The present paper presents the performance of an experimental cartographic study towards the examination of the minimum duration threshold required for the detection by the central vision of a moving point symbol on cartographic backgrounds. The exam...
Thresholds based on critical combinations of amount/duration of precipitation and flood events were estimated for the Corgo hydrographic basin, in northern Portugal. Thirty-one flood events in the Corgo basin were identified between 1865 and 2011 fro...
In the District of Abidjan, flooding typically occurs suddenly during intense rainfall events. The individual rainfall event provides the basic element for the study. Its analysis is required to develop solutions for managing the impact of extreme ra...
The pacing pulse produced by implantable stimulators can be described as a truncated exponential decay from the starting peak amplitude, corresponding to the discharge of the output stage capacitance (reservoir and isolation capacitors, in series) al...
Sustainable production of algae will depend on understanding trade-offs at the energy-water nexus. Algal biofuels promise to improve the environmental sustainability profile of renewable energy along most dimensions. In this assessment of potential U...
11 March 2023
Defining health-based thresholds for effective heat warnings is crucial for climate change adaptation strategies. Translating the non-linear function between heat and health effects into an effective threshold for heat warnings to protect the populat...
Coleoptera, including the family Nitidulidae, are valuable for estimating long-term postmortem intervals in the late stage of body decomposition. This study showed that, under seven constant temperatures of 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 31, and 34 °C, the...
Aircraft turnaround efficiency is a key determinant of the sustainability of air transport systems. Each stage of ground handling—passenger disembarkation, baggage handling, refuelling, and ancillary services—contributes to the total turn...
Consistently over the years, particularly during monsoon seasons, landslides and related geohazards in Bhutan are causing enormous damage to human lives, property, and road networks. The determination of thresholds for rainfall triggered landslides i...
Necrobia ruficollis (Fabricius, 1775) (Coleoptera: Cleridae) is an important cosmopolitan storage pest, and also frequently appears on highly decomposed and skeletonized corpses. It is a forensically important species expected to indicate a longer po...
Different animal models are used to evaluate the process of epileptogenesis. In this investigation the kindling model of epilepsy was used. The epileptic focus was induced in Chinchilla rabbits by stimulation of the hippocampus with electric stimuli....
The aim of this work is to investigate and characterize the photo-ignition process of dry multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) mixed with ferrocene (FeCp2) powder, using an LED (light-emitting diode) as the light source, a combination that has neve...
Different algorithms for forecasting and tracking meteorological systems have been developed over the years. Many of them are used to study cloud propagation, precipitation and lightning for nowcasting. Therefore, it is necessary to define carefully...
15 September 2022
To promote ecosystem protection in the Wujiang River, this paper proposes a practical approach for calculating the environmental flow. The proposed approach combines the idea of the “guarantee rate” of the flow duration curve (FDC) method...
This paper describes modern research methods of the ignition and combustion processes of slurry fuel droplets. The experiments were carried out using a muffle furnace to ensure the conditions of radiation heating, the hot surface to reproduce the con...
Low flow events (a.k.a. streamflow drought) are described as episodes where stream flows are lower or equal to a specified minimum threshold level. This threshold is usually predefined at the methodological stage of a study and is generally applied a...
10 August 2021
Public health guidelines for physical activity now include recommendations to break up prolonged sitting with light-intensity activities. Concurrently, interventions to increase standing have emerged, especially within the workplace in the form of si...
Single-celled eukaryote genomes predominantly replicate through multiple origins. Although origin usage during the S-phase has been elucidated in some of these organisms, few studies have comparatively approached this dynamic. Here, we developed a us...
Sandstone oil–gas reservoirs in the Junggar Basin, China have great development potential. However, their ultra-deep formation depth leads to high crustal stress and high breakdown pressure. Therefore, in this research, we studied the cyclic hy...
The sample size is a crucial concern in scientific research and even more in behavioural neurosciences, where besides the best practice it is not always possible to reach large experimental samples. In this study we investigated how the outcomes of r...
Droughts are natural disasters with a significant impact on the economy and social life. Prolonged droughts can cause even more damage than floods. The novelty of this work lies in the definition of a synthetic drought hydrograph (SDH) which can be d...
Self-monitoring of weight, diet and physical activity is a valuable component of behavioral weight loss treatment. The validation and user-friendliness of this approach is not optimal since users are selected from homogeneous pools and rely on differ...
Identifying the minimum rainfall thresholds necessary for landslides triggering is essential to landslide risk assessment. The Italian Alps have always been affected by shallow landslides and mud-debris flows, which caused considerable damage to prop...
Recent studies have revealed a rise in extreme heat events worldwide, while extreme cold has reduced. It is highly likely that human-induced climate forcing will double the risk of exceptionally severe heat waves by the end of the century. Although e...
Efficiently managing temperature and humidity in a pig house is crucial for enhancing animal welfare. This research endeavors to develop an intelligent temperature and humidity control system grounded in a three-way decision and clustering algorithm....
Sensors and transducers play a vital role in the productivity of any industry. A sensor that is frequently used in industries to monitor flow is an orifice flowmeter. In certain instances, faults can occur in the flowmeter, hindering the operation of...
13 July 2022
Background: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is closely related to various adverse cardiovascular manifestations and increased cardiovascular risk. However, atrial fibrillation (AF) development and atrial conduction abnormalities have not been thorou...
9 February 2017
Exposure to nature provides a wide range of health benefits. A significant proportion of these are delivered close to home, because this offers an immediate and easily accessible opportunity for people to experience nature. However, there is limited...
Patients with sleep apnea are usually treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). This therapy is very effective if the patient′s adherence is satisfactory. However, although CPAP adherence is usually acceptable during the first months o...
With hot and dry summers, the Mediterranean basin is affected by recurrent fires. While drought is the major driver of the seasonal and inter-annual fire distribution in its northern and mildest climate conditions, some extreme fire events are also l...
Any attempt for the application of integrated drought management requires identifying and characterizing the event, per se. The questions of scale, boundary, and of geographic areal extent are of central concern for any efforts of drought assessment,...
At the beginning of the 21st century, ongoing climate change led to research into extreme streamflow phenomena. This study aimed to assess the patterns of low-flow changes in different hydrological regions of Lithuania using selected hydrological ind...
The transition to high-energy-density lithium metal batteries (LMBs) is essential for advancing electric vehicle (EV) technologies beyond the limitations of conventional lithium-ion batteries. A key challenge in scaling LMB production is the precise,...
With the advancement of spatial positioning technology, trajectory data have been growing rapidly. Trajectory data record the spatiotemporal information and behavioral characteristics of moving objects, and in-depth analysis can provide decision supp...
This study evaluates General Circulation Models (GCMs) participating in the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) for their ability in simulating historical means and extremes of daily precipitation (P), and daily maximum (Tmax), and...
The Caucasus Region has been affected by an increasing number of heat waves during the last decades, which have had serious impacts on human health, agriculture and natural ecosystems. A dataset of 22 homogenized, daily maximum (Tmax) and minimum (Tm...
(1) Background: Affordable electronic radon instruments have become increasingly popular as alternatives to traditional home radon measurements, which require a minimum duration of two months. This study aimed to determine how results obtained from t...
This paper proposes an external breaking vibration identification method of transmission line tower based on a radio frequency identification (RFID) sensor and deep learning. The RFID sensor is designed to obtain the vibration signal of the transmiss...
In this work, we first propose a deep neural network (DNN) system for the automatic detection of speech in audio signals, otherwise known as voice activity detection (VAD). Several DNN types were investigated, including multilayer perceptrons (MLPs),...
This work explores the ability to dynamically group the Wind Turbine (WT) of a Wind Farm (WF) based on the behavior of some of their Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) signals to detect the turbines that exhibit abnormal behavior. This...
Many scientists and managers have an interest in describing the environment following a fire to understand the effects on soil productivity, vegetation growth, and wildlife habitat, but little research has focused on the scientific rationale for clas...
(1) Background: Public service platforms (PSPs) have become increasingly popular for delivering public services. Typically, their fixed pricing and subsidy strategies overlook the participation of various stakeholders, resulting in inefficient supply...
The aim of this study was twofold: it (i) analyzed the weekly variations of sleep quality and training intensity of youth soccer players and (ii) analyzed the relationships between sleep quality and training intensity. This study followed an observat...
Peak-operating hydropower plants are usually the energy grid’s backbone by providing flexible energy production. At the same time, hydropeaking operations are considered one of the most adverse impacts on rivers, whereby aquatic organisms and their l...
The algal blooms caused by the eutrophication of lakes is a major environmental problem. In this study, we took China’s Taihu Lake as the research area, using multi-source satellite imagery data to monitor the information of algal blooms from 2...
The increasing interest shared by academia and industry in the development of RISC-V cores, extensions and accelerators becomes fructified by collaborative efforts, like the EU’s ChipsJU, which leverages the design of building blocks, IPs and cores b...
We study an online distribution problem in which a producer has to send a load from an origin to a destination. At each time period before the deadline, they ask for transportation price quotes and have to decide to either accept or not accept the mi...
Background/Objectives: Intensive care units (ICU) immobility and weakness impair recovery, yet practice for Physical Therapist (PT)-led therapeutic exercise and mobility varies in definitions, dosing, safety, and documentation, which limits comparabi...
For humans and other mammals to eat effectively, teeth must develop properly inside the jaw. Deciphering craniodental integration is central to explaining the timely formation of permanent molars, including third molars which are often impacted in hu...
The preservation of cultural heritage within museum environments requires systematic control and monitoring of indoor microclimatic conditions. Over the past four decades, scientific evidence has established the critical role of environmental paramet...
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