Local climate zone framework: seasonal dynamics of surface urban heat island and its influencing factors in three Chinese urban agglomerations by Haojian Deng, Jiali Feng, Kai Liu, Yongzhu Xiong, Jingjing Cao

“…Using a geographically weighted regression model, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer land surface temperature data were downscaled to a resolution of 100 meters. …”
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GDS-YOLOv7: A High-Performance Model for Water-Surface Obstacle Detection Using Optimized Receptive Field and Attention Mechanisms by Xu Yang, Lei Huang, Fuyang Ke, Chao Liu, Ruixue Yang, Shicheng Xie

“…To address the challenges of navigation and obstacle detection on the water’s surface, this paper presents CDS-YOLOv7, an enhanced obstacle-detection framework for aquatic environments, architecturally evolved from YOLOv7. …”
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Assessment of Wavefront Aberrations in Children with Myopia Against the Background of Ocular Surface Disorders in Combination with Computer Vision Syndrome Digital and Eye Strain by I. L. Plisov, E. M. Naumova, A. I. Smoleva

“…Purpose: to assess the state of the wavefront in children with myopia, who have various manifestations of digital eye strain and symptoms of ocular surface disorders, and to evaluate the diagnostic significance of wavefront criteria for assessing the state of the ocular surface.Patients and methods. …”
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PBD-YOLO: Dual-Strategy Integration of Multi-Scale Feature Fusion and Weak Texture Enhancement for Lightweight Particleboard Surface Defect Detection by Haomeng Guo, Zheming Chai, Huize Dai, Lei Yan, Pengle Cheng, Jianhua Yang

“…Surface defect detection plays an important role in particleboard quality control. …”
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Additive manufacturing of AA2024/Al2O3 nanocomposites via friction surfacing: Investigating metallurgical, mechanical, and tribological properties by Milad Abbasi Nahr, Seyyed Ehsan Mirsalehi, Ahmad Papi

“…Friction surfacing (FS) is a solid-state additive manufacturing method that uses high-temperature plastic deformation to produce fully dense multilayer samples with a fine-grained microstructure. …”
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Response surface optimization of ettringite precipitation method to remove sulfate from old kiln water in a closed pit coal mine by LI Qing, LI Shuoyang, HU Ziru, MIAO Zhijia, DAI Fenggang, YAN Qiaozhi, YU Qiqi, ZHAO Zhirui

“…The Box-Behnken response surface method was used to optimize the process conditions. …”
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Surface roughness and material removal of Si3N4 cylindrical rollers using double-side grinding with diamond film pads by Fenfen Zhou, Yongkang Jin, Qi Shao, Weifeng Yao, Hongyun Wang

“…For smaller abrasives, reducing loading pressure and extending processing time can improve the surface roughness Ra. Remarkably, this research achieved defect-free surfaces of ceramic cylindrical rollers with a minimum average roughness of 6 nm and a deviation of 2 nm. …”
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High-precision monitoring and prediction of mining area surface subsidence using SBAS-InSAR and CNN-BiGRU-attention model by Mingfei Zhu, Xuexiang Yu, Hao Tan, Jiajia Yuan, Kai Chen, Shicheng Xie, Yuchen Han, Wenjiang Long

“…The results indicate that the surface subsidence rate in the study area decreases progressively from northwest to southeast, with an average subsidence rate ranging from -49.844 mm/year to -14.810 mm/year. …”
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INFLUENCE OF SPEED, TIME OF HOMOGENIZATION, TYPE OF SURFACE ACTIVE SUBSTANCE ON THE SIZE OF PENTOXYPHILLINE NANOPARTICLES BASED ON POLY-DL-LAKTIDE-CO-GLICOLIDE by T. V. Timchenko, A. V. Blinov, A. V. Serov, L. I. Shcherbakova, V. A. Kompantsev, O. M. Мarkova, A. I. Medvetskiy, A. Y. Platonova

“…The possibility of penetration through biological barriers, tissue-specificity, rate of drug release depends largely on the size and surface properties of nanoparticles.The aim of our study was to study the influence of such important factors as time, homogenization rate and the type of surface active substance, on the size of the obtained nanoparticles of pentoxifylline based on poly-DL-lactide-co-glycolide (PLGA).Materials and methods. …”
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Thermal conductivity of high latitude lunar regolith measured by Chandra’s Surface Thermophysical Experiment (ChaSTE) onboard Chandrayaan 3 lander by Nizy Mathew, K. Durga Prasad, Fazil Mohammad, V. Aasik, Dinakar Prasad Vajja, M. Ram Prabhu, M. Satheesh Chandran, K. P. Subhajayan, Kiran John Antony, P. P. Pramod, Chandan Kumar, Dona Mathew, R. Suresh, U. A. Subramanian, V. Sathiyamoorthy, Manu V. Unnithan, V. Preethakumari, Vinitha Ramdas, Ajay Salas, P. S. Ajeeshkumar, Neha Naik, Vinu Paul, P. Kalyana Reddy, G. Ambily, K. Kannan, M. B. Dhanya, Sanjeev Mishra, P. T. Lali, K. Sunitha, Samik Jash, Tanmay Singhal, Janmejay Kumar, Manoj Kumar Mishra, R. Renju, C. Suresh Raju, Anil Bhardwaj

“…Through the two active heating experiments at a depth of 80 mm, the thermal conductivity of the lunar regolith at the Vikram landing site is estimated to be 0.0115 ± 0.0008 and 0.0124 ± 0.0009  W m $$^{-1}$$  K $$^{-1}$$ , respectively. The average packing density of the lunar regolith derived using the penetration motor current is 1940 ± 10 kg m $$^{-3}$$ . …”
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Surface discrepant manifestation, regime and controlling mechanisms of hydro-thermal behaviors in a typical high-temperature geothermal system on Tibetan Plateau by Yong Xiao, Yuqing Zhang, Jie Wang, Gongxi Liu, Peng Zhou, Huizhu Chen, Wenxu Hu, Liwei Wang, Limao Qin, Lianhe Zhou, Pengtian Ma, Qiong Pu

“…Study focus: This research focuses on the surface differential manifestations of hydro-thermal activities in high-temperature geothermal fields and their controlling mechanisms. …”
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CO₂ and CO temporal variability over Mexico City from ground-based total column and surface measurements by N. Taquet, W. Stremme, M. E. González del Castillo, V. Almanza, A. Bezanilla, O. Laurent, C. Alberti, F. Hase, M. Ramonet, T. Lauvaux, K. Che, M. Grutter

“…Using a simple model and the mixed-layer height derived from a ceilometer, we determined the <span class="inline-formula">CO</span> and <span class="inline-formula">CO₂</span> concentrations in the mixed layer from the total column measurements and found good agreement with surface cavity ring-down spectroscopy measurements. …”
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Fabricating rigid nano-grass layer on Ti6Al4V surface by dealloying for enhanced gingival soft tissue integration by Dongxuan Cai, Meiqi Zhao, Xi Liu, Guangwen Li, Yuqi Zhao, Haochen Wang, Lan Wang, Yide He, Yumei Zhang, Wen Song

“…In this study, the dealloying technique was introduced to create nano-grass layer on Ti6Al4V surface by removing Al element. The average size of 30 nm surface could induce the highest and aligned extracellular matrix (ECM) secretion in primary human gingival fibroblasts, accompanied by extensive focal adhesions formation. …”
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Temporal changes in soil organic carbon and other near‐surface soil properties under native tallgrass prairie in the Arkansas River Valley by Katie Jansson, Kristofor R. Brye, Mike Richardson, Lisa S. Wood

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Derivation of Point Plot-based Ductile Fracture Loci through Assimilation of Finite Element Simulation and Individual Actual Punched Surface Profile by Matsuno Takashi, Eguchi Jin, Kunii Yasuhiro, Shimizu Kazuyuki, Matsuki Yuichi, Shinmiya Toyohisa, Iizuka Eiji

“…This study demonstrated the inverse identification of the ductile fracture locus (DFL), successfully reproducing the actual punched surface profiles of DP980 steels. The primary aim was to visualize the plastic strain and residual stress distribution in the observed punching surface cross-section. …”
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Equivalent Surface Impedance of Slot Impedance Load Based on Aperture in Parallel-Plate Dielectric-Coated Waveguide Wall as Part of Infinite Array by V. G. Koshkidko, O. V. Alpatova

“…Numerical results are given as equivalent surface impedance dependencies on the construction geometrical dimensions for fixed values of the averaging interval, the plane wave incidence angle and the thickness of the dielectric layer. …”
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STUDY OF THE TEMPERATURE CONDITION OF SURFACE WATERS OF NOVOTROITSKY RESERVOIR BASED ON REMOTE SENSING DATA AND EVALUATION OF ITS IMPACT ON FISH GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT by Evgeniy G. Mishvelov, Ivan A. Bakumenko, Anatoliy F. Shevkhuzhev, Vladimir A. Pogodaev

“…The calculations were performed separately for the 10 and 11 channels of images from the Landsat 8 satellite, and then averaged. Results. Were established the quantitative characteristics of the inhomogeneity of the temperature fields of the water surface of Novotroitsky reservoir during the summer period due to discharges of the heated waters of the Stavropol GRES power plant. …”
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Test Study on Combustion Adjustment of 330 MW Circulating Fluidized Bed Boiler by Xianbin SUN, Feng QI, Yizhen XIN, Wenjie YUAN, Yongxiang GAO, Ruping HAO, Lintao CAO, An GUO

“…A circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler of the 330 MW unit have problems such as nonuniform bed temperature, heating surface wear, tube burst and so on. Combustion optimizing adjustment test was carried out to solve these problems. …”
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Taguchi’s L₁₈ Design of Experiments for Investigating the Effects of Cutting Parameters on Surface Integrity in X5CrNi18-10 Turning by Csaba Felhő, Tanuj Namboodri, Raghawendra Pratap Singh Sisodia

“…Results suggest that depth of cut (DOC) and cutting speed (v_c) have minimal effect, while feed rate (f) has more effects on the surface quality. In correlation analysis, it was found that feed rate influences arithmetic average surface roughness (R_a) and mean surface roughness depth (R_z). …”
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Optimization of Magnetic Finishing Process and Surface Quality Research for Inner Wall of MP35N Cobalt–Chromium Alloy Vascular Stent Tubing Based on Plasma-Fused Al₂O<su... by Yusheng Zhang, Yugang Zhao, Qilong Fan, Shimin Yang, Shuo Meng, Yu Tang, Guiguan Zhang, Haiyun Zhang

“…The four-factor and three-level Box–Behnken response surface method was adopted to analyze the influences and interactions of tube rotational speed, magnetic pole feed rate, abrasive filling amount, and processing clearance on surface roughness (Ra). …”
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