Simulating ice segregation and thaw consolidation in permafrost environments with the CryoGrid community model

The ground ice content in cold environments influences the permafrost thermal regime and the thaw trajectories in a warming climate, especially for soils containing excess ice.Despite their importance, the amount and distribution of ground ice are often unknown due to lacking field observations.Hence, modeling the thawing of ice-rich permafrost soi

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Glanidium botocudo, a new species from the rio Doce and rio Mucuri, Minas Gerais, Brazil (Siluriformes: Auchenipteridae) with comments on taxonomic position of Glanidium bockmanni Sarmento-Soares & Buckup

Glanidium botocudo, new species, is described from the tributaries to the upper rio Doce and Mucuri, eastern Minas Gerais State, Brazil.It represents the northernmost record of a centromochlin catfish from the coastal rivers of the Northeastern Atlantic Led Gear Trays Forest.Glanidium botocudo is readily distinguished from its congeners, except Gla

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Region-Focusing Data Augmentation via Salient Region Activation and Bitplane Recombination for Target Detection

As the performance of a convolutional neural network is logarithmically proportional to the amount of training data, data augmentation has attracted increasing attention in recent years.Although the current data augmentation methods are efficient because they force the network to learn multiple parts of a given training image through occlusion or r

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