Sea surface temperature (SST) modes of climate variability in the South Atlantic Ocean remain a challenging topic. To improve the understanding of this subject, this study assesses the influence of two commonly discussed SST variability modes, the So...
4 March 2019
Drawing on a new typology of intimate partner violence (IPV), this paper tests the relationship between indicators of totalitarian and anarchic IPV and child polyvictimization incidence and severity. The paper argues for and utilizes a quantitative a...
This study applies Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) data and the WaterGAP (Water Global Analysis and Prognosis) Global Hydrology Model (WGHM) to investigate the influence of the Bui reservoir operation on water storage variation within...
South Africa is a water-scarce country characterised by low and highly variable rainfall and strong spatial disparities in runoff generation, placing substantial pressure on already limited water resources. Although mountainous catchments occupy a sm...
This paper proposes a novel solution to suppress backward wave oscillation (BWO) in high-order mode (HOM) sheet beam (SB) slow-wave structures (SWSs) and designs an isolator between cavities based on a Bragg resonator. This method can cut-off the bac...
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection can lead to hepatic fibrosis. The advent of direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) has substantially improved sustained virological response (SVR) rates. In this context, kidney transplant recipients (KTRs) are of particula...
The development of functional foods is a viable alternative for the prevention of numerous diseases. However, the food industry faces significant challenges in producing functional foods based on probiotics due to their high sensitivity to various pr...
Safe rail transit operation is essential for socioeconomic development and the protection of public life and property. Traditional railway foreign object intrusion detection methods suffer from insufficient detection accuracy and poor real-time perfo...
Ventilated façades are increasingly used in building renovations, often containing non-renewable and CO2-emissions-intensive cement-based materials. Renewable biomass-based materials offer a more sustainable alternative with a high amount of s...
The reconstruction of high-resolution (HR) remote sensing images (RSIs) from low-resolution (LR) counterparts is a critical task in remote sensing image super-resolution (RSISR). Recent advancements in convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transfo...
UAV-based vehicle detection has important application value in the fields of intelligent transportation, urban security and emergency rescue. It is the key technology for realizing high-altitude situational awareness and dynamic monitoring. However,...
8 February 2021
BACKGROUND: A burgeoning literature has found relationships between telomere length, telomerase activity, and human health and longevity. Although some research links a history of childhood adversity with shortened telomere length, our review found n...