This paper is a review on the tensile properties of natural fiber reinforced polymer composites.
Natural fibers have recently become attractive to researchers, engineers and scientists as …

Face recognition has made extraordinary progress owing to the advancement of deep
convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The central task of face recognition, including face …

First published in 1974. Despite the tendency of contemporary analytic philosophy to put logic
and mathematics at a central position, the author argues it failed to appreciate or account …

Background Somatic mutations have the potential to encode “non-self” immunogenic antigens.
We hypothesized that tumors with a large number of somatic mutations due to mismatch-…

The 25 road-deposited sediments were collected from five different land-use zones (industrial,
residential, commercial, park, and countryside) in Hangzhou, China. The concentrations …

For more than four decades the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
has been assessing the global threat status for species and publishing the results in the …

The goal of precipitation nowcasting is to predict the future rainfall intensity in a local region
over a relatively short period of time. Very few previous studies have examined this crucial …

The development of noninvasive methods to detect and monitor tumors continues to be a
major challenge in oncology. We used digital polymerase chain reaction–based technologies …

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a successful approach commonly used by many recommender
systems. Conventional CF-based methods use the ratings given to items by users as the …

We have produced a draft sequence of the rice genome for the most widely cultivated
subspecies in China, Oryza sativa L. ssp.indica, by whole-genome shotgun sequencing. The …