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Accurate R-peak detection in electrocardiogram (ECG) signals is fundamental for cardiovascular analysis. However, most existing methods address differences in sampling frequency (fs) through signal resampling or transfer learning, which may alter the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Biomedical Signal Processing and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,076 Views
19 Pages

Building Extraction from High–Resolution Remote Sensing Images by Adaptive Morphological Attribute Profile under Object Boundary Constraint

  • Chao Wang,
  • Yi Shen,
  • Hui Liu,
  • Kaiguang Zhao and ,
  • Hongyan Xing and
  • Xing Qiu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 August 2019

A novel adaptive morphological attribute profile under object boundary constraint (AMAP–OBC) method is proposed in this study for automatic building extraction from high-resolution remote sensing (HRRS) images. By investigating the associated attribu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Image Processing and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,835 Views
17 Pages

Plant-parasiticnematodes represent a significant biosecurity threat in cross-border plant quarantine, necessitating precise identification for effective border control. While DL models have demonstrated success in nematode image classification based...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Applications in Pattern Recognition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
581 Views
25 Pages

22 July 2026

The built-environment morphology of traditional settlements is a spatial outcome shaped by mountain–water patterns, architectural fabric, street–alley networks, and long-term human adaptation. To reveal the morphological differentiation a...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,582 Views
23 Pages

15 May 2025

The morphological component analysis (MCA) method can be used to suppress the clutter in a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image when the dictionaries of clutter and target components are mutually incoherent. However, the effectiveness of the conventi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,243 Views
14 Pages

26 March 2024

This study aims to accurately determine the distribution of landslides in the complex terrain of Jiangdingya, Nanyu Township, Zhouqu County, Gansu Province. The digital orthophoto map (DOM) and digital elevation model (DEM) are used to accurately ide...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Technology in Landslide Monitoring and Risk Assessment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
477 Views
25 Pages

CSE-Guided Linguistically Constrained Morphological Segmentation for Turkmen

  • Ualsher Tukeyev,
  • Dina Amirova and
  • Davranbek Eshimov

13 June 2026

This paper presents a linguistically constrained neural approach to morphological segmentation for low-resource Turkic languages, with a case study on Turkmen. The proposed method combines large-scale training data generated by a Complete Set of Endi...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
990 Views
25 Pages

3 July 2026

Image-based generative AI is rapidly entering urban design practice, yet it remains unclear whether its limitations can be addressed through prompt refinement or whether they reflect properties of the generation architecture itself. This study examin...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Digital Systems Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
991 Views
27 Pages

21 May 2026

Rapid and reliable detection of landslides is essential for disaster response, hazard assessment, and environmental monitoring, particularly in environments where timely information is critical. Recognizing the need, this study proposes a unified fra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Use/Land Cover Mapping Changes Using Earth Observations Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,363 Views
17 Pages

29 November 2017

Multibeam echosounder systems (MBES) can record backscatter strengths of gas plumes in the water column (WC) images that may be an indicator of possible occurrence of gas at certain depths. Manual or automatic detection is generally adopted in findin...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
754 Views
26 Pages

Automatic Crest Line Extraction Algorithm for Internal Solitary Waves Based on SWOT

  • Pengyi Chen,
  • Jiannan Gao,
  • Jinlong Huang,
  • Longyu Jiang and ,
  • Yu Huang,
  • Rui Xuan,
  • Yiyang Li,
  • Yang Chen,
  • Bangxin Zheng and
  • Xuejun Xiong
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

7 May 2026

Sea surface height anomaly (SSHA) observations from Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) provide a new opportunity for identifying crest lines of internal solitary waves (ISWs). However, L3 LR Unsmoothed SSHA is often affected by residual large-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Radar Advances in Ocean Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
546 Views
17 Pages

Efficient Seismic Event Extraction via Lightweight DoG Enhancement and Spatial Consistency Constraints for Oil and Gas Exploration

  • Ruilong Suo,
  • Jingong Zhang,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Feng Zhang and ,
  • Bolong Wang,
  • Zhaoyu Zhang,
  • Dawei Ren and
  • Yitao Lei
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

16 April 2026

The automatic extraction of seismic reflection events is fundamental to seismic interpretation and structural identification in oil and gas exploration, particularly for large-scale regional surveys and preliminary basin-scale assessments. Although t...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Technology for Oil and Nature Gas Exploration)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,982 Views
19 Pages

26 March 2023

Roads are a type of typical artificial terrain, and are key components of urban terrain. Road networks formed by connections between different roads not only form the skeleton of urban terrain, but also plays an important role in transmitting energy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Earth Sciences and Geography in China)
  • Article
  • Open Access
384 Views
26 Pages

Morphological Typology and Contextual Constraints of High-Altitude Tibetan Rural Settlements: Evidence from Lhasa

  • Yibing Xie,
  • Xuan Lei,
  • Jiahan Yan,
  • Lixing Chen and ,
  • Luyang Zhong and
  • Yingzi Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 August 2026

High-altitude rural settlements on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau have developed through long-term adaptation to terrain, hydrology, infrastructure, and socio-cultural organization. However, quantitative evidence on how settlement morphologies are t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewal Design and Challenge of Urban and Rural Livable Environments in the Age of Population Shrinkage)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,581 Views
15 Pages

Spatial Organization of Five-Fold Morphology as a Source of Geometrical Constraint in Biology

  • Juan López-Sauceda,
  • Jorge López-Ortega,
  • Gerardo Abel Laguna Sánchez,
  • Jacobo Sandoval Gutiérrez and ,
  • Ana Paola Rojas Meza and
  • José Luis Aragón
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 September 2018

A basic pattern in the body plan architecture of many animals, plants and some molecular and cellular systems is five-part units. This pattern has been understood as a result of genetic blueprints in development and as a widely conserved evolutionary...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biological Statistical Mechanics)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,513 Views
5 Pages

This paper builds upon a recent proposal of a pragmatically-oriented framework for the practice of ‘Complex Thinking’ to further conceptualize it as a mode of thinking bridging different modes of thinking and types of cognitive activity....

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,068 Views
23 Pages

7 August 2026

Addressing the challenges in quantitative characterization of post-fracture fracture geometry in unconventional reservoirs such as tight gas and shale, for which existing prediction methods provide only limited accuracy, this study proposes an intell...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI for Sustainable Development and Production Evaluation of Unconventional Oil & Gas Resources)
  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
8,359 Views
15 Pages

Pulse Root Ideotype for Water Stress in Temperate Cropping System

  • Shiwangni Rao,
  • Roger Armstrong,
  • Viridiana Silva-Perez,
  • Abeya T. Tefera and
  • Garry M. Rosewarne

3 April 2021

Pulses are a key component of crop production systems in Southern Australia due to their rotational benefits and potential profit margins. However, cultivation in temperate cropping systems such as that of Southern Australia is limited by low soil wa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structure and Function of Roots)
  • Article
  • Open Access
498 Views
16 Pages

Impervious surfaces create heterogeneous planting sites for urban trees, but whether crown-scale sealing is associated jointly with leaf economics and reproductive dispersal morphology remains unclear. We aimed to test these associations in mature fe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Cultivation and Performance of Ornamental Plants)
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  • Open Access
443 Views
33 Pages

Understanding the spatial generation mechanisms of ride-hailing demand is crucial for sustainable urban mobility. However, existing literature largely assumes monocentric urban layouts and globally stationary spatial scales, often overlooking the sev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,786 Views
20 Pages

14 August 2021

A new segmentation technique is introduced for delineating the lung region in 3D computed tomography (CT) images. To accurately model the distribution of Hounsfield scale values within both chest and lung regions, a new probabilistic model is develop...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer Aided Diagnosis Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,290 Views
13 Pages

This paper presents a numerical investigation into the generation of 2D ordered pillar array columns for liquid chromatography columns, focusing on the development of an algorithm for the automatic creation of unit-cell morphologies and their subsequ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,923 Views
18 Pages

Enhancing Pavement Distress Detection Using a Morphological Constraints-Based Data Augmentation Method

  • Zhengchao Xu,
  • Zhe Dai,
  • Zhaoyun Sun,
  • Chen Zuo and ,
  • Huansheng Song and
  • Changwei Yuan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 April 2023

Pavement distress data in a single section usually presents a long-tailed distribution, with potholes, sealed cracks, and other distresses normally located at the tail. This distribution will seriously affect the performance and robustness of big dat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surface Characterization and Treatments in Transportation Infrastructure)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,312 Views
34 Pages

Natural and Anthropic Constraints on Historical Morphological Dynamics in the Middle Stretch of the Po River (Northern Italy)

  • Laura Turconi,
  • Barbara Bono,
  • Carlo Mambriani,
  • Lucia Masotti and ,
  • Fabio Stocchi and
  • Fabio Luino
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 July 2025

Geo-historical information deduced from geo-iconographical resources, derived from extensive research and the selection of cartographies and historical documents, enabled the investigation of the natural and anthropic transformations of the perifluvi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,952 Views
22 Pages

4 March 2025

Egg-carrying ectothermic planktonic organisms in stressed conditions adapt diverse reproductive trade-off strategies, which are denoted by markers of stress, either in their physiology, morphology or reproductive characteristics. This is the first st...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Diversity, Ecology and Conservation of Zooplankton)
  • Article
  • Open Access
463 Views
29 Pages

4 August 2026

The National Plan for Student Accommodation in Higher Education (PNAES, 2018–2026), funded by the Portuguese Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), aims to increase student housing capacity in Portugal through new construction, rehabilitation, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
25,934 Views
17 Pages

Morphological Disparity of the Humerus in Modern Birds

  • Francisco J. Serrano,
  • Mireia Costa-Pérez,
  • Guillermo Navalón and
  • Alberto Martín-Serra

28 April 2020

From a functional standpoint, the humerus is a key element in the skeleton of vertebrates as it is the forelimb’s bone that connects with the pectoral girdle. In most birds, the humerus receives both the forces exerted by the main flight muscle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Origins of Modern Avian Biodiversity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
115 Views
16 Pages

22 October 2026

To mitigate the risk of cable winding failures in cable-reeling vehicles (CRVs) used in mining environments, this paper presents a stereo vision sensor-driven perception–planning framework. Its core innovation is a cable-morphology-constrained...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,424 Views
25 Pages

This paper adopts a morphological approach to the reduplication of the past-tense augment in Cypriot Greek and explores the morphotactic constraints that apply. Phonological reduplication phenomena have been addressed in morphology by developing a fr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Glances at the Morphosyntax of Greek)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,042 Views
25 Pages

Hepatic Tumor Cell Morphology Plasticity under Physical Constraints in 3D Cultures Driven by YAP–mTOR Axis

  • Adam Frtús,
  • Barbora Smolková,
  • Mariia Uzhytchak,
  • Mariia Lunova and ,
  • Milan Jirsa,
  • Martin Hof,
  • Piotr Jurkiewicz,
  • Vladimir I. Lozinsky,
  • Lucie Wolfová and
  • Oleg Lunov
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

28 November 2020

Recent studies undoubtedly show that the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and the Hippo–Yes-associated protein 1 (YAP) pathways are important mediators of mechanical cues. The crosstalk between these pathways as well as de-regulation of the...

(This article belongs to the Section Pharmacology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,372 Views
15 Pages

24 October 2025

This paper addresses a well-known puzzle at the intersection of morphology and syntax: the categorical exclusion of adjectives modified by evaluative morphology from prenominal position in Italian. While Italian allows many adjectives to occur both p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Morpho(phono)logy/Syntax Interface)
  • Review
  • Open Access
644 Views
27 Pages

13 August 2026

Solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) characterization is needed to interpret the performance, degradation, and lifetime of graphite and Si-containing carbon-based negative electrodes in lithium-ion batteries. However, SEI claims are often difficult to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Carbon-Based Materials for Next-Generation Batteries and Supercapacitors—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,976 Views
19 Pages

12 April 2025

Existing studies rarely investigate the dynamic morphology factor on motion planning and control, which is crucial for morphing quadrotors to achieve autonomous flight. Therefore, this paper studies the collaborative optimization of trajectory genera...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Technologies and Applications for Unmanned Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
120 Views
25 Pages

22 October 2026

To address the challenges posed by significant variations in bend morphology and spatial relationships within complex shoreline segments—where single generalization operators and uniform parameters struggle to balance node compression with morp...

(This article belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,921 Views
24 Pages

15 January 2021

The province of León preserves a unique hydraulic infrastructure 1200 km-long, used for the exploitation of auriferous deposits in Roman times. It represents the most extensive waterworks in Europe and is one of the best-preserved examples of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surface Mineral Allocation and Lithological Mapping Based on Remote Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,338 Views
19 Pages

This study presents a data-driven, multi-objective optimization framework for user-centric product form design, integrating affective response modeling with coupled constraint satisfaction. Initially, morphological analysis and aesthetic evaluation a...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
426 Views
16 Pages

Assessment of the Oval Window–Facial Canal Corridor and Mastoid Pneumatization: A Preliminary HRCT-Based Radiological–Anatomical Framework

  • Burak Bilecenoğlu,
  • Tuğçe Akın,
  • Berin Tuğtağ Demir,
  • Hilal Melis Altıntaş and ,
  • Ali Köksal and
  • Süha Beton
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Background/Objectives: The anatomical relationship between the oval window (OW) and the facial nerve (FN) is of significant importance in the context of stapes and middle ear surgery. However, the influence of mastoid pneumatization on OW morphology...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Head and Neck and Oral Maxillofacial Radiology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
678 Views
21 Pages

20 January 2026

This study proposes a cross-disciplinary computational framework to advance the sustainable design of free-form grid roofs in hot climates, integrating architectural geometry with building thermal performance to enhance climate adaptability. Numerica...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,087 Views
4 Pages

Most of the bioinspired morphological computing studies have departed from a human analysis bias: to consider cognitive morphology as encapsulated by one body, which, of course, can have enactive connections with other bodies, but that is defined by...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
15,763 Views
43 Pages

Systematics and Phylogenetic Interrelationships of the Enigmatic Late Jurassic Shark Protospinax annectans Woodward, 1918 with Comments on the Shark–Ray Sister Group Relationship

  • Patrick L. Jambura,
  • Eduardo Villalobos-Segura,
  • Julia Türtscher,
  • Arnaud Begat and ,
  • Manuel Andreas Staggl,
  • Sebastian Stumpf,
  • René Kindlimann,
  • Stefanie Klug,
  • Frederic Lacombat and
  • Jürgen Kriwet
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

21 February 2023

The Late Jurassic elasmobranch Protospinax annectans is often regarded as a key species to our understanding of crown group elasmobranch interrelationships and the evolutionary history of this group. However, since its first description more than 100...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Evolution and Diversity of Fishes in Deep Time)
  • Article
  • Open Access
474 Views
22 Pages

18 July 2026

Analyzing the long-term evolution of meso-scale urban morphological types is constrained by the “small-sample, high-dimensional” nature of historical data, which weakens the robustness and interpretability of conventional data-driven meth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Challenges in Digital City Planning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
336 Views
35 Pages

31 August 2026

Structural cracks that develop within semi-rigid asphalt pavement structures may remain concealed beneath the pavement surface, making their opening widths, depths, and morphologies difficult to determine nondestructively. Although ground-penetrating...

(This article belongs to the Topic Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation-2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,651 Views
21 Pages

Mapping Commission Errors to Grammatical Development: A Case Study of Malayalam

  • Gayathri G. Krishnan,
  • Arathi Raghunathan and
  • Vaijayanthi M. Sarma

16 January 2023

Young children learning Malayalam use morphological categories and inflections quite productively and accurately in general. However, their utterances sometimes show the use of extra morphological material (or commission errors), revealing mismatches...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Errors of Commission in Child Language)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
328 Views

Congenital deformities of the foot have been reported to correlate with regulatory epigenetic mechanisms that are also responsible for the timing and sequencing of developmental growth of the lower limb. Developmental variance of normal morphologic f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,181 Views
19 Pages

3D Physical Modeling of an Artificial Beach Nourishment: Laboratory Procedures and Nourishment Performance

  • André Guimarães,
  • Carlos Coelho,
  • Fernando Veloso-Gomes and
  • Paulo A. Silva

Beach nourishment represents a type of coastal defense intervention, keeping the beach as a natural coastal defense system. Altering the cross-shore profile geometry, due to the introduction of new sediments, induces a non-equilibrium situation regar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sediment Dynamics in Artificial Nourishments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
448 Views
35 Pages

15 August 2026

Electric motorcycle morphology design involves relationships among whole-vehicle profiles, exposed local modules, affective semantics, evaluation criteria, and AI-assisted generation constraints. These relationships are often treated as separate outp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry Study in Graph Theory II: Graph Intelligence, Distributed Systems, and Embodied AI)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,247 Views
25 Pages

Assessment and Optimization of Wetland Ecosystem Services in the Jianghan Lake Cluster

  • Yanpeng Ma,
  • Yuting Wang,
  • Lefan Jia,
  • Wenjie Zhang and
  • Danzi Wu

11 December 2025

Anthropogenic disturbances and morphological constraints pose significant threats to lake–wetland functions. However, conventional assessments often overlook the influence of wetland morphology on the spatial realization of ecosystem services,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,866 Views
16 Pages

13 March 2025

Ciliates of the genus Frontonia have been extensively studied to resolve their phylogenetic and evolutionary history, but challenges remain. This study used molecular analyses of SSU rRNA genes, phylogenetic tree reconstruction, molecular dating, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Evolutionary Biology)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,026 Views
21 Pages

24 May 2022

Postures and movements have been one of the major modes of human expression for understanding and depicting organisms in their environment. In ethology, behavioral sequence analysis is a relevant method to describe animal behavior and to answer Tinbe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,688 Views
15 Pages

30 January 2018

In this work, we provide a numerical/experimental investigation of the micromechanics-induced scattered response of a polysilicon on-chip MEMS testing device, whose moving structure is constituted by a slender cantilever supporting a massive perforat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Silicon Micromachined Devices: Outlook and Challenges for Future Applications)

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