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26 Citations
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23 August 2021

Pristine graphene is one of the strongest materials known in the world, and may play important roles in structural and functional materials. In order to utilize the extraordinary mechanical properties in practical engineering structures, graphene sho...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Structure, Function and Mechanics of Low-Dimensional Materials and Their Assemblies)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,366 Views
24 Pages

23 May 2022

In order to more accurately realize the automatic identification and quantitative characterization of coral reef multi-scale pore structure, this paper has carried out such research. On the basis of using multiple information acquisition technology,...

(This article belongs to the Section Surface Sciences and Technology)
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  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,832 Views
18 Pages

Effect of Phosphorylation on the Structure and Emulsification Properties of Different Fish Scale Gelatins

  • Mei Yang,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Xin Guo,
  • Xiaorong Deng,
  • Shihua Kang,
  • Xinrong Zhu and
  • Xiaobing Guo

11 March 2022

This study aimed to investigate the effect of phosphorylation on the structure and emulsification of Coregonus peled, Esox lucius and Grass carp scale gelatin. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and endogenous fluorescence spectra showed...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Physics and (Bio)Chemistry)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,642 Views
20 Pages

The Scale Effect Study on the Transient Fluid–Structure Coupling Performance of Composite Propellers

  • Zheng Huang,
  • Zhangtao Chen,
  • Yanbing Zhang,
  • Ying Xiong and
  • Kemin Duan

11 November 2022

In order to predict the fluid–structure coupling performance of a full-scale composite propeller under a wake flow field behind a full ship, a bidirectional transient fluid–structure coupling algorithm was established. The performance inc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fluid/Structure Interactions II)
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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,182 Views
26 Pages

17 June 2021

In order to enhance the scientific understanding of the transition law of rural residential areas and enrich the theory and method system of land use transition research, this article takes Shandong Province as an example and constructs a comprehensi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Use Transitions under Rapid Urbanization)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,736 Views
13 Pages

29 May 2013

Halo models of the large scale structure of the Universe are critically examined, focusing on the definition of halos as smooth distributions of cold dark matter. This definition is essentially based on the results of cosmological N-body simulations....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cosmology with Fluid Components)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
677 Views
30 Pages

14 March 2026

High-power ultrasound has been widely used to regulate the anti-digestibility of starch-based products, including the formation of resistant starch (RS-V) in amylopectin assemblies. This can contribute to the attenuation of postprandial hyperglycemia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research and Development of Carbohydrate from Foods—2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,966 Views
28 Pages

Tubular Structure Segmentation via Multi-Scale Reverse Attention Sparse Convolution

  • Xueqiang Zeng,
  • Yingwei Guo,
  • Asim Zaman,
  • Haseeb Hassan,
  • Jiaxi Lu,
  • Jiaxuan Xu,
  • Huihui Yang,
  • Xiaoqiang Miao,
  • Anbo Cao and
  • Yan Kang
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Cerebrovascular and airway structures are tubular structures used for transporting blood and gases, respectively, providing essential support for the normal activities of the human body. Accurately segmenting these tubular structures is the basis of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning in Signal and Image Analysis for Biomedical Application)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,511 Views
20 Pages

Detecting Urban Mobility Structure and Learning Functional Distribution with Multi-Scale Features

  • Jia Li,
  • Chuanwei Lu,
  • Haiyan Liu,
  • Jing Li,
  • Dewei Zhou and
  • Qingyun Liu

26 June 2025

Urban mobility structure detection and functional distribution learning are significant for urban planning and management. However, existing methods have limitations in handling complex urban data and capturing global spatial structure features. To d...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Data Processing and Management: Technologies and Applications)
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  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,942 Views
14 Pages

Disintegrating the Structure and Improving the Functionalities of Pea Fiber by Industry-Scale Microfluidizer System

  • Xiaohong He,
  • Taotao Dai,
  • Jian Sun,
  • Ruihong Liang,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Mingshun Chen,
  • Jun Chen and
  • Chengmei Liu

31 January 2022

In the food industry, the most prominent and concerned points in the application of dietary fiber are hydration properties and oil absorption capacity. The target of this work was to investigate the impact of a novel industry-scale microfluidizer sys...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on the Properties of Polysaccharides, Starch, Protein, Pectin, and Fibre in Food Processing)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,161 Views
14 Pages

Study of Ice Load on Hull Structure Based on Full-Scale Measurements in Bohai Sea

  • Guanhui Zhao,
  • Cuina Zhao,
  • Xiang Xia,
  • Rui Lin,
  • Shuaikang He,
  • Xiaodong Chen and
  • Shunying Ji

3 December 2025

Ice load is a crucial factor when designing structures for polar vessels. Due to the unpredictable nature of sea ice mechanics and the complexity of ship structures, obtaining ice load characteristics through full-scale measurements is considered mor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics and Control of Marine Mechatronics)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,898 Views
17 Pages

18 September 2023

China’s carbon emissions have a stable industrial concentration. In recent years, the carbon emissions of the six major high-carbon industries have accounted for approximately 80% of the national total and are thus priority areas for emission r...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
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685 Views
41 Pages

5 July 2026

Ecological porous concrete (EPC) offers both structural performance and ecosystem services, yet an inherent contradiction exists between the ecological benefits of high porosity and mechanical performance. Traditional design methods focusing solely o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Construction and Building Materials: Microstructure, Mechanical Performance, and Long-Term Durability)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,205 Views
18 Pages

19 November 2021

Taking China’s industrial land transfer data as the data source, this study quantitatively analyzes the transfer structure and spatial distribution of China’s industrial land from 2010 to 2019. By constructing the information entropy and the equilibr...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,271 Views
21 Pages

Parallel Structure from Motion for Sparse Point Cloud Generation in Large-Scale Scenes

  • Yongtang Bao,
  • Pengfei Lin,
  • Yao Li,
  • Yue Qi,
  • Zhihui Wang,
  • Wenxiang Du and
  • Qing Fan

7 June 2021

Scene reconstruction uses images or videos as input to reconstruct a 3D model of a real scene and has important applications in smart cities, surveying and mapping, military, and other fields. Structure from motion (SFM) is a key step in scene recons...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 3D Object and Scene Detection, Reconstruction, Segmentation Based on Advanced Sensing Technology)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,581 Views
19 Pages

3 January 2023

In order to solve the problem of testing the water pressure resistance of lining structures of water-rich tunnels and the difficulty of implementing the existing model tests, a large-scale model test method was proposed relying on the New Yuanliangsh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Novel Civil Engineering Materials Integrated with Structures)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,687 Views
24 Pages

Hierarchical Multi-Scale Mamba with Tubular Structure-Aware Convolution for Retinal Vessel Segmentation

  • Tao Wang,
  • Dongyuan Tian,
  • Haonan Zhao,
  • Jiamin Liu,
  • Weijie Wang,
  • Chunpei Li and
  • Guixia Liu

14 August 2025

Retinal vessel segmentation plays a crucial role in diagnosing various retinal and cardiovascular diseases and serves as a foundation for computer-aided diagnostic systems. Blood vessels in color retinal fundus images, captured using fundus cameras,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Methods in Artificial Intelligence and Information Processing, Third Edition)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,523 Views
22 Pages

11 January 2025

Profiting from the surprising non-linear expressive capacity, deep convolutional neural networks have inspired lots of progress in low illumination (LI) remote sensing image enhancement. The key lies in sufficiently exploiting both the specific long-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Image Thorough Analysis by Advanced Machine Learning)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,020 Views
15 Pages

19 August 2024

Excavations for underground structures, such as working shafts, underground grain silos, and parking garages, are characterized by uniformity, consistent dimensions, large quantities, and strict timelines. Prefabricated recyclable supporting structur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geomechanics and Geotechnical Engineering Problems in the Design and Construction of Underground Buildings)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,816 Views
13 Pages

Continental-Scale Investigation of Underlying Electrical Conductivity Structure in Mainland China Using Geomagnetic Data

  • Zhiqiang Mao,
  • Chieh-Hung Chen,
  • Aisa Yisimayili,
  • Bin Chen,
  • Jiehao Yuan,
  • Yongxin Gao,
  • Yang-Yi Sun and
  • Kai Lin

28 February 2023

The magnetotelluric method has been used to fully study regional electrical conductivity structures in different areas in mainland China; however, there is a lack of overall understanding of the electrical structure distribution. A novel insight for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Observation and Simulation of the Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Space Coupling)
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2 Citations
2,350 Views
18 Pages

Multi-Scale Feature Residual Feedback Network for Super-Resolution Reconstruction of the Vertical Structure of the Radar Echo

  • Xiangyu Fu,
  • Qiangyu Zeng,
  • Ming Zhu,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Hao Wang,
  • Qingqing Chen,
  • Qiu Yu and
  • Linlin Xie

23 July 2023

The vertical structure of radar echo is crucial for understanding complex microphysical processes of clouds and precipitation, and for providing essential data support for the study of low-level wind shear and turbulence formation, evolution, and dis...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Doppler Radar: Signal, Data and Applications)
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15 October 2026

Long-term time series forecasting is important in energy, transportation, and meteorology, yet existing methods struggle to model multi-scale features and preserve local sequence structure. We propose PatchRNN, a decomposition- and structure-aware fr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Data Analytics and Mining)
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1 Citations
1,825 Views
16 Pages

21 February 2024

A time scale is a special measure chain that can unify continuous and discrete spaces, enabling the construction of integrable equations. In this paper, with the Lax operator generated by the displacement operator, N-dimensional lattice integrable sy...

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17 Citations
6,158 Views
22 Pages

China has entered an era of rapid high-speed railway (HSR) development and the spatial structure of urban agglomerations will evolve in parallel with the development and evolution of the spatial structure of the HSR network. In this study, we explore...

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2,938 Views
18 Pages

Analysis of the Internal Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Entrapment Scale in Spanish Adolescents and Emerging Adults

  • Ana Huertes-del Arco,
  • Eva Izquierdo-Sotorrío,
  • Isabel Ramírez-Uclés,
  • Miguel A. Carrasco and
  • Francisco Pablo Holgado-Tello

The Entrapment Scale was developed to measure the feeling of being trapped by external situations or internal experiences (such as thoughts and emotions) without the possibility of escape. This perception, especially when combined with feelings of de...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,881 Views
18 Pages

The accurate characterization of soil structure is fundamental to groundwater science, environmental ecology, and Earth systems science. To address the challenge of quantifying the high spatial variability of large-scale soil structures, this study u...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,348 Views
13 Pages

Preparation and CMAS Wettability Investigation of CMAS Corrosion Resistant Protective Layer with Micro-Nano Double Scale Structure

  • Yihao Wang,
  • Zhenning Xu,
  • Weize Wang,
  • Chengcheng Zhang,
  • Zexin Yu,
  • Huanjie Fang and
  • Ting Yang

Solution precursor plasma spray (SPPS) can prepare thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) with nanostructures, which can modify the adhesion and wettability of molten silicate environmental deposits (CMAS) on the surface of TBCs, thereby improving the resis...

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3 Citations
3,976 Views
20 Pages

7 December 2020

In natural plant populations, a fine-scale spatial genetic structure (SGS) can result from limited gene flow, selection pressures or spatial autocorrelation. However, limited gene flow is considered the predominant determinant in the establishment of...

(This article belongs to the Section Plant–Soil Interactions)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,443 Views
33 Pages

18 February 2021

Nanoscale pore structure characteristics and their main controlling factors are key elements affecting the gas storage capacity, permeability, and the accumulation mechanism of shale. A multidisciplinary analytical program was applied to quantify the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mechanics of Nanostructures and Nanomaterials)
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  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,122 Views
17 Pages

28 September 2020

The financial sustainability of large-scale sport stadiums has become a challenging issue for sport organizations in China due to increasing market competition, lack of professional sport franchises to tenant the facilities, and gradual slow-down in...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,328 Views
25 Pages

15 July 2025

Lightweight visual models are crucial for industrial defect detection tasks. Traditional methods and even some lightweight detectors often struggle with the trade-off between high computational demands and insufficient accuracy. To overcome these iss...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,028 Views
21 Pages

Large–Small-Scale Structure Blended U-Net for Brightening Low-Light Images

  • Hao Cheng,
  • Kaixin Pan,
  • Haoxiang Lu,
  • Wenhao Wang and
  • Zhenbing Liu

28 May 2025

Numerous existing methods demonstrate impressive performance in brightening low-illumination images but fail in detail enhancement and color correction. To tackle these challenges, this paper proposes a dual-branch network including three main parts:...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,154 Views
20 Pages

Different Varieties of Water Caltrop (Trapa bispinosa) Starch: Physicochemical Properties and Digestibility Modulated by Its Multi-Scale Structure

  • Tengfei Ma,
  • Qiong Wu,
  • Yuyang Yuan,
  • Xiaoxin Chen,
  • Qinlu Lin,
  • Huaxi Xiao,
  • Jiangtao Li and
  • Wenfang Han

14 December 2025

This study assessed the physicochemical properties and digestibility of starches derived from five varieties of water caltrop, focusing on their multi-scale structure. Water caltrop starch granules exhibited round, oval, or polygonal shapes with smoo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Starch: Properties and Functionality in Food Systems)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,133 Views
20 Pages

29 August 2021

The objective of the study was to elucidate the kinematics of cone opening in the European larch (Larix decidua Mill.) during a four-step seed extraction process and to determine optimum process time on that basis. Each step lasted 8 h with 10 min of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers in Materials Simulation and Design)
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  • Open Access
221 Views
17 Pages

Mating System and Fine-Scale Spatial Genetic Structure of the Tropical Epiphytic Orchid Rhynchostylis gigantea

  • Wen-Chang Li,
  • Zhi-Heng Chen,
  • Hao-Tian Zhong,
  • Ming-Xun Ren,
  • Zhe Zhang and
  • Xi-Qiang Song

14 September 2026

Habitat fragmentation caused by human activities threatens plant genetic diversity, but the mechanisms shaping gene flow and spatial genetic structure in epiphytic orchids remain poorly understood. Here, we investigated the genetic structure and gene...

(This article belongs to the Section Molecular Plant Sciences)
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  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,600 Views
14 Pages

Unraveling the Genetic Structure of the Coconut Scale Insect Pest (Aspidiotus rigidus Reyne) Outbreak Populations in the Philippines

  • Joeselle M. Serrana,
  • Naoto Ishitani,
  • Thaddeus M. Carvajal,
  • Billy Joel M. Almarinez,
  • Alberto T. Barrion,
  • Divina M. Amalin and
  • Kozo Watanabe

26 October 2019

Despite the fact that massive outbreaks of the coconut scale insect pest, Aspidiotus rigidus Reyne (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) are inflicting significant economic losses to the Philippines’ coconut industry, little is known about the population an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cutting-Edge Evolution of Insects: Factors Governing Ecological Divergence of Natural Populations Assessed Using Molecular and Genetic Markers)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,578 Views
14 Pages

14 December 2021

This study revealed the underlying mechanisms involved in the puffing process of dried cassava starch gel by exploring the development of the puffed structure of gel upon sand-frying, chiefly focused on the changes in the multi-scale structure and th...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomacromolecules: Carbohydrates)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,978 Views
19 Pages

The Influence of Ocean Processes on Fine-Scale Changes in the Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass Boundary Area Structure Based on Acoustic Observations

  • Lingyun Nie,
  • Jianchao Li,
  • Hao Wu,
  • Wenchao Zhang,
  • Yongjun Tian,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Peng Sun,
  • Zhenjiang Ye,
  • Shuyang Ma and
  • Qinfeng Gao

31 August 2023

The boundary of Yellow Sea Cold Water Mass (YSCWM) is a key ocean frontal structure influencing the regional ecosystem. Complex oceanic processes such as tidal currents, upwelling, and internal waves influence fine-scale hydrological structures, comp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Remote Sensing for the Study of Coastal and Shelf Seas Dynamics)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,339 Views
20 Pages

Comparative Study on Full-Scale Pore Structure Characterization and Gas Adsorption Capacity of Shale and Coal Reservoirs

  • Mukun Ouyang,
  • Bo Wang,
  • Xinan Yu,
  • Wei Tang,
  • Maonan Yu,
  • Chunli You,
  • Jianghai Yang,
  • Tao Wang and
  • Ze Deng

14 July 2025

Shale and coal in the transitional marine–continental facies of the Ordos Basin serve as unconventional natural gas reservoirs, with their pore structures controlling gas adsorption characteristics and occurrence states. To quantitatively chara...

(This article belongs to the Topic Reservoir Characteristics and Evolution Mechanisms of the Shale)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,016 Views
23 Pages

21 November 2025

Multiple ocular diseases frequently coexist in fundus images, while image quality is highly susceptible to imaging conditions and patient cooperation, often manifesting as blurring, underexposure, and indistinct lesion regions. These challenges signi...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,750 Views
31 Pages

28 January 2025

Adjacent existing box girder bridges should be spliced in the long-span bridge expansion project. A type of integral splicing composite structure for connecting the adjacent flange plates is designed herein. The mechanical characteristic of the integ...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Emerging Technologies for Structural Design, Inspection, and Maintenance)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,041 Views
17 Pages

Nano-Scale Pore Structure Characterization and Its Controlling Factors in Wufeng and Longmaxi Shale in the Zigong Area, Southwest Sichuan Basin

  • Zhongcheng Li,
  • Zhidong Bao,
  • Hailong Wang,
  • Xiaohua Zhu,
  • Hongxue Wang,
  • Zhenchang Jiang and
  • Taohua He

26 October 2023

The nano-scale pore systems in shale reservoirs control shale gas transportation and aggregation, which is of great significance for the resource evaluation of shale oil and gas and the selection of a “sweet spot”. Taking twelve marine sh...

(This article belongs to the Section H: Geo-Energy)
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  • Open Access
376 Views
21 Pages

24 July 2026

The prominent multi-scale pore heterogeneity widely developed in deep-buried coal reservoirs, which seriously restricts accurate reservoir characterization and precise resource evaluation for deep coalbed methane exploitation. Taking deep-buried coal...

(This article belongs to the Section H: Geo-Energy)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,497 Views
19 Pages

Achieving Tiered Model Quality in 3D Structure from Motion Models Using a Multi-Scale View-Planning Algorithm for Automated Targeted Inspection

  • Trent J. Okeson,
  • Benjamin J. Barrett,
  • Samuel Arce,
  • Cory A. Vernon,
  • Kevin W. Franke and
  • John D. Hedengren

16 June 2019

This study presents a novel multi-scale view-planning algorithm for automated targeted inspection using unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). In industrial inspection, it is important to collect the most relevant data to keep processing demands, both huma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deployment and Navigation of Aerial Drones for Surveillance and Monitoring)
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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,371 Views
17 Pages

26 September 2022

Selecting an appropriate ground motion intensity measure (IM) to estimate the aleatory uncertainty produced by ground motion variability is the first and crucial step in fragility analysis. The choice of IM is influenced not only by the structural sy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Seismic Performance Evaluation)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
455 Views
19 Pages

7 August 2026

China launched the major function-oriented zone planning (MFZP) strategy in 2010 to address regional imbalances and resource–environment pressures through differentiated regulation. Using county-level data from 2010 to 2020, this study develops...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Cover/Use Dynamics and Its Implications for Regional Sustainable Development)
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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,159 Views
17 Pages

7 August 2022

In order to evaluate the feasibility of using hard-grade asphalt concrete in China’s highway construction, based on the accelerated loading test of the full-scale track of the Research Institute of Highway Ministry of Transport (RIOHTrack), the...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,263 Views
9 Pages

20 November 2020

The solution to the problem of symmetric collision of two relativistic shock waves is given and limiting cases are investigated: Newtonian mechanics and ultrarelativistic mechanics. The results are correlated with the presence of known superclusters...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 17th Russian Gravitational Conference —International Conference on Gravitation, Cosmology and Astrophysics (RUSGRAV-17))
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,267 Views
23 Pages

Meso-Scale Impacts of the Urban Structure Metrics on PM2.5 in China

  • Chaonan Hu,
  • Nana Luo,
  • Chao Cai,
  • Yarui Cui,
  • Hongtao Gao and
  • Xing Yan

10 December 2024

Currently, China’s urbanization has entered a stage of high-quality development, and rapid urban growth has led to a series of environmental pollution issues, with haze pollution caused by delicate particulate matter (PM2.5) increasingly becomi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
149 Views
18 Pages

11 October 2026

Starch retrogradation is a key process governing the final quality of indirectly thermally puffed starchy foods. This study investigated the effect of retrogradation duration (0–72 h) on the multi-scale structure, water distribution, thermal pu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Importance and Applications of Starches, Gums, Pectin, and Other Polysaccharides in Food)

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