Object detection in remote sensing imagery is critical in environmental monitoring, urban planning, and land resource management. However, the task remains challenging due to significant scale variations, arbitrary object orientations, and complex ba...
Comprehensive 3D modeling of our environment requires integration of terrestrial and airborne data, which is collected, preferably, using laser scanning and photogrammetric methods. However, integration of these multi-source data requires accurate re...
Due to the distant acquisition and bird’s-eye perspective of remote sensing images, ground objects are distributed in arbitrary scales and multiple orientations. Existing detectors often utilize feature pyramid networks (FPN) and deformable (or...
Numerical studies for polymer composites deposition additive manufacturing have provided significant insight promoting the rapid development of the technology. However, little of existing literature addresses the complex yet important polymer composi...
12 December 2020
Despite the Caregiving Questionnaire (CQ) being a widely used measure for the study of caregiving behavior in the context of romantic relationships, to date, few studies have focused on empirically evaluating its underlying theoretical structure. The...
This paper concerns engineered composites integrating metallic particles to enhance thermal and electrical properties. However, these properties are strongly dependent on the forming process itself that determines the particle distribution and orient...
Connectivity modeling approaches for abandoned mine lands (AML) patches are limited in post-mining landscape restoration, especially where great land use changes might be expected due to large-scale land reclamation. This study presents a novel appro...
A gas diffusion layer (GDL) is an essential component for the efficient operation of proton exchange membrane fuel cells, requiring stable mechanical strength and uniform stress distribution to achieve higher durability. The various microstructure ch...
Minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) is a promising green technology for high-speed milling of GH4169. However, the full-chain oil mist penetration mechanism remains unclear, limiting precise parameter regulation. Based on a cross-scale mechanism, this...
A multi-scale phase-field approach, which couples the mesoscopic crystallization with the microscopic orientation of chain segments and macroscopic viscoelastic melt flow, is proposed to study how the crystal growth of semi-crystalline polymers is af...
Landscape pattern is closely associated with pollution in rapidly urbanizing watersheds, but most studies still focus on single pollutants or single environmental media. This study developed a watershed-based framework to compare coupled water and ai...
Efforts to observe humans in relation to nature over time and at large scale are few and disjointed in ways that impede progress in building scientific foundations for sustainability. Two water-oriented national-scale case studies highlight the chall...
Orientations, roughnesses, and cavities of crystals are typical factors influencing the servicing reliability of metals in corrosive environments. A phase-field scheme for modeling stress-corrosion coupled damage (SCCD) is developed. The effects of t...
Linear tunability has important applications since it can be realized by using linear control voltage and can be used conveniently without requiring nonlinear scale. In this paper, a kind of plasmonic nanostructure with a waveguide loaded with two re...
Carbon staple fiber composites are materials reinforced with discrete-length carbon fibers processed using traditional textile technologies, offering moderate mechanical properties and flexibility in manufacturing. These composites can be produced fr...
Accurate detection of oil and gas (O&G) facilities in high-resolution remote sensing imagery is critical for infrastructure surveillance and sustainable resource management, yet conventional detectors struggle with severe class imbalance, extreme...
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) enables all-weather maritime surveillance, yet ship-oriented bounding box (OBB) detection remains challenging in complex scenes. Strong sea clutter and dense harbor scatterers often mask the slender characteristics of s...
The grain selection process in a Z-form selector for Ni-based single-crystal superalloy was simulated using a macro-scale ProCAST software (2013 version) coupled CAFE module combined with an experiment to investigate the grain selection procedure and...
This paper focuses on the effect of fiber orientation on the resistance of seepage-induced erosion in fiber-reinforced sand. To clarify the discrepancy and mechanism of different-oriented fibers improving the resistance of the sand matrix, a series o...
In visual inspection of bridges at sites, much attention is given to the density and width of cracks of concrete, but little attention is paid to crack orientation for the diagnosis of bridge performance. In this research, the effect of crack orienta...
Coupling coordination analysis provides a quantitative basis for balancing development and conservation in ecologically fragile regions; however, existing frameworks are predominantly designed for urban agglomerations and seldom integrate transportat...
In this paper, angular displacement and angular velocity sensors based on coplanar waveguide (CPW) transmission lines and S-shaped split ring resonators (S-SRRs) are presented. The sensor consists of two parts, namely a CPW and an S-SRR, both lying o...
Infertility and related treatments can negatively affect a couple’s wellbeing. The aim of this study was to evaluate couples starting assisted reproductive treatment, differences in alexithymia and quality of life levels between partners, and t...
Understanding complex interactions among social, economic, and environmental subsystems is essential for regional comprehensive sustainable development. Nevertheless, existing coupling-coordination studies lack sufficient targeted obstacle diagnosis...
Ship detection in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery, an indispensable all-weather technology for marine engineering and coastal safety, remains challenging in complex nearshore scenes due to coupled speckle noise, sea–land clutter, large s...
This paper deals with the effects of initial stress on wave propagations in small-scale plates with shape memory alloy (SMA) nanoscale wires. The initial stress is exerted on the small-scale plate along both in-plane directions. A scale-dependent mod...
The main method used to exploit unconventional oil and gas reservoirs involves multi-cluster perforation combined with hydraulic fracturing in horizontal wells. However, as the use of this technology has expanded, challenges like reduced perforation...
Several landforms are known to exhibit topographic anisotropy, defined as a directional inequality in elevation. The quantitative analysis of topographic anisotropy has largely focused on measurements taken from specific landforms, ignoring the surro...
Conventional early-warning methods for geohazards along railways rely largely on single observations, empirical criteria or static analysis, and struggle to meet the demands of corridor-scale screening and dynamic tracking. To address this gap, a rai...
Foam injection moulding (FIM) enables lightweight thermoplastic parts, but current process simulations do not resolve microstructure formation. This work presents a micro-scale CFD framework for FIM that captures gas–melt interaction and bubble...
A transient non-linear multiscale finite element heat flow-mechanical model to determine micro residual stresses (type III) and micro plastic strains in SAE-AISI 1524 gas tungsten arc welded joints is developed. To include anisotropy by preferred cry...
Objective: To investigate the intervention effect of orienteering exercises on the spatial memory ability of college students of different genders and its underlying mechanism. Methods: Forty-eight college students were randomly screened into experim...
Ship detection in remote sensing imagery is hindered by cluttered backgrounds, large variations in scale, and random orientations, limiting the performance of detectors designed for natural images. We propose RSDB-Net, a Rotation-Sensitive Dual-Branc...
Investigating the coordination between greenhouse-oriented cultivated-land transformation and low-carbon agricultural emission performance is important for optimizing land use and advancing agricultural decarbonization. Using data for 31 mainland Chi...
Small objects in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery often occupy only a few pixels, making their responses vulnerable to downsampling, cluttered backgrounds, and cross-scale feature misalignment. Most detector improvements handle backbone represen...
In order to design and optimize high-sensitivity silicon nanowire-field-effect transistor (SiNW FET) pressure sensors, this paper investigates the effects of channel orientations and the uniaxial stress on the ballistic hole transport properties of a...
Short fiber-reinforced polymer composites (SFRPCs) are widely used in lightweight components because they combine low density, good mechanical performance, and high-volume processability. Their local properties, however, are governed by a fiber archi...
A refined mathematical framework is developed to investigate the ability of shape memory alloy (SMA) nanofibers to control the shear instability of a hybrid small-scale plate made of three layers containing nanofibers. The middle layer is reinforced...
As a novel industrial space to cope with global competition, industrial parks have gradually become important growth poles to promote regional development and provide a large number of employment opportunities. This study utilizes mobile phone signal...
28 September 2022
Raising and caring for a child with ASD is a challenge for the parents’ marriage relationship. Caring for a disabled child changes the functioning of the family and requires greater involvement in care and specialist therapy. The respondents&rs...
Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) precursor fibers represent the dominant feedstock for manufacturing high-performance carbon fibers, and the hierarchical molecular orientation established during precursor processing fundamentally determines the tensile streng...
The new energy vehicle (NEV) industry is expanding globally, yet safety accidents induced by collisions have become a major challenge to its high-quality development. In addition, the risks associated with battery state variations from fast-charging...
Regime shifts—rapid long-term transitions between stable states—are well documented in ecology but remain controversial and understudied in land use and land cover change (LUCC). In particular, uncertainty surrounds the prevalence and cau...
While hybridity has been extensively studied within bounded organizations, hybrid forms of organizing beyond formal organizational structures remain undertheorized. Hybrid organizationality, the concept introduced in this article, refers to a mode of...
Given that the observations from current space geodetic techniques do not carry all the necessary datum information to realize a Terrestrial Reference System (TRS), and each of the four space geodetic techniques has limits, for instance: Very Long Ba...
Configurations capable of maximizing both the absorption component of system detection efficiency and the achievable polarization contrast were determined for 1550 nm polarized light illumination of different plasmonic structure integrated supercondu...
The integration of an Inertial Navigation System (INS) and the Global Positioning System (GPS) is common in mobile mapping and navigation applications to seamlessly determine the position, velocity, and orientation of the mobile platform. In most INS...
This paper presents a novel feature point descriptor for the multispectral image case: Far-Infrared and Visible Spectrum images. It allows matching interest points on images of the same scene but acquired in different spectral bands. Initially, point...
The term personalized medicine was created for oncological patients, but due to its positive clinical results it is now used in many other fields of medicine, including reproductive medicine. The aim of the study was to determine the level of stress...
Carbon neutrality is becoming an important development goal for regions and countries around the world. Land-use cover/change (LUCC), especially urban growth, as a major source of carbon emissions, has been extensively studied to support carbon-neutr...
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