This paper investigates a possibility of using asymptotic functions to determine the value of curve number (CN) parameter as a function of rainfall in small agricultural watersheds. It also compares the actually calculated CN with its values provided...
The aim of this study was to identify the form of the dependence describing the relationship between rainfall (P) and the curve number (CN) parameter using the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS-CN) method in the mountain catchments of the...
Of the numerous methods applied in rainfall-runoff models, the most common is the NRCS-CN method that is applied to calculate raised-water runoffs and compare them with the runoff values measured for 12 selected rainfall-runoff events. This study was...
Accurate monophonic pitch estimation is central to music and speech systems, with practical applications often requiring small models that remain robust to noise and timbre variations. This paper proposes a Frequency Convolution Network (FrCN) for fu...
A total of 2090 lactation records for 710 Murciano-Granadina goats were collected during the years 2005–2016 and analyzed to investigate the influence of the αS1-CN genotype on milk yield and components (protein, fat, and dry matter). Goa...
Periodic and repeated water scarcity has become an increasing concern on grasslands, causing not only to a reduction in productivity but also negative alterations in the carbon balance. The objective of this work was to comprehensively investigate so...
The Soil Conservation Service curve number (SCS-CN) method has been widely used in rainfall-runoff modelling; however, the direct effects of rainfall intensities and duration, which are major factors in hydrological engineering design, on its paramet...
The physicochemical properties of four 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium bromide ([CnC1im]Br, n = 5, 6, 7, 8) ionic liquids (ILs) were investigated in this work by using inverse gas chromatography (IGC) from 303.15 K to 343.15 K. Twenty-eight organic solve...
Green roofs are increasingly recognized as effective Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for urban stormwater management, contributing to sustainable and climate-resilient cities. The Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) model is commonly used to...
High-altitude long-endurance (HALE) UAVs require navigation payloads that are both fully autonomous and lightweight. This paper presents a full-parameter calibration method for a dual-axis rotational-modulation RINS/CNS integrated system in which the...
Background/Objectives: Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) carries high morbidity and mortality, with delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI) as a major secondary complication. Although infection has increasingly been implicated in DCI pathogenesis, th...
Research on mitigating the effects of water scarcity by applying silicon to perennial grasses is still insufficient. This study was conducted to investigate the effect of spring and summer droughts and silicon applications on gas exchange parameters;...
The laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) technique was performed on polymers to study the neutral and ionic emission lines along with the CN violet system (B2Σ+ to X2Σ+) and the C2 Swan system (d3 Пg–a3 Пu). For t...
Background: Early initiation of high-efficacy treatment (HET) in patients with demyelinating central nervous system (CNS) diseases is associated with improved long-term prognosis. Identifying parameters linked to delayed HET initiation could facilita...
The variability of the curve number (CN) and the retention parameter (S) of the Soil Conservation Service (SCS)-CN method in a small agricultural, lowland watershed (23.4 km2 to the gauging station) in central Poland has been assessed using the proba...
The bidirectional pulsatile movement of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), instead of the traditionally believed unidirectional and constant CSF circulation, has been demonstrated. In the present study, the structure and parameters of the CSF compartments we...
Here, we describe a magnetic resonance spectroscopy characterization of selenium cyanide compounds, Se(CN)2, Se2(CN)2 and Se3(CN)2. Selenim-77 and carbon-13 nuclides were used to provide data of these species at room temperature. This is the first st...
Corneal nerves (CNs) are essential to maintain corneal epithelial integrity and ocular surface homeostasis. In vivo confocal microscopy (IVCM) enables the acquisition of high-resolution visualization of CNs, allowing visualization on a microscopic le...
Objective: Occult central nervous system (CNS) symptoms not recognized by people living with HIV (PLWH) receiving efavirenz or their clinicians could occur and impact people’s quality of life. The aim of this study was to determine whether CNS...
A large amount of cyanide-containing wastewater is discharged during electrode material synthesis. Among them, cyanides will form metal–cyanide complex ions which possess high stability, making it challenging to separate them from these wastewa...
In this paper, a new methodology for delineating Hydrological Response Units (HRUs), based on the Curve Number (CN) concept, is presented. Initially, a semi-automatic procedure in a GIS environment is used to produce basin maps of distributed CN valu...
Laboratory analysis of basic cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) parameters is considered as essential for any CSF evaluation. It can provide rapidly very valuable information about the status of the central nervous system (CNS). Our retrospective study evalua...
Background: The Contour Neurovascular System (CNS) has been established as an effective treatment for wide-neck intracranial bifurcation aneurysms. However, its post-intervention hemodynamic impact remains insufficiently understood. In silico studies...
Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS-CN) is a popular surface runoff prediction method because it is simple in principle, convenient in application, and easy to accept. However, the method still has several limitations, such as lack of a land...
One of the pathways toward luminescent single-molecule magnets (SMMs) is realized by the self-assembly of lanthanide(3+) ions with cyanido transition metal complexes. We report a novel family of emissive SMMs, {YbIII(4-pyridone)4[FeII(phen)2(CN)2]2}(...
Depending on whether milk protein fractions are evaluated qualitatively or quantitatively, different genetic outcomes may emerge. In this study, we compared the genetic parameters for the major milk protein fractions—caseins (αS1-, &alpha...
A new daily water balance model is developed and tested in this paper. The new model has a similar model structure to the existing probability distributed rainfall runoff models (PDM), such as HyMOD. However, the model utilizes a new distribution fun...
Autonomuous transportation systems require navigation performance with a high level of integrity. As Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) real-time kinematic (RTK) solutions are needed to ensure lane level accuracy of the whole system, these sol...
In this paper, a series of tetrameric surfactants (4CnSAZs, n = 12, 14, 16) endowed with zwitterionic characteristic were synthesized by a simple and convenient method and their structures were characterized by FT-IR, 1H NMR and elemental analysis. T...
Surface solar irradiance (SSI) is influenced by important factors such as total cloud cover and aerosols. However, the influence of vegetation-runoff coupled system on SSI has not been investigated yet. The present study aims to study this issue in t...
Shrubs are a significant component of urban vegetation found in parks, but they experience various influences from biotic and abiotic agents, among which aphids play an important role. In this work, the effects of aphid colonisation on three shrub sp...
Background/Objectives: Preclinical studies suggest that the deleterious effect of a high serum carnosinase 1 (CN1) concentration is attributed to its adverse effects on insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism. However, there is little evidence for...
This study develops a bottom-up cost optimization model (DC-DECOM) to evaluate decarbonization pathways for Japan’s data center industry, targeting carbon neutrality of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector by 2040. The mod...
Objective: To evaluate the potential of the first-trimester ultrasound (US) features for the detection of central nervous system (CNS) anomalies. Methods/Methodology: This is a prospective one-center three-year study. Unselected singleton pregnant wo...
Background: Net atrioventricular compliance (Cn) can affect the accuracy of mitral valve area (MVA) assessment. We assessed how different methods of MVA assessment are affected by Cn, and if patients with abnormal Cn may be identified by clinical and...
Introduction: Central nervous system (CNS) involvement is reported to represent 5% of extranodal diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) at diagnosis. To stratify patients’ risk of CNS involvement, the CNS-International Prognostic Index (CNS-IPI)...
Both absolute and presumably active rDNA (with a hypomethylated promoter region) copy number (CN) in the haploid human sperm genome are highly variable among individuals. Using a combination of droplet digital PCR and deep bisulfite sequencing, we ha...
Therapeutic efficacy of histidyl dipeptides such as carnosine is hampered by circulating carnosinase-1 (CN1), which catalyzes carnosine’s hydrolysis and degradation. Prior reports suggest that oral carnosine may improve cardiometabolic paramete...
Chitin Lignin nanoparticles (CN-NL), standalone and encapsulating glycyrrhetic acid (GA), were applied on novel substrates for textiles to obtain antibacterial, antioxidant properties. Their homogeneous application is an important parameter that can...
Carbon nanoscroll (CNS) is a graphene sheet rolled into a spiral structure with great potential for different applications in nanotechnology. In this paper, an equivalent open shell model is presented to study the vibration behavior of a CNS with arb...
Molecular engineering of high energy barrier Ueff in single-molecule magnets (SMMs) of general composition MoIIIkVIIm based on orbitally-degenerate pentagonal-bipyramidal [MoIII(CN)7]4− complexes with unquenched orbital momentum and high-spin V...
Nanomaterials can intensively scatter and/or reflect radiation. Such processes and materials are of theoretical and practical interest. Here, we study the quasi-specular reflections (QSRs) of cold neutrons (CNs) and the reflections of very cold neutr...
This study aimed to investigate factors affecting protein fractions, namely α-casein (α-CN), β-casein (β-CN), κ-casein (κ-CN), β-lactoglobulin (β-LG) and α-lactalbumin (α-LA) predicted from milk...
Background and objectives: Alterations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have been observed and studied in various diseases. However, the clinical value of the mtDNA copy number (mtDNA-CN) alterations in osteonecrosis of the femoral head (ONFH) is poorly...
We aimed to compare the diagnostic yield between temporal bone computed tomography (TBCT) and internal auditory canal MRI (IAC MRI) for the etiologic diagnosis of children with congenital single-sided deafness (SSD) and the evaluation of cochlear imp...
Soil organic matter (SOM) and the ratio of soil organic carbon to total nitrogen (C/N ratio) are fundamental to the ecosystem services provided by soils. Therefore, understanding the spatial distribution and relationships between the SOM components m...
Nitrogen export dynamics in small watersheds of subtropical dry–hot valleys remain poorly characterized. This study investigated runoff nitrogen patterns in a typical mango planting area lacking long-term monitoring by coupling in situ monitori...
In CNS drug discovery, the estimation of brain exposure to lead compounds is critical for their optimization. Compounds need to cross the blood–brain barrier (BBB) to reach the pharmacological targets in the CNS. The BBB is a complex system inv...
In order to improve the continuity and smoothness of transpolar flight and optimize autonomous navigation performance, a SINS/SRS/CNS (strapdown inertial navigation system/spectral redshift navigation system/celestial navigation system) multi-informa...
The SCS-CN method is a globally known procedure used primarily for direct-runoff estimates. It also is integrated in many modelling applications. However, the method was developed in specific geographical conditions, often making its universal applic...
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