The new age of digital technologies has led stride motor to a shift in conservation approaches when documenting historic places for posterity.The availability of these new technologies has provided tools for better decision-making with respect to the conservation of fragile built heritage.For sites vulnerable to seismic activity, such as Bagan, fre

Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of a 1470 nm/980 nm dual-wavelength laser system used for the en-bloc resection of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) compared with transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT).Methods This retrospective study analysed the Carb Caps demographic and clinical data from patients diagnosed with

Clouds and snow in remote sensing imageries cover underlying surface information, reducing image availability.Moreover, they interact with each other, decreasing the cloud and snow detection accuracy.In this study, we propose a convolutional neural network for cloud and snow detection, named the cloud and snow detection network (CSD-Net).It incorpo

One approach to reduce CO2 emission in the steelmaking industry is to recycle scrap to the blast furnace/basic oxygen furnace (BF/BOF) production system.This paper performed a numerical investigation on the BF operation with scrap charging.The investigated BF was with an inner volume of 820 m3, producing 2950 tons of hot metal per day (tHM/d).The s

This article employed the ARCH, GARCH and EGARCH models to model the oil price volatility and macroeconomic variables in South Africa for the period 1990Q1 to 2018Q2.The macroeconomic variables used in the study are GDP, inflation, interest rate and exchange Sweater rates.According to ARCH (1) and GARCH (1, 1) models, exchange rate and interest rat