Aquifers are ubiquitous, and their water is easy to obtain with low extraction costs. On many occasions, these characteristics lead to overexploitation due to important water level declines, reduction of river base flows, enhanced seawater intrusion,...
Agricultural months are the critical period for the allocation of surface water and groundwater resources due to the increased demands on water supplies and decreased recharge rate. This situation urges the necessity of using conjunctive water manage...
This work develops a rule curve-based conjunctive use management model for optimizing the operating rules for a lake–groundwater system with off-stream storage lakes. The proposed procedure is a simulation-optimization approach that embeds an Artific...
Over the past two decades, climate change and climatic variability have received significant attention from the scientific community. The present study investigates the impact of future climate change on irrigation water requirements in the coastal d...
The lack of adequate management programs alongside water resources overexploitation have led to undesirable effects such as water shortages and economic losses in several regions. Optimized water allocation strategies using groundwater and surface wa...
This paper presents research regarding the assessment of the hydrogeological system of the River Nestos Western Delta, NE Greece, during the period of 2019. The procedure included the collection and analysis of relevant hydrological and hydrogeologic...
The conjunctive management of surface water and groundwater resources is essential to sustainably manage water resources. The target study is the Osan watershed, in which approximately 60–70% of rainfall occurs during the summer monsoon in Cent...
This study develops a conjunctive-use framework that couples a surface water allocation model with the MODFLOW groundwater model to evaluate the interactions between surface water operations and groundwater recharge and pumping. The framework enables...
Some mountainous regions without water service facilities are among the areas most vulnerable to drought. In these locations, it is particularly essential to establish practical alternatives to cope with the increase in the intensity and duration of...
Coordinating management of groundwater, surface water, and irrigated crops is fundamental economically for many arid and semi-arid regions. This paper examines conjunctive water management for agriculture using hydro-economic optimization modeling. T...
To deal with the contradictions that are caused by natural conditions and unreasonable water allocations in Minqin County, which are located downstream of the Shiyang River basin in arid northwest China, an optimization-based multi-scale calculation...
Farmers are being encouraged to represent the conjunctive use of fresh water (FW) and saline water (SW) irrigation for the future agriculture in the coastal saline prone areas of Bangladesh where the scarcity of FW. Therefore, the effects of fresh an...
The management of droughts is a challenging issue, especially in water scarcity areas, where this problem will be exacerbated in the future. The aim of this paper is to identify potential groundwater (GW) bodies with reduced vulnerability to pumping,...
This paper focuses on the scope of conjunctive management in the Lower Indus part of the Indus Basin Irrigation System (IBIS), and the contribution this could make towards food security and socio-economic development. The total Gross Command Area (GC...
At present, the shortage of water resources has become a serious constraint to the further development of social economy. The optimal allocation of multi-water resources is valuable for agricultural water management in arid and semi-arid regions. How...
The Ganga Basin in India experiences problems related to water availability, water quality and ecological degradation because of over-abstraction of surface and groundwater, the presence of various hydraulic infrastructure, discharge of untreated sew...
The intensification of cropping systems in the salt-affected coastal zones of the Ganges Delta can boost food security in the region. The scarcity of fresh water, coupled with varying degrees of soil and water salinity are however limiting factors fo...
The Hajdúhát loess plateau in eastern Hungary has no perennial watercourse and overlies a drought-sensitive shallow aquifer, so irrigation supply security and allocation both constrain production. We coupled a dry-2018/wet-2020 MIKE Hyd...
Feline conjunctivitis is a common ocular disorder; however, the molecular composition of feline tear fluid and its alterations during ocular surface inflammation remain poorly characterized. This pilot study aimed to explore the tear proteome of cats...
The growing density of space objects in low Earth orbit (LEO), driven by the deployment of large satellite constellations, has elevated the risk of orbital collisions and the need for high-precision conjunction analysis. Traditional methods based on...
When monitoring rain rates by weather radar in semi-arid regions and when measuring precipitation at an arid region; precipitation particles, rain, or snowflakes may evaporate before reaching the ground. This evaporation is regarded as the Virga phen...
The initiation of erosion and the coupled damage of erosion and corrosion on the surface of X65 pipeline steel with varying applied anodic currents were online monitored using the electrical resistance (ER) method. Results show that ER method in conj...
In this pilot study, we used vibrational optical tomography (VOCT), along with machine learning, to evaluate the specificity and sensitivity of using light and audible sound to differentiate between normal skin and skin cancers. The results reported...
Nowadays, waste that can be used for environmental purposes, such as WBA (woody biomass ash), is particularly important. The presented research assessed the effect of soil application of WBA in conjunction with PFM (post-fermentation mass) on the sta...
Periodontal disease can be treated in several ways. This paper reviewed whether antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) in addition to scaling and root planing (SRP) produces improved clinical results over systemic antibiotics (ABs) in conjunction...
Acanthamoeba spp. are amphizoic amoebae that are widely distributed in the environment and capable of entering the human body. They can cause pathogenic effects in different tissues and organs, including Acanthamoeba keratitis (AK), which may result...
Background/Objectives: In environments with high-frequency contact surfaces, drug-resistant bacteria, such as carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), can survive for extended periods, contributing...
Research in the field of gathering and analyzing biological signals is growing. The sensors are becoming more available and more non-invasive for examining such signals, which in the past required the inconvenient acquisition of data. This was achiev...
Background: Patients with nonunion experience pain, mobility problems, and physical activity limitations; require long-term, costly treatment; and cannot resume work. Some authors recommend the use of pharmaceutical agents as an adjunct therapy in fr...
Vitamin D has reported anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties modulated through gene transcription and non-genomic signaling cascades. The purpose of this review was to summarize the available research on interactions and pharmacokinetics betwe...
Smart grid operation schemes can integrate prosumers by offering economic rewards in exchange for the desired response. In order to activate prosumers appropriately, such operation schemes require models of the dynamic uncertain price-response relati...
Even after remediation, mining impacted soils can leave behind a landscape inhospitable to plant growth and containing residual heavy metals. While phytostabilization can be used to restore such sites by limiting heavy metal spread, it is reliant on...
The aim of the study was to compare the distribution of corneal and conjunctival epithelial dendritic cells (DCs) in vernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC), allergic conjunctivitis (AC), and non-allergic controls to examine if the allergy type causes diff...
Crop phenology monitoring is a necessary action for precision agriculture. Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellites provide us with the opportunity to monitor crop phenology at a high spatial resolution with high accuracy. The main objective of this stud...
The introduction of the space object conjunction method in electromagnetic compatibility modeling and simulation is quite a novel concept. It is useful for the stochastic analysis of an electromagnetic (EM) environment which is based on the probabili...
Introduction: Diagnosis of conjunctivitis can be sometimes difficult, especially in cases of severe conjunctivitis and those involving both eyes. In this study, we performed commercial tests for adenovirus (Capilia Adeno Eye®) and total tear IgE...
Conjunction assessment needs risk screening that is early, scalable and interpretable. We ask whether projected quantum feature maps add predictive value to this task when compared with strong classical learners under strict leakage control. From 149...
Conjunctivitis is a common pediatric problem and is broadly divided into infectious and non-infectious etiologies. Bacterial conjunctivitis makes up the majority of cases in children and often presents with purulent discharge and mattering of the eye...
Viruses account for 80% of all cases of acute conjunctivitis and adenovirus; enterovirus and herpes virus are the common causative agents. In general, viral conjunctivitis spreads easily. Therefore, to control the spread, it is crucial to quickly dia...
Conjunctive queries play a key role in retrieving data from a database. In a database, a query containing many conditions in its predicate, connected by an “and/&/∧” operator, is called a conjunctive query. Retrieving the outcome of a conjunctive...
Objective: The study aimed to optimize protocols for the joint extraction of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA) from 0.025 × 106 CFU of Candida albicans, targeting to overcome the challenges in the extraction of these geneti...
The integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) with Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) typically involves multihop relaying combined with sophisticated signal processing to serve as an information provider for several applications such as smart grids,...
Postharvest grain preservation and storage can significantly affect the safety and nutritional value of cereal-based products. Negligence at this stage of the food processing chain can lead to mold development and mycotoxin accumulation, which pose c...
Envenomation caused by venomous animals may trigger significant local complications such as pain, edema, localized hemorrhage, and tissue necrosis, in addition to complications such as dermonecrosis, myonecrosis, and even amputations. This systematic...
While acknowledging that different conjunctions define different relationships between ideas, this study focuses on the interpretation of four subordinating conjunctions, namely, because, since, for and as in causal clauses. Since the meanings of the...
28 September 2019
(1) Background: As the most common eye disease diagnosed in emergency departments, conjunctivitis has caused serious health and economic burdens worldwide. However, whether air pollution may be a risk factor for conjunctivitis is still inconsistent a...
17 September 2022
Most presentations of conjunctivitis are acute. Studies show that uncomplicated cases resolve within 14 days without medication. However, antibiotic prescription remains standard practice. With antimicrobial resistance becoming a public health concer...
The growing number of space objects leads to increases in the potential risks of damage to satellites and generates space debris after colliding. Conjunction assessment analysis is the one of keys to evaluating the collision risk of satellites and sa...
Healthcare-associated bacterial conjunctivitis is an underrecognized yet preventable infection in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). This study aimed to determine the incidence, risk factors, microbiological profile, and treatment approaches of h...
This paper analyses the communicative functions of the Gã (Niger–Congo, Kwa branch) clausal connective nì, roughly corresponding to English ‘and’, drawing on Wilson and Sperber’s (1995; 2004) relevance theory. The study demonstrates that nì is a co...
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