Oaks(Quercus spp.)provide an important food source for many wildlife species throughout the fall and winter.Most research evaluating oak masting patterns and the subsequent behavioral responses of wildlife focuses on ...
supported by the Key Research and Development Project of Hubei Province(Nos.2020BAB114 and 2023BAB094).
In the manufacturing industry,reasonable scheduling can greatly improve production efficiency,while excessive resource consumption highlights the growing significance of energy conservation in production.This paper st...
funding provided by the China Scholarship Council (Nos.202008440524 and 202006370006);supported by the Distinguished Youth Science Foundation of Hunan Province of China (No.2022JJ10073);Innovation Driven Project of Central South University (No.2020CX040);Shenzhen Sciencee and Technology Plan (No.JCYJ20190808123013260).
Concrete is the most commonly used construction material.However,its production leads to high carbon dioxide(CO_(2))emissions and energy consumption.Therefore,developing waste-substitutable concrete components is nece...
Human pose estimation(HPE)is a procedure for determining the structure of the body pose and it is considered a challenging issue in the computer vision(CV)communities.HPE finds its applications in several fields namel...
In data mining and machine learning,feature selection is a critical part of the process of selecting the optimal subset of features based on the target data.There are 2n potential feature subsets for every n features ...
Advancement in multimedia technology has resulted in protection against distortion,modification,and piracy.For implementing such protection,we have an existing technique called watermarking but obtaining desired disto...
supported in part by the Science and Technology Major Project of Anhui Province(Grant No.17030901037);in part by the Humanities and Social Science Fund of Ministry of Education of China(Grant No.19YJAZH098);in part by the Program for Synergy Innovation in the Anhui Higher Education Institutions of China(Grant Nos.GXXT-2020-012,GXXT-2021-044);in part by Science and Technology Planning Project of Wuhu City,Anhui Province,China(Grant No.2021jc1-2);part by Research Start-Up Fund for Introducing Talents from Anhui Polytechnic University(Grant No.2021YQQ066).
Ocular artifacts in Electroencephalography(EEG)recordings lead to inaccurate results in signal analysis and process.Variational Mode Decomposition(VMD)is an adaptive and completely nonrecursive signal processing metho...
Multi-Area Multi-Fuel Economic Dispatch (MAMFED) aims to allocate the best generation schedule in each area and to offer the best power transfers between different areas by minimizing the objective functions among the...
Thanks to Zainab Almusawi and Teera Losch for helping in laboratory analysis,Candice Gagnaison,Laure Vanlauwe,and Mattia Panzeri for assistance with the fieldwork.We are grateful to the private land owners for access to their estates.Three anonymous reviewers provided constructive comments that helped us to improve the article.
Short-term elevation of glucocorticoids(GCs)is one of the major physiological mechanisms by which vertebrates cope with challenging environmental or social factors(stressors).However,when exposure to stressors occurs ...