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1 Citations
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Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) plays an important role in stabilising the knee joint, prevents excessive anterior translation of the tibia, and provides rotational stability. ACL injuries commonly occur as a result of rapid deceleration, sudden cha...

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  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,436 Views
23 Pages

Loss Weightings for Improving Imbalanced Brain Structure Segmentation Using Fully Convolutional Networks

  • Takaaki Sugino,
  • Toshihiro Kawase,
  • Shinya Onogi,
  • Taichi Kin,
  • Nobuhito Saito and
  • Yoshikazu Nakajima

Brain structure segmentation on magnetic resonance (MR) images is important for various clinical applications. It has been automatically performed by using fully convolutional networks. However, it suffers from the class imbalance problem. To address...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,707 Views
27 Pages

26 February 2019

The aerospace-based heat sink is defined as a substance used for dissipating heat generated by onboard heat loads. They are becoming increasingly scarce in the thermal management system (TMS) of advanced aircraft, especially for supersonic aircraft....

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  • Open Access
434 Views
24 Pages

A Two-Tier Planning Approach for Hybrid Energy Storage Systems Considering Grid Power Flexibility in New Energy High-Penetration Grids

  • Wei Huang,
  • Dongbo Qu,
  • Chen Wu,
  • Kai Hu,
  • Tao Qiu,
  • Weidong Wei,
  • Guanhui Yin and
  • Xianguang Jia

19 September 2025

This paper proposes a flow battery-lithium-ion battery hybrid energy storage system (HESS) bi-level optimization planning method to address flexibility supply-demand balance challenges in regional power grids with high renewable penetration at 220 kV...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,320 Views
22 Pages

A Study on Green Supplier Selection in Dynamic Environment

  • Wei Song,
  • Zhiya Chen,
  • Aijun Liu,
  • Qiuyun Zhu,
  • Wei Zhao,
  • Sang-Bing Tsai and
  • Hui Lu

17 April 2018

The aim of this paper is to provide a method for selecting a green supplier in a dynamic environment, while considering the psychological behavior and the time factors of the decision maker from the manufacturer’s perspective. The supply select...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,952 Views
17 Pages

25 January 2022

The application of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to computational fluid dynamics simulations has recently attracted tremendous attention. In the simulations of PINNs, the collocation points are required to conform to the fluid–solid...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,052 Views
17 Pages

30 September 2022

The positive interaction between economic development and environmental protection is an important social issue which concerns people’s livelihoods. In order to explore the coordinated path of economic development and environmental protection,...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,493 Views
29 Pages

7 February 2024

The advancement of machine learning in industrial applications has necessitated the development of tailored solutions to address specific challenges, particularly in multi-class classification tasks. This study delves into the customization of loss f...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,338 Views
23 Pages

13 April 2023

It is a great challenge to solve nonhomogeneous elliptic interface problems, because the interface divides the computational domain into two disjoint parts, and the solution may change dramatically across the interface. A soft constraint physics-info...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,001 Views
13 Pages

25 September 2018

Based on weighted block sparse recovery, a high resolution direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation algorithm is proposed for data with unknown mutual coupling. In our proposed method, a new block representation model based on the array covariance vecto...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,639 Views
17 Pages

3 April 2020

A critical step in profitable post-harvest potato storage management is to cure tubers at appropriate temperatures long enough for rapid wound-healing to prevent disease and defect development, but not too long to jeopardize storage quality. A two-ye...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,978 Views
16 Pages

30 August 2024

The physics-informed neural network (PINN) is an effective alternative method for solving differential equations that do not require grid partitioning, making it easy to implement. In this study, using automatic differentiation techniques, the PINN m...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,759 Views
34 Pages

Sparse Multicategory Generalized Distance Weighted Discrimination in Ultra-High Dimensions

  • Tong Su,
  • Yafei Wang,
  • Yi Liu,
  • William G. Branton,
  • Eugene Asahchop,
  • Christopher Power,
  • Bei Jiang,
  • Linglong Kong and
  • Niansheng Tang

5 November 2020

Distance weighted discrimination (DWD) is an appealing classification method that is capable of overcoming data piling problems in high-dimensional settings. Especially when various sparsity structures are assumed in these settings, variable selectio...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,348 Views
17 Pages

Advanced Multi-Label Image Classification Techniques Using Ensemble Methods

  • Tamás Katona,
  • Gábor Tóth,
  • Mátyás Petró and
  • Balázs Harangi

Chest X-rays are vital in healthcare for diagnosing various conditions due to their low Radiation exposure, widespread availability, and rapid interpretation. However, their interpretation requires specialized expertise, which can limit scalability a...

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  • Open Access
62 Citations
5,728 Views
17 Pages

5 December 2017

The estimation of losses of distribution feeders plays a crucial guiding role for the planning, design, and operation of a distribution system. This paper proposes a novel estimation method of statistical line loss of distribution feeders using the f...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,605 Views
37 Pages

19 September 2022

In synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, ship targets are characterized by varying scales, large aspect ratios, dense arrangements, and arbitrary orientations. Current horizontal and rotation detectors fail to accurately recognize and locate ships d...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,252 Views
14 Pages

Responses of Physiological Traits and Grain Yield to Short Heat Stress during Different Grain-Filling Stages in Summer Maize

  • Wanlu Zhang,
  • Shiduo Niu,
  • Jiaxin Yao,
  • Yipeng Zhang,
  • Xiao Li,
  • Huixin Dong,
  • Shuang Si,
  • Hang Li,
  • Xuelei Li and
  • Jianhong Ren
  • + 1 author

14 August 2023

Maize kernel growth is sensitive to heat stress, which is predicted to result in yield loss. However, the response of maize to short-term heat stress during different kernel-growth stages is still not clear. A 3-year field experiment, included two he...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,516 Views
16 Pages

10 July 2019

An optimal feedback controller for a given Markov decision process (MDP) can in principle be synthesized by value or policy iteration. However, if the system dynamics and the reward function are unknown, a learning agent must discover an optimal cont...

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  • Open Access
577 Views
15 Pages

3 August 2025

With the rapid development of renewable energy, the proportion of small hydropower as a clean energy in the distribution network (DN) is increasing. However, the randomness and intermittence of small hydropower has brought new challenges to the opera...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,694 Views
26 Pages

11 December 2024

Speech recognition is widely applied in fields like security, education, and healthcare. While its development drives global information infrastructure and AI strategies, current models still face challenges such as overfitting, local optima, and ine...

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  • Open Access
355 Views
14 Pages

Enhancing Distribution Network Resilience Using Genetic Algorithms

  • Theodoros Ι. Maris,
  • Christos Christodoulou and
  • Valeri Mladenov

4 November 2025

Ensuring the resilience and efficiency of modern distribution networks is increasingly critical in the presence of distributed energy resources (DERs). This study presents a multi-objective optimization framework based on a Genetic Algorithm (GA) to...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,912 Views
14 Pages

10 June 2022

As applied sciences grow by leaps and bounds, semiparametric regression analyses have broad applications in various fields, such as engineering, finance, medicine, and public health. Single-index varying-coefficient model is a common class of semipar...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,224 Views
22 Pages

20 December 2023

With the widespread application of spatial data in fields like econometrics and geographic information science, the methods to enhance the robustness of spatial econometric model estimation and variable selection have become a central focus of resear...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,772 Views
20 Pages

M-O SiamRPN with Weight Adaptive Joint MIoU for UAV Visual Localization

  • Kailin Wen,
  • Jie Chu,
  • Jiayan Chen,
  • Yu Chen and
  • Jueping Cai

7 September 2022

Vision-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) localization is capable of providing real-time coordinates independently during GNSS interruption, which is important in security, agriculture, industrial mapping, and other fields. owever, there are problem...

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  • Open Access
90 Citations
9,426 Views
12 Pages

Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop in Fully Developed Turbulent Flows of Graphene Nanoplatelets–Silver/Water Nanofluids

  • Mohammad Reza Safaei,
  • Goodarz Ahmadi,
  • Mohammad Shahab Goodarzi,
  • Mostafa Safdari Shadloo,
  • Hamid Reza Goshayeshi and
  • Mahidzal Dahari

29 June 2016

This study examined the heat transfer coefficient, friction loss, pressure drop and pumping power needed for the use of nanofluid coolants made of a mixture of suspension of graphene nanoplatelets–silver in water in a rectangular duct. A series of ca...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,145 Views
15 Pages

21 April 2023

The covariance matrix estimation plays an important role in portfolio optimization and risk management. It is well-known that portfolio is essentially a convex quadratic programming problem, which is also a special case of symmetric cone optimization...

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  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,142 Views
18 Pages

1 September 2022

Cassava is a typical staple food in the tropics, and cassava leaf disease can cause massive yield reductions in cassava, resulting in substantial economic losses and a lack of staple foods. However, the existing convolutional neural network (CNN) for...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,607 Views
19 Pages

Carrier-Free Ultra-Wideband Sensor Target Recognition in the Jungle Environment

  • Jianchao Li,
  • Shuning Zhang,
  • Lingzhi Zhu,
  • Si Chen,
  • Linsheng Hou,
  • Xiaoxiong Li and
  • Kuiyu Chen

26 April 2024

Carrier-free ultra-wideband sensors have high penetrability anti-jamming solid ability, which is not easily affected by the external environment, such as weather. Also, it has good performance in the complex jungle environment. In this paper, we prop...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,823 Views
13 Pages

3 March 2020

Objective: Super-resolution reconstruction is an increasingly important area in computer vision. To alleviate the problems that super-resolution reconstruction models based on generative adversarial networks are difficult to train and contain artifac...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,139 Views
19 Pages

6 May 2022

Research on bearings performance degradation trend is significant, and can greatly reduce the loss caused by potential faults in the whole life-cycle of rolling bearings. It is also a very important part of Prognostic and Health Management (PHM). Thi...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,974 Views
16 Pages

29 January 2022

To protect images from the tampering of deepfake, adversarial examples can be made to replace the original images by distorting the output of the deepfake model and disrupting its work. Current studies lack generalizability in that they simply focus...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,191 Views
13 Pages

6 March 2022

As a dangerous source of man-made debris flow with high potential energy, tailings dams can cause huge losses to people’s lives and property downstream once they break, and their safety control problem is particularly prominent. The health diag...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,237 Views
13 Pages

10 January 2023

In recent years, with the development of the internet, video has become more and more widely used in life. Adding harmonious music to a video is gradually becoming an artistic task. However, artificially adding music takes a lot of time and effort, s...

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  • Open Access
1,449 Views
16 Pages

Research on Student’s T-Distribution Point Cloud Registration Algorithm Based on Local Features

  • Houpeng Sun,
  • Yingchun Li,
  • Huichao Guo,
  • Chenglong Luan,
  • Laixian Zhang,
  • Haijing Zheng and
  • Youchen Fan

31 July 2024

LiDAR offers a wide range of uses in autonomous driving, remote sensing, urban planning, and other areas. The laser 3D point cloud acquired by LiDAR typically encounters issues during registration, including laser speckle noise, Gaussian noise, data...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,977 Views
16 Pages

Nitrogen Fertilization Alleviates Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Waterlogging

  • Jianbo Chen,
  • Chenchen Zhao,
  • Matthew Tom Harrison and
  • Meixue Zhou

4 August 2024

Waterlogging increasingly challenges crop production, affecting 10% of global arable land, necessitating the development of pragmatic strategies for mitigating the downside risk of yield penalty. Here, we conducted experiments under controlled (tank)...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,710 Views
19 Pages

3 June 2020

Recent a few years have witnessed the rapid expansion of the peer-to-peer lending marketplace. As a new field of investment and a novel channel of financing, it has drawn extensive attention throughout the world. Many investors have shown great enthu...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,850 Views
21 Pages

HFC-YOLO11: A Lightweight Model for the Accurate Recognition of Tiny Remote Sensing Targets

  • Jinyin Bai,
  • Wei Zhu,
  • Zongzhe Nie,
  • Xin Yang,
  • Qinglin Xu and
  • Dong Li

To address critical challenges in tiny object detection within remote sensing imagery, including resolution–semantic imbalance, inefficient feature fusion, and insufficient localization accuracy, this study proposes Hierarchical Feature Compens...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,268 Views
21 Pages

Study on Few-Shot Fault Diagnosis Method for Marine Fuel Systems Based on DT-SViT-KNN

  • Shankai Li,
  • Liang Qi,
  • Jiayu Shi,
  • Han Xiao,
  • Bin Da,
  • Runkang Tang and
  • Danfeng Zuo

24 December 2024

The fuel system serves as the core component of marine diesel engines, and timely and effective fault diagnosis is the prerequisite for the safe navigation of ships. To address the challenge of current data-driven fault-diagnosis-based methods, which...

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  • Open Access
959 Views
28 Pages

Three-dimensional ocean observation is the foundation for accurately predicting ocean information. Although ocean observation sensor arrays can obtain internal data, their deployment is difficult, costly, and prone to component failures and environme...

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  • Open Access
784 Views
30 Pages

20 August 2025

As cities transition toward intelligent traffic systems, hybrid networks combining AI and traditional intersections raise challenges for efficiency and sustainability. Existing studies primarily focus on global intelligence assumptions, overlooking t...

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  • Open Access
439 Views
29 Pages

28 October 2025

To achieve a scientific and efficient emergency response, a dynamic route-planning strategy for emergency vehicles based on government–enterprise collaboration was studied. Firstly, a hybrid evaluation approach was developed, integrating the An...

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  • Open Access
87 Views
13 Pages

High-Fiber Belgian Waffles: Quality Characteristics and Consumer Acceptance, Product-Elicited Emotions, and Purchase Intent Evaluated by Millennial Consumers

  • Andrea Velasquez,
  • Brandon Freire,
  • Ryan Ardoin,
  • Georgianna Tuuri,
  • Evelyn Watts,
  • Joan M. King,
  • Yupeng Gao and
  • Witoon Prinyawiwatkul

27 November 2025

Dietary fiber can help reduce LDL cholesterol and lower the risk of cardiovascular diseases. This study aimed to characterize the physicochemical properties of Belgian waffles formulated with varying soluble dietary fiber levels [<1 g (control), 5...

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  • Open Access
49 Views
26 Pages

Optical Remote Sensing Ship Detection Combining Channel Shuffling and Bilinear Interpolation

  • Shaodong Liu,
  • Faming Shao,
  • Jinhong Xue,
  • Juying Dai,
  • Weijun Chu,
  • Qing Liu and
  • Tao Zhang

26 November 2025

Maritime remote sensing ship detection has long been plagued by two major issues: the failure of geometric priors due to the extreme length-to-width ratio of ships; and the sharp drop in edge signal-to-noise ratio caused by the overlapping chromatici...

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  • Open Access
1,292 Views
30 Pages

25 October 2025

Real-time object detection in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery is critical yet challenging, requiring high accuracy amidst complex scenes with multi-scale and small objects, under stringent onboard computational constraints. While existing metho...

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  • Open Access
649 Views
23 Pages

25 August 2025

Accurate photovoltaic (PV) power output forecasting is critical for ensuring stable operation of modern power systems, yet it is constrained by high-dimensional redundancy in input weather data and the inherent heterogeneity of output scenarios. To a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,985 Views
24 Pages

16 July 2018

The existing multi-sensor control algorithms for multi-target tracking (MTT) within the random finite set (RFS) framework are all based on the distributed processing architecture, so the rule of generalized covariance intersection (GCI) has to be use...

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  • Open Access
1,987 Views
13 Pages

Rapid Detection of Tools of Railway Works in the Full Time Domain

  • Zhaohui Zheng,
  • Yuncheng Luo,
  • Shaoyi Li,
  • Zhaoyong Fan,
  • Xi Li,
  • Jianping Ju,
  • Mingyu Lin and
  • Zijian Wang

21 October 2022

Construction tool detection is an important link in the operation and maintenance management of professional facilities in public works. Due to the large number and types of construction equipment and the complex and changeable construction environme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,086 Views
19 Pages

17 April 2025

In unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aerial imagery scenarios, challenges such as small target size, compact distribution, and mutual occlusion often result in missed detections and false alarms. To address these challenges, this paper introduces YOLO-MA...

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  • Open Access
671 Views
28 Pages

Opinions on Ketogenic Diets Among Students and Academic Teachers at the University of Pécs, Hungary: A Cross-Sectional Survey

  • Nicole Hunter,
  • János Girán,
  • Gergely Márovics,
  • Károly Berényi,
  • Balázs Németh and
  • Katalin Szendi

22 October 2025

Background: The ketogenic diet (KD) is one of the most widely followed dietary approaches worldwide, frequently promoted in popular media for weight loss and chronic disease management, although it also has established therapeutic applications in cli...

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  • Open Access
276 Views
19 Pages

20 November 2025

The performance of remote sensing object detectors often degrades severely when deployed in new operational environments due to covariate shift in the data distribution. Existing evaluation paradigms, which primarily rely on aggregate performance met...

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