The paper presents artificial neural network models approximating concentration of selected nitrogen forms in wastewater after sequence bath reactor with aerobic granular activated sludge (GSBR) anaerobic and aerobic phase. Developed models reflected...
Surface albedo is a key variable influencing ground-reflected solar irradiance, which is a vital factor in boosting the energy gains of bifacial solar installations. Therefore, surface albedo is crucial towards estimating photovoltaic power generatio...
Ground penetrating radar (GPR) has proven to be a very effective method for examining ice thickness. However, two preconditions must be met for this approach to be useful; the round-trip travel time of electromagnetic (EM) waves and radar transmissio...
This work studied the removal of phenol from industrial effluents through catalytic ozonation in the presence of granular activated carbon in a continuous fixed-bed reactor. Phenol was chosen as model pollutant because of its environmental impact and...
The aim of this study was to formulate and evaluate stavudine floating microballoons for controlled drug release. Initially, the drug-loaded low-density granular pellets were prepared with hydroxypropyl methylcellulose E5 grade and by using isopropyl...
A model is not an exact copy of its original, but only its idealised reproduction that is simpler, more understandable, more accessible and easier, safer and more effective to work with. In the presented study, we used the technique of factor analysi...
Despite their centrality to the scientific enterprise, both the nature of scientific variables and their relation to inductive inference remain obscure. I suggest that scientific variables should be viewed as equivalence classes of sets of physical s...
Many underground projects are built in cohesionless soil regions, where soil strength is crucial for stability. Particle size greatly influences the mechanical behavior of cohesionless soil. To investigate the relationship between particle size (as a...
Based on a combination of physical and simulation experiments, a set of basic physical characteristic parameters and contact parameters suitable for granular fungal fertilizers were calibrated, which up to now have received little attention. The phys...
Infilled joints or faults are often subjected to long-term stable shear forces, and nature surface processes of normal unloading can change the frictional balance. Therefore, it is essential to study the sliding behavior of such granular materials un...
This study investigated the use of microwave (MW) to enhance the performance of a granular thermo-plasma expanded graphite (GTPEG) to remove an organic cationic dye, methylene blue (MB), from freshwater, taking the benefits of MW-assisted regeneratio...
The malaxing of olive paste is one of the most important sub-processes in the virgin olive oil production process. The master continuously supervises the olive paste inside the themomixer to assess the preparation state of the olive paste and he acts...
The strange behavior of subatomic particles is described by quantum theory, whose standard interpretation rejected some fundamental principles of classical physics such as causality, objectivity, locality, realism and determinism. Recently, a granula...
On the mesoscopic scale, granular matter is tessellated into contact loops by a contact network. The stability of granular matter is highly dependent on the evolution of contact loops, including the number and area evolutions of contact loops with di...
In this work we consider the problem of determining the identity of hadrons at high energies based on the topology of their energy depositions in dense matter, along with the time of the interactions. Using GEANT4 simulations of a homogeneous lead tu...
Accurate population counts and the identification of granularity within aggregated groups are essential for informing funding formulas and health policies, an issue of global significance. Relying solely on aggregated ethnicity-based population count...
Natural disasters affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide every year. The impact assessment of a disaster is key to improve the response and mitigate how a natural hazard turns into a social disaster. An actionable quantification of impact mu...
Molten-pool sloshing is a critical safety concern during Core Disruptive Accidents (CDAs) in Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors (SFRs), as the inward collapse of the liquid fuel may lead to energetic neutronic recriticality. The presence of solid particles...
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During production, thermally modified wood is processed using the same machining operations as unmodified wood. Machining wood is always accompanied with the creation of dust particles. The smaller they become, the more hazardous they are. Employees...
Septic wastewater, or septage, represents a specific type of wastewater with a high concentration of organic matter and significant variability in composition, which places increased demand on its treatment. With the increasing pressure for decentral...
Interpretable and scalable data-driven methodologies providing high granularity baseline predictions of energy use in buildings are essential for the accurate measurement and verification of energy renovation projects and have the potential of unlock...
The purpose of this study is to develop a micromechanical-based microstructure model for transversely isotropic granular media and then use it to investigate the propagation characteristics of particle rotation waves. In this paper, the particle tran...
The soil–water characteristic curve (SWCC) is essential for understanding hydraulic behavior in geotechnical applications involving coarse granular materials. However, existing models often overlook the coupled effects of key factors. This stud...
To elucidate the micromechanical origins of the macroscopic anisotropic behavior of granular materials, this study develops a micromechanically based elastoplastic constitutive model for sand. First, anchored in the static equilibrium hypothesis and...
Time series forecasting plays a critical role across numerous domains such as finance, energy, and healthcare. While traditional statistical models have long been employed for this task, recent advancements in deep learning have led to a new generati...
Spatial accessibility provides significant policy implications, describing the spatial disparity of access and supporting the decision-making process for placing additional infrastructure at adequate locations. Several previous reviews have covered s...
For the safe extraction of methane from hydrate reservoirs, modeling the mechanical behavior of the methane hydrate-bearing soil properly is crucial in order to enable designers to analysis hydrate-dissociation-induced geotechnical failures. Hydrate...
Cross-linked esterified starch (CES) was prepared using a one-step method, where maize starch was selected as the raw material, sodium trimetaphosphate as the cross-linking agent, and acetic anhydride as the esterifying agent, respectively. A respons...
This paper is concerned with the design of a context-based fuzzy C-means (CFCM)-based multi-granular fuzzy model (MGFM) with hierarchical tree structures. For this purpose, we propose three types of hierarchical tree structures (incremental, aggregat...
Accurate pavement design and evaluation requires the execution of response analysis. Pavement materials’ behavior does not necessarily conform to the assumptions of the multi-linear elastic theory usually adopted during pavement analysis. In pa...
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from rail infrastructure are increasingly examined in response to climate policy demands. Yet current assessment methods, such as ISO-based LCAs, FTIP, “Standardisierte Bewertung”, EN 15804 with c-PCR 023, a...
Dynamic instability of water-saturated granular coal in tectonic stress zones is a critical safety issue in coal mining. This study adopts raw coal granules from the Daping Coal Mine to investigate the dynamic response and instability mechanisms unde...
Poverty data are usually collected through on-the-ground household-based socioeconomic surveys. Unfortunately, data collection with such conventional methods is expensive, laborious, and time-consuming. Additional information that can describe povert...
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Senile gluteal dermatosis (SGD) is a common but seldom recognized condition. It is characterized clinically by unilateral or bilateral hyperkeratotic, lichenified plaques on the gluteal area, being attributed to prolonged sitting, particularly in the...
In the present work, based on numerical simulation, a comparative analysis of the flow of a chemically reacting gas flow through a catalyst is performed using the example of selective hydrogenation of acetylene in a wide range of flow temperatures va...
The properties of thermal networks are examined to understand the effective thermal conductivity of heterogeneous two-phase composite materials and systems. At conditions of high contrast in thermal conductivity of the individual phases (k1 and k2),...
Precision fertilization is a promising mitigation strategy to reduce environmental impacts of N-fertilization, but the effective benefits of variable-rate fertilization have not yet been fully demonstrated. We evaluated the short-term response (23 da...
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a practical approach for question answering over external corpora, particularly when answers should be grounded in source documents rather than generated only from model parameters. While recent large l...
Maintaining a balance between revenue and expenditure is the key to the sustainable development of a bicycle sharing system (BSS), and is a challenge for almost all systems worldwide. This article proposes a dynamic programming approach to obtain the...
Granular flows generate intense acoustic emissions, yet the quantitative relationship between particle size and sound frequency remains poorly characterized for natural, irregular materials. This study investigates the inverse relationship between me...
Building demolition waste (BDW) has been massively stockpiled due to increasingly rapid urbanization and modernization. The use of recycled BDW as unbound granular base/subbase materials is among the sustainable, cost-effective, and environmentally f...
In this research, a method was developed for fabricating Au–Au nanorod array substrates through the deposition of large-area Au nanostructures on an Au nanorod array using a galvanic cell reaction. The incorporation of a granular structure enha...
This research conducts a meticulous examination of the determinants influencing dividend payout dynamics among firms listed on the Korean Stock Exchange (KSE) from 1995 to 2021, a period characterized by profound economic fluctuations. By leveraging...
The avenue to find a balanced assessment of systemic financial institutions needs the integration of macro and micro granular datasets. This paper investigates how macroeconomic shocks affect systemic risk through several transmission channels. Emplo...
Hyperreflective dots are a common but highly variable feature of optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans of the retina. We studied the spatial characteristics and perfusion of hyperreflective dots using both structural and angiographic OCT B-scans o...
In actuarial modelling of risk pricing and loss reserving in general insurance, also known as P&C or non-life insurance, there is business value in the predictive power and automation through machine learning. However, interpretability can be cri...
Responses from Central New Jersey residents (n = 290) to nine survey items about pro-environmental behaviors were analyzed for their connection to survey respondents’ local built and natural landscape characteristics. These nine survey items were of...
Dempster–Shafer evidence theory and rough set theory are two important mathematical tools for dealing with uncertain information, and their integration provides a powerful theoretical framework for quantifying cognitive uncertainty. The classic...
Urban resilience refers to the capacity of an urban system to fully recover from unforeseen calamities. This study aims to assess the physical resilience indicators used to measure urban resilience in Tehran, the political and economic capital of Ira...
The objective was to evaluate the physicochemical composition of soils and their relationship with successional vegetation. The study was conducted in the area of influence of fluvial volcanic muds in the central region of Colombia. The physical vari...
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