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Permafrost carbon cycle and its dynamics on the Tibetan Plateau
Our knowledge on permafrost carbon (C) cycle is crucial for understanding its feedback to climate warming and develo** nature-based solutions for mitigating climate change. To understand the characteristics ...
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Efficient recovery of electrode materials from lithium iron phosphate batteries through heat treatment, ball milling, and foam flotation
Efficient separation of small-particle-size mixed electrode materials, which are crushed products obtained from the entire lithium iron phosphate battery, has always been challenging. Thus, a new method for re...
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Precipitation and plant functional composition mediate desert canopy nutrient responses to water and nitrogen addition
Plant nutrients play a fundamental role in regulating ecosystem functioning and are sensitive to global changes such as precipitation change and nitrogen (N) deposition. However, the mechanisms by which resour...
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Open AccessIntegrated visual transformer and flash attention for lip-to-speech generation GAN
Lip-to-Speech (LTS) generation is an emerging technology that is highly visible, widely supported, and rapidly evolving. LTS has a wide range of promising applications, including assisting speech impairment an...
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Real-World Semantic Grasp Detection Using Ontology Features: Learning to Concentrate on Object Features
Recognizing the category of the object and using the features of the object itself to predict grasp configuration is of great significance to improve the accuracy of the grasp detection model and expand its ap...
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YOLOOD: an arbitrary-oriented flexible flat cable detection method in robotic assembly
Flexible flat cable (FFC) detection is the premise of robot 3C assembly and is challenging because FFCs are often non-axis aligned with arbitrary orientations having cluttered surroundings. However, to date, t...
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Eddy current separation of broken lithium battery products in consideration of the shape factor
Among the common recycling methods for lithium battery materials, pyrometallurgy recycling leads to high energy consumption and carbon emission levels, and hydrometallurgy recycling generates many toxic byprod...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Container Load Prediction Based on Extended Berkeley Packet Filter
The widespread use of container cloud puts forward higher requirements for the accuracy and real-time prediction of container resources. Aiming at the problem of low efficiency of existing container load predi...
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A novel amidoxime-functionalized covalent organic framework for removal of U(VI) from uranium-containing wastewater with appreciable efficiency and selectivity
This work fabricated a novel two-dimensional (2D) amidoxime-functionalized covalent organic framework (COF) (named HDU-102-AO) for U(VI) extraction. It had a spiny rod structure, high crystallinity, appreciabl...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Robotic Grasp Detection Based on Transformer
Grasp detection in a cluttered environment is still a great challenge for robots. Currently, the Transformer mechanism has been successfully applied to visual tasks, and its excellent ability of global context...
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Nitrogen, boron-doped Ti3C2 MXene quantum dot-based ratiometric fluorescence sensing platform for point-of-care testing of tetracycline using an enhanced antenna effect by Eu3+
The Ti3C2 MXene quantum dots (Ti3C2 MQDs) derived from Ti3C2 MXene have received much attention because of their remarkable advantages in biosensing. Nevertheless, the functionalization of Ti3C2 MQDs to improve t...
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LogGAN: a Log-level Generative Adversarial Network for Anomaly Detection using Permutation Event Modeling
System logs that trace system states and record valuable events comprise a significant component of any computer system in our daily life. Each log contains sufficient information (i.e., normal and abnormal in...
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Nitrogen-enhanced herbaceous competition threatens woody species persistence in a desert ecosystem
Water and nitrogen availability are primary determinants of woody communities in dryland ecosystems and are strongly affected by global change. However, the mechanisms by which resource availability and plant ...
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Facile microwave-assisted synthesis of Ti3C2 MXene quantum dots for ratiometric fluorescence detection of hypochlorite
A dual-channel “naked-eye” colorimetric and ratio fluorescent probe has been developed based on titanium carbide quantum dots for the detection of curcumin and hypochlorite (ClO−). The fluorescence emission of T...
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Chemoheterotrophic diazotrophs contribute to nitrogen incorporation in a semi-arid desert
To explore the non-cyanobacteria diazotrophic populations and their microbial interactions, and further evaluate the N-fixing activities of chemoheterotrophic groups in deserts, we collected soil samples from ...
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Nitrogen enrichment suppresses revegetated shrub growth under increased precipitation via herb-induced topsoil water limitation in a desert ecosystem in northern China
Revegetated woody plant communities are widely distributed in degraded drylands, and they are expected to be intrinsically sensitive to precipitation change and nitrogen enrichment. However, the interactive ef...
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi shape the adaptive strategy of plants by mediating nutrient acquisition in a shrub-dominated community in the Mu Us Desert
Whether Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) influence community composition by changing plant adaptation to resource limitation remains unclear. This study examined how AMF affect the biodiversity and functiona...
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Effects of xeric shrubs on soil microbial communities in a desert in northern China
This study aimed at assessing whether patch type (i.e., under-shrub soil patch and inter-shrub soil patch) has an effect on soil microbes and how different shrub species altered the soil microbes through under...
