Farming systems are complex and include a variety of interacting biophysical and technical components. This complexity must be taken into account when designing farming systems to improve sustainability, but more methods are needed to be able to do s...
Adversarial patch attacks are core tools to evaluate adversarial robustness in remote sensing image classification, yet existing methods with fixed patch shapes and single-model optimization yield poor cross-architecture black-box transferability. Th...
This study reports a piezoelectric poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) polymer-based sensor patch for respiration detections in dynamic walking condition. The working mechanism of respiration signal generation is based on the periodical deformations on...
The substantial data volume within dynamic point clouds representing three-dimensional moving entities necessitates advancements in compression techniques. Motion estimation (ME) is crucial for reducing point cloud temporal redundancy. Standard block...
Dengue fever has been a threat to public health not only in tropical regions but non-tropical regions due to recent climate change. Motivated by a recent dengue outbreak in Japan, we develop a two-patch model for dengue transmission associated with t...
Tropical protected areas face pressures from smallholder agriculture and illegal mining, yet many monitoring approaches reduce these dynamics to net forest loss, obscuring whether change is alternating or persistent. In the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, De...
Magnetostrictive patch transducers (MPT) with planar coils are ideal candidates for shear mode generation and detection in pipe and plate inspection with the advantages of flexibility, lightness and good directivity. However, the low energy conversio...
Quantifying forest patch dynamics is essential for understanding how forest patch characteristics vary in relation to ancient tree locations. This study developed a satellite-based framework to analyze the differences among forest patches associated...
In eukaryotic organisms, genomic DNA associates with histone proteins to form nucleosomes. Nucleosomes provide a basis for genome compaction, epigenetic markup, and mediate interactions of nuclear proteins with their target DNA loci. A negatively cha...
Accurate dynamic liquid-level monitoring in rod-pumped oil wells requires not only reliable identification of the gas–liquid interface from distributed sensing data but also stable forecasting over extended horizons. This study develops a physi...
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The principle energy exchange of a brake system occurs in the tribological boundary layer between the pad and the disc. The associated phenomena are primarily responsible for the dynamics of brake systems. The wear debris forms flat contact structure...
Net primary production (NPP) is a key indicator of the terrestrial carbon cycle, and its response to disturbance and subsequent recovery is important for understanding regional carbon sink dynamics. Conventional region-based statistical approaches ha...
This study collected and analyzed dynamic spatial data of eight traditional villages scattered in different regions of China. A multi-temporal analysis of morphological metrics of spatial patterns and a regression analysis of the morphological evolut...
Rapid urbanization and changing land use dynamics require robust tools for projecting and analyzing future land use scenarios to support sustainable urban development. This study introduces an integrated modeling framework that combines the Patch-gen...
Rice plays a pivotal role in global food security, particularly for Asian populations. However, its production is significantly threatened by insect pests, with Chilo suppressalis being a major pest in Asian rice-growing regions. Therefore, developin...
In this work, we employ autoregressive models developed in financial engineering for modeling of forest dynamics. Autoregressive models have some theoretical advantage over currently employed forest modeling approaches such as Markov chains and indiv...
This study presents a novel design for emulating wheelset curving dynamics by implementing a laterally constrained wheelset and two independently powered rollers. The new configuration extends the test capability of the existing Virginia Tech-Federal...
This paper proposes a Dynamic Hybrid Binary Particle Swarm Optimization (DH-BPSO) algorithm to improve the bandwidth of an inverted-F antenna (IFA). The proposed algorithm improves upon the existing Artificial Immune System (AIS) algorithm by includi...
Small urban mangrove remnants may undergo substantial spatial reorganization that regional land-cover products or endpoint area change alone poorly represent. Arboreal canopy dynamics were reconstructed in an urban estuarine sector within a common 12...
Background and Objectives: The landscape aesthetic service (LAS) is a crucial ecosystem service in subalpine forests of the mountain and ravine regions of the Tibetan Plateau, especially in autumn; it can provide important ecological and economic val...
The environment and society are both the context for and product of human actions and interactions. Outdoor recreation is the primary interaction many people have with the environment and it is an interaction that greatly contributes to human well-be...
The sustainability of resources and ecological integrity are significantly influenced by land use and land cover change (LULCC) dynamics, particularly in ecotonal semi-arid regions where biome transitions are highly sensitive to anthropogenic disturb...
The antimicrobial peptide Smp24, originally derived from the venom of Scorpio maurus palmatus, is a promising candidate for further drug development. However, before doing so, greater insight into the mechanism of action is needed to construct a reli...
Analyzing multi-scale changes in landscape connectivity is an important way to study landscape ecological processes and also an important method to maintain regional biodiversity. In this study, graph-based connectivity was used to analyze the dynami...
Understanding the changes in ecosystem quality caused by land use changes is critical for sustainable urban development and environmental management. This study investigates the spatial-temporal evolution of ecosystem quality in Wuhan from 2000 to 20...
In this paper, we report an application for the mathematical theory of dynamic optimization for design of optimal strategies that account for daily commuting of human residents, aiming to reduce vector-borne infections (dengue) among human population...
Neurotransmission is critical for brain function, allowing neurons to communicate through neurotransmitters and neuropeptides. RVD-hemopressin (RVD-Hp), a novel peptide identified in noradrenergic neurons, modulates cannabinoid receptors CB1 and CB2....
Conventional landslide susceptibility assessment (LSA) generally relies on static land-use/land-cover (LULC) data, limiting its ability to capture the influence of future land-use evolution on landslide susceptibility. To address this limitation, thi...
The Atlantic maritime winds and waves, as natural forces, shaped the physiography of Sines, a peculiar rocky cliff cape at the western Portuguese coast, as well as cultural processes have shaped its spatial arrangement since ancient times. Despite it...
Slow-channel congenital myasthenic syndromes (SCCMSs) are rare genetic diseases caused by mutations in muscle nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) subunits. Most of the known SCCMS-associated mutations localize at the transmembrane region near th...
Regional ecosystem service value (ESV) is significantly influenced by factors such as land use/cover change (LUCC). In this study, from the perspective of spatio-temporal heterogeneity, we constructed a dynamic and zonal equivalence table of ecosyste...
Background: The Xiao Zhong Zhi Tong Patch (XZZTP) has been extensively utilized in China to alleviate many diseases associated with bacterial inflammation. However, its pharmacological mechanism and active components remain unclear. Methods: The anti...
High-speed rail (HSR) has been proven to drive the development of regional tourism. However, few studies paid attention to the impact of HSR on future tourism land use. In this study, points of interest (POI) were used to obtain the locations and typ...
This study investigates the impact of small water bodies on outdoor temperatures in their vicinity, using a campus located in the subtropical region of Taichung City, Taiwan, as the research subject. By employing on-site measurements and Computationa...
Bare sand patches are extensively distributed in dryland ecosystems, and their spatiotemporal evolution provides critical insights into regional eco-environmental changes. The Mu Us Sandy Land, a typical dryland region, exemplifies a distinctive mosa...
Accurately quantifying the variation of urban green space is the prerequisite for fully understanding its ecosystem services. However, knowledge about the spatiotemporal dynamics of urban green space is still insufficient due to multiple challenges t...
The spatial and temporal dynamics of the Siberian larch (Larix sibirica Ledeb.) at the upper limit of its growth on the south-eastern macroslope of the Rai-Iz massif (Polar Urals, Russia) during the second half of the 20th to the beginning of the 21s...
Old-growth longleaf pine savannas are characterized by diverse ground-layer plant communities comprised of graminoids, forbs, and woody plants. These communities co-exist with variable-aged patches containing similar-aged trees of longleaf pine (Pinu...
The objective of this study was to assess N dynamics in the soil, and the response in regard to dry matter yield (DM yield; kg·DM·ha−1), N yield (g·N·m−2) and N concentration (g·N·kg−1 DM) u...
Although unsupervised anomaly detection has shown promising performance in industrial visual inspection, many architectures still struggle with variable input resolutions, and anomaly scores are often difficult for end users to interpret. This study...
Accurate cooling load forecasting in chiller units is critical for building energy optimization, yet remains challenging due to non-stationary nonlinear dynamics driven by coupled external weather variability (solar radiation, ambient temperature) an...
By combining the two types of magnetoelastic and magnetochromatic materials in an epoxy, we can make a hybrid system that exhibits an optical response due to an elastic strain. It could be used in structural health monitoring, for real-time monitorin...
Background: Epicutaneous patch testing is the gold standard for diagnosing allergic contact dermatitis (ACD), yet its interpretation relies on subjective scoring and remains prone to inter-observer variability. Aim: In this study, we present a machin...
Human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) hold great promise for studying inherited cardiac arrhythmias and developing drug therapies to treat such arrhythmias. Unfortunately, until now, action potential (AP) measurements...
Lung cancer is by far the leading cause of cancer death among both men and women, making up almost 25% of all cancer deaths Each year, more people die of lung cancer than colon, breast, and prostate cancer combined. The early detection of lung cancer...
This study designs a complementary split-ring resonator (CSRR)-based 5 GHz patch-type microwave resonant sensor for measuring the concentrations of glucose solutions under static and dynamic conditions. Circulating glucose solutions were used to simu...
The Dniester is one of the largest transboundary rivers of the Black Sea basin, and its lower reaches integrate the influence of climate change and hydropower plant (HPP) impact on the waterway. The decrease in precipitation and average annual air te...
Kv1.2 channels, encoded by the KCNA2 gene, are localized in the central and peripheral nervous system, where they regulate neuronal excitability. Recently, heterozygous mutations in KCNA2 have been associated with a spectrum of symptoms extending fro...
Compared to cell therapy, where cells are injected into a defect region, the treatment of heart infarction with cells seeded in a vascularized scaffold bears advantages, such as an immediate nutrient supply or a controllable and persistent localizati...
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