Whether nitrogen (N)-metabolic versatility is a common trait of N-transforming microbes or if it only occurs in a few species is still unknown. We collected 83 soil samples from six soil types across China, retrieved 19 publicly available metagenomic...
Ethnobotany has been, for too long, a descriptive discipline. However, ethnobotanists are increasingly calling for a paradigm shift towards the formulation of unifying theories and hypothesis-driven research in ethnobotany. Here, we formulated a theo...
Large-scale and multi-sample datasets have revealed that microbial diversity and geographic distribution patterns are distinct across various habitats, particularly between hydrothermal vent and cold seep ecosystems. To date, our understanding of the...
The decontamination of radioactive materials on the surfaces of nuclear facilities has generated large quantities of waste from the rapid development of the nuclear industry, posing a potential threat globally. Strippable coating has been employed fo...
This paper aimed to investigate the possibility of using alkaline-based binders made from the industrial waste produced by ceramic tiles in the field of conservation and the restoration of monuments and archaeological heritage. Geopolymer mortars, wh...
The fashion industry generates significant environmental impact through overproduction and the short life cycles of clothing products. Modular design, which allows multiple wearing configurations from a single product through removable and interchang...
The increasing use of tractors and implements is replacing manual labor, but adds financial burdens on small-scale farmers due to rising costs. Many farmers have turned to leasing and renting machinery to mitigate these expenses, while repair and mai...
In mid-2020, the new international video coding standard, namely versatile video coding (VVC), was officially released by the Joint Video Expert Team (JVET). As its name indicates, the VVC enables a higher level of versatility with better compression...
Detecting foodborne pathogens on-site is crucial for ensuring food safety, necessitating the development of rapid, cost-effective, highly sensitive, and portable devices. This paper presents an integrated microfluidic biosensing system designed for t...
Deep research and communicating new trends in the design, control and applications of the real time control of intelligent sensors systems using advanced intelligent control methods and techniques is the main purpose of this research. The innovative...
Terahertz technologies are attracting strong interest from high-end industrial fields, and particularly for non-destructive-testing purposes. Currently lacking compactness, integrability as well as adaptability for those implementations, the developm...
As the next generation video coding standard, Versatile Video Coding (VVC) significantly improves coding efficiency over the current High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard. In practice, this improvement comes at the cost of increased pre-proces...
Versatile Video Coding (VVC)/H.266, completed in 2020, provides half the bitrate of the previous video coding standard (i.e., High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC)/H.265) while maintaining the same visual quality. The primary goal of VVC/H.266 is to ac...
Resveratrol, a natural phytoalexin, exhibits a remarkable range of biological activities, such as anticancer, cardioprotective, neuroprotective and antioxidant properties. However, the therapeutic application of resveratrol was encumbered for its low...
For the more efficient application of ultrasound in future therapies, fundamental research is needed on the mode of action of ultrasound on biological systems using therapeutic frequencies. To address this need, a new versatile high-throughput platfo...
The versatile video coding (VVC) standard offers improved coding efficiency compared to the high efficiency video coding (HEVC) standard in multimedia signal coding. However, this increased efficiency comes at the cost of increased coding complexity....
To improve coding efficiency by exploiting the local inter-component redundancy between the luma and chroma components, the cross-component linear model (CCLM) is included in the versatile video coding (VVC) standard. In the CCLM mode, linear model p...
Optimizing routes and paths improves network performance. Due to the encapsulation and tunneling of the packets, mobile IP-based communication contributes to packet drops or significant delays between the sender and receiver. Packet loss during hando...
The increase in high-quality video consumption requires increasingly efficient video coding algorithms. Versatile video coding (VVC) is the current state-of-the-art video coding standard. Compared to the previous video standard, high efficiency video...
After the development of the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard, research on neural network-based video coding technologies continues as a potential approach for future video coding standards. Particularly, neural network-based intra prediction is...
Versatile Video Coding (VVC) introduces many new coding technologies, such as quadtree with nested multi-type tree (QTMT), which greatly improves the efficiency of VVC coding. However, its computational complexity is higher, which affects the applica...
In this paper, we propose an object-cooperated decision method for efficient ternary tree (TT) partitioning that reduces the encoding complexity of versatile video coding (VVC). In most previous studies, the VVC complexity was reduced using decision...
This paper presents the design and development of a technique for an Autonomous and Versatile mode Parking System (AVPS) that combines a various number of parking modes. The proposed approach is different from that of many developed parking systems....
Novel, closely related phages Possum and Horatius infect Pectobacterium versatile, a phytopathogen causing soft rot in potatoes and other essential plants. Their properties and genomic composition define them as N4-like bacteriophages of the genus Cb...
The growing demand for micro-launchers capable of placing payloads between 1 and 100 kg into low Earth orbit stems from rapid advances in electronics and the resulting increase in nanosatellite capabilities. Simultaneously, space programs are priorit...
Flexible wearable sensors have obtained tremendous interest in various fields and conductive hydrogels are a promising candidate. Nevertheless, the insufficient mechanical properties, the low electrical conductivity and sensitivity, and the limited f...
Since the initial discovery of surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) in the 1970s, it has exhibited a huge potential application in many fields due to its outstanding advantages. Since the ultra-sensitive noble metallic nanostructures have increas...
Screen content has become increasingly important in multimedia applications owing to the growth of remote desktops, Wi-Fi displays, and cloud computing. However, these applications generate large amounts of data, and their limited bandwidth necessita...
Cardiomyocytes derived from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC-CMs) hold a great potential as human in vitro models for studying heart disease and for drug safety screening. Nevertheless, their associated immaturity relative to the adult myocardium l...
Versatile video coding (VVC) adopts an advanced quad-tree plus multi-type tree (QTMT) coding structure to obtain higher compression efficiency, but it comes at the cost of a considerable increase in coding complexity. To effectively reduce the coding...
Multifunctional, integrated, and reusable operating platforms are highly sought after in biochemical analysis and detection systems. In this study, we demonstrated a novel detachable, reusable acoustic tweezer manipulation platform that is flexible a...
The new generation video coding standard Versatile Video Coding (VVC) has adopted many novel technologies to improve compression performance, and consequently, remarkable results have been achieved. In practical applications, less data, in terms of b...
Many electronic power distribution systems have strong needs for highly efficient AC-DC conversion that can be satisfied by using a buck-boost converter at the core of the power factor correction (PFC) stage. These converters can regulate the input v...
Versatile video coding (VVC), a new generation video coding standard, achieves significant improvements over high efficiency video coding (HEVC) due to its added advanced coding tools. Despite the fact that affine motion estimation adopted in VVC tak...
In the Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard, affine motion models have been applied to enhance the resolution of complex motion patterns. However, due to the high computational complexity involved in affine motion estimation, real-time video process...
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis (TB), is a highly successful intracellular pathogen with the ability to withstand harsh conditions and reside long-term within its host. In the dormant and persistent states, the b...
Bacteriophage-encoded lysins are an emerging class of antibacterial enzymes based on peptidoglycan degradation. The modular composition of lysins is a hallmark feature enabling optimization of antibacterial and pharmacological properties by engineeri...
Efficient in-loop filtering is critical for the latest video-coding standard, versatile video coding (H.266/VVC). While parameter-adaptive mechanisms are effective in traditional adaptive loop filters and overfitted small-scale neural in-loop filteri...
Core-shell materials are promising functional materials for fundamental research and industrial application, as their properties can be adapted for specific applications. In particular, particles featuring iron or iron oxide as core material are rele...
White-rot fungi are efficient lignin degraders due to the secretion of lignin peroxidase, manganese peroxidase, laccase, and versatile peroxidase (VP) on decayed wood. The VP is a high-redox-potential enzyme and could be used to detoxify reactive oxy...
Versatile Video Coding (VVC) achieves impressive coding gain improvement (about 40%+) over the preceding High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) technology at the cost of extremely high computational complexity. Such an extremely high complexity increase...
Wind turbine gearbox fault diagnosis is critical to guarantee working efficiency and operational safety. However, the current diagnostic methods face enormous restrictions in handling nonlinear noise signals and intricate compound fault patterns. Her...
As the demands of various network-dependent services such as Internet of things (IoT) applications, autonomous driving, and augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) increase, the fifthgeneration (5G) network is expected to become a key communication tec...
Copper- and nitrogen-codoped reduced graphene oxide material (Cu/N-rGO) was prepared with a hydrothermal method. Its versatile catalytic performances were demonstrated toward the oxidative degradation of rhodamine B (RhB) and oxygen reduction reactio...
In this paper, we propose a facile and cost-effective electrospinning technique to fabricate surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates, which is appropriate for multiple analytes detection. First of all, HAuCl4∙3H2O was added into the TEOS/...
Despite the fact that Versatile Video Coding (VVC) achieves a superior coding performance to High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), it takes a lot of time to encode video sequences due to the high computational complexity of the tools. Among these tool...
Zinc cobaltite (ZnCo2O4) is a ternary metal oxide found in spinel with promising properties for various applications. Optimizing its catalytic activity requires an understanding of its electrochemical behavior. The electrochemical properties of ZnCo2...
The latest Versatile Video Coding(H.266/VVC) standard introduces the QTMT structure, enabling more flexible block partitioning and significantly enhancing coding efficiency compared to its predecessor, High-Efficiency Video Coding (H.265/HEVC). Howev...
The 26S proteasome, a master player in proteolysis, is the most complex and meticulously contextured protease in eukaryotic cells. While capable of hosting thousands of discrete substrates due to the selective recognition of ubiquitin tags, this prot...
Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans is a Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in extreme acidic conditions. It has emerged as a key player in biomining and bioleaching technologies thanks to its unique ability to mobilize a wide spectrum of elements, such...
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