Forest fires cause environmental and economic damage, destroy large areas of land and displace entire communities. Accurate extraction of fire-affected areas is of vital importance to support post-fire management strategies and account for the enviro...
Currently, large-scale burning is an important straw disposal method in most developing countries. To execute prescribed burning while mitigating air pollution, it is crucial to explore the maximum possible range of meteorological changes. This study...
Autologous cell therapy manufacturing timeframes constitute bottlenecks in clinical management pathways of severe burn patients. While effective temporary wound coverings exist for high-TBSA burns, any means to shorten the time-to-treatment with cyto...
Fire severity represents fire-induced environmental changes and is an important variable for modeling fire emissions and planning post-fire rehabilitation. Remotely sensed fire severity is traditionally evaluated using the differenced normalized burn...
Fire severity, defined as the degree of environmental change caused by a fire, is a critical fire regime attribute of interest to fire emissions modelling and post-fire rehabilitation planning. Remotely sensed fire severity is traditionally assessed...
This paper presents a trajectory optimization study that has been conducted using a recently developed tool for the synthesis and analysis of extended flight formations of long-haul commercial aircraft, with the aim to minimize overall fuel consumpti...
Prescribed burning and pyric herbivory play pivotal roles in mitigating wildfire risks, underscoring the imperative of consistent biomass monitoring for assessing fuel load reductions. Drone-derived surface models promise uninterrupted biomass survei...
This work analyzes the possibility of a provision of force-majeure mode of the combat vehicles with the aid of disk construction installed in the baffler, the base of the operation of which is the method of residual cyclical quadratic chain code of c...
This study demonstrates that hydrogen enrichment in lean-burn spark-ignition engines can simultaneously improve three key performance metrics, thermal efficiency, combustion stability, and nitrogen oxide emissions, without requiring modifications to...
This study proposes an artificial intelligence-integrated Six Sigma framework for reducing multiple critical defects in plastic injection molding using real industrial production data from a washing-machine control-panel manufacturing line. Predictiv...
The reverse design of solid propellant grain for a performance-matching goal, one of the most challenging directions of the solid rocket motor designing work, is limited by the traditional semi-empirical parameter-driven optimization methods based on...
This paper investigates the intelligent scheduling of semiconductor burn-in tests on heterogeneous automated testing equipment, modeled as non-identical parallel batch processing machines with different capacities and processing speeds. Jobs are char...
Assessment of the spatio-temporal dynamics of shifting cultivation is important to understand the opportunities for land restoration. The past studies on shifting cultivation mapping of North-East (NE) India lack systematic assessment techniques. We...
It is generally believed that stable airflow can effectively reduce tip burn, a common lettuce plant disease in closed plant factories that severely restricts the sustainable development of these factories. This study aims to achieve stable airflow i...
Selecting the optimal locations and timing for prescribed burning is challenging when considering uncertainties in weather, fire behavior, and future fire suppression. In this study, we present a sample average approximation (SAA) based multistage st...
Recent advancements in acute burn wound therapy are transforming the management of burn injuries, with a focus on improving healing times, graft integration, and minimizing complications. However, current clinical treatments face significant challeng...
Background: Despite the variety of treatment methods for wounds and scars after burns, there are still few effective preparations that can be used in a non-invasive therapy. Recent years have seen significant development of nanomedicine and nanotechn...
The graph burning problem is an NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem that helps quantify how vulnerable a graph is to contagion. This paper introduces three mathematical formulations of the problem: an integer linear program (ILP) and two const...
Background: Wildfire modelers rely on Monte Carlo simulations of wildland fire to produce burn probability maps. These simulations are computationally expensive. Methods: We study the application of importance sampling to accelerate the estimation of...
Given the increasingly severe global fires, the accurate detection of small and fragmented cropland fires has been a significant challenge. The use of medium-resolution satellite data can enhance detection accuracy; however, key challenges in this ap...
The early detection of defective lithium-ion batteries in cellular phones is critical due to the rapid increase in popularity and mass production of cellular phones. It is essential for manufacturers to design an optimal burn-in policy to differentia...
NDH-4338 is a highly lipophilic prodrug comprising indomethacin and an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor. A design of experiments approach was used to synthesize, characterize, and evaluate the wound healing efficacy of optimized NDH-4338 nanosuspension...
Cultured fibroblast progenitor cells (FPC) have been studied in Swiss translational regenerative medicine for over two decades, wherein clinical experience was gathered for safely managing burns and refractory cutaneous ulcers. Inherent FPC advantage...
Thorough biological safety testing of topical therapeutic compounds and antimicrobials is a critical prerequisite for appropriate cutaneous wound care. Increasing pathogen resistance rates to traditional antibiotics and antifungals are driving the de...
Forest fire smoke influence in urban areas is relatively easy to detect at high concentrations but more challenging to detect at low concentrations. In this study, we present a simplified method that can reliably quantify smoke tracers in an urban en...
Nanoparticles are used increasingly for the treatment of different disorders, including burn wounds of the skin, due to their important role in wound healing. In this study, acriflavine-loaded poly (ε-caprolactone) nanoparticles (ACR-PCL-NPs)...
Marine emission policies are becoming more demanding; thus, ship propulsion and power generation technologies need to be adapted to current scenarios. LNG is already considered to be a transition fuel, and new alternative marine fuels are emerging. T...
The pyrodiversity–biodiversity (P–B) hypothesis posits that spatiotemporally variable fire regimes increase wildlife habitat diversity, and that the fine-grained mosaics resulting from small patchy fires enhance biodiversity. This logic u...
Identifying small-scale burn scars is critical for global carbon accounting, yet remains computationally challenging due to spectral complexity and ground truth scarcity in heterogeneous landscapes. Conventional deep learning models often fail to gen...
Aircrafts require a large amount of fuel in order to generate enough power to perform a flight. That consumption causes the emission of polluting particles such as carbon dioxide, which is implicated in global warming. This paper proposes an algorith...
Progenitor Biological Bandages (PBB) have been continuously applied clinically in the Lausanne Burn Center for over two decades. Vast translational experience and hindsight have been gathered, specifically for cutaneous healing promotion of donor-sit...
This work presents an optimization technique to determine the inspection, warranty period, and preventive maintenance policies for micromachines suffering from degradation. Specifically, wear degradation is considered, which is a common failure proce...
Increasing complexity due to a constantly growing number of target functions turns air traffic trajectory optimization into a multidimensional and nonlinear task that in turn necessitates a focus on the case-sensitive most important criteria. The cri...
This paper provides heuristic methods for obtaining a burning number, which is a graph parameter measuring the speed of the spread of alarm, information, or contagion. For discrete time steps, the heuristics determine which nodes (centers, hubs, vert...
The use of metalworking fluid (MWF) in surface grinding is essential, but its supply contributes notably to the process energy demand. This study investigates the effect of the fluid jet to wheel speed ratio qs on specific grinding energy and associa...
With the increasing greenhouse effect and energy crisis, ammonia is one of the most promising alternative fuels. However, the research on the combustion characteristics of ammonia needs to be further improved. In this paper, the combustion characteri...
Existing NH3/CH4 combustion reaction mechanisms still exhibit a pronounced trade-off between predictive accuracy and computational efficiency. It is difficult to guarantee global optimality, which limits their application in gas turbine combustion si...
Background: Burning Mouth Syndrome (BMS) is a nociplastic pain condition characterized by altered central nervous system pain processing, significantly impacting patient quality of life. Pharmacological management often involves amitriptyline (monoth...
The unique challenges burn patients face along the trajectory of recovery necessitate an interdisciplinary team approach to care. As much as providers rely on care-team members for delivery of optimal treatment, the patient must be an active collabor...
Burn injuries with cutaneous loss result in a severe systemic response when profound injuries exceed 20% of the total body surface area. The management of severely burned patients is a complex and dynamic process. Timely and safe operative interventi...
Surgical treatment of burn wounds has had a tremendous impact on burn patients. The survival of patients with massive burns is now very common. Expeditious coverage of the wound has been a major contributor to improved survival, but survival is not e...
The healing of a burn wound is a complex process that includes the re-formation of injured tissues and the control of infection to minimize discomfort, scarring, and inconvenience. The current investigation’s objective was to develop and optimi...
Burns are inevitable in modern warfare and have comprised between 5% and 20% of battlefield injuries. Involvement of the hands is the leading cause of postburn functional impairment. The purpose of this paper is to provide guidance on aspects of care...
Burn are diverse and complex injuries that not only have local effects but also serious systemic consequences through severe and prolonged inflammatory response. They are caused by heat, electricity, friction, chemicals, or radiation and are commonly...
Given the high rates of psychological distress after burn injury, thorough screening and assessment for psychosocial factors and psychiatric pathology should be routinely completed for individuals with burn injuries. Burn survivors experience unique...
The rehabilitation of burn patients is essential and is intrinsically linked to conventional rehabilitation; the motivational challenges faced by burn patients in maintaining engagement with these rehabilitation programs are well known. It is underst...
Heavy-duty methanol engines are regarded as a promising low-carbon solution for commercial vehicle decarbonization, yet the comprehensive coupled characteristics of fuel consumption, multi-dimensional exhaust emissions, and the corresponding aftertre...
Background: The optimal therapy for deep burn wounds is based on the early debridement of necrotic tissue followed by wound coverage to avoid a systemic inflammatory response and optimize scar-free healing. The outcomes are affected by available reso...
The study is aimed at revealing the specific features of the burning of hydrogen with oxygen in a water-vapor atmosphere. The purpose of the study is to define the optimal values for diluting the burning mixture with water vapor in the active burnout...
Background: Burn severity assessment is clinically relevant and often requires timely decision-making. Visual classification of second- and third-degree burns remains subjective and prone to observer variability. Methods: This study aimed to develop...
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