Objective: This study established an index system for assessing forest fire spread hazards and conducted a forest fire spread hazard assessment in the mountainous district of Beijing (including Fangshan, Mentougou, Changping, Yanqing, Huairou, Miyun,...
(1) Background: It is controversial if Merkel cell carcinomas (MCCs) spread to lymph nodes or distant metastases (LNM/DM) first. (2) Methods: A total of 303 patients from six institutions (March 1982–February 2015) were combined with individual...
The influence of apex angle and tilting angle on droplet spreading dynamics after impinging on wedge-patterned biphilic surface has been experimentally investigated. Once the droplet contacts the wedge-patterned biphilic surface, it spreads radially...
Centrifugal fertilizer spreaders are by far the most commonly used granular fertilizer spreader type in Europe. Their spread pattern however is error-prone, potentially leading to an undesired distribution of particles in the field and losses out of...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has spread widely around the world. Many mathematical models have been proposed to investigate the inflection point (IP) and the spread pattern of COVID-19. However, no researchers have applied social network analysis (SNA) to c...
This paper investigates the spatio-temporal spread pattern of COVID-19 in Italy, during the first wave of infections, from February to October 2020. Disease mappings of the virus infections by using the Besag–York–Mollié model and some spatio-tempora...
In this study, for the first time, a forward-rotating roller is proposed for the spreading of CF/PA12 composite powder in the selective laser sintering (SLS) process. The mesoscopic kinetic mechanism of composite particle spreading is investigated by...
Eosinophilic meningitis due to rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, is a global public health concern. Human cases and outbreaks have occurred in the new endemic areas, including South America and Spain. The growing genetic data of A. cantonens...
As a prominent forest pest on international quarantine lists, pine wilt disease (PWD) is characterized by its ease of transmission, rapid onset, high mortality rate, and the complexity of its prevention and control. The disease inflicts devastating d...
Background and Objectives: Fascia iliaca compartment block (FICB) is an effective and relatively safe technique in perioperative pain management for hip surgery. However, blockade of the obturator nerve (ON) using this technique remains controversial...
A patterned double-layer indium-tin oxide (ITO), including the first unpatterned ITO layer serving as current spreading and the second patterned ITO layer serving as light extracting, was applied to obtain uniform current spreading and high light ext...
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) fertilization is important for precision agriculture. However, multi-rotor UAVs show a lot of inconsistencies in homogeneity and unclear deposition patterns when they spread granular fertilizer in different operational s...
Background and Objectives: Lumbar interlaminar ventral epidural injection (LIVEI) offers a promising alternative to transforaminal epidural injection (TFEI) by enabling ventral epidural delivery while minimizing complication risks. While previous app...
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced COVID-19, a novel coronavirus outbreak, as a pandemic in 2020. In the month of February 2020, the disease began to spread through the Middle East. The first case of COVID-19 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...
This study examines the intraday dynamics of liquidity and trading activity on the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) to assess its market quality. Using reconstructed five-minute limit order book data, this study measures liquidity dimensions and explores anom...
Land-based, high-frequency (HF) surface wave radar has the unique capability of monitoring coastal surface parameters, such as current, waves, and wind, up to 200 km off the coast. The Doppler spectrum of the backscattered radar signal is characteriz...
Soft contact lens (SCL) perturbs the intimate connection between the pre-lens tear film (PLTF) and the ocular surface in various ways, i.e., (i) decrease in tear meniscus radius and aqueous tear thickness, (ii) attenuation of tear film lipid layer sp...
In this article, we propose a novel nonlinear cross-diffusion framework to model the distribution of susceptible and infected individuals within their habitat using a reduced SIR model that incorporates saturated incidence and treatment rates. The st...
Wildlife dispersal directly influences population expansion patterns, and may have indirect effects on the spread of wildlife diseases. Despite its importance to conservation, little is known about dispersal for several species. Dispersal processes i...
During the COVID-19 outbreak, modeling the spread of infectious diseases became a challenging research topic due to its rapid spread and high mortality rate. The main objective of a standard epidemiological model is to estimate the number of infected...
The COVID-19 crisis has shown that we can only prevent the risk of mass contagion through timely, large-scale, coordinated, and decisive actions. This pandemic has also highlighted the critical importance of generating rigorous evidence for decision-...
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Lymph node involvement affects staging and, therefore, prognosis. Understanding lymph node drainage, metastatic patterns, and different sampling techniques contributes to the overall...
Background/Objectives: Determining whether dietary fatty acids and the use of fat spreads are associated with cardiovascular risk factors is difficult due to the multicollinearity of fatty acids and the consumption of multiple spread types. Methods:...
Femtosecond laser texturing is a promising surface functionalization technology to improve the integration and durability of dental and orthopedic implants. Four different surface topographies were obtained on titanium-6aluminum-4vanadium plates by v...
Chronic hepatitis D (CHD) is the most severe form of viral hepatitis, with rapid progression of liver-related diseases and high rates of development of hepatocellular carcinoma. The causative agent, hepatitis D virus (HDV), contains a small (approxim...
This study aimed to elucidate the clinicopathological significance of spread through air space (STAS) in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) through a meta-analysis. Using 47 eligible studies, we obtained the estimated rates of STAS in various histolo...
(1) Background: Knowledge regarding the optimal radiotherapy dose for Merkel-cell carcinoma (MCC) remains limited. (2) Methods: Following a PubMed search, equivalent doses in 2 Gy fractions (Gy2) were compared. (3) Results: Of the 949 patients, 939 w...
Despite the need to understand the spatial variation in human and biophysical drivers of fire spread, studies aimed at predicting remotely sensed fire kernel density at multiple scales are still relatively scarce. The current study aimed at the predi...
The solution of inverse source problems by numerical procedures requires the investigation of the number of independent pieces of information that can be reconstructed stably. To this end, the mathematical properties of the relevant operators are to...
Droplet train impingement is a fundamental approach to mimic the complicated interactions between the fluid and the substrate in advanced thermal engineering applications in industry. Differently from previous studies, the main original contribution...
Evidence on Market Intraday Momentum (MIM) has been documented in the United states and in some, but not all, major economies. The main results on MIM are broadly robust against transaction costs, which are measured by either quoted spread or effecti...
Flexo printing is a relief printing system, and ink transfers on the solid areas are not transferring well during the printing. That is why graininess is increasing and pinholes are occurring on the solid areas. This is a well-known issue in the flex...
We analyzed wildfire hazard profiles across the Hyrcanian temperate forests of northern Iran (Guilan Province) by simulating a large set of wildfires with FlamMap MTT. We first derived geospatial data on terrain, fuel models, weather conditions, and...
Background: In the present study, we examined the pattern of metastatic spread in patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and the effect of EGFR mutations. Methods: Patients were identified from a provincial cancer registry, and ind...
African swine fever (ASF) is a highly contagious viral disease with significant impacts on domestic pigs and wild boar populations. This study applies GIS-based spatial analysis to monitor ASF outbreaks in northwestern Italy (Piedmont and Liguria) an...
Objective: To characterize the frequency, timing, patterns of first distant metastasis, and post-metastatic survival in uterine sarcoma using population-based registry data. Methods: This study included all patients diagnosed with uterine sarcoma bet...
Exploring the spatial patterns of COVID-19 transmission and its key determinants could provide a deeper understanding of the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal of this study is to investigate the spatial patterns of COVID-19 transmission in...
Human mobility data are indispensable in modeling large-scale epidemics, especially in predicting the spatial spread of diseases and in evaluating spatial heterogeneity intervention strategies. However, statistical data that can accurately describe l...
SARS-CoV-2 has spread vastly throughout the word. In this study, we focus on the patterns of spread in Lithuania. By analysing the genetically sequenced data of different lineages and their first appearances, we were able to compare the dynamics of s...
This study aims to examine Islamic narratives heard at mosques and in study groups in the greater metropolitan area of Jakarta, Indonesia. The article asks if youth and leaders of youth organizations in Jakarta are receptive to radical/terrorist disc...
Phylogenetics provides a unique structural framework to track the spread of viral diseases, such as HIV-1 (human immunodeficiency virus type 1), the causative agent of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) [...]
Biological invasions are an ongoing threat for sustainability of ecosystems, and estimating the spread of invasive species is critical for making management decisions. Geopolitical unit-level data (GULD) are often used to estimate invasions due to th...
In this study, we develop a classification system for describing polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) spread in vertebral bodies after kyphoplasty or vertebroplasty for vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) and for assessing whether PMMA spread varies bet...
Prior studies that examine the relation between market depth and bid–ask spread are often limited to the first level of the limit order book. However, the full limit order book provides important information beyond the first level about the depth and...
This study was motivated by the lack of understanding of the smoke control effect on an ultra-wide tunnel fire, with different smoke exhaust patterns (sidewall and top exhaust patterns) and longitudinal air supply volume (0, 30%, 50%, 70%, and 90%)....
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an unprecedented global event that has been challenging governments, health systems, and communities worldwide. Available data from the first months indicated varying patterns of the spread of...
Droplet spreading is a fascinating phenomenon. Especially when the droplet spreads, reacts, and dissolves on and into metal substrates. This reactive wetting mainly occurs at high temperatures, with a vast number of applications in industry and mater...
Spreading dynamics have been extensively studied in social, communication, and epidemiological networks, leading to substantial advances in understanding spreading thresholds, outbreak patterns, temporal dynamics, and phase transitions. However, thei...
This study analyzes the flow and dispersion characteristics of fire smoke within the complex spatial structure of a T-type subway interchange station to clarify the impact of geometric parameter variations on the smoke spread timeline and evacuation...
A 3D imaging technique using a high speed binocular stereovision system was developed in combination with corresponding image processing algorithms for accurate determination of the parameters of particles leaving the spinning disks of centrifugal fe...
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