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Blindly developing shallow geothermal energy (SGE) may lead to difficulties in reinjection, a low coefficient of performance (COP), and the waste of funds. In order to avoid these problems and improve development efficiency, it is necessary to scient...

Function point analysis is a widely used metric in the software industry for development effort estimation. It was proposed in the 1970s, and then standardized by the International Function Point Users Group, as accepted by many organizations worldwi...

Participation in sport and physical activity (PA) is declining, and the psychosocial factors underpinning avoidance of these activities are not understood. This study developed and tested a new measure assessing the tendency to avoid PA and sport bec...

Evaluating the level of green development is of great significance to better implement the concept of green development. By constructing an evaluation index system for green development, this paper comprehensively uses the entropy weight Technique fo...

Achieving the “dual carbon” objective is contingent upon the ecological development of agriculture. As the only Science and Technology City in China, evaluating the level of green agricultural development in Mianyang during the 13th Five-...

Recently, a series of urban diseases have seriously impacted the development of large and medium cities. The development of urban underground space (UUS) is widely regarded as an effective solution. Due to the irreversibility of underground space res...

Sustainable development (SD) evaluations have attracted considerable attention from governments and scientific communities around the world. The objective and quantitative calculation of the importance of sustainable assessment indicators is a key pr...

Urban underground space (UUS) is a significant natural resource to support many aspects of city development, but it is not sustainably developed and utilized during the urbanization process. This study considered 11 conditional and two sensitive fact...

The aim of this study was to develop and validate an electronic questionnaire, the Electronic Maternal Health Survey (EMat Health Survey), related to women’s knowledge and perceptions of the current gestational weight gain guidelines (GWG), as well a...

As an important implementing body of the national energy strategy, grid enterprises bear the important responsibility of optimizing the allocation of energy resources and serving the economic and social development, and their levels of sustainable de...

Shallow geothermal energy is a renewable and clean resource, yet its potential varies significantly across different regions of China. The disparity in resource conditions, technology development, and the level of regional understanding regarding its...

Urban sustainability is increasingly challenged in rapidly transforming coastal regions. This study operationalizes urban green development capacity as a measurable proxy for urban sustainability and constructs a multidimensional assessment framework...

Food safety is an important basis for promoting economic development, ensuring social stability and maintaining national security. Research on the evaluation of food security is the basis by which to accurately grasp the food security situation and t...

Individual variation in pubertal development limits the usefulness of chronological age alone for assessing testicular development in male cynomolgus macaques. This retrospective study characterized longitudinal changes in externally measured testicu...

To investigate the joint effect of maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) on children’s cognitive development. We recruited 1685 mother–child pairs from the Ma’anshan Birth Cohort in China. Pr...

Traditional development models are being slowly replaced by green economic development models. This paper views regional green economic development as a large complex system and develops a conceptual DPSIR (drivers, pressures, state, impact, response...

This article presents an indicator weighting method for constructing composite indices to assess sustainable development at the subnational level. The study uses an analytic hierarchy process (AHP), which is considered relevant, since it establishes...

Land development processes are driven by complex interactions between socio-economic and spatial factors. Acquiring an understanding of such processes and the underlying procedures helps urban and regional planners, environmental scientists, and poli...

Determining criteria weights plays a crucial role in multi-criteria decision analyses. Entropy is a significant measure in information science, and several multi-criteria decision-making methods utilize the entropy weight method (EWM). In the literat...

Financial market development is an inherently multidimensional construct shaped by institutional, legal, market-based, and macro-financial conditions, and therefore cannot be adequately captured through single-indicator proxies. To address this compl...

Background: Adverse experiences in childhood are a major public health concern, promoting social inequality in health through biopsychosocial mechanisms. So far, no known measures comprehend the complexity and variations of severity of adverse events...

This paper proposes a model to identify the changing of bare grounds into built-up or developed areas. The model is based on the fuzzy system and the Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) methods. The proposed model consists of four main sections, which i...

Background: Healthcare monitoring of child growth reduces with age, which may increase parental influences on children’s weight development. This study aimed to examine the association between maternal underestimation of child’s weight at...

One of the crucial steps in the multi-criteria decision analysis involves establishing the importance of criteria and determining the relationship between them. This paper proposes an extended Hellwig’s method (H_EM) that utilizes entropy-based...

This paper presents the development of active noise control (ANC) for light-weight earphones, and proposes using music or natural sound to estimate the critical secondary path model instead of extra random noise. Three types of light-weight ANC earph...

Humanity faces significant challenges in achieving internationally agreed sustainable development goals, particularly in reducing public health risks and improving the environmental quality. Measuring and comparing performance across regions requires...

In this work, we propose a qualitative immersion evaluation technique based on a pseudo-haptic-based user-specific virtual object weight recognition algorithm and an immersive experience questionnaire (IEQ). The proposed weight recognition algorithm...

Generally, measuring the weight of livestock is difficult; it is time consuming, inconvenient, and stressful for both livestock farms and livestock to be measured. Therefore, these problems must be resolved to boost convenience and reduce economic co...

The suitability evaluation of urban underground space (UUS) development can aid in making the planning, construction, and operation management of underground spaces more scientific, orderly and systematic. Taking the starting area of Changjiang New T...

Taurine (2-aminoethanesulfonic acid) plays an important role in various physiological functions and is abundant in the brain and skeletal muscle. Extracellular taurine is an endogenous agonist of gamma-aminobutyric acid type A and glycine receptors....

Background/Objectives: The neonatal and infant periods represent a critical window for brain development, characterized by rapid and heterogeneous processes such as myelination and cortical maturation. Accurate assessment of these changes is essentia...

Sustainable development is widely accepted in the world. How to reflect the sustainable development capacity of a region is an important issue for enacting policies and plans. An index system for capacity assessment is established by employing the En...

Green transportation is a kind of urban transportation system with low pollution and multiple urban environments. At present, the development of green transportation in China is progressing and gradually occupying a relatively important position. In...

With the rapid development of the national economy of China, an increasing need for transportation facilities is becoming a serious challenge that the existing traffic system has to meet. Thus, the highway transportation capacity development level as...

Natural small molecular drugs with excellent biocompatibility, diverse pharmacological activities, and wide sources play an increasingly important role in the development of new drug and disease treatment. In recent years, the utilization of paclitax...

Background/Objectives: Obesity is associated with food intake, drinking, and nutrition. It is necessary to examine the association between body mass index (BMI), body weight changes, and the incidence of hypertension, focusing on potential sex differ...

Thanks to the rapid development of Wearable Fitness Trackers (WFTs) and Smartphone Pedometer Apps (SPAs), people are keeping an eye on their health through fitness and heart rate tracking; therefore, home weight training exercises have received a lot...

Medication to aid weight loss and weight loss surgery are becoming more commonly available for people with diabetes. As a result of profound weight loss, diabetes may go into remission and many biochemical and physical parameters improve. However, so...

Partial body weight support systems have proven to be a vital tool in performing physical therapy for patients with lower limb disabilities to improve gait. Developing this type of equipment requires rigorous design process that obtains a robust syst...

Since the initial findings that food tannin/salivary protein interaction and subsequent precipitation is the main cause of the astringency development, numerous studies have concentrated on the supramolecular characterization of these bindings. Most...

Monitoring weight development is essential for decision-making and assessing the effectiveness of management strategies. However, this practice is often hindered by the lack of scales on farms. This study aimed to characterize the weight development...

Seed weight is a key agronomic trait determining soybean yield and quality, yet only a few of genes regulating this trait have been functionally characterized to date. In this study, we identified 155 homologous genes in the soybean genome through BL...

This paper describes the development of a modular unmanned aerial vehicle for the detection and eradication of weeds on farmland. Precision agriculture entails solving the problem of poor agricultural yield due to competition for nutrients by weeds a...

Selection of relative weights for different indicators is a critical step during assessment of composite hazards, vulnerability, and risk. While assigning weight to an indicator, it is important to consider the influence of an individual indicator on...

The impact on body weight development is usually analysed by comparing different diet types. Our approach was to change only one component, namely bread, common to most diets. In a single-centre triple-blind randomised controlled trial the effects of...

Patient care and convenience remain the concern of medical professionals and caregivers alike. An unconscious patient confined to a bed may develop fluid accumulation and pressure sores due to inactivity and deficiency of oxygen flow. Moreover, weigh...

Diabetic retinopathy, a microvascular complication of diabetes, remains the leading cause of vision loss in working age adults. Hyperglycemia is considered as the main instigator for its development, around which other molecular pathways orchestrate....

Lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus) are used as cleaner fish in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) aquaculture as one of multiple control measures against salmon lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis). Numerous studies have documented weight as an important factor for...

Objective: Sonographic evaluation of the fetus and estimation of fetal weight are integral components of modern obstetric practice. Estimated fetal weight (EFW) plays a crucial role in predicting macrosomia, diagnosing intrauterine growth restriction...

Currently, conventional polymeric filtrate reducers with high-temperature resistance for use in drilling fluids have high molecular weights, which greatly affects the rheological properties. Therefore, to address the challenges in regulating the rheo...