Abstract: Retaining walls play a crucial role in mitigating flood risks, particularly in riverine environments affected by extreme climatic events. This study evaluates the effectiveness of retaining ...

Robert Stammer, CFA, is the former director of investor engagement at CFA Institute and writes on thought leadership in the investment management industry. Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of ...

Computational chemistry describes the use of computer modelling and simulation – including ab initio approaches based on quantum chemistry, and empirical approaches – to study the structures and ...

Abstract: We implement transfer learning (TL) to attain efficiency in training and feature extraction by freezing the connection weights of shallow layers of deep learning (DL) models, already trained ...

Object discovery, which refers to the task of localizing objects without human annotations, has gained significant attention in 2D image analysis. However, despite this growing interest, it remains ...

Experimental results show that the models constructed by the proposed method not only maintain geological semantic consistency and coherence but also accurately characterize the spatial distribution ...