The objective of this study was to understand the development of Chinese contemporary architectural discourses and analyze the comfort of the 156 projects residences to help improve the sustainable planning and design of today’s urban residenti...
Software defect prediction has been one of the key areas of exploration in the domain of software quality. In this paper, we perform a systematic mapping to analyze all the software defect prediction literature available from 1995 to 2018 using a mul...
To maximize profits without sacrificing quality, the concept of sustainable construction must be adopted across a project’s whole lifespan. Although adopting the idea of passive design in developing countries is incomplete, these studies have f...
Universities are hives of knowledge production and innovation, but the work students produce for assessment is often utilised in a limited way, neglecting a potentially rich intellectual resource. This article investigates an activity that can make u...
Selecting appropriate research methodologies in project management traditionally relies on individual expertise and intuition, leading to variability in study design and reproducibility challenges. To address this gap, we introduce a machine learning...
Building excavations in urban environments involve significant safety challenges arising from complex geotechnical conditions, adjacent structures, and construction uncertainties. This study proposes an integrated framework for identifying and priori...
This study offers a detailed techno-economic assessment of Carbon Capture (CC) integration in an existing Waste-to-Energy (WtE) incineration plant, focusing on retrofit application. Post-combustion carbon capture using monoethanolamine (MEA) was mode...
The in-service assessment of marine propulsion engines requires more than nominal rating comparison because operating severity is shaped by propeller demand, resistance growth, air-path response, and thermal state. This study develops a quantitative...
The United Nations has declared a global sand crisis, called for reduced sand consumption, and proposed solutions to address the crisis, including adopting sustainable substitutes for sand. The construction industry is a major consumer of sand, yet a...
1 July 2022
Background: Workplace health promotion (WHP) as a part of workplace health management (WHM) was strengthened in German legislature with the Prevention Act of 2015. However, smaller enterprises often do not offer WHM or WHP. Accordingly, a model-proje...
The use of air source heat pumps (ASHP) in the specific context of existing multi-family buildings (MFB) represents an important challenge, especially in terms of performance and technical constraints in real conditions of use. This study concerns th...
This study examined 10–11-year-old students’ perceptions regarding three different types of physical activity games based on different principles of mental engagement (contextual interference, mental control, or discovery). A total of 156...
Green redevelopment (GR) is a promising strategy to deal with industrial brownfields, this sustainable initiation usually fails to be implemented practically in China. Thus, investigating the driving mechanism of developer’s GR behavior, as exe...
Background: The introduction of biological agents into the clinical armamentarium has modified the management of moderate-severe inflammatory arthritis (IA). However, these drugs can lead to serious adverse events (SAEs) and unpredictable adverse eve...
6 June 2019
Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) motivate effective measures for safeguarding public health. There is consensus that HIAs in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) are lacking, but no study systematically focuses on those that have been successfully...
There is a need for increased renewable energy to meet net-zero targets and decarbonise the economy. Harnessing the predictable power of the tides with tidal stream turbines can contribute to this. Tidal energy is a nascent technology with higher cos...
China’s urban rail transit (URT) construction is coming into the stage of rapid development under the guidance of national policies. However, the URT construction projects belong to high-risk projects and construction safety accidents occur frequentl...
Global Navigation Satellite System Reflectometry Bistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar (GNSS-R BSAR) is becoming more and more important in remote sensing because of its low power, low mass, low cost, and real-time global coverage capability. The Back Pr...
The central aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) alongside two supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs)—i.e., fly ash (FA) and silica fume (SF)—on the 28-day compressive strength (CS28d) of cementitious g...
Traffic noise is presently considered one of the main pollutants in urban and suburban areas. Several recent technological advances have allowed a step forward in the dynamic computation of road-traffic noise levels by means of a Wireless Acoustic Se...
Background: Sleep efficiency and sleep onset latency are two measures that can be used to assess sleep quality. Factors that are related to sleep quality include age, sex, sociodemographic factors, and physical and mental health status. This study ex...
The Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus) is a widely distributed tropical seabird whose parasitic fauna remains poorly studied, particularly in the southwestern Atlantic. This study aimed to characterize the louse fauna (Phthiraptera) of An. stolidus specime...
Plants know no political borders and some of them are restricted to small geographical territories of different countries in which they are endemic. In this study, we prioritized plants (PPs) of the cross-border area of Greece and the Republic of Nor...
Frost heave in seasonally frozen loess regions is fundamentally governed by pore water migration towards the freezing front driven by temperature gradients, forming ice lenses that damage engineered infrastructure. Because both freezing intensity and...
Background/Objective: The use of immersive virtual reality (VR) for cognitive training in older adults has shown promising results in recent years. However, the number of well-designed studies remains limited, and variability in methodologies makes i...
Nowadays, concretes blended with pozzolanic additives such as fly ash (FA), silica fume (SF), slag, etc., are often used in construction practices. The utilization of pozzolanic additives and industrial by-products in concrete and grouting materials...
National projections of future joint replacement use can help us understand the changing burden of severe osteoarthritis. This study aimed to compare actual utilisation rates for primary total hip replacement (THR) and total knee replacement (TKR) to...
The Korean Gynecologic Oncology Group (KGOG) was established in 2002 and is the only organization in Korea conducting multi-center clinical trials for gynecologic cancers. Since its re-establishment as a non-profit organization in 2021, KGOG has grow...
Holographic stereograms record large sets of multi-view projection images into elementary hologram units (hogels), and their visual quality is governed primarily by the quality and inter-view consistency of the input multi-view imagery. Conventional...
Deep multi-coal seam mining is plagued by intense mining pressure, significant impacts of multi-working face mining on system roadways, and difficult surrounding rock deformation control—these issues severely threaten the safe and normal operat...
Large ruminant production in developing countries is inefficient with low growth rates and likely high greenhouse gas emissions per unit of meat or milk produced. Trials conducted in Lao PDR from 2017 to 2020, studied ad libitum supplementation for 1...
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is the standard of care for locally advanced breast cancer, yet the molecular predictors of pathological response remain incompletely defined, particularly regarding microRNA (miRNA) dynamics. We investigated paired pre...