Research on Wood Defects Feature Imbalance Optimization and Recognition by Xiao Wang

“…Classical CNN classifiers are employed to distinguish three kinds of wood images: dead knot, live knot and ordinary grain. Results show that Modified Cross Entropy makes model more sensitive to hard samples regardless of the batchsize. …”
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Trade relations between the Song and Jin Empires: smuggling against embargo by Maria S. Kruglova

“…The main items of trade were horses, livestock products, tea, grain and salt. After the conquest of northern China by the Jin Empire and the beginning of its political confrontation with the Southern Song, the Southern Song government imposed a ban on trade with the Jurchens. …”
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Removal of Azo Dye Carmoisine by Adsorption Process on Diatomite by Kotbia Labiod, Sabir Hazourli, Marwa Bendaia, Mohamed Tlili, Adel AitBara, Radouane Graine, Hazem Meradi

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Evolution of the Electrical Displacement and Energy Dissipation of Lead Zirconate-Titanate Ceramics under Cyclical Load by Sheng Cang, Jiankang Chen, Chunsheng Lu

“…Furthermore, ferroelectric 90° domain switching was observed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and the percentage of domain switching has been calculated by the variation of the peak intensity ratio of (002) to (200) at about 45 degrees. Then, grain debonding, crack, and crush were found around voids inside the specimen by using scanning electron microscope (SEM). …”
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Influences of sedimentation on overflow properties of sharp-crested weir by Mohammad Mehdi Farzanmehr, Jahanshir Mohammadzadeh-Habili

“…Under upstream sedimentation, the discharge coefficient of the sharp-crested weir is mainly influenced by the weir's effective height (difference between weir height and sedimentation depth) and it is minimally influenced by sediment grain sizes. Using the experimental results supported by dimensional analysis, the discharge coefficient of the sharp-crested weir was accurately derived as an increasing function of the ratio of weir water head to weir effective height.…”
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SVTSR: image super-resolution using scattering vision transformer by Jiabao Liang, Yutao Jin, Xiaoyan Chen, Haotian Huang, Yue Deng

“…Nevertheless, these networks face challenges associated with attention complexity and the effective capture of intricate, fine-grained details within images. These hurdles impede the efficient and scalable deployment of transformer models for image super-resolution tasks in real-world applications. …”
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Dual intent view contrastive learning for knowledge aware recommender systems by Jianhua Guo, Zhixiang Yin, Shuyang Feng, Donglin Yao, Shaopeng Liu

“…To further enhance learning, a set of intents are integrated into each user-item interaction as a separate class of nodes, fulfilling three crucial roles in the GNN learning process: (1) providing fine-grained representations of user-item interaction features, (2) acting as evaluators for filtering relevant relations in the knowledge graph, and (3) participating in contrastive learning to strengthen the model’s ability to handle sparse signals and redundant relations. …”
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Weed Control in Corn (Zea mays L.) as Influenced by Preemergence Herbicides by Travis W. Janak, W. James Grichar

“…Corn injury was minimal (≤3%) with all herbicides. In general, corn grain yield was greatest with herbicide treatments containing more than one active ingredient compared with a single active ingredient.…”
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An NoC Traffic Compiler for Efficient FPGA Implementation of Sparse Graph-Oriented Workloads by Nachiket Kapre, André Dehon

“…We perform load balancing, placement, fanout routing, and fine-grained synchronization to optimize our workloads for large networks up to 2025 parallel elements for BSP model and 25 parallel elements for Token Dataflow. …”
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Genotypic variability for root nodulation and identification of high yielding chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) genotypes by Jyoti Kumari, Rafat Sultana*, Zafar Imam, Mankesh Kumar and Reena Kumari

“…The investigation on root nodule parameters can shed light on the nodulation potential and nitrogen-fixing efficiency of the genotypes and its role in enhancing grain yield as well as soil health. Hence, the present study was carried out involving 30 diverse chickpea genotypes including 3 checks and was evaluated under natural soil condition for agronomic traits associated with high root nodulation. …”
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Metaphor recognition based on cross-modal multi-level information fusion by Qimeng Yang, Yuanbo Yan, Xiaoyu He, Shisong Guo

“…The module can reduce the heterogeneity between modes, learn fine-grained information, and better integrate the characteristic information of different modes. …”
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An enhanced media ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption algorithm on media cloud by Hao Li, Lianbing Deng, Cheng Yang, Jianbo Liu

“…With the development of cloud computing, more and more video services are moving to the cloud. How to realize fine-grained access control of those data on cloud becomes an urgent problem. …”
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Intercultural and Intertextual Crossings in Sarah Howe’s Loop of Jade (2015) by Yasna Bozhkova

“…Loop of Jade explores the experience of cultural hybridity and deracination through an intertextual poetics predicated on artifice and irony, going against the grain of a simple, unmediated confessional poetic narrative “of the origins.” …”
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Finite Element-Based Simulation of Cooling Rate on the Material Properties of an Automobile Silent Block by Burak Öztürk, Fuat Kara

“…As a result of the isothermal transformation, the grain size in the microstructure of the material had shrunk. …”
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Measuring Children’s Computational Thinking and Problem-Solving in a Block-Based Programming Game by Kayla Teng, Gregory K. W. K. Chung

“…<i>TechCheck</i>, an externally developed and validated measure of CT, was administered before the first game day and after the last game day. Using fine-grained, moment-to-moment gameplay data, we developed and validated seven game-based indicators (GBIs) of CT using correlational analysis and nonparametric tests and integrated them into a problem-solving framework. …”
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Double-layered wrap-around sensor network for three-dimensional positioning of acoustic emission sources and its effect on monitoring crack propagation in rock samples by Jing Yang, Zonglong Mu, Guangjian Liu, Shaokun Gong, Atif Javed, Jinglong Cao, Bofei Yang, Fang Yuan

“…In addition, acoustic emission activity of medium-grained sandstone showed a tendency of decreasing—remaining at a low value—increasing—remaining at a high value, which exactly corresponds to the four rock loading stages of compaction, elastic deformation, crack development, and crack connection; (3) rock samples experienced micro-cracking of low energy, micro-cracking of high energy, and crack connection in sequence in the failure process, which shows a high consistency between crack development and acoustic emission activity. …”
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Farmers’ Willingness to Pay a High Premium for Different Types of Agricultural Insurance: Evidence from Inner Mongolia, China by Xinya Guo, Yuanfeng Zhao, Muhammad Umer Arshad, Yufei Gong

“…This study focuses on farmers’ preferences toward the insurance of corn crop, one of China’s largest grain crop productions. This study uses Heckman’s two-stage model to focus on the farmers’ willingness to pay for multiple weather-based insurances, who suffered severe disasters. …”
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Health View to Decrease Negative Effect of High Heels Wearing: A Systemic Review by Meizi Wang, Ci Jiang, Gusztáv Fekete, Ee-Chon Teo, Yaodong Gu

“…It must be noted that these results are based on short-term research; therefore, any conclusions with regard to effects in the long term should be taken with a grain of salt. Nevertheless, future studies should be aimed at combining numerical and experimental methods, in order to provide personal recommendations for HH shoes by considering heel height and HBS size, based on the individual characters (weight, height, and age).…”
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Trust evaluation model of social internet of things based on implicit social relationship by Hongbin ZHANG, Fan FAN, Dongmei ZHAO, Bin LIU, Yan YIN, Jian LIU

“…The social internet of things （SIoT） is a new paradigm that combines social networks and the internet of things to enhance network scalability and navigability.However, with increased openness and mobility of intelligent objects, there are rising security risks related to information security and reliable service delivery, which poses a significant challenge to the SIoT.Trust is a critical factor in providing secure and reliable services.Therefore, a new trust assessment model was proposed from the perspective of social relationships.A trust transfer algorithm was proposed based on the explicit social relationships and potential features between nodes.The algorithm can tap and establish the implicit social relationships among nodes to solve the SIoT sparsity and cold start problem.Additionally, the social relations were fine-grained and divided to build a single-relationship sub-network.Multiple single-relationship sub-networks were fused to build a multiple-relationship composite network.Thus, the impact of multiple dynamically changing social relationships among nodes on trust evaluation can be effectively fused.The comprehensive trust assessment of intelligent objects was conducted based on three indicators: direct trust, indirect recommendation trust, and service satisfaction.The experimental results on real smart city datasets demonstrate the model’s robustness in non-sparse and sparse network scenarios.It can effectively evaluate trusted and untrusted objects in the network and improve the accuracy and convergence of trust evaluation.…”
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Makroszczątki roślinne w torfie w analizie paleośrodowiskowych uwarunkowań osadnictwa na przykładzie stanowiska Łane Małe w dolinie Kłodnicy by Krzysztof J. Wójcicki, Marek Kloss

“…In the Fate Roman Period (the Przeworsk Culture settlement) and in the early Middle Ages, the peatland was subject to inundation due to frequent flooding, the peat accumulation was then halted by the delivery of fine-grained products of soil erosion.…”
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