Objects in images are characterized by intra-class variation, inter-class diversity, and noisy images. These characteristics pose a challenge to object localization. To address this issue, we present a novel joint Bayesian model for weakly-supervised...
In the first part of the paper, we modeled and characterized the underwater radio channel in shallowwaters. In the second part,we analyze the application requirements for an underwaterwireless sensor network (U-WSN) operating in the same environment...
Personal thermal preference information can help to create a building environment that satisfies all staff, instead of an environment that only satisfies most people, to enhance personal thermal comfort. Research has shown that thermal preference can...
Aircraft recognition has great application value, but aircraft in remote sensing images have some problems such as low resolution, poor contrasts, poor sharpness, and lack of details caused by the vertical view, which make the aircraft recognition ve...
The levels of p-tau217 and p-tau231 in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) are associated with early amyloid beta (Aß) changes in the brain, while the CSF levels of p-tau205 are foremost related to tau pathology in the later stages of the disease. To inv...
Due to the complexity of shipyards’ operating scenes and the inconsistency of ship parts’ type and size, current sorting operations for ship parts mainly rely on laborers, resulting in weak control over the production process and key node...
UAV transmission tower inspection is the use of UAV technology for regular inspection and troubleshooting of towers on transmission lines, which helps to improve the safety and reliability of transmission lines and ensures the stability of the power...
In order to overcome the limitations of GNSS/INS and to keep the cost affordable for mass-produced vehicles, a precise localization system fusing the estimated vehicle positions from low-cost GNSS/INS and low-cost perception sensors is being develope...
The research of object classification and part segmentation is a hot topic in computer vision, robotics, and virtual reality. With the emergence of depth cameras, point clouds have become easier to collect and increasingly important because of their...
The use of computer vision in the industry has become fundamental, playing an essential role in areas such as quality control and inspection, object recognition/tracking, and automation. Despite this constant growth, robotic cell systems employing co...
Additive manufacturing has the potential to make a longstanding impact on the manufacturing world and is a core element of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Additive manufacturing signifies a new disruptive path on how we will produce parts and produ...
In the factory of the future, most of the operations will be done by autonomous robots that need visual feedback to move around the working space avoiding obstacles, to work collaboratively with humans, to identify and locate the working parts, to co...
Weakly supervised pose estimation can be used to assist unsupervised body part segmentation and concealed item detection. The accuracy of pose estimation is essential for precise body part segmentation and accurate concealed item detection. In this p...
Currently, approximately 6000 mineral species have been identified, and every year, approximately 100 more are discovered. The discovery of a new mineral has a close relationship with geological heritage. It involves the definition of both the type m...
Generalizing bicommutant theorem to the higher-order commutator case is very useful for representation theory of Lie algebras, which plays an important role in symmetry analysis. In this paper, we mainly prove that for any spectral operator A on a co...
Hot-stamped products are widely used for the body-in-white of an automobile as they are lightweight and improve crashworthiness. A hot-stamping process using planar compression was developed to strengthen corners of ultra-high strength parts by local...
This article presents the first part of an empirical study on the implementation of Management by Objectives (MBO) in Greek local governance. Focusing on the 38 municipalities of the Region of Central Macedonia, the study investigated the degree of M...
This article proposes a generalizable, data-driven framework for qualifying laser powder bed fusion additively manufactured parts using part-specific in situ data, including powder bed imaging, machine health sensors, and laser scan paths. To achieve...
Different parts of Cynara cardunculus, var. scolymus L., have been used in traditional medicine to treat various disorders and as a coagulant in cheese making. In this work, phenolics from different parts of globe artichoke of the local cultivar &ldq...
The transition to a carbon-reduced future for one of the most energy-intensive actors, the building sector, requires the development of appropriate tools and methods. One such approach is local energy communities (LECs), especially thermal LECs (TLEC...
In most countries, local governments bear primary responsibility for ensuring everyone has access to water and sanitation services. For the human rights to water and sanitation to move from recognition to realisation, they need to become part of the...
The optical properties of solid-core micro-structured optical fibers (SC MOFs) have been studied for a long time. The process of the energy outflow of the core modes has always been associated with the process of constructive interference of the core...
The paper presents an analysis of local and global forces acting on the ferromagnetic material of a modulator in a co-axial magnetic gear, taking several design variants and the impact of loading into account. The analyses include a modulator with co...
Mass spectrometry-based molecular imaging has been utilized to map the spatial distribution of target metabolites in various matrixes. Among the diverse mass spectrometry techniques, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry (MALD...
Native wild edible greens usually include plants with widespread geographical ranges and represent a long tradition associated with well-documented health effects, especially in the frame of the Mediterranean diet. Although consuming local endemic an...
Thermal comfort assessments at local or micro-scales within urban areas can provide crucial insights for the urban adaptation strategies pertaining to climate-conscious urban planning and public health. However, the availability of long-term or mid-t...
Introduction: Previous research exploring the benefits of mentoring and the place of clinical governance in enhancing care delivery illustrated an unexplored synonymous relationship between mentors and mentees (students at undergraduate and postgradu...
Clotrimazole (1-[(2-chlorophenyl)-diphenylmethyl]-imidazole) is an azole antifungal drug belonging to the imidazole subclass that is widely used in pharmacology and that can be incorporated in membranes. We studied its interaction with 1,2-dimyristoy...
Specific conductivities of local anesthetic heptacainium chloride XlX (HCC XlX) (N-[2-(2-heptyloxyphenylcarbamoyloxy)-ethyl]-piperidinium chloride), in aqueous electrolyte solution (0.05 mol.1−1 NaCl) were measured as a function of the concentration...
The thermal comfort of local body parts is the essential factor that affects people’s health and comfort as well as a buildings’ energy. This study aims to (1) investigate the characteristics of the local thermal comfort of different body...
Distributed energy systems (DES) are currently at the forefront of the energy transition. Their placement brings production closer to the demand side of urban and sub-urban environments, making optimal design a necessity. However, the complexity of a...
The human brain is a complex network of connected neurons whose dynamics are difficult to describe. Brain dynamics are the global manifestation of individual neuron dynamics and the synaptic coupling between neurons. Membrane potential is a function...
In this paper, we propose a novel spatial image error concealment (EC) method based on deep neural network. Considering that the natural images have local correlation and non-local self-similarity, we use the local information to predict the missing...
The critical micelle concentrations (c.m.c.) of alkyloxy homologs of local anesthetic N-[2-(2-alkyloxyphenylcarbamolyoxy)-ethyl]-piperidinium chloride (CnA) with n=3, 5, 7, 8, 10 and 12 carbons in alkyloxy substituent determined by surfactant ion sen...
In this study, the nutritional potential of some hazelnut varieties from the spontaneous flora of Romania was analyzed as a means to increase the sustainability of the local production. The chemical composition from hazelnuts (Corylus avellana L.) fr...
The automotive industry has tried to employ ultra-high-strength steel (UHSS), which has a higher strength with a thinner thickness. However, because of its low formability, there is a limit to the use of UHSS in industrial applications. Even though t...
This paper proposes some formulations of weak local residuals of shallow-water-type equations, namely, one-, one-and-a-half-, and two-dimensional shallow water equations. Smooth parts of numerical solutions have small absolute values of weak local re...
Classifying fine-grained categories (e.g., bird species, car, and aircraft types) is a crucial problem in image understanding and is difficult due to intra-class and inter-class variance. Most of the existing fine-grained approaches individually util...
Person re-identification is a typical computer vision problem which aims at matching pedestrians across disjoint camera views. It is challenging due to the misalignment of body parts caused by pose variations, background clutter, detection errors, ca...
Discontinuous fiber composites (DFC) such as carbon fiber sheet molding compounds (CF-SMC) are increasingly used in the automotive industry for manufacturing lightweight parts. Due to the flow conditions during compression molding of complex geometr...
The use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has led to significant advancements in the field of compositional image synthesis. In particular, recent progress has focused on achieving synthesis at the semantic part level. However, to enhance per...
A novel local and semi-local convergence theorem for the four-step nonlinear scheme is presented. Earlier studies on local convergence were conducted without particular assumption on Lipschitz constant. In first part, the main local convergence theor...
We consider the local value of an operator for a given position or momentum and, more generally on the value of another arbitrary observable. We develop a general approach that is based on breaking up
The collaborative execution of tasks by multiple Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) has become a development trend in the field of unmanned systems. Existing collaborative Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) frameworks mainly employ methods bas...
We investigate the quantum irreversibility and quantum diffusion in a non-Hermitian kicked rotor model for which the kicking strength is complex. Our results show that the exponential decay of Loschmidt echo gradually disappears with increasing the s...
In precision livestock farming, synchronous and high-precision instance segmentation of multiple key body parts of sika deer serves as the core visual foundation for achieving automated health monitoring, behavior analysis, and automated antler colle...
Timber heritage sites are vulnerable to damage from moisture. Simple meteorological descriptions of climate need to be tuned to capture drivers that threaten heritage, including dimensional change, insect attack and mould growth. Global climate model...
Since 2012, Local Climate Zones (LCZ) have been used for numerous studies related to urban environment. In 2015, this use amplified because a method to map urban areas in LCZs was introduced by the World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT...
The present study investigated total and local thermal insulations of 39 sets of male Chinese ethnic costumes. Total and local clothing area factor, air gap size and air volume were determined by a 3D body scanner. Relationships between thermal insul...
Research on the additive manufacturing of metals often neglects any characterization of the composition of final parts, erroneously assuming a compositional homogeneity that matches the feedstock material. Here, the composition of electron-beam-melte...
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