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Donald Schopflocher, Eric VanSpronsen and Candace I. J. Nykiforuk
The Irvine-Minnesota Inventory (IMI) is an audit tool used to record properties of built environments. It was designed to explore the relationships between environmental features and physical activity. As published, the IMI does not provide scoring to su...
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Miaomiao Yuan, Zhuneng Fang, Peng Xiao, Ruijin Tong, Min Zhang and Yule Huang
Real-time systems for measuring structural cracks are of great significance due to their computational and cost efficacy, inherent hazards, and detection discrepancies associated with the manual visual assessment of structures. The precision and effectiv...
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Yunbo Zhang, Kun Huang and Wei Xu
A common strategy for studying the nonlinear vibrations of beams is to discretize the nonlinear partial differential equation into a nonlinear ordinary differential equation or equations through the Galerkin method. Then, the oscillations of beams are ex...
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Guanghai Gao, John J. O?Sullivan, Aisling Corkery, Zeinab Bedri, Gregory M. P. O?Hare and Wim G. Meijer
An understanding of water exchange processes is essential for assessing water quality management issues in coastal bays. This paper evaluates the impact of water exchange processes on pollution persistence in a macro-tidal semi-closed coastal bay through...
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Edward Gross, Rusty Holleman, Wim Kimmerer, Sophie Munger, Scott Burdick and John Durand
The phytoplankton distribution in estuaries is influenced by multiple spatially variable growth and loss processes. As phytoplankton are transported by tidal and net flows, they are exposed to changing conditions of turbidity, depth, temperature, stratif...
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Qifen Dong, Yu Li, Ziwan Zheng, Xun Wang and Guojun Li
Crime prediction is crucial for sustainable urban development and protecting citizens? quality of life. However, there exist some challenges in this regard. First, the spatio-temporal correlations in crime data are relatively complex and are heterogenous...
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Fei Gao, Zhiqiang Du, Chenyu Fang, Lin Zhou and Martin Werner
Route choice is a complex issue in simulating individual behaviors and reproducing collective phenomena during evacuations. A growing concern has been given to the individual cognitive mechanism to investigate how routing decisions are made in specific s...
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Mariame Rachdane, El Mahdi El Khalki, Mohamed Elmehdi Saidi, Mohamed Nehmadou, Abdellatif Ahbari and Yves Tramblay
Precipitation is a crucial source of data in hydrological applications for water resources management. However, several regions suffer from limited data from a ground measurement network. Remotely sensed data may provide a viable alternative for these re...
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B. Daniel Emanuelsson, Elizabeth R. Thomas, Dieter R. Tetzner, Jack D. Humby and Diana O. Vladimirova
In this study, we present the age scales for three Antarctic Peninsula (AP) ice cores: Palmer, Rendezvous, and Jurassic. The three cores are all intermediate-depth cores, in the 133?141 m depth range. Non-sea-salt sulfate ([nssSO42-]) and hydrogen peroxi...
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Beata Rybojad, Daniel Sieniawski, Pawel Rybojad, Marzena Samardakiewicz and Anna Aftyka
The pain experienced by paediatric patients is rarely evaluated in emergency departments. The aim of the present study was to compare the degree of conformity in patients? pain severity when assessed by themselves (if possible), their parents and a triag...
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Alonso Pizarro, Panayiotis Dimitriadis, Theano Iliopoulou, Salvatore Manfreda and Demetris Koutsoyiannis
The identification of the second-order dependence structure of streamflow has been one of the oldest challenges in hydrological sciences, dating back to the pioneering work of H.E Hurst on the Nile River. Since then, several large-scale studies have inve...
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Dinorah Machado Vaz de Lima, Cristiane Ávila Santana, Luis Humberto da Cunha Andrade, Yzel Rondon Súarez, Sandro Marcio Lima (Author)
Pág. e48395
This study used the visible fluorescence signal of scales from Astyanax lacustris fishes to differentiate ten populations of streams in Ivinhema River Basin, Upper Paraná Basin, Brazil. Scales were removed from the humeral region of each fish and the flu...
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Yi-Ren Wang, Yun-Shuo Chang
Pág. 270 - 291
This work investigates the primary resonance and internal resonance of a double-section beam with cubic nonlinearities. This model can be applied in a wide range of engineering problems, such as rocket and missile structures. Even space technology has be...
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Maria Melina Dolapsaki and Andreas Georgopoulos
This paper presents an effective and semi-automated method for detecting 3D edges in 3D point clouds with the help of high-resolution digital images. The effort aims to contribute towards addressing the unsolved problem of automated production of vector ...
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Yuseok Ban and Kyungjae Lee
In this study, we propose a multi-scale ensemble learning method for thermal image enhancement in different image scale conditions based on convolutional neural networks. Incorporating the multiple scales of thermal images has been a tricky task so that ...
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Lunsheng Gong, Meihan Jin, Qiang Liu, Yongxi Gong and Yu Liu
Residents? activity space reflects multiple aspects of human life related to space, time, and type of activity. How to measure the activity space at multiple geographic scales remains a problem to be solved. Recently, the emergence of big data such as mo...
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Juan Luis Delgado-Gallegos, Rene de Jesús Montemayor-Garza, Gerardo R. Padilla-Rivas, Héctor Franco-Villareal and Jose Francisco Islas
The world is currently subjected to the worst health crisis documented in modern history: an epidemic led by the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). At the epicenter of this crisis, healthcare professionals continue working to safeguard our well-b...
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Anatoly Shavykin and Andrey Karnatov
Oil spills can have a serious negative effect on seabirds. Numerous studies have been carried out for relative vulnerability assessment of seabirds to oil, with the majority of such works based on ordinal quantities. This study aims to assess (from the a...
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Phillip Kreye, Marlene Gelleszun, Manickam Somasundaram and Günter Meon
Soil water simulations on hydrological meso- or macroscale require parameters that describe the physical characteristics of the soil. At these scales, information regarding soil properties is mostly only available on very coarse spatial resolutions with ...
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Osmar Evandro Toledo Bomfim, Djane Fonseca da Silva
Pág. e37753
With the use of the Wavelet analysis, this study aimed to detect the dominant oscillations and phenomena that influence the occurrence of extreme rainfall events in the basins of the Aguapeí River and the Peixe River in order to generate information usef...
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