Automated Pixel Purification for Delineating Pervious and Impervious Surfaces in a City Using Advanced Hyperspectral Imagery Techniques by Payam Sajadi, Mehdi Gholamnia, Stefania Bonafoni, Gerald Mills, Yan-Fang Sang, Zeting Li, Salman Khan, Jiazheng Han, Francesco Pilla

“…Detecting the changes in (im)pervious surfaces in cities, where patches are small and intermingled, is particularly challenging. …”
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A suite of wildlife crossing structures facilitates mammal movement across tropical forest fragments in a city by Li Si Tay, Ruisheng Choo, Max D. Y. Khoo, Eunice Kong, Yi Xiang Chan, Wivian H. Y. Neo, Sebastian Ow, Yuet Hsin Toh, Han Ling, Malcolm C. K. Soh, Benjamin P. Y.‐H. Lee, Adrian H. B. Loo, Kenneth B. H. Er

“…Thus, a variety of infrastructure and measures to accommodate the diversity of wildlife moving across forest patches in a fragmented landscape is recommended.…”
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A novel method for monitoring Cladophora blooms in Qinghai Lake based on UAV imagery by Juan Zhang, Xiaojun Yao, Xinde Chu, Hongyu Duan, Yuxuan Zhang, Hui Chang, Ju Huang

“…However, existing satellite remote sensing methods for monitoring Cladophora blooms have several limitations owing to cloud cover in optical images and the small areas of Cladophora bloom patches, making it challenging to obtain detailed dynamic characteristics of these blooms. …”
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Lek Habitat Selection by Sympatric Manakin Species in Northwestern Ecuador by Erin Sheehy, H. Luke Anderson, Luis Carrasco, Jorge Olivo, Domingo Cabrera, Nelson Gonzalez, Renata Ribeiro, Jordan Karubian

“…First, the interspecific hotspot hypothesis predicts that if males establish leks in locations where females are likely to be encountered (e.g., resource‐rich patches, topographic channels), then leks of ecologically similar species should cluster in geographic space due to shared patterns of resource use among species. …”
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Design of an Experimental System for the Assessment of the Drug Loss in Drug-Coated Balloons Due to Washing Off During Tracking by Dimitrios Zantzas, Elena Bianchi, Francesca Berti, Mohammad Akrami-Hasan-Kohal, Tahmer Sharkawi, Giancarlo Pennati

“…The system consists of a millifluidic chamber, able to host small drug-coated flat patches representative of DCBs, connected at the inlet to a syringe pump able to provide an ad hoc flow and, at the outlet, to a vial collecting the testing fluid with possible drug removed from the specimen. …”
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Assessing Mangrove Forest Recovery in the British Virgin Islands After Hurricanes Irma and Maria with Sentinel-2 Imagery and Google Earth Engine by Michael R. Routhier, Gregg E. Moore, Barrett N. Rock, Stanley Glidden, Matthew Duckett, Susan Zaluski

“…However, some mangrove patches are slower to recover, such as those on the islands of Virgin Gorda and Jost Van Dyke, and, in some cases, have shown a continued decline (e.g., Prickly Pear Island). …”
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Realization of Integrated Regional Ecological Management Based on Ecosystem Service Supply and Demand Flow Networks: An Example from a Dominant Mineral Resources Development Area by Sheng Xiao, Yanling Zhao, Hui Li, Hairong Deng, Hao Xu, Yimin Xing, Dan Li

“…Overlaying ecological and mining factors, we identified ecological strategic spots, important supply areas, beneficiary areas, and mine priority restoration areas to further optimize the overall layout and rationally allocate the intrinsic structure of the patches based on ES supply and demand.…”
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miR-16-5p, miR-21-5p, and miR-155-5p in circulating vesicles as psoriasis biomarkers by Carlos A. Guzmán-Martín, Rogelio F. Jiménez-Ortega, María Fernanda Ortega-Springall, Mario Peña-Peña, Ana Elena Guerrero-Ponce, María Elisa Vega-Memije, Luis M. Amezcua-Guerra, Fausto Sánchez-Muñoz, Rashidi Springall

“…Abstract Psoriasis is a chronic skin disorder marked by fast skin cell growth, leading to thick, red, scaly patches. MicroRNAs are small, non-coding RNA molecules that play a crucial role in post-transcriptional gene regulation. …”
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Enhanced rational protein engineering to reduce viscosity in high-concentration IgG1 antibody solutions by Tyler J. Lefevre, Jenna G. Caldwell, Austin Gallegos, Qun Du, Erin Houston, Gilad Kaplan, Reza Esfandiary

“…Then, using in silico antibody modeling, we identified sites near the complementary-determining regions for targeting by rational mutagenesis, which included predicted patches of charge or hydrophobicity within or near peptides highlighted by HDX-MS. …”
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Seasonal resource selection of a grassland bird in a dynamic landscape: Importance of a heterogeneous landscape by Sprih Harsh, Robert C. Lonsinger, Hilary R. Kauth, Andrew J. Gregory

“…Our results indicated home ranges were more likely to be in a landscape with more CRP, wetlands, and grasslands; more connected grasslands; and a greater number of grassland patches. Pheasants also selected heterogeneous landscape and avoided row crops at both orders of selection. …”
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Positive effects of forest fragmentation per se on bryophyte diversity in subtropical fragmented forests: evidence from land-bridge islands by Dandan Li, Tonghe Yuan, Jun Yang, Shan Lv, Heng Zhang, Yuzhu Xia, Xiao Wang, Shuiliang Guo, Jing Yu

“…Our findings suggest that, in subtropical fragmented secondary forests, the reserve for bryophytes had better contain numerous forest patches with irregular shapes, large total area, and moderate variation in island shape and area.…”
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Efficient Stereo Visual Odometry on FPGA Featuring On-Chip Map Management and Pipelined Descriptor-Based Block Matching by Yuki Ichikawa, Kazushi Kawamura, Masato Motomura, Thiem van Chu

“…Our accelerator features innovative techniques including on-FPGA map management and pipelined stereo matching with the use of descriptors instead of image patches. These advancements result in significant reduction in off-chip data transfer, memory savings, and faster processing times. …”
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Study on the Evolution and Prediction of Land Use and Landscape Patterns in the Jianmen Shu Road Heritage Area by Chenmingyang Jiang, Xinyu Du, Jun Cai, Hao Li, Qibing Chen

“…The growth rate of grassland will increase, the loss rates of cropland and water area will decrease, and the growth rates of impervious land and forest land will decrease. (4) Further predictions for 2022–2027 indicate that the density and complexity of the grassland edge will decrease, whereas the fragmentation and complexity of the remaining patches will increase. The degree of fragmentation, complexity, connectivity, and separation of landscape patterns will increase significantly, whereas landscape diversity will remain stable. …”
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Population demographics of translocated northern bobwhites on fragmented habitat by Jason L. Scott, Fidel Hernández, Leonard A. Brennan, Bart M. Ballard, Michael Janis, N. David Forrester

“…Our objectives were to determine whether combined habitat management and bobwhite translocation could restore bobwhite populations in habitat patches within a fragmented landscape. We translocated 550 bobwhites to 2 sites (≥660 ha; Caldwell and Fayette counties) in the Post Oak Savannah ecoregion of Texas, USA, during 2004–2006. …”
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Principles and criteria affecting the physical identity shaping Iranian contemporary architecture (case study of the Second Pahlavi period) by Hamid Majedi, Seyede Sara Ebnoreza, Farh Habib

“…Numerous notable examples are certainly inappropriate patches of the environment and architectural profession. …”
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SkelETT—Skeleton-to-Emotion Transfer Transformer by Pedro Victor Vieira Paiva, Josue Junior Guimaraes Ramos, Marina Gavrilova, Marco Antonio Garcia de Carvalho

“…Comprising a series of encoder layers, SkelETT patches 2D body pose representations, it also includes multi-head self-attention mechanisms and position-wise feed-forward networks, providing a powerful framework for extracting hierarchical features from sequential body pose data. …”
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Coupling Marxan and InVEST Models to Identify Ecological Protection Areas: A Case Study of Anhui Province by Xinmu Zhang, Xinran Zhang, Lei Zhang, Kangkang Gu, Xinchen Gu

“…Urbanization demonstrated a double-edged sword effect—the expansion of the Hefei metropolitan area triggered suburban biodiversity degradation (significant degradation patches occupied 0.0758%), while ecological restoration projects promoted mountain NPP growth, highlighting the necessity of synergizing natural recovery and artificial interventions. (3) Multi-scenario planning revealed that the spatial congruence between the ecological security priority scenario and traditional ecological protection redlines reached 46.57%, whereas the social benefit scenario achieved only 12.13%, exposing the inadequate responsiveness of the current conservation framework to service demands in densely populated areas. …”
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Computational electrostatic engineering of nanobodies for enhanced SARS−CoV−2 receptor binding domain recognition by Zafar Iqbal, Muhammad Asim, Umair Ahmad Khan, Neelam Sultan, Irfan Ali

“…Surface analyses confirmed optimized electrostatic patches and reduced aggregation propensity in the engineered Nb. …”
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Assessment of Habitat Suitability and Identification of Conservation Priority Areas for Endangered Marco Polo Sheep Throughout Khunjerab National Park (Pakistan) and Tashkurgan Nat... by Ishfaq Karim, Xiaodong Liu, Babar Khan, Tahir Kazmi

“…The eastern region displays moderate to low suitability, with fragmented patches of green and yellow, indicating seasonal habitats. …”
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Targeting the hydrophobic pockets of FAK/PYK2 FAT domain: a highly effective inhibitory strategy suppressing tumor growth and eliminating metastasis by Maria Christoforou, Anna Charalambous, Dimitrios Sfakianakis, Paris Alexander Skourides

“…Conclusions Targeting the FAT domain hydrophobic patches of FAK/PYK2 is a highly effective inhibitory strategy that can overcome the limitations of existing ATP competitive inhibitors and lead to the development of novel inhibitors with strong antitumor and antimetastatic activity.…”
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