The impact of carbon felt thickness and de-bundled felt fibers on dye adsorption: The external surface matters by Batuhan Mulla, Kyriacos Ioannou, Ioannis Ioannidis, Ioannis Pashalidis, Nikolaos Kostoglou, Claus Rebholz

“…The oxidation process caused a notable decline in BET surface area (∼550 m2/g) and pore volume, coupled with a modest rise in average pore size. …”
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DepthFormer: Depth‐Enhanced Transformer Network for Semantic Segmentation of the Martian Surface From Rover Images by Yuan Ma, Zhaojin Li, Bo Wu, Ran Duan

“…Different from regular deep‐learning networks only dealing with three bands (red, green and blue) of images, the DepthFormer incorporates the depth information available from the stereo images as the fourth band in the network to enable more accurate segmentation of various surface features. Experimental evaluations and comparisons using synthesized and actual Mars image data sets reveal that the DepthFormer achieves an average accuracy of 98%, superior to that of conventional segmentation methods. …”
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An ESG-ConvNeXt network for steel surface defect classification based on hybrid attention mechanism by Ning Zhang, Ziyang Liu, Enxu Zhang, Yuanqi Chen, Jie Yue

“…We conducted extensive experiments using the NEU-CLS-64 steel surface defect dataset, and the results demonstrate that our model outperforms other methods in terms of detection performance, achieving an average recognition accuracy of 97.5%. …”
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Effect of shot peening on surface mechanical properties of selective laser melting TC4 titanium alloy by LIU Yiran, LI Lei

“…Selective laser melting TC4 titanium alloy samples were shot peening with ϕ2.3 mm and ϕ4.0 mm ceramic shots respectively. The surface morphology, surface roughness, surface friction coefficient, surface wear morphology and surface microhardness of the samples were observed and analyzed by laser confocal microscope, comprehensive surface property tester, scanning electron microscope and Vickers microhardness tester. …”
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Volumetric measurement of sleep bruxism-like indentations on acrylic surface using intraoral scanner and inlay wax by Thaviporn Limrachtamorn, Teekayu Plangkoon Jorns, Supanigar Ruangsri, Rajda Chaichit, Jarin Paphangkorakit

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Influence of surface roughness of thermal barrier coating on the cooling performance of a film-cooled turbine vane by Xiaoyu Song, Feng Liu, Yan Yan, Wen Wang, Yaning Wang, Wei Sun, Jiahuan Cui

“…Notably, reducing TBC surface roughness from 3 μm to 0 μm yields an average cooling efficiency increase of 2.45 %, with a maximum improvement of 2.1 %.…”
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DSAT: a dynamic sparse attention transformer for steel surface defect detection with hierarchical feature fusion by Shouluan Wu, Hui Yang, Liefa Liao, Chao Song, Yating Fang, Jianglong Fu, Tan Li

“…Abstract The rapid development of industrialization has led to a significant increase in the demand for steel, making the detection of surface defects in steel a critical challenge in industrial quality control. …”
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Transfer Learning-Empowered Physical Layer Security in Aerial Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces-Based Mobile Networks by Yosefine Triwidyastuti, Tri Nhu Do, Ridho Hendra Yoga Perdana, Kyusung Shim, Beongku An

“…This paper investigates the enhancement of physical layer security (PHY security) in Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)-aided terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks (TN/NTN), focusing on the challenges posed by node mobility. …”
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Modeling agro-hydrological surface-subsurface processes in a semi-arid, intensively irrigated river basin by Salam A. Abbas, Ryan T. Bailey, Jeffrey G. Arnold, Michael J. White, Ali Mirchi

“…New hydrological insights for the region: On average, precipitation in the basin is 380 mm/yr., of which 2 % (10 mm/yr.) becomes recharge and 2 % is irrigation (80 % surface water irrigation). …”
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Adaptive Matching of High-Frequency Infrared Sea Surface Images Using a Phase-Consistency Model by Xiangyu Li, Jie Chen, Jianwei Li, Zhentao Yu, Yaxun Zhang

“…The sea surface displays dynamic characteristics, such as waves and various formations. …”
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Spatial and Temporal Variability of Near-Surface CO₂ and Influencing Factors in Urban Communities by Yueyue Wu, Yi Zheng, Jialei Liu, Qingxin Yang, Beixiang Shi, Chenghe Guan, Wanxin Deng

“…This study investigates near-surface CO₂ spatiotemporal variability patterns at the community scale to address the critical gap in urban CO₂ high-resolution measurement and promote urban carbon neutrality. …”
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Investigating graphite surface and structural modifications induced by hydrogen ion bombardment in a plasma focus device by MirMohammadreza Seyedhabashi, Maryam Ebrahimi, Ehsanollah Noori, Mehdi Janbazi

“…The resulting surface changes were clearly visible in the SEM and OM images. …”
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Impact of various surface treatments on the shear bond strength between lithium disilicate ceramics and resin cement by Ghada Alrabeah, Reem F. Alhamid, Buthainah A. Alamer, Farah N. Alrajhi, Abdulaziz Binrayes, Syed Rashid Habib

“…The difference between the mean average of SBS was statistically significant among all different surface treatments (p ≤ 0.05) except for the L group with a (p = 1.00). …”
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Classification and Identification of Foodborne Bacteria in Beef by Utilising Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Coupled with Chemometric Methods by Huixin Zuo, Yingying Sun, Mingming Huang, Stephanie Marie Fowler, Jing Liu, Yimin Zhang, Yanwei Mao

“…The detection and classification of foodborne pathogenic bacteria is crucial for food safety monitoring, consequently requiring rapid, accurate and sensitive methods. In this study, the surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) technique coupled with chemometrics methods was used to detect and classify six kinds of foodborne pathogenic bacteria, including <i>Salmonella typhimurium</i> (<i>S</i>. …”
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Influence of surface modified nanoilmenite/amorphous silica composite particles on the thermal stability of cold galvanizing coating by A.M. Al-Sabagh, M.I. Abdou, M.A. Migahed, A.M. Fadl, M.F. El-Shahat

“…The obtained results revealed that the maximum decomposition temperature point in the third degradation step for 6% nanocomposite surface modified cured sample (CG-F) was detected at 693 °C and was less value for unmodified conventional cold galvanizing coating (CG-A) at 612 °C. …”
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Low-Glare Freeform-Surfaced Street Light Luminaire Optimization to Meet Enhanced Road Lighting Standards by Jetter Lee, Lanh-Thanh Le, Hien-Thanh Le, Hsing-Yuan Liao, Guan-Zhi Huang, Hsin-Yi Ma, Chan-Chuan Wen, Yi Chin Fang, Chao-Hsien Chen, Shun-Hsyung Chang, Hsiao-Yi Lee

“…The trial road lighting simulation results computed by the lighting software DIALux indicated that the proposed luminaire provided an average road surface brightness of 1.1 cd/m2 (compared to a minimum requirement of 1.0 cd/m2), a brightness uniformity of 0.41 (compared to a minimum requirement of 0.4), a longitudinal brightness uniformity of 0.64 (compared to a minimum requirement of 0.6), and a glare factor of 7.6% (compared to a maximum limit of 15%). …”
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Numerical heat transfer analysis considering thermal contact conductance between rough reciprocating sliding surfaces by Yuwei Liu, Jiasong Yang, Zhiqiang Guo, Yanpeng Yuan, Weizheng Zhang, Sichuang Wanyan

“…The prediction model for heat flow distribution coefficient and surface contact temperature shows average relative errors of 0.45 % and 3.53 %, respectively. …”
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Study on the relationship between surface water and groundwater transformation in the middle and lower reaches of Songhua river basin by Xiao Yang, Changlei Dai, Jianyu Jing, Gengwei Liu, Qing Ru, Jiajun Li, Peixian Liu

“…The groundwater level lag time influenced by precipitation in Jiamusi, Fujin, and Tongjiang cities is around 10.56 days, 10.58 days, and 3.15 days, respectively. (3) The river channels facilitating surface water recharge to groundwater constitute 41.75% of the entire length of the Jiamusi-Tongjiang stretch of the Songhua River, with the annual average recharge representing 50.84% of the total exchanged water. …”
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Validation of Replicable Pipeline 3D Surface Reconstruction for Patient-Specific Abdominal Aortic Lumen Diagnostics by Edoardo Ugolini, Giorgio La Civita, Moad Al Aidroos, Samuele Salti, Giuseppe Lisanti, Emanuele Ghedini, Gianluca Faggioli, Mauro Gargiulo, Giovanni Rossi

“…The algorithm demonstrated robustness with an average F1-score of 0.850 ± 0.120 and an intersection over union score of 0.760 ± 0.150 in the test set. …”
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Analysis and reduction of topographic effect induced errors in land surface temperature retrieval over the Tibetan Plateau by Yuejie Zhang, Qinghong Sheng, Kerui Li, Bo Wang, Jun Li, Xiao Ling, Fan Gao

“…Land Surface Temperature (LST) plays a pivotal role in representing ground energy balance and understanding climate change. …”
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