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Muhammad Umer Masood, Muhammad Rashid, Saif Haider, Iram Naz, Chaitanya B. Pande, Salim Heddam, Fahad Alshehri, Ismail Elkhrachy, Amimul Ahsan and Saad Sh. Sammen
Groundwater is an important source of freshwater. At the same time, anthropogenic activities, in particular, industrialization, urbanization, population growth, and excessive application of fertilizers, are some of the major reasons for groundwater quali...
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Li Shen, Jared M. Kyllo and Xulin Guo
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Aiko Endo, Kimberly Burnett, Pedcris M. Orencio, Terukazu Kumazawa, Christopher A. Wada, Akira Ishii, Izumi Tsurita and Makoto Taniguchi
This paper focuses on a collection of methods that can be used to analyze the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus. We classify these methods as qualitative or quantitative for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research approaches. The methods for interdi...
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Ayoub Barkat, Foued Bouaicha, Sabrina Ziad, Tamás Mester, Zsófi Sajtos, Dániel Balla, Islam Makhloufi and György Szabó
In this research, contamination levels and the spatial pattern identification, as well as human and environmental health risk assessments of the heavy metals in the phreatic groundwater aquifer of the Oued Souf Valley were investigated for the first time...
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Abdelrahman Khalifa, Bashar Bashir, Abdullah Alsalman, Sambit Prasanajit Naik and Rosa Nappi
Evaluating and predicting the occurrence and spatial remarks of climate and rainfall-related destructive hazards is a big challenge. Periodically, Sinai Peninsula is suffering from natural risks that enthuse researchers to provide the area more attention...
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Tae Hyung Kim, Byunghyun Kim and Kun-Yeun Han
This paper proposes a new approach to consider the uncertainties for constructing flood hazard maps for levee failure. The flood depth, velocity, and arrival time were estimated by the 2-Dimensional model and were considered as flood indices for flood ha...
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Hossein Dastkhan and Naser Shams Gharneh
Systemic risk events constitute an important issue in current financial systems. A leading course of action used to mitigate such events is identification of systemically important agents in order to implement the prudential policies in a financial syste...
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UDO SCHNEIDER,CHRISTIAN D. SCHONWIESE
The interannual variations of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation phenomenon (ENSO) and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) are statistically analysed in the time and frequency domain using time series of the following monthly indices: Two Pacific sea s...
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Daniel Sarabia, María Cruz Ortiz and Luis Antonio Sarabia
In this paper, an integrated design of a supermarket refrigeration system has been used to obtain a process with better operability. It is formulated as a multi-objective optimization problem where control performance is evaluated by six indices and the ...
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Yasin Wahid Rabby and Yingkui Li
Landslide susceptibility mapping is of critical importance to identify landslide-prone areas to reduce future landslides, causalities, and infrastructural damages. This paper presents landslide susceptibility maps at a regional scale for the Chittagong H...
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Ahmad Nemati, Seyed Hossein Ghoreishi Najafabadi, Gholamreza Joodaki and S. Saeid Mousavi Nadoushani
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 using th...
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Han Zheng, Zanyang Cui and Xingchen Zhang
Driving modes play vital roles in understanding the stochastic nature of a railway system and can support studies of automatic driving and capacity utilization optimization. Integrated trajectory data containing information such as GPS trajectories and g...
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Tatiana Nascimento Docile, Ronaldo Figueiró
Biomonitoring can be defi ned as the sistematic use of the biological response of organisms to evaluate the enviromental changes, generally antropogenical. The urbanization has translated in growing antropogenic impacts in ecosystems, which can...
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Tatiana Nascimento Docile, Ronaldo Figueiró
Biomonitoring can be defi ned as the sistematic use of the biological response of organisms to evaluate the enviromental changes, generally antropogenical. The urbanization has translated in growing antropogenic impacts in ecosystems, which can...
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Karime Chahuán-Jiménez
The Dow Jones Sustainability Index Chile (DJSI Chile) is made up of leading sustainability companies that are investing great effort into sustainable management. This study correlates the DJSI Chile with the financial indices (return on equity (ROE), ret...
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Stergios Roumeliotis, Kyriakos Lampropoulos, Ekaterini Delegou, Elisavet Tsilimantou, Vasileios Keramidas, Asterios Bakolas and Antonia Moropoulou
The restoration of historic buildings and structures involves a wide range of scientific and technical fields. The grouting process is among an array of rehabilitation and preservation interventions and aims to homogenize the structure after the implemen...
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Ha-Kyung Kim, In-Hwan Cho, Eun-A Hwang, Byung-Hun Han and Baik-Ho Kim
This paper reviews the evolution and integration of diatom-based water quality assessments with environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques for advancing river ecosystem health evaluations. Traditional methods, relying on microscopy and diatom indices, have sign...
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Antonella Marsico, Angela Rizzo, Domenico Capolongo, Francesco De Giosa, Antonella Di Leo, Stefania Lisco, Giuseppe Mastronuzzi, Massimo Moretti, Giovanni Scardino and Giovanni Scicchitano
Contaminated marine and coastal sediments represent the main source of secondary pollution for the aquatic environment and marine fauna, affecting, directly and indirectly, ecosystems and human health. The assessment of the distribution of chemical pollu...
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Xiwen Yang, Hang Yin, Shaoming He, Ye Xie and Hyo-Sang Shin
This paper proposes a trajectory optimization approach for multi-sensor multi-target search and tracking using bearing-only sensors. Based on the framework of the joint integrated probabilistic data association (JIPDA) filter, the intensity of potential ...
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Niloufar Beikahmadi, Antonio Francipane and Leonardo Valerio Noto
Accurate precipitation estimation remains a challenge, though it is fundamental for most hydrological analyses. In this regard, this study aims to achieve two objectives. Firstly, we evaluate the performance of two precipitation products from the Integra...
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