The Yellow River (YR) covers three climatic zones including arid region, semi-arid region and temperate monsoon region, with frequent appearance of flow intermittence in the Lower Yellow River (LYR) before 1999. Channel migration occurs frequently in...
Water migration occurs in unsaturated loess subgrade due to extreme rainfall, making it prone to subgrade subsidence and other water damage disasters, which seriously impact road safety and sustainable development of the Loess Plateau. The study perf...
In advanced civil aero-engine, the gas exiting combustor typically features hot streak (HS) and swirl that affect the aerothermal performances of the high pressure (HP) nozzle guide vane (NGV). The purpose of this paper is to study the influences of...
In this report, we introduce the static coherent states (SCS) method for investigating quantum electron dynamics in a one- or two-electron laser-induced system. The SCS method solves the time-dependent Schrödinger equation (TDSE) both in imagina...
Sand waves constitute ubiquitous geomorphology distribution in the ocean. In this paper, we quantitatively investigate the sand wave variation of topology, morphology, and evolution from the high-resolution mapping of a side scan sonar (SSS) in an Au...
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Background: Following the introduction of administrative federalism in the Italian National Health Service, inter-regional patients’ mobility has become increasingly relevant because, in addition to being an indirect index of the quality of car...
This study investigates four rock–soil profiles developed from Proterozoic intermediate–acid rocks in the Maoniushan area of Xichang, Sichuan Province. Through systematic geochemical analysis of major and trace elements and X-ray diffract...
Background: Umbilical venous catheter (UVC) placement is common in neonates but carries risks of migration and infection. This study evaluates safety of a novel fixation technique using the umbilical cord clamp after a side-entry insertion. Methods:...
The perioperative inflammatory response is associated with outcome after complex aortic repair. Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) shows protective effects in ischemia-reperfusion (IR), but also adverse pro-inflammatory effects in acute inf...
Despite the ubiquity of disease seasonality, mechanisms behind the fluctuations in seasonal diseases are still poorly understood. Avian hemosporidiosis is increasingly used as a model for ecological and evolutionary studies on disease dynamics, but t...
The climatology of tropical cyclones is an immediate research need, specifically to better understand their long-term patterns and elucidate their future in a changing climate. One important pattern that has recently been detected is the poleward shi...
After the non-point source pollutants are generated at the source position and migrate to the target water body, they will have different degrees of loss under the action of precipitation, adsorption, or absorption by plants, resulting in differences...
Snowmelt runoff is a major soil erosion trigger in mid-to-high latitude and altitude regions. Through runoff plot observations and simulations in the northeastern black soil region, this study reveals the key regulatory mechanism of water migration o...
This research studies a metapopulation model where each patch is considered a form of fragmentation of the environment produced by the spatio-temporal variability of anthropogenic noise. A deterministic mathematical model is proposed that describes t...
While it is still a matter of global dialogue whether and how migration will feature in the post-2015 framework, remittance-dependent countries like Nepal clearly back migration in their post-Millennium Development Goal (MDG) discussions. We argue th...
As an important method for seismic data processing, reverse time migration (RTM) has high precision but involves high-intensity calculations. The calculation an RTM surface offset (shot–receiver distance) domain gathers provides intermediary data for...
Objective. The aim of study was to investigate a chemotactic effect of induced sputum and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid on blood neutrophils in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and healthy individuals.
Material and methods. F...
Data migration is required to run data-intensive applications. Legacy data storage systems are not capable of accommodating the changing nature of data. In many companies, data migration projects fail because their importance and complexity are not t...
Surface flow (SF) and subsurface flow (SSF) are important hydrological processes occurring on slopes, and are driven by two main factors: rainfall intensity and slope gradient. To explore nitrogen (N) migration and loss from sloping farmland in the M...
The latitude where tropical cyclones (TCs) reach their peak intensity has migrated poleward in some regions [...]
Drip irrigation under mulch is a widely used technique in the arid region of northwest China. The partially mulched soil and the bare strips between mulched areas may complicate the migration of water, salt, and heat in soils, and cause lateral salt...
Hydrology and temperature are known as key drivers for fish migration in floodplain-channel systems of large rivers. The Lower Irtysh contains valuable species of whitefish and sturgeon. Thus, along the Konda River, a complex study was carried out in...
Solar–thermal conversion and migration characteristics of nanofluids have attracted intensive attention recently. Due to the strong absorption of solar energy, solar collectors with nanofluids have wide applications in many areas including desa...
Inter-provincial migration causes dramatic changes in the population, as well as in the development of the social economy at both origin and destination, which is related to sustainable development in any country. Using inter-provincial migration dat...
The economic emigration of young people from rural areas in Poland, and in particular the emigration of young medical personnel, is a relatively little-recognized phenomenon. What distinguishes this study from many works on related topics is that the...
Academics and policymakers have been paying close attention to the impact of climate change on migration in recent years. This phenomenon piqued interest because the factors driving environmentally induced migration are complex and manifold. Noticeab...
Land use/cover change (LUCC) is becoming one of the most important and interesting problems in the study of global environmental change. Identifying the spatiotemporal behavior and associated driving forces behind changes in land use is crucial for t...
The fluvial process is characterized by an intense meandering riverbed. The aim of this study was to perform a reconstruction of the lateral migration of a 15 km length of an active meandering river during the period 1930–2016. River morphological ch...
Along-slope bottom currents and down-slope (gravity-driven) turbidity currents coexist in the ocean and interact during their flow processes. The interaction between turbidity currents and bottom currents plays a crucial role in determining the later...
Edge computing represents the future of computing paradigms that perform tasks near the user plane. The integration of blockchain with edge computing provides the added advantage of secured and trusted communication. In this paper, we propose a block...
Cell migration is an important process involved in wound healing, tissue development, and so on. Many studies have been conducted to explore how certain chemicals and electric fields induce cell movements in specific directions, which are phenomena t...
Coastal residents of Bangladesh are now confronted with the increased incidence, variability, and severity of weather-related hazards and disasters due to climate change-induced sea level rise (SLR). Many researchers hold the view that as a consequen...
The economic stability is the main goal of every country’s administration, contributing to the decrease of uncertainty, creating an attractive business environment, attracting foreign direct investment and contributing to economic growth, which incre...
Developing economies face challenges in improving the overall performance of farms. An essential challenge could be a substantial shift in the agricultural labor force to off-farm sectors during the process of economic transition. This paper estimate...
Frequent bird strikes during peak migration periods pose a significant risk to aviation safety. Existing prevention methods rely on static historical patterns and lack the ability to adapt to real-time changes. Short-term meteorological fluctuations...
The non-equilibrium characteristics during the shock relaxation process hold a foundational position in various fields. In contrast to the propagation of a single shock wave, the collision process of two shock waves exhibits distinct non-equilibrium...
Clarifying migration pathways and the source area–destination relationships of the domestic and foreign beet webworm Loxostege sticticalis (Linnaeus) populations, as well as understanding the meteorological mechanisms shaping these processes, i...
This study investigates the oxygen (O2) consumption of single cells during changes in their migration direction. This is the first integration of nanotopographies with an O2 biosensor in a platform, allowing the real-time monitoring of O2 consumption...
The emerging applications of deep learning in solving geophysical problems have attracted increasing attention. In particular, it is of significance to enhance the computational efficiency of the computationally intensive geophysical algorithms. In t...
Since the 2015 refugee crisis, when over 850,000 refugees and migrants reached European shores, migration has sparked intense political and social debates that dominate Europe’s political and media agenda. As a key entry point for refugees and...
The integration of East European Countries in European Union has long-term consequences, with migration being one of the main social effects of this process. From an economic perspective, the research on migration has attracted considerable attention...
The problem of finding the optimal open-loop control for discrete-time stochastic dynamical systems is considered. It is assumed that the initial conditions and external influences are random. The average value of the Bolza functional defined on indi...
Smallholders worldwide continue to experience processes of displacement from their lands under neoliberal political-economic governance. This displacement is often experienced as “slow”, driven by decades of agricultural policies and land...
In China, the Lower Jingjiang Reach (LJR) of the Yangtze River could be one of the most complicated areas in terms of channel migration. The river had undergone many channel changes in the reach since the 18th century. Intensive human activities in r...
The increasing severity of arsenic pollution has progressively threatened human life and attracted much attention. One of the important topics in environmental sciences is to accurately describe the inorganic arsenic transport in heterogeneous porous...
To provide a theoretical basis for sound barrier technology for fish, the effects of sound intensity and frequency on negative phonotaxis in adult bighead carp, Hypophthalmichthys nobilis, (weight 1.42–2.20 kg, body length 45.1–54.8 cm) w...
Macrophages migrate and invade into damaged muscle rapidly and are important for muscle repair and subsequent regeneration. The exact cellular and biological events that cause macrophage migration toward injured muscle are not completely understood....
Compared with capillary electrophoresis (CE), gel electrophoresis (GE) is a traditional method for the analysis of nucleic acids because of its low cost, although the operation process is complicated. The electropherogram from CE can offer more infor...
Napatree Point, an isolated barrier in southern Rhode Island, provides a case study of barrier spit migration via storm driven overwash and washover fan migration. Documented shoreline changes using historical surveys and vertical aerial photographs...
The internet of things (IoT) is essential for the implementation of applications and services that require the ability to sense the surrounding environment through sensors and modify it through actuators. However, IoT devices usually have limited com...
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