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Hydrogeochemical Characteristics and Evolution Processes of Multilayer Karst Aquifer in the Huayingshan Coalfield, Southwest China
The Huayingshan coalfield is one of the most important coal districts in Southwest China. Coal mining may have an impact on the hydrochemical characteristics and regional evolution of karst groundwater. This s...
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GAN-GA: infrared and visible image fusion generative adversarial network based on global awareness
The current generative adversarial network (GAN)-based methods for infrared and visible image fusion often overlook global information, leading to inappropriate distribution of fused images in terms of infrare...
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RDGMEF: a multi-exposure image fusion framework based on Retinex decompostion and guided filter
The multi-exposure image fusion (MEF) technique directly fuses a series of images with the same scene but different exposure levels into one high-quality image with more scene details. Presently, most MEF algo...
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Infrared and visible image fusion method based on visual saliency objects and fuzzy region attributes
To enhance the regional feature preserving ability and guaranteed inclusion of complete objects in the final fused images, this paper proposes a new image fusion method based on visual saliency objects and fuz...
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Combined experimental and simulation study on corrosion behavior of B10 copper–nickel alloy welded joint under local turbulence
The corrosion behavior of B10 copper–nickel alloy welded joints in seawater pipeline system was analyzed under local turbulence induced by weld residual height. The corrosion behavior was evaluated by array el...
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A Promising Half-Metallic MXene Monolayer Ti2ZnC2 Induced by the Charge States
The Ti-based MXenes have aroused the enthusiastic attention due to their discovered application in electronics, optics, energy storage and Li-ion batteries. In order to broaden their application into the spint...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Organic carbon burial in Mediterranean sapropels intensified during Green Sahara Periods since 3.2 Myr ago
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Acetyl l-carnitine protects adipose-derived stem cells against serum-starvation: regulation on the network composed of reactive oxygen species, autophagy, apoptosis and senescence
Adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) play an important role in cell therapy and regenerative medicine. However, local nutritional deficiency often limits therapeutical effect of the transplanted cells. Acetyl l-car...
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Open AccessOrganic carbon burial in Mediterranean sapropels intensified during Green Sahara Periods since 3.2 Myr ago
Dark organic-rich layers (sapropels) have accumulated in Mediterranean sediments since the Miocene due to deep-sea dysoxia and enhanced carbon burial at times of intensified North African run-off during Green ...
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Substrate coated with autologous decellularized extracellular matrix facilitates in vitro spreading of spheroid from adipose-derived stem cells through regulating ERK1/2-MMP2/9 pathway
Adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) are easily available and play an important role in regenerative medicine. In recent years, Cell spheroid models have been in the spotlight because of their various advantages...
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Spoken Language Understanding of Human-Machine Conversations for Language Learning Applications
Spoken language understanding (SLU) in human machine conversational systems is the process of interpreting the semantic meaning conveyed by a user’s spoken utterance. Traditional SLU approaches transform the w...
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Computing Pore Size Distribution in Non-woven Fibrous Filter Media
Fundamental understanding of transport properties of non-woven fibrous material is depended on in dept cognition of their microstructure. Non-woven fibrous filter media are formed by the random distribution of...
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Automatic Turn-Level Language Identification for Code-Switched Spanish–English Dialog
We examine the efficacy of text and speech-based features for language identification in code-switched human-human dialog interactions at the turn level. We extract a variety of character- and word-based text...
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Parameters studies for rail wear in high-speed railway turnouts by unreplicated saturated factorial design
Rail wear is one of the main reasons for reducing the service life of high-speed railway turnouts in China. The rail wear characteristics of high-speed railway turnouts are influenced by a large number of inpu...
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Open AccessJasmonate response decay and defense metabolite accumulation contributes to age-regulated dynamics of plant insect resistance
Immunity deteriorates with age in animals but comparatively little is known about the temporal regulation of plant resistance to herbivores. The phytohormone jasmonate (JA) is a key regulator of plant insect d...
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Assembling the Jigsaw: How Multiple Open Standards Are Synergistically Combined in the HALEF Multimodal Dialog System
As dialog systems become increasingly multimodal and distributed in nature with advances in technology and computing power, they become that much more complicated to design and implement. However, open industr...
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Improved Mandarin Speech Recognition by Lattice Rescoring with Enhanced Tone Models
Tone plays an important lexical role in spoken tonal languages like Mandarin Chinese. In this paper we propose a two-pass search strategy for improving tonal syllable recognition performance. In the first pass...
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An HMM-Based Mandarin Chinese Text-To-Speech System
In this paper we present our Hidden Markov Model (HMM)-based, Mandarin Chinese Text-to-Speech (TTS) system. Mandarin Chinese or Putonghua, “the common spoken language”, is a tone language where each of the 400...
