111,468 Results Found

Objective: This retrospective study investigated the relationship between the timing of single-tooth implant-supported restorations—including the interval from tooth extraction and socket preservation to implant placement and final prosthetic r...

Urban day-to-day travel systems generally exist in various types of cities. Their modeling is difficult due to the uncertainty of individual travelers in micro travel decision-making. Moreover, with the advent of the information age, intelligent conn...

Day-to-day temperature variability (DTD) significantly affects human health and ecosystems, yet its representation in major reanalysis datasets has not been systematically evaluated. This study assesses the ability of four widely used reanalysis data...

With the continuous advancement of Mobility as a Service (MaaS), a hybrid traffic flow comprising MaaS-based and conventional trips has emerged within transportation networks, leading to diverse behaviors among heterogeneous travelers. Given the coex...

Objective. To estimate the associations between educational load and health, and elements of day’s routine among Lithuanian schoolchildren, attending classes of first stage of basic education curriculum.

Material and methods. During 14–28 November, 2...

An integrated energy system (IES) shows great potential in reducing the terminal energy supply cost and improving energy efficiency, but the operation scheduling of an IES, especially integrated with inter-connected multiple energy stations, is rathe...

This paper investigates the optimal congestion pricing problem that considers day-to-day evolutionary flow dynamics. Under the circumstance that traffic flows evolve from day to day and the system might be in a non-equilibrium state during a certain...

Previous studies have shown that habitual physical activity improves postprandial appetite regulation. We evaluated the direct association between physical activity level (PAL) and postprandial appetite regulation, and the effect of day-to-day variat...

Electricity price forecasting plays a fundamental role in ensuring efficient market operation and informed decision making. With the growing integration of renewable energy, prices have become more volatile and difficult to predict, increasing the ne...

The temperature-based indicators heating and cooling degree days, are frequently utilized to quantitatively link indoor energy demand and outdoor thermal conditions, especially in the context of climate change. We present a comprehensive study of the...

Day-to-day information is increasingly being implemented in transit networks worldwide. Feeder bus service (FBS) plays a vital role in a public transit network by providing feeder access to hubs and rails. As a feeder service, a space-time path for f...

The primary purpose of the study was the determination of the spatial day-to-day variability of extreme air temperatures in Poland and the dependency of large temperature changes on atmospheric circulation in accordance with the Grosswetterlagen (GWL...

In this study, based on the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Final Analysis (FNL) data, the reliability and performances of their application on clean days and polluted days (based on the PM_2.5 mass concentrations) in Beijing were...

At present, due to the errors of wind power, solar power and various types of load forecasting, the optimal scheduling results of the integrated energy system (IES) will be inaccurate, which will affect the economic and reliable operation of the inte...

This study provides a climatological analysis of annual and long-term variability of dry days and sequences of dry days in the Polish Carpathians between 1986 and 2020. The input data for the research was compiled from the daily precipitation totals...

With the rapid integration of high-penetration renewable energy, its inherent uncertainty complicates power system day-ahead/intra-day scheduling, leading to challenges like wind curtailment and high operational costs. Existing methods either rely on...

Exposure to work-related stressors is associated with poor physical and mental health outcomes for workers. The role of chronic stressors on health outcomes has been explored, but less is known about the potential role of exposure to day-to-day stres...

The objective of this manuscript is to investigate the determinants influencing the selection of over-the-top (OTT) platforms as opposed to traditional television mediums—cable, Internet protocol television (IPTV), and satellite broadcasting&md...

Adaptive traffic signal control has the potential to promote the efficient use of road intersections, thus contributing to the effectiveness of urban traffic management schemes. However, the reaction of drivers to repeatedly updated signal settings a...

In order to cope with the challenge of large-scale integration of renewable energy to the balance of power supply and demand, and give full play to the potential of flexible regulation of iron and steel enterprises, a source load coordination optimiz...

Intergenerational Day Centers (IDCs) are an innovation that addresses two important societal challenges, the continuing need for childcare and the emerging demand for older-adult supportive services that help them remain independent in their homes. T...

Understanding the many facets of repeated route choice behavior in traffic networks is essential for obtaining accurate flow forecasts and enhancing the effectiveness of traffic management measures. This paper presents a model of the day-to-day evolu...

Accurate day-ahead solar forecasting is essential for grid stability and energy planning. This study introduces a specialized forecasting framework that enhances accuracy by training models on specific day-to-day sky condition transitions. The framew...

In recent years, customized buses (CBs), a new form of public travel mode between bus and car, has sprung up in China. Its characteristics include flexible routes, each person having a seat and point-to-point travel have attracted travelers who seek...

Precipitation (PRE) is an essential factor that affects the negative air ions (NAIs) concentrations. However, the mechanism of NAIs concentrations and their influencing factors on rainy and non-rainy days remains unclear. Here, we used hourly data of...

In order to better handle the new features that emerge at both ends of supply and demand, new measures are constantly being introduced, such as demand-side management (DSM) and prediction of uncertain output and load. However, the existing DSM strate...

Zero-day attacks pose unprecedented challenges to modern cybersecurity frameworks, exploiting unknown vulnerabilities that evade traditional signature-based detection systems. This paper presents ZeroDay-LLM, a novel large language model framework sp...

As photovoltaic (PV) power plants are an essential component of modern smart grids, the PV generation forecasting of such plants has recently been gaining interest. The forecasting results of PV power often suffer from large errors because of unusual...

Several studies have reported on increasing psychosocial stress in academia due to work environment risk factors like job insecurity, work-family conflict, research grant applications, and high workload. The STRAW project adds novel aspects to occupa...

In previous studies, the concept of degree days has been widely used to indicate heating or cooling energy requirements, but it does not consider the dehumidification effect. In the present study, the concept of dehumidification degree days based on...

Soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) is a typical short-day and thermophilic crop. This study aimed to reveal the required accumulative day length (ADL) and accumulative active temperature (AAT) for DSF (days of sowing to flowering) and DFM (days of flow...

Big L days are days when the lunar semidiurnal variation M₂ in the ionosphere is strongly enhanced by a factor of 2 or more. The worldwide network of ground-based receivers for the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) has monitored the ionospher...

Early childhood education and care services are a significant feature of Australian family life, where nearly 1.4 million children attended a service in 2019. This paper reports on the cost of food provided to children in long day-care (LDC) services...

This paper presents a new methodology to maximise the income and derive the optimal end of day storage of closed-loop and daily-cycle pumped-storage hydropower plants. The plants participate in the day-ahead energy market as a price-taker and in the...

Next day wildfire prediction is an open research problem with significant environmental, social, and economic impact since it can produce methods and tools directly exploitable by fire services, assisting, thus, in the prevention of fire occurrences...

The building sector consumes about 40% of the world’s primary energy. Seasonal climatic conditions have a significant effect on the energy consumption in buildings. One of the famous methods used for decoding this seasonal variation in buildings ener...

The 10th percentiles (10P) of the daily minimum (T_min) and maximum (T_max) during 1971–2000 were determined to estimate a threshold for cold days. This 10P (a standard of extreme climatic condition suggested by the World Meteorological Organizat...

The purpose of this research is to examine how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its members have responded to anti-Jewish theological tropes, especially in the post-Holocaust era. The thesis of this research is that, while the Chur...

For infants in the first months of life, breast milk is a complete source of nutrition; however, it can also contain elements that are harmful to the infant. It is therefore critical for infant health to characterize breast milk. The aim of this stud...

(1) Background: One-day surgery has been widely adopted for many elective laparoscopic procedures in pediatric patients. Recently, the same protocol has been investigated for some emergency procedures, such as laparoscopic appendectomy. This study ai...

The Norwegian National Day (17 May, also referred to as Constitution Day) stands out as one of the most popular National Day celebrations in Europe. According to surveys, around seven out of every 10 Norwegians take part in a public celebration durin...

The 27-day oscillation in total electron content (TEC) is analysed by means of world maps of TEC. The TEC maps are derived from measurements of the ground receiver network of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and are provided by the Inter...

Meconium represents the first newborn stools, formed from the second month of gestation and excreted in the first days after birth. As an accumulative and inert matrix, it accumulates most of the molecules transferred through the placenta from the mo...

It is well established that physical activity benefits cognition. Further, the time of day one engages in physical activity has been suggested to influence cognition. Here, we aimed to understand if there is a time-of-day effect (morning or afternoon...

Optimizing nutrition in the preconception and 1000 days periods have long-term benefits such as higher economic productivity, reduced risk of related non-communicable diseases and increased health and well-being. Despite Ghana’s recent progress in re...

The ninety day toxicity and toxicokinetics of fluorochloridone (FLC) were accessed in Wistar rats. Animals were gavaged with FLC at doses of 31.25 mg/kg, 125 mg/kg and 500 mg/kg for ninety days, followed by thirty days for recovery. On the 1st, 60th...

Dust aerosols persistently affect nearly all landscapes worldwide, and the saltation activity caused by dusty weather (e.g., dust days) releases considerable amounts of aerosol into the atmosphere. Nevertheless, dust-induced saltation activity may al...

The foreign exchange rate market is one of the most liquid and efficient. In this study, we address the efficient analysis of this market by verifying the day-of-the-week effect with fractal analysis. The presence of fractality was evident in the ret...

The main objective of this paper was to find similarities among eight Slovak regions from the viewpoint of five specialized day surgery fields and among specialized day surgery fields from the viewpoint of Slovak regions on the basis of day surgery o...

Background: People nowadays are more concerned about their financial status and how to improve their quality of life; one method is day trading. This study aims to investigate the association between stress or anxiety and day trading among day trader...