2022 March-1 - 495 articles
When implementing nonpoint source pollution control plans, the size or number of required controlling facilities is a very practical issue. However, quantifying nonpoint source pollution is difficult because it is generated by variable and random rai...
Exceptional loads on buildings and structures are known to take origin and manifest from different causes, like natural hazards and possible high-strain dynamic effects, human-made attacks and impact issues for load-bearing components, possible accid...
The annual variation trend of the gravity and lithospheric magnetic field for adjacent periods are analyzed by using the observation of rover gravity and geomagnetic fields in Yunnan from 2011 to 2021, which tend to be consistent every year during th...
In this paper, the main goal is to study the impact of nanopowder volume concentration and ultrasonication treatment time on the stability and thermophysical properties of MgO-DW nanofluid at room temperature. The co-precipitation method was utilized...
The quality evaluation of the surrounding rock is the cornerstone of tunnel design and construction. Previous studies have confirmed the existence of a relationship between drilling parameters and the quality of surrounding rock. The application of d...
The paper employs a simplified approach to modeling of dynamics of submersion of a «diving buoy» subject to a depth-wise water density gradient and experiencing compression of the hull due to action of pressure. The latter effect is accou...
We present and validate a computationally efficient lower limb musculoskeletal model for the control of a rehabilitation robot. It is a parametric model that allows the customization of joint kinematics, and it is able to operate in real time. Method...
Maintaining rice yield, soil function, and fertility are essential components of long-term compost fertilization. However, paddy fields are major sources of anthropogenic methane emissions. The aim of the study is to evaluate the changes in soil chem...
Climbing became one of the official Olympic sports in 2020. The nociplastic pain mechanism is indicated as important in professional sports. Functional pain, which has not been examined in climbers until now, can be an example of nociplastic pain. Th...
There are lots of situations that cannot be described by traditional networks but can be described perfectly by the hypernetwork in the real world. Different from the traditional network, the hypernetwork structure is more complex and poses a great c...
There is very little research on the anthropometric and physiological profiles of lower-ranked young female athletes, even though, in most rowing clubs, such rowers constitute the vast majority. Therefore, this study investigated the anthropometric a...
Background: The Kynurenine pathway (KP) is involved in various disorders, but little is known about the KP and psychosomatic complaints. The aim was to study the peripheral KP and psychosomatic comorbidity in subjects with morbid obesity. Methods: Ps...
Presence is the sense of being in a virtual environment when physically situated in another place. It is one of the key components of the overall virtual reality (VR) experience, as well as other immersive audio applications. However, there is no sta...
Analysis of reports published by the leading national centers for monitoring wildfires and other emergencies revealed that the devastation caused by wildfires has increased by 2.96-fold when compared to a decade earlier. The reports show that the tot...
In this study, the tuned liquid damper (TLD) device was optimized by the harmony search (HS) and adaptive harmony search algorithms (AHS). Using the harmony search algorithm, seismic excitations were directed at single and ten-story structures, and T...
The article considers the main sources of pollutionin the territory of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania. A study of environmental geophysical factors in the city of Vladikavkaz was carried out at 126 points; indicators of noise pollution, e...
Flexibility and accuracy are two key aspects of the performances of compliant joints. In order to obtain high flexibility while maintain high accuracy, this paper proposes a design method to improve the tensile stiffness of Lamina Emergent Torsional...
The study of suitable materials to shield astronauts from Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCR) is a topic of fundamental importance. The choice of the material must take into account both the secondary radiation produced by the interaction between primary radi...
This research presents the numerical evaluation of fatigue crack growth of structural steels S355 and S960 based on Paris’ law parameters (C and m) that are experimentally determined with a single edge notched tension (SENT) specimen using opti...
Hfq is a bacterial master regulator which promotes the pairing of nucleic acids. Due to the high molecular weight of the complexes formed between nucleic acids and the amyloid form of the protein, it is difficult to analyze solely by a gel shift assa...
Super absorbent polymer (SAP), known as a water retention agent, has a high capacity for water absorption, which can help enhance the soil structure. This paper studied the effects of SAP dosages on the root characteristics and anchorage of Amorpha f...
Seaweeds or marine macroalgae are known for producing potentially bioactive substances that exhibit a wide range of nutritional, therapeutic, and nutraceutical properties. These compounds can be applied to treat chronic diseases, such as cancer, card...
Many studies in the literature have presented multiple remote sensing techniques for defect inspection of paintings. At present, however, papers on defect inspection and restoration of oriental architectural arts—such as door god paintings&mdas...
Medical image classification plays an essential role in disease diagnosis and clinical treatment. More and more research efforts have been dedicated to the design of effective methods for medical image classification. As an effective framework, the c...
Urinary tract infections (UTI) represent one of the most widespread infections, and frequent recurrent episodes, induced mostly by uropathogenic Escherichia coli, make them increasingly difficult to treat. Long-term antibiotic therapy is an effective...
Due to the fast pace of life and online communications and the prevalence of English and the QWERTY keyboard, people tend to forgo using diacritics, make typographical errors (typos) when typing in other languages. Restoring diacritics and correcting...
This work investigates fracture characteristics of a marble semi-circular bend (SCB) specimen with a pre-defined crack under a compressive loading condition. It aims at evaluating how the fracture toughness can be affected by the crack and span lengt...
The physical, structural, thermal, and optical properties of heavy metal (Ho3+) oxide incorporated lithium-boro-phosphate glass prepared utilizing melt quenching process are presented in this paper as a function of dopant concentration. To support th...
Functional topology shaping is crucial for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) swarm applications, such as remote sensing, precision agriculture, and emergency wireless communication. However, the current research on topology shaping is mostly based on t...
We investigate an earthquake sequence involving an Mw = 4.6 mainshock on 2 December 2020, followed by a seismic swarm in July–October 2021 near Thiva, Central Greece, to identify the activated structures and understand its triggering mechanisms...
The complexity of changeable marine backgrounds makes ship detection from satellite remote sensing images a challenging task. The ubiquitous interference of cloud and fog led to missed detection and false-alarms when using imagery-based optical satel...
To alleviate the problem of performance degradation due to the varied sound durations of competing classes in sound event detection, we propose a method that utilizes multi-scale features for sound event detection. We employed a feature-pyramid compo...
Cardiac MRI is the gold standard for evaluating left ventricular myocardial mass (LVMM), end-systolic volume (LVESV), end-diastolic volume (LVEDV), stroke volume (LVSV), and ejection fraction (LVEF). Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can prov...
The developing world has been faced with high rates of unemployment, exacerbated by extended enforced lockdowns due to the pandemic. Pressure is mounting for drastic intervention to accelerate economic growth and to provide employment opportunities....
The epiretinal membrane is a thin sheet of fibrous tissue that can form over the macular area of the retina, and may result in the loss of visual acuity or metamorphopsia, due to superficial retinal folds. A vitrectomy surgery, the current treatment...
A transferred arc plasma torch chemical rector was used to process waste formed from mixtures of dry clay powder and hydroquinone. Such reactors are best suited for the treatment of electrically conductive waste. In these types of reactors, the elect...
In recent decades, advances in the development of solar tracking systems (STSs) have led to concentrating solar technologies to increase their energy conversion efficiency. These systems, however, still have areas of opportunity or improving their pe...
The paper proposes a methodology of reliability testing as applied to vehicles used in military transport systems. After estimating the value of the reliability function using the Kaplan–Meier estimator, reliability models were developed and an...
Osteoporosis is a complex bone disease indicating porous bone with low bone mass density and fragility. Cathepsin K, V-ATPase, and αVβ3 integrin are exhibited as novel targets for osteoporosis treatment. Our preliminary study uses a state-...
This in vitro study was designed to investigate whether conventionally produced casts and printed casts for prosthodontic purposes show comparable full-arch accuracy; a ceramic reference cast with inlay and crown preparations was fabricated. Ten gyps...
This study investigated the impact of a one-sided radial-landed cross-sectional design of a heat-treated nickel-titanium rotary instrument (JIZAI, MANI, Japan; JZ) on torque/force generation and canal-shaping ability, using an experimental non-landed...
Several studies have investigated the effect of photo-mediated ultrasound therapy (PUT) on the treatment of neovascularization. This study explores the impact of PUT on the release of the vasoactive agents nitric oxide (NO) and prostacyclin (PGI2) fr...
Direct air capture can be based on an adsorption system, and the used sorbent (chemisorbents or physisorbents) influences process. In this work, two amine-functionalized sorbents, as chemisorbents, and three different metal organic frameworks, as phy...
This study defines the assemblage, materials, and mechanical parameter of the XIV century Bargello Palace at Florence (Italy). For this purpose, according to the rule in force, NDT and LDT had been performed on the Bargello walls, namely: direct obse...
Loading characteristics and lower extremity injury mechanisms, such as the non-contact mechanism of cruciate ligament injury, differ between sexes. The Limb Support Moment (LSM) quantifies hip, knee, and ankle moment contribution to the net moment re...
This work describes a straightforward method using one-step preparation of graphene/nickel nanocomposite materials from low-cost materials including graphene oxide and nickel metal. Repetitive CVs lead to the simultaneous deposition of metallic nicke...
Highly toxic microcystins (MCs) perform complex interactions with many proteins that induce cellular dysregulation, leading to the development of several diseases including cancer. There is significant diversity and chemical complexity among MC conge...
The development of innovative gas-sensing systems is fundamental in diverse research fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, medicine and environmental science [...]
The pore-throat network of rock exerts a vital influence on the permeability and mechanical properties of the rock. Resorting to X-ray micro-CT scanning, the present work investigates the pore-throat structure of marine biogenic carbonate samples fro...
Arsenic is a metalloid frequently found in contaminated sites due to its easy mobilization in the environment. This has attracted the researchers who have studied this phenomenon from an environmental engineering perspective. Although there is eviden...
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