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... Semantic segmentation of remote sensing imagery (RSI) has obtained great success with the development of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). However, most of the existing algorithms focus on designing end-to-end DCNNs, but neglecting to consider the difficulty of segmentation in imbalance categories, especially for minority categories in RSI, which limits the performance of RSI semantic se ...
... Government-led housing is linked explicitly to building socially just and environmentally sustainable cities. However, marrying justice and sustainability remains an intractable challenge. This paper reveals how this challenge is both conceptual and practical. This review considers the hybrid notion of just sustainability and how these ideas are reflected within government-led housing, using South ...
hybrids, etc ; entrepreneurship; evolution; wine industry; Show all 4 Subjects
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... The interest in environmental entrepreneurship (EE) is growing. Notably, environmental entrepreneurs are hybrid individuals, who meet commercial and ecological identities. Their entrepreneurial identity (EI) plays a key role in successfully starting and continuing entrepreneurial activities. Given that scholars have recognized the pivotal concept of EI for understanding EE, and that they have call ...
... Marine plastic pollution is one of the most talked about environmental issues of our time. While marine plastic pollution generally originates from mismanaged waste from land, waste from ships and fishing gear produce a unique threat to the global seas. Using a choice experiment, we explore preference for a marine debris removal and prevention programme focusing on derelict fishing gear. Additiona ...
... Extracting buildings and roads from remote sensing images is very important in the area of land cover monitoring, which is of great help to urban planning. Currently, a deep learning method is used by the majority of building and road extraction algorithms. However, for existing semantic segmentation, it has a limitation on the receptive field of high-resolution remote sensing images, which means ...
hybrids, etc ; organic chemistry; succinonitrile; titanium; Show all 4 Subjects
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... A method is described for synthesizing succinonitrile derivatives bearing alkyl or aryl substituents from cyanohydrin derivatives using low-valent titanium. The active species in this reaction is proposed to be a resonance hybrid of the Tiᴵⱽ nitrile enolate and Tiᴵᴵᴵ alkyl radical. ...
... Current mainstream smoke detection methods have some problems, such as missing report, large deviation of detection box and slow detection speed. Therefore, we propose an Adaptive Linear Feature-Reuse Network for Rapid Forest Fire Smoke Detection (ALFRNet). Firstly, we designed Double Linear Feature-Reuse Module(DLFR Module) to reduce information loss in the process of the acquisition of smoke ima ...
hybrids, etc ; centromeres; chromatids; meiosis; metaphase; pollen; Show all 6 Subjects
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... In first division restitution (FDR)-type meiosis, univalents congregate on the metaphase I plate and separate sister chromatids in an orderly fashion, producing dyads with somatic chromosome numbers. The second meiotic division is abandoned. The separation of sister chromatids requires separation of otherwise fused sister centromeres and a bipolar attachment to the karyokinetic spindle. This study ...
hybrids, etc ; photoluminescence; physical chemistry; spectroscopy; temperature; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The homogeneous photoluminescence spectral line width in semiconductors carries a wealth of information on the coupling of primary photoexcitations with their dynamic environment as well as between multiparticles. In the limit in which inhomogeneous broadening dominates the total optical line widths, the inhomogeneous and homogeneous contributions can be rigorously separated by temperature-depende ...
hybrids, etc ; algorithms; polarimetry; synthetic aperture radar; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Calibration using corner reflectors is an effective way to estimate the distortion parameters of hybrid compact polarimetric (HCP) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems. However, the existing literature lacks a discussion on the inconsistency of the amplitude and phase coefficients between measured scattering vectors of different corner reflectors. In response to this problem, this paper first pr ...
hybrids, etc ; data collection; honey bees; morphometry; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Four models based on convolutional neural networks were used to investigate whether image recognition techniques applied to honey bee wings could be used to discriminate among honey bee subspecies. A dataset consisting of 9887 wing images belonging to 7 subspecies and one hybrid was analysed with ResNet 50, MobileNet V2, Inception Net V3, and Inception ResNet V2. Accuracy values of classification ...
... Line × tester set was obtained by crossing 10 inbred lines with 2 testers in maize. 20 F1`s along with 12 parents (10 S6 lines and 2 testers) and two standard white checks (TWC321 and TWC324) were evaluated randomized complete block Design (RCBD) with three replications during summer season 2016 to detect the best new white crosses for the potential comercial crosses. Data were recorded on cob len ...
hybrids, etc ; carbon; carbon markets; models; prices; China; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Sectoral coverage is a chief challenge in the design of carbon mitigation policies, this paper addresses such a concern within a hybrid regulation setting in which a carbon tax is adopted for complementary regulation of emission sources outside the Emission Trading System (ETS) in China. With a focus on the efficiency of the hybrid system, the regulated sectors are identified by linkage analysis a ...
hybrids, etc ; biomimetics; cancer therapy; drugs; nanocarriers; nanomedicine; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Natural types of cells display distinct characteristics with homotypic targeting and extended circulation in the blood, which are worthy of being explored as promising drug delivery systems (DDSs) for cancer therapy. To enhance their delivery efficiency, these cells can be combined with therapeutic agents and artificial nanocarriers to construct the next generation of DDSs in the form of biomimeti ...
hybrids, etc ; body conformation; mash; mash feed; zoology; Show all 5 Subjects
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... This research was conducted to measure the exterior characteristics in four hybrids of broilers fed pelleted and commercial mash feed. A total of 112 one-day-old chicks from four broiler hybrids, namely, Arbor Acre, Cobb 500, Marshall, and Ross 308 were used for this experimentation and allocated into four treatments with 28 birds of each hybrid and were replicated four times with 7 birds per repl ...
hybrids, etc ; data collection; streams; synthetic aperture radar; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image change detection (CD) aims to automatically recognize changes over the same geographic region by comparing prechange and postchange SAR images. However, the detection performance is usually subject to several restrictions and problems, including the absence of labeled SAR samples, inherent multiplicative speckle noise, and class imbalance. More importantly, for ...
hybrids, etc ; acoustics; administrative management; energy efficiency; vibration; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Condition monitoring systems (CMS) play a significant role in enhancing performance and lowering failure losses in any industrial setup. Appropriate wireless sensor nodes (WSNs) used in CMS will permit the user to check the live status of machines, however, these WSNs are facing the periodic replacement and recharging problems of batteries. Energy harvesters, used to scavenge ambient energy, are v ...
hybrids, etc ; air quality; algorithms; energy; public transportation; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Hybrid-electric powertrains are among the most promising technologies for abating emissions from marine vessels in sensitive areas. However, their effectiveness strongly depends on the context they operate into. This paper attempts to evaluate the potential impact on air quality of hybridizing the diesel-powered waterbuses that currently operate in the city of Venice as part of the local public tr ...
hybrids, etc ; Reynolds number; dynamic models; equations; viscosity; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Particle dispersion in a periodic channel is studied using the elliptic relaxation hybrid RANS/LES (ER-HRL) model. This approach employs a four-equation linear eddy viscosity (LEV) model while in Reynolds Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) mode near the wall, and switches to the LES Smagorinsky dynamic model in the outer flow region. We perform a systematic analysis of the dispersion of six sets of par ...
hybrids, etc ; decline; food security; inbreeding; rice; China; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The development of hybrid rice varieties, which have been reported to out-yield inbred rice varieties by about 10%, is necessary in ensuring China’s food security. However, the agricultural area where hybrid rice is grown has decreased by 25% (about 5 million ha) in China since 1995. Assuming such better yield performance of hybrids compared to inbreds, the decrease in hybrid rice production area ...