Day-degrees [°D], also known as accumulated thermal units (ATUs), have been used to predict the duration of early development for fish. For most sturgeon species, the available data in the literature were determined under temperature-constant con...
Streamflow duration is used to differentiate reaches into discrete classes (e.g., perennial, intermittent, and ephemeral) for water resource management. Because the depiction of the extent and flow duration of streams via existing maps, remote sensin...
Rework is a sub-task within equipment development tasks that is revised after initial completion to meet task requirements. Some sub-tasks require multiple rework iterations due to their uncertainty and complexity, or the technology and process needs...
This paper presented an autonomous electronic system for sunshine duration (SD) monitoring based on the contrast method and developed to operate on a horizontal surface. The prototype uses four photoresistors arranged at 90° in a 20 mm diameter c...
Crowdsourcing Software Development (CSD) platforms, i.e., TopCoder, function as intermediaries connecting clients with developers. Despite employing systematic methodologies, these platforms frequently encounter high task abandonment rates, with appr...
Accurately estimating the effort and duration required for software development is one of the most important challenges in the field of software engineering. In a context where software projects are becoming increasingly complex, project managers fac...
Reducing stress is important to maintaining the health of shelter cats and decreasing the risk of upper respiratory disease (URD). The aim of this study was to determine if the frequency and/or duration of daily routine handling of shelter cats affec...
Rainfall intensity–duration–frequency (IDF) relationships are crucial in the design and management of hydraulic structures. At the core of the assumption for IDF development is that the statistics of past rainfall events will represent fu...
Understanding the upper-ocean thermal response during and between typhoons is critical for accurate prediction of typhoon intensity and for evaluating air–sea interactions. Previous studies have primarily focused on ocean cooling induced by ind...
Estimation is an essential step of software development project planning that has a significant impact on project success—underestimation often leads to problems with the delivery or even causes project failure. An important aspect that the cla...
Background/Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic substantially altered children’s daily experiences, limiting social interactions, which are critical for language development. This study aims to explore how the pandemic influenced receptive and exp...
Understanding the impact and duration (consequences) of different component failures (cause) in a water supply and distribution system (WSDS) is a critical task for water utilities to develop effective preparation and response plans. During the last...
Intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) relationships are traditional tools in water infrastructure planning and design. IDFs are developed under a stationarity assumption which may not be realistic, neither in the present nor in the future, under a chang...
Conventionally, in situ rainfall data are used to develop Intensity Duration Frequency (IDF) curves, which are one of the most effective tools for modeling the probability of the occurrence of extreme storm events at different timescales. The rapid r...
Background: Perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis (PAP) is effective for infection prevention in implant-related surgery, with infections being the most feared complications. A total of 15% of all antibiotics in hospitals are used for surgical prophyl...
Traditional off-the-job training is becoming ineffective in high-end equipment research and development (R&D) projects due to the contradiction between rapid technological progress and the slow growth of newcomers, calling for “on-the-job m...
Canine atopic dermatitis (CAD) is chronic and frequently complicated by Staphylococcal infections. Understanding the role of allergen dose, frequency and duration of exposure in triggering infections requires a model. Most models elicit acute inflamm...
In examining the effect of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the amounts of Aid for Trade (AfT) that accrue to developing countries, Lee et al. (2015) (The World Economy, 38, 2015 and 1462) have found that developing country members...
The value of the duration of participation in a small spacecraft program has not previously been sufficiently characterized. This work seeks to determine whether most relevant benefits are received by participants quickly (suggesting that participan...
Rainfall Intensity–Duration–Frequency (IDF) curves are among the most essential datasets used in water resources management across the globe. Traditionally, they are derived from observations of historical rainfall, under the assumption o...
This study aims to develop the intensity–duration–frequency (IDF) curves for Yangon, the economic center of Myanmar, using four satellite precipitation datasets, namely GPM IMERG, TRMM, GSMaP_NRT, and GSMaP_GC. Different probability distr...
BRCs (bioretention cells), one of many low-impact development (LID) practices, are increasingly utilized to lessen the amount of runoff while simultaneously improving the runoff quality. Because the goal of BRCs and LID designs, in general, is to mim...
Modular construction, which involves factory-based modular unit manufacturing followed by installation at a construction site, has been recognized as one of the sustainable construction methods. Its advantages are known to be implemented through (1)...
This paper assesses the effects of the duration of membership in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)/World Trade Organization (WTO) and structural economic vulnerability on trade costs in developing countries. The analysis is performed...
Realistic runoff estimates are crucial for the accurate design of stormwater drainage systems, particularly in developing urban catchments which are prone to overland flow and street inundation following extreme rainstorms. This paper derives new int...
Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is widely used to evaluate the environmental performance of polymer processing and mechanical recycling systems, with its reliability fundamentally dependent on the quality and representativeness of the underlying life-cyc...
Purpose: This paper examines the interrelatedness between countries’ stock market development and competitiveness and the equity risk premium (hereinafter, ERP). In addition, this paper examines the length of time that stock market development...
This study investigates the development of Greek vowel reduction across different prosodic positions (stressed, pre-stressed, post-stressed), examining normative data from 72 participants aged 3 years to adulthood and balanced for gender. Participant...
18 November 2022
Rill erosion is one of the major environmental problems in the world; it is an important factor with regard to land degradation and has a serious impact on production and daily life in the region. The widely distributed Yuanmou group stratum promotes...
Background/Objectives: This study aimed to analyze the influence of sex, the presence of siblings, and the duration of exposure to technology on the development of gross and fine motor skills in children aged between 24 and 48 months, using the PDMS-...
Formal undergraduate research training programs are typically two years in length to support student development over time. However, some evidence suggests that many benefits of research participation can be achieved in a shorter duration, raising th...
In multi-project environments characterized by resource constraints and high uncertainty, traditional scheduling approaches often fail to respond effectively to dynamic project conditions. Fixed activity durations and rigid resource allocations limit...
Understanding insect survival and developmental characteristics in sublethal carbon dioxide (0.25–4%), which could exist in stored grain, is beneficial to scientific pest management. The survival, developmental duration, oviposition, and life t...
This work aims to examine the effect of bias correction (BC) methods on the development of Intensity–Duration–Frequency (IDF) curves under climate change at multiple temporal scales. Daily outputs from a 9-member CORDEX-CA GCM-RCM multi-m...
The recent flooding events in the UAE have emphasized the need for a reassessment of flood frequencies to mitigate risks. The exponential urbanization and climatic changes in the UAE require a reform for developing and updating intensity–durati...
Background: Individuals receiving intensive care are particularly vulnerable to developing pressure sores. This heightened risk necessitates a thorough understanding of relevant risk factors and the time at which these injuries manifest, facilitating...
Utilizing data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite’s precipitation radar (PR) and lightning imaging sensor (LIS), this study explores the spatiotemporal distributions of thunderstorm and lightning structures over the Q...
Generating synthetic time series data, such as videos, presents a formidable challenge as complexity increases when it is necessary to maintain a specific distribution of shown stages. One such case is embryonic development, where prediction and cate...
Utilizing a dataset covering four Portuguese NUTS II regions from 2009 to 2022 and employing multiple regression analyses, this research challenges traditional tourism theories by providing empirical evidence on how various factors—average stay...
Sleep is essential for child development, influencing cognition, emotional regulation, behavior, and physical health. Recent studies increasingly frame sleep as both a key developmental process and a modifiable factor shaped by, and shaping environme...
Magnetic fields are abiotic environmental factors that can cause a wide range of biological effects at both the cellular and whole-organism levels. In this study, we investigated the effects of a static magnetic field (SMF, 110 mT) on life history tr...
Participatory Action Research (PAR) empowers young people to work alongside adult researchers to determine the purpose/scope of research projects. By naming the purpose of the research, young people have the potential to transform it. Beginning with...
Temperature and food quality are the most important environmental factors determining the performance of herbivorous insects. The objective of our study was to evaluate the responses of the spongy moth (formerly known as the gypsy moth) [Lymantria di...
The Indus Water Treaty allocated the water of the Ravi River to India, and India constructed the Thein Dam on the Ravi River. This study investigates the water availability of the Ravi Riverfront for both pre-dam and post-dam scenarios augmented with...
Sesame, one of the ancient oil crops, is an important oilseed due to its nutritionally rich seeds with high protein content. Genomic scale information for sesame has become available in the public databases in recent years. The genes and their famili...
17 December 2021
Senile dementia, also known as dementia, is the mental deterioration which is associated with aging. It is characterized by a decrease in cognitive abilities, inability to concentrate, and especially the loss of higher cerebral cortex function, inclu...
Intense monsoonal rain is one of the major triggering factors of floods and mass movements in Nepal that needs to be better understood in order to reduce human and economic losses and improve infrastructure planning and design. This phenomena is bett...
(1) Background: Breastfeeding has been shown to support glucose homeostasis in women after a pregnancy complicated by gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and is potentially effective at reducing long-term diabetes risk. (2) Methods: Data from the Gro...
In the early software development stages, the aim of estimation is to obtain a rough understanding of the timeline and resources required to implement a potential project. The current study is devoted to a method of preliminary estimation applicable...
Astronaut behavioral and mental health are key factors for space mission success. NASA’s Cognition test battery is often preceded by a brief 18-item Alertness and Mood Survey (AMS) adding subjective assessments to Cognition’s 10 objective...
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