Simulation Study on Detection and Localization of a Moving Target Under Reverberation in Deep Water by Jincong Dun, Shihong Zhou, Yubo Qi, Changpeng Liu

“…Deep-water reverberation caused by multiple reflections from the seafloor and sea surface can affect the performance of active sonars. To detect a moving target under reverberation conditions, a reverberation suppression method using multipath Doppler shift in deep water and wideband ambiguity function (WAF) is proposed. …”
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Feasibility and case studies on converting small hydropower stations to pumped storage by Yangqing Dan, Qingyue Chen, Daren Li, Wenhuan Bai, Weiming Zhou, Anyu Yang, Jia Yang

“…Abstract Hydropower, as a controllable energy source, plays a crucial role in supporting essential functions such as peak shaving, frequency regulation, and load reserve within modern power systems, thereby enhancing the overall economic efficiency and safety of these systems. …”
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Axial-UNet++ Power Line Detection Network Based on Gated Axial Attention Mechanism by Ding Hu, Zihao Zheng, Yafei Liu, Chengkang Liu, Xiaoguo Zhang

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YOLOGX: an improved forest fire detection algorithm based on YOLOv8 by Caixiong Li, Yue Du, Xing Zhang, Peng Wu

“…To tackle issues, including environmental sensitivity, inadequate fire source recognition, and inefficient feature extraction in existing forest fire detection algorithms, we developed a high-precision algorithm, YOLOGX. …”
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Geosystem Services of Erratic Boulders in Selected Regions of Central Poland by Maria Górska-Zabielska, Anna Łubek

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Metal surface defect detection using SLF-YOLO enhanced YOLOv8 model by Yuan Liu, Yilong Liu, Xiaoyan Guo, Xi Ling, Qingyi Geng

“…Abstract This paper addresses the industrial demand for precision and efficiency in metal surface defect detection by proposing SLF-YOLO, a lightweight object detection model designed for resource-constrained environments. …”
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Millimeter-Wave Imaging with Range-Resolved 3D Depth Extraction Using Glow Discharge Detection and Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave Radar by Arun Ramachandra Kurup, Daniel Rozban, Amir Abramovich, Yitzhak Yitzhaky, Natan Kopeika

“…Reflected signals are processed by the GDD, which functions as a heterodyne receiver, and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is used to extract range data. …”
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Evaluating Factors Affecting Interior Architectural Space Quality to Enhance Spatial Resilience and Human Productivity: An Application of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs by Moharam Ghahremani Drvish, Farhang Mozafar, Ceyed bagher Hoseini, Fateme Mahdizadeye seraj

“…A little reflection on the components of the first group, which have the greatest effect on strengthening resilience and long-term and better quality, leads us to the conclusion that satisfying biological and psychological needs have the leading influence on spatial resilience, and that most of these components are included in the scope of functional requirements.</p> <ol style="text-align: left;" start="5"> <li><strong>5.Discussion</strong></li> </ol> <p style="text-align: left;">According to the summary of the research results, the research problem centers on three basic axes which include the quality of space, spatial resilience and the productivity of human resources. …”
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A Trade‐Off Between Leaf Carbon Economics and Plant Size Among Mangrove Species in Dongzhaigang, China by Dalong Jiang, Tao Nie, Qiuyu He, Jing Yan, Erhui Feng, Qing Ye

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Loss Function Optimization Method and Unsupervised Extraction Approach D-DBSCAN for Improving the Moving Target Perception of 3D Imaging Sonar by Jingfeng Yu, Aigen Huang, Zhongju Sun, Rui Huang, Gao Huang, Qianchuan Zhao

“…Compared to 2D sonar images, 3D sonar images offer superior spatial positioning capabilities, although the data acquisition cost is higher and lacks open source references for data annotation, target detection, and semantic segmentation. …”
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Strategy for Construction and Improvement of 4R Resilience Evaluation Model for Coastal Cities by Qixiang QIN, Weiping ZHANG, Yasen YIN

“…The reasons leading to the aforesaid results are mainly summarized in the following three aspects. 1) Due to dense population and land shortage, city samples with high development intensity pay more attention to spatial redundancy and resource acquisition during disasters, and their urban core functional areas have achieved full coverage of public services and emergency service facilities to a large extent through encrypted road networks, mixed land use, vertical functional layout and other ways. …”
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Measuring the Company’s Capabilities and Assessing their Impact on Its Economic Results: Analytic Tools by E. P. Tretiakova, M. S. Tretiakova

“…Based on this model, methodological guidelines have been developed for measuring the capabilities of organizations and assessing their impact on the final results, a value-functional approach to selecting appropriate indicators, and analytical tools. …”
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Isolation of globulin-enriched protein extracts from selected bamboo species using enhanced solvent extraction method: A comparative analysis of their physicochemical properties an... by Zile Xiao, Di Tian, Qiongfang Jiang, Jinlai Yang, Huimin Yang, Yue Zhang, Liangru Wu

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QPPLab: A generally applicable software package for detecting, analyzing, and visualizing large-scale quasiperiodic spatiotemporal patterns (QPPs) of brain activity by Nan Xu, Behnaz Yousefi, Nmachi Anumba, Theodore J. LaGrow, Xiaodi Zhang, Shella Keilholz

“…To address these challenges, we present QPPLab, an open-source MATLAB-based toolbox for detecting, analyzing, and visualizing QPPs from fMRI time series. …”
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IS THE PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM OF READYMADE GARMENTS FACTORIES EFFECTIVE IN ACHIEVING THE PROJECTED OUTCOME, STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT AND OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY? A STUDY ON BANGLA... by Kazi NAZMUL HUDA

“…Performance management of employees is a significant function of modern human resource management practices. …”

Neural network for step anomaly detection in head motion during fMRI using meta-learning adaptation by N.S. Davydov, V.V. Evdokimova, P.G. Serafimovich, V.I. Protsenko, A.G. Khramov, A.V. Nikonorov

“…Quality assessment and artifact detection in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is essential for clinical applications and brain research. …”
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Contrasting Daytime Habitat Selection in Wild Red Deer Within and Outside Hunting Ban Areas Emphasises Importance of Small‐Scale Refuges From Humans by Thomas Rempfler, Wibke Peters, Claudio Signer, Flurin Filli, Hannes Jenny, Klaus Hackländer, Sven Buchmann, Pia Anderwald

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Fine-grained building function recognition with street-view images and GIS map data via geometry-aware semi-supervised learning by Weijia Li, Jinhua Yu, Dairong Chen, Yi Lin, Runmin Dong, Xiang Zhang, Conghui He, Haohuan Fu

“…In this work, we propose a geometry-aware semi-supervised method for fine-grained building function recognition, which effectively uses multi-source geoinformation data to achieve accurate function recognition in both single-city and cross-city scenarios. …”
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Reusable and robust fuzzy extractor for CRS-dependent sources by Yucheng Ma, Peisong Shen, Xue Tian, Kewei Lv, Chi Chen

“…Abstract Fuzzy extractors allow for the extraction and reproduction of a nearly uniform string from a noisy and non-uniform source. Reusable and robust fuzzy extractors further require that the output string should remain pseudorandom under multiple extractions and any modification of public value should be detectable. …”
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MTAHG and MTBHG: Modified Approaches for Interpreting Gravity Data by Hazel Deniz Toktay, Hanbing Ai, Ahmad Alvandi, Kejia Su, Jinlei Li

“…This paper proposes two effective edge detection tools: one combining the balanced total horizontal gradient (BHG), and the hyperbolic tangent function, abbreviated as “MTBHG”; and the other combining the tilt angle of the total horizontal gradient (TAHG) and the hyperbolic tangent function, abbreviated as “MTAHG.” …”
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