A basic duality arises throughout the mathematical and natural sciences. Traditionally, logic is thought to be based on the Boolean logic of subsets, but the development of category theory in the mid-twentieth century shows the duality between subset...
Synthetic datasets are increasingly used in education research for methodological validation, privacy-preserving data sharing, and reproducible equity analysis; however, most generative approaches prioritize marginal distributional similarity without...
Lifespan varies among individuals, and this variation arises both from heterogeneity (e.g., in sex or race) and from unavoidable individual stochasticity. Treating a heterogeneous population as a mixture of groups, each experiencing different rates,...
The effect of tillage timing on weed community assembly was assessed at four locations in the Northeastern United States by tilling the soil every two weeks from April to September and quantifying the emerged weed community six weeks after each tilla...
Soil erosion is prevalent in karst areas, but few studies have compared the differences in the drivers for soil microbial communities among karst ecosystems with different soil depths, and most studies have focused on the local scale. To fill this re...
The spatial heterogeneity on a regional scale of forest biomass is caused by multiple biotic and abiotic factors. However, the contributions of biotic and abiotic factors to the spatial heterogeneity of forest biomass remain unclear. Based on the dat...
In the context of urban warming associated with rapid urbanization, the relationship between urban landscape patterns and land surface temperature (LST) has been paid much attention. However, few studies have comprehensively explored the effects of t...
A better understanding of responses to water limitation in woody species can help us to cope with the consequences of the progressing climate change. We focused on the putative transgenerational effects of water limitation in the maternal environment...
Knowledge concerning the relative importance of biotic and abiotic factors associated with the long-term settlement of large carnivores in human-dominated landscapes is important for effective species conservation. However, identifying the major driv...
Among the multiple important properties that characterize strong S-boxes for symmetric cryptography and are used in their designs, this study focuses on two: the non-linearity property, a classical security metric, and the confusion coefficient varia...
Modifications in cell wall composition, which can be accompanied by changes in its structure, were already reported during plant interactions with other organisms, such as the mycorrhizal fungi. Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi are among the most wi...
Since the relative role of local and regional abiotic factors on the Odonata diversity in rainforest streams is still poorly understood, we evaluated the effects of these factors on adult Odonata (Insecta) from preserved and altered streams in the Am...
Several phenological phases mark the seasonal growth pattern in temperate woody perennials. To gain further insight into the way these phases react on an altering growth environment, we tested whether vegetative and reproductive phenophases in a shru...
Automated pig-welfare monitoring needs scalable, non-invasive signals that work across ages and individuals. A key methodological contribution of this study is the use of subject-wise validation, which ensures generalization to unseen animals and pre...
Identifying the key drivers of aquatic fauna structuring at multiple spatial scales is critical in reducing biodiversity loss. Macroinvertebrates are the most sensitive indicators of disturbance and they are used as a cost-effective tool for bioasses...
The evaluation of the effects of environmental factors on natural communities has been one of the principal approaches in ecology; although, over the past decade, increasing importance has been given to spatial factors. In this context, we evaluated...
Clarifying species-environment relationships is crucial for the development of efficient conservation and restoration strategies. However, this work is often complicated by a lack of detailed information on species distribution and habitat features a...
Water use efficiency (WUE) can be calculated using a range of methods differing in carbon uptake and water use variable selection. Consequently, inconsistencies arise between WUE calculations due to complex physical and physiological interactions. Th...
The ecology of benthic diatoms is scarce in diatom reviews, and it seems that the loss of interest in their local ecology (populations–communities) coincides with an increase in metacommunity studies. We include a review of the latter to highli...
Contemporary biological assemblage composition and biodiversity are often shaped by a range of natural environmental factors, human disturbances, and their interactions. It is critical to disentangle the effects of individual natural variables and hu...
Vegetation-based slope stabilization is commonly evaluated from the final factor of safety, which can obscure whether an apparently favorable response reflects intrinsic slope resistance or the incremental effect of the vegetation treatment. This stu...
Understanding how multiple stressors operating across spatial scales shape riverine biota is essential for advancing sustainable ecosystem management. This study evaluated the relative importance of hydromorphological alterations and land-use changes...
High-resolution imaging with wide field of view (FoV) ground-based telescopes is often affected by skylight background and noise due to the detector, resulting in an inhomogeneous background. In this paper, we propose an improved method for spatial i...
Understanding the processes that shape parasite community structure across spatial scales is essential for linking ecological theory with host–parasite dynamics. Using a metacommunity framework, we examined the metacommunity of helminth parasit...
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Contrast enhancement plays a fundamental role in image processing. Many histogram-based techniques are widely used for contrast enhancement of given images, due to their simple function and effectiveness. However, the conventional histogram equalizat...
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A new original procedure based on k-means clustering is designed to find the most appropriate clinical variables able to efficiently separate into groups similar patients diagnosed with diabetes mellitus type 2 (DMT2) and underlying diseases (arteria...
The latest international video coding standard, H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VVC), supports high-definition videos, with resolutions from 4 K to 8 K or even larger. It offers a higher compression ratio than its predecessor, H.265/High Efficiency Vid...
Soil respiration (Rs) is a key component of terrestrial carbon cycling, yet its temporal structure and vertical environmental controls remain insufficiently understood. This study investigated Rs and its components across four subtropical forest type...
The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of service conditions on lightweight partitions in residential buildingsusing life-cycle assessments (LCAs). Three alternative service conditions were included as follows: light/moderate, standard, and...
The adoption of multiprocessor platforms is growing commonplace in Internet of Things (IoT) applications to handle large volumes of sensor data while maintaining real-time performance at a reasonable cost and with low power consumption. Partitioned s...
Urban green spaces are critical yet understudied areas where anthropogenic and biological sounds interact. This study investigates how vegetation structure mediates the acoustic partitioning of urban soundscapes and informs sustainable forestry manag...
Low-orbit micro-satellite technology has developed rapidly in recent years due to its advantages of low time delay, low cost and short research period. However, among the existing inter-satellite routing algorithms, the classical flooding and greedy...
Quantifying the genetic diversity present in plant populations is crucial for the success of selection of elite plants and breeding programs. The population structure and partition of genetic variance within and between plant populations allows infer...
This study evaluated the individual and interactive effects of straw management, tillage systems, and wheat growth stages on surface energy balance (SEB) dynamics in a semi-arid wheat production system, with particular focus on net radiation (Rn), se...
Three-Dimensional High-Efficiency Video Coding (3D-HEVC) efficiently compresses 3D video by incorporating depth map encoding techniques. However, the quadtree partitioning of depth map coding units (CUs) greatly increases computational complexity, co...
Evapotranspiration is a key link in the water cycle of terrestrial ecosystems, and the partitioning of evapotranspiration is a prerequisite for diagnosing vegetation growth and water use strategies. In this study, we used double-layer eddy covariance...
Identifying the small group of customers who hold a given policy in severely imbalanced tabular data is a recurring screening problem in insurance analytics. This study considers binary caravan-insurance policy-ownership classification on the COIL 20...
For multi-robot cooperative coverage, an effective spatial division strategy is essential to ensure balanced and spatially continuous task regions for each robot. Traditional grid-based partitioning approaches like DARP (Divide Areas based on Robots&...
The nanoporous structure of coal is crucial for the occurrence and development of coalbed methane (CBM). This study, leveraging the combined characterization of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and Gwyddion software (v2.62), investigated six anthracite...
Intrusion detection in IoT networks is challenged by data heterogeneity, label scarcity, and privacy constraints. Traditional federated learning (FL) methods often assume IID data or require supervised labels, limiting their practicality. We propose...
Water balance measurements are the simplest and most direct means of estimating evapotranspiration (ET). However, numerous factors relating to climate and terrain characteristics contribute to the variability that makes the assessment of evapotranspi...
For typical sample sizes occurring in economic and financial applications, the squared bias of estimators for the memory parameter is small relative to the variance. Smoothing is therefore a suitable way to improve the performance in terms of the mea...
Evapotranspiration (ET) is a crucial part of commercial grapevine production in California, and the partitioning of this quantity allows the separate assessment of soil and vine water and energy fluxes. This partitioning has an important role in agri...
Broad-scale assessments often track forest productivity, yet they rarely quantify how soil conditions determine whether these gains persist as long-lived carbon and generate measurable economic value. This study focused on Northeast China, where fore...
Rainfall partitioning, a crucial process in shaping the local hydrological cycle, governs canopy interception and subsequent soil water recharge. While canopy structure and meteorological conditions fundamentally regulate this process, the role of pl...
In this paper, an altered adaptive algorithm on block-compressive sensing (BCS) is developed by using saliency and error analysis. A phenomenon has been observed that the performance of BCS can be improved by means of rational block and uneven sampli...
A comprehensive database was built to examine the spatial diversity patterns of polychaete species from the continental shelf in Southern Gulf of Mexico. Using Cluster and nMDS analysis we found the composition of polychaete species to be different b...
Data-driven haptic modeling is an emerging technique where contact dynamics are simulated and interpolated based on a generic input-output matching model identified by data sensed from interaction with target physical objects. In data-driven modeling...
The ecological restoration process of larch plantations to mixed forests contributes to enhancing the stability and functionality of forest ecosystems, with soil microbes playing a crucial role in this process. To elucidate the changes in soil microb...
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