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20 Citations
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27 May 2020

Multiscale resilience, i.e., coordinating different scales within a system to jointly cope and mitigate risks on any single scale, is identified as the feature of a complex resilient system. However, in water distribution systems (WDSs) and urban dra...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Water Management)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,642 Views
15 Pages

11 December 2018

Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal has been commonly used to analyze the complexity of heart rate variability (HRV). For this, various entropy methods have been considerably of interest. The multiscale entropy (MSE) method, which makes use of the sample...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiscale Entropy Approaches and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,696 Views
18 Pages

11 May 2018

As a nonlinear dynamic method for complexity measurement of time series, multiscale entropy (MSE) has been successfully applied to fault diagnosis of rolling bearings. However, the MSE algorithm is sensitive to the predetermined parameters and depend...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,221 Views
21 Pages

7 October 2025

Dynamic equivalence of active distribution networks (ADNs) is emerging as one of the most important issues for the backbone network security analysis due to high penetration of distributed generations (DGs) and electricity vehicles (EVs). The multisc...

(This article belongs to the Section C2: Dynamical Systems)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,884 Views
17 Pages

Factors related to catering distribution are typically characterized by local changes, but few studies have quantitatively investigated the inherent spatial nonstationarity correlations. In this study, a multiscale geographically weighted regression...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,190 Views
20 Pages

Exploring the Molecular Distributions in Dilute Polymer Solutions Using a Multi-Scale Numerical Solver

  • Yi Liu,
  • Canqun Yang,
  • Cheng-Kun Wu,
  • Xiang Zhang,
  • Xin Zhang and
  • Xiao-Wei Guo

1 April 2018

Simulating the rheological behaviors of polymer solutions is intrinsically a multi-scale problem. To study the macroscopic and microscopic characteristics in the fluid flow of dilute polymer solutions, we designed a multi-scale solver, which couples...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,519 Views
20 Pages

Detecting Urban Mobility Structure and Learning Functional Distribution with Multi-Scale Features

  • Jia Li,
  • Chuanwei Lu,
  • Haiyan Liu,
  • Jing Li,
  • Dewei Zhou and
  • Qingyun Liu

26 June 2025

Urban mobility structure detection and functional distribution learning are significant for urban planning and management. However, existing methods have limitations in handling complex urban data and capturing global spatial structure features. To d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Data Processing and Management: Technologies and Applications)
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  • Open Access
625 Views
24 Pages

9 April 2026

Partial multi-label feature selection aims to identify discriminative features from data where each instance is associated with an ambiguous candidate label set. Existing methods are typically built upon single-scale modeling assumptions and may fail...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,816 Views
18 Pages

8 October 2021

In recent years, intelligent fault diagnosis methods based on deep learning have developed rapidly. However, most of the existing work performs well under the assumption that training and testing samples are collected from the same distribution, and...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,933 Views
17 Pages

Urban crimes are not homogeneously distributed but exhibit spatial heterogeneity across a range of spatial scales. Meanwhile, while geographic space shapes human activities, it is also closely related to multiscale characteristics. Previous studies h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
554 Views
24 Pages

Distributed Photovoltaic–Storage Hierarchical Aggregation Method Based on Multi-Source Multi-Scale Data Fusion

  • Shaobo Yang,
  • Xuekai Hu,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Guanghui Sun,
  • Min Shi,
  • Zhengji Meng,
  • Zifan Li,
  • Zengze Tu and
  • Jiapeng Li

Accurate model aggregation is pivotal for the efficient dispatch and control of massive distributed photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage (ES) resources. However, the lack of unified standards across equipment manufacturers results in inconsistent dat...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Electronics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
649 Views
44 Pages

19 September 2026

Bridge infrastructure worldwide is under increasing pressure from ageing assets, growing traffic demand, environmental deterioration, and the need for more effective lifecycle management. Although bridge-monitoring technologies have developed rapidly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors and Sensing Technologies for Structural Health Monitoring in Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Engineering)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,549 Views
17 Pages

Multiscale Spatial Distribution Pattern and Influencing Factors on Inland Fishing Gardens in China

  • Yong Huang,
  • Qinjun Kang,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Lili Luo,
  • Tingting Wang and
  • Qingrui Chang

27 May 2022

Recently, a significant number of freshwater fishing gardens have sprouted up across mainland China. These recreational facilities are an important component in promoting the upgrading of the fishing industry and rural revitalization, and they are a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Geography)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,421 Views
25 Pages

20 May 2025

This study presents an extension of the Smooth-Edged Material Distribution Optimisation Technique (SEMDOT) to multiscale topology optimisation (MSTO). While the SEMDOT has shown promise in producing smooth and fabrication-friendly structures in vario...

(This article belongs to the Section Manufacturing Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,797 Views
16 Pages

A Multi-Scale Fractal Approach for Coal Permeability Estimation via MIP and NMR Methods

  • Weiguang Ren,
  • Hongwei Zhou,
  • Jiangcheng Zhong,
  • Dongjie Xue,
  • Chaosheng Wang and
  • Zelin Liu

12 April 2022

Permeability in porous media has an important role in many engineering applications, which depends mainly on the pore size, distribution, and connectivity of porous media. As the pore structure distribution of coal has a multi-scale fractal dimension...

(This article belongs to the Collection Flow and Transport in Porous Media)
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  • Open Access

20 October 2026

In this paper, an efficient iterative method based on the generalized multiscale finite element (Iter-GMs) method is applied to solve the distributed optimal control problems governed by stochastic parabolic equations. Within this framework, we first...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Analysis)
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  • Open Access
2,210 Views
24 Pages

29 August 2022

The vibration energy distribution pattern usually changes with the rotating machine’s health state and is a good indicator for intelligent fault diagnosis (IFD). The existing initial features such as RMS are less effective in revealing the vibr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,495 Views
22 Pages

2 January 2025

Nowadays, the number of transistors on electronic components is increasing exponentially leading to an ultra-high heat flux (106~107 W/m2). The non-uniform load distribution on the chip and the local hot spots in the thermal environment are key issue...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal Environment and Energy Saving in Buildings)
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  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,363 Views
16 Pages

Scale and Landscape Features Matter for Understanding Waterbird Habitat Selection

  • Jinya Li,
  • Yang Zhang,
  • Lina Zhao,
  • Wanquan Deng,
  • Fawen Qian and
  • Keming Ma

31 October 2021

Clarifying species-environment relationships is crucial for the development of efficient conservation and restoration strategies. However, this work is often complicated by a lack of detailed information on species distribution and habitat features a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Remote Sensing in Migratory Birds Conservation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,047 Views
17 Pages

23 October 2020

Data-driven bearing-fault diagnosis methods have become a research hotspot recently. These methods have to meet two premises: (1) the distributions of the data to be tested and the training data are the same; (2) there are a large number of high-qual...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning, Artificial Neural Networks and Sensors for Fault Diagnosis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,144 Views
14 Pages

Sensor Distribution Design of Travel Time Tomography in Explosion

  • Yali Guo,
  • Yan Han,
  • Liming Wang and
  • Linmao Liu

15 July 2014

Optimal sensor distribution in explosion testing is important in saving test costs and improving experiment efficiency. Aiming at travel time tomography in an explosion, an optimizing method in sensor distribution is proposed to improve the inversion...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,176 Views
16 Pages

5 October 2024

The huge computational cost required to test whether a number is prime and the inefficiency of the known sieving algorithms for extremely large inputs have posed significant challenges in computational number theory. Traditional deterministic prime g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of IoT and Cybersecurity Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
704 Views
25 Pages

MSDR-Net: Multiscale Dynamic Reasoning for Multi-Label Remote Sensing Image Classification

  • Qinghe Sun,
  • Hua Wang,
  • Shuai Wang,
  • Teng Yang,
  • Hui Zhao and
  • Xuewu Fan

1 June 2026

With the rapid advancement of Earth observation technologies and the growing demand for intelligent remote sensing applications, high-resolution remote sensing imagery provides critical data support for a range of downstream applications, including l...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced AI Technology for Remote Sensing Analysis (Second Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,986 Views
14 Pages

A Multi-Scale Model for Predicting Physically Short Crack and Long Crack Behavior in Metals

  • Xing Yang,
  • Chunguo Zhang,
  • Panpan Wu,
  • Anye Xu,
  • Pengfei Ju,
  • Dandan Yang and
  • Zhonghong Dong

23 October 2024

The fatigue behavior of metal specimens is influenced by defects, material properties, and loading. This study aims to establish a multi-scale fatigue crack growth model that describes physically short crack (PSC) and long crack (LC) behavior. The mo...

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  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,736 Views
21 Pages

15 December 2019

The relationship between urban landscape pattern and land surface temperature (LST) is one of the core issues in urban thermal environment research. Although previous studies have shown a significant correlation between LST and landscape pattern, mos...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geospatial Analysis of Urban Heat Island Phenomena in Megacities)
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  • Open Access
592 Views
25 Pages

27 February 2026

Image dehazing is a challenging ill-posed problem in low-level computer vision tasks, requiring the restoration of high-quality, haze-free images from complex and foggy conditions. Deep learning-based dehazing methods struggle to effectively remove n...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,723 Views
16 Pages

The outbreak of COVID-19 has constantly exposed health care workers (HCWs) around the world to a high risk of infection. To more accurately discover the infection differences among high-risk occupations and institutions, Hubei Province was taken as a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
689 Views
21 Pages

14 February 2026

This paper tackles the growing uncertainty in distribution networks caused by distributed generation, load fluctuations, and frequent topological changes. It proposes a multi-source data fusion framework using enhanced selective convolution (SKNet) a...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI and Computational Methods for Modelling, Simulations and Optimizing of Advanced Systems: Innovations in Complexity, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
563 Views
24 Pages

20 July 2026

Using daily rainfall observations from 1961 to 2022 (62 years) across 15 typical sub-regions within the water-receiving area of the Zhejiang East Water Diversion Project, this study systematically examines the spatiotemporal distribution, long-term t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Management of Hydrological Systems and Water Resources)
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  • Open Access
552 Views
28 Pages

20 August 2026

The measurement accuracy issue of zero-sequence current transformers (CTs) has long been a critical factor restricting the accuracy of fault line selection in distribution networks. Although existing research methods are relatively mature in theory,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Advances in Modeling, Optimization, and Control of Distributed Energy Systems)
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  • Open Access
298 Views
32 Pages

16 September 2026

Accurate precipitation information is crucial for hydrological simulation and water resources management, especially in humid mountainous regions where complex terrain and spatially heterogeneous rainfall introduce considerable uncertainties. Satelli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Satellite-Based Precipitation Products: Validation, Uncertainty, Artificial Intelligence and Hydrological Applications)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,662 Views
16 Pages

5 September 2023

This study takes 1597 key villages and towns part of rural tourism in China as research objects and uses the ArcGIS spatial analysis method, combined with the geodetector and the multiscale geographically weighted regression model, to analyze the int...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Enhancing Sustainable Rural Development through Tourism Strategies)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,702 Views
17 Pages

2 August 2019

Landmark generation is an essential component in landmark-based visual place recognition. In this paper, we present a simple yet effective method, called multi-scale sliding window (MSW), for landmark generation in order to improve the performance of...

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  • Open Access
420 Views
21 Pages

Modeling and Prediction of Mechanical Properties of MFRC Based on Fiber Distribution Characteristics

  • Kuan Lu,
  • Jianjian Wu,
  • Yajing Guan,
  • Kaixing Liao,
  • Deming Zeng and
  • Mingli Cao

21 March 2026

This study develops a multi-scale fiber-reinforced cementitious composite (MFRC) by hybridizing calcium carbonate whisker (CW), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber, and steel fiber. The interfacial micromechanical properties between steel fiber/matrix and...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)
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  • Open Access
241 Views
19 Pages

24 September 2026

Understanding the multiscale distribution of remaining oil in ultra-thick porous carbonate reservoirs is essential for improving recovery during the middle-to-high water-cut stage. This study investigates the MB1 reservoir of H Oilfield in the Middle...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,864 Views
23 Pages

Harbin, as a popular tourist city in China, and the host of the 2025 Asian Winter Games, boasts rich tourism resources and significant potential for further development. The structure of the urban road network is a crucial factor influencing the spat...

(This article belongs to the Section Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate)
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  • Open Access
85 Citations
7,422 Views
21 Pages

16 November 2020

Traditional villages are important carriers of traditional cultural heritage, and they have strong historical, cultural, aesthetic and tourism value for all countries and the international community. In China, the number of traditional villages is cu...

(This article belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,457 Views
14 Pages

Multiscale Simulation on Product Distribution from Pyrolysis of Styrene-Butadiene Rubber

  • Shengwei Deng,
  • Han Zhuo,
  • Yinbin Wang,
  • Shuai Leng,
  • Guilin Zhuang,
  • Xing Zhong,
  • Zhongzhe Wei,
  • Zihao Yao and
  • Jian-guo Wang

29 November 2019

Pyrolysis of styrene-butadiene rubber receives renewed attention due to its application in tackling the waste tire disposal problem while allowing energy recovery. The density functional theory calculation (DFT) and ReaxFF molecular dynamics simulati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development of Sustainable Polymer Materials from Renewable and Waste Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,859 Views
10 Pages

16 August 2024

The effects of lophatherum gracile brongn flavonoids on the multiscale structure and functional properties of wheat dough were investigated. Wheat dough samples with varying contents of lophatherum gracile brongn flavonoids were analyzed to assess ch...

(This article belongs to the Section Grain)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,142 Views
18 Pages

Research on Three-Phase Asynchronous Motor Fault Diagnosis Based on Multiscale Weibull Dispersion Entropy

  • Fengyun Xie,
  • Enguang Sun,
  • Shengtong Zhou,
  • Jiandong Shang,
  • Yang Wang and
  • Qiuyang Fan

13 October 2023

Three-phase asynchronous motors have a wide range of applications in the machinery industry and fault diagnosis aids in the healthy operation of a motor. In order to improve the accuracy and generalization of fault diagnosis in three-phase asynchrono...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entropy Applications in Condition Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,820 Views
20 Pages

1 February 2025

With the widespread application of remote sensing technologies and UAV imagery in various fields, dense object detection has become a significant and challenging task in computer vision research. Existing end-to-end detection models, particularly tho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-platform and Multi-modal Remote Sensing Data Fusion with Advanced Deep Learning Techniques (Second Edition))
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,530 Views
28 Pages

11 March 2025

Burrs generated during the drilling of carbon fiber-reinforced plastics (CFRPs) would seriously reduce the service life of the components, potentially leading to assembly errors and part rejection. To solve this issue, this paper proposed a finite el...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Computational Methods in Manufacturing Processes)
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  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,914 Views
18 Pages

Multiscale Very High Resolution Topographic Models in Alpine Ecology: Pros and Cons of Airborne LiDAR and Drone-Based Stereo-Photogrammetry Technologies

  • Annie S. Guillaume,
  • Kevin Leempoel,
  • Estelle Rochat,
  • Aude Rogivue,
  • Michel Kasser,
  • Felix Gugerli,
  • Christian Parisod and
  • Stéphane Joost

20 April 2021

The vulnerability of alpine environments to climate change presses an urgent need to accurately model and understand these ecosystems. Popularity in the use of digital elevation models (DEMs) to derive proxy environmental variables has increased over...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Utilising Remotely Sensed Imagery for Effective Conservation and Restoration Outcomes)
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  • Open Access
1,114 Views
17 Pages

Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Riparian Vegetation and Its Influencing Factors in the Hilly Areas of Zhejiang Province, China

  • Huizhen Zhang,
  • Liting Sheng,
  • Jihong Xia,
  • Shunan Dong,
  • Jiaxin Xu,
  • Feiyang Sun and
  • Yuanshuo Lu

25 September 2025

Restoring vegetation in riparian zones is regarded as a best management practice in river restoration. Vegetation characteristics and diversity play a decisive role in maintaining ecological function in riparian zones. This study focuses on multi-sca...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Patterns and Drivers of Urban Greenspace and Plant Diversity)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,294 Views
24 Pages

7 March 2023

Forest above-ground biomass (AGB) is an excellent indicator for the health status and carbon sink potential of forest ecosystems, as well as the effectiveness of sustainable forest management practices. However, due to the strong heterogeneity of for...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing)
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  • Open Access
300 Views
25 Pages

Planetary Gearbox Fault Diagnosis Using RCMFE and P-t-SNE

  • Lingyun Zhu,
  • Huyan Zhang,
  • Kang Huang and
  • Chuangchuang Cui

13 August 2026

Aiming at the difficulty of extracting fault features from nonlinear and non-stationary vibration signals of planetary gearboxes, a planetary gearbox fault diagnosis method based on Refined Composite Multiscale Fuzzy Entropy (RCMFE), Parametric-t-dis...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,765 Views
16 Pages

21 June 2017

For targets with complex motion, such as ships fluctuating with oceanic waves and high maneuvering airplanes, azimuth echo signals can be modeled as multicomponent quadratic frequency modulation (QFM) signals after migration compensation and phase ad...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Array Signal Processing and Its Applications in IoT Security)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,507 Views
24 Pages

30 September 2025

Woven composite structures are inherently influenced by uncertainties across multiple scales, ranging from constituent material properties to mesoscale geometric variations. These uncertainties give rise to both spatial autocorrelation and cross-corr...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Composites and Nanocomposites)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,998 Views
22 Pages

10 January 2026

Traditional villages are vital carriers of cultural heritage and key foundations for rural revitalization and sustainable development, yet rapid urbanization increasingly threatens their survival, making it necessary to clarify their spatial distribu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Study on Urban Environment by Big Data Analytics)
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  • Open Access
215 Views
18 Pages

11 October 2026

Starch retrogradation is a key process governing the final quality of indirectly thermally puffed starchy foods. This study investigated the effect of retrogradation duration (0–72 h) on the multi-scale structure, water distribution, thermal pu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Importance and Applications of Starches, Gums, Pectin, and Other Polysaccharides in Food)

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