Urban morphology significantly influences residents’ noise perceptions, yet the impact across different spatial and temporal scales remains unclear. This study investigates the scale-dependent relationship between urban morphology and noise per...
10 October 2014
Leptospirosis displays a great diversity of routes of exposure, reservoirs, etiologic agents, and clinical symptoms. It occurs almost worldwide but its pattern of transmission varies depending where it happens. Climate change may increase the number...
Evidence is mounting that the temporal dynamics of the climate system are changing at the same time as the average global temperature is increasing due to multiple climate forcings. A large number of extreme weather events such as prolonged cold spel...
Correspondence analysis is a dimension reduction technique for visualizing a non-negative matrix
Currently, two-level Mokken scale analysis for clustered test data is being developed. This paper contributes to this development by providing model-fit procedures for two-level Mokken scale analysis. New theoretical insights suggested that the exist...
A multi-scale fatigue analysis method for braided ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) based on sub-models is developed in this paper. The finite element shape function is used as the interpolation function for transferring the displacement information b...
The effect of accidental drops on MEMS sensors are examined within the frame-work of a multi-scale finite element approach. With specific reference to a polysilicon MEMSaccelerometer supported by a naked die, the analysis is decoupled into macro-scal...
This study aimed to evaluate the validity and reliability of the German and Italian versions of the Interprofessional Collaboration Scale (IPC scale) by applying a Rasch analysis. Data were gathered from 1182 nurses participating in a cross-sectional...
In the second part of this paper (Part II), the potentials and characteristics of an industrial-scale Oxidative Coupling of Methane (OCM) process integrated with CO2-hydrogenation, ethane dehydrogenation, and methane reforming processes are highlight...
Increasingly complex numerical analyses require more and more precise, accurate and varied input parameters in order to achieve results that are as realistic and reliable as possible. Therefore, experimental analyses for material parameter identifica...
Agricultural scale management is an important means of improving agricultural production efficiency. To answer the controversy over whether different agricultural scale management models can improve production efficiency, this paper obtained 117,627...
As a powerful tool that can be used to solve both continuous and discrete equations, the Lie symmetry analysis of dynamical systems on a time scale is investigated. Applying the method to the Burgers equation and Euler equation, we get the symmetry o...
7 July 2022
In educational large-scale assessment (LSA) studies such as PISA, item response theory (IRT) scaling models summarize students’ performance on cognitive test items across countries. This article investigates the impact of different factors in m...
The resilience of cities has received worldwide attention. An accurate and rapid assessment of seismic damage, economic loss, and post-event repair time can provide an important reference for emergency rescue and post-earthquake recovery. Based on ci...
This research studied the commercial exploitation of an indigenous African crop in order to formulate high value products, with a potential significant impact on the local economy. More specifically, the present work investigated the extraction of po...
When it comes to feature retention in multi-scale representations of ocean flow fields, not all data points are equal. Therefore, this paper proposes a method of selecting data points based on their importance. First, an autocorrelation analysis is p...
The methods for nonlinear time series analysis were used in the presented research to reveal eye movement signal characteristics. Three measures were used: approximate entropy, fuzzy entropy, and the Largest Lyapunov Exponent, for which the multileve...
10 December 2019
Postpartum depression (PPD), a severe form of clinical depression, is a serious social problem. Fortunately, most women with PPD are likely to recover if the symptoms are recognized and treated promptly. We designed two test data and six classifiers...
28 January 2016
Child undernutrition is a major public health concern in Ethiopia (stunting national prevalence: 44%; wasting: 10%), despite the overall improvement in child health status during the last decade. Hundreds of small-scale surveys are conducted in Ethio...
Consumption of a healthy diet is required to manage blood glucose level in people with diabetes or pre-diabetes. The aim of this study was to test the internal validity of healthy eating habits assessed using a self-reported scale, the Rapid Eating A...
Background: Intelligence scores in males with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and Becker Muscular Dystrophy (BMD) remain a major issue in clinical practice. We performed a literature review and meta-analysis to further delineate the intellectual fu...
An original multivariate multi-scale methodology for assessing the complexity of physiological signals is proposed. The technique is able to incorporate the simultaneous analysis of multi-channel data as a unique block within a multi-scale framework....
Reflective thinking is crucial for academic success, personal development, and cultural adaptation. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the role of the Reflective Thinking Scale (RTS) for international students in Chinese universities. Data were c...
Trained human capital is a source of incalculable resources, with an impact on the results of companies. For this reason, companies must carefully consider three aspects: empowerment with the consideration of the cognitive state of their collaborator...
The main purpose of this study is to explore the impact of analysis scale on the performance of a quantitative model for landslide susceptibility assessment through empirical analyses in the northern Peloponnese, Greece. A multivariate statistical mo...
Determination of internal metabolic fluxes is crucial for fundamental and applied biology because they map how carbon and electrons flow through metabolism to enable cell function.
Heavy rains usually hit Laos countrywide and cause serious floods, influencing local agriculture, households, and the economy. Therefore, it is crucial to monitor the flooding in Laos to better understand the flood patterns and characteristics. This...
In this work, vibration prediction of space large-scale membranes from the energy point of view is investigated. Based on the Green kernel of vibrating membranes, a new analytical representation of energy response of infinite membranes is derived. Av...
Monitoring intertidal habitats, such as oyster reefs, salt marshes, and mudflats, is logistically challenging and often cost- and time-intensive. Remote sensing platforms, such as unoccupied aircraft systems (UASs), present an alternative to traditio...
Rapid urbanization has led to severe fragmentation of ecological spaces in high-density metropolitan regions, threatening urban ecological security and environmental well-being. While cities explore various restoration strategies, the systematic iden...
To address the challenges of manual inspection dependency, low efficiency, and high costs in evaluating the surface grinding quality of composite materials, this study investigated machine vision-based surface recognition algorithms. We proposed a mu...
This study focuses on evaluating the technical and scale efficiencies of smallholder pineapple farmers in Ghana’s Central Region. We surveyed 320 participants selected using random sampling and applied an input-oriented Data Envelopment Analysi...
The drawback of pixel-based change detection is that it neglects the spatial correlation with neighboring pixels and has a high commission ratio. In contrast, object-based change detection (OBCD) depends on the accuracy of the segmentation scale, whi...
In this study, exergy and economic analysis were conducted to gain insight on small-scale movable LNG liquefaction considering leakage. Optimization and comparison were performed to demonstrate the quantitative results of single mixed refrigerant, du...
3 July 2022
Mineral resource exploitation is one of the activities that contribute to economic growth and the development of society. Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is one of these activities. Unfortunately, there is no clear consensus to define ASM. How...
The analysis of water quality, regarding the content of metals, especially heavy and radioactive ones, has been carried out in an indirect way, by testing scale formed in a hot-water heater, using water from the water-supply network of the city of Be...
In order to limit global warming to around 1.5–2.0 °C by the end of the 21st century, there is the need to drastically limit the emissions of CO2. This goal can be pursued by promoting the diffusion of advanced technologies for power genera...
Large-scale high-dimensional many-objective optimization problems (LaMaOPs) are prevalent in fields such as autonomous driving, cloud resource scheduling, and smart grids. LaMaOPs involve a large number of decision variables and multiple conflicting...
19 November 2025
This study aimed to evaluate the reliability and validity of the reduced health literacy scale (HLS) of Ishikawa, as used in translated German and Italian versions. Methods: The reduced HL scale was applied to a convenience sample of 100 persons with...
An improved version of the Local-Gradient-Modified (LG-Mod) algorithm for Sea Surface Wind (SSW) directions retrieval by means of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is presented. A “local” multi-scale analysis of wind-aligned SAR patte...
Targeting the problem of the power grid facing greater risks with the connection of large-scale wind power, a method for power grid state analysis using big data is proposed. First, based on the big data, the wind power matrix and the branch power ma...
The spatial distribution of soil heavy metals was influenced by both natural and anthropogenic factors, and the multi-scale characteristics of heavy metals played a key role in analyzing their influencing factors. Taking arsenic (As) of an oil refini...
An automatic temporal video segmentation framework is introduced in this article. The proposed cut detection technique performs a high-level feature extraction on the video frames, by applying a multi-scale image analysis approach combining nonlinear...
Earthquake disasters can threaten human life and cause property damage. The dynamic analysis of the ground performance of the seismic field is essential. In this study, numerical analysis is used to predict the dynamic behavior and response analysis...
6 October 2022
A bean counter is defined as an accountant or economist who makes financial decisions for a company or government, especially someone who wants to severely limit the amount of money spent. The rise of the bean counter in both public and private compa...
A well test analysis model for fractured and vuggy carbonate reservoir of wells drilling in large scale cave considering wellbore storage and skin factor is established in this paper. The Laplace transformation and Stehfest numerical inversion are ap...
In composites, fiber–matrix thermal mismatch induces stress heterogeneity that is beyond the resolution of macroscopic approaches. The asymptotic expansion homogenization method is used to create a multi-scale thermo-mechanical coupling model t...
Decarbonization of hard-to-abate industrial sectors, namely the extractive industries, has become an imperative, and thus, processes such as carbon capture and utilization (CCU) have been explored thoroughly and seem to be a promising solution. Carbo...
During terahertz (THz) non-destructive testing (NDT), multiple echoes from the sample interface reflection signals are mixed with the detection signals, resulting in signal distortion and affecting the accuracy of the THz NDT results. Combined with t...
The formation of raster structures on stainless-steel tapes requires high-precision mechatronic systems to ensure accuracy and stability during the process. This article gives a thorough look at a redesigned precise mechatronic system that can make c...
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