Ubiquitous low cost multi-rotor and fixed wing drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have accelerated the need for reliable, robust, and scalable Structure-from-Motion (SfM) and Multi-View Stereo (MVS) pipelines suitable for a variety of flightpath trajectories espe...

The use of feedlot cattle manure appears as an important source of certain trace metals in soils that can be mobilized by water modifying the surface and groundwater quality. The current study is focused on assessing the availability of copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), cobalt (C...

The functionalized biochar was assembled on modified zeolite to synthesize a novel modified composite adsorbent. The latter was applied to simultaneous adsorption of ammonium and nitrate. The Box–Behnken design (BBD) in response surface methodology (RSM) was applied to ...

Electromagnetic (EM) interference and its suppression are one of the major issues in most current systems design. The electric device such as railgun generates the EM fields that unintentionally propagate away from the structure. Railgun that have significant amounts of...

ABSTRACT Air particulate matter dimensions are a key air quality parameter which can be related to composition, transport properties, exposure and effects on humans and the environment. Optical particle counters are increasingly used for dynamic ambient air particle mat...

We have developed a pulse laser for a calibration of photon sensors used in a high energy experiments. The pulse width of the laser beam is 110 ps in full width at half maximum (FWHM) and its peak intensity is adjustable up to 100 mW. This pulse laser is composed of a s...

Organic dyes constitute one of the main pollutants existing in wastewater, perturbing aquatic life and causing environmental problems. Photocatalytic oxidation represents an alternative process for effective and easy degradation of dyes. In this study, the synthesis of ...

The A-site substituted (20 mol% Sr2+ and Ca2+) and B-site substituted (20 mol% Co3+ and Mn3+) M-type BaFe12O19 (BFO) ceramics were synthesized and the magnetic properties and microwave absorption were investigated. The A-site substitution by Ca2+ or B-site substitution ...

In this paper, the block backward differentiation α formulas (BBDF-α) is derived for solving first order stiff ordinary differential equations with oscillating solutions. The consistency and zero stability conditions are investigated to prove the convergence of the meth...

Photocatalysis provides an intriguing approach for the conversion of methane to multicarbon (C2+) compounds under mild conditions; however, with methyl radicals as the sole reaction intermediate, the current C2+ products are dominated by ethane, with a negligible select...

An approach to realizing a highly selective and stable tunable dual-passband microwave photonic filter (MPF) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated, in which two passbands have a fixed frequency interval. The MPF is achieved based on phase-to-intensity modulation (...

Transmembrane proteins within biological membranes exhibit varieties of important functions that are vital for many cellular activities, and the development of their synthetic mimetics allows for deep understanding in related biological events. Inspired by the structure...

This article is concerned with the study of chaos transition of the duffing oscillator in the presence of fractional-order derivative and third-order polynomial delayed position feedback. The main aim of the work is focused on proving that the existence of time delay pa...

We study containment and uniqueness problems concerning matrix convex sets. First, to what extent is a matrix convex set determined by its first level? Our results in this direction quantify the disparity between two product operations, namely the product of the smalles...

Methods now in common use for making prognostic charts to a large extent are based on time derivatives, while the numerical methods start from space derivatives. That is the fundamental difference between them. It is shown that the present methods give at times very goo...

We consider a discretization of Caputo derivatives resulted from deconvolving a scheme for the corresponding Volterra integral. Properties of this discretization, including signs of the coefficients, comparison principles, and stability of the corresponding implicit sch...

This study attempts to examine the relationship between Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions in Pakistan. Panel unit root, panel co-integration, and Fully Modified OLS (FMOLS) estimators were employed to investigate the existence of long-run r...

This paper has been prepared by the Symphony collaboration (University of Warsaw, Uniwersytet Jagielloński, DESY/CNR and ICFO) on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the 'simple man's models' which underlie most of the phenomena that occur when intense ultrashort la...

"As high-speed electronic communication becomes commonplace, there is a tremendous need for better transmission schemes-ones that minimize the effect of inevitable transmission errors, ones that protect confidential or secret messages, ones that route messages most effi...

Wavefront coding is a technique that combines optical phase elements and digital signal processing in order to increase the effective depth of focus of optical systems. The success of wavefront coding lies in the design of a suitable phase mask placed at the system’s ap...

Palms are highly significant tropical plants. Oil palms produce palm oil, the basic commodity of a highly important industry. Climate change from greenhouse gasses is likely to decrease the ability of palms to survive, irrespective of them providing ecosystem services t...

Let ℱ be a saturated fusion system over a finite p-group S, and let Z ≤ Zn (ℱ), which is strongly closed in S with respect to ℱ. In this paper, we prove that there is a natural bijection from the set of normal subsystems of ℱ containing Z to the set of normal subsystem...

Two QTLs on ChrB09 significantly associated with both early and late leaf spots were identified by genome-wide association study in the US peanut mini-core collection. Early leaf spot (ELS) and late leaf spot (LLS) are two serious peanut diseases in the USA, causing ten...

Sequent calculus is a pervasive technique for studying logics and their properties due to the regularity of rules, proofs, and meta-property proofs across logics. However, even simple proofs can be large, and writing them by hand is often messy. Moreover, the combinator...

Recently, rising distress over ecological pollution owing to water contamination by coloring effluents primarily due to dyes is of growing concern. The development of semiconductor/magnetic oxide–based nanomaterials has verified to be a potent remediation means for wate...

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The electrode is the key in electrochemical process for water and wastewater treatment. Many nonstoichiometric metal oxides are active electrode materials but have poor stability under strong anodic polarization due to their susceptible nature of the oxygen vacancies on...

Supramolecular fibers in water, micrometers long and several nanometers in width, are among the most studied nanostructures for biomedical applications. These supramolecular polymers are formed through a spontaneous self-assembly process of small amphiphilic molecules b...

We consider the eigenvalue problem for the Laplace operator in a two dimensional domain, bounded by a smooth, closed convex curve C C , on which the eigenfunctions vanish. Waves whose wavelengths λ \lambda are very small may be viewed as particles traveling a...

The Dirac-Hartree-Fock approximation is adopted to calculate the mass shift and the field shift for the 5d<sup>10</sup>6s <sup>2</sup>S<sub>1/2</sub>→5d<sup>9</sup>6s<sup>2 2</sup>D<sub>5/2</sub> cl...

Developing a non-platinum (Pt) counter electrode (CE) in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) gained widespread consideration in scientific research. The counter electrode substitutes for Pt should exhibit enhanced conductivity and electrocatalytic nature. In the current ...

Sanitation acceptance is unlikely if user priorities are not addressed. However, sanitation systems are commonly implemented, especially in resource-limited communities, without incorporating local context. Understanding sanitation systems' abilities to address differen...

SummaryVariations in the value of 2θ131 – 2θ13̄1 of two anorthoclase feldspars of compositions Ab95Or5 and Ab90Or10 were investigated by hydrothermal crystallization of gels for long periods in the temperature range 500–950 °C, at water vapour pressures up to 15 000 lb/...

A long-standing ambition of photochemists is to excite species selectively in a complex liquid solution and in turn instigate a controlled chemical reaction. Benzophenone (Bzp) has been studied over six decades as a model system for understanding the photophysics and ph...

There is currently a renewed interest in hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) for use in particle detection applications. Whilst this material has been comprehensively investigated from a numerical perspective within the context of photovoltaic and imaging applicatio...

The presence of phosphorus in water is a major cause behind the eutrophication of the aquatic environment. The growing trend focuses on the use of agriculture waste to fabricate biosorbents with higher removal capabilities for phosphate present in wastewater. Herein, a ...

‘Fengtou’ ginger is a high quality ginger (Zingiber Officinale Roscoe) cultivar only planted in Laifeng County, Enshi, Huhei, China, and is a National Product of Geographical Indication originated. ‘Fengtou’ ginger yield is low compared with most ginger. Therefore, it i...

Direct bonding of diamond and Cu was successfully fabricated by surface activated bonding (SAB) method at room temperature. The interfacial structure of the diamond/Cu bonding interface was investigated by transmission electron microscope (TEM) and electron energy-loss ...

Given the diversity of styles and sizes in apparel, marker planning which aims to arrange and move all the pattern parts of garments onto a long thin paper before the cutting process is a very important process for the apparel industry. In order to decrease the wastage ...