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Occurrence, distribution, and ecological risk of heavy metals and veterinary antibiotics in soils from citrus orchards: side effects of organic substitution
This research is expected to shed light on soil contamination in citrus orchards and provide a reference for soil quality maintenance and improvement in orchards under the organic fertilizer substitution scena...
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Characterizing uncertainty in geotechnical design of energy piles based on Bayesian theorem
It is known that a lot of uncertainties are involved in geotechnical design of energy piles. In this paper, a Bayesian updating framework is presented to characterize those uncertainties. The load-transfer mod...
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Open AccessReliability-based load and resistance factor design model for energy piles
Energy piles have been popular globally with functions of both pile foundation and ground source heat pumps. Although several researches have been devoted to the probabilistic design and assessment of energy p...
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JFT: A Robust Visual Tracker Based on Jitter Factor and Global Registration
Visual object tracking is an important yet challenging task in computer vision, whose accuracy is highly subject to the problems of camera motion/shake and occlusion. In order to solve these two challenging pr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Infrared Moving Small Object Detection Method Based on Trajectory Growth
Aiming at the detection of infrared moving small objects for moving camera, an infrared moving small object detection method based on trajectory growth is proposed. In the first stage, the proposed method firs...
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Nitrate leaching from open-field and greenhouse vegetable systems in China: a meta-analysis
The potential for nitrate leaching in Chinese vegetable systems is substantial because of high inputs of nitrogen (N) fertilizer and water. To quantify the nitrate leaching and identify the key controlling fac...
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Long-term tobacco plantation induces soil acidification and soil base cation loss
Changes in soil exchangeable cations relative to soil acidification are less studied particularly under long-term cash crop plantation. This study investigated soil acidification in an Ali-Periudic Argosols af...
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Pose optimization based on integral of the distance between line segments
In this paper, new solutions for the problem of pose estimation from correspondences between 3D model lines and 2D image lines are proposed. Traditional line-based pose estimation methods rely on the assumptio...
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Open Access5’-adenosine monophosphate mediated cooling treatment enhances ΔF508-Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (CFTR) stability in vivo
Gene mutations that produce misprocessed proteins are linked to many human disorders. Interestingly, some misprocessed proteins retained their biological function when stabilized by low temperature treatment o...
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Hull deformation measurement for spacecraft TT&C ship by Photogrammetry
When voyaging, ships are subject to inevitable hull deformations caused by the changes in the environmental temperature and external stress. These are a crucial source of errors when measuring data using a spa...
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Mineral element concentrations in grains of Chinese wheat cultivars
Investigations on concentration of mineral elements including Fe and Zn in wheat grains are important for human health. Two hundreds and sixty-five cultivars and advanced lines were collected and sown at Anyan...
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Characterization of new serum biomarkers in breast cancer using lipid microarrays
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women. Compared with other serum polypeptides, autoantibodies have many appealing features as biomarkers including sensitivity, stability, and easy detecti...
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Establishment of Chinese soybean Glycine max core collections with agronomic traits and SSR markers
It is very important to efficiently study and use genetic diversity resources in crop breeding and sustainable agriculture. In this study, different sampling methods and sample sizes were compared in order to ...