This study proposes a modification of the Weighted Sum Model (WSM) that formalizes the evaluation generation for alternatives. By integrating objective data with decision-makers’ (DMs’) subjective preferences, the modification addresses a...
Rice is the most important food crop in Asia, and the timely mapping and monitoring of paddy rice fields subsequently emerged as an important task in the context of food security and modelling of greenhouse gas emissions. Rice growth has a distinct i...
Satellite remote sensing is a valuable tool for monitoring flooding. Microwave sensors are especially appropriate instruments, as they allow the differentiation of inundated from non-inundated areas, regardless of levels of solar illumination or freq...
Here, we report an improved and complete genome sequence of Sinorhizobium (Ensifer) meliloti strain WSM1022, a microsymbiont of Medicago species, revealing its tripartite structure. This improved genome sequence was generated combining Illumina and O...
Earth Observation is a powerful tool for the detection of floods. Microwave sensors are typically favored as they deliver data enabling water detection independent of solar illumination or cloud cover conditions. However, scale issues play an importa...
Despite the use of numerous new and advanced technologies in construction projects, the industry’s efficiency remains low. This business has faced significant challenges for a long time, such as non-value-added activities, also known as waste....
Wheat streak mosaic (WSM), historically attributed to wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) and transmitted by the wheat curl mite (WCM; Aceria tosichella), remains a major cause of yield loss in the Texas High Plains. In recent years, Triticum mosaic vir...
The wheat curl mite (WCM, Aceria tosichella Keifer), a complex of eriophyid mite species, transmits wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) and Triticum mosaic virus (TriMV), which in single or mixed infections cause wheat streak mosaic (WSM) disease—...
Tropical Cyclones (TCs) are the most disastrous natural weather phenomenon, that have a significant impact on the socioeconomic development of the country. In the past two decades, Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models (e.g., Advanced Research WR...
Large corporations have recently demonstrated an increasing propensity to enhance the sustainability and reliability of their supply chains in order to comply with environmental regulations and improve customer satisfaction through on-time demand ful...
Wheat, the world’s most widely cultivated crop, is highly susceptible to Take-all disease caused by the soil ascomycete fungus Gaeumannomyces tritici (Gt). Crop rotations using different wheat cultivars can influence Take-all build up (TAB) in...
In order to reach net-zero by 2050, we need to have strong decarbonization policies, especially in hard-to-abate clean-ups like steel (8% of the global emissions), cement (7%), and power generation (30%), and negative emissions through direct air cap...
Iraq, a country in the Middle East, has suffered severe drought events in the past two decades due to a significant decrease in annual precipitation. Water storage by building dams can mitigate drought impacts and assure water supply. This study was...
Background/Objectives: Hepatic clearance is important in determining clinical drug administration strategies. Achieving accurate hepatic clearance predictions through in vitro-to-in vivo extrapolation (IVIVE) relies on appropriate model selection, wh...
In order to ensure quality work, the main contractor chooses suppliers based upon various quality attributes. The key to quality work on mega projects is to select best-quality suppliers. This research shows the data analysis results of preference ra...
The decisions taken in rehabilitation planning for the urban water networks will have a long lasting impact on the functionality and quality of future services provided by urban infrastructure. These decisions can be assisted by different approaches...
In this paper, the thermal decomposition kinetics of a class of minerals that we call White Soft Minerals (WSMs) is studied by means of theoretical and experimental methods, in connection to the transport of extraterrestrial organic matter to Earth a...
The sustainability of energy systems is increasingly assessed for development of more resilient, greener district heating (DH) systems. That requires compiling technological, environmental, and economic indicators in a social, political, and institut...
The increasing world population and the growing quantity of solid waste have become a challenging problem facing governments and policy makers because of the scarcity of suitable sites for new landfills and the negative perception of these sites by t...
In an age of heightened environmental awareness and the pressing need for net-zero emissions, concerns over rising energy consumption in cement production, responsible for 5–8% of global CO2 emissions, have intensified. This paper proposes a no...
This study proposes a rigorous methodology for the optimal placement of voltage regulators in the Guayacanes feeder of the Buena Fe substation, Ecuador, by integrating electrical feeder modeling, exhaustive search, and multi-criteria decision-making....
Machine Learning (ML) is increasingly used across scientific domains, raising concerns about the reproducibility of published results. Reproducibility is a fundamental principle of scientific research, yet many ML research works remain difficult to r...
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Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (SUMP) are increasingly popular planning tools in cities with environmental issues where numerous actions are usually proposed to reduce pollution from urban transport. However, the diagnosis and implementation of the...
Farming herdsmen, sheep dealers, and veterinarians are increasingly interested in continuously monitoring sheep basic physiological characteristics (such as the heart rate and skin temperature) outside the laboratory environment, with the aim of iden...
Super Typhoon Mujigae (2015) was simulated using the WRF-ARW model version 4.1 with the WSM3, WSM5, WSM6, and WSM7 microphysics schemes, which include 3, 5, 6, and 7 hydrometeor classes, respectively. This study investigated the species number of hyd...
Slurry concentration and wire speed affect the yield and machining quality of ceramics (Al2O3) that are produced using wire-saw machining (WSM). This study determines the effect of slurry concentration and wire speed on the material removal rate (MRR...
The main objective of this study was to examine the implications of watershed management (WSM) on hydrological parameters in the Aba Gerima watershed in the Upper Blue Nile Basin. The Hydrus 1D model simulations were conducted in control sites and si...
Wastewater invariably accumulates soluble and insoluble waste and requires treatment at a wastewater treatment plant (WTP) to become reusable. The preliminary screening of insoluble waste occurs through a wastewater screening mechanism (WSM) before e...
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the properties of by-products obtained from the oil industry, to identify the content of bioactive compounds and to test the safety of their reintroduction in the food industry. Three sunflower meals obtained...
A sensorless position scheme was developed for wound synchronous machines. The demodulation process is fundamentally the same as the conventional signal-injection method. The scheme is different from techniques for permanent-magnet synchronous machin...
This paper presents an application and extension of multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods to account for stochastic input variables. More in particular, a comparative study is carried out among well-known and widely-applied methods in MCDM...
The objective of this study was to obtain up-to-date information on land use and to identify long term changes in land use, especially rice, aquaculture and other crops in Ben Tre and Tra Vinh provinces in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. Long-term changes in...
Critical information infrastructure exists in different sectors of each country. Its loss or sustainability violation will lead to a negative impact on the supply of essential services, as well as on the social or economic well-being of the populatio...
When it comes to achieving sustainability and circular economy objectives, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) tools can be of aid in supporting decision-makers to reach a satisfying solution, especially when conflicting criteria are present. In a...
Spoofing attacks remain among the most critical security threats in Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs). This work introduces a lightweight, two-level spoofing detection framework based on Kalman filtering, designed for real-time deployment in v...
In this work, we present a resource allocation scheme for managing trade-offs between total throughput maximisation and system fairness in a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system for 5G networks. Our proposed approach is designed to improve th...
The rapid expansion of photovoltaic capacity in Poland has exposed distribution-grid constraints and increased the incidence of non-market curtailment. This paper examines a 1 MW ground-mounted photovoltaic plant in Zalesie, north-eastern Poland, usi...
Low-threshold optical bistability (OB) holds significant application prospects in various fields. In this work, we theoretically propose a one-dimensional photonic crystal heterostructure incorporating a Weyl semimetal (WSM) layer. The design synergi...
Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) and Triticum mosaic virus (TriMV) are important viral pathogens of wheat in the Great Plains. These viruses individually or in mixed infections with High Plains wheat mosaic virus cause a devastating wheat streak mosa...
Osteoporosis is characterized by an imbalance between osteoblastic bone formation and osteoclastic bone resorption, leading to an increased risk of fractures. The water-soluble matrix (WSM) of nacre exhibits osteoinductive properties in osteoblastic...
We have built a worker-safety monitoring system (WSMS) for use in the shipbuilding and offshore industry (S&OI). The WSMS combines metal-conductor communication wireless networks with location-estimation technology that uses ultrasound signals in...
Optical bistability (OB) with low threshold and high tunability is crucial for advanced photonic devices. This work theoretically investigates low-threshold and tunable OB in a one-dimensional photonic crystal Fabry-Pérot (FP) cavity embedded...
Optical bistability (OB) is a fundamental nonlinear effect enabling all-optical switching, logic, memory, and sensing, yet its practical implementation is often hindered by high power thresholds and limited tunability. Here, we theoretically demonstr...
The charge properties and regularities of mutual influence of the electro-physical parameters in a metal (M)/insulator (I)/two-dimensional crystal heterostructure were studied. In one case, the transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) MoS2 was considere...
The role of ice hydrometeor-types in bulk schemes available in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model has been assessed in this study to simulate two heavy rainfall events reported over the southern part of Nigeria. This has been done with...
The intensity and frequency variability of cyclones in the North Indian Ocean (NIO) have been amplified over the last few decades. The number of very severe cyclonic storms (VSCSs) over the North Indian Ocean has increased over recent decades. “Phail...
Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE) tools are inspired by the need for transparency, efficiency, and collaboration in harvest control rule (HCR) management. MSEs provide quantified metrics of the HCR performances and indicate the goodness in multipl...
Severe changes in the profiles of the crossing nose are caused by large dynamic contact forces. To predict these forces as well as the profile evolution, the Whole System Model (WSM) was developed. However, it uses computationally expensive FE simula...
In this paper, we propose a layered structure composed of Weyl semimetal (WSM) and one-dimensional photonic crystal (1D-PhC) to achieve low-threshold and tunable optical bistability (OB). By exploiting the bandgap characteristics of the photonic crys...
This study aimed to evaluate the effects of optimal carbohydrase mixture (OCM) on macronutrients and amino acid digestibility and the digestible energy (DE) in growing pigs fed the corn-soybean meal-based diet (CSM) and the wheat-soybean meal-based d...
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