Semi-arid territories in Latin America face chronic water stress; limited observability and fragmented institutions constrain effective water resources management (WRM). This narrative review synthesizes peer-reviewed evidence (2020–2026) on sm...
In accordance with the rapid proliferation of machine learning (ML) and data management, ML applications have evolved to encompass all engineering disciplines. Owing to the importance of the world’s water supply throughout the rest of this cent...
Seasonal signals caused by the Earth’s surface mass redistribution can be detected by Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). The authors analyze the effect of Helmert transformation parameters and weight matrices, as well as the additional...
This publication focuses on the experimental validation of film models by comparing constructed and experimental velocity fields based on model and elementary experimental data. The film experiment covers Kapitza numbers Ka = 278.8 and Ka = 4538.6, a...
The water rights trading market (WRM) acts as a policy tool to enhance water resources allocation efficiency. However, how WRM affects food production deserves further exploration. This study examines whether WRM affects food production and through w...
Water resources management (WRM) is a global strategic issue. Effectively evaluating WRM performance and analyzing its influencing factors have strong practical significance for improving regional WRM performance. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is o...
This paper responds to the significant challenges to Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and clarifies its practical value as a theoretical framework. Through thorough theoretical analysis, this paper examines how IWRM can be applied to disti...
Five different water resource management scenarios are examined on eight dry islands of the Aegean Sea in Greece, pitting the current practice of water hauling via ship against alternative water supply schemes in delivering a sustainable solution for...
This paper offers a comprehensive overview of machine learning (ML) methodologies and algorithms, highlighting their practical applications in the critical domain of water resource management. Environmental issues, such as climate change and ecosyste...
The efficiency of an industrial park’s operations is an indicator of how well the park can serve the companies located there. These supports include support for environmental water resources and business operations. In this study, a model for m...
Water vulnerability in Piura, northern Peru, is shaped by structural, climatic and governance factors. Surface water from the Chira, Huancabamba and Piura basins is stored and conveyed through major reservoirs (Poechos and San Lorenzo) and canals (Da...
14 March 2021
Background: Natural environment inhalation topography provides useful information for toxicant exposure, risk assessment and cardiopulmonary performance. Commercially available wearable respiratory monitors (WRMs), which are currently used to measure...
This study aimed to investigate the relationship between power-oriented genetic polymorphisms and weightlifting status, create a total genotype score (TGS), and validate the association between TGS models and power-oriented athletes. First, 192 weigh...
The Caenorhabditis elegans spe-38 gene encodes a four-pass transmembrane molecule that is required in sperm for fertilization. In previous work, the localization of the SPE-38 protein was examined using polyclonal antibodies on spermatids and ma...
Red mud (RM) is a kind of solid waste produced during the bauxite refining process, which can cause significant environmental pollution when stored in large quantities. To address this issue and to improve the reuse rate of RM, this study investigate...
Water resources are of vital importance to human survival and development. This study systematically analyzed the coupling coordination mechanism between China’s food security (FS) and water resource management (WRM) from 2010 to 2022 using the...
Global urbanization, population growth, and climate change have considerably impacted water resources, making sustainable water resource management (WRM) essential. Understanding the changes in hydrological components is important for effective WRM,...
Water is involved, directly or indirectly, with many activities and needs that have to be met. The large scale and importance of water projects, the investments needed, the difficulty in predicting the results, and the irreversible character of the d...
Although Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is widely accepted as the state-of-the-art rational model for improving water governance, its evaluations under climate change at national and global scales indicate that progress made in water se...
The field of Water Resources Management (WRM) is becoming increasingly interdisciplinary, realizing its direct connections with energy, food, and social and economic sciences, among others. Computationally, this leads to more complex models, wherein...
Adhesive bonding has become increasingly important in many industries. Non-destructive inspection of adhesive joints is essential for the condition assessment and maintenance of a structure containing such joints. The aim of this paper was the experi...
Discrepancies between water demand and supply are intensifying and creating a need for sustainable water resource process management associated with rapid economic development, population growth, and urban expansion. In this study, a scenario-based i...
Postprandial hyperglycaemia is associated with an increased risk of type-2 diabetes. This study aims to determine the glycaemic index (GI) of three varieties of rice-based mixed meals and their effects on glycaemic variability (GV), 24 h mean glucose...
Road friction has long been recognized as one of the most effective winter road maintenance (WRM) performance measures. It allows WRM personnel to make more informed decisions to improve their services and helps road users make trip-related decisions...
Assessing diverse parameters like water quality, quantity, and occurrence of hydrological extremes and their management is crucial to perform efficient water resource management (WRM). A successful WRM strategy requires a three-pronged approach: moni...
Enhancing the generalization capability of time-series models for streamflow prediction using dimensionality reduction (DR) techniques remains a major challenge in water resources management (WRM). In this study, we investigated eight DR techniques a...
The rice–fish co-culture is an important model of carp farming in China; however, research on the dynamics and assembly of water bacterial communities in this system remains limited. Therefore, this study aimed to explore the dynamics and assem...
In Germany, modern digital technologies like Internet of Things (IoT) have been increasingly promoted for better environmental and natural resources management through “smart” monitoring and real-time data. However, adopting such advanced...
Although Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) observations are verified to suffer from mixed additive and multiplicative errors, current methodologies still rely heavily on conventional additive error models (AEMs). Furthermore, existing researc...
Measuring weight during cattle growth is essential for determining their status and adjusting the feed amount. Cattle must be weighed on a scale, which is laborious and stressful and could hinder growth. Therefore, automatically predicting cattle wei...
Mapping smallholder irrigated agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa using remote sensing techniques is challenging due to its small and scattered areas and heterogenous cropping practices. A study was conducted to examine the impact of sample size and co...
International terrestrial reference frame (ITRF) input data, generated by Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR), Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), and Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning integrated by...
Water is a vital resource for human survival, economic development, and environmental sustainability. It is essential to agriculture, energy production, public health, and biodiversity preservation. Efficient water management is even more important i...
Piezoelectric energy harvesters have attracted much attention because they are crucial in portable industrial applications. Here, we report on a high-power device based on a magneto-mechanical piezoelectric energy harvester to scavenge the AC magneti...
This study presents the “Mobile Triaxial Stabilized Water-leaving Reflectance Measurement System” (MTS-WRMS), a ship-borne radiometric system designed for high-precision acquisition of water-leaving radiance (Lw) and remote sensing reflec...
The number of individuals with upper or lower extremities dysfunction (ULED) has considerably increased in the past few decades, resulting in a high economic burden for their families and society. Individuals with ULEDs require assistive robots to fu...
The geophysical effects are the main factor that causes the nonlinear motion of the station, and a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between the GRACE seasonal load deformation and the GPS station coordinates is helpful to study the physical...
The non-tectonic deformation caused by hydrological loads is an important influencing factor in GNSS vertical displacement. Limited by the temporal and spatial resolution of global models and model errors, the hydrological load results calculated by...
Over the 15 years of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission, various data processing approaches were developed to derive time-series of global gravity fields based on sensor observations acquired from the two spacecrafts. In this...
Wind erosion is a major environmental problem in arid and semi-arid regions, where it has significant impacts on desertification and soil degradation. To understand the effects of cropping systems and tillage methods on the reduction of soil wind ero...
Effective Water Resource Management (WRM) requires the integration of physical hydrological processes with institutional drought response plans. In Romania, the Olt River Basin represents one of the most highly regulated catchments, where water secur...
The terrestrial water resources in Shaanxi–Gansu–Ningxia (SGN) region are relatively scarce, and its climate change is unstable. Research on the deformation driven by terrestrial water load is of great significance to the dynamic maintena...
Strengthening of engineering structures is an important issue, especially for elements subjected to variable loads. In the case of concrete beams or slabs, one of the most popular approaches assumes mounting an external reinforcement in the form of s...
Available decision-support tools rarely account for the welfare of technicians in maintenance scheduling for offshore wind farms. This creates uncertainties, especially since current operational limits might make a wind farm accessible but the vibrat...
30 June 2021
Background: Limited research has been done to measure ambulatory respiratory behavior, in particular those associated with tobacco use, in the natural environment due to a lack of monitoring techniques. Respiratory topography parameters provide usefu...
Complex tectonic and non-tectonic movements exist in the Tianshan area. However, we have not acquired good knowledge of such movements yet. In this study, we combine Global Positioning System (GPS), the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)...
Assessing water resources vulnerability is the foundation of local water resources management. However, as one of the major water systems in China, there is no existing evaluation index system that can effectively assess water resource vulnerability...
The availability of lake bathymetry maps is imperative for estimating lake water volumes and their variability, which is a sensitive indicator of climate. It is difficult, if not impossible, to obtain bathymetric measurements from all of the thousand...
Currently, ultra-rapid orbits play an important role in the high-speed development of global navigation satellite system (GNSS) real-time applications. This contribution focuses on the impact of the fitting arc length of observed orbits and solar rad...
Mass redistribution of the Earth causes variable loading that deforms the solid Earth. While most recent studies using geodetic techniques focus on regions (such as the Amazon basin and the Nepal Himalayas) with large seasonal deformation amplitudes...
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