Smartphone global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning is degraded by low-cost antennas, limited receiver hardware, multipath propagation, and noisy code pseudorange observations. Existing correction methods often improve stochastic weighti...
Rural settlements in mountainous areas change slowly and are not easy to measure. Reclamation is an important spatial indication of their demise. To measure the spatial–temporal variation of rural settlements extinction from the perspective of...
With the non-periodicity and discrete nature, and unnecessary of phase unwrapping process, digital speckle correlation method shows its significant advantages in three-dimensional (3D) shape measurement. Combining with the spatial correlation and tem...
Existing deep-learning-based motor imagery (MI) electroencephalogram (EEG) decoding methods face challenges in generalizing across sessions and providing channel-level physiological interpretability. These limitations hinder the practical application...
Detecting discrete space-target trajectories from optical image sequences is important for ground-based space situational awareness, but direct sequence processing can be computationally expensive and sensitive to weak target responses. This paper pr...
The high-speed three-dimensional (3-D) shape measurement technique has become more and more popular recently, because of the strong demand for dynamic scene measurement. The single-shot nature of Fourier Transform Profilometry (FTP) makes it highly s...
We present a skeleton-based approach to baseball pitch type classification from broadcast video. We leverage Human Pose Estimation and an ST-GCN architecture, improved with a projection-gated temporal downsampler, to learn kinematic signatures of the...
Adaptive reuse of post-industrial heritage is often studied through technical performance, formal intervention strategies, or decision-support models. While these approaches clarify important aspects of reuse, they give limited attention to how proje...
The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the series of processes involved in designing, manufacturing, installing, and operating a practical Surface Image Flowmeter (SIF) system, complete with suitable hardware and software. By ‘practical&r...
A novel high-speed 3D shape measurement technology called temporal Fourier transform profilometry (TFTP for short) is proposed by combining the merits of Fourier transform profilometry (FTP) and phase-measuring profilometry (PMP). Instead of using th...
A joint radar-communication (JRC) system utilizes the integrated transmit waveform and a single platform to perform radar and communication functions simultaneously. Admittedly, the multibeam waveform design approach could transmit the assigned wavef...
Most areas around the world lack fine rainfall records which are needed to derive Intensity-Duration-Frequency (IDF) curves, and those that are available are in the form of daily data. Thus, the disaggregation of rainfall data from coarse to fine tem...
Multi-wavelength digital-phase-shifting moiré was demonstrated using multiple moiré wavelengths determined by system calibration over the full working depth. The method uses the extended noisy phase map as a reference to unwrap the phas...
Increasing evidence of changing climate patterns is being observed, and the impact of this change on groundwater has a direct impact on the livelihood and economy of the region. The research focuses on the impacts of global temperature increase and c...
This paper proposes the Unified Observation Layer Theory (UOLT), a structural framework for understanding observation not as an act of cognition, measurement, or subjectivity, but as a layered condition through which the world becomes visible. Contem...
In recent years, with the increasing impact of extreme weather events on energy security, energy vulnerability has increased significantly, and more and more international institutions and departments have begun to incorporate resilience governance i...
A climate model is essential for hydrological designs considering climate change, but there are still limitations in employing raw temporal and spatial resolutions for small urban areas. To solve the temporal scale gap, a temporal disaggregation meth...
This study introduces a novel application of a temporal convolutional network (TCN) for projecting carbon tax prices, addressing the critical need for accurate forecasting in climate policy. Utilizing data from the World Carbon Pricing Database, we d...
The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) sector operates increasingly under persistent macroeconomic and supply chain volatility, requiring project organizations to simultaneously achieve delivery efficiency and design innovation. While...
Background and Objectives: Achieving long-term stability of nasal tip rotation and projection remains a challenge in rhinoplasty because of postoperative remodeling processes such as edema resolution, soft tissue redraping, and scar maturation. This...
The photoplethysmography (PPG) signal contains various information that is related to CVD (cardiovascular disease). The remote PPG (rPPG) is a method that can measure a PPG signal using a face image taken with a camera, without a PPG device. Deep lea...
Correlative ecological niche modelling (ENM) is a method widely used to study the geographic distribution of species. In recent decades, it has become a leading approach for evaluating the most likely impacts of changing climate. When used to predict...
The “Kökyar Greening Project” in the suburb of Aksu, Xinjiang, is a model of large-area artificial afforestation in an environment of drought and water scarcity. As an important part of the “3-North Shelter Forest Program&rdquo...
The present study examined temporal variations in water and sediment discharges in the Red River basin from 1958 to 2021 resulting from climate change and anthropogenic factors, with projections extended to 2100. The 64-year observational period was...
With the rapid development of the global economy, the interconnection of power grids has become an objective law and a trend of the power industry development. The implementation of power grid interconnection projects, especially transnational power...
The amygdala is a cerebral region whose function is compromised in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). Patients with TLE present cognitive and emotional dysfunctions, of which impairments in recognizing facial expressions have been clearly attributed to am...
In recent years, photovoltaic power generation and greenhouse planting (PPG&GP) have become effective approaches for reconstructing and restoring the ecological environment of old coal-mining industry bases, such as Xintai City. However, the ecol...
The degradation of forest landscapes in West Africa, particularly in Togo, threatens ecological and socio-economic sustainability. This study analyzes the spatio-temporal dynamics of land use in the central plains of Togo between 1991 and 2022, and p...
This study presents a comprehensive spatiotemporal assessment of climatic and bioclimatic conditions across Türkiye for both a historical reference period (1995–2014) and future projections (2020–2099) under two Shared Socioeconomic...
The alterations in vegetation cover in the Three North Protection Forest Project area influence its ecological and environmental management. It helps to study soil erosion, environmental change, and ecosystem protection to provide basic data support....
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In this article, a data matrix of 20 indicators (6960 observations) was obtained from 29 water quality monitoring stations of the Middle Route (MR) of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project of China (SNWDPC). Multivariate statistical techniques i...
Selection of a suitable general circulation model (GCM) ensemble is crucial for effective water resource management and reliable climate studies in developing countries with constraint in human and computational resources. A careful selection of a GC...
The enigmatic ghost orchid, Dendrophylax lindenii (Lindley) Bentham ex Rolfe, is a showy leafless epiphyte restricted to low-lying forests in south Florida and western Cuba. Because of its appeal and reputation for being difficult to cultivate, D. li...
In recent years, the high-frequency hybrid sky-surface wave radar (HSSWR) has been increasingly used for target detection applications. Nevertheless, the specific bistatic system layout and the phase path disturbances induced by the ionospheric propa...
Since the implementation of the Grain for Green Project (GFGP) in the 1990s, the warming and wetting trend in the Loess Plateau is becoming statistically significant in the context of climate change. However, the correlation between precipitation inc...
Mapping Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) at a regional scale is essential for assessing soil health and supporting sustainable land management. This study evaluates the potential of using Sentinel-2 imagery and regional calibration to predict SOC in salt-af...
In the past three decades, localized research has highlighted shifts in rainfall patterns and temperature trends in central Ethiopia, a region vital for agriculture and economic activities and heavily dependent on climate conditions to sustain liveli...
Time crystal was conceived in the 1970s as an autonomous engine made of only clocks to explain the life-like features of a virus. Later, time crystal was extended to living cells like neurons. The brain controls most biological clocks that regenerate...
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Temporal trends and future expectations of health effects due to high body mass index (BMI) remain uncertain in China. The trends of high-BMI-related death in China were evaluated and predicted until 2040 using data and methods from the Global Burden...
Based on the method for identifying the boundary of movable water bodies (MWBB), the spatial distribution of reclamation projects in the Guangxi Beibu Gulf were identified over the past 40 years and the impact of these engineering facilities on hydro...
The Chinese Loess Plateau has undertaken a large-scale “Grain for Green” project since 1999. Understanding how reforestation affects soil moisture is crucial for ecological construction and the region’s revegetation. In this study,...
This study analyzes the changes in rainfall intensities across Taiwan using the k-Nearest Neighbor method. Biases are corrected according to the identified discrepancy between the probability distribution of the model run and that of the observed dat...
The presented paper describes a hardware-accelerated field programmable gate array (FPGA)–based solution capable of real-time stereo matching for temporal statistical pattern projector systems. Modern 3D measurement systems have seen an increased use...
The reduction in agricultural carbon emissions (ACEs) in Shandong Province is essential to China’s carbon peak and carbon neutrality objectives. In this regard, we constructed an ACE inventory for Shandong Province at a resolution of 1 km &time...
In a multifrequency phase-shifting (MFPS) algorithm, the temporal phase unwrapping algorithm can extend the unambiguous phase range by transforming the measurement range from a short fringe pitch into an extended synthetic pitch of two different freq...
The performance of dynamically downscaled climate fields with respect to observed historical stream runoff has been assessed at basin scale using a physically distributed hydrologic model (DHSVM). The dynamically downscaled climate fields were genera...
Nonautonomous nonlinear (NN) systems have broad application prospects and significant research value in nonlinear science. In this paper, a new synchronization type—namely, generalized bi-variable function projective synchronization (GBVFPS)&md...
(1) Background: BPD is characterized by affect dysregulation, interpersonal problems, and disturbances in attachment, but neuroimaging studies investigating attachment representations in BPD are rare. No study has examined longitudinal neural changes...
A highly robust dual-frequency hierarchical temporal phase unwrapping (DHTPU) based on the novel spatial computer-generated Moiré profilometry (SCGMP) is proposed. The method requires only three patterns: a high-frequency fringe to provide rob...
Over the past two decades, large-scale ecological restoration in the Loess Plateau has significantly transformed land use and land cover (LULC) in the Wuding River Basin (WRB), improving ecological governance and environmental conditions. This study...
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