PLFF-SLAM: A Point and Line Feature Fused Visual SLAM Algorithm for Dynamic Illumination Environments by Shucheng Huang, Wenhan Ren, Mingxing Li

“…Firstly, we designed a point feature extraction method based on the GCNV2 network, which improves the extraction performance of the point feature network by modifying the encoding layer structure and reconstructing the loss function. …”
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Photonic Horn Jets and Whispering Gallery Modes in Dielectric Micro-Cylinders With Two Point-Source Illumination by Shadi A. Alboon, Qing Huo Liu, Ibrahim Mahariq

“…The interaction of light with micro-scale dielectric structures has garnered significant attention in recent years due to its potential applications in various fields ranging from photonics to biomedical imaging. …”
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Assessing the causal impact of the 3-point per victory scoring system in the competitive balance of LaLiga by Soto-Valero C, Pic M.

“…The Spanish Professional Football League (LaLiga) has been one of the top European leagues in the last decade, and it has given rise to a particular research interest regarding its characteristics and structure. Since season 1995/96, LaLiga changed the number of points given to the winning teams, by awarding three points per victory instead of two. …”
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AP-PointRend: An Improved Network for Building Extraction via High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images by Bowen Zhu, Ding Yu, Xiongwu Xiao, Jian Shen, Zhigao Cui, Yanzhao Su, Aihua Li, Deren Li

“…To address the issue of enhancing building boundary extraction, we propose a modified instance segmentation model, AP-PointRend (Adaptive Parameter-PointRend), to improve the performance of building instance extraction. …”
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INVESTIGATING POINTS-OF-GENERATION POWER LOSSES ON THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL GRID FOLLOWING UNBUNDLING OF THE ELECTRIC UTILITY INDUSTRY by AJEWOLE TITUS OLUWASUJI, OLABODE OLAKUNLE ELIJAH, OKAKWU IGNATIUS KEMA, EGBEDINNI OLAKUNLE FEMI

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A Collaborative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach for Non-Stationary Environments with Unknown Change Points by Suyu Wang, Quan Yue, Zhenlei Xu, Peihong Qiao, Zhentao Lyu, Feng Gao

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A factor analysis based automatic optimization method of vibration sensor points for ship acoustic reconstruction by Linchang Ye, Yun Liu, Zongpeng Tong, Zhaowang Xia, Wenkun Fan, Chunyu Zhang, Junhua Guo, Jianping Shen

“…To address the challenge associated with optimizing the number and positioning of accelerometer points in ship acoustic reconstruction, factor analysis is applied to the automatic optimization of accelerometer position in this work according to the source independence of ship’s underwater radiated noise. …”
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MAT-FHE: arbitrary dimension matrix multiplication scheme for floating point over fully homomorphic encryption by Yatao Yang, Zhaofu Li, Yucheng Ding, Man Hu

“…The CKKS algorithm of the Microsoft SEAL library is used to implement the matrix multiplication of floating point numbers in any dimension. Shared the computing overhead with SIMD technology and improved the implementation speed. …”
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Challenges and Solutions of Home Care Service Provision in Iran From the Point of View of Service Providers and Recipients by Bahman Ahmadi, Azadeh Ahmadi Dashtian, Ghahraman Mahmudi

“…This study aims to investigate the challenges of home care service provision in Iran from the point of view of service providers and recipients and propose solutions to improve these services. …”
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Seismic evidence for a thickened mantle transition zone beneath the Kamchatka subduction zoneKey points by Qinghui Cui, Yuanze Zhou, Yuan Gao, Ran Cui

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Geometric Detail-Preserved Point Cloud Upsampling via a Feature Enhanced Self-Supervised Network by Shengwei Qin, Yao Jin, Hailong Hu

“…The upsampling of point clouds is a common task to increase the expressiveness and richness of the details. …”
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YOLORM: An Advanced Key Point Detection Method for Accurate and Efficient Rotameter Reading in Low Flow Environments by Huang Yong, Xia Xing, Xiao Shengwang

“…Several innovations were introduced to the YOLOv8n framework: (1) An ALKBlock-based C2f module incorporating DACov structure to enhance spatial perception; (2) An EffQA-FPN feature pyramid network inspired by QARepVGG to mitigate precision loss during quantization and reparameterization; (3) A DynamicHead attention mechanism with multi dimensional perception capabilities; and (4) EIoU and Adaptive Wing Loss functions to optimize bounding box and key point regression. …”
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Ion-rich Acceleration during an Eruptive Flux Rope Event in a Multiple Null-point Configuration by Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Alexander MacKinnon, Karl-Ludwig Klein, Alexander J. B. Russell, Hugh Hudson, Alexander Warmuth, Thomas Wiegelmann, Sophie Masson, Clare Parnell, Nariaki V. Nitta, Nicola Omodei

“…The >100 MeV emission during the prompt phase displayed a double-peaked temporal structure with the first peak following the HXR and microwaves, and the second one, about 3 times stronger, occurring 17 ± 2 s later. …”
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Antimicrobial use in a pediatric hospital in Kenya: a point prevalence survey to inform antimicrobial stewardship by Joseph Mbuthia, Nkatha Gitonga, Winnie Akoth, Susan Mutua, Ndinda Kusu, Tamara Hafner, Mohan P. Joshi, Martha Embrey

“…IntroductionA baseline point prevalence survey (PPS) was conducted at Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital (GCH), a private pediatric hospital in Kenya, to assess antimicrobial use patterns, adherence to antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) protocols, and compliance with treatment guidelines. …”
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Unstructured road semantic segmentation method based on 3D point cloud of open pit mine by Caiwu LU, Jianan XUE, Meng LI, Shengyu YAN, sai ZHANG, Song JIANG, Runfeng HE

“…Based on SFM and MVS algorithms for dense point cloud reconstruction of captured multi-viewpoint images, and optimization and improvement of PointNet++, MLP, channel attention mechanism, and self-attention mechanism based on point attention are introduced, and a point cloud semantic segmentation model for unstructured roads in open-pit mines is designed. …”
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A Picking Point Localization Method for Table Grapes Based on PGSS-YOLOv11s and Morphological Strategies by Jin Lu, Zhongji Cao, Jin Wang, Zhao Wang, Jia Zhao, Minjie Zhang

“…To address these issues, this study proposes a novel picking point localization method for table grapes based on an instance segmentation network called Progressive Global-Local Structure-Sensitive Segmentation (PGSS-YOLOv11s) and a simple combination strategy of morphological operators. …”
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Computational Models of Dynamic Load Sources for Modeling of Construction Structures Operation Used in Monitoring of Technical Condition of Buildings and Structures by Zhanna Gennadievna Mogilyuk, Alexander Alexandrovich Tereshin, German Valerievich Alekseev

“…An important property of the proposed computational equivalent models of sources of dynamic impact on building structures is the possibility of computational verification of critical elements, points, or nodes of load-bearing structures of buildings and structures under dynamic overloads. …”
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Synthesis, Structure, and Characterization of Keggin-Type Germanate by Ya-feng Li, Xiao-lin Qin, Yue Xu, Wen-yuan Gao, Yue Gao

“…A novel Keggin-type germanate, (NH4)9[Ge7O14F3]3·1.75H2O (I), is hydrothermally synthesized and structurally characterized by X-ray single-crystal diffraction, elemental analysis, XRD, and TG. …”
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Classification of planar quadrangular diagrams by V. M. Raeva, A. S. Rim

“…The subtypes of the diagrams may differ in the mutual arrangement of either boundary or both boundary and inner singular points. In previously published classifications, repeating diagram structures and unstable structures were revealed. …”
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De la violencia mítica al « mundo flor ». Transformaciones de la Semana Santa en el Norte de México by Carlo Bonfiglioli, Arturo Gutiérrez, María Eugenia Olavarría

“…The trigger of this conflict is the transgression of the protagonists and the point of arrival is the return to cosmic harmony and the propitiation of abundance: the « flower world ». …”
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