Maps - Science topic

By studying cohomology classes that are related with n-harmonic morphisms and F-harmonic maps, we augment and extend several results on F-harmonic maps, harmonic maps in [1, 3, 14], p-harmonic morphisms in [17], and also revisit our previous results in [9, 10, 21] on Riemannian submersions and n-harmonic morphisms which are submersions. The results...

In traditional temporal phase unwrapping (TPU) methods, the fringe order is obtained pixel-to-pixel by multi-frequencies or multi-wavelengths. The direct calculation and error non-accumulation features accelerate the prosperity of TPU. Nevertheless, the noise, defocusing, and non-uniform reflectivity may inevitably lead to some fringe order errors....

Spatial modeling of suspended particles (TSP) and spatial relationship to dust in Baghdad governorate and environmental effects ABSITRAC Geography studies the spatial patterns present on the surface of the earth, and in this study it describes the patterns and analyzes the processes that created them, and interprets and identifies the relationship...

Deep learning-based methods have proved useful for adversarial attack detection. However, conventional detection algorithms exploit crisp set theory for classification boundary. Therefore, representing vague concepts is not available. Motivated by the recent success in fuzzy systems, we propose a fuzzy rule-based neural network to improve adversari...

We analyze the concept of "affordance" in ecological psychology and the concept of "Turing machine" drawn from computation. We propose that Turing's theory of computation supports Gibson's ecological theory of affordances as entities perceived directly—without invoking representations—as the configurations of Turing machines. Our arguments draw on...

Through reviewed the development process of urban and rural planning in China and other countries, the paper discusses the necessity and inevitability of territory spatial planning and the major changes in the territory spatial plan-preparing comparing to the urban and rural plan-preparing. Urban planners want to do the work of territory spatial pl...

Improper location of gas stations leads to waste of resources, time, and user dissatisfaction. On the other hand, the optimal location of these facilities will have a significant impact not only on the quality of traffic in the network but also on their economic success. The aim of this research is the spatial-physical organization of inner-city st...

Cellular networks are becoming increasingly complex, requiring careful optimization of parameters such as antenna propagation pattern, tilt, direction, height, and transmitted reference signal power to ensure a high-quality user experience. In this paper, we propose a new method to optimize antenna direction in a cellular network using Q-learning....

Cyber-criminals often use information-sharing platforms such as paste sites (e.g., Pastebin) to share vast amounts of malicious text content, such as exploit source code. Careful analysis of malicious paste site content can provide Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) about potential threats. In this research, we propose a Convolutional BiLSTM Transform...

Road safety is an important subject to study in both the technical and academic fields of road transportation. In recent years, there has been a significant rise in the number of studies that look at how intelligent transportation systems (ITS) can be used and what role it plays in making roads safer in different countries. Nevertheless, there are...

Stiffener design plays a crucial role in the lightweight design of stiffened panels. We propose a CAD-integrated stiffener design approach for shells. The problem is partitioned into two steps: (1) generating clear force flow members (FFM) based on the direction of principal stress, and (2) introducing a nodal variable-based sizing-topology optimiz...

HYPOTHESIS / AIMS OF STUDY Obstetric fistula is a debilitating condition prevalent in low-and middle-income countries; it is estimated that there are between 50,000 to 100,000 new cases each year. The World Health Organization (WHO) aims to eradicate obstetric fistula by 2030. However, there is no overview of the breadth and quality of evidence sur...

Ички Тянь-Шанда жайгашкан Жогорку Нарын бассейнинде географиялык маалыматтык системалар жана жерди аралыктан зонддоо менен айкалыштыруу аркылуу RUSLE (Кыртышты жоготуунун универсалдуу теңдемеси) моделин колдонуу менен бүткүл бассейн боюнча кыртыштын жоготууларын баалоо үчүн изилдөөлөр жүргүзүлдү. Жаан-чачындын эрозиясынын (R), кыртыштын эрозиялык с...

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a method to determine the location of a mobile robot in an unfamiliar environment with external information through the information obtained by the sensor and constructs a three-dimensional map of the unknown environment. There are two main types of SLAM: laser SLAM and visual SLAM. Visual SLAM techno...

This is a scientific review of a published paper that focus on network structures and governance performance. An intense review of the work reveals that the paper falls short of respecting research lexicons and methodology. The review found that, the arguments presented in the paper does not align with the topic under study. The paper was not equal...

To explore the impacts of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the linear correlation among the indices of each oscillation was investigated. The indices Niño 1+2, Niño 3, Niño 3.4, Niño 4, ONI, SOI, BEST, TNI and MEI were used to represent the ENSO, besides the NAO index. The analysis considers the ENSO dive...

This article describes how the word form derived from Literary Tibetan red is used in varieties of Tibetic languages in the Khams and Amdo regions. Most varieties use these forms as copulative verb stems, and in most cases, it functions as a factual or statemental (+sensory) evidential form. However, we observe slight differences in its usage, and...

The deployment of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) to network nodes involves the interdependent task of scheduling the VNFs at each node. A VNF scheduling strategy determines the execution time of the VNFs when multiple VNFs are mapped to a node. The computation of an optimal VNF scheduling strategy is difficult due to diverse service demands, dyna...

Telmatophilus typhae (Fallén, 1802) (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae) is reported for the first time from Portugal, extending its known distribution range in the Iberian Peninsula, that is also summarised and mapped.

In the domain of video recognition, video transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance, albeit at significant computational cost. This paper introduces TSNet, an innovative approach for dynamically selecting informative tokens from given video samples. The proposed method involves a lightweight prediction module that assigns importance sco...

We propose an enhancement to our previously proposed novel model called Contextual Vision Transformer (ViT) to address the problem of traffic accident risk forecasting. This framework combines spatial and temporal information using a data-driven approach. By treating the problem as a computer vision task, we can predict traffic accident risk as the...

Resumen: Se actualiza la corología de la familia Cleridae Latreille, 1802 (Coleoptera) en la provincia de Alicante, aportando nuevos registros y recopilando los ya existentes, quedando estimada su fauna de cléridos en doce especies. Se elabora un mapa de distribución provincial para cada especie. Abstract: Contribution to the knowledge of the check...

Verbascum ×murbeckii was observed in three localities in the Hérault department (France). This hybrid known from Central and Mediterranean Europe had not been seen since 1934. A lectotype is designated. The morphology of this hybrid is compared with that of its parents in an illustrated and commented table. The available data are compiled and illus...

Contextualización espacio temporal de la ocurrencia de quemas e incendios forestales en la región trinacional MAP (Madre de Dios. Acre y Pando) en la Amazonia Sudoccidental.

The present study investigated the effects of a series of 10 whole-body cryostimulation (WBC) sessions (3 min; −110 °C) on physiological and thermal responses to a submaximal exercise test in 17 elite athletes. Participants performed an exercise test twice at similar levels of intensity before and after a series of ten WBC sessions. Before and duri...

Non-coding RNAs play an essential role in a wide variety of biological processes. We have previously developed RNA-Chrom, an analytical database containing uniformly processed RNA-chromatin interactions data. Here, we analyzed the consistency of these data with each other and performed a comparative analysis of human and mouse datasets from "all-to...

Research on the additive manufacturing of metals often neglects any characterization of the composition of final parts, erroneously assuming a compositional homogeneity that matches the feedstock material. Here, the composition of electron-beam-melted Ti-6Al-4V produced through three distinct scanning strategies (linear raster and two point melting...

In this article, we study higher-order optimality conditions of robust Benson proper efficient solutions in uncertain vector optimization problems. One first introduces a new epiderivative of set-valued maps, the higher-order weak radial epiderivative. Then we investigate some of its properties. The concept of robust Benson proper effective solutio...

Global food security requires food production to be increased in the future decades. Agro-Ecological Zones (AEZ) methodology is a successful approach used in land evaluation studies to support sustainable agricultural development. This approach can facilitate finding suitable areas for wheat production on a global scale. This study was conducted ba...

With growing concerns over water management in rivers worldwide, researchers are seeking innovative solutions to monitor and understand changing flood patterns. In a noteworthy advancement, stakeholders interested in the changing flood patterns of the Murray Darling Basin (MDB) in Australia, covering an area of 1 million km², can now access a consi...

Recently, RGB–T saliency detection becomes gradually a hot topic due to the fact that RGB–T multi-modal data could overcome the limitation of conventional RGB data in some cases. However, existing RGB–T saliency detection methods usually fail to take both advantages of two modalities and cannot boost performance effectively. Therefore, we achieve R...

In last few years, chaotic maps are being used extensively by the researchers to build image cryptosystems. This paper proposes a novel Hybrid chaotic map, and discusses the implementation of an image encryption method that uses an existing Sine–Cosine (SC) chaotic map, and the proposed novel Hybrid chaotic map. The proposed image encryption method...

Meeting the urgent need to protect and restore ecosystems requires effective decision-making through wisely considering a range of evidence. However, weighing and assessing evidence to make complex decisions is challenging, particularly when evidence is of diverse types, subjects, and sources, and varies greatly in its quality and relevance. To tac...

Object SLAM uses additional semantic information to detect and map objects in the scene, in order to improve the system’s perception and map representation capabilities. Previous methods often use quadrics and cuboids to represent objects, especially in monocular systems. However, their simplistic shapes are insufficient for effectively representin...

We present the final legacy version of stellar photometry for the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) survey. We have reprocessed all of the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys near-ultraviolet (F275W, F336W), optical (F475W, F814W), and near-infrared (F110W, F160W) imaging from the PHAT survey using...

The ionospheric variabilities are influenced by various drivers, and quantifying their relative contributions is beneficial to ionospheric modeling and ionospheric forecasting, but this is still a significant challenge in the ionospheric community. In present paper, the global ionosphere maps, solar indices, solar wind and interplanetary parameters...

Taxation is a phenomenon of legal adagio to a preliminary juridical relevant relation generated by legal subjects’ interactions in a given environment. The traditional milieu is evolving in newer directions as human activity, including markets, are digitalizing. This new domain of legal interaction is addressed also by tax legislation in both subst...

A reliable methodology for sniper localization utilizing a machine-learning framework has been proposed herein. The proposed work is based on the time of arrival of the shock waves (SW) in contrast to the conventional approaches, which utilized both the muzzle blast (MB) and SW. Since the MB is susceptive to environmental disturbances, the proposed...

Plant vacuoles are essential organelles in the growth and development of plants, and accurate identification of their proteins is crucial for understanding their biological properties. In this study, we developed a novel model called GraphIdn for the identification of plant vacuole proteins. The model uses SeqVec, a deep representation learning mod...

Tacir QURBANOV  ÖZƏT Aşıq İsgəndər Ağbabalı Ağbaba aşıq mühitinin sonuncu azman aşığıdır. O təkcə ustad aşıq deyil, həm də yaradıcı sənətkardı, sinədəftərdi. Çıldır aşıq mühitinə, Gümrünün el sənətkarlarının ədəbi irsinə yaxından bələddi. Aşıq İsgəndər Ağbabalının yaradıcılığında etnoqrafik cizgilər, bəzi yer-yurd adları da xüsusi maraq doğurur. A...

PERMA is a multidimensional framework that explains well-being through five hedonic and eudaimonic psychological elements–Positive emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Accomplishment. Soon after the PERMA framework was proposed, PERMA-Profiler was introduced as a validated assessment tool for measuring these five elements of well-being fro...

Neural fields are neural networks which map coordinates to a desired signal. When a neural field should jointly model multiple signals, and not memorize only one, it needs to be conditioned on a latent code which describes the signal at hand. Despite being an important aspect, there has been little research on conditioning strategies for neural fie...

Let X be a quasicompact quasiseparated scheme. The collection of derived Azumaya algebras in the sense of Toën forms a group, which contains the classical Brauer group of X and which we call $$\textsf{Br}^\dagger (X)$$ Br † ( X ) following Lurie. Toën introduced a map $$\phi :\textsf{Br}^\dagger (X)\rightarrow H ^2_{\acute{e }t }(X,{\mathbb {G}}_{\...

Background. The purpose was to develop ways to improve the organization of dental treatment and preventive measures for the elderly and senile people. Materials and methods. The study involved 578 patients aged 60 to 89 years. At stage I, a dental examination was performed followed by an assessment of the dental status and at stage II, after examin...

The Present study is based on the identification of various small and unknown wetlands of Aligarh districts and mapping of them at 1:50,000 scale. It is a small effort , trying to provide maps of wetlands at a micro level. In the present study remote sensing is used as a potential tool for identification and mapping of wetlands of Aligarh district.

We propose an original approach to investigate the linearity of Gray codes obtained from Z 2 L-additive codes by introducing two related binary codes: the associated and concatenated. Once they are defined, one could perform a straightforward analysis of the Schur product between their codewords and determine the linearity of the respective Gray co...

Filter pruning has drawn much attention for releasing the limitations of person re-identification (ReID) in resource-constrained platforms due to the large parameters and high computational consumption. Filter pruning is depended on the given combination of pruning ratios to trim off unimportant filters, therefore, we define filter pruning as optim...

In facial landmark localization, facial region initialization usually plays an important role in guiding the model to learn critical face features. Most facial landmark detectors assume a well-cropped face as input and may underperform in real applications if the input is unexpected. To alleviate this problem, we present a region-aware deep feature...

Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS or taVNS) is a non-invasive method of electrical stimulation of the afferent branch of the vagus nerve, suggested to drive changes in putative physiological markers of noradrenergic activity, including pupil dilation. However, it is unknown whether taVNS can map onto the phasic and tonic modes...

In recent years, deep learning-based methods have been extensively developed to diagnose Prostate Cancer (PCa) with bi-parametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging (bpMRI) images. Due to the vague characteristic of PCa bpMRI images, the spacial lesion annotations and grading annotations inevitably contain some noises, which has a serious impact on the per...

Species of wolf spiders considered in the Pardosa atrata group are surveyed, and comparative figures of all species included in the group are presented for the first time. A new species, P. armeniaca sp. nov. , is described from the shore of Lake Sevan (Armenia) based on both sexes. Pardosa narymica Savelyeva, 1972 from East Kazakhstan Oblast’ is s...

Each year, consumers return billions of new products to sellers. Despite reports that once returned products are often discarded without ever being used, surprisingly little research has examined the environmental impacts of returns from a full lifecycle perspective. Building on a unique dataset covering over 630k returned apparel items, we map the...

A synopsis of Heliotropiaceae in Thailand is presented and, as part of this, the taxonomic history, identification keys, distribution maps, herbarium specimen citations and diagnostic characters are provided. Two genera and 12 species are recognised and four new combinations are proposed of Tournefortia under the genus Heliotropium , namely H. hook...

In order to evaluate the geotechnical competence of the subsurface soil materials at Plural Garden Estate, Ilaramokin Southwestern Nigeria, geotechnical investigations involving geoelectric sounding and Direct Cone Penetrometer Test (DCPT) was carried out in the estate. A total of 27 VES points and 8 DCPT points were occupied across the study area....

The present work aims to map and analyze the idiosyncrasies between the economic theory of degrowth and the central precepts of the Paris Agreement. Bibliographical references are presented around environmental and economic refl ections regarding the crisis that humanity has reached in the face of the industrialization process. The theme was divide...

In this paper, we first give a characterization of an f-biharmonic curve γ :(a, b) → Nⁿ(C) in an n-dimensional space form by solving ODEs. We also give complete classifications of proper f-biharmonic curves in a 3-dimensional sphere S³ and a hyperbolic space H³ . We also derive f-biharmonic Riemannian submersion equation from 3-manifolds. We then u...

Nearby faults interact through stress changes induced by fault slip and viscoelastic flow. The process is, however, often elusive and can be geometry-dependent and time-variant. Here, we combine geodetic and field observations to characterize the interaction of two head-to-head, conjugate faults in eastern Taiwan during the 2022 Chihshang earthquak...

In this paper, we show that the (n-1,k)-Dirac structures on smooth manifoldM and the propositions of Nambu-Poisson geometry. First, we research Courant algebroid'sautomorphisms and the infinitesimal, and prove the integrability of infinitesimal Courant automorphisms. We pull back a (n-1,k)-Dirac structure under a smooth map φ:N → M.Suchpull back op...

The geographical configuration of northwest Ethiopia has changed often and significantly during the previous four centuries, according to a meta-analysis of historical maps. Boundary lines of languages in use and of territorial control were reported on the Main Map. Sixty-six coeval historical maps depict the territorial control of Western Tigray,...

This paper deals with the existence and uniqueness of common fixed points in metric and dislocated metric spaces. In addition, an application and some illustrative examples are given in order to justify the validity and credibility of our results, also, their superiority over some similar theorems existing in unique common fixed points theory’s dom...

The number line estimation task is frequently used to measure children's numerical magnitude understanding. It is unclear whether the resulting straight, horizontal, left-to-right oriented estimate patterns indicate task constraints or children's intuitive number-space mapping. Three-to six-years olds (N = 72, Mage = 4.89, 56 % girls, 94% German ci...

Background Nigeria is one of the most terrorised countries due to terrorist attacks and violent clashes. There have been many fatalities resulting from this violence, which started in the late 1960s and has significantly increased recently. Violence in Nigeria has been studied, but not about Nigeria’s mortality experience over time. This study desc...

The current learners of readers do not engage in regular reading, which is not exaggerated. Regular reading is sometimes dismissed as being too time-consuming and insufficient to fully enjoy the quick satisfaction provided by the internet and social media. Consequently, educators are acknowledging that this has changed young learners learning patte...

Flood forecasts are only useful if they are understood correctly. They are also uncertain, and it is difficult to present all of the information about the forecast and its uncertainty on a map, as it is three dimensional (water depth and extent, in all directions). To overcome this, we interviewed 139 people to understand their preferences in terms...

In parking problems, a given number of cars enter a one-way street sequentially, and try to park according to a specified preferred spot in the street. Various models are possible depending on the chosen rule for collisions, when two cars have the same preferred spot. We study a model introduced by Harris, Kamau, Mori, and Tian in recent work, call...

Due to the fast retrieval speed and low storage cost, cross-modal hashing has become the primary method for cross-modal retrieval. Since the emergence of deep cross-modal hashing methods, cross-modal retrieval significantly improved. However, the existing cross-modal hash retrieval methods still need to effectively utilize the dataset’s supervisory...

In this note, we study the delooping of spaces and maps in homotopy type theory. We show that in some cases, spaces have a unique delooping, and give a simple description of the delooping in these cases. We explain why some maps, such as group homomorphisms, have a unique delooping. We discuss some applications to Eilenberg–MacLane spaces and cohom...

Availability of portable water is a global challenge which has necessitated search for additional sources of water. The global focus now is on groundwater which on its own, is only available in abundance at certain locations. The search for groundwater potential to meet increasing demand of the populace is very important in order to sustain livelih...

This paper proposes a stereo matching method enhanced by object detection and instance segmentation results obtained through the use of a deep convolutional neural network. Then, this method is applied to generate a picking plan to solve bin picking problems, that is, to automatically pick up objects with random poses in a stack using a robotic arm...

Deep learning-based methods are widely used in the field of image processing and have achieved remarkable results. However, these methods often produce mis-filling phenomenon when dealing with irregular broken images. The main reason is that the underlying information of the feature map is not fully utilized, and the semantic information of feature...

Digital images are one of the modern era's dominant sources of information and communication. However, an image can simply be altered with the existence of several tools for image editing. These altered images can transmit across platforms of social media to influence some people in society and may have both positive and negative effects. Therefore...

The aim of this paper is to assess the development of business activities in the Czech countryside in the period from 2008 to the present and to show possible limitations and perspectives of this area. The research was conducted by analysing economic entities located in rural municipalities in the peripheral areas of Western Bohemia. The assessment...

A new species, Eremochorus (Eremochorus) kalashiani Legalov, sp. nov. from Ongudaisky District, Central Russian Altai of Western Siberia is described and illustrated. The new species is similar to E. steppenis (Motschulsky, 1860) from Kazakhstan but differs from it in the wider aedeagus with quite short apex, and not rounded sides of the pronotum....

Background and Aim: Drought is a global phenomenon that can occur anywhere and cause significant damage to humans and natural ecosystems. Therefore, the issue of hydrological drought and reduction of river flow in Ardabil province is also an important issue that requires a comprehensive study. Method: In this study, hydrological drought characteris...

In Indonesia's liquefaction history, the province of Central Sulawesi was severely affected in several locations when a 7.5 Mw earthquake occurred in September 2018. This study aims to evaluate the liquefaction potential and generate the liquefaction hazard map in the reconstruction project of the Gumbasa Irrigation Canals passed through Jono Oge V...