autonomy to implement Sharia. This paper explores how Serambi Indonesia—the leading Acehnese local newspaper—framed the implementation of Sharia in the region. This stud...
As a promising candidate for next-generation aviation structural materials, lightweight refractory high entropy alloys (HEAs) exhibit high strength, low density, and excellent high-temperature performance. In this study, we investigated the influence...
With the rapid development of lightweight and environmentally friendly building materials, foamed concrete has been widely adopted as a novel material for lightweight filling and foundation applications. However, its bearing capacity under localized...
The aim of this paper is to study how local governments in Sweden view the role of public transport in society, and to investigate how public transport is used in a strategic capacity. By studying general policy documents, the ambition is to gain a w...
This study introduces Ship-Yolo, a novel algorithm designed to tackle the challenges of detecting small targets against complex backgrounds in remote sensing imagery. Firstly, the proposed method integrates an efficient local attention mechanism into...
With the development of remote sensing technologies, the volume of remote sensing data is growing dramatically, making efficient management and retrieval of large-scale remote sensing images increasingly important. Recently, deep hashing for content-...
GPGPUs has gradually become a mainstream acceleration component in high-performance computing. The long latency of memory operations is the bottleneck of GPU performance. In the GPU, multiple threads are divided into one warp for scheduling and execu...
In this work, the localization of reactive compatibilizer (RC, containing poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) backbone with randomly distributed glycidyl methacrylate (GMA) on it) at the polyvinylidene fluoride/poly(l-lactic acid) (PVDF/PLLA) interface...
Background: Many personal care products, and particularly cosmetic products, contain preservatives that release formaldehyde. These are potentially harmful to consumer health, especially considering that the levels of formaldehyde in some products ar...
In this paper, we investigate the pointwise hemi-slant submanifolds of a locally conformal Kähler manifold and their warped products. Moreover, we derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for integrability and totally geodesic foliation. W...
This article mainly deals with the blow-up properties of nonnegative solutions for a reaction–diffusion system coupled with norm-type sources under positive boundary value conditions. The local existence of a nonnegative solution and the compar...
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