The increasing frequency and severity of extreme natural events, along with their escalating impacts, highlight the urgent need for robust tools to assess and strengthen national capacities for disaster preparedness and recovery. In this context, thi...
Post-disaster recovery is a multi-year, multi-dimensional process, yet most remote-sensing assessments rely on single indicators and are hard to apply in data-sparse regions—limiting their value for sustainable, evidence-based reconstruction. W...
In the context of drought events caused by global warming, there is limited understanding of vegetation loss caused by drought and the subsequent recovery of vegetation after drought ends. However, employing a single index representing a specific veg...
Students often experience high levels of daily academic pressure, spending extended periods within indoor classroom environments. Windows, as a medium of proximity to nature, play an important role in relieving stress. However, the broader implicatio...
Background: Restoring electrical synchrony with cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) reverses the heart failure phenotype developed by left-ventricular (LV) dyssynchrony. This study aimed to identify new predictors of response to LV-only fusion pa...
Transparent and comparable evaluation of ecological restoration outcomes is essential for advancing performance-based environmental governance and ESG-aligned ecological compensation. However, existing grassland monitoring approaches in semi-arid reg...
We present a 42-year (1984–2025) Landsat consistent satellite vegetation trajectory for coastal wetlands in the Shell Beach area in the Breton Sound estuary, Louisiana. We applied the Controlled Interrupted Time Series (CITS) analysis to the sa...
Background: The Heart Rate Recovery Index (HRRI), derived from post-exercise heart rate recovery (HRR), reflects autonomic function and cardiovascular performance. Whether HRRI reflects early myocardial dysfunction and left atrial remodelling in hear...
Recurrent wildfires can negatively affect soil quality, and post-fire soil quality recovery is critical for maintaining sustainable ecosystem development. The objective of this study was to evaluate the changes and recovery of soil properties and soi...
Background/Objectives: This study investigated the association between pre-stroke physical activity (PA) assessed using the Baecke Physical Activity Questionnaire (BPAQ) and functional status after a first-ever ischemic stroke (IS). Methods: This pro...
This paper develops a Business Resilience Index (BRI) that measures county-level resilience to natural disasters at a county-quarter frequency for the United States over 2014–2024. The index integrates high-frequency labor market outcomes from...
Vegetation recovery after forest fires is a vital indicator of ecosystem resilience. However, the specific differences between structural and functional recovery after fire have remained unclear. In this study, we quantified and compared post-fire re...
A new technique of modulation index adjustment for pure wavelength modulation spectroscopy second harmonic signal waveforms recovery is presented. As the modulation index is a key parameter in determining the exact form of the signals generated by th...
Municipal organic waste management remains a major challenge for sustainable urban development, particularly in regions requiring decentralized treatment alternatives that reduce landfill dependency and promote circular resource recovery. This study...
Understanding post-fire regeneration dynamics is an important task for assessing the resilience of forests and to adequately guide post-disturbance management. The main goal of this research was to compare the ability of different Landsat-derived spe...
Wildfire is a critical driver of ecological processes in western U.S. forests, but recent shifts in climate, land use, and fire suppression have altered forest structure and disturbance regimes. Understanding post-fire recovery is essential for land...
Research Highlights: Fire-frequented savannas are dominated by plant species that regrow quickly following fires that mainly burn through the understory. To detect post-fire vegetation recovery in these ecosystems, particularly during warm, rainy sea...
Prognosis of prolonged Disorders of Consciousness (pDoC) is influenced by patients’ clinical diagnosis and Coma Recovery Scale-Revised (CRS-R) total score. We compared the prognostic accuracy of a novel Consciousness Domain Index (CDI) with tha...
Post-disaster recovery is increasingly understood not as a simple return to pre-event conditions but as a dynamic reorganization of land systems, in which land cover and land use change (LCLUC) provides an operational signature of recovery trajectori...
The precise information on fuel characteristics is essential for wildfire modelling and management. Satellite remote sensing can provide accurate and timely measurements of fuel characteristics. However, current estimates of fuel load changes from op...
Existing databases supporting Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) workloads based on non-volatile memory (NVM) have not fully leveraged hardware characteristics, resulting in an imbalance between throughput and recovery performance. In this paper, w...
Single-index greening trends can misrepresent post-mining recovery because they do not show whether disturbed surfaces are converging toward the spectral conditions of nearby stable vegetation. Here, we present a 22-year (2003–2024) Landsat-bas...
Extreme drought events have become increasingly frequent under ongoing climatic change, thereby constraining vegetation growth and altering ecosystem processes. Vegetation recovery time following drought plays a crucial role in ecosystem stability, a...
A prospective observational study comparing shear wave elastography (SWE) of trapezius muscle with Neck Disability Index (NDI) in a prediction model of health status six months after a whiplash injury. Both SWE values, measured by two radiologists, a...
Disturbances to forests are getting worse with climate change and urbanization. Assessing the functionality of forest ecosystems is challenging because it requires not only a large amount of input data but also comprehensive estimation indicator meth...
The meshless displacement error-recovery parametric investigation in finite element method-based incompressible elastic analysis is presented in this study. It investigates key parameters such as interpolation schemes, patch configurations, dilation...
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based multispectral monitoring has become an increasingly important tool for assessing crop vigor and stress under commercial agricultural conditions. However, most UAV-based studies using the normalized difference veget...
This study acquired governmental-subsidized recovery costs from forest road damages over the past 19 years, between 2001 and 2019, in Gunma Prefecture. Then, this study analyzed correlation coefficients between return periods of rainfall intensity in...
The assessment of post-disaster recovery is often hindered by limited metric and longitudinal data, in addition to the dynamic and long-term processes. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the early stages after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in...
The worst forest fire in South Korea occurred in April 2000 on the eastern coast. Forest recovery works were conducted until 2005, and the forest has been monitored since the fire. Remote sensing techniques have been used to detect the burned areas a...
This study evaluates the crack performance of stone mastic asphalt (SMA) mixtures according to the performance of a modified asphalt binder, evaluated based on the asphalt performance grade (PG) and the elastic recovery of multiple stress creep and r...
Tuberculosis (TB) and undernutrition are intricately linked, significantly impacting health outcomes. However, nutritional support for TB patients is not systematically implemented in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR). This study evalu...
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is an underdiagnosed condition in athletes, strongly influenced by anthropometric factors such as body mass index (BMI) and neck circumference, which often reflect long-term sport-specific training and nutritional strate...
Drought leads to declining water levels and reduced water volume in lakes, significantly altering their water quality. Current research has primarily examined water quality during drought episodes or compared conditions before and after such events....
Natural gas is a viable oil displacement agent in ultra-low-permeability reservoirs due to its good fluidity. It can also cause gas channeling during continuous injection, which limits its oilfield application. In order to relieve gas channeling duri...
The surface oxidation of chalcopyrite is one of the most important factors affecting its flotation performance. In this study, a critical oxidation degree is proposed to define “slight” and “significant” oxidation in terms of...
With the gradual improvement of residential electricity reliability, the lower design strength of the distribution network makes it more prone to large-scale power outages in resisting natural disasters. Among them, the cold load start-up effect will...
Living environment reconstruction in Wenchuan earthquake disaster-hit areas received substantial attention internationally, so it is imperative to examine out the methods employed, to evaluate community reconstruction and recovery performances. Howev...
Drought monitoring needs comprehensive and integrated meteorological and hydrologic data. However, such data are generally not available in extensive catchments. The present study aimed to analyze drought in the central plateau catchment of Iran usin...
A steep Trendelenburg (ST) position combined with pneumoperitoneum may cause alterations in cerebral blood flow with the possible occurrence of postoperative cognitive disorders. No studies have yet investigated if these alterations may be associated...
Streams play vital roles in surrounding communities and provide essential ecosystem services. The protection of streams is important, they are legally protected under the Clean Water Act, and they can be monitored through the continuous analyses of b...
Vegetation recovery after the large wildfires that occurred in central Portugal in 2017 is assessed in the present study. These wildfires had catastrophic consequences, among which were human losses and a vast extent of forest devastation. Landsat 8...
The photochemical reflectance index (PRI) and red-edge region of the spectrum are known to be sensitive to plant physiological processes, and through measurement of these optical signals it is possible to use non-invasive remote sensing to monitor th...
Social vulnerability and social capital have been shown to influence how severely communities are impacted by natural hazards and how quickly they recover. Indices exist to quantify these factors using publicly available data; however, more empirical...
After a stroke, patients can suffer from sarcopenia, which can affect recovery. This could be closely related to an impairment in nutritional status. In this preliminary analysis of a longitudinal prospective study, we screened 110 subjects admitted...
In Canada, many mines have adopted the sublevel stoping method, such a blasthole stoping (BHS), to extract steeply deposited minerals. Sill pillars are usually kept in place in this mining method to support the weight of the overburden in underground...
This paper presents the mHealth Predictive Outbreak for COVID-19 (mPOC) framework, an autonomous platform based on wearable Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices for outbreak prediction and monitoring. It utilizes real-time physiological and envi...
Compound spring floods in cold-continental and semi-arid interiors arise from interacting snowmelt, rain-on-snow events, intense precipitation, and frozen or saturated soils, yet these mechanisms remain poorly synthesized for Central Asia. This revie...
Crumb rubber modifier (CRM) binders easily suffer from instability at high temperatures, with many suggestions being developed to evaluate their storage stability. However, much uncertainty around CRM binders still exists regarding the relationship b...
Indonesia is one of the world’s most seismically active countries, experiencing frequent earthquakes that make assessing regional resilience essential for disaster risk reduction. This study dynamically evaluates socioeconomic resilience in 28...
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