Knowledge management (KM) is a structured approach that includes the organized procedures of generating, capturing, arranging, storing, retrieving, distributing, and harnessing an organization’s knowledge resources to attain its goals and impro...
Poyang Lake is a typical lake in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and is the largest freshwater lake in China. The habitat quality of Poyang Lake has been declining in recent years, leading to a series of ecological problems. An ecol...
D-band (110–170 GHz) is a promising direction for the future of 6th generation mobile networks (6G) for high-speed mobile communication since it has a large available bandwidth, and it can provide a peak rate of hundreds of Gbit/s. Compared wit...
25 June 2021
The aim of the present research was to examine the stroking rate (SR) values of successful and non-successful swimmers in the 10 km and 25 km races of the FINA 2019 World Swimming Championships. Data from 175 participants (95 men and 80 female) were...
In this work, the high-resolution spatial and temporal variability of precipitable water (PW) over Poland is presented. PW is one of the key parameters of the atmosphere taken into account in thermodynamic and radiation models. The daily PW values fr...
The aim of the present study was to investigate eye temperature modifications after road transport in athletic horses habituated to travel. Eight adult Italian saddle horses traveled 100 km and, two weeks later, 300 km. Eye temperature (ET), rectal t...
The Michaelis constant (Km) is defined as the substrate concentration at which an enzymatic reaction reaches half of its maximum reaction velocity. The determination of Km can be applied to the construction and optimization of metabolic networks. Con...
To investigate the vertical distribution of aerosol optical characteristics in Nanyang City, a ground-based dual-wavelength (532 nm and 355 nm) lidar system was developed for aerosol observation at the Nanyang Normal University Station (NYNU) from No...
To explore the relationship between fuel consumption and speed for a vehicle on a superhighway with a design speed exceeding 120 km/h, the fuel consumption data provided by the Test of Easy Car platform are used to fit the fuel consumption of differe...
Influences of different computational grid resolutions on modeled ambient benzene concentrations from open burning were assessed in this study. The CALPUFF (California Puff Mesoscale Dispersion Model) was applied to simulate maximum ground level conc...
Advancing ecological civilization in the Yellow River Basin requires a nuanced understanding of the spatiotemporal evolution of ecosystem service value (ESV) and its underlying drivers, which are fundamental to regional sustainable development. This...
18 November 2010
The results of a study on the spatial distribution of arsenic in topsoil (0–5 cm) over the K. Mitrovica region, Kosovo, are reported. The investigated region (300 km2) was covered by a sampling grid of 1.4 km × 1.4 km. In total, 159 soil samples were...
Using remote sensing and GIS techniques to monitor long time series land cover changes is of great significance to understanding the impact of human activities on spatiotemporal conflicts and changes in cropland and forest ecosystems in the black soi...
In this study, the visibility graph analysis of seismicity triggered by Song Tranh 2 hydropower (Vietnam) is performed. The relationship between the seismic (the Gutenberg–Richter b-value) and topological (the k–M slope) parameters of sei...
Nowadays, designing and adopting sustainable and greener transport systems is of upmost interest. The European Commission and different EU countries are developing plans and programs—but also delivering resources—aimed at the decarbonizat...
The aim of this article is to investigate pathological subjects from a population through different physical factors. To achieve this, particle swarm optimization (PSO) and K-means (KM) clustering algorithms have been combined (PSO-KM). Datasets prov...
A gravitational field model based on two symmetric tensors,
The aim of this study was to compare and evaluate the production of exhaust emissions from a vehicle with a petrol engine with the Euro 4 emission standard and powered by petrol and LPG (liquefied petroleum gas). The paper presents new possibilities...
Open-pit mining and reclamation damage the land, resulting in unknown and significant changes to the regional ecology and ecosystem services. Surface mining restoration procedures necessitate a significant amount of money, typically at an unclear cos...
Purpose: To examine and compare the prognostic value of immune cell score (ICS) and Klintrup–Mäkinen (KM) grade in gastric cancer. Methods: Gastric adenocarcinoma tissues from samples of 741 patients surgically treated in two hospitals in...
We used the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate-2 (COSMIC-2) dry temperature profile data from December 2019 to November 2021 to study the vertical wavenumber spectra of the potential energy of stratospheric gravit...
A large number of different-sized lakes exist in the inland area of the Tibetan Plateau (TP), which are examples of the important connection between the atmosphere and hydrosphere through the analysis of lake surface convergence and evaporation proce...
The purpose of the work is to study the influence of temperature correction on ozone vertical distribution (OVD) in the upper troposphere–stratosphere in the altitude range~(5–45) km, using differential absorption lidar (DIAL), operating...
Poyang Lake is the largest freshwater lake connecting the Yangtze River in China. It undergoes dramatic dynamics from the wet to the dry seasons. A comparison of the hydrological changes between the wet and dry seasons may be useful for understanding...
13 January 2023
Hydrochemistry and strontium isotope data were analysed in water samples from the Xi River Drainage system to reveal the spatial and seasonal variations in chemical weathering, associated CO2 consumption fluxes, and their control factors. The main io...
The variation in key parameters of the solar–terrestrial space during two consecutive auroral disturbances (the magnetic storm index, Dst index = −422 nT) that occurred during the 18–23 November 2003 period was analyzed in this pape...
This paper studies the possibility of using the WaTEM/SEDEM model to assess sediment yield from the catchment area within the Lena River catchment. The study was carried out based on a comparison of predicted data and measured data of the suspended s...
The International Roughness Index (IRI) is the standard scale for evaluating road roughness in many countries in the world. The Taipei City government actively promotes a Road Smoothing Project and plans to complete the rehabilitation of the main and...
The detection of gait abnormalities is essential for professionals involved in the rehabilitation of walking disorders. Instrumented treadmills are spreading as an alternative to overground gait analysis. To date, the use of these instruments for rec...
The paper studies and analyzes electric vehicle engines powered by hydrogen under the WLTP standard driving protocol. The driving range extension is estimated using a specific protocol developed for FCEV compared with the standard value for battery e...
Extreme weather events are happening more frequently as a result of global climate change. Dust storms broke out in the spring of 2017 in China and drastically impacted the local air quality. In this study, a variety of data, including aerosol vertic...
The aim of the present study was to assess the accuracy of a multi-camera tracking system (Mediacoach®) to track elite football players’ movements in real time. A total of 207 observations of 38 official matches from Liga 1, 2, 3™ (2n...
In this study, the topological properties of the shallow seismicity occurring in the area around the Lai Chau hydropower plant (Vietnam) are investigated by using visibility graph (VG) analysis, a well-known method to convert time series into network...
Identification of the priority area is of great significance for the rational layout of river protected areas (RPAs), and it also poses new challenges for protected areas’ (PAs) construction. This study started with the characteristics of RPAs...
Based on three years of data observed by Beijing MST radar between 2012 and 2014, this study gives the distribution characteristics of the turbulence energy dissipation rate ε and the vertical turbulence diffusion coefficient
Heavy metal pollution is investigated for a mine dump and soils and crops located 0.5, 1, 1.5, 3 and 6 km from a Cu mine, analyzing the total, available and exchangeable Cu, Zn, Cr, Ni, Cd and Pb. The maximum total contents in the dumping site reache...
This study aimed to design a novel mouse model of chronic photoaging. We used three different species of mice (C57BL/6J, ICR, and KM) to create a chronic photoaging model of the skin. The irradiation time was gradually increased for 40 consecutive da...
We studied the thermal features of magnetized plasmas in the Martian subsolar magnetosheath using MAVEN’s observations from 2014 to 2019. Statistical analyses show that the average ion and electron temperature in the Martian subsolar magnetoshe...
The impact of the quality of electricity on the pantograph is an important parameter for the supply of locomotives in railway companies (RCs). The subject of this research is the analysis of the quality of electricity on the pantograph of the 441-ser...
So far, the least is known about the D-region ionosphere out of the entire ionosphere due to the lack of a conventional detecting method and continuous data accumulation. Medium frequency (MF) radar is an important conventional tool for understanding...
Small dust grains cause a higher intensity of increase in the flow resistance of the fibrous filter bed, which, due to the established value of the permissible resistance, results in a shorter period of operation of the air filter and the vehicle. At...
According to GPS radio occultation data from previous studies, the height of the planetary boundary layer (PBLH) is defined as the altitude at which the vertical gradient of refractivity N is at its local minimum, called the gradient approach. As wit...
Synthetic-Aperture Radar (SAR) has emerged as an important tool for monitoring tropical cyclones (TCs) due to its high spatial resolution and cloud-penetrating capability. Recent advancements in SAR technology have led to smaller and lighter satellit...
Continued construction of reservoirs around the world promotes socio-economic development and severely affects the ecological and hydrological processes of rivers and floodplain wetlands. In this study, the Yimin River in Inner Mongolia, China, was t...
The unimodular theory of gravity is an alternative perspective to the traditional general relativity of Einstein and opens new possibilities for exploring its implications in cosmology. In this paper, we investigated Unimodular Gravity (UG) with the...
An investigation into the diurnal characteristics of vertical formaldehyde (HCHO) profiles was conducted based on multi-axis differential optical absorption spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS) measurements in Beijing during the CAREBEIJING campaign, covering a m...
Personalization of workloads is essential for optimizing training processes and minimizing the risk of injuries in sports. Precise knowledge of the external load demands borne by basketball players during competition is necessary for this purpose. Th...
As an important remote sensing technology, satellite altimetry provides a large amount of observations of sea surface height over the global ocean. In coastal areas, the accuracy of satellite altimetry data decreases greatly due to issues arise in th...
This study developed an innovative active vibration canceling (AVC) system designed to mitigate non-periodic vibrations during road driving to enhance passenger comfort. The macro-fiber composite (MFC) used in the system is a smart material that is f...
27 November 2018
Copper mining in Tongling has occurred since the Bronze Age, and this area is known as one of the first historic places where copper has been, and is currently, extracted. Multiple studies have demonstrated, through concentrated work on soils and wat...
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