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To more concisely reflect the advantages of MVMNet over popular solutions, we rank the top 10 classes of methods in descending order of AP, AR, and FPS. According to Table 8, the proposed MVMNet is able to maintain TOP-1 AP and AR in the forest fire multioriented detection dataset. At ...
A high SHDI value represents a high degree of fragmentation. We computed the SHDI of Land use, which is adjustable by human, at each susceptibility level: Very Low: 1.094; Low: 0.981; Medium: 0.841; High: 0.637; Very High: 0.441. Clearly, the higher the value of SHDI, the lower ...
Introduction The problem of understanding the complexity of the brain has been central to neuroscience. The classification of neurons into cell types is a conceptual simplification intended to reduce this complexity. To this end, a large-scale effort at the Allen Institute for Brain Science has focu...
and aspect class on hazelnut shrub density generated from a gamma generalized linear model. Aspect classes included east (67.5° to 112.5°); southeast (112.5° to 157.5°); south (157.5° to 202.5°); southwest (202.5° to 247.5°); and, west (247.5° to 292.5°). df = degree of fre...
season conditions. At each fire polygon centroid, we extracted the April scPDSI value for the year that the fire burned. We adopted a standard classification of the index to interpret the results (for drought: extreme < −4; severe < −3; moderate < −2); wetter classes ...
Social constructionist theory shifts from hazards that we cannot control to the role of humans in disasters, who determine through decisions the degree of vulnerability; for example, citizen decisions to reside in areas subject to mudslides. • Weberian theory looks to culture—including values, at...
However, the differences could also be related to certain issues usually attributed to the implementation of this measure, as the type of materials used, their disposition, and the degree of ground contact (Badía et al., 2015; Wagenbrenner et al., 2006). In the present meta-analysis, ...