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Chapter and Conference Paper
Learning Cross-Domain Descriptors for 2D-3D Matching with Hard Triplet Loss and Spatial Transformer Network
The 2D-3D matching determine the spatial relationship between 2D and 3D space, which can be used for Augmented Reality (AR) and robot pose estimation, and provides support for multi-sensor fusion. Specifically...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Method for Evaluating BDS Real-Time Satellite Clock Offset Based on Satellite-Specific Weighting
The precision evaluation of the BeiDou (BDS) real-time satellite clock offset is susceptible to the difference in orbital accuracy between GEO, IGSO and MEO satellites. Therefore, a method for evaluating BDS r...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Performance Assessment of Real-Time Precise Point Positioning Using SSR Corrections
Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES) now provides real-time correction information such as orbits/clock correction, code/phase bias, and ionospheric spherical harmonic coefficients, which are so-called SS...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Automatic Segmentation of Mitochondria from EM Images via Hierarchical Context Forest
To solve the problem of automatic mitochondria segmentation from electron microscope (EM) images, a hierarchical context forest (HCF) model using multi-level context features was proposed. Exploring effective ...
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Open AccessBacterial diversity in the gastrointestinal tracts of Rhinolophus luctus and Murina leucogaster in Henan Province, China
Previous studies have assessed the diversity of gastrointestinal bacteria in bats and reported that some of the strains are pathogenic to humans; therefore, bats are considered to be potential reservoirs of zo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multimodal Brain Tumor Segmentation Using Encoder-Decoder with Hierarchical Separable Convolution
To address automatic segmentation of brain tumor from multi-modal MRI volumes, a light-weight encoder-decoder network is presented. Exploring effective way to trade off the range of spatial contexts and comput...
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Isolation of lead-resistant Arthrobactor strain GQ-9 and its biosorption mechanism
In this study, lead-resistant bacterium Arthrobacter sp. GQ-9 with a resistant capability to cadmium, zinc, and copper was isolated from a heavy metal polluted soil. Microcalorimetry analysis was applied to asses...
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Application of phosphate solubilizing bacteria in immobilization of Pb and Cd in soil
In the present study, heavy metal (HM)-tolerant phosphate solubilizing bacteria (PSB) were isolated and their performance during the remediation of Pb and Cd in contaminated soil was studied. A total of 16 bac...
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Bioremediation of Cd by strain GZ-22 isolated from mine soil based on biosorption and microbially induced carbonate precipitation
Microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) is an emerging and promising bioremediation technology to restore the environment polluted by heavy metals. Carbonate-biomineralization microbe can immobilize...
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Potentially toxic trace element contamination, sources, and pollution assessment in farmlands, Bijie City, southwestern China
Artisanal zinc smelting activities, which had been widely applied in Bijie City, Guizhou Province, southwestern of China, can pollute surrounding farmlands. In the present study, 177 farmland topsoil samples o...
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Chemical and Ecotoxicological Assessment of Multiple Heavy Metal-Contaminated Soil Treated by Phosphate Addition
In the present study, two different phosphates, namely potassium dihydrogen phosphate (PDP) and dipotassium hydrogen phosphate (DHP), were used to immobilize multiple heavy metals (HMs) in a long-term contamin...
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Dual track Wallace fly height measurement method to monitor slider motion in 2 dimension at near contact regime
Head media spacing of hard disk drive (HDD) is expected to continue its reduction in order to support areal density growth. At sub-nm clearance between the head and the disk, the intermittent head disk contact...
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Effect of three typical sulfide mineral flotation collectors on soil microbial activity
The sulfide mineral flotation collectors are wildly used in China, whereas their toxic effect on soil microbial activity remains largely unexplored. In this study, isothermal microcalorimetric technique and so...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A System Developed for Monitoring and Analyzing Dynamic Changes of GNSS Precipitable Water Vapor and Its Application
Water vapor is an important factor to the formation of small and medium-scale disastrous weather. Its temporal and spatial variation is extremely violent and uneven in the air. Therefore, the development of a ...
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Comparative LD map** using single SNPs and haplotypes identifies QTL for plant height and biomass as secondary traits of drought tolerance in maize
Drought often delays developmental events so that plant height and above-ground biomass are reduced, resulting in yield loss due to inadequate photosynthate. In this study, plant height and biomass measured by...
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Synthesis of highly luminescent CdTe/ZnO core/shell quantum dots in aqueous solution
The synthesis and photoluminescence (PL) properties of aqueous CdTe/ZnO core/shell quantum dots (QDs) have been investigated by using thiolglycolic acid as a cap** reagent. The highlighted contribution of th...
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Synthesis of Silver Particles with Various Morphologies
Silver particles with various morphologies were prepared by a facile synthesis via the reduction of silver ions in an ethylene glycol solution with poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) and trace amounts of sodium chl...
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Effect of Mercaptocarboxylic Acids on Luminescent Properties of CdTe Quantum Dots
CdTe quantum dots (QDs) were prepared in an aqueous solution using various mercaptocarboxylic acids, such as 3-mercaptopropionic acid (MPA) and thioglycolic acid (TGA), as stabilizing agents. The experimental ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Asynchronous Spiking Neural P System with Promoters
A new class of parallel computing devices called asynchronous spiking neural P systems with promoters is introduced. Unlike the regular spiking neural P systems, they work without help of the universal clock b...
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The presence of the Rb c-box peptide in the cytoplasm inhibits p210bcr-abl transforming function
In order to test if the carboxyl terminal polypeptide of the Retinoblastoma (Rb) tumor suppressor protein, could be used to suppress the growth factor-independent growth phenotype of p210bcr-abl positive myeloid ...
