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Using Shapley additive explanations to interpret extreme gradient boosting predictions of grassland degradation in Xilingol, China [PDF]
Geoscientific Model Development, 2021 Machine learning (ML) and data-driven approaches are increasingly used in many research areas. Extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) is a tree boosting method that has evolved into a state-of-the-art approach for many ML challenges.
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Journal of Imaging, 2021 Infants with fragile skin are patients who would benefit from non-contact vital sign monitoring due to the avoidance of potentially harmful adhesive electrodes and cables. Non-contact vital signs monitoring has been studied in clinical settings in recent
Fatema-Tuz-Zohra Khanam +4 more
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Influence of Weather, Soil Variability, and Vegetation on Seasonal Ground Movement: A Field Study
Geotechnics, 2023 Expansive soils change volume due to changes in moisture content, which results in ground movement. Lightweight shallow-depth structures such as pavements, residential footings, and pipelines can suffer distress as they face additional stresses from the ...
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Carbon Balance and Management, 2017 Background Urban forests reduce greenhouse gas emissions by storing and sequestering considerable amounts of carbon. However, few studies have considered the local scale of urban forests to effectively evaluate their potential long-term carbon offset ...
Jan Tigges, Tobia Lakes
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Deriving and Evaluating City-Wide Vegetation Heights from a TanDEM-X DEM
Remote Sensing, 2016 Vegetation provides important functions and services in urban areas, and vegetation heights divided into vertical and horizontal units can be used as indicators for its assessment.
Johannes Schreyer, Tobia Lakes
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Biotechnology for Biofuels, 2021 Background Environmental factors, such as weather extremes, have the potential to cause adverse effects on plant biomass quality and quantity. Beyond adversely affecting feedstock yield and composition, which have been extensively studied, environmental ...
Meenaa Chandrasekar +8 more
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The Use of Microfluidics in Cytotoxicity and Nanotoxicity Experiments
Micromachines, 2017 Many unique chemical compounds and nanomaterials are being developed, and each one requires a considerable range of in vitro and/or in vivo toxicity screening in order to evaluate their safety.
Scott C. McCormick +6 more
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Applied Water Science, 2023 Urbanization, changes in land use and land cover (LULC), and an increase in population collectively have significant impacts on urban catchments. However, a vast majority of LULC studies have been conducted using readily available satellite imagery ...
Tesfa Gebrie Andualem +4 more
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Position-dependent hearing in three species of bushcrickets (Tettigoniidae, Orthoptera) [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 A primary task of auditory systems is the localization of sound sources in space. Sound source localization in azimuth is usually based on temporal or intensity differences of sounds between the bilaterally arranged ears.
Reinhard Lakes-Harlan, Jan Scherberich
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Horticulturae, 2022 Urban Agriculture (UA) is the widespread practice of food production within available city space using non-commercial, commercial and hybrid production technologies. The economic viability of UA remains a concern among UA practitioners. To investigate UA’
Arun Kafle, James Hopeward, Baden Myers
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