Electricity price spikes are the most important characteristic of the electricity price time series. Operationally, they result from various stresses in the power system or the strategic bidding behavior of market participants. These high prices are...
Due to the different driving characteristics of different vehicle models, inappropriate mandatory lane changes (MLCs) by heavy vehicles at interchanges often lead to serious traffic accidents. Therefore, this paper focuses on the impact of road geome...
In this study, factors affecting crash duration and geostatistical analysis were examined using traffic crash data from Houston, USA. Significant factors affecting road crash duration included 14 independent factors related to time, roadway, and envi...
Background/Objective: This study investigated the associations between dietary patterns and subjective cognitive function among older Japanese adults and examined whether these associations differed according to sleep duration. Methods: This longitud...
The spatial and temporal variabilities of the daily Sunshine Duration (SSD) time series from the Chinese Meteorological Administration during the 1954–2009 period are examined by the Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (DFA) method. As a whole, weak...
Background/Objectives: Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) is frequently observed in patients treated with proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), yet the role of treatment duration in modulating SIBO risk remains unclear. This meta-analysis aims to...
This study focuses on Greece, providing a comprehensive climatological analysis of drought conditions from 1960 to 2022. The Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) and the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) were employed on a...
Eating behavior can have an important effect on, and be correlated with, obesity and eating disorders. Eating behavior is usually estimated through self-reporting measures, despite their limitations in reliability, based on ease of collection and ana...
Background: Postoperative complications following colorectal surgery remain a persistent clinical challenge. Traditional risk stratification has focused on patient characteristics, while conventional modeling approaches treat procedural factors such...
30 June 2010
Smoking does not affect every socioeconomic subgroup of the population equally, resulting in major inequalities in terms of smoking-related morbidity and mortality. While previous studies mainly focused on inequalities in smoking prevalence, we have...
This study represents a preliminary proof of concept intended to demonstrate the feasibility of using a single-point LiDAR sensor for wearable gait analysis. The study presents a low-cost wearable sensor system that integrates a single-point LiDAR mo...
This study investigates the role of injection duration in marine diesel engine combustion within an optimised operating framework. While injection parameters are typically analysed in isolation, their interaction within a coupled engine system remain...
Utilizing 23 datasets, we report a meta-analysis of an asymmetry in presaccadic fixation durations for saccades directed above and below eye fixation during saccadic exploration. For inclusion in the meta-analysis, saccadic exploration of complex vis...
Background: There is a high prevalence of sleep disorders in Japan, and they are a factor in a decreased quality of life. The main objective of this study was to clarify the background factors of sleep disorders that affect sleep duration, such as su...
The duration of dust days (DDD) is one of the most important parameters that may worsen the effects of the presence of dust in the affected areas. Persistent pollution over consecutive dusty days can have particularly negative effects on the human re...
Background: Clear aligner therapy (CAT) represents a biomimetic orthodontic approach that uses flexible thermoplastic materials to reproduce the physiological tooth movement and mechanical load distribution of natural tissues. While these materials p...
15 February 2023
Handgrip strength has been shown an indispensable biomarker for older adults. Furthermore, the association between sleep duration and grip strength in special populations (e.g., type 2 diabetics) has been previously documented. However, the associati...
Given the fact that researchers require more specific spatial rainfall information for storm flood calculation, hydrological risk assessment, and water budget estimates, there is a growing need to analyze the spatial heterogeneity of rainfall accurat...
Background: The maxillary canine is the second-most frequently impacted tooth, affecting 1–3% of the population. It plays a crucial role in occlusion, facial esthetics, and arch development, making orthodontic traction the preferred approach ov...
This article introduces new counterfactual standardization techniques for comparing duration distributions subject to random censoring through counterfactual decompositions. The counterfactual distribution of one population relative to another is com...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death of women across all ages, and targeting modifiable risk factors, such as those comprised in metabolic syndrome (MetS) (e.g., waist circumference, lipid profile, blood pressure, and blood gluc...
Background/Objectives: External ventricular drains (EVDs) are widely used in the management of intracranial hemorrhage and hydrocephalus; however, they carry a significant risk of device-related central nervous system infections, including ventriculi...
Sleep is a vital behaviour that can reflect an animal’s adaptation to the environment and their welfare. However, a better understanding of normal age-specific sleep patterns is crucial. This study aims to provide population norms and descripti...
Background/Objectives: This study utilizes machine learning (ML) models integrated with explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) to perform a retrospective analysis of factors associated with tuberculosis (TB) treatment duration and outcomes. Method...
Current research trends in significant hydraulic engineering projects focus on investigating the seismological properties of intensity and frequency content of pulse-type near-field earthquakes on the structural response. Conversely, the duration imp...
This study attempts to reveal the consequences of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Chiang Mai, Thailand. A total of 786 MSMEs were surveyed during May and August 2022, corresponding to the period...
This study investigates the dynamics of three discrete independent events occurring randomly and repeatedly within the interval
7 July 2017
While sleep disturbance has been related to a number of negative health outcomes, few studies have examined the relationship between place of birth and sleep duration among individuals living in the US. Data for 416,152 adult participants in the 2000...
This study investigates the effect of a polyurethane (PUR) foam layer on impact force, impact duration, and deformation with regard to radiosondes during drop tests. Numerical (Finite Element Method) and experimental approaches were used to model col...
The current meta-analysis was conducted on 12 studies comparing the eye movements of expert versus non-expert musicians and attempted to determine which eye movement measures are expertise dependent during music reading. The total dataset of 61 compa...
In classical severity–duration–frequency (SDF) analysis, the dependence between drought characteristics is not effectively considered. The present study aims to propose the SDF relationships of streamflow drought in the source area of the...
This study focuses on improving the defect recognition accuracy under weak partial discharges (PDs) in epoxy resin through phase-resolved partial discharge (PRPD) analysis. The method is to refine the data rather than enhance the algorithm. Two measu...
2 May 2024
Background: The COVID-19 lockdown had a profound effect on everyday life, including sleep health. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated changes in quantitative sleep parameters during the first lockdown compared with pre-lockdown in the...
27 September 2025
Evaluation of seismic risk by capturing the influences of strong motion duration and frequency contents of ground motion through probabilistic approaches is the main element of this study. Unlike most existing studies that mainly focus on intensity m...
Introduction: Temporary non-tunneled catheters are necessary in patients with chronic kidney disease requiring acute hemodialysis care, and complications associated with these catheters, such as infection and thrombosis, represent the most important...
Background/Objectives: In the United States, HF prevalence is projected to progressively rise by 2030. Prior research suggests a strong association between reduced sleep duration and increased cardiovascular disease and HF risk. This study introduces...
Background/Objectives: Biliary contamination has been linked to infectious complications and clinically relevant postoperative pancreatic fistula (CR-POPF) after pancreatoduodenectomy (PD). It remains unclear whether surgeons consider suspected bilia...
Compact urban land use planning and smart growth are essential strategies for tackling the issues of sustainable urban transportation development. In the context of swift global urbanization, examining the intrinsic relationship between urban spatial...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been associated with a significant fatality rate and persistent evolution in immunocompromised patients. In this prospective study, we aimed to determine the duration of excretion of severe acute respiratory sy...
Prevailing studies on romantic relationships often emphasize facial symmetry as a factor in partner selection and marital satisfaction. This study aims to explore the inverse of this hypothesis—the relationship between facial dissimilarity and...
An analysis method of normalized pressure–impulse (P-I) diagrams related to the ductility ratio of structural components is proposed, to quickly estimate the dynamic response of high-strength reinforcement concrete (RC) beams subjected to long-...
This research was undertaken to study the duration effects on the seismic economic risk of steel moment frame (SMF) buildings, a prominent class of buildings in commercial stock. Firstly, a modified version of FEMA P-695 ground motion scaling, tailor...
Background/Objectives: Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) remains a leading cause of maternal morbidity, and the relationship between labour-induction duration and haemorrhagic risk has not been translated into a practical intrapartum risk-stratification f...
Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) utilizes a behavioral approach to neurorehabilitation involving constraint of an unaffected upper extremity which forces the use of the affected extremity. There is substantial evidence supporting the effect...
The effects of long duration ground motions on the seismic performance of a newly constructed two-storey balloon-type cross-laminated timber (CLT) building located in Vancouver, Canada, was studied. A three-dimensional numerical model of the building...
Radiological classification systems are widely used to estimate the difficulty of mandibular third molar extraction, yet their ability to predict patient-centered outcomes remains uncertain. This study investigated whether radiological predictors of...
In recent years, Taiwan has been facing water shortages due to the impact of climate change, which has resulted in many serious drought events, especially in southern Taiwan. Long-term records from 25 rainfall stations and 17 groundwater stations in...
8 November 2018
Short sleep duration appears to put adults at risk of excessive energy intake and obesity; less is known specifically about how sleep quantity relates to dietary patterns. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the associations of dietary pat...
Engagement in physical activity and sleep duration are crucial to the adequate psychosocial and healthy development of children. Thus, the aim of this study was to develop an explanatory model of the relationships of physical activity and sleep durat...
This study presents a novel probabilistic framework that combines the Duration Time Method (DTM) with the ATC-58 damage assessment procedure. The method reduces computational cost by 30% compared to incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) while maintainin...
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