Antibiotic resistance is an ecosystem problem threatening the interrelated human-animal-environment health under the “One Health” framework. Resistant bacteria arising in one geographical area can spread via cross-reservoir transmission t...
Power shift tractors have been widely used in agricultural tractors in recent years because of their advantages of uninterrupted power during shifting, high transmission efficiency and high stability. As one of the indispensable driving states of the...
Background Understanding the transmission source, pattern, and mechanism of infectious diseases is essential for targeted prevention and control. Though it has been studied for many years, the detailed transmission patterns and drivers for the season...
In order to achieve the ‘dual carbon’ goal, based on the DEMATEL-ISM model, 19 main factors affecting the carbon emissions of prefabricated buildings were preliminarily identified from five dimensions, including government decision-making...
The global dissemination of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a serious threat to public health, with wastewater increasingly recognized as an important reservoir and a dissemination interface for antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB), antibiotic re...
In this study, we aimed to characterize the nonlinear and multidelayed effects of multiple meteorological drivers on human respiratory syncytial virus (HRSV) infection epidemics in Japan. The prefecture-specific weekly time-series of the number of ne...
Clustering is a technique for dividing a network into different group of nodes and managing the transmission of data among the interacting nodes, to improve the effectiveness and safety of information transfer. Clustering have been well studied and a...
19 October 2021
For the lack of quantitative basis of traffic sign combination information, this paper established a model of information quantity of urban road traffic signs by analyzing the driver’s information processing and the visual recognition of traffic sign...
Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) remains one of the most consequential health and economic challenges in U.S. beef production, particularly within integrated systems where microbial, environmental, and management factors intersect. This review synthe...
Leishmaniasis is an endemic zoonotic disease caused by the protozoan parasite Leishmania and transmitted by infected female phlebotomine sandflies. The World Health Organization (WHO) classifies it among the 20 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), ran...
The frequency of infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics is rising, demanding an understanding of their drivers. Common wisdom suggests that increases in outbreak frequency are driven by socioeconomic factors such as globalization and urbanization...
Testing and isolation have been crucial for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. Venezuela has one of the weakest testing infrastructures in Latin America and the low number of reported cases in the country has been attributed to substantial underrepor...
We propose urethane-foam-embedded silicon pressure sensors, including a stress-concentration packaging structure, for integration into a car seat to monitor the driver’s cognitive state, posture, and driving behavior. The technical challenges o...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) constitutes one of the most severe and pressing threats to global public health, food security, and environmental integrity. This review synthesizes current evidence across interconnected One Health domains—humans...
The steer-by-wire system severs the mechanical link between the steering wheel and the steering gear. This configuration enhances the angular transmission characteristics. Entering the nonlinear region of the tires could result in a reduction in the...
2 June 2015
Globalization and environmental change, social and demographic determinants and health system capacity are significant drivers of infectious diseases which can also act as epidemic precursors. Thus, monitoring changes in these drivers can help antici...
This article analyses vibration transmission on agricultural tractors with the excitation from the road to the driver’s seat. A multi-body model of agricultural tractors created in Adams is presented. The main parts for the investigation of vib...
The ride comfort provided by a vehicle to the driver and the passengers is an important feature, directly correlated to the technical characteristics of the suspension system of the vehicle. In the literature, several lumped-parameter models simulati...
The paper aims to examine the spillover of uncertainty among commodity markets using Diebold–Yilmaz approach based on forecast error variance decomposition. Next, causal impact of global factors as drivers of uncertainty transmission between oil and...
Tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is a viral disease endemic in Eurasia. The virus is mainly transmitted to humans via ticks and occasionally via the consumption of unpasteurized milk products. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control repor...
Kota Bharu city in Kelantan, Malaysia was reported with the highest cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among other districts. Kota Bharu is the capital city of Kelantan, which acts as the administrative, commercial, and financial areas. A l...
In North America, Sin Nombre virus (SNV) is the main cause of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS), a severe respiratory disease with a fatality rate of 35–40%. SNV is a zoonotic pathogen carried by deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus), and...
In order to improve the shifting quality of pure electric commercial vehicles, a torque control strategy based on the driving intention during the shifting process is presented in this paper. Firstly, dynamic analysis is conducted on the lifting and...
The power package of high-speed internal combustion units generates complex excitation forces during operation. These forces cause excessive vibration in the driver’s cab, negatively affecting the driver’s working conditions. Therefore, o...
In this paper, we propose a portable device named SOMN_IA, to detect drowsiness and distraction in drivers. The SOMN_IA can be installed inside of any type of vehicle, and it operates in real time, alerting the dangerous state caused by drowsiness an...
This paper investigates the dynamic selection of an appropriate threshold for basic Send-on-Delta (SoD) sampling strategies, given an available transmission rate to reduce the signal tracking-error. The paper formulates the error-reduction principle...
Vehicles with dual clutch transmissions (DCT) are well known for their comfortable drivability since gear shifts can be performed jerklessly. The ability of blending the torque during gear shifts from one clutch to the other, making the type of autom...
This research proposes a regenerative braking co-operative control system for the automatic transmission (AT)-based hybrid electric vehicle (HEV). The brake system of the subject HEV consists of the regenerative braking and the electronic wedge brake...
Transactive energy is a highly effective technique for peers to exchange and trade energy resources. Several interconnected blocks, such as generation businesses, prosumers, the energy market, energy service providers, transmission and distribution n...
The purpose of this research is to develop an energy management strategy for a hybrid tricycle. The hybrid tricycle has two wheels at the front and one wheel at the rear. The front wheels are driven by in-wheel motors and the rear wheel is driven by...
Wildlife-origin viral diseases are an increasing One Health challenge in Australia, with climate change emerging as a key driver of disease emergence, transmission, and spillover. Australian wildlife, particularly marsupials, birds, and bats, serve a...
Recurrent outbreaks of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Japan highlight the continued need for effective prevention, particularly household transmission. This study clarifies the epidemiological profile of household transmission of COVID-19 and...
Driving safety has become a global topic of discussion with the recent development of the Smart Car concept. Many of the current car safety monitoring systems are based on image discrimination techniques, such as sensing the vehicle drifting from the...
To reduce global HIV-1 incidence, there is a need to understand and disentangle HIV-1 transmission dynamics and to determine the geographic areas and populations that act as hubs or drivers of HIV-1 spread. In Sub-Saharan Africa (sSA), the region wit...
Parallel hybrid drivetrains for passenger cars have additional electric drives compared to conventional drivetrains. In the event of vehicle deceleration, the electric drives are operated as generators, thus recovering kinetic energy through regenera...
When launching a heavy-duty vehicle, torque and position control during automatic clutch engagement is critical, and the driver’s intention to launch and changes in the vehicle’s launching resistance make clutch control more complex. This...
Since NADC30-like PRRSV-2 was first detected in Henan Province in 2012, it has continued to spread and has become one of the predominant PRRSV-2 groups in mainland China. However, the long-term spatiotemporal dynamics, interprovincial transmission pa...
Transboundary animal diseases, such as foot and mouth disease (FMD) pose a significant and ongoing threat to global food security. Such diseases can produce large, spatially complex outbreaks. Mathematical models are often used to understand the spat...
Under the dual pressures of global climate change and China’s “carbon peak and carbon neutrality” targets, traditional urban development models are insufficient to support sustainable transitions. Smart cities (SCs) have emerged as...
A low impedance high power microwave (HPM) driver is designed, which can be used in studying multi-gigawatt HPM devices such as the magnetically insulated transmission line oscillator (MILO), based on a helical pulse forming line (PFL) and the Tesla...
Amid global environmental changes, urbanisation erodes nature connectedness, an important driver of pro-environmental behaviours and human well-being, exacerbating human-made risks like biodiversity loss and climate change. This study introduces a no...
Road transportation is the main energy consumer and major contributor of ever-increasing hazardous emissions. Transportation professionals have raised the idea of applying the green concept in various areas of transportation, including green highways...
The study of HIV-1 transmission networks inferred from viral genetic data can be used to clarify important factors about the dynamics of HIV-1 transmission, such as network growth rate and demographic composition. In Brazil, HIV transmission has been...
In this paper, wireless sensing networks are considered in the context of the 5G communication architecture in order to ensure the transmission efficiency of the sensed data transmitted by the system. The various types of environmental sensors are ve...
10 March 2022
From March to May 2020, 1306 oilfield workers in Kazakhstan tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. We conducted a case-control study to assess factors associated with SARS-CoV-2 transmission. The cases were PCR-positive for SARS-CoV-2 during June–Sept...
Universal antiretroviral therapy (ART, “treat all”) was recommended by the World Health Organization in 2015; however, HIV-1 transmission is still ongoing. This study characterizes the drivers of HIV transmission in the “treat all&r...
Environmental transmission is a critical driver of cholera dynamics and a key factor influencing model-based inference and forecasting. This study focuses on stable parameter estimation and forecasting of cholera outbreaks using a compartmental SIRB...
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly transmissible viral infection of livestock that threatens food security and causes substantial economic losses in endemic regions. Despite its economic impact, the role of environmental viral load and wildlife...
A hybrid vehicle is a vehicle with two or more power sources. We propose a hybrid system in which the engine torque converted by the transmission is combined with an electric motor torque. The proposed system reduces transmission because engine torqu...
Power electronics devices are made from semiconductor switches such as thyristors, MOSFETs, and diodes, along with passive elements of inductors, capacitors, and resistors, and integrated circuits. They are heavily used in power processing for applic...
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