Diffuse nitrogen (N) pollution from agriculture in groundwater and surface water is a major challenge in terms of meeting drinking water targets in many parts of Europe. A bottom-up approach involving local stakeholders may be more effective than nat...
One of the main methods for link quality prediction is to predict the physical layer parameters first, and then evaluate the link quality based on the mapping models between such parameters and packet reception ratio (PRR). However, existing methods...
Hardware-based link quality estimators (LQEs) in wireless sensor networks generally use physical layer parameters to estimate packet reception ratio, which has advantages of high agility and low overhead. However, many existing studies didn’t c...
The physical layer security of Internet of Things (IoT) networks has become increasingly important but also introduces major security vulnerabilities due to the open and shared nature of wireless channels. Therefore, authentication and authorization...
Accurate indoor localization in wireless sensor networks remains a non-trivial challenge, particularly in complex environments characterized by signal variability and multipath propagation. This study presents a ZigBee-based localization approach tha...
The accurate positioning of location in indoor environment has become crucial in many location-based services, mainly where global positioning systems (GPSs) are unavailable or fail to navigate correctly. Conventional fingerprint-based approaches fac...
In mobile communications systems, fast link adaptation (FLA) aims to achieve high system throughput of each user by accurately determining a channel quality indicator (CQI) for feedback, which predicts the next channel based on the current channel st...
Insight into antibiotic prescribing quality is key to general practitioners (GPs) to improve their prescribing behavior and to national antibiotic surveillance and stewardship programs. Additionally to numbers of prescribed antibiotics, quality indic...
Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are becoming popular at many manufacturing facilities. To ensure mobility and flexibility, AGVs are often controlled by wireless communication, eliminating the constraints of physical cables. These AGVs require multip...
This research was conducted to determine the connections between dissolved oxygen (DO), chemical oxygen demand (COD), permanganate index (CODMn), five-day biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), and ammonia nitrogen (NH3-H) across five reservoirs of Yunmen...
The achievement of sustainable development goals in groundwater resources related to water quality issues is a critical question in many regions. This study aims to combine powerful tools for helping stakeholders and policymakers achieve sustainable...
In an on-road environment, motor-engines severely disturb the wireless link of a sensor node, leading to high package loss rate, high delivery delay, and poor radio communication quality. The existing data delivery mechanisms, such as the ACK-based r...
Ready-to-eat sea cucumbers (RSC) cannot be preserved at room temperature due to autolysis, which is closely related to the instability of collagen resulting from the disruption of hydrogen bonds. To investigate the protective effect of N-(3-Dimethyla...
The composition of the sperm microbiome in bulls (Bos taurus) may influence reproductive function. This study aimed to examine the taxonomic composition of the sperm microbiome in bulls to establish its possible link with semen quality. The study inv...
Forest soils play a critical role in carbon sequestration and nutrient cycling by storing large amounts of soil organic matter (SOM). However, the integrated associations linking aboveground resource properties and belowground microbial processes inf...
The World Health Organization (WHO) considers oral heath to be a key indicator of overall health, as it is linked to physical well-being and quality of life [...]
FLOCponics systems combine biofloc-based aquaculture with nutrient recycling and are considered sustainable for intensive aquaculture. However, fungal community dynamics in these systems and their links to water quality remain poorly understood. In t...
Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) plays an increasingly important role in modern nanomanufacturing processes, but its effective application in production conditions requires precise tools for evaluating and optimising technological processes. The aim of...
Differences in sour-taste thresholds have been identified in cognition-related diseases. Diet is a modulator of cognitive health, and taste perception influences dietary preferences and habits. Heritable genetics and polymorphisms in the KCNJ2 gene i...
Low-calorie sweeteners (LCS) serve to replace added sugars in beverages and foods. The present goal was to explore any potential links between LCS use and cancer risk using the nationally representative National Health and Nutrition Examination Surve...
Creating a suitable growing environment is necessary to ensure good plant growth in a plant factory, which requires wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to monitor the environment in real time. However, existing WSN clustered routing methods hardly take i...
This paper arises from an ONRR project on “New technologies and methodologies for traceability, quality, safety, measurements and certifications to enhance the value and protect the typical traits in agrifood chains”. It has a first aim o...
9 May 2022
Introduction: The autonomic nervous system plays a vital role in the modulation of many vital bodily functions, one of which is sleep and wakefulness. Many studies have investigated the link between autonomic dysfunction and sleep cycles; however, fe...
Wireless sensor networks are expected to automatically monitor the ecological evolution and wildlife habits in forests. Low-power links (transceivers) are often adopted in wireless sensor network applications, in order to save the precious sensor ene...
To facilitate connectivity to the internet, the easiest way to establish communication infrastructure in areas affected by natural disaster and in remote locations with intermittent cellular services and/or lack of Wi-Fi coverage is to deploy an end-...
Changes in land cover throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed, accompanied by variability in climate patterns, can impact runoff and water quality. A study was conducted using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) for the James River watershed in...
Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is a common but understudied endocrine condition associated with elevated mental health risks, including disordered eating and reduced quality of life. Prior research suggests that childhood trauma may contribute to...
Radio communication systems are very widely present in our current smart lifestyles. It consists of two ends, which can carry the transmitter’s information to the receptor. Before installing any radio communication system, it is necessary to an...
In this study, the effects of microwave treatment on protease activity, dough properties and protein quality in sprouted wheat were investigated. Microwave treatment led to a significant (p < 0.05) reduction in protease activity in sprouted wheat....
Although sociodemographic factors are one aspect of understanding the effects of neighborhood environments on health, equating neighborhood quality with socioeconomic status ignores the important role of physical neighborhood attributes. Prior work o...
Agricultural productive services provide a new entry point to solve the “labor dilemma” and contributes to the sustainable development of the apple industry. In this study, we establish a random frontier model with the Translog production...
Astringency is an important indicator of wine sensory quality. As a complex sensation that the loss of in-mouth lubrication is recognised as an important mechanism, astringency can be perceived as a set of different sub-qualities. In addition to sens...
Background and objectives: People with multiple sclerosis (MS) often experience limitations in joint range of motion, which is linked to spasticity and continued inactivity. Low flexibility levels in this population have been linked to postural probl...
29 December 2022
Air quality is a growing environmental concern that has implications for human physical and mental health. While air pollution has been linked to cognitive disease progression and declines in overall health, the impacts of air quality on athletic per...
When aiming for the wider deployment of low-power sensor networks, the use of sub-GHz frequency bands shows a lot of promise in terms of robustness and minimal power consumption. Yet, when deploying such sensor networks over larger areas, the link qu...
Video-monitoring can be exploited as a valuable tool to acquire continuous, high-quality information on the evolution of beach morphology at a low cost and, on such basis, perform beach resilience analyses. This manuscript presents preliminary result...
Frozen storage is an important strategy to maintain meat quality for long-term storage and transportation. Lipid oxidation is one of the predominant causes of the deterioration of meat quality during frozen storage. Untargeted lipidomic and targeted...
Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) clusters operating in maritime environments face dynamic communication conditions, including varying sea states, electromagnetic interference, and satellite denial, that render static communication topologies suboptimal...
The most important source of human life support is water. During the development of mineral water fields, unsustainable patterns of production and consumption have been observed, which could lead to environmental damage and the deterioration of miner...
31 December 2022
Cost-effectiveness analysis of diets may comprise an important tool to promote food security; however, studies show divergent evidence regarding the relationship between diet quality and cost in diverse populations. Thus, this study assesses differen...
An understanding of wildness is being developed as a quality of interactive processing that increases survival opportunities in nature. A link is made between the need to improve interactive quality for wildness, and cognitive desires and interests i...
Unmanned surface vehicle (USV) clusters operating in contested maritime environments face communication degradation from jamming, satellite denial, and partial node loss. Existing countermeasures either react after link failure or rely on a single si...
How can citizen science projects advance the achievement of transformative air quality-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Germany and Niger? We investigate the promise of using citizen-generated data (CGD) as an input for official SDG mo...
The aim of the study was to explore the concept of quality food in the opinion of key informants of the food system. This qualitative research included 208 key informants related to the food supply for Brazilian public food services. The participants...
Atmospheric water (AW) is currently recognized as a promising solution to mitigate the global water crisis. Nevertheless, its harvesting techniques should balance three main aspects: energy consumption, yield, and the quality of produced water. Water...
Palm fat has uniquely optimal melting characteristics that are difficult to replace in products such as baked goods and chocolate-based items. This study investigates the efficacy of using Pickering emulsions derived from Swiss plant oils and their m...
In this paper, we examine the impact of national governance quality on clean energy supplies in developing countries. We used a large sample of 103 developing countries over 21 years. We employ pooled ordinary least squares as the primary estimator....
The aim of this study is to propose the rational quality monitoring of the renovation process with methodology for data collection and analysis. The presented approach is based on a complex system of criteria that enables the comprehensive evaluation...
In this contribution, a narrowband radio channel model is proposed for rural scenarios in which the radio link operates under near-ground conditions for application in wireless sensor networks dedicated to smart agriculture. The received power attenu...
1 September 2016
Background: Enhanced quality of care and improved access are central to effective primary care management of long term conditions. However, research evidence is inconclusive in establishing a link between quality of primary care, or access, and adver...
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