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Breathing in Plants and Chaos—Cosmic Tree Events in Cameroon and Beyond

Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contemporary practices of tapping into the wisdom of ancestral trees are described through three entangled recent events lived within the context of Bantu practices in Cameroon. In the three instances, the steered or chance encounters with high potency trees were serendipitous telling moments which brought something new to the horizon.
Julie Laplante, Armel Lekeufack, Nina Tamara Barbosa Ponce, Roger Amos Kañaa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Frayed Rope and Resilient Threads: Fijian Healthcare and the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In April 2021, Fiji faced international scrutiny due to ‘horrific’ hospital conditions, including staff and patients lacking food, non‐operational operating theatres, and critical shortages of beds, medicine, and equipment. After successfully avoiding a major outbreak in 2020, a sudden surge in COVID‐19 cases in 2021 overwhelmed the public ...
Sharon McLennan, Johanna Thomas‐Maude, Apisalome Movono, Akisi Ravono   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Use‐Wear Texture Quantification Through Confocal Microscopy on Tools Made From Volcanic Rocks (Basalt and Phonolite)

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Functional analysis is essential for reconstructing lithic tool use. Recent approaches combining confocal microscopy and surface texture analysis provide quantitative alternatives to traditional visual use‐wear analysis, although their application to coarse‐grained, heterogeneous rocks remains challenging because of their complex surface ...
Idaira Brito‐Abrante, Amelia Rodríguez‐Rodríguez, Juan José Ibáñez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early to Mid‐Holocene molluscan community dynamics in Billefjorden, central Svalbard: the interplay of local geomorphology and regional climate

Boreas, EarlyView.
The postglacial evolution of High Arctic coastal environments is recorded in the rich fossiliferous archives of raised marine terraces. This study employs a multi‐proxy approach combining molluscan community analysis, taphonomy and sedimentology to reconstruct the Early to Mid‐Holocene environmental dynamics of the Mimerdalen embayment in the ...
Martin Lulák, Martin Hanáček, Slavomír Nehyba, Tomáš Weiner, Daniel Nývlt   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hierarchical Differentiable Fluid Simulation

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
We introduce a two‐step algorithm that significantly reduces memory usage for solving control problems using differentiable fluid simulation techniques: our method first optimizes for bulk forces at reduced resolution, then refines local details over sub‐domains while maintaining differentiability. In trading runtime for memory, it enables optimization
Xiangyu Kong, Arnaud Schoentgen, Damien Rioux‐Lavoie, Paul G. Kry, Derek Nowrouzezahrai   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of shallow water waves using a nonlinear conformable M-fractional Boussinesq-Kaup system. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Khan AG, Muddassar M, Jabeen T, Ur Rehman Z, Ashiq M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Style Brush: Guided Style Transfer for 3D Objects

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
We introduce Style Brush, a guided 3D style‐transfer method for textured meshes that provides precise creative control. It supports the use of multiple style images, smooth transitions and intuitive guidance, producing visually appealing textures that follow user intent as we demonstrate in our user study and results. Abstract We introduce Style Brush,
Áron Samuel Kovács, Pedro Hermosilla, Renata G. Raidou   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nonlinear Ultrasonic Time-Domain Identification Based on Chaos Sensitivity and Its Application to Fatigue Detection of U71Mn Rail Steels. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel)
Li H, Cheng M, Luo C, Zhang W, Wu J, Ma H.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fluid Control with Localized Spacetime Windows

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract We present a physics‐based fluid control method utilizing localized spacetime windows, extending force‐based fluid control to substantially larger simulation scales. In many practical editing scenarios, user‐specified objectives affect only a small region of an otherwise satisfactory simulation, resulting in optimal control force distributions
Y. Chen, D. I. W. Levin, T. R. Langlois
wiley   +1 more source

Closing Trajectories: Equation‐Free Cyclic Animation via Koopman Surrogates

Computer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Cyclic animation is widely used in computer graphics and interactive content. It supports seamless playback in games, VR, and interactive simulation, where short clips must repeat smoothly over long durations. Converting an observed non‐cyclic trajectory into a seamless loop is challenging because the endpoint states of the observed sequence ...
Shixun Huang, Siyuan Chen, Yue Chang, Zhecheng Wang, Peter Yichen Chen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source