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Open AccessConvSRGAN: super-resolution inpainting of traditional Chinese paintings
Existing image super-resolution methods have made remarkable advancements in enhancing the visual quality of real-world images. However, when it comes to restoring Chinese paintings, these methods encounter un...
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Open AccessSgrgan: sketch-guided restoration for traditional Chinese landscape paintings
Image restoration is a prominent field of research in computer vision. Restoring broken paintings, especially ancient Chinese artworks, is a significant challenge for current restoration models. The difficulty...
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A note on the topological stability theorem from \({{\,\textrm{RCD}\,}}\) spaces to Riemannian manifolds
Inspired by a recent work of Wang-Zhao in [72], in this note we prove that for a fixed n-dimensional closed Riemannian manifold \((M^n, g)\) ...
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Effects of Thermo-mechanical Treatment on the Microstructures and Mechanical Properties of a Medium-Entropy Alloy
The effects of hot-rolling (HR), cold-rolling (CR), and HR + CR followed by aging on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the medium-entropy alloy (MEA) Ni43.4Co25.3Cr25.3Al3Ti3 were investigated. The ...
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Cardiovascular indicators associated with ventricular remodeling in chronic high-altitude disease: a cardiovascular MRI study
This study aimed to assess biventricular function and mechanics in patients with the chronic high-altitude disease (CHAD) using cardiovascular MRI and explore the possible risk factors associated with ventricu...
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Open AccessA renal YY1-KIM1-DR5 axis regulates the progression of acute kidney injury
Acute kidney injury (AKI) exhibits high morbidity and mortality. Kidney injury molecule-1 (KIM1) is dramatically upregulated in renal tubules upon injury, and acts as a biomarker for various renal diseases. Ho...
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Rapid 3D breath-hold MR cholangiopancreatography using deep learning–constrained compressed sensing reconstruction
To compare the image quality of three-dimensional breath-hold magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography with deep learning-based compressed sensing reconstruction (3D DL-CS-MRCP) to those of 3D breath-hold M...
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Comparative Study of Nickel-Based Super-Alloy Powders Atomized by Argon and Nitrogen
This work allowed the study and comparison of the cooling rate, surface morphology, and microstructure of nickel-based super-alloy powders produced by the atomization of argon and nitrogen. The results show th...
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C3N: content-constrained convolutional network for mural image completion
Ancient murals, suffering from severe diseases, usually exhibit the absence or distortion of local areas. The damaged murals severely impaired people’s visual appreciation and satisfaction in the digital conse...
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Contour-enhanced CycleGAN framework for style transfer from scenery photos to Chinese landscape paintings
Image style transfer based on the generative adversarial network model has become an important research field. Among these generative adversarial network models, a distinct advantage of CycleGAN is that it can...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Verifying Design Through Generative Visualization of Neural Activity
Current neuroscience-focused approaches for evaluating the effectiveness of a design do not use direct visualization of mental activity. Inspired by S. Palazzo’s team we proposed a framework with reconstructio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multi-layer Electricity Theft Detection System Based on the Concept of Triple Detection
This paper firstly dissertates the current detection methods of electricity theft and analyzes the technical and applying issues of those detection methods. Hence, a synthetic triple detection composed by a re...
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Simultaneous Determination of Multiple Polypeptide Antibiotics Residues in Lake Water by Lyophilization Combined with Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry
It is significant to develop a method for the simultaneous determination of multiple polypeptide antibiotics residues in lake water because of the emergence of multidrug-resistant microorganisms in water. A se...
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Open AccessChanges in prevalence of nosocomial infection pre- and post-COVID-19 pandemic from a tertiary Hospital in China
Nosocomial infections (NIs) are an important cause of mortality, and increasing evidence reveals that the prevalence of NIs can be reduced through effective prevention and control measures. The aim of this stu...
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Open AccessThe association of secondary hyperparathyroidism and myocardial damages in hemodialysis end-stage renal disease patients: assessed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance native T1 map**
Secondary hyperparathyroidism is a common complication of end-stage renal disease (ESRD), which may be associated with cardiovascular diseases. Thus, this study aimed to explore myocardial damage using non-con...
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Open AccessPower controllable gain switched fiber laser at ~ 3 μm and ~ 2.1 μm
Based on a hybrid pum** method consisting of a 1150 nm continuous-wave pump source and a 1950 nm pulsed pump source, we demonstrate a power controllable gain-switched fiber laser in dual wavebands at ~ 3 μm ...
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Image denoising via structure-constrained low-rank approximation
Low-rank approximation-based methods have recently achieved impressive results in image restoration. Generally, the low-rank constraint integrated with the nonlocal self-similarity prior is enforced for image ...
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Dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging of rectal cancer using a golden-angle radial stack-of-stars VIBE sequence: comparison with conventional contrast-enhanced 3D VIBE sequence
To compare conventional 3D volumetric-interpolated breath-hold examination (C-VIBE) sequence image quality to that of golden-angle radial stack-of stars acquisition scheme (R-VIBE) in rectal cancer patients.
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Open AccessThe pharyngeal carriage of Haemophilus influenzae among healthy population in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis
A nationwide investigation on the carriage proportion of H. influenzae among healthy populations is lacking in China. The purpose of the study was to review the prevalence of pharyngeal carriage of H. influenzae ...
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Microstructural Evolution, Behavior of Precipitates, and Mechanical Properties of Powder Metallurgical High-Speed Steel S390 During Tempering
The evolution of the microstructure and mechanical properties of a powder metallurgical (PM) high-speed steel (HSS) were investigated using a series of tempering times. A near Baker–Nutting (B–N) orientation r...
