Historical biogeography and systematics of yellow-bellied toads (Bombina variegata), with the description of a new subspecies from the Balkans by Christophe Dufresnes, Simeon Lukanov, Sven Gippner, Johanna Ambu, Ilias Strachinis, Dragan Arsovski, Benjamin Monod-Broca, Hugo Cayuela, Petros Lymberakis, Daniele Canestrelli, Dan Cogălniceanu, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Spartak N. Litvinchuk, Tomasz Suchan, Mathieu Denoël, Daniel Jablonski

“…Finally, we show that the two lineages of B. v. scabra significantly differ in morphology and ventral coloration patterns, and describe the Rhodope lineage as a new subspecies.…”
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Retracing the Cold Plasma Dispersion Law in Pulsar B0329+54: New Insights into Frequency-dependent Dispersion Measures by Shyam S. Sharma, Tetsuya Hashimoto, Tomotsugu Goto, Shotaro Yamasaki, Simon C.-C. Ho

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Detectability of Self-lensing Flares of White Dwarfs with Compact Companions by Guy Nir, Joshua S. Bloom

“…We present a simulation tool that efficiently reproduces the main features of self-lensing flares and facilitates a detection sensitivity analysis for various sky surveys. …”
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Integration and Comparative Analysis of Remote Sensing and In Situ Observations of Aerosol Optical Characteristics Beneath Clouds by Jing Chen, Jing Duan, Ling Yang, Yong Chen, Lijun Guo, Juan Cai

“…And (4) overall, the AOD is greater under cloudy-sky conditions than under clear-sky conditions; this result is likely related to the more favorable subcloud humidity conditions for aerosol hygroscopic growth.…”
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Cosmic muon flux attenuation methods for superconducting qubit experiments by Elia Bertoldo, Victor Pérez Sánchez, Maria Martínez, Manel Martínez, Hawraa Khalife, Pol Forn-Díaz

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Dynamic Calibration Method of Multichannel Amplitude and Phase Consistency in Meteor Radar by Yujian Jin, Xiaolong Chen, Songtao Huang, Zhuo Chen, Jing Li, Wenhui Hao

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YOLO-IRS: Infrared Ship Detection Algorithm Based on Self-Attention Mechanism and KAN in Complex Marine Background by Limin Guo, Yuwu Wang, Muran Guo, Xiaohai Zhou

“…However, infrared ship targets at sea exhibit characteristics such as multi-scale, arbitrary orientation, and dense arrangements, with imaging often influenced by complex sea–sky backgrounds. …”
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Retrieval of Vegetation Indices and Vegetation Fraction in Highly Compact Urban Areas: A 3D Radiative Transfer Approach by Wenya Xue, Liping Feng, Jinxin Yang, Yong Xu, Hung Chak Ho, Renbo Luo, Massimo Menenti, Man Sing Wong

“…In order to correct the effects of scattering caused by building geometry, the reflectance of the Landsat 8/OLI image is corrected using the sky view factor (SVF) and then used to calculate the FVC. …”
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Synthesizing field plot and airborne remote sensing data to enhance national forest inventory mapping in the boreal forest of Interior Alaska by Pratima Khatri-Chhetri, Hans-Erik Andersen, Bruce Cook, Sean M. Hendryx, Liz van Wagtendonk, Van R. Kane

“…The remote sensing data were collected under variable sky conditions (clear to overcast) throughout a 1-month growing-season period, and field data collected by United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis program (FIA). …”
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Une cli-fi composite : les artefacts science-fictionnels dans Hors sol de Pierre Alferi by Julia Ori

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Une constellation nommée Argo – L’errance dans la science-fiction vidéoludique by Jean-Charles Ray, Simon Laperrière

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Apports de l’iconographie sidérale aux problématiques spatiales vidéoludiques : le cas des jeux vidéo horrifiques by Guillaume Baychelier

“…Apart the depth of the fictional worlds that it allows to develop, Space void as a narrative and iconographic trope opens a wide variety of issues linked to the relation between players and the spatiality of video games. Contrasting with the need for guidance that underpins the experience of 3D video games, Space void forms a field that offers no landmarks. …”
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Assimilating FY-4B AGRI Three Water Vapor Channels in Operational Shanghai Typhoon Model (SHTM) Using GSI-Based 3-DVar Approach by Zeyi Niu, Lei Zhang, Yuhua Yang, Yang Han, Hong Li, Dongliang Wang, Wei Huang, Fuzhong Weng

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All-Weather Retrieval of Total Column Water Vapor From Aura OMI Visible Observations by Jiafei Xu, Zhizhao Liu

“…The observational accuracy of OMI-estimated TCWV under cloudy-sky conditions is much poorer than OMI-measured clear-sky TCWV. …”
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An Automatic Decision-Level Fusion Rice Mapping Method of Optical and SAR Images Based on Cloud Coverage by Xueqin Jiang, Song Gao, Huaqiang Du, Shenghui Fang, Yan Gong, Ning Han, Yirong Wang

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Retrieval of Land Surface Temperature From Passive Microwave Observations Using CatBoost-Based Adaptive Feature Selection by Yang Dai, Yingbao Yang, Xin Pan, Penghua Hu, Xiangjin Meng, Fanggang Li, Zhenwei Wang

“…Passive microwave (PMW) remote sensing is increasingly employed for generating seamless all-weather land surface temperature (LST) data due to its ability to penetrate cloud cover and capture the actual surface conditions underneath. …”
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PCCN: Polarimetric Contexture Convolutional Network for PolSAR Image Super-Resolution by Lin-Yu Dai, Ming-Dian Li, Si-Wei Chen

“…The main contributions are threefold. First, a new PolSAR data representation of the polarimetric contexture matrix is established, which can fully represent the cube of polarimetric and spatial information into a coded matrix. …”
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From TORTORA to MegaTORTORA—Results and Prospects of Search for Fast Optical Transients by Grigory Beskin, Sergey Bondar, Sergey Karpov, Vladimir Plokhotnichenko, Adriano Guarnieri, Corrado Bartolini, Giuseppe Greco, Adalberto Piccioni, Andrew Shearer

“…To study short stochastic optical flares of different objects (GRBs, SNs, etc.) of unknown localizations as well as NEOs it is necessary to monitor large regions of sky with high-time resolution. …”
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CAECENET: An automatic system processing photometer and ceilometer data from different networks to provide columnar and vertically-resolved aerosol properties. by Celia Herrero Del Barrio, Roberto Román, Ramiro González, Alberto Cazorla, Marcos Herreras-Giralda, Juan Carlos Antuña-Sánchez, Francisco Molero, Francisco Navas-Guzmán, Antonio Serrano, María Ángeles Obregón, Yolanda Sola, Marco Pandolfi, Sara Herrero-Anta, Daniel González-Fernández, Jorge Muñiz-Rosado, David Mateos, Abel Calle, Carlos Toledano, Victoria E Cachorro, Ángel M de Frutos

“…This work introduces CAECENET, a new system capable of automatically retrieving columnar and vertically-resolved aerosol properties running the GRASP (Generalized Retrieval of Atmosphere and Surface Properties) algorithm using sun-sky photometer (aerosol optical depth, AOD; and sky radiance measurements) and ceilometer (range corrected signal; RCS) data as input. …”
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Mechanisms of Alignment in Feeding Aphids on the Plant Stem by Ayumi Kudo

“…., which were aligned with their head facing the sky. Next, I investigated how plant orientation affects three aphid species, Macrosiphoniella yomogifoliae, Megoura crassicauda and I. indica with different body alignments on upright immature stems. …”
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