Os Perímetros Irrigados do Baixo Jagurige no estado do Ceará [Brasil]: uma experiência referencial de projeto territorial sustentável by André Munhoz de Argollo Ferrão, Luci Mehry Martins Braga, Carlos Eduardo Pozzer

“…Regional planning is faced with a complex territorial context in which overlapping thematic layers that identify a region from its assets converted into resources. …”
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Amended Calculation of Solar Heat Gain Coefficient Based on the Escape of Incident Solar Radiation by Shunyao Lu, Dongfang Yang, Xiaoqing Huang, Tao Chen, Zhengzhi Wang

“…In this paper, the heat transfer process of solar radiation in window shading systems is analyzed, and an amended calculation model for the SHGC is established. …”
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Functional Modification Effect of Epoxy Oligomers on the Structure and Properties of Epoxy Hydroxyurethane Polymers by Victor Stroganov, Oleg Stoyanov, Ilya Stroganov, Eduard Kraus

“…Formation of internal and intermolecular hydrogen bonds was established on hydroxycarbonates (HA) and linear polyhydroxyurethanes (PHU) model compounds by IR and NMR spectroscopy. The results of the hydrogen bond system formation processes explain the change in the relaxation and physicomechanical properties of hard polymers modified by the epoxy-amine compositions (OECC), containing aromatic and aliphatic links. …”
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Mapping of Closed Depressions in Karst Terrains: A GIS-Based Delineation of Endorheic Catchments in the Alburni Massif (Southern Apennine, Italy) by Libera Esposito, Guido Leone, Michele Ginolfi, Saman Abbasi Chenari, Francesco Fiorillo

“…A GIS-based, semi-automatic approach was employed, combining the sink-filling method (applied to a 5 m DEM) with the visual interpretation of various informative layers. This process produced a raster representing the location and depth of karst closed depressions. …”
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A novel hybrid machine learning approach for δ13C spatial prediction in polish hard-water lakes by Himan Shahabi, Ataollah Shirzadi, Alicja Ustrzycka, Natalia Piotrowska, Janusz Filipiak, Marzieh Hajizadeh Tahan

“…In this study, a random forest (RF), M5P, AMT, and Gaussian process (GP) are the four cutting-edge ML algorithms that are compared with the proposed hybrid model (ARAMT). …”
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Numerical study on heat generation/absorption effects with activation energy and chemical reaction in tetrahedral nanoparticle flow between two orthogonal porous disks by Talha Anwar, Qadeer Raza, M Zubair Akbar Qureshi, M Awais, Bagh Ali, Ehsanullah Hemati

“…The investigation incorporates the effects of heat generation/absorption, the Cattaneo–Christov heat flux model, activation energy, chemical reactions, and three nanoparticle shapes: spherical, brick, and platelet. …”
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Nystromformer based cross-modality transformer for visible-infrared person re-identification by Ranjit Kumar Mishra, Arijit Mondal, Jimson Mathew

“…To bridge the modality gap, a cross-attention fusion block is introduced, where RGB and IR features interact and integrate second-order covariance statistics to model higher-order correlations. The fused features are subsequently refined through projection layers and optimized for re-identification using a classification head. …”
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Drying by worming: deciphering how earthworms dry tundra soil by J. Klaminder, L. Hedström, H. Jonsson, J. Lee, L. Lizana

“…Deep-burrowing earthworms (anecic and endogeic species) can dry soils by reworking mineral soil layers. Although this ‘drying effect’ has been reported across many ecosystems, including the Fennoscandian tundra, little is known about the driving processes. …”
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The Effects of Climate Change on Human Behavior and Stress by Mitra Sadat Fathifard, Fateme Javid, Abbas Rahdan

“…The data from meteorological stations in Gilan Province were used to classify the physiological stress index, and the final output was calculated using the Heat Comfort Coefficient in GIS environment. All processes and data analysis in GIS environment were assessed using the Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) statistical model, which predicts the spatial structure of unknown points based on the correlation between measured points. …”
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Unraveling the synergistic influence of Nb, V, and Ce on corrosion and high temperature performance of austenitic alloys by J. Ramirez, F. Zuñiga, S. Shiva Samhitha, Srivathsava Surabhi, A. Ríos R, J.P. Sanhueza, A.F. Jaramillo, A.G. Onate, M.F. Meléndrez, D. Rojas

“…The influence of the synergistic effect of the addition of Ce–Nb–V and Ce–V–Nb on the microstructural behavior and oxidation resistance at 800 °C to produce new austenitic steels (ASS) was investigated. Thermodynamic modeling (Thermo-Calc) was employed to optimize the composition, and their production was carried out from stainless steel scrap and ferroalloys in the open atmosphere induction melting process to contribute to the circular economy. …”
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The Influence of Mixing Orders on the Microstructure of Artificially Prepared Sand-Clay Mixtures by Kexin Yin, Anne-Laure Fauchille, Eugenia Di Filippo, Khaoula Othmani, Samuel Branchu, Giulio Sciarra, Panagiotis Kotronis

“…It might contribute to better understanding and modeling grain movements and arrangements in artificial muds, used for instance in underground mining, foundation settlement, hydraulic containment, road construction, soil stabilization, and in natural soils in the occurrence of soil liquefaction, industrial brick manufacturing, and in studying shear processes in tectonic fault zones.…”
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Analysis of the effects of underground storey supplementation of multiple excavation methods under different foundation forms by Xiaotong He, Zhibin Zhong, Wei Li, Yongli Zheng, Shangheng Huang, Baoxian Liu, Zhile Shu, Tao Li, Jie Li

“…Given the acceleration of urbanisation processes, urban lands have nearly become saturated, and the gap between population and land is increasing. …”
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Endurecimiento combinado en engranajes cilíndricos de dientes rectos. // Combined hardening in cylindrical gears of right teeth. by O. González Quintero, E. Alfonso Brindis

“…<br />The objective of this study is to determine the gear forces and time of Mechanic-thermal Treatment influence in the<br />mechanical properties: micro hardness and depth of work hardening, of the outer layers of spur gears, obtaining a<br />mathematical statistical model that relates the variables before mentioned with the hardness of the superficial layers in steel<br />of medium content of carbon spur gears whose chemical composition belongs together presently with the established ones<br />work.…”
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The Establishment of Religious Landscapes and Local Social Life in Nanshan and Beishan, Dazu District, in the Song Dynasty by Jie Zhou

“…In particular, the transformation of Beishan and Nanshan from the merit caves of military generals in the late Tang Dynasty to the cultural spaces of the gentry class in the Song Dynasty vividly demonstrates the local practice model in the secularization process of Chinese religious art from the 10th to the 13th century.…”
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SMA-YOLO: An Improved YOLOv8 Algorithm Based on Parameter-Free Attention Mechanism and Multi-Scale Feature Fusion for Small Object Detection in UAV Images by Shenming Qu, Chaoxu Dang, Wangyou Chen, Yanhong Liu

“…Subsequently, to enhance the information exchange between upper and lower layers, we design a special multi-cross-scale feature pyramid network (M-FPN). …”
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The Fabrication of Fluorine‐Free Stretchable Superhydrophobic Films Using Inverse Vulcanization Sulfur Polymer by Vinicius Diniz, Nicola M. Pugno, Susanne Rath, Colin R. Crick

“…The films maintained functionality when stretched due to controlled fragmentation that preserved the Cassie–Baxter wetting state. Mathematical modeling revealed a scaling relation between fragment area and thickness, showing that thicker layers produced larger fragments, impairing superhydrophobicity. …”
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A Climate Simulation Dataset From 11 Overriding Experiments for Analysing Cloud and Air–Sea Feedbacks by Xiao Guo, Biao Feng, Zhiying Zhao, Jian Ma

“…ABSTRACT Under global warming, cloud change and its radiative feedback have often been considered to evolve from thermodynamic processes; however, cloud feedback may also force sea surface temperature to trigger such air–sea interactions. …”
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Lightweight and robust ship detection method driven by self-attention mechanism by Feng MA, Zihui SHI, Jie SUN, Chen CHEN, Xianbin MAO, Xinping YAN

“…Subsequently, considering the uneven distribution and minor scale variations of ship targets in the dataset, two detection layers are retained to reduce model parameters and further enhance model performance. …”
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Effect of long-term constant irradiation on retinal glia by A. V. Potapov, E. Yu. Varakuta, A. V. Solonsky, S. V. Logvinov, A. V. Gerasimov, M. V. Svetlik, A. A. Zhdankina, E. A. Gereng, I. A. Petrov

“…Microglial cells at the late stage of the experiment (day 30) were localized in the inner layers of the retina; their density depended on the intensity of irradiation. …”
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Advances and trends of non-marine shale sedimentology: A case study from Gulong Shale of Daqing Oilfield, Songliao Basin, NE China by Longde SUN, Rukai ZHU, Tianshu ZHANG, Yi CAI, Zihui FENG, Bin BAI, Hang JIANG, Bo WANG

“…The insights of this study provide a significant guideline for evaluation of shale oil enrichment layers/zones. The non-marine shale sedimentology is expected to evolve into an interdisciplinary science on the basis of sedimentary petrology and petroleum geology, which reveals the physical, chemical and biological actions, and the distribution characteristics and evolution patterns of minerals, organic matter, pores, fluid, and phases, in the transportation, sedimentation, water-rock interaction, diagenesis and evolution processes. …”
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