Vehicle detection in aerial images is a challenging task. The complexity of the background information and redundancy area are main obstacles that limit successful operation vehicle based on anchors very-high-resolution (VHR) remote sensing images. In this paper, an anchor-free target method proposed to solve problems above. First, multi-attention feature pyramid network (MA-FPN) was designed a...

Hybridization and restriction fragment length polymorphism data (K. G. Stuart-Keil, A. M. Hohnstock, K. P. Drees, J. B. Herrick, and E. L. Madsen, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64:3633-3640, 1998) have shown that pCg1, a naphthalene catabolic plasmid carried by Pseudomonas putida Cg1, is homologous to the archetypal naphthalene catabolic plasmid, pDTG1, in P. putida NCIB 9816-4. Sequencing of the l...

Motivated by the multiple benefits of recycling plastic ingredients in cementitious materials, present study focuses on design sustainable cement concrete incorporating recycled mixed fine aggregate (MPFA) as a partial replacement natural sand (NS). The MPFA produced this work is composed combination polymer types with similar concoctions to those observed postconsumer waste streams. This appro...

This paper proposes a meta-heuristic Multi-Population Firefly Algorithm (MPFA) for single-modal optimization using two multi-population models, i.e., one is based on the island model while the other on the mainland-island model. The unique characteristics of each sub-population is evolved independently and the diversity of the entire population is effectively increased. Sub-populations communic...

This paper presents the relationships between some numerical methods suitable for a heterogeneous elliptic equation with application to reservoir simulation. The methods discussed are the classical mixed finite element method (MFEM), the control-volume mixed finite element method (CVMFEM), the support operators method (SOM), the enhanced cell-centered finite difference method (ECCFDM), and the ...

We propose a new single-phase local transmissibility upscaling method for adapted grids in 3-D domains that uses spatially varying and compact multi-point flux approximations (MPFA). The multi-point stencils used to calculate the fluxes across coarse grid cell faces are required to honor three generic flow problems as closely as possible while maximizing compactness. We also present a corrector...

In the present work we introduce a new family of cell-centered Finite Volume schemes for anisotropic and heterogeneous diffusion operators inspired by the MPFA L method. A very general framework for the convergence study of finite volume methods is provided and then used to establish the convergence of the new method. Fairly general meshes are covered and a computable sufficient criterion for c...

Bhumbra GS, Beato M. Reliable evaluation of the quantal determinants of synaptic efficacy using Bayesian analysis. J Neurophysiol 109: 603–620, 2013. First published October 17, 2012; doi:10.1152/jn.00528.2012.— Communication between neurones in the central nervous system depends on synaptic transmission. The efficacy of synapses is determined by preand postsynaptic factors that can be characte...