The objective was to compare the performance of various data mining algorithms in estimating the body weight of fish. The effects of age, farm type and body morphological characteristics on the body weight of the hybrid silver carp (Hypophthalmichthy...
As an important component of urban vegetation, street trees play an important role in maintenance of environmental quality, aesthetic beauty of urban landscape, and social service for inhabitants. Acquiring accurate and up-to-date inventory informati...
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...
Urban vibrancy is the key and the foundation for monitoring the status of urban spatial development, assisting in data-driven urban development planning and realizing sustainable urban development. Based on a dataset of multisource geographical big d...
A three-dimensional (3D) understanding of muscle attachment footprints became increasingly relevant for musculoskeletal modeling. The established method to project attachments as points ignores patient-specific individuality. Research focuses on inve...
The classification of Trachelomonas and Strombomonas is based on the morphology of loricae, which may not reflect phylogenetic relationships. There are different views on the relationship between the two genera. It is thus important for researchers t...
Ferromanganese nodules grow by precipitation of metals from seawater and/or sediment pore water. The formation of different genetic types depends on the composition and redox conditions of the water and upper sediment layers, water depth, and primary...
The genus Hordeum (barley) represents an essential group within the Poaceae family, comprising diverse species with significant ecological and economic importance. This study aims to improve the infrageneric classification of Hordeum by integrating m...
To address the instability of phylogenetic trees in morphological datasets caused by missing values, we present a phylogenetic inference method based on a concept decision tree (CDT) in conjunction with attribute reduction. First, a reliable initial...
(1) Background: Species of the anamorphic genus Cladobotryum, are known for their fungicolous lifestyle, making them important mycopathogens in fungiculture. Many morphological, ecological, and molecular phylogenetic studies of the genus have been do...
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...
The identification of ongoing evolutionary trajectories, the prediction of future changes in the functioning of riverine habitats, and the assessment of flood-related risks to human populations all depend on regular hydro-morphological monitoring of...
The objective of this study was to establish a methodology for building a 3D geological model of a mineral vein deposit, encompassing morphology and wolframite content. The available data set includes stope data (vein thickness and wolframite quantit...
Nearshore bathymetry changes on scales of hours to months in ways that strongly impact coastal processes. However, even at the best-monitored sites, surveys are typically not conducted with sufficient frequency to capture important changes such as sa...
Thai swamp buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) are valuable animal genetic resources, but their regional diversity remains incompletely characterized. Morphological records were obtained from 799 buffaloes, and 474 individuals were genotyped using the 90K Axio...
Adult individuals of Echinochasmus pseudobeleocephalus n. sp. were obtained during an experimental study on trematodes’ life cycle. An analysis of the morphometric characteristics of the developmental stages and involvement of first intermediat...
Nematodes of the genus Oswaldocruzia are common parasites of the small intestine of amphibians and reptiles. Our recent molecular analysis of Oswaldocruzia nematodes revealed that only Oswaldocruzia filiformis, which possesses high morphological vari...
To date, only one species of genus Notobitiella, N. elegans Hsiao, was found in Yunnan, China. Recently, we confirmed a new species, Notobitiella bispinasp. nov., by morphological and molecular data based on new specimens collected from Yunnan, China...
In the product life cycle from conception to retirement, there are three forms: conceptual products, digital products and physical products. The carriers of conceptual products are requirements, functions and abstract structures, and data management...
As one of the important scientific instruments of lunar exploration, the Lunar Penetrating Radar (LPR) onboard China’s Chang’E-3 (CE-3) provides a unique opportunity to image the lunar subsurface structure. Due to the low-frequency and hi...
In this paper, we introduce an automatic room segmentation approach based on morphological processing. The inputs are registered point-clouds obtained from either a static laser scanner or a mobile scanning system, without any required prior informat...
Species of genus Otidea previously reported in China are mainly distributed in the northeast, northwest and southwest regions of China, but the species diversity of Otidea in north China is not very clear. In this study, newly collected Otidea specim...
Modern insect decline sparks interest in similar declines of the past. Neuroptera, the group of lacewings, has been suggested to have undergone decline after the Cretaceous, and quantitative studies of larval morphology have supported this view. One...
During scientific expeditions in Indonesia and Vietnam, several sponge specimens belonging to the genus Cladocroce were collected. The integration of morphological and molecular analyses, incorporating species delimitation models (ABGD, ASAP, and bPT...
Ground filtering is an essential step in airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data processing in various applications. The cloth simulation filtering (CSF) algorithm has gained popularity because of its ease of use advantage. However, CSF has...
Monitoring morphologically dynamic rivers over large spatial domains at an adequate frequency is essential for informed river management to protect human life, ecosystems, livelihoods, and critical infrastructures. Leveraging the advancements in clou...
Rice fields have been monitored with spaceborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems for decades. SAR is an essential source of data and allows for the estimation of plant properties such as canopy height, leaf area index, phenological phase, and y...
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...
Understanding the evolution of river morphology is crucial for comprehending changes in water resources and implementing development projects along rivers. This study proposes an integrated approach utilizing remote sensing image data combined with d...
Ostariophysi is the second largest superorder of fishes, formed almost exclusively by freshwater species, with 102 families, 1372 genera, and 11,883 species, thus containing approximately 30% of the known fish species in the world and almost 70% of t...
The sensitivity of macroscopic mechanical and thermal properties of grey cast iron is computationally investigated for a variety of graphite morphologies over a wide temperature range. In order to represent common graphite morphologies according to E...
Lunar floor-fractured craters (FFCs) are a distinguished type of crater found on the surface of the Moon with radial, concentric, and/or polygonal fractures. In the present study, we selected the Posidonius FCC to explore the mineralogy, morphology a...
The South American fruit fly Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann) is a complex of cryptic species, the so-called “Anastrepha fraterculus complex”, for which eight morphotypes are currently recognized. A previous analysis of ITS1 in samples of the Anast...
The Leaf Area Index (LAI) is a crucial indicator of crop photosynthetic potential, which is of great significance in farmland monitoring and precision management. This study aimed to predict potato plant LAI for potato plant growth monitoring, integr...
Background: Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) represent a range of clinical issues affecting the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), the chewing muscles, and surrounding structures. This study aimed to identify the morphological profiles and skeletal mal...
This study was carried out in order to determine the morphological characteristics, body coat colour distribution, and body dimensions of donkeys raised in Turkey, as well as to determine the relationships between these factors. For this reason, the...
The complexity of the human brain makes its understanding one of the biggest challenges that science is currently confronting. Due to its complexity, the brain has been studied at many different levels and from many disciplines and points of view, us...
Tidal flats in northern China are essential parts of the East Asian-Australasian Flyway, the densest pathway for migratory waterbirds, and are of great ecological and economic importance. They are threatened by human activities and climate change, ra...
Urban morphology, including land surface, building heights, vegetation, water bodies, and terrain, exerts a significant influence on the urban thermal environment. The complex and nonlinear pathways through which these factors exert influence present...
Generic boundaries of the African species Panicum deustum Thunb., Panicum trichocladum Hack. ex K. Schum., and Panicum vollesenii Renvoize are analyzed and compared with related genera of the tribe Paniceae and the subtribe Melinidinae. Based on morp...
The main objective of the present study was to develop an integrated approach combining remote sensing techniques and U-Net-based deep learning models for lithology mapping. The methodology incorporates Landsat 8 imagery, ALOS PALSAR data, and field...
This paper describes work on the morphological and syntactic annotation of Sumerian cuneiform as a model for low resource languages in general. Cuneiform texts are invaluable sources for the study of history, languages, economy, and cultures of Ancie...
The Sciara del Fuoco (SdF) collapse scar at Stromboli is an active volcanic area affected by rapid morphological changes due to explosive/effusive eruptions and mass-wasting processes. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of an inte...
Improving carbon sink capacity is critical for meeting energy conservation and emission reduction targets, along with low-carbon development goals. Although many researchers have recognized that urban space can significantly influence the capacity of...
For the first time, specimens of Holothuria impatiens are reported from the Tunisian coast, supported by molecular (COI sequencing) and morphological (examination of ossicles) analyses. For comparative purposes, Holothuria impatiens samples were gene...
This paper presents the results of a research performed on Gargano Promontory (SE-Italy) on the populations of Scabiosa garganica, a species with little herbarium records and whose few morphological descriptions are outdated. S. garganica belongs to...
The tribe Plantagineae (Lamiales) is a group of plants with worldwide distribution, notorious for its complicated taxonomy and still unresolved natural history. We describe the result of a broadly sampled phylogenetic study of tribe. The expanded sam...
Urban land use provides essential information about how land is utilized within cities, which is critical for land planning, urban renewal, and early warnings for natural disasters. Although existing studies have utilized multi-source perception data...
Cranial reconstruction is a critical task in computer-assisted surgery, requiring both high geometric accuracy and computational efficiency for patient-specific implant design. While recent deep learning approaches, particularly 3D UNet-based models,...
Mites of the genus Geckobia (Acariformes: Pterygosomatidae) are permanent and highly specialised ectoparasites of geckos (Gekkota). We conducted a local study on Geckobia mites associated with the geckos of the family Gekkonidae found mainly in the t...
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