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3 Citations
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Extended Graph of Fuzzy Topographic Topological Mapping Model: G04(FTTMn4)

  • Noorsufia Abd Shukor,
  • Tahir Ahmad,
  • Amidora Idris,
  • Siti Rahmah Awang,
  • Muhammad Zillullah Mukaram and
  • Norma Alias

15 December 2022

Fuzzy topological topographic mapping (FTTM) is a mathematical model that consists of a set of homeomorphic topological spaces designed to solve the neuro magnetic inverse problem. The key to the model is its topological structure that can accommodat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Graph and Hypergraph Theory)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,235 Views
9 Pages

Pseudo-Lucas Functions of Fractional Degree and Applications

  • Clemente Cesarano,
  • Pierpaolo Natalini and
  • Paolo Emilio Ricci

2 April 2021

In a recent article, the first and second kinds of multivariate Chebyshev polynomials of fractional degree, and the relevant integral repesentations, have been studied. In this article, we introduce the first and second kinds of pseudo-Lucas function...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Special Functions Associated with Fractional Calculus)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,342 Views
10 Pages

28 November 2018

The complex Bernoulli spiral is connected to Grandi curves and Chebyshev polynomials. In this framework, pseudo-Chebyshev polynomials are introduced, and some of their properties are borrowed to form classical trigonometric identities; in particular,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integral Transforms and Operational Calculus)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,404 Views
11 Pages

16 June 2020

Here, in this paper, the second-kind multivariate pseudo-Chebyshev functions of fractional degree are introduced by using the Dunford–Taylor integral. As an application, the problem of finding matrix roots for a wide class of non-singular compl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Analysis and Analytic Number Theory 2020)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,820 Views
23 Pages

31 October 2023

At present, a large number of two-degree-of-freedom piezoelectrically driven compliant mechanisms (2-DOF PDCMs) have been widely adopted to construct various elliptical vibration machining (EVM) devices employed in precisely fabricating functional mi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Progress of Ultra-Precision Micro-Nano Machining)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,135 Views
15 Pages

Extended Graph of the Fuzzy Topographic Topological Mapping Model

  • Muhammad Zillullah Mukaram,
  • Tahir Ahmad,
  • Norma Alias,
  • Noorsufia Abd Shukor and
  • Faridah Mustapha

18 November 2021

Fuzzy topological topographic mapping (FTTM) is a mathematical model which consists of a set of homeomorphic topological spaces designed to solve the neuro magnetic inverse problem. A sequence of FTTM, FTTMn, is an extension of FTTM that is arranged...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Symmetry Applied in Graph Theory)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,718 Views
17 Pages

In radar network systems, target tracks reported from different radars need to be associated and fused, and the track-to-track association (TTTA) effect is a key factor that directly affects the performance of the entire system. In order to solve the...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,810 Views
18 Pages

27 May 2024

Welded tuffs have a wide range of welding degrees and show significant variability in mechanical behavior. However, the detailed influence of welding degree on the meso-mechanical behavior of welded tuffs remains unclear. Based on petrographic and po...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanical and Metallurgical Behaviour of Welded Materials)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,433 Views
11 Pages

The Third and Fourth Kind Pseudo-Chebyshev Polynomials of Half-Integer Degree

  • Clemente Cesarano,
  • Sandra Pinelas and
  • Paolo Emilio Ricci

20 February 2019

New sets of orthogonal functions, which correspond to the first, second, third, and fourth kind Chebyshev polynomials with half-integer indexes, have been recently introduced. In this article, links of these new sets of irrational functions to the th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Analysis or Numerical Method in Symmetry)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,230 Views
26 Pages

2 September 2024

In the information age, the new wave of the information technology revolution has profoundly changed our mode of production and way of life. Pseudo human settlements (PHS), consisting of digits and information, have become increasingly important in h...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urbanization and Environmental Sustainability—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,917 Views
7 Pages

2 August 2020

A novel class of pseudo-Chebyshev functions has been recently introduced, and the relevant analytical properties in terms of governing differential equation, recurrence formulae, and orthogonality have been analyzed in detail for half-integer degrees...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theory and Applications of Special Functions in Mathematical Physics)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,119 Views
21 Pages

20 February 2023

A suitable living environment is the common aspiration of city residents and the inherent requirement of sustainable development. This paper takes 114 resource-based cities in China as the research objects, constructs a pseudo human settlement enviro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Development Trends in Environmental Economics, Environmental Policy and Regional Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,833 Views
11 Pages

15 February 2019

The third and fourth pseudo-Chebyshev irrational functions of half-integer degree are defined. Their definitions are connected to those of the first- and second-kind pseudo-Chebyshev functions. Their orthogonality properties are shown, with respect t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Special Functions and Applications)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
17,920 Views
30 Pages

28 December 2022

As the video content online becomes more and more diverse and rich, YouTube has become the most commonly used video platform by the public. When choosing a product brand, viewers give priority to products recommended by their favorite YouTubers. To o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability Management Strategies and Practices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,557 Views
22 Pages

15 June 2024

The construction of pseudo human settlements in the context of “digital-real integration” in the information age is crucial for the high-quality development of human settlements in the new era. This study aimed to investigate the spatio-t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers for Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions Section)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,422 Views
12 Pages

Kinetics of Ion-Exchange Extraction of Lithium from Aqueous Solutions by Protonated Potassium Polytitanates

  • Maria Vikulova,
  • Lilia Maximova,
  • Valeria Rudyh,
  • Nikolay Gorshkov and
  • Alexander Gorokhovsky

2 November 2022

In this work, protonated forms of potassium polytitanate were obtained by treating the precursor in HCl solution at pH 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, or 7.0. The synthesized materials were studied using XRD, FTIR, and XRF. The ion-exchange properties were...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Innovative Engineering Materials and Processes (II))
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,964 Views
14 Pages

1 April 2020

Semi-supervised learning can be used to solve the problem of insufficient labeled samples in the process industry. However, in an actual scenario, traditional semi-supervised learning methods usually do not achieve satisfactory performance when the s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fault Detection and Process Diagnostics by Using Big Data Analytics in Industrial Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,176 Views
21 Pages

Effect of the Crosslinker Introduction Stage on the Structure and Properties of Xanthan Gum–Acrylamide Graft Copolymer

  • Anton K. Smirnov,
  • Diana F. Pelipenko,
  • Sergei L. Shmakov,
  • Andrey M. Zakharevich and
  • Anna B. Shipovskaya

24 October 2025

Graft copolymers of polysaccharides with side chains of carbon-chain monomers have significant potential for a variety of practical applications. In this work, the effect of the N,N-methylenebisacrylamide (MBA) introduction stage and acrylamide conce...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,658 Views
16 Pages

General Pseudo Quasi-Overlap Functions on Lattices

  • Rui Eduardo Brasileiro Paiva and
  • Benjamín René Callejas Bedregal

11 August 2022

The notion of general quasi-overlaps on bounded lattices was introduced as a special class of symmetric n-dimensional aggregation functions on bounded lattices satisfying some bound conditions and which do not need to be continuous. In this paper, we...

(This article belongs to the Section Logic)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,810 Views
14 Pages

24 June 2022

Non-Hermitian (NH) quantum theory has been attracting increased research interest due to its featured properties, novel phenomena, and links to open and dissipative systems. Typical NH systems include PT-symmetric systems, pseudo-Hermitian systems, a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Computing for Complex Dynamics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,074 Views
15 Pages

3 August 2021

The method of pseudo-static analysis has been widely used to perform seismic slope stability, in which a seismic coefficient is used to represent the earthquake shaking effect. However, it is important but difficult to select the magnitude of seismic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Reliability and Optimization for Engineering Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,087 Views
29 Pages

11 July 2025

Presented in this work is a harmonic balance (HB)-based pseudo-time code-coupling approach applied to a one-degree-of-freedom vortex-induced vibration (VIV) problem of a circular cylinder in a low-Reynolds-number laminar flow regime. Unlike physical...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical and Computational Fluid Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,212 Views
14 Pages

15 November 2019

Time-of-flight (ToF)-based 3-D target localization is a very challenging topic because of the pseudo-targets introduced by ToF measurement errors in traditional ToF-based methods. Although the influence of errors in ToF measurement can be reduced by...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,054 Views
15 Pages

8 August 2020

The Long Range Navigation (Loran) system as a backup of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is a good choice. The dominant deterioration factors of position accuracy are the pseudo-range measurement errors and the geometric dilution of prec...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
4,677 Views
19 Pages

23 November 2017

Hesitant fuzzy linguistic decision making is a focus point in linguistic decision making, in which the main method is based on preference ordering. This paper develops a new hesitant fuzzy linguistic TOPSIS method for group multi-criteria linguistic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,340 Views
17 Pages

Cooperative Hybrid Semi-Supervised Learning for Text Sentiment Classification

  • Yang Li,
  • Ying Lv,
  • Suge Wang,
  • Jiye Liang,
  • Juanzi Li and
  • Xiaoli Li

24 January 2019

A large-scale and high-quality training dataset is an important guarantee to learn an ideal classifier for text sentiment classification. However, manually constructing such a training dataset with sentiment labels is a labor-intensive and time-consu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,174 Views
20 Pages

8 March 2023

We seek a simple but physically motivated model of strongly interacting matter applicable in atomic nuclei and the dense matter in the core of neutron stars. For densities below and somewhat above normal nuclear density, energy density functional (ED...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetries and Ultra Dense Matter of Compact Stars)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,035 Views
13 Pages

Besinc Pseudo-Schell Model Sources with Circular Coherence

  • Rosario Martínez-Herrero,
  • Gemma Piquero,
  • Juan Carlos González de Sande,
  • Massimo Santarsiero and
  • Franco Gori

4 July 2019

Partially coherent sources with non-conventional coherence properties present unusual behaviors during propagation, which have potential application in fields like optical trapping and microscopy. Recently, partially coherent sources exhibiting circu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Statistical Optics and Plasmonics)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,845 Views
17 Pages

15 December 2023

In this paper, we present an efficient method for constructing symmetric subdivision schemes reproducing high-degree polynomials, without solving a system of linear equations. Original symmetric subdivision and its deduced subdivisions have similar i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
365 Views
14 Pages

27 April 2026

In quantitative logic, the Δ operator plays a crucial role in defuzzification by mapping multi-valued truth values to classical two-valued ones. This paper introduces and investigates the Δ-randomized divergent degree and consistent degre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Fuzzy Logic and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
5,212 Views
10 Pages

Compliant Micron-Sized Patterned InGaN Pseudo-Substrates Utilizing Porous GaN

  • Shubhra S. Pasayat,
  • Chirag Gupta,
  • Yifan Wang,
  • Steven P. DenBaars,
  • Shuji Nakamura,
  • Stacia Keller and
  • Umesh K. Mishra

4 January 2020

The compliant behavior of densely packed 10 × 10 µm2 square patterned InGaN layers on top of porous GaN is demonstrated. The elastic relaxation of the InGaN layers is enabled by the low stiffness of the porous GaN under layer. High resolu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
6,698 Views
15 Pages

Ion Doping Effects on the Lattice Distortion and Interlayer Mismatch of Aurivillius-Type Bismuth Titanate Compounds

  • Yu Chen,
  • Jiageng Xu,
  • Shaoxiong Xie,
  • Zhi Tan,
  • Rui Nie,
  • Zhongwei Guan,
  • Qingyuan Wang and
  • Jianguo Zhu

17 May 2018

Taking Bismuth Titanate (Bi4Ti3O12) as a Aurivillius-type compound with m = 3 for example, the ion (W6+/Cr3+) doping effect on the lattice distortion and interlayer mismatch of Bi4Ti3O12 structure were investigated by stress analysis, based on an ela...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Materials Characterization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,685 Views
18 Pages

26 April 2023

An analytical solution is obtained for the problem of two interacting, identical but separated spin 1/2 particles in a time-dependent external magnetic field, in a general case. The solution involves isolating the pseudo-qutrit subsystem from a two-q...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,674 Views
25 Pages

Among various data analysis methods, classifier ensemble (data classification) and community network detection (data clustering) have aroused the interest of many scholars. The maximum operator, as the fusion function, was always used to fuse the res...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractal and Fractional Statistics for Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Quantum Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,123 Views
13 Pages

Extraction of Copper from Sulfuric Acid Solutions Based on Pseudo-Liquid Membrane Technology

  • Artak E. Kostanyan,
  • Vera V. Belova,
  • Yulia A. Zakhodyaeva and
  • Andrey A. Voshkin

Pseudo-liquid membranes are extraction devices in which a liquid membrane phase is retained in an apparatus consisting of two interconnected chambers while feed and stripping phases pass through the stationary liquid membrane phase as mobile phases....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Membrane Systems for Metal Ion Extraction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,474 Views
18 Pages

8 November 2023

In this present work, a new kind of sulfurized hydrodesulfurization catalyst was synthesized via the hydrothermal treatment of MoS2, NiCO3·2Ni(OH)2·4H2O, and Al2O3 precursors, followed by annealing under a H2 atmosphere, which does not...

(This article belongs to the Section Catalysis Enhanced Processes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,603 Views
27 Pages

Synthesis and Characterization of ONO Pincer Ligand Precursors and Metal Complexes with Ethyl, Isopropyl and Tert-Butyl Wingtip Groups

  • John R. Miecznikowski,
  • Olivier J. C. Nicaise,
  • Brandon Q. Mercado,
  • Abigail J. Araujo,
  • Natalia R. Bertolotti,
  • Samantha L. Erickson,
  • Joseph P. Trucchio,
  • Michael J. Corbett,
  • Connor J. Padover and
  • Isaac P. Ouellette
  • + 2 authors

27 February 2025

We have synthesized novel cobalt(II) and nickel(II) pincer ligand complexes containing novel tridentate ligand precursors that coordinate via oxygen, nitrogen, and oxygen donor atoms. The novel tridentate ONO ligands, which are neutral, incorporate a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of International Crystallography)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,573 Views
12 Pages

Kinetic Characterization of Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Apple Pomace as Feedstock for a Sugar-Based Biorefinery

  • Alessandra Procentese,
  • Maria Elena Russo,
  • Ilaria Di Somma and
  • Antonio Marzocchella

26 February 2020

The enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose from biomass feedstock in the sugar-based biorefinery chain is penalized by enzyme cost and difficulty to approach the theoretical maximum cellulose conversion degree. As a consequence, the process is currently i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancements in Catalytic Conversion of Biomass into Biofuels and Chemicals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,518 Views
18 Pages

27 June 2012

A matrix Kalman filter (MKF) has been implemented for an integrated navigation system using visual/inertial/magnetic sensors. The MKF rearranges the original nonlinear process model in a pseudo-linear process model. We employ the observability rank c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends towards Automatic Vehicle Control and Perception Systems)
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  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,080 Views
13 Pages

Hyperbranched Polycaprolactone through RAFT Polymerization of 2-Methylene-1,3-dioxepane

  • Ping Xu,
  • Xiaofei Huang,
  • Xiangqiang Pan,
  • Na Li,
  • Jian Zhu and
  • Xiulin Zhu

13 February 2019

Hyperbranched polycaprolactone with controlled structure was synthesized by reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer radical ring-opening polymerization along with self-condensed vinyl polymerization (SCVP) of 2-methylene-1,3-dioxepane (MDO)....

(This article belongs to the Collection Design and Synthesis of Polymers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,684 Views
18 Pages

Novel Kinetic Models of Xylan Dissolution and Degradation during Ethanol Based Auto-Catalyzed Organosolv Pretreatment of Bamboo

  • Jing Liu,
  • Zhenggang Gong,
  • Guangxu Yang,
  • Lihui Chen,
  • Liulian Huang,
  • Yonghui Zhou and
  • Xiaolin Luo

15 October 2018

Due to the invalidity of traditional models, pretreatment conditions dependent parameter of susceptible dissolution degree of xylan (dX) was introduced into the kinetic models. After the introduction of dX, the dissolution of xylan, and the formation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,230 Views
13 Pages

2 January 2026

Although an edition of Petrus Hispanus’ commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius’ De divinis nominibus has long been available, his contribution to the pivotal question of beauty—so extensively explored by medieval commentators on this treati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Disseminating Christian Beliefs Through Word and Image in Medieval and Renaissance Times)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,698 Views
14 Pages

Effect of Characteristics of Ground Motion on Seismically Induced Sliding Surface of Slopes

  • Muhammad Irslan Khalid,
  • Yonggook Lee,
  • Yonghee Lee,
  • Hak-Sung Kim and
  • Duhee Park

8 June 2021

The seismic performance of slopes is typically evaluated with a pseudo-static method using equivalent horizontal load or with Newmark sliding block analysis. In both procedures, the definition of the potential sliding surface is a required input. The...

(This article belongs to the Section Civil Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,465 Views
16 Pages

Curvature Control for Plane Curves

  • Fatma Karakus,
  • Cristina-Liliana Pripoae and
  • Gabriel-Teodor Pripoae

21 January 2025

We define a family of special functions (the CSI ones), which can be used to write any parameterized plane curve with polynomial curvature explicitly. These special functions generalize the Fresnel integrals, and may have an interest in their own rig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,679 Views
14 Pages

23 November 2022

In this paper, we proposed two mixed algorithms of Newton’s and Abbasbandy’s methods using a known iteration scheme from fixed point theory in polynomiography. We numerically investigated some properties of the proposed algorithms using p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Nonlinear and Convex Analysis)
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  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,942 Views
26 Pages

Efficient Removal of Cu(II) from Wastewater Using Chitosan Derived from Shrimp Shells: A Kinetic, Thermodynamic, Optimization, and Modelling Study

  • Kheira Benazouz,
  • Nasma Bouchelkia,
  • Hamza Moussa,
  • Razika Boutheldja,
  • Meriem Zamouche,
  • Abdeltif Amrane,
  • Chelliah Parvathiraja,
  • Hamad A. Al-Lohedan,
  • Jean-Claude Bollinger and
  • Lotfi Mouni

16 March 2025

Chitosan was hydro-thermally extracted from grey shrimp carapaces and characterized using various techniques (degree of deacetylation (DD), viscosity, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and surface area analysis (BE...

(This article belongs to the Section Wastewater Treatment and Reuse)
  • Case Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,962 Views
11 Pages

Complete Pseudo-Anodontia in an Adult Woman with Pseudo-Hypoparathyroidism Type 1a: A New Additional Nonclassical Feature?

  • Salvatore Sciacchitano,
  • Gian Paolo De Francesco,
  • Maria Piane,
  • Camilla Savio,
  • Claudia De Vitis,
  • Simona Petrucci,
  • Valentina Salvati,
  • Marina Goldoni,
  • Marco Fabiani and
  • Rita Mancini
  • + 5 authors

30 November 2022

Pseudo-anodontia consists in the clinical, not radiographic, absence of teeth, due to failure in their eruption. It has been reported as part of an extremely rare syndrome, named GAPO syndrome. Pseudo-hypoparathyroidism type 1a (PHPT-1a) is a rare co...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Diagnosis of Dental Diseases)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,994 Views
20 Pages

Minimum-Run Resolution IV Design for Optimized Bio Removal of Fe2+ Using Enteromorpha intestinalis Aqueous Extract and Its Extract-Coated Silver Nanoparticles

  • Doaa G. El-Hosari,
  • Fatma A. Mokhtar,
  • Hussein A. Khalaf,
  • Ahmed R. N. Ibrahim,
  • Rehab M. Mohamed and
  • Mofida E. M. Makhlof

26 December 2024

Biosorbents have demonstrated considerable potential for the remediation of metals in aqueous environments. An aqueous extract of Enteromorpha intestinalis L. (EiE) and its extract-coated silver nanoparticles have been prepared and employed for the r...

(This article belongs to the Section Phytochemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,684 Views
19 Pages

9 October 2021

The classification of aerial scenes has been extensively studied as the basic work of remote sensing image processing and interpretation. However, the performance of remote sensing image scene classification based on deep neural networks is limited b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Deep Learning Based 3D Scene Understanding from LiDAR)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,759 Views
16 Pages

Investigation of Fatigue Performance for In-Service Asphalt Pavement Mixtures Using Push-Pull Fatigue Test

  • Zhanming Zhang,
  • Duo Xu,
  • Yunlong Fan,
  • Hui Ma,
  • Zihao Ding,
  • Jiwang Jiang,
  • Jie Li and
  • Tao Ma

4 February 2025

With the increasing service life of asphalt pavements, fatigue cracking has become a typical distress that significantly affects the structural lifespan of in-service asphalt pavements. To address the issues of high variability in laboratory fatigue...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Surface Engineering and Mechanical Properties of Building Materials)

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