With the rapid development of electronic business, there has been a surge in incidents of trademark infringement, making it imperative to improve the accuracy of trademark retrieval systems as a key measure to combat such illegal behaviors. Evidently...
The road surface texture is responsible for controlling several quality/safety road indicators, such as friction, noise, and fuel consumption. Road texture can be classified into different wavelengths, and it is dependent on the material used in the...
Accurate discretization of the orientation distribution function (ODF) is essential for reliable microstructural modeling of polycrystalline aggregates. This work proposes a novel texture discretization method that achieves high-fidelity ODF approxim...
This paper presents issues related to the assessment of the texture of aggregate concrete (EAC) surfaces using various methods for its verification. Microtexture was assessed using the British Pendulum Tester (BPT) and Dynamic Friction Tester (DFT)....
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the impact of aggregation methods used for the generation of texture features on their robustness of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) based on 18F-FDG PET/CT images. Methods: 128 NPC patients were enrolled and 95...
Texture recognition is a fundamental task in computer vision, with diverse applications in material sciences, medicine, and agriculture. The ability to analyze complex patterns in images has been greatly enhanced by advancements in Deep Neural Networ...
Conventional cement concrete pavements often suffer from rapid skid resistance degradation and excessive traffic noise, necessitating effective solutions. This study investigates exposed aggregate concrete (EAC) through orthogonal experimental method...
High Friction Surfaces (HFS) are applied to increase friction capacity on critical roadway sections, such as horizontal curves. HFS friction deterioration on these sections is a safety concern. This study deals with characterization of the aggregate...
Micro-surfacing is a widely used pavement preventive maintenance technology used all over the world, due to its advantages of fast construction, low maintenance cost, good waterproofness, and skid-resistance performance. This study evaluated the fine...
Skid resistance is a critical aspect for traffic safety since it significantly influences vehicle control and minimizes the distance required for emergency braking. The surface characteristics of pavements play a pivotal role in determining skid resi...
Soil texture-dependent responses and time-scales of soil quality change, especially soil carbon, remain poorly understood. We addressed this gap using a dual time-scale design of long-term field experiments: 11 years of minimum (MT) versus ploughing...
Tillage is a significant type of soil intervention and should be conducted based on the specific soil type. The aim of this study was to determine the influence of different tillage intensities (RT: reduced tillage; CT: conventional tillage), which a...
The objective of this study was to assess the impact of using heat-denatured whey:buttermilk protein aggregate in acid-set type yogurt production. Whey and buttermilk (25:75) protein concentrate was adjusted to pH 4.6, heated at 90 °C for 5 min, homo...
This study intends to predict the long-term skid resistance of steel slag asphalt mixture (SSAM) from the mineral composition of the aggregates. The polished stone value (PSV) and mineral composition of the aggregates were assessed using the accelera...
Micro-surfacing (MS), made of emulsified asphalt, is the most commonly used preventive maintenance technology in asphalt pavement. However, the studies on profile features of MS based on aggregate morphology are few. This study evaluated the profile...
The archaeological terraces of Petra (southern Jordan) have long been recognized for their role in agriculture and flood mitigation. Despite the dominance of fine-grained sediments behind many terrace walls, these systems exhibit high infiltration ca...
Accurate recognition of snow avalanches from aerial imagery is crucial for cryosphere hazard monitoring and assessment. However, avalanche traces in snow-covered mountain scenes often exhibit weak texture, low contrast, blurred boundaries and large-s...
Microfluidic techniques allow for the tailored construction of specific microparticles, which are becoming increasingly interesting and relevant. Here, using a microfluidic hole-plate-device and thermal-initiated free radical polymerization, submicro...
Multiphase materials are widely applied in engineering due to desirable mechanical properties and are of interest to geoscience as rocks are multiphase. High-pressure mechanical behavior is important for understanding the deep Earth where rocks defor...
It is of great significance to determine soil aggregate stability in predicting agricultural production conditions and soil erosion risk. However, the problem exposed in the process of evaluating soil aggregate stability cannot be ignored: Can the ef...
Due to the inability of convolutional neural networks to effectively obtain long-range information, a transformer was recently introduced into the field of pansharpening to obtain global dependencies. However, a transformer does not pay enough attent...
Increasing attention is being paid to the use of cover crops as a means of improving soil quality, particularly in relation to soil organic matter (SOM) accumulation and aggregate stability. This study evaluated the effects of soil texture, soil dept...
Short-chain glucan aggregates (SCGA), a type of resistant starch (RS) Ⅲ, is produced by debranching amylopectin with pullulanase and inducing self-assembly. Despite its low digestibility and high RS content, SCGA has not been applied to real fo...
Soil structure (SS) plays an important role in relation to climatic change, with the most important task the decreasing of CO2 in the atmosphere by carbon sequestration in the soil and the prevention of floods by better water infiltration into the so...
Remote sensing has shown its potential to assess soil properties and is a fast and non-destructive method for monitoring soil surface changes. In this paper, we monitor soil aggregate breakdown under natural conditions. From November 2014 to February...
The use of microwave energy to recycle high-quality coarse aggregates from waste concrete or assist hard rock breakage in underground building engineering is promising. Controlling or promoting the damage of coarse aggregates, i.e., hard rocks, under...
A phenomenon causing instability of soil structure and associated hydraulic properties in recently tilled soils is aggregate fragmentation induced by wetting and drying cycles. We analyzed data from three experiments in Puerto Rico, the UK and China...
Soil aggregates and organic carbon are core elements in efforts to improve soil fertility, and this role is particularly pronounced in sandy soils of northwestern China. Based on a four-year consecutive field positioning experiment, this study invest...
Artificially created road surfaces are typically used in indoor test benches or simulations to study tire-road contact. This dataset contains measurements from real-world concrete highways. The data contained in the dataset can be used as a road mode...
The surface texture of asphalt pavement is of enormous importance to skid resistance. To investigate the degradation tendency of surface texture related to the skid resistance, four years of sensor measured texture depth (SMTD) panel data measured fr...
Morphological characteristics of coarse aggregates, namely shape, angularity and surface texture, are closely related to rock mineral compositions and crushing mechanisms. Aggregates with different mineral compositions should be crushed using a suita...
Aggregate geometrical features directly affect asphalt pavement surface properties, which further affect the resistance to skidding of a road surface. In order to establish a relationship between the aggregate geometrical features and pavement surfac...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the post-heating induced changes in the textural and sensory characteristics of stirred fermented milk. The textural and rheological properties of post-heating fermented milk (55–85 °C, 25 s) wit...
This research aims to improve the durability of skid resistance of asphalt pavement from the perspective of coarse aggregates based on on-site investigation. Firstly, the skid resistance of six representative actual roads was tested during two years...
This article’s primary goal was to analyze the effect of texture on skid resistance. Surface texture was recorded with a revolutionary device designed to create 3D surface scans, the Static Road Scanner. The skid resistance was represented by a...
As proven in numerous experimental and theoretical studies, physical and mechanical properties of materials are determined by their internal structure. In the particular case of polycrystalline metals and alloys, an important role is given to the ori...
The current gradation design of asphalt mixtures relies solely on sieve passing rates of single-sized aggregates. The quantitative evaluation of aggregate gradation is a challenge, considering the combined action of the geometric characteristics, siz...
Asphalt mixture is a type of textured composite material made of aggregates and mastic part. Overall strength and failure behavior in such materials depends on the texture or heterogeneity of the mixture. In particular, the crack growth mechanism fro...
Information from an image occurs over multiple and distinct spatial scales. Image pyramid multiresolution representations are a useful data structure for image analysis and manipulation over a spectrum of spatial scales. This paper employs the Gaussi...
This paper investigated the effects of aggregate mesostructures on permanent deformation behavior of an asphalt mixture using the three-dimensional (3D) discrete element method (DEM). A 3D discrete element (DE) model of an asphalt mixture composed of...
This paper presents results regarding the phase composition, microstructure and textural properties of two types of aggregates, which were prepared via crushing or pelletization of alkali-activated Class F fly ash and cured under different conditions...
In order to examine the geometric characteristics of BOF (blast oxygen furnace) slag coarse aggregate, the aggregate image measurement system (AIMS) was used to analyze the sphericity, gradient angularity and micro texture. Both volumetric and mechan...
Under the repeated loading, the continuous impact and friction of tires on aggregates resulted in some changes in their morphology, which may cause rutting, decrease in skid resistance, and fatigue damage of the road. In order to explore specific cha...
An important factor in the successful marketing of natural ornamental rocks is providing sets of tiles with matching textures. The market price of the tiles is based on the aesthetics of the different quality classes and can change according to the v...
The morphology of coarse aggregate has a significant impact on the road performance of asphalt mixtures and aggregate characterization studies, but many studies were based on the two-dimensional morphology of coarse aggregate, which failed to conside...
The scope of this study focuses on the use of two different types of industrial byproducts such as slags (FeNi and Electric Arc Furnace slag) combined with natural sand as concrete aggregates as well as the evaluation of their suitability on the fina...
Crayfish myofibril protein (CMP) gel deterioration induced by autoclaving was investigated. A series of CMP gels were obtained through treating CMP solutions at different autoclaving conditions from 100 °C/0.1 MPa to 121 °C/0.21 MPa, and then...
Freezing has been widely used for long-term food preservation. However, freezing-thawing (FT) treatment usually influences the texture and structure of food gels such as konjac. For their texture control after FT treatment, it is important to clarify...
Traditional villages are the crystallization of the wisdom of human beings when living harmoniously with nature. The spatial texture of villages is complex, vague, and uncertain, making it difficult to describe with traditional Euclidean geometric sp...
Steel slag, the by-product of steelmaking, is a desirable alternative material for natural aggregate. However, there are few studies applying steel slag in the preventive maintenance of asphalt pavements, especially chip seal. The main objective of t...
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