More and more attention is paid to the circular economy (CE) and indicators that enable the monitoring and verification of the progress of transformation at various levels (the European Union, countries, regions, companies, etc.). Many analyses of CE...
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 14.7.1 is the only statistical indicator under the SDG framework which measures the progress to achieve sustainable fisheries. However, despite its advantages, it suffers from substantial limitations. One...
In line with the United Nations’ (UN) sustainable development goal, value-based healthcare (VBHC) aims to deliver outcomes that truly matter to patients at a reasonable cost. A reimbursement system in VBHC encourages physicians to refrain from...
Temporary use of space in degraded areas is gaining significance in spatial planning due to limitations and conflicts stemming from traditional models that overlook social (soft) environmental components. This article addresses the lack of socio-ecol...
Assays of total antioxidant capacity (TAC) of complex materials bring no information on the composition of antioxidants present in a sample. As the thermodynamic condition for a redox reaction is that redox potential of the oxidant must be higher tha...
This paper investigates the impact of the moderate growth of government borrowing on debt sustainability in 11 Russian regions over about 10 years, starting in 2010. The current study aims to assess the debt sustainability of the Russian region&rsquo...
To ensure sustainability, the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) requires the evaluation of the impacts of fisheries beyond the main targeted species, to include those on bycaught, endangered, threatened and protected populations and keystone spec...
The present study incorporates age- and length-based methods to estimate the stock status of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in the inland fisheries of Lake Nasser, Egypt. In 2021, a total of 570 specimens were sampled to determine the length&nd...
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Physical fitness level plays a significant role in health promotion. Cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular endurance, muscle power, and flexibility are the four key indicators of physical fitness level, listed as one of the important fields of preven...
To address the engineering challenges of long detection cycles and the inability to provide real-time early warning for the traditional measurement of 5-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) in drainage networks, coupled with the limited availability...
Polder watercourses within agricultural areas are affected by high chemical oxygen demand (COD) and biological oxygen demand (BOD5) concentrations, due to intensive farming activities and runoff. Practical cases have shown that constructed wetlands (...
The ability to effectively develop agriculture with limited water resources is an important strategic objective to face future climate change and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2) of the United Nations. Since new conditions increas...
Climate change has intensified hydrological extremes, placing complex stress on terrestrial ecosystems. Quantifying the decoupling between vegetation condition and water availability—termed vegetation–water asynchrony—is critical fo...
The laser tracker has characteristics of high measurement accuracy and wide measurement range. Laser tracker technology, as an effectively large-scale measuring approach, plays a critical role in dynamic measurement. Currently, the static performance...
The study of complex networks with topological indices has flourished in recent years. The aim of this paper is to study the limiting behaviors of Gutman and Schultz indices in random polygonal chains, whose graph-theoretic mathematical properties an...
In their 30-year update to Limits to Growth, Meadows et al. call for a vision of sustainable development that includes systemic change brought on by new perspectives on the purpose of development, new ways of measuring progress, and changes in social...
Cadmium (Cd) is a food-chain contaminant that has high rates of soil-to-plant transference. This phenomenon makes dietary Cd intake unavoidable. Although long-term Cd intake impacts many organ systems, the kidney has long been considered to be a crit...
Urban public buildings offer large rooftop PV potential, yet cross-building comparison is often hindered by heterogeneous sizes, operating conditions, and incomplete monitoring. This study develops and applies a standardized indicator framework to be...
Accurate multi-year crop mapping is often constrained by the cost of constructing dense labels for every target year. This study evaluated a cross-year crop and land-cover classification framework using Sentinel-2 imagery in Jiyuan City, China. Dense...
Phosphorus (P) is an essential macronutrient necessary for plant growth, development, and reproduction. Two field experiments were carried out in 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 on P-deficient soil to evaluate the impact of foliar fertilization with nanophos...
This paper reviews the interdisciplinary collaboration between Environmental Sciences and Statistics. The usage of statistical methods as a problem-solving tool for handling environmental problems is the key element of this approach. This paper enhan...
The acceptance sampling plan and process capability index (PCI) are critical decision tools for quality control. Recently, numerous research papers have examined the acceptance sampling plan in combination with the PCI. However, most of these papers...
The objective of this paper is to evaluate the capability of various steel rope manufacturers to maintain the desired variability within the strength class of wires used in the production of steel ropes. From a service life perspective, it is optimal...
The fast growth of the world’s energy demand in the modernized world has stirred many countries around the globe to focus on power generation by abundantly available renewable energy resources. Among them, wind energy has attained significant attenti...
Despite its relevance, measuring the contributions of the bioeconomy to national economies remains an arduous task that faces limitations. Part of the difficulty is associated with the lack of a clear and widely accepted concept of the bioeconomy and...
Assessing cropland soil quality and identifying limiting indicators are crucial in guiding sustainable agricultural practices, particularly in fragile agricultural ecosystems. However, a unified understanding of key limiting indicators and the contro...
Optical vegetation and soil indices are widely used in Earth observation, although their estimation is strongly affected by cloud coverage and illumination variability. Synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) has therefore attracted increasing interest as an...
A Water Quality Index (WQI) is a tool that describes the overall water quality by combining complex and technical water quality information into a single meaningful unitless numerical value. WQIs predict water quality since they reflect the impact of...
Odontogenic sinusitis (ODS) is increasingly recognized as a distinct form of sinonasal disease in which dental and sinus pathology coexist and frequently require coordinated management. Although systemic antibiotics are commonly prescribed, their pre...
Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs) cause flaccid paralysis by interfering with vesicle fusion and neurotransmitter release in the neuronal cells. BoNTs are the most widely used therapeutic proteins. BoNT/A was approved by the U.S. FDA to treat strabismus,...
In ageing and built environment research, unevenness in evidence across spatial contexts constitutes a methodological condition rather than a simple coverage gap, with direct implications for how accessibility, usability and fairness are conceptualis...
Osteoporosis reduces bone integrity, significantly increasing the risk of fractures. This study aims to identify alternative screening methods for assessing osteoporosis in low-income settings, where access to dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) i...
The limit of detection (LOD) is commonly encountered in observational studies when one or more covariate values fall outside the measuring ranges. Although the complete-case (CC) approach is widely employed in the presence of missing values, it could...
Little is known about the suite of ecological conditions under which characteristic species may continue to develop under the pressure of recent habitat deterioration. We aimed to determine the niche of three indicator species of the priority habitat...
Background: In the last few decades, endoscopic endonasal approaches (EEA) have revolutionized surgical access to the sellar region and anterior cranial fossa (ACF). One technique, the endoscopic endonasal transethmoidal transcribriform approach (EET...
Introduction: Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) via the vagina (vNOTES) has recently appeared on the gynecology horizon as a fresh minimally invasive approach. Although vNOTES for benign adnexal conditions is being increasingly...
Glass facades are known to be fascinating building systems that require specific design strategies, experimental protocols and simulation tools. Especially for seismic-resistant buildings, their mechanical performance should be verified against possi...
Endoscopic endonasal surgery (EES) has fundamentally changed the management of anterior skull base meningiomas by enabling access to many lesions through a direct minimally invasive corridor that avoids traditional transcranial exposure. Improvements...
The potential of a new algorithm for comparing experimental and reference values of gas chromatographic retention indices (RIs) is discussed. This algorithm is designed to minimize significant elements of uncertainty typical of numerous contemporary...
The efficient conservation of vulnerable ecosystems in the face of global change requires a complete understanding of how plant communities respond to various environmental factors. We aim to demonstrate that a combined use of different approaches, t...
Background: Sarcopenia is linked with high rates of adverse surgical outcomes, and computed tomography angiography (CTA)-based psoas measurements are used as imaging sarcopenia surrogates. Their prognostic value in patients with chronic limb-threaten...
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The present research aimed to study the psycho-motor performance of five-year-old children with different body mass indices (BMI). A total of 694 pre-school children in the province of Albacete-Spain participated. Their performance in motor, perceptu...
This study investigated two popular satellite-derived vegetation indices (VIs), MODIS NDVI and EVI, as tools for monitoring crop growth at the Thapanzeik Dam irrigation district in Myanmar, where quality ground data are difficult to obtain. The time-...
Local threshold limits translate abstract information on hydrological drought into concrete operational guidance for individual water resources. For reservoirs, surface water intakes, and groundwater sources that are important to a region, key monito...
Since Horton in 1965, many authors have sought to aggregate different variables characterizing the state of water into a single value called Water Quality Index (
Morphea or localized scleroderma is an uncommon autoimmune and inflammatory disease which affects patients of any age. Even if morphea lesions present systemic symptoms as myalgias or arthritis, it is distinct from systemic sclerosis because it does...
Objective. Heart-team decisions in transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) lean on EuroSCORE II, yet the comorbidity burden that often drives the final choice is rarely scored. We tested a specific two-part hypothesis: whether formally quantif...
Background and Objectives: Gynecological cancers frequently require radiation therapy (RT) in primary, adjuvant, or salvage settings. However, photon-based RT is associated with non-negligible toxicity, and treatment of pelvic recurrences after prior...
This retrospective study described the clinical and radiographic long-term outcomes of combined periodontal and orthodontic treatment (OT) with fixed appliances in patients with Stage IV periodontitis and pathologic tooth migration (PTM) in the anter...
One of the most complex challenges currently faced by non-profit organizations (NPOs) is demonstrating that they manage resources with the highest levels of efficiency and excellence, and do not deviate from the accomplishment of their mission. Trans...
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