This work introduces Uni-Removal, an innovative two-stage framework that effectively addresses the critical challenge of domain adaptation in unified image restoration. Contemporary approaches often face significant performance degradation when trans...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the important priorities of the major environmental and operating factors that affect the removal of nitrogen and phosphorus in the biological nutrients removal (BNR) process with phase separation by multiple...
Multiplicative speckle noise removal is a challenging task in image processing. Motivated by the performance of anisotropic diffusion in additive noise removal and the structure of the standard deviation of a compressed speckle noisy image, we addres...
In the process of plasma figure correction for a quartz sub-mirror, the plasma parallel removal process and ink masking layer are combined for the first time. A universal plasma figure correction method based on multiple distributed material removal...
Considering the lack of information on simultaneously removing multiple pharmaceuticals from water or wastewater by electrochemical methods, this study aimed to investigate the removal of multiple pharmaceuticals by electro-coagulation and electro-ox...
Extended cultivation with multiple removal of BC pellicles is proposed herein as a new biosynthetic process for bacterial cellulose (BC). This method enhances the BC surface area by 5–11 times per unit volume of the growth medium, improving the econo...
Images used in real-world applications such as image or video retrieval, outdoor surveillance, and autonomous driving suffer from poor weather conditions. When designing robust computer vision systems, removing adverse weather such as haze, rain, and...
Oyster aquaculture helps mitigate coastal eutrophication by assimilating organic nitrogen for biomass and by denitrification in both the oyster digestive tract and sediment below. Efforts are needed in the quantitative assessment of oysters’ mu...
Multiple sound sources localization is a hot topic in audio signal processing and is widely utilized in many application areas. This paper proposed a multiple sound sources localization method based on a statistically dominant source component remova...
A 1.29 GHz wind profiler was developed under a private–military–government cooperative wind profiler radar development project in the Republic of Korea. During the test operation period, radio frequency interference (RFI) contamination oc...
Multiple description (MD) coding is a promising alternative for the robust transmission of information over error-prone channels. In 3D image technology, the depth map represents the distance between the camera and objects in the scene. Using the dep...
In this study, the removal performances of a multi-pollutant elimination cartridge system (MPECS) composed of palm shell waste-based activated carbon (PSAC), magnesium (Mg)/silicon (Si)-doped PSAC (Mg/Si-PSAC), and silver (Ag)-doped PSAC (Ag-PSAC) fo...
Weather variation in the distribution of image data can cause a decline in the performance of existing visual algorithms during evaluation. Adding additional samples of target domain to training data or using pre-trained image restoration methods suc...
The treatment of landfill leachate, due to its great polluting load, is a very difficult task. In particular, the abatement of high ammonium concentrations represents one of the main issues. Among the available techniques, struvite precipitation is a...
Reverse osmosis (RO) membranes are widely used for desalination and water treatment. However, they insufficiently reject some small uncharged micropollutants, such as certain endocrine-disrupting, pharmaceutically active compounds and boric acid, inc...
Contaminated water due to industrial organic dyes presents a significant challenge to sustainability. As a material of green energy, photocatalysts offer an effective and environmentally friendly way to deal with organic dyes for water treatment. A s...
Combining multiple data sources, Digital Earth is an integrated observation platform based on air–space–ground–sea monitoring systems. Among these data sources, the Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) is a crucial observation me...
Multiplicative noise removal from texture images poses a significant challenge. Different from the diffusion equation-based filter, we consider the telegraph diffusion equation-based model, which can effectively preserve fine structures and edges for...
Images captured by vision sensors in outdoor environments often suffer from haze-induced degradations, including blurred details, faded colors, and reduced visibility, which severely impair the performance of sensing and perception systems. To addres...
Multiple reflection is a common interference wave in offshore petroleum and gas exploration, and the Radon-based filtering method is a frequently used approach for multiple removal. However, the filtering parameter setting is crucial in multiple supp...
17 June 2023
Child removals are increasing in England and Wales. Family court involvement is particularly common among women with multiple disadvantages, and the rates are higher in economically marginalised areas. This article aims to explore women’s narra...
Background and objectives: Cast nephropathy is the main cause of acute renal failure in patients with multiple myeloma. There are conflicting data on whether removal of serum free light chains (sFLCs) with a high-cutoff (HCO) dialyzer has a favorable...
The aim of this study was to investigate microstructure and the mechanical and operational characteristics of thick and thin walls 3D-built by electron beam additive manufacturing (EBAM). In addition, the milling parameters (rotation speed, feed, and...
Multiple anodes can significantly enhance the treatment potential of constructed wetlands coupled with a microbial fuel cell (CW-MFC) system, which has not yet been explored. Thus, the present study evaluates the potential of multi-anodes and single...
Structured light technology is typical for capturing 3D point cloud data. This paper proposes a 3D reconstruction system to obtain point cloud data of complex objects based on nine-order Gray code and an eight-step structured light projection combine...
Vision-based systems operating outdoors are significantly affected by weather conditions, notably those related to atmospheric turbidity. Accordingly, haze removal algorithms, actively being researched over the last decade, have come into use as a pr...
25 September 2023
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is predominantly an immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system (CNS) of unknown etiology with a possible genetic predisposition and effect of certain environmental factors. It is generally accepted that the disease...
Graphene oxide (GO) has shown remarkable performance in the multiple-equilibrium-route adsorption (MER) process, which is characterized by further activation of GO through an in-situ reduction process based on single-equilibrium-route adsorption (SER...
Based on a linear spectral mixture model and multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis, using daily advanced very-high-resolution radiometer (AVHRR/2) data of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, a subpixel snow mapping algorithm was proposed in this...
Froth feature extraction plays a significant role in the monitoring and control of the flotation process. Image-based soft sensors have received a great deal of interest in the flotation process due to their low-cost and non-intrusive properties. Thi...
A 1000 Nm3/h capacity pilot scale dual baghouse filter system was tested on flue gas and fly ash from a municipal solid waste incinerator, and the removal efficiency of dioxins, heavy metals and HCl was studied. Activated carbon was injected at the i...
Phytohormones play an important role in regulating the maturation process and the quality-related metabolite accumulation of fruits, and their concentration variation has always been concerned during fruit development. However, berry fruits, such as...
To address the dual challenges of aqueous phosphate pollution and the resource utilization of petrochemical solid wastes, this study proposes a novel closed-loop “waste-to-waste” strategy. This approach innovatively integrates multiple so...
To develop cost-effective heavy metal adsorbents, we employed water-soluble lignin from black liquor to modify activated attapulgite, resulting in the creation of a novel adsorbent called Lignin-modified attapulgite (LATP). In this study, scanning el...
This study investigates the sorption of heavy metallic ions (HMIs), specifically lead (Pb2+), copper (Cu2+), iron (Fe3+), nickel (Ni2+) and zinc (Zn2+), by natural zeolite (clinoptilolite). These HMIs are combined in single-, dual-, triple-, and mult...
Fracturing wastewater is often highly emulsified, viscous, and has a high chemical oxygen demand (COD), which makes it difficult to treat and recycle. Ferrate(VI) is a green oxidant that has a high redox potential and has been adopted for the efficie...
In this study, arsenate, As(V), and fluoride (F) were simultaneously removed from contaminated water using MgO, Mg(OH)2, and MgCO3 as Mg-based adsorbents, as existing studies only focus on their individual removal. The removal performance of As(V) an...
In this paper, we propose a total fractional-order variation model for multiplicative noise removal and contrast enhancement of real SAR images. Inspired by the high dynamic intensity range of SAR images, the full content of the SAR images is preserv...
The development of an advanced dye adsorbent that possesses a range of beneficial characteristics, such as high adsorption capacity, swift adsorption kinetics, selective adsorption capability, and robust reusability, remains a challenge. This study i...
Increasing plastic fragments (PFs) in the environment have attracted considerable social and academic attention. Several methods have been proposed to mitigate plastic pollution, such as filtration and degradation. This study focuses on the removal o...
Stormwater carries significant amounts of pollutants—including metals, microorganisms, organic micropollutants, and nutrients—from land surfaces into nearby water bodies, leading to water quality deterioration and threats to both human he...
Human milk (HM) is a complex biofluid conferring nutritional, protective and developmental components for optimal infant growth. Amongst these are maternal cells, which change in response to feeding and were recently shown to be a rich source of miRN...
To select plant species for particulate matter (PM) removal from urban environments, it is important to consider the plant species’ ecosystem (dis)services and environmental suitability in addition to their effectiveness in PM removal. In this...
Selenite reductase CsrF overexpressed Escherichia coli was used as a microbial factory to produce Se(0) nanoparticles (Bio-SeNPs). The Bio-SeNPs were characterized by transmission electronic microscopy, element mapping, scanning electron microscopy,...
The annual discharge (6–7 million tons per year) of Chinese medicine industry waste (CMIW) is large and harmful. CMIW with a high moisture content can be effectively treated by hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) technology. Compared with CMIW, th...
In the medical field, microwave imaging technology has experienced rapid development due to its non-invasive and non-radioactive nature. The confocal algorithm is a method commonly used for microwave breast cancer imaging, with the key objective of r...
Water status controls plant physiology and is key to managing vineyard grape quality and yield. Water status is usually estimated by leaf water potential (LWP), which is measured using a pressure chamber; however, this method is difficult, time-consu...
To improve the laser cleaning surface quality of composite layers on Al alloy surfaces, a method of determining the optimal cleaning parameters is proposed that is based on the response surface methodology. It involves constructing a mathematical mod...
In this paper, we propose a novel convex variational model for image restoration with multiplicative noise. To preserve the edges in the restored image, our model incorporates a total variation regularizer. Additionally, we impose an equality constra...
In the current study, a smart approach for synthesizing trimethyl ethoxysilane–decorated magnetic-core silica-nanoparticles (TMS-mcSNPs) and its effectiveness as nanosorbents have been exploited. While the magnetite core was synthesized using t...
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