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Water quality management in large basins demands tools that balance scientific rigor with computational efficiency to avoid paralysis by analysis. While traditional models offer detailed insights, their complexity and resource intensity hinder timely...

The increasing demand for clean and reliable water resources, coupled with the growing threat of water pollution, has made real-time water quality (WQ) monitoring and assessment a critical priority in many urban areas. Urban environments encounter su...

Animal welfare is important; therefore, veterinarians and other animal welfare experts try to use different tools for pig welfare assessment. Several welfare protocols are available for pig welfare assessment, and one of the most used is Welfare Qual...

Given the great importance of lakes in Earth’s environment and human life, continuous water quality (WQ) monitoring within the frame of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) is the most crucial aspect for lake management. In this study, Earth Obs...

With the rapid increase in municipal solid waste and the associated production of incineration fly ash (IFA) in Taiwan, sustainable utilization of industrial by-products has become a pressing concern. This study evaluates the mechanical, environmenta...

Environmental exposures to a myriad of chemicals are associated with adverse health effects in humans, while good nutrition is associated with improved health. Single chemical in vivo and in vitro studies demonstrate causal links between the chemical...

With the growing adoption of 3D stacked memory structures, precise alignment and overlay control have become critical for multi-layer overlay accuracy. The metrology accuracy and stability of alignment marks are crucial to ensuring optimal alignment...

Background/Objectives: Mycobacterium avium, a member of Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC), is an emerging opportunistic pathogen causing MAC-pulmonary disease (PD). Fluoroquinolones (FQs), along with ethambutol (EMB) and rifampicin, are recommen...

Exposure to heavy metals could lead to adverse health effects by oxidative reactions or inflammation. Some essential elements are known as reactors of anti-inflammatory enzymes or coenzymes. The relationship between tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-&...

This paper proposes a novel statistical approach for blending source waters in a public water distribution system to improve water quality (WQ) by minimizing the release of heavy metals (HMR). Normally, introducing a new source changes the original b...

Background: Evidence regarding the individual and combined impact of dietary flavonoids on the risk of metabolic dysfunction associated with steatotic liver disease (MASLD) remains scarce. Our objective is to evaluate the association between individu...

Background: We aimed to evaluate the effects of both joint and individual types of fatty acids on low muscle mass in adults. Methods: We enrolled 8842 adults selected from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Multivariate ad...

Non-point sources (NPS) of agricultural chemical pollution are one major reason for the water quality degradation of the Great Lakes, which impacts millions of residents in the states and provinces that are bordering them. Future climate change will...

Background: Residents of a large area in the Veneto Region (Northeastern Italy) were exposed to drinking water contaminated by perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) for decades. While exposure to PFAS has been consistently associated with elevated serum l...

Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a well-established health hazard, yet population-level causal evidence on the long-term effects of its chemical constituents and their interactions with environmental and socioeconomic factors remains scarce. This s...

Although the Five Freedoms paradigm has been very influential in shaping animal welfare thinking for the last two decades, it has two key disadvantages. First, the focus on “freedom” from a range of negative experiences and states has been misunderst...

Irrigators are increasingly challenged to maintain or even increase production using less water, sometimes of poorer quality, and often from unconventional sources. This paper describes the main features of a newly developed software-based Decision S...

Numerical models are useful tools to analyze water quality by computing the concentration of physical, chemical and biological parameters. The present work introduces a two-dimensional depth-averaged model that computes the most relevant and frequent...

Background: Residents of a large area of north-eastern Italy were exposed for decades to high concentrations of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) via drinking water. Despite the large amount of evidence in adults of a positive asso...

Acid drainage resulting from mining operations has led to significant iron contamination in surface waters, posing serious ecological and public health hazards. Elevated iron levels in freshwater ecosystems can severely affect aquatic organisms and h...

(1) Background: Prolonged coexposure to environmental contaminants is reportedly associated with adverse impacts on skin health. However, the collective effects of contaminant mixtures on psoriasis prevalence remain unclear. (2) Methods: A nationally...

Bacteriological water quality monitoring is of utmost importance for safeguarding public health against waterborne diseases. Traditional methods such as membrane filtration (MF), multiple tube fermentation (MTF), and enzyme-based assays are effective...

The currently geometric and aerodynamic characteristics for wind turbine airfoils with the medium thickness are studied to pursue maximum aerodynamic performance, while the interaction between blade stiffness and aerodynamic performance is neglected....

With the increasing adoption of demand management strategies and water conservation practices, domestic water consumption is projected to decline in the future. The subsequent consumer-side demand reductions are expected to result in increased reside...

Indigenous chicken breeds often exhibit desirable meat quality but slower growth. This study evaluated growth, body size, slaughter traits, meat quality, and heterosis in reciprocal crosses between Guizhou recessive white (GW) and Qiandongnan Xiaoxia...

The Welfare Quality® assessment protocol (WQ) is the most extensive way to measure animal welfare. This study was set up to determine if resource-based welfare indicators, that are easier and faster to measure, could replace the more time consuming,...

In this paper, the crystal structure, microstructure, and deformation behavior in the Ti-33Nb alloy under furnace-cooling (FC) and water-quenching (WQ) conditions after holding at 950 °C for 0.5 h are reviewed. The stable and metastable phases ob...

The water quality index (WQI) is considered one of the most promising methods for the classification of water quality (WQ), which also contributes to water resource management. This study adopted the irrigation WQ index (IWQI) and an analogous index...

To investigate the effect of quenching rate on microstructure, residual stress (RS) and mechanical properties of a rare-earth wrought magnesium alloy Mg-Gd-Y-Zr-Ag-Er, RS in 20 °C water quenching (WQ (20 °C)), 100 °C water quenching (WQ (...

Hydrological data in general and water quality (WQ) data in particular frequently suffer from missing records and/or short-gauged monitoring/sampling sites. Many statistical regression techniques are employed to substitute missing values or to extend...

Assessing the impact of land use and land cover (LULC) on water quality (WQ) is central to land-based environmental research. Adhering to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, this study analyses recent tr...

Today, open-source Cloud Computing platforms are valuable for geospatial image analysis while the combination of the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform and new satellite launches greatly facilitate the monitoring of national-scale lake Water Quality...

This study evaluated watershed health (WH) change using reference values for environmental changes at various times. Land use in 1985 was defined as the reference value under the most natural conditions, and the WH for the years 1995 to 2019 was calc...

Grazing provides livestock better opportunities to act out their species-specific behavior compared to restrictive stable conditions. The aim of the present study was to examine the effects of daily grazing time on welfare of dairy cows in organic an...

This study deals with the evaluation of the effects of deficit irrigation (DI) and water quality (WQ) on the vegetative and productive response of greenhouse-grown tomatoes (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. cv. Izmir). A pot-based experiment was carried...

Assessing emotional states of dairy calves is an essential part of welfare assessment, but standardized protocols are absent. The present study aims at assessing the emotional states of dairy calves and establishing a reliable standard procedure with...

With the rapid development of socioeconomics and the continuous advancement of urbanization, water environment issues in plain river networks have become increasingly prominent. Accurate and reliable water quality (WQ) predictions are a prerequisite...

We compare the Kuratorium für Technik und Bauwesen in der Landwirtschaft e.V. (KTBL) protocol, a German protocol for sows and piglets developed for farm’s self-inspection, to the Welfare Quality® protocol for sows and piglets (WQ). The...

This work investigated the microstructural effect on stretch flangeability of ferrite–martensite dual-phase (DP) steels. Three types of DP steels with various martensitic structures were prepared for the research: fibrous martensite in water-qu...

This study outlines the preliminary stages of the development of an algorithm to predict the optimal WQ of the Hwanggujicheon Stream. In the first stages, we used the AdaBoost algorithm model to predict the state of WQ, using data from the open artif...

Both proper animal welfare and economic benefit are important to the broiler industry, so it is better to consider these two factors together. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between economic benefit and animal welfare i...

The gel plugging and flooding system has a long history of being researched and applied, but the Changqing reservoir geological characteristics are complex, and the synergistic performance of the composite gel foam plugging system is not fully unders...

Adequate environmental management in tropical aquatic ecosystems is imperative. Given the lack of knowledge about functional diversity and bioassessment programs, management is missing the needed evidence on pollution and its effect on biodiversity a...

Remote sensing has emerged as a promising tool for monitoring water quality (WQ) in aquatic ecosystems. This study evaluates the effectiveness of remote sensing in assessing WQ parameters in Cajititlán and Zapotlán lakes in the state of...

Water systems are rapidly transforming into cyber-physical systems. Despite the benefits of remote control and monitoring, autonomous operation and connectivity, there is an expanded threat surface, which includes cyber-physical attacks. This study d...

The chloride in water frequently exceeds the standard; directly quoting foreign water-quality criteria (WQC) or standards will inevitably reduce the scientific value of the water-quality standard (WQS) in China. Additionally, this may lead to the und...

The starch digestion processing of whole grain foods is associated with its health benefits in improving insulin resistance. This study modified the digestibility of whole quinoa flour (WQ) via heat-moisture treatment (HMT), HMT combined with pullula...

Water distribution networks (WDNs) are critical infrastructure for the welfare of society. Due to their spatial extent and difficulties in deployment of security measures, they are vulnerable to threat scenarios that include the rising concern of cyb...

Water quality (WQ) monitoring is critical for Mexico and the world due to water pollution and scarcity problems in recent years. In this article, a systematic review was conducted considering only forecasting models focused on lentic freshwater bodie...

Human activity has rapidly impacted the world; however, regulations have not kept pace to protect human life and the environment. Chemical pollution and climate change are consequences of the accelerated development that have not been sufficiently in...