Potential carbon stock distribution of mangrove and synergistic effect of ecosystem services in China by Shuhao Liu, Shuai He, Shang Chen

“…Subsequently, we quantified the potential carbon stock of whole-tree mangroves within habitat patches through the empirical model. Finally, we evaluated the relationship between carbon sequestration and water quality regulation using the generalized additive model. …”
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Impacts of Land Use Change on Ecological Service Value of Land Surrounding Shaoshan City by Cao Ruolan, Mo Hongwei

“…When land use type was converted to water body, the critical distance was the largest, about 100 patches (land type conversion area). [Conclusion] In the future, the impact of land use change on surrounding land should be comprehensively considered in land planning so as to formulate reasonable land use policy, optimize land use structure, and realize the coordinated development of economy and environment in Shaoshan City.…”
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Habitat Mapping of Bos gaurus in Parsa National Park, Nepal: Ensemble Modeling Approach by Anish Dhakal, Dinesh Neupane, Sunjeep Pun, Sheila Ghimire, Manoj Kumar Sah, Bikash Adhikari, Jeetendra Gautam

“…However, wildlife‐friendly infrastructure in the East–West Highway (that fragments the park) within park can facilitate B. gaurus's movement among these crucial habitat patches. Future habitat projections under the SSP1‐2.6 climate scenario indicate a gradual reduction in suitable habitat, indicating a marginal impact of the climate change scenario on gaur habitat in the area. …”
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A Dual-Branch U-Net for Staple Crop Classification in Complex Scenes by Jiajin Zhang, Lifang Zhao, Hua Yang

“…We conducted experiments using GaoFen-2 (GF-2) images in Xiuwen County, Guizhou Province, China, and established a dataset consisting of 1000 image patches of size 256, covering seven categories. In our method, the corn and rice accuracies are 89.72% and 88.61%, and the mean intersection over union (mIoU) is 85.61%, which is higher than the compared models (U-Net, SegNet, and DeepLabv3+). …”
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Classification of histopathological images for oral cancer in early stages using a deep learning approach by Alsaedi Raneem Y., Alsharif Hussam J.

“…The best results were achieved on the task in which the models were pretrained using patches, and the RandStainNA technique was applied to the images as a preprocessing step. …”
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AI-Driven Innovation in Skin Kinetics for Transdermal Drug Delivery: Overcoming Barriers and Enhancing Precision by Nubul Albayati, Sesha Rajeswari Talluri, Nirali Dholaria, Bozena Michniak-Kohn

“…Innovative systems, such as sensor-integrated patches, dynamically adjust drug release based on real-time feedback, ensuring optimal outcomes. …”
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MFSM-Net: Multimodal Feature Fusion for the Semantic Segmentation of Urban-Scale Textured 3D Meshes by Xinjie Hao, Jiahui Wang, Wei Leng, Rongting Zhang, Guangyun Zhang

“…Compared to colored point clouds, textured 3D meshes have the advantage of high-resolution texture image patches embedded on each mesh face. However, existing studies predominantly focus on their geometric structures, with limited utilization of these high-resolution textures. …”
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A high‐power, high‐isolation, dual‐polarised planar phased array antenna by Junxing Jiang, Shaoqiu Xiao, Yiming Zhang, Shaoyi Xie

“…Double‐layer radiation patches and cavity interlayers are used to expand the bandwidth and increase the gain. …”
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Recovery of coral cover at Lizard island Australia 6 years post-disturbance by Gabriel Dax Anderson

“…Between the concentrated patches of physical damage from the cyclones and the uniform impact of the bleaching events, these reefs were devastated, with none of the eight study sites harboring more than 20% live coral cover by May of 2017. …”
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Restoration plantations accelerate recovery of fungal communities of coarse woody debris in southern Costa Rica by Jeffrey A. Lackmann, Estefania P. Fernandez Barrancos, Rakan A. Zahawi, Laura Aldrich-Wolfe

“…Results suggest that the biotic and abiotic processes of tropical forests impacting fungal colonization and dispersal are effectively restored through restoration plantations in less than 20 years when remnant forest patches are present nearby, a shorter timeframe than that of natural regenerations.…”
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The fall and rise of Diopatra in Southern Brazilian sandy beaches by Paulo Cesar Paiva, Antonia Cecilia Zacagnini Amaral, Victor Correa Seixas, Mônica Angélica Varella Petti, Tatiana Menchini Steiner

“…To better understand these shifts, patches of Diopatra species from Brazilian sandy beaches were followed for 50 years. …”
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Successful satellite population management: Girnar wildlife sanctuary as a habitat for Asiatic lions by Mohan Ram, Aradhana Sahu, Nityanand Srivastava, Lahar Jhala, Yashpal Zala, Meena Venkataraman

“…Historically, the Gir-Girnar forests were part of a connected landscape, but agricultural expansion and development have fragmented this area into disconnected patches of wasteland, grasslands, and riverine corridors. …”
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Modeling the Ecological Network in Mountainous Resource-Based Cities: Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis Approach by Liyun Zeng, Rita Yi Man Li, Hongzhou Du

“…The results show that most ecological core patches are fragmented and dispersed, while ecological corridors are vulnerable to disruption by external interference. …”
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Access to Social Benefits for Third-country Nationals in the European Union Between Fragmentation and Equal Treatment by Matteo Manfredi

“…The potential impact of the Charter of Fundamental Rights on patching up the EU legislator patchwork approach. | (Abstract) The article explores the fragmented legal framework governing third-country nationals’ (TCNs) entitlement to equal treatment with nationals of the host Member State regarding access to social benefits under EU law. …”
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Spatial Resolution Enhancement of Remote Sensing Hyperspectral Images With Localized Spatial-Spectral Dictionary Pair by Yifan Zhang, Jin Tian, Tuo Zhao, Shaohui Mei

“…Furthermore, to reduce the dictionary scale and hence to efficiently reduce the computation cost, a localized strategy is employed for dictionary construction rather than a global one, which makes atoms of the spatial-spectral dictionary actually all patches within the subimage. Based on the appropriate assumption that the LR HSI and HR HSI (expected fusion result) can be collaboratively represented by LR dictionary and HR dictionary respectively sharing the same set of representation coefficients, the desired HR HSI is reconstructed by HR dictionary and the collaborative representation coefficients obtained with LR HSI and LR dictionary. …”
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Edge- and Color–Texture-Aware Bag-of-Local-Features Model for Accurate and Interpretable Skin Lesion Diagnosis by Dichao Liu, Kenji Suzuki

“…Furthermore, training models using only a small number of the most predictive patches identified by ECT-BoFM achieved diagnostic performance comparable to that obtained using full images, demonstrating its efficiency in exploring key clues. …”
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Influence of woodland management within interior forests on foliage arthropods and avian insectivores by Maia E Persche, H. S. Sathya Chandra Sagar, Anna M Pidgeon

“…Simultaneously, most contiguous forests have been lost to deforestation and fragmentation. Converting patches within these forests into woodlands could support a diversity of bird species, but may deter those needing mature forests, creating a potential trade-off. …”
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Skull defect – Frontotemporal dementia sagging brain syndrome by Wouter I. Schievink, Marcel M. Maya, Robin Babadjouni, Angelique Sao‐Mai S. Tay, Rachelle B. Taché

“…Prior treatments included epidural blood patching and dural reduction surgery. Custom cranial implant surgery was performed in four patients and resulted in prompt and remarkable improvement of symptoms in three patients (SIHDAS: very severe disability to no or mild disability) and mild improvement in one patient. …”
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Pattern Formation Mechanisms of Spatiotemporally Discrete Activator–Inhibitor Model with Self- and Cross-Diffusions by You Li, Ying Sun, Jingyu Luo, Jiayi Pang, Bingjie Liu

“…Under different mechanisms, we illustrate the corresponding Turing patterns and discover a rich variety of pattern types such as labyrinthine, mosaic, alternating mosaic, colorful mottled grid patterns with winding and twisted bands, and patterns with dense patches and twisted bands nested together. Our research provides a theoretical framework and numerical support for understanding the complex dynamical behaviors and pattern formations in activator–inhibitor models with self- and cross-diffusions.…”
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Outcomes of orangutan wild-to-wild translocations reveal conservation and welfare risks. by Julie Sherman, Maria Voigt, Marc Ancrenaz, Erik Meijaard, Felicity Oram, Elizabeth A Williamson, Anne E Russon, David J I Seaman, Christine Caurant, Dirck Byler, Serge A Wich

“…At least 988 wild orangutans were captured for translocation during the study period, including many reproductively valuable resident females and adult males removed from unprotected fragmented forests and forest patches. Data on health condition (n = 808) indicated 81.7% were reported as healthy at time of capture. …”
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