Coseismic Rupture and Postseismic Afterslip of the 2020 Nima Mw 6.4 Earthquake by Shaojun Wang, Ling Bai, Chaoya Liu

“…The seismogenic fault had a strike of 26°, an eastward dip of 43°, and a rake of −87.28°, with rupture patches at depths of 3–13 km and a maximum slip of 1.1 m. …”
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Experimental Archaeological Study of Incised Marks on Animal Bones Produced by Iron Implements by Zhaokui Wang, Huiping Li, Ziqiang Zhang, Qiang Guo, Yanfeng Hou, Roderick B. Campbell

“…The cross-sections of the slices revealed shearing surfaces, rough patches, bone splinters, and sliced ends. The shearing surfaces in particular exhibited numerous visible trace characteristics, with the types and quantities of these traces varying with different cutting tools. …”
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Design and Implementation of a Physically Secure Open-Source FPGA and Toolchain by Sergej Meschkov, Daniel Lammers, Mehdi B. Tahoori, Amir Moradi

“…To ensure robust systemsecurity throughout its lifecycle, hardware security updates are indispensable alongsidesoftware security patches. Programmable hardware plays a pivotal role in establishinga robust hardware root-of-trust, serving to effectively mitigate various hardwaresecurity threats. …”
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Flat Array Antennas for Ku-Band Mobile Satellite Terminals by Roberto Vincenti Gatti, Luca Marcaccioli, Elisa Sbarra, Roberto Sorrentino

“…Full DVB coverage is achieved thanks to cavity-backed patches operating in double linear polarization. Two independent broadband active BFNs allow simultaneous reception of both polarizations with full tracking capabilities and a squintless beam steering from 20∘ to 60∘ in elevation. …”
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Application of Remote Sensing Floodplain Vegetation Data in a Dynamic Roughness Distributed Runoff Model by Andre A. Fortes, Masakazu Hashimoto, Keiko Udo

“…The vegetation parameters were successfully estimated, with the vegetation height overestimated in the urban areas, particularly in the downstream part of the river, then integrated into a dynamic roughness calculation routine and patched into the RRI model. The simulations with and without vegetation were also compared. …”
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Impact of Participatory Forest Management Implementation on Forest Condition: A Case Study of Dinsho and Agarfa Districts Forest Reserves, Bale zone, Southeast Ethiopia by Umer Abdela

“…The study recommends expanding PFM initiatives to all forests in the Bale zone, including smaller patches. It also highlights the need to focus on regenerating seedlings, as they face pressure from animal browsing, which could hinder forest recovery and health. …”
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Histopathological-based brain tumor grading using 2D-3D multi-modal CNN-transformer combined with stacking classifiers by Naira Elazab, Fahmi Khalifa, Wael Gab Allah, Mohammed Elmogy

“…A vision transformer (ViT) additionally learns global relationships between image regions by concentrating on high-level semantic representations from image patches. Finally, a stacking ensemble machine learning classifier is fed concatenated features, allowing it to take advantage of the individual model’s strengths and possibly enhance generalization. …”
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Classification of tomato leaf disease using Transductive Long Short-Term Memory with an attention mechanism by Aarthi Chelladurai, D.P. Manoj Kumar, S. S. Askar, Mohamed Abouhawwash, Mohamed Abouhawwash

“…The T-LSTM is based on the transductive learning approach and the scaled dot product attention evaluates the weights of each step based on the hidden state and image patches which helps in effective classification. The data was gathered from the PlantVillage dataset and the pre-processing was conducted based on image resizing, color enhancement, and data augmentation. …”
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Remote sensing reveals the importance of seminatural habitat and irrigation on aphid biocontrol in arid agroecosystems by Anson Call, Sami Akiba, Elizabeth G. Pringle

“…In particular, remote sensing revealed that weedy patches within alfalfa fields reduced aphid densities, whereas flood irrigation increased aphid densities. …”
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Design and application of low energy transfer orbit based on Lissajous staging post by YU Huichang, DAI Honghua, ZHANG Jiye, WANG Yamin, YUE Xiaokui, ZHANG Yonghe

“…In view of the above issues, a design method of three-maneuver low-energy transfer combining patched manifold and lunar flyby is proposed. The dimension of the optimization problem is reduced by piecewise solution, and the optimal solution is obtained by bi-level optimization. …”
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The Influence of molecular Effects on Laser Nd:YAG and Diode on Trichophyton Rubrum fungi using RAPD marker by Marwan A.alkarem A.albaqi, Awatef Saber Jasem, Adnan Fathel A.azawai

“…Sixty samples of skin patches, nail clippings and parts of hair were collected from infected patients of both sexes (34 males  and 26 females) for the age group (1-60) year of patients who have attended to Tikrit Teaching Hospital. …”
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Hyperclustering: High-Order Deep/Shallow Feature Clustering for Subway Shield Tunneling Water Leakage Detection by Jianjun Xu, Xing Yuan, Lixiao Zheng, Da Lin

“…The model also uses a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM)-based posterior probability to rank candidate patches for water leakage detection. It prioritizes high-risk areas and minimizes false positives. …”
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Prime Basking Sites and Communal Basking in the Lizard, <i>Lacerta bilineata</i>; High Risk for Juveniles? by Roger Meek, Luca Luiselli

“…Sun basking has both benefits and costs for reptiles, giving heat that provides the energy to drive physiology but basking in open patches increases risk of predation due to higher visibility. …”
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PUYA HAMATA DEMOGRAPHY AS AN INDICATOR OF RECENT FIRE HISTORY IN THE PÁRAMO OF EL ÁNGEL AND VOLCÁN CHILES, ECUADOR-COLOMBIA by PAOLA M. GARCÍA-MENESES, PAUL M. RAMSAY

“…To investigate the impact of different fire intensities on Puya hamata mortality, 400 m² plots within a mosaic of unburned and burned patches of different fire intensities were surveyed one month after the fire. …”
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Flying foxes create extensive seed shadows and enhance germination success of pioneer plant species in deforested Madagascan landscapes. by Ryszard Oleksy, Luca Giuggioli, Thomas J McKetterick, Paul A Racey, Gareth Jones

“…Because figs are important pioneer species, P. rufus is an important dispersal vector that makes a vital contribution to the regeneration and maintenance of highly fragmented forest patches in Madagascar.…”
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<strong>Screening of 55 pinto bean lines for resistance to the two-spotted spider mite, <em>Tetranychus urticae</em> Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae) </strong> by Zarir Saeidi

“…In the first stage, they were classified into five groups based on the intensity of damage to their leaf disks (from 0, without damage to 6, feeding patches more than 80% of leaf area). Twenty-one lines presented the highest leaf damage index (LDI = 5.30 ± 0.27), therefore, they were excluded from subsequent experiments, except line ‘D521’, which was used as the susceptible check. …”
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Post-hatching behavior and dispersal of globally vulnerable Moluccan scrubfowl Eulipoa wallacei on Haruku Island, Indonesia by Handy E. P. Leimena, Tati S Syamsudin, Achmad Sjarmidi

“…Nest sites were small patches of sand less than 0.2 ha surrounded by vegetation, while nest holes were individual nests within nest sites. …”
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Population connectivity in voles (Microtus sp.) as a gauge for tall grass prairie restoration in midwestern North America. by Marlis R Douglas, Steven M Mussmann, Tyler K Chafin, Whitney J B Anthonysamy, Mark A Davis, Matthew P Mulligan, Robert L Schooley, Wade Louis, Michael E Douglas

“…We predicted that vole dispersal would be constrained by the extent of agricultural land surrounding restored habitat patches, spatially isolating vole populations and resulting in significant genetic structure. …”
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Liquid-Crystal Display (LCD) of achromatic, mean-modulated flicker in clinical assessment and experimental studies of visual systems. by Luke E Hallum, Shaun L Cloherty

“…Fourier transformation of nominally static test patches revealed spectra free of artifacts, with the exception of a frame response. …”
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Impact of sandstone slurry waste with calcium carbonate nanoparticles on geotechnical properties of clayey soil subgrade by Amrit Singh Shekhawat, Suresh Kumar Tiwari

“…Initially, notable enhancements in UCS were attributed to a denser soil structure, followed by the formation of calcium–silicate–hydrate (CSH) gel, which intensified with prolonged curing. Gel patches were detected by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) in addition to particle aggregation. …”
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