A Lightweight TA-YOLOv8 Method for the Spot Weld Surface Anomaly Detection of Body in White by Weijie Liu, Miao Jia, Shuo Zhang, Siyu Zhu, Jin Qi, Jie Hu

“…The experimental results show that the lightweight module improves the processing speed by an average of 2.8%, with increases in detection the mAP@50-95 and recall rate of 1.35% and 0.1226, respectively.…”
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Influence of the three-body abrasion kinematics on the surface characteristics of an SLS-fabricated tool during machining of ceramics by Sisay Workineh Agebo, Dawid Zieliński, Mariusz Deja

“…Machining with counter-rotational kinematics exhibited larger surface shape error, resulting in an average maximum height (Wt) of 163.48 µm and pinpointing intense wear at a tool radius of 95 mm. …”
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Surface Reconstruction from SLAM-Based Point Clouds: Results from the Datasets of the 2023 SIFET Benchmark by Antonio Matellon, Eleonora Maset, Alberto Beinat, Domenico Visintini

“…The outcomes are promising, with the average distance between models ranging from 0.2 to 1.4 cm. …”
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Investigating the Aerodynamic Surface Roughness Length over Baghdad City Utilizing Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques by Al-Zahraa A. Mohsen, Monim H. Al-Jiboori, Yaseen K. Al-Timimi

“…This study calculated the surface roughness length (Zo), zero-displacement length (Zd) and height of the roughness elements (ZH) using GIS applications. …”
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Influences of Two Land-Surface Schemes on RegCM4 Precipitation Simulations over the Tibetan Plateau by Xuejia Wang, Meixue Yang, Guojin Pang

“…The effects of different RegCM4 land-surface schemes on Tibetan Plateau (TP) precipitation simulations were investigated. …”
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EFFECT OF ZIGZAG AND LINE PRINTING PATTERN ON TENSILE STRENGTH AND SURFACE ROUGHNESS OF FUSED DEPOSITION MODELING PRODUCT by Ayu Perwita Sari, Fatkur Rhohman, Ayis Nuredi Winata, Frendy Edo Herlanto, Abdul Munir Hidayat Syah Lubis, Agus Dwi Anggono

“…The roughness test is obtained to determine the average surface roughness (Ra), root mean square roughness (Rq), and ten-point height (Rz). …”
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Reconstruction of Sea Surface Chlorophyll-a Concentration in the Bohai and Yellow Seas Using LSTM Neural Network by Qing Xu, Guiying Yang, Xiaobin Yin, Tong Sun

“…In order to improve the spatiotemporal coverage of satellite Chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) concentration products in marginal seas, a physically constrained deep learning model was established in this work to reconstruct sea surface Chl-a concentration in the Bohai and Yellow Seas using a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) neural network. …”
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Flexible calorimetric differential pressure sensor array integrated with a superhydrophobic surface for flight parameter estimation by Xin Ke, Yu Gao, Zheng Gong, Yunfan Li, Zihao Dong, Bowei Wan, Yurun Guo, Yonggang Jiang

“…Utilizing a multilayer perceptron neural network, we demonstrated the function of the sensor array in estimating airspeeds and angle of attacks, achieving average solving errors of 0.15 m/s and 0.37°, respectively.…”
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Distortion and Compensation of Doppler Shift Characteristics of Vortex Beam Superposition Due to Rotating Rough Surfaces and Occlusion by Hongyang Wang, Zijing Zhang, Chengshuai Cui, Yuan Zhao

“…We employed the signal-to-maximum sideband ratio (<italic>SMSR</italic>) to investigate the sideband interference and compensation of the rough surface target-derived scattering distortions and occlusion on the frequency shift characteristics of the vortex beams superposition in the rotational Doppler effect (RDE). …”
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A Monocular Ranging Method for Ship Targets Based on Unmanned Surface Vessels in a Shaking Environment by Zimu Wang, Xiunan Li, Peng Chen, Dan Luo, Gang Zheng, Xin Chen

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Improved Aerial Surface Floating Object Detection and Classification Recognition Algorithm Based on YOLOv8n by Lili Song, Haixin Deng, Jianfeng Han, Xiongwei Gao

“…The water surface environment is highly complex, and floating objects in aerial images often occupy a minimal proportion, leading to significantly reduced feature representation. …”
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Investigation of the effect of coagulation with high-energy methods of hemostasis implementation on the resected liver surface (experimental research). by O. P. Ternavskyi

“…Studies have found that the average trend of the thickness of the disaggregation/disintegration zone is 1936 (1630.83-2523) μm in the 1st group, 648 (508.33-734.33) μm in the 2nd group and 470.6 (453.5-507) μm in the 3rd group. …”
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Research on the running-in scuffing of aviation spiral bevel gears based on measured analysis of surface integrity parameters by YIN Feng, YANG Duo, DENG Mingming, TANG Jinyuan, FENG Xin

“…Specifically, the surface morphology skewness (<italic>S</italic>_sk) and Kernel Average Misorientation (KAM) maps at various depths were employed to quantitatively characterize the scuffing topography and the micro-plastic strain state. …”
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Assessing the Combined Impact of Land Surface Temperature and Droughts to Heatwaves over Europe Between 2003 and 2023 by Foteini Karinou, Ilias Agathangelidis, Constantinos Cartalis

“…This study analyzes land surface temperature (LST) observations from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) between 2003 and 2023 to identify thermal anomalies associated with heatwaves. …”
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Profile-Based Building Detection Using Convolutional Neural Network and High-Resolution Digital Surface Models by Behaeen Farajelahi, Hossein Arefi

“…The DenseNet201 network could directly detect the roof type of a building from two height profiles stored as a two-band spectral image with an average accuracy of 97%, even in the presence of consecutive chimneys, dormers, and noise. …”
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Hierarchical porous hollow of carbon spheres with high surface area for high performance supercapacitor electrode materials by Jing Zhang, Yu-Long Xie

“…The structural characterization revealed that the mesoporous carbon spheres possessed an average pore diameter of 2.4 nm and a specific surface area of 1207 m2 g− 1. …”
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Slope stability and surface displacement analysis of the Kuther Landslide in the Dehar Watershed, Himachal Himalaya, Northern India by Arun Kumar, Shashi Kant Rai, Imran Khan, Manthena Prashanth, Sunil Dhar, Omkar Verma

“…An integrated approach was used, combining surface displacement monitoring with the COSI-Corr technique and slope stability assessments through methods such as rock mass rating, kinematic analysis, slope mass rating, and continuous slope mass rating. …”
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Modelling lateral meltwater flow and superimposed ice formation atop Greenland's near-surface ice slabs by Nicole Clerx, Horst Machguth, Andrew Tedstone, Dirk van As

“…Using an Eulerian Darcy flow scheme, the model calculates how far meltwater can travel within a melt season and when it appears at the snow surface. Results show that lateral flow is a highly efficient runoff mechanism, as lateral outflow exceeds locally generated meltwater in all model gridcells, with total meltwater discharge sometimes reaching more than 30 times the average amount of in situ generated melt. …”
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Evaluation and Source of Heavy Metal Pollution in Surface Soils in Typical Alpine Agricultural Areas of Qinghai Province by Wenming LI, Zhao SUN, Xiaoyan CHEN, Xiaoyan YANG, Jianqiang LI, Tianhu LI

“…The heavy metal contents in the surface soils of the Qinghai—Tibet Plateau (QTP) have a tendency of aggregation, and quantitative analysis of the sources of heavy metals should be emphasized.OBJECTIVESTo understand the contents, spatial distribution, ecological risk and sources of heavy metals with the surface soils in a typical alpine agricultural area in Qinghai Province.METHODSThe surface soil (0-20cm) samples were collected from Zeku County in the eastern Qinghai—Tibet Plateau (QTP). …”
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Robust Land-Surface Parameterisation for Repeated Topographic Surveys in Dynamic Environments with Adaptive State-Space Models by Daniel R. Newman, Yuichi S. Hayakawa

“…As a result, the ability to characterize the topographic surface and surface changes resulting from dynamic surface processes is undermined by the accumulation and propagation of uncertainty. …”
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