Appropriate-scale operation is important for integrating ordinary farm households into modern agriculture, yet the appropriate scale may differ substantially across producer types. Using micro-level data from the nationally representative 2021 China...
11 December 2019
Currently, no valid scales exist to compare volunteer motivations between volunteers and non-volunteers. We aimed to adapt the Dutch version of the Volunteer Functions Inventory (VFI) in order to make it applicable for the comparison of volunteer mot...
This study presents a comparative evaluation of the sinking performance of traditional small-scale purse-seine gears used in Aceh and Papua, Indonesia, using a three-dimensional mass–spring framework validated by sea-trial data from the Java Se...
The central government of China encourages enthusiasm for biodiversity conservation by implementing a transfer payment policy targeted at Biodiversity National Key Ecological Functional Areas at the county scale. Biodiversity National Key Ecological...
The evolution toward prospective sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks is expected to significantly increase user density, bandwidth demand, and architectural complexity, reinforcing the need for scalable multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) deplo...
Research studies have established that mindfulness helps in psychological well-being, stress reduction, chronic pain management, behavioral therapy, and other areas including organizational development. Mindfulness often refers to a state of consciou...
PISA reports how students’ sense of belonging at school changed between 2018 and 2022 in each education system. This data descriptor presents an atlas that tests, system by system, whether the six items behind that index measure the same two co...
The evaluation of the coastal hazard and vulnerability caused by storm conditions is an important issue related to coastal flooding and erosion. Although these topics have been widely tackled by past research, they cannot be avoided, but need to be c...
S-shaped characteristics in turbine mode are prone to instabilities in associated transient processes. A single value of the speed factor corresponds to multiple values of the discharge factor, having the possibility of changing the operating point a...
Background: Social Communication Disorder (SCD), introduced in the DSM-5, is distinguished from Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) by the absence of restricted and repetitive behaviors or interests (RRBIs). Aim: To compare the adaptive, sensory, communic...
Gluten proteins are key components in wheat flour that determine the formation of dough and the quality of flour-based products. Upon hydration and mixing, gluten proteins undergo complex structural transformations to form a gluten network, exhibitin...
The evaluation and dynamic monitoring of urban sprawl is essential to the sustainable development of cities and therefore attracts enthusiasm from numerous scholars. This study conducted a thorough review of the literature on the multidimensional and...
Extrusion-cooking can be used to change the techno–functional and nutrition-related properties of wheat bran. In this study, pilot-scale (BC21) and industrial-scale (BC45) twin-screw extrusion-cooking using different types of extrusion (single-pass,...
In this paper the authors compare and contrast open and closed-cycle heat engines. First of all, by way of example and to aid discussion, the performance of proprietary externally heated closed-cycle Stirling engines is compared with that of internal...
PISA 2022 creativity-related self-reports are used to study differences among education systems, but their interpretation depends on measurement structure, scoring and estimator choice. We audit six scales using item-level responses from up to 73 sys...
Small-scale organic Rankine cycle (ORC) systems driven by solar energy are compared in this paper, which aims to explore the potential of power generation for domestic utilisation. A solar thermal collector was used as the heat source for a hot water...
This study aims to improve the accuracy of small-scale landslide susceptibility maps (LSMs) by comparing two critical terrain factors—slope and relief energy. Slope is commonly used in LSMs, but its values are significantly sensitive to the spa...
Beef production in Kenya is the forte of pastoralists and large-scale ranches in the Arid and Semi-Arid areas. Cross sectional data was collected from 67 pastoralists and seven large-scale ranches, selected through multistage stratified sampling. Com...
Pulsed Electric Fields (PEF) offer significant potential to enhance energy efficiency and reduce reliance on SO2 and other chemical preservatives, aligning with current sustainability and health demands. This work evaluates PEF industrial viability f...
This study compares the operational performance of membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI) and circulation-MCDI (C-MCDI) under symmetric (2/2, 3/3, 4/4 min) and asymmetric (5/2, 5/3, 5/4 min) adsorption/desorption cycles to identify efficient operati...
Resonant-based sensors are attractive optical structures due to the easy detection of shifts in the resonance location in response to variations in the analyte refractive index (RI) in comparison to non-resonant-based sensors. In particular, due to t...
A growing number of courses seek to increase the basic artificial-intelligence skills (“AI literacy”) of their participants. At this time, there is no valid and reliable measurement tool that can be used to assess AI-learning gains. Howev...
Small-scale fisheries account for 94% of the Greek fishing fleet. The sector consists mainly of family-owned vessels and highly depends on family labor. While the role of women as crew members is of particular interest, there is little evidence of th...
Machine learning has demonstrated significant potential as a valuable tool for aerodynamic design. However, collecting an abundant training set is usually computationally expensive and time-consuming. To address this data scarcity, meta-learning and...
This paper aims to present a comparative study into the cascade and series configurations of the organic Rankine cycle based small-scale solar combined cooling, heating and power system for civil application. The energy performance of the systems is...
The global literature widely uses Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA), Lafay Index (LFI), Export Diversification (EDI), Hirschman (HI), and Major Export Category (MEC) to analyze international trade flows, though agricultural trade, specifically agr...
6 March 2018
Remote sensing can actively monitor heavy metal contamination in crops, but with the increase of satellite sensors, the optimal scale for monitoring heavy metal stress in rice is still unknown. This study focused on identifying the optimal scale by c...
Nowadays, because of the tremendous amount of information that humans and machines produce every day, it has become increasingly hard to choose the more relevant content across a broad range of choices. This research focuses on the design of two diff...
Background/Objectives: Digital Smile Design software tools facilitates aesthetic planning and improves communication between clinicians, patients, and dental laboratories. These software tools have been developed to support facial and dental analysis...
The analysis of telomere length is an important component of many studies aiming to characterize the role of telomere maintenance mechanisms in cellular lifespan, disease, or in general chromosome protection and DNA replication pathways. Several powe...
Rapid urbanization and intensifying rainfall increasingly overwhelm conventional stormwater drainage, yet experimental evidence comparing it with Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDSs) in tropical cities such as Panama City is scarce. This study...
A comparative study is presented, focusing on three different bioinspired design methodologies applied to a large-scale aeronautical tooling use case. The study aims to optimize the structure in terms of the first vibration mode, minimizing mass, and...
Growing demand for pavement maintenance promotes reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) recycling, yet multi-scale comparative research on rejuvenators remains limited. This study compared a commercial bio-based Rejuvenator A and a petroleum-based Rejuvena...
In the era of data deluge, Big Data gradually offers numerous opportunities, but also poses significant challenges to conventional data processing and analysis methods. MapReduce has become a prominent parallel and distributed programming model for e...
The residential building stock represents one of the major players in energy use and greenhouse gas emissions; thus, it is fundamental to reduce the energy used. Simulation tools are becoming more and more accurate in compliance with the new requirem...
Scale adhesion strength is a key trait in aquaculture, directly influencing disease resistance, survival, and commercial value. The Dongting crucian carp (Carassius auratus indigentiaus, hereafter CaDT) is valued for its rapid growth and superior fle...
This study provides a detailed comparison of three optical sensing approaches for colourimetric bio/chemical detection, focusing on cost, scalability, and performance. We examine laboratory-grade spectrophotometry, portable camera-based imaging, and...
Pore-scale remediation investigation of oil-contaminated soil is important in several environmental and industrial applications, such as quick responses to sudden accidents. This work aims to investigate the oil pollutant removal process and optimize...
The establishment of operation protocols for olive oil (OO) extraction at non-industrial scale is crucial for research purposes. Thus, the present study proposes a simple and cost-effective method for OO extraction at the laboratory scale (LS) level....
Generally speaking, excessive side thrust and roller slippage are two different aspects affecting cam-roller mechanisms. In novel large-scale hydraulic drivetrains for offshore wind turbines, the highly dynamic nature of these mechanisms combined wit...
Accurate estimation of building-specific air change rates is important for reliable urban-scale energy modeling, particularly in densely populated regions where airflow calculations must account for complex boundary conditions associated with urban g...
The eco-health effects of urban green spaces are playing a vital role in mitigating urban environmental stress and promoting residents’ well-being. However, the specific differences and dominant factors influencing these effects across differen...
Traditional urban morphological analyses are structurally limited in terms of both systemic diversity and empirical scale due to reliance on manual methods. In contrast, decoding the complex fabric of rapidly growing cities necessitates data-driven,...
Mobility as a service (MaaS) is a promising lever to achieve a more sustainable, co-modal, and flexible urban system for daily mobility. MaaS is crucial to addressing the challenges imposed by hyper-urbanization, social changes, saturation of public...
Regression models are widely used for continuous function approximation in applied research, yet selecting an appropriate model remains challenging for applied users who must balance predictive accuracy, interpretability, robustness, computational co...
Background: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and total hip arthroplasty (THA) are effective treatments for severe knee and hip osteoarthritis. Historically, TKA has been associated with lower satisfaction than THA, but recent advances in knee surgery ha...
In this paper, the second-order hydrophobic moment for fifteen globular proteins in 150 nonhomologous protein chains was performed in a comparative study involving two sets of hydrophobicity: one selected from the consensus scale and the other derive...
The aim of this paper is to enhance understanding of factors that undermine sustainable management of renewable resources by identifying and analyzing the main drivers and dynamics involved, with a focus on the role of corruption perceptions and its...
Plant multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) transporters participate in citrate transport, aluminium detoxification, and mineral homeostasis, yet their diversity and genomic organisation in Vaccinium remain poorly understood. In this study, w...
This study presents a comparative harmonic analysis of shaft voltage waveforms in large-scale steam turbine generators, emphasizing the influence of excitation system topology and generator design on spectral behavior. Using high-resolution Fast Four...
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