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The interphase interaction between water flow and sediment and particle collision in sediment laden flow will modulate the flow turbulence. Due to the complexity of suspended sediment movement, the ...

When Quentin Tarantino was in his early 20s he worked at Video Archives, a video rental store in Torrance, California, about 20 miles from Los Angeles. While those were formative years (as Tarantino ...

ABSTRACT: Determining the optical properties of media remains an important part of scientific research. Knowledge of these optical properties, particularly absorption and diffusion coefficients, has ...

Geometry representations play a crucial role in solving complex 3D vision problems. The rapid evolution of deep learning has sparked significant interest in developing neural network-compatible ...

1 College of Mathematics and Information Science, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang, China. 2 School of Statistics and Data Science, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang, China.

Vertical growth rate of highly anisotropic III–V nanostructures, including the vapor–liquid–solid or catalyst-free nanowires and quasi-one-dimensional nanomembranes obtained by selective area epitaxy, ...