The period from January 2020 to December 2022 was marked by a confluence of major events, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia–Ukraine war, the energy crisis, surging inflation, Federal Reserve policy shifts, and banking turmoil, which c...
This study aims to determine if there is variation in precipitation concentrations in Chile. We analyzed daily and monthly records from 89 pluviometric stations in the period 1970–2016 and distributed between 29°12′ S and 39°30′ S. This area was divi...
The Activity Concentration Index (ACI), defined in Directive 2013/59/Euratom, serves as a criterion for the radiological significance of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORMs) concentrated in building materials, considering related exposur...
22 December 2021
Thailand is attempting to implement an effective health insurance scheme to cover all migrant workers in the country. One of the remarkable policies is the Social Security Scheme (SSS). This study aims to assess the equity of SSS coverage among migra...
This paper investigates the stability of high-dimensional financial portfolios using concentration inequalities, information-theoretic measures, optimal transport metrics, and financial network analysis. Asset returns are generated under both multiva...
According to 2013/59/Euratom Directive, the activity concentration index (ACI) is required to be estimated for each building material that is of concern from a radiation protection point of view. This index applies to building materials and not to co...
In this study; the spatial distribution of the Daily Precipitation Concentration Index (DPCI) has been analyzed inside the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Area (GSMA). Accordingly, the rainfall database from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology archive w...
The manufacture of Portland cement entails high energy and environmental costs, and various solutions have been implemented in recent years to mitigate this negative impact. These solutions include improvements in the manufacture of cement clinker or...
Assessing crop nitrogen status is crucial for optimizing fertilization strategies and promoting sustainable production. Although hyperspectral data offer significant advantages for monitoring subtle physiological changes in crops, accurately determin...
Leaf nitrogen concentration (LNC) is a major biochemical parameter for estimating photosynthetic efficiency and crop yields. Laser-induced fluorescence, which is a promising potential technology, has been widely used to estimate the growth status of...
Using reflectance spectroscopy to monitor vegetation pigments is a crucial method to know the nutritional status, environmental stress, and phenological phase of vegetation. Defining cities as targeted areas and common greening plants as research obj...
Precipitation concentration is an important component of hydroclimatic variability, but its interpretation depends on the metric selected and the treatment of dry days. This study assesses precipitation concentration across continental Chile using da...
The aim of this study is to determine the effects of a high-concentrate diet on growth performance, serum biochemical indexes, and rumen microbiota in house-fed yaks. Sixteen male yaks (body weight, 151.73 ± 14.11 kg; 18 months) were randomly...
Background: The A-Line Autoregressive Index (AAI), which is derived from auditory evoked potentials, has been used for determining anesthetic depth. This study verified the correlation between AAI values and the corresponding end-tidal concentrations...
A novel nano-refractive index sensor based on the Fano resonance phenomenon is proposed in this paper. The sensor consists of the metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguide and a V-ring cavity with a groove (VRCG). We analyzed the performance of the nanos...
In recent years, precipitation concentration indices have become popular, and the daily precipitation concentration index has been widely used worldwide. This index is based on the Lorenz curve fitting. Recently, some biases in the fitting process ha...
Precipitation concentration indices have become a popular tool for analyzing the structure of daily precipitation amounts. Among the existing indices, the concentration index (CI) is widely used. In calculating the CI, an important aspect is adjustin...
Employing drones and hyperspectral imagers for large-scale, precise evaluation of nitrogen (N) concentration in Carya cathayensis Sarg canopies is crucial for accurately managing nitrogen fertilization in C. cathayensis Sarg cultivation. This study g...
The spatiotemporal variations in the atmospheric ventilation index (AVI) with the particulate matter (PM) concentrations in South Korea were investigated using a regional grid model derived from the National Center for AgroMeteorology and PM10 concen...
This work investigates the potential to rely on the complex refractive index to correlate the chemical composition of polymers with their optical properties, including transmittance, reflectance and absorbance. The optical properties of polycarbonate...
Background: The mother’s diet has a direct impact on fetal development and pregnancy, and can also be important in the course of the body’s inflammatory response. An anti-inflammatory diet can be a promising way to counter an excessive in...
Dual-parameter measurements of refractive index and methane concentration based on electromagnetic Fano resonance are proposed. Two independent Fano resonances can be produced through electric dipole and toroidal dipole resonance in an all-dielectric...
Air pollution has become an important environmental issue in recent decades. Forecasts of air quality play an important role in warning people about and controlling air pollution. We used support vector regression (SVR) and random forest regression (...
This paper proposes a nanosensor structure consisting of a metal–insulator–metal (MIM) waveguide with a rectangular root and a double-ring (SRRDR) with a rectangular cavity. In this paper, the cause and internal mechanism of Fano resonanc...
Background—competitive conditions are often distorted in the construction sector, therefore this affects the market position of all participants. This paper seeks to find the tools for properly assessment of participants by Herfindahl-Hirschman...
Background: Public payers must regularly decide which prescribers to look at more closely, with records covering thousands of doctors per quarter and review capacity for only a fraction. How that choice is made bears on equitable access to reimbursed...
Background: Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) is an enzyme responsible for producing an active form of folate. The MTHFR T677T genotype may have adverse health effects associated with weight gain and a reduction in folate availability. Aim:...
Climatic changes have caused seasonal drought to occur frequently in tea fields of low-mountain and hill regions over the past decades. This leads to huge losses in the quality and yields of famous tea, which restricts the economic development of the...
Background: Multi-drug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria producing metallo-β-lactamase are an increasing concern. Here, we described three cases of infection due to difficult-to-treat and drug-resistant P. aeruginosa producing metallo-β-lact...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been a serious threat to human health, and combination therapy is proved to be an economic and effective strategy for fighting the resistance. However, the abuse of drug combinations conversely accelerates the sprea...
20 March 2020
Timely and adequate screening for breast cancer could improve health outcomes and reduce health costs. However, the utilization of free breast cancer screening services among Saudi women is very low. This study aims to investigate socioeconomic inequ...
Trauma-induced shock is a frequent and life-threatening complication in feline patients. Early detection of tissue hypoperfusion is fundamental for improving clinical outcomes; however, due to species-specific physiological responses in cats, convent...
23 August 2022
Individuals’ vulnerability to the risk of COVID-19 infection varies due to their health, socioeconomic, and living circumstances, which also affect the effectiveness of implementing non-pharmacological interventions (NPIs). In this study, we an...
17 March 2022
Skilled birth attendance is critical to reduce infant and maternal mortality. Health development plans and strategies, especially in developing countries, consider equity in access to maternal health care services as a priority. This study aimed to m...
In most markets, buyers differ in their ability or willingness to switch supplier. This note proposes a novel industry concentration measure that takes this heterogeneity into account. The index increases in the share of captive sales, coincides with...
The Precipitation Concentration Index (PCI) is considered a powerful tool that can be used to analyse the spatial and temporal distribution and variability of precipitation over a region. It plays a significant role in planning and managing water res...
30 August 2022
The low-carbon city has become an important global urban development-oriented goal. One important aspect of urban space is low-carbon urban planning, which has a vital role in urban carbon emissions. Which types of urban form and function allocations...
The motivation of this paper is that the effect of landscape pattern information on the accuracy of particulate matter estimation is seldom reported. The landscape pattern indexes were incorporated in a land use regression (LUR) model to investigate...
Head and neck cancers (HNCs) are a group of tumors not common in European populations. So far, not much is known about the role of obesity, adipokines, glucose metabolism, and inflammation in the pathogenesis of HNC. The aim of the study was to deter...
Understanding the patterns and mechanisms of precipitation variations is important for assessing flood and drought risks and for ensuring sustainable water use. Here, we analyzed the characteristics of annual precipitation changes in eight subregions...
A fiber optic sensor sensitive to refractive index changes of the outer region of the fiber cladding is presented. The sensor uses bent plastic optical fibers in different bending lengths to increase sensitivity. Measurements were made for low-fat mi...
Crop nitrogen monitoring techniques, particularly choosing sensitive monitoring bands and suitable monitoring models, have great significance both in theory and in practice for achieving non-destructive monitoring of nitrogen concentration and accura...
Predicted cardiovascular age (heart age) translates the risk-factor profile into an equivalent age, which may facilitate interpretation of estimated cardiovascular risk. Excess cardiovascular age describes, in years, the integrated burden of modifiab...
Precipitation unevenness significantly influences the rational allocation of water resources and the management of agricultural irrigation. Based on precipitation data from 29 meteorological stations in Heilongjiang Province, China, from 1961 to 2020...
This study assesses export concentration risk in four Central Asian economies (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan) by examining trade specialization patterns in 31 mineral, chemical, textile, and metallurgical product groups over 2017...
The aim of the present study was to study the effects of cycling and pure concentric and pure eccentric high-intensity interval exercise (HIIE) on skeletal muscle (i.e., vastus lateralis) and cerebral oxygenation. Twelve healthy males (n = 12, age 26...
Objective: China’s targeted poverty alleviation policy has a profound impact on the country’s rural economic and social development now. This study aimed to learn about the health status and health equity of rural poor residents under the...
This paper introduces a refractive index sensor based on Fano resonance, utilizing a metal–insulator–metal (MIM) waveguide structure with an Anchor-like cavity. This study utilizes the finite element method (FEM) for analyzing the propaga...
This paper presents the determination of a concentration at the minimum bubble velocity (CMV) for different types of frothers, such as straight and branched alkyl chain aliphatic alcohols, 1,ω-diols, poly(propylene glycol) and poly(ethylene glycol) a...
At present, population mobility for the purpose of tourism has become a popular phenomenon. As it becomes easier to capture big data on the tourist digital footprint, it is possible to analyze the respective regional features and driving forces for b...
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