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Tropical cyclone-induced waves (TCWs) are projected to intensify under global warming, with recent evidence suggesting that their growth outpaces the increase in surface winds. Yet, how TCWs differ between coastal and open-ocean environments remains...

This study investigates the conversion of textile wastewater sludge (TWS) and textile cotton waste (TCW) into solid biofuels through pelletization and torrefaction, addressing the growing need for sustainable waste management and alternative fuels in...

Telephone crisis-line workers (TCWs) are trained in a variety of techniques and skills to facilitate the identification of suicidal callers. One factor that may influence the implementation of these skills is gender. This study used an experimental d...

The need for sustainable concrete with low carbon dioxide emissions and exceptional performance has recently increased in the building industry. Many distinct types of industrial byproducts and ecologically safe wastes have shown promise as ingredien...

Polyphenol oxidase (PPO) and peroxidase (POD) are target enzymes in the processing of tender coconut water (TCW). This study primarily evaluated the combined effect of supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO₂) and mild temperatures on the PPO and POD dea...

Signs of suicide are commonly used in suicide intervention training to assist the identification of those at imminent risk for suicide. Signs of suicide may be particularly important to telephone crisis-line workers (TCWs), who have little background...

Desertification is an environmental problem worldwide. Remote sensing data and technique offer substantial information for mapping and assessment of desertification. Desertification is one of the most serious forms of environmental threat in Morocco,...

The Upper Guinea Forest (UGF) region of West Africa is one of the most climatically marginal and human-impacted tropical forest regions in the world. Research on the patterns and drivers of vegetation change is critical for developing strategies to s...

Nostrano Valtrompia is a hard, long-ripened, Italian Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) cheese typically produced by applying traditional cheesemaking practices in small dairies. Due to the limited production, this cheese is characterized by an im...

The increasing generation of textile cotton waste (TCW) and textile wastewater sludge (TWS) presents significant environmental management challenges. This study evaluates the conversion of TCW and TWS into biofuel pellets for waste recovery and coal...

Mapping surface water extent is important for managing water supply for agriculture and the environment. Remote sensing technologies, such as Landsat, provide an affordable means of capturing surface water extent with reasonable spatial and temporal...

Over the Philippine Sea, the tropical cyclone (TC) Goni reaches category 5 on 29–31 October 2020. Multi-satellite observations, including CFOSAT SWIM/SCAT and Sentinel-1 SAR data, are jointly analyzed to assess the performances of a parametric...

To identify the influencing factors and internal mechanism of knowledge transfer among prefabricated construction workers (PCWs), this study constructs a knowledge transfer behavior model for PCWs from various perspectives, including behavioral attit...

Wildfires constitute the most important natural disturbance of Mediterranean forests, driving vegetation dynamics. Although Mediterranean species have developed ecological post-fire recovery strategies, the impacts of climate change and changes in fi...

The management of phosphine (PH3) resistance in stored grain pests is an essential component of implementing timely and effective pest control strategies. The prevailing standard method for PH3 resistance testing involves the exposure of adult insect...

This paper analyzes the impact of manufacturing tolerances on the cogging torque of a 24-slot 28-pole tooth-coil-winding permanent magnet synchronous machine with a modular stator core (TCW-MPMSM). Dimensional tolerances and asymmetries associated wi...

In this article, we investigated the detection of forest vegetation changes during the period of 2017 to 2019 in the Low Tatras National Park (Slovakia) and the Sumava National Park (Czechia) using Sentinel-2 data. The evaluation was based on a time-...

Water and salt stresses reduce net CO₂ assimilation (A_N) primarily by restricting stomatal conductance (g_s) and mesophyll conductance (g_m), while altering leaf structure, anatomy, and cell wall composition. Although some reports observed relationship...

The ascomycete Botrytis cinerea is one of the most relevant plant pathogenic fungi, affecting fruits, flowers, and greenhouse-grown crops. The infection strategy used by the fungus comprises a magnificent set of tools to penetrate and overcome plant...

Riparian forest (CP22) buffers are implemented in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed to trap pollutants in surface runoff thus minimizing the amount of pollutants entering the stream network. For these buffers to function effectively, overland flow must en...

Bark beetle infestations present a considerable risk to coniferous forest ecosystems, resulting in substantial ecological and economic losses. Monitoring and mapping vegetation health using remote sensing techniques is an important step in identifyin...

Objective: To examine the association between phase angle (PhA) and bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA) and components of physical performance in male youth soccer players. Design: Cross-sectional. Methods: Sixty-two players from two profe...

The urban surface temperature is a complex integrated natural-human geographic phenomena; with the development of geostatistical methods and the application of multisource data, its research has gradually shifted from a single perspective to a study...

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are membranous particles released by different organisms. EVs carry several sets of macromolecules implicated in cell communication. EVs have become a relevant topic in the study of pathogenic fungi due to their relations...

Air temperatures in the Arctic have increased substantially over the last decades, which has extensively altered the properties of the land surface. Capturing the state and dynamics of Land Surface Temperatures (LSTs) at high spatial detail is of hig...

With the popularization of power electronic equipment, the problem of harmonic pollution has become more and more prominent, posing a serious threat to the safe operation of power systems. In order to improve the stability and efficiency of the power...

Spatial and temporal variability in precipitation has been dramatically changed due to climate variability and climate change over the global domain. Increasing in extreme precipitation events are pronounced in various regions, including monsoon Asia...

Axial Flux Permanent Magnet (AFPM) machines with ironless rotors are an attractive and recently studied solution in low-speed applications, due to their potentially high power/weight ratio, high aspect ratio, and high efficiency. Nevertheless, these...

In today’s fast, globalised world, lubrication has become essential in enhancing engine efficiency, including in the marine sector. While the number of fishing vessels increased, so did the environmental pollution issues, due to inefficient eng...

Link prediction is an essential and challenging problem in research on complex networks, which can provide research tools and theoretical supports for the formation and evolutionary mechanisms of networks. Existing graph representation learning metho...

The construction industry has a significant environmental impact and concrete production is responsible for a large part of CO₂ emissions and energy consumption. This study focused on the reutilisation of a specific type of tiles ceramic waste (TCW),...

APOBEC3B enzymes are endogenous carcinogenic mutagens. Metastatic urothelial carcinomas often harbor APOBEC3B-mediated mutations in which tCw to T or G substitution occurs. Here, we evaluated patient survival and CD8+ T-cell density according to APOB...

The study presents a spectral assessment and analysis of various data and methods for snow cover analysis in different ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum through a differentiated approach applied to the territory of Bansko, Pirin Mountain. The ai...

Coconut milk is a widely consumed plant-based milk alternative, valued for its creamy texture and functional properties. This study systematically evaluated the fatty acid and phenolic profiles of coconut meat and water at tender and mature stages to...

The anaerobic-anoxic-oxic (AAO) process is one of the most widely used processes for treating industrial organic wastewater, and it has shown significant effectiveness in the removal of organic compounds, as well as denitrification and phosphorus rem...

Antimicrobial efficacy of the water or methanolic extracts of three medicinal mushrooms Taiwanofungus camphoratus, Agaricus blazei Murrill, and Ganoderma lucidum (Curtis) P. Karst were investigated against yeast and filamentous fungal pathogens as we...

Accurate mapping of aboveground biomass (AGB) in mountainous forests is essential for carbon stock assessment and ecological management, yet remains challenging due to the difficulty of linking local high-precision observations with regionally contin...

The objective of this study is to estimate the use-value of Ichan Kala, a historical city located in Khiva, Uzbekistan, that is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. It also investigates the visitors’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for the econom...

Lake phenology is essential for understanding the lake freeze-thaw cycle effects on terrestrial hydrological processes. The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) has the most extensive ice reserve outside of the Arctic and Antarctic poles and is a sensitive...

Open surface water bodies play an important role in agricultural and industrial production, and are susceptible to climate change and human activities. Remote sensing data has been increasingly used to map open surface water bodies at local, regional...

The forest stock volume (FSV) is one of the key indicators in forestry resource assessments on local, regional, and national scales. To date, scaling up in situ plot-scale measurements across landscapes is still a great challenge in the estimation of...

The rapid and accurate extraction of water information from satellite imagery has been a crucial topic in remote sensing applications and has important value in water resources management, water environment monitoring, and disaster emergency manageme...

Long-term monitoring of surface-water dynamics in hyper-arid reservoir systems requires consistent remote-sensing methods that can distinguish open water from bright desert surfaces, shallow water, wet sand, and mixed shoreline pixels. This study eva...

Creatine monohydrate (CrM) supplementation has been reported to increase cellular water retention (WR) and alter body composition (BC) in anaerobically-training cohorts, but research in female athletes is limited. The study purpose was to examine the...