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2023-01-01 | This paper presents recent research into low-cost flow meter designs to measure dripping leaks for health monitoring of water equipment. Water handling equipment is pervasive in our society, to the point it is often overlooked; including plumbing, faucets, bathtubs, showers, toilets, water heaters, water softeners, fil... | Low Flow Rate Measurement and Leak Detection for Health Monitoring of Water Equipment | 10.1007/978-3-031-07322-9_97 |
2023-01-01 | Low-impact development (LID) synchronous with green infrastructure (GI) development is largely being perceived as a favoured approach for sustainable development and biodiversity conservation around mined out lands. While GI-based pathways can provide adequate insights for achieving the targets of land degradation neut... | Selection of Strategic Sampling Sites for River Quality Assessments Near Mined Areas as a Policy Handle for Low-Impact Development and Biodiversity Conservation: A Case Study of River Godavari | 10.1007/978-981-99-0131-9_20 |
2023-01-01 | The radially symmetric body of starfish has major implications on their nervous system including eyes and vision. All the up to 50 arms are structurally identical, and most examined species have a small compound eye basally on the terminal tube foot of each arm. The 20–300 ommatidia of the compound eyes are lens-less b... | Dispersed Vision in Starfish: A Collection of Semi-independent Arms | 10.1007/978-3-031-23216-9_4 |
2023-01-01 | This chapter explains the distribution of bidirectional sex change among teleost fishes, the social context of bidirectional sex change in each mating system, and the adaptive significance. Of a total of 481 hermaphroditic fish species, 69 species have been confirmed to perform bidirectional sex change. Their mating sy... | Bidirectional Sex Change in Fishes | 10.1007/978-981-19-6095-6_5 |
2023-01-01 | Promoting green and low-carbon development has become a global consensus. However, few studies have explored the scientific connotation and influencing factors of inclusive low-carbon development (ILCD). Based on the perspective of inclusive growth and sustainable development, this paper constructs an economic growth-s... | Spatial–temporal differentiation and dynamic spatial convergence of inclusive low-carbon development: evidence from China | 10.1007/s11356-022-22539-2 |
2023-01-01 | Advancement in the transportation sector is a major priority of every country to make it faster, affordable, hassle free, and environment friendly by introducing artificial intelligent (AI) enable hyperloops and electric vehicles (EVs) for fast as well as emission free transportation, respectively. To maintain the sust... | Modernization, Sustainability, and Environmental Management of Transportation Infrastructures | 10.1007/978-3-031-37897-3_10 |
2023-01-01 | The Network of Effective Treatment (IoMT) model is used in various clinical trials and other healthcare operations. It is based on a novel set of ultraprecise tiny sensing devices and communication infrastructures, which give unmatched data collecting and ongoing vital sign capabilities. To fully realize the technology... | A Dynamic Perceptual Detector Module-Related Telemonitoring for the Intertubes of Health Services | 10.1007/978-3-031-23602-0_15 |
2023-01-01 | In intelligent building management, knowing the number of people and their location in a room are important for better control of its illumination, ventilation, and heating with reduced costs and improved comfort. This is typically achieved by detecting people using compact embedded devices that are installed on the ro... | Privacy-Preserving Person Detection Using Low-Resolution Infrared Cameras | 10.1007/978-3-031-25072-9_46 |
2023-01-01 | Smart low-cost housing estate management is a significant issue in developing countries because this kind of estate is evolving in the global South. Hence, this article contributed to this management discussion by proposing a system-thinking model for smart estate management. The model uses the technical and non-techni... | Smart Low-Cost Housing Estate Management: A System Thinking Approach | 10.1007/978-3-031-22434-8_19 |
2023-01-01 | The Covid-19 pandemic has precipitated the digital transformation in education worldwide and has exposed weaknesses and limitations in laboratory and experimental activities, mainly in the field of engineering. This forced us to provide rapid answers through a change in practice in our renewable energy program, from a ... | A Low-Cost Spectrometry Remote Laboratory | 10.1007/978-3-031-17091-1_21 |
2023-01-01 | Being the most influential multi-sport event in the world, the Olympic Games creates an increasingly important demonstration effect on the major sectors other than sports in social development. Actively addressing climate change has become an internal requirement for the Olympic Games, which is why the most recent Olym... | Low Carbon Management of Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games | 10.1007/978-981-19-7738-1_15 |
2023-01-01 | Low-voltage ride-through capabilities are one among many of the unexplored challenges in integrating photovoltaic (PV) systems into the power grid. The control strategy for the PV system which uses a three-phase single-stage inverter connected to the grid, which consists of the capability of low-voltage ride-through, i... | Low-Voltage Ride-Through for a Three-Phase Grid-Integrated Single-Stage Inverter-Based Photovoltaic System Using Fuzzy Logic Control | 10.1007/978-981-19-7874-6_14 |
2023-01-01 | The current level of development of industrial poultry farming, genetic potential, productivity, technologies imply the use of feed balanced in all nutritional indicators and produced on the basis of the most advanced technologies of the feed industry. In the structure of the cost of poultry products, the cost of feed ... | The Use of Non-traditional Feed Products in the Feeding of Broiler Chickens | 10.1007/978-3-031-21219-2_70 |
2023-01-01 | European cities face increasingly more challenges caused by road traffic. Most people use individual cars, but this represents a huge demand on the existing infrastructures. As an alternative, public transportation is a good solution for the environment, safety, and affordability. Therefore, a lot of city centers are a... | Public Transportation Occupancy Rate | 10.1007/978-3-031-30514-6_16 |
2023-01-01 | This paper presents a 0.3 V rail-to-rail three stage OTA. Due to the topology of the input stage, to the three gain stages and to subthreshold operation, the proposed OTA exhibits high dc gain in spite of the bulk-driven input. In addition, thanks to the adoption of two fully differential stages and the usage of an add... | A 0.3 V Three-Stage Body-Driven OTA | 10.1007/978-3-031-26066-7_4 |
2023-01-01 | Sustainable development in general, or climate protection in particular, has never been a systematic priority of Russian industrial policy. Unlike European countries, up to now the state policy measures for the transition to low-carbon economy in Russia have been of a recommendatory and voluntary nature. Nevertheless, ... | Prospects for Low-Carbon Industrial Policy: The Case of Russia | 10.1007/978-3-031-16477-4_13 |
2023-01-01 | Poultry farming is one of the most precocious branches of animal husbandry. This is the most knowledge-intensive and dynamic branch of the agro-industrial complex. Agricultural poultry is characterized by rapid reproduction rates, intensive growth, high productivity and viability. In order to increase the level of real... | The Effect of Low-Cost Compound Feeds on the Productive Qualities of Broiler Chickens | 10.1007/978-3-031-21219-2_69 |
2023-01-01 | The paper introduces a bulk-driven operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) suitable for ultra-low-power and ultra-low-voltage applications. The amplifier is made up of three gain stages and features inherent class-AB behavior and precise control of the quiescent current of all transistors. Additionally, positive f... | 300-mV Bulk-Driven Three-Stage OTA in 65-nm CMOS | 10.1007/978-3-031-26066-7_3 |
2023-01-01 | The outdoor environment is more complex and uncertain than the indoor environment, resulting in the identification of natural landmarks remaining a challenge in the automation process. In the orchard, tree branches not only affect the signal accuracy of the global navigation satellite system (GNSS), but also affect the... | Potentials of Deep Learning Frameworks for Tree Trunk Detection in Orchard to Enable Autonomous Navigation System | 10.1007/978-981-19-8113-5_10 |
2023-01-01 | In the past, many experimental or clinical studies were carried out to develop promising therapies for neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction (LUTD). Although still a long way from clinical application, many approaches seem promising and may bring a clinical revolution for treatment of neurogenic LUTD. In this chap... | Future Direction for Treatment of Neurogenic Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction | 10.1007/978-981-16-7939-1_83-1 |
2023-01-01 | Freshwater fish farming is an important sector of food production, nutrition, livelihood support, employment generation and contribution to national income. Pisciculture in low-land paddy fields in the Moyna block of Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal, India is now nationally important for changes in the socio-eco... | Assessing the Recent Trends of Land Use Pattern with Contemporary Issues by the Use of RS and GIS Techniques: A Case Study on Moyna Block, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal (India) | 10.1007/978-3-031-25914-2_6 |
2023-01-01 | Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are widely expressed cation channels that play an essential role in mediating Ca2+ homeostasis and are considered potential regulators of inflammatory pain. This study investigates the expression of the TRP channel subtypes TRPV1, TRPV4, TRPC6, TRPM2, TRPM8 in lumbar interver... | Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels mRNA transcripts in the lumbar intervertebral discs: biomarkers for inflammation, pain, disability, and clinical outcome | 10.1007/s11010-022-04501-5 |
2023-01-01 | Automatic speech recognition is a rapidly developing area in the field of machine learning and is a necessary tool for controlling various devices and automated systems. However, such recognition systems are more aimed at adults than at the younger generation. The peculiarity of the development of a child’s voice leads... | Difficulties Developing a Children’s Speech Recognition System for Language with Limited Training Data | 10.1007/978-3-031-41774-0_33 |
2023-01-01 | As mentioned in earlier chapters, many of chronic wounds are delayed or fail to heal through conventional treatment because attenuated activities of cells responsible for wound healing contribute to the impairment of tissue restoration. Severely impaired activities of cells crucial for wound healing are important facto... | Adjunctive Therapy | 10.1007/978-981-19-9805-8_13 |
2023-01-01 | Open flow is a key index in deliverability evaluation, which represents the maximum production capacity of gas wells. The slow pressure recovery of gas wells in low permeability and tight gas reservoirs leads to a long deliverability test cycle, which is in contradiction with the gas field gas supply requirements. At t... | A New Fast Deliverability Evaluation Method for Low Permeability Tight Gas Reservoir | 10.1007/978-981-99-1964-2_358 |
2023-01-01 | Compared with traditional agricultural irrigation, water-saving irrigation technology (WSIT) can save water and improve water utilization rate. Therefore, WSIT is important for the sustainable development of agriculture. In China, low-pressure tube irrigation (LPPIT), as an effective WSIT, has been gradually applied to... | Method of Low-Pressure Pipe Layout for Peach Tree Irrigation in Hilly Area | 10.1007/978-981-99-1919-2_6 |
2023-01-01 | The Oriente Foreland Basin in South America is one of the most important oil-producing basins in the piedmont of the Andes, the study area is located in the western slope belt of the foreland slope area, provenances come from the east, develops sea-land interaction facies thin sand, it is easy to develop low relief str... | Exploration Practice Technology and Enlightenment of Low Relief Structural-Thins and Oil Reservoirs: Taking K Area in Oriente Forel and Basin, South America as an Example | 10.1007/978-981-99-1964-2_52 |
2023-01-01 | Cystoscopy is a basic urologic skill necessary for the endoscopic evaluation of the lower urinary tract, specifically the urethra and bladder. It is one of the most important diagnostic tools used by urologists to evaluate the lower urinary tract. It is relatively simple and can be performed under local anesthesia as a... | Endoscopic Evaluation | 10.1007/978-3-030-71112-2_11-1 |
2023-01-01 | In the fast growing world the life of people is revolving around electronic devices where the battery life and speed of edge devices needs to be continuously extended. Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is one of the most attractive technologies for extremely low power computing at nanoscale. It is a transistor less c... | Efficient Design of QCA ADD-SUB Subsystem for Future Microprocessors | 10.1007/978-981-19-6383-4_18 |
2023-01-01 | Trees planted in rows have been used as shelterbelts to protect crops from strong winds. Similarly, trees can be used as windbreaks to reduce wind loading on buildings to protect them from wind damages. This hypothesis was tested in this study by conducting a series of wind tunnel tests using scaled-down models of a ga... | Influence of Upstream Mature Trees on Wind Loading on the Gable Roof of a Low-Rise Building—A Wind Tunnel Study | 10.1007/978-981-19-2886-4_5 |
2023-01-01 | The digestive system consists of the gastrointestinal tract, hepatobiliary system, pancreas, and salivary glands. Nuclear medicine is concerned with the evaluation of normal and abnormal functions of the gastrointestinal tract and hepatobiliary system. To date, the role of nuclear medicine in pancreatic disorders is li... | Digestive System | 10.1007/978-3-031-20646-7_10 |
2023-01-01 | National Climate Action Plans (Voluntary Reduction Plans) | 10.1007/978-3-319-74319-6_424 | |
2023-01-01 | Renewable energies, specifically powertrain technologies for biofuels have systematically promoted low carbon innovations. The paper focuses on a new technology, improving the performance with ethanol. The multilevel perspective framework analyzes the relevance of low carbon technology for the transition to sustainabil... | Biofuel for Energy Transition: The Bosch Case in Latin America | 10.1007/978-3-031-34436-7_22 |
2023-01-01 | Single-phase open fault may occur when permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) experiences overheat or vibration shock and should be detected timely to prevent system-level shutdown. Traditional detection methods often require large memory space at low speed and inapplicable at light load. To solve this problem, a n... | Single-Phase Open Fault Detection for Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors Based on Negative-Sequence Currents | 10.1007/978-981-99-0451-8_29 |
2023-01-01 | Due to the influence of global climate, energy, economy and other factors, low-carbon economy has won the consensus of all countries, has risen to the height of national and regional development strategies. At present, China's low-carbon research is still in its infancy, so we should grasp its research status as a whol... | Construction of Low-Carbon Economic Model Based on Grey Clustering Algorithm and Big Data | 10.1007/978-3-031-38074-7_18 |
2023-01-01 | In this document, a low-voltage, low-dropout voltage regulator intends process is projected as well as executed by means of 0.25 micron CMOS. This debate three to five volt, 50 mA CMOS small give up a single 1pF compensating capacitor in a linear voltage regulator tentative outcome prove so as to highest yield load cur... | Low Power LDO of CMOS Voltage Regulator | 10.1007/978-981-19-8497-6_34 |
2023-01-01 | Earthquake monitoring is a crucial process for human safety. Existing monitoring instruments present a high level of accuracy, along with increased size and cost because of the mechanical sensing elements they rely on. This work proposes an implementation of an earthquake monitoring device either for continuous or for ... | Earthquake Monitoring with MEMS Sensors | 10.1007/978-981-19-7660-5_65 |
2023-01-01 | Due to the fact that capillary pressure is one of the central key elements defining the oil–water flow behavior in porous media with low permeability, it’s of significance to take the dynamic capillarity (e.g., dynamic capillary pressure, i.e., DCP) into account during water flooding process in formations with extremel... | Numerical Study of the Effect of Dynamic Capillary Pressure on Oil–Water Flow in Tight Reservoirs | 10.1007/978-981-19-4067-5_2 |
2023-01-01 | Characterization tests are key to improve the Lithium-Ion batteries performance. Unfortunately, they require expensive equipment that small companies and laboratories can hardly afford. In this paper a novel low-cost battery characterization setup is proposed. It uses an auxiliary battery to strongly reduce the require... | Low-Cost Lithium-Ion Battery Characterization Setup Based on Auxiliary Batteries | 10.1007/978-3-031-30333-3_20 |
2023-01-01 | The real-time detection of the R peaks of the ECG signal is crucial to provide information on cardiac functionality, and several strategies have been presented in the past. In this work, we adapt the classical Pan and Tompkins (PT) algorithm for efficient execution on low-power microcontroller (MCU) platforms to design... | An Optimized Heart Rate Detection System Based on Low-Power Microcontroller Platforms for Biosignal Processing | 10.1007/978-3-031-16281-7_16 |
2023-01-01 | In the process of water injection development of low permeability reservoirs, unreasonable water injection quality leads to the decrease of reservoir permeability, the increase of water injection pressure and the decrease of water absorption capacity. Taking the low permeability reservoir in Wenxi 3 area of Tuha oilfie... | Research on Optimization of Water Quality Index System for Low Permeability Reservoir Water Injection Development | 10.1007/s10553-023-01484-x |
2023-01-01 | Low-light images are images taken in poorly illuminated environments. Such images suffer from colour distortion, loss of detail and blurriness, which seriously affects the detection accuracy of object detection tasks. In order to improve the accuracy of object detection in low-light images, we propose a low-light image... | Research on Object Detection Methods in Low-Light Conditions | 10.1007/978-981-99-6492-5_48 |
2023-01-01 | The robotics industry is rapidly evolving driven by better and cheaper computer chips and affordable 3D printing technologies. All these aspects are a catalyst that helps in building new concepts and prototypes at a lower cost, and easier and faster than ever before. This paper presents the entire process of building a... | Design of an Assistive Low-Cost 6 d.o.f. Robotic Arm with Gripper | 10.1007/978-981-19-1607-6_4 |
2023-01-01 | Low-pressure turbine (LPT) blades at high altitude present complex flow situations due to presence of separation and subsequent transition. These relatively low Reynolds number flows are challenging to simulate in a computationally affordable framework. Present work addresses this issue by providing solutions of such L... | Transition Modelling For Flow Separation In Low-Pressure Turbine Cascades | 10.1007/978-981-19-7055-9_54 |
2023-01-01 | As an important part of the tractor display interface, the alarm signal plays the role of attracting the driver's attention and pushing important information to the driver under emergency situations. The design level of the alarm signal is related to whether the tractor driver can deal with the abnormal situation effec... | Research on Designing and Evaluating Alarm Signals for Varying Criticality Scenarios | 10.1007/978-3-031-48044-7_11 |
2023-01-01 | Under the vision of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, clean heat supply as one of the important ways to realize low-carbon transition, will face a broad market, and replacing some conventional heat sources with nuclear energy is an effective means to reduce pollutants and a priority choice to optimize energy struct... | Analysis of the Economic Prospect of Nuclear Heat Supply by Megawatt-Class Nuclear Power Units from the Perspective of Carbon Peaking and Carbon Neutrality | 10.1007/978-981-19-8780-9_58 |
2023-01-01 | Given that the amount of traditional fuel energy is quite small and limited, it is important for the current and future generations to implement new progressive ideas for alternative changes in the fuel and energy sector in the light of environmental education. The main issue in the installation remains the environment... | Ecological Expediency of Using Traditional Fuels as Opposed to Solar Energy | 10.1007/978-3-031-14141-6_33 |
2023-01-01 | In this paper, a Lagrangian relaxation approach to the problem of minimization of the total weighted tardiness is presented. The approach can be used both to solve the original problem as well as to obtain a high-quality lower bound for the branch-and-bound method. The problem was further decomposed into upper and lowe... | Metaheuristic-Based Lagrangian Relaxation for Total Weighted Tardiness Minimization | 10.1007/978-3-031-35173-0_10 |
2023-01-01 | Faced with the impacts of climate change and its resulting consequences on both societal liveability Liveability standards and economic drawbacks, cities and countries are re-evaluating policies regarding urban sustainability. This is reflected in global policy documents such as the Sustainable Development Goal Sustain... | Redefining Climate Policy and Economic Resilience in the Consuming World | 10.1007/978-981-99-6624-0_5 |
2023-01-01 | Buzuluk forest is a specially protected area with the status of a National Park. Hydrocarbon deposits have been explored in the region: Gremyachovskoye, Vorontsovskoye, Mogutovskoye, Elshanskoye, Zhuravlevskoye, Neklyudovskoye, Nikiforovskoye. The first three are located on the territory of the forest. Separate wells d... | Features of the Formation of the Chemical Composition of the Hydrosphere of the Buzuluk Pine Forest | 10.1007/978-3-031-25962-3_60 |
2023-01-01 | Liebherr develops hydrogen fuel injection system solutions to be used in on- and off-highway hydrogen combustions engines. Heavy-duty off-highway applications have partly different requirements compared to on-highway applications. Robustness against dust, dirt & vibrations and other harsh environmental conditions must ... | Liebherr’s Approach to Hydrogen Fuel Injection Systems | 10.1007/978-3-658-41477-1_7 |
2023-01-01 | The middle and lower Jurassic coal beds in the southern margin of South Turgay basin are very developed, mainly thin coal strata (>2 m), alternating with mudstone and sandstone. The borehole environment of the coal bearing sections is poor, because the coal beds are easy to collapse and the borehole diameters are serio... | Rock Physical Analysis of Middle and Lower Jurassic Coal-Bearing Strata in the Southern Margin of South Turgay Basin | 10.1007/978-981-99-1964-2_83 |
2023-01-01 | Human parainfluenza viruses (HPIVs) are a group of respiratory viruses that cause human diseases including bronchitis, croup, bronchiolitis, and pneumonia in infants, children, and immunocompromised individuals. HPIVs, in combination with influenza virus, rhinovirus, and respiratory syncytial virus, are responsible for... | Paramyxoviruses: Parainfluenza Viruses | 10.1007/978-1-4939-9544-8_25-2 |
2023-01-01 | The lower limits of physical properties are key elements affecting reservoir evaluation and reserves estimation, which are related to the key decision-making of oil and gas reservoir exploration and development. Different from the traditional methods, this paper establishes a method to determine the lower limit of phys... | A Method for Determining the Lower Limit of Physical Properties of Gas Reservoir by Gas Column Height and Pore Throat Radius | 10.1007/978-981-99-1964-2_164 |
2023-01-01 | This paper discusses the design and implementation of a cable robotic system as a lower limb rehabilitation assistance device for hip surgery patients in the immediate postoperative period. The idea stems from the desire to implement an inexpensive and reliable robot adaptable for home use, to avoid overcrowding in hos... | Design and Operation of a Cable-Driven Robot for Lower-Limb Rehabilitation | 10.1007/978-3-031-25655-4_21 |
2023-01-01 | This paper puts forward a cooperative node selection and resource allocation strategy for search and track applications in radar network. The strategy is proposed to minimize the total energy consumption for searching and multi-target tracking (MTT) tasks by optimizing radar node selection, dwell time and transmit powe... | Cooperative Node Selection and Resource Allocation for Search and Track Applications in Radar Network | 10.1007/978-981-99-0479-2_120 |
2023-01-01 | A type of parallel driving mechanism (PDM) is proposed in this paper. PDM is different from parallel mechanism and hybrid mechanism, which is composed of the operating mechanism, driving mechanism, and connecting joint. Both the operating mechanism and driving mechanism are connected to the frame which can reduce the i... | Configuration Design of Lower-Mobility Parallel Driving Mechanisms | 10.1007/978-981-19-9398-5_30 |
2023-01-01 | In man, most chronic wounds present on the lower extremities including the feet caused by vascular conditions and or diabetes mellitus. Venous leg ulcers, mixed-arterio venous leg ulcers, ischemic leg ulcers result from venous and or arterial pathologies. Painful digital ulcers may also occur due to Raynaud’s phenomeno... | The Role of Technology in Managing Vascular Wounds | 10.1007/978-3-031-26110-7_2 |
2023-01-01 | The most frequent natural occurrence in low-lying flat land or floodplain regions is flooding, which not only results in a boost to the soil fertility but is also almost invariably accompanied by a major loss of lives, property, and the economy. The major objective of the present study is to identify areas, which are v... | Application of Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Approach for Assessing Flood Susceptibility of the Tal-Diara and Barind Region in Malda District, India | 10.1007/978-3-031-21086-0_9 |
2023-01-01 | A two-dimensional (2D) hydrodynamic model is developed for the prediction of the water level in the lower Narmada River and its coastal floodplain passing through the Bharuch city of Gujarat, India. The 2D hydrodynamic model is calibrated for the flood of 2006 with due consideration of upstream (releases from Sardar Sa... | A 2D hydrodynamic model for river flood prediction in a coastal floodplain | 10.1007/s11069-022-05587-2 |
2022-12-31 | Current energy demand and environmental pollution issues are growing due to global urbanization and development in many countries, leading to amplified energy/material consumption, serious and irreparable damage to the ecosystem with simultaneous waste formation. The world energy demand is mainly accomplished by finite... | Integrated approaches for waste to biohydrogen using nanobiomediated towards low carbon bioeconomy | 10.1007/s42114-022-00597-x |
2022-12-30 | This paper presents a semi-analytical approach to assess the structural responses of low-volume roads using StabilRoad stabilizer and its application with cement for low-volume roads. A finite-element response model is developed using ABAQUS to catechize the suitability of this stabilizer on the base and subgrade layer... | Modelling Response of Soil Stabilized Low Volume Roads by Mechanistic-Empirical Approach | 10.1007/s42947-022-00260-0 |
2022-12-30 | Water vapour is a highly variable constituent of the troposphere; thus, its high-resolution measurements are of great importance to weather prediction systems. The Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are operationally used in the estimation of the tropospheric state and assimilation of the results into the weath... | Parameterisation of the GNSS troposphere tomography domain with optimisation of the nodes’ distribution | 10.1007/s00190-022-01691-0 |
2022-12-29 | Fruits are highly perishable due to high respiration rate after harvest. This always leads to losses after harvest resulting in farmers not getting good value for their products. The high cost of the conventional refrigerator and the adverse effect on the stored fruits have made evaporative cooling technology for fruit... | The dynamics of respiratory heat load produced by orange using different biomass fibres as wetting materials in a direct evaporative cooling system | 10.1007/s13399-022-03694-5 |
2022-12-29 | Climate affects the natural landscape, the economic productivity of societies, and the lifestyles of its inhabitants. It also influences municipal wastewater treatment. Biological processes are widely employed in municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), and the prolonged cold conditions brought by the winter mont... | Current status of municipal wastewater treatment plants in North-east China: implications for reforming and upgrading | 10.1007/s11783-023-1673-5 |
2022-12-29 | The pyrolytic oil reside (POR) is produced during vacuum pyrolysis of waste tire powder (WTP) at 600 °C. Then, the pyrolytic oil residue is considered as a rheology modifier for bitumen at low temperatures. Characterization of POR showed lower viscosity and flash point with same elemental analysis to neat bitumen. Inte... | Rheological Analysis of Bitumen Modified by Waste Tire Powder Pyrolytic Oil Residue | 10.1007/s42947-022-00262-y |
2022-12-29 | The aim of this study is to evaluate how much the changes in the concrete mix design, which enable carbon footprint reduction, are impacting mechanical properties and predicted service life of concrete structure. The starting point of this study was concrete mix used in a recent reinforced concrete Pelješac Bridge in t... | Does carbon footprint reduction impair mechanical properties and service life of concrete? | 10.1617/s11527-022-02090-9 |
2022-12-29 | Yeast was the first microorganism used by mankind for biotransformation processes that laid the foundations of industrial biotechnology. In the last decade, Pichia pastoris has become the leading eukaryotic host organism for bioproduct generation. Most of the P. pastoris bioprocess operations has been relying on toxic ... | Second generation Pichia pastoris strain and bioprocess designs | 10.1186/s13068-022-02234-7 |
2022-12-28 | Purpose Fruit and vegetable-based industry alone generates 25–30% of phytonutrient-rich wastes. This biomass is usually discarded in landfills, which creates health and ecological hazards. Method Considering this, the main objective of the study was to develop a low-glycemic orange peel cake, apple peel cookies, and in... | Valorization of fruit peel waste for the formulation of low-gluten phytonutrient-rich savory snacks | 10.1186/s41110-022-00185-5 |
2022-12-27 | As infrastructure construction advances toward the cold and highland environment, concrete preparation technology and service performance in the cold climate is receiving much attention. The freezing of pore water inside concrete leads to significant changes in its mechanical properties at negative temperatures. Theref... | Mechanical properties of concrete at low and ultra-low temperatures- a review | 10.1186/s43065-022-00063-4 |
2022-12-26 | In our study, we constructed a series of inorganic nonmetallic ternary hydrides PSH 6 by first-principles structural screening under pressure of 200 GPa. The structural stability under lower pressure are examined. Focusing on the structural stability, electronic and phonon properties, as well as the possible supercondu... | Structural screening of phosphorus sulfur ternary hydride PSH6 with a high-temperature superconductivity at 130 GPa | 10.1007/s11467-022-1227-5 |
2022-12-26 | We have investigated the effect of Au nanoparticles on the low frequency noise and current-voltage of Au/Cu doped ZnO nanoparticles (Nps) based photodetectors (PDs). Besides, 1/f noise of Cu doped ZnO is studied with and without Au Nps conditions and varied bias voltages. The Au/Cu codoped ZnO Nps showed much lower 1/f... | Effects of plasmon resonance on the low frequency noise and optoelectronic properties of Au/Cu codoped ZnO based photodetectors | 10.1007/s11082-022-04401-4 |
2022-12-24 | Background Low temperatures greatly limit the growth of microorganisms. Low-temperature adaptation in microorganisms involves multiple mechanisms. Carotenoids are naturally occurring lipid-soluble pigments that act as antioxidants and protect cells and tissues from the harmful effects of free radicals and singlet oxyge... | Carotenoid biosynthesis is associated with low-temperature adaptation in Rhodosporidium kratochvilovae | 10.1186/s12866-022-02728-2 |
2022-12-22 | Preclinical studies have recently evaluated the impact of low-dose brain radiation therapy (LD-RT) in animal models of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) showing anti-amyloid and anti-inflammatory effects of this treatment. Its effectiveness varied, however, depending on the LD-RT protocol used and the stage when the treatment w... | Low-dose brain irradiation normalizes TSPO and CLUSTERIN levels and promotes the non-amyloidogenic pathway in pre-symptomatic TgF344-AD rats | 10.1186/s12974-022-02673-x |
2022-12-21 | Most recent implementations of low-cost electrical conductivity (EC) sensors intended for water quality measurements are based on simple two-pole designs. However, in marine settings, EC often exceeds the range where two-pole sensors provide reliable results. We have developed a simple four-pole EC sensor that relies e... | Development and validation of an open-source four-pole electrical conductivity, temperature, depth sensor for in situ water quality monitoring in an estuary | 10.1007/s10661-022-10493-y |
2022-12-21 | Background Atherosclerosis is the pathological basis of cardio-cerebrovascular diseases. Oxidized low-density lipoprotein (ox-LDL) is an important risk factor for atherosclerosis. Ox-LDL leads to endothelial cell (EC) damage and dysfunction through various processes and promotes the occurrence and deterioration of athe... | HMGB1 promotes Ox-LDL-induced endothelial cell damage by inhibiting PI3K/Akt signaling pathway | 10.1186/s12872-022-03003-y |
2022-12-20 | This study presents a high common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR), and high power-supply rejection ratio (PSRR) current-mode instrumentation amplifier (CMIA) to overcome the limitations of existing differential voltage second-generation current conveyors (DVCCII)-based CMIAs in achieving high CMRR. The design is based on a... | A current mode instrumentation amplifier with high common-mode rejection ratio designed using a novel fully differential second-generation current conveyor | 10.1007/s42452-022-05247-x |
2022-12-20 | The removal of phosphate from wastewater using traditional biological or precipitation methods is a huge challenge. The use of high-performance adsorbents has been shown to address this problem. In this study, a novel composite adsorbent, composed of dolomite-doped biochar and bentonite (DO/BB), was first synthesized v... | Facile fabrication of dolomite-doped biochar/bentonite for effective removal of phosphate from complex wastewaters | 10.1007/s11783-023-1671-7 |
2022-12-20 | Background Plastic waste accumulation is one of the main ecological concerns in the past decades. A new generation of plastics that are easier to degrade in the environment compared to conventional plastics, such as starch-based bioplastics and oxo-biodegradable plastics, is perceived as a solution to this issue. Howev... | Bacterial dynamics during the burial of starch-based bioplastic and oxo-low-density-polyethylene in compost soil | 10.1186/s12866-022-02729-1 |
2022-12-19 | To evaluate the effect of different ureteroscope positions, saline pumping frequency, laser fiber diameter and ureteral access sheath (UAS) on outflow rate during flexible ureteroscopy (fURS). This study was performed in an anesthetized porcine model. The fURS setup included a manual pumping system, a 9.5 Fr single use... | Determinants of outflow rate through the ureteral access sheath during flexible ureteroscopy: an experimental in vivo study in an anesthetized porcine model | 10.1007/s00240-022-01377-4 |
2022-12-17 | Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) are commonly used to control flooding in urban areas. These structures store and treat stormwater runoff. Several studies in high-income countries have reported the presence of pathogens in runoff water, but it is expected that runoff water in developing countries contains high... | Pathogens in Runoff Water Treated by a Sustainable Urban Drainage System in a Developing Country | 10.1007/s40710-022-00610-x |
2022-12-17 | A large amplitude X-mode laser, propagating through a cluster embedded magnetized plasma is parametrically susceptible to decay instability, involving a lower hybrid wave and an upper hybrid wave. The density perturbation associated with the lower hybrid wave couples with the oscillatory velocity of electrons due to th... | Decay instability of X-mode laser in a magnetized plasma embedded with clusters | 10.1007/s11082-022-04335-x |
2022-12-16 | A novel design study of ultra-flattened near-zero dispersion PCF with toluene (C 7 H 8 ) infiltration is proposed. The near-zero ultra-flattened dispersion is achieved by appropriately reducing the diameter of the first ring air-holes in the cladding and increasing the distance from the core to these air-holes. An ultr... | Supercontinuum generation in ultra-flattened near-zero dispersion PCF with C7H8 infiltration | 10.1007/s11082-022-04351-x |
2022-12-16 | Reducing carbon emissions during belt grinding is of great significance for environmentally friendly production in the manufacturing industry. In this paper, in order to better grinding aero-engine titanium alloy blades with the abrasive belt, an improved NSGA-II multi-objective optimization algorithm was proposed, whi... | Process parameter optimization model for robotic abrasive belt grinding of aero-engine blades | 10.1007/s00170-022-10626-0 |
2022-12-16 | Electrocardiogram (ECG) can assist doctors in diagnosing many cardiovascular diseases. In order to collect high-quality ECG signals continuously for a long time, low impedance and long-term stability are two essential properties of well-performing ECG electrodes. In this work, we fabricated ECG semidry electrodes with ... | A flexible semidry electrode for long-term, high-quality electrocardiogram monitoring | 10.1007/s42114-022-00596-y |
2022-12-16 | Although ecological roofs (vegetated or non-vegetated) provide many benefits, it can also leach substances such as nutrients and metals that can affect downstream aquatic ecosystems. Therefore, this work aims to investigate the rainwater quality from ecological roofs in Recife, located in the Northeast Brazil, using lo... | Effects of ecological roofs in water quality: an experimental study over a humid tropical climate | 10.1007/s40899-022-00804-z |
2022-12-16 | Background and aim Pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PA) induced hepatic sinusoidal obstruction syndrome (HSOS) occurred worldwide and the mortality rate remained high because there were no specific therapies. Defibrotide was effective for HSOS following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. But the pathogenesis of the two t... | Defibrotide improved the outcome of monocrotaline induced rat hepatic sinusoidal obstruction syndrome | 10.1186/s12876-022-02523-3 |
2022-12-16 | Background Zoledronic acid is an intravenous, highly potent aminobisphosphonate for use in patients with primary or secondary osteoporosis. Zoledronic acid-induced prolonged side-effects are well known and quite common. However, severe side-effects can be a threat to life. We report a case of severe side-effects induce... | Lessons learned from long-term side effects after zoledronic acid infusion following denosumab treatment: a case report and review of the literature | 10.1186/s13256-022-03695-y |
2022-12-15 | Air-breathing electric propulsion (ABEP) allows for lowering the altitude of spacecraft operations below 250 km, in the so-called Very Low Earth Orbits (VLEOs). Operations in VLEOs will give radical advantages in terms of orbit accessibility, payload performance, protection from radiations, and end-of-life disposal. AB... | A review of air-breathing electric propulsion: from mission studies to technology verification | 10.1007/s44205-022-00024-9 |
2022-12-14 | Background Complications of prematurity are the leading cause of neonatal mortality, and the majority of these deaths occur in low and middle-income countries. Research in these settings has focused on improved outcomes for preterm infants in hospital settings, however, research into the continuation of preterm care in... | ‘They said, let’s teach you how you are going to care for the child at home…’: caregivers’ and healthcare worker’s perceptions and experiences of post-discharge preterm care in eastern Uganda | 10.1186/s12913-022-08894-3 |
2022-12-10 | Simple compound microscopy is widely used across the globe. However, contrast and resolution fascinate students and are difficult to learn due to their limited practical experience. Although the laws of physics have been derived thoroughly, their real implementation in the human body is uncertain. This study quantifies... | Learning and evaluating the overlapping roles of physics and physiology in perceiving contrast and resolution in microscopy | 10.1007/s42452-022-05223-5 |
2022-12-10 | Background The past two decades were associated with innovation and strengthening of malaria control interventions, which have been increasingly adopted at large scale. Impact evaluations of these interventions were mostly performed in moderate or high malaria transmission areas. This study aimed to evaluate the use an... | Impact of malaria control interventions on malaria infection and anaemia in low malaria transmission settings: a cross-sectional population-based study in Sudan | 10.1186/s12879-022-07926-x |
2022-12-09 | The density of the solar wind plasma near the Earth’s magnetosphere sometimes decreases to only several per cent of the usual value, and such density extrema result in a significant reduction of the dynamic pressure and Alfvén Mach number ( $$M_A$$ M A ) of the solar wind flow. While a symmetric expansion of the Earth’... | Asymmetric deformation of the Earth’s magnetosphere under low Alfvén Mach number solar wind: Observations and MHD simulation | 10.1186/s40623-022-01744-w |
2022-12-09 | Background This study aimed to investigate the association between exposure to diverse indoor microbial aerosols and lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI) among children aged 1 to 59 months in Ibadan, Nigeria. Methods One hundred and seventy-eight (178) hospital-based LRTI cases among under-five children were match... | Indoor bacterial and fungal aerosols as predictors of lower respiratory tract infections among under-five children in Ibadan, Nigeria | 10.1186/s12890-022-02271-w |
2022-12-09 | Background Early balanced transfusion is associated with improved outcome in haemorrhagic shock patients. This study describes the implementation and evaluates the safety of a whole blood transfusion program in a civilian helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS). Methods This prospective observational study was perf... | Implementation of a low-titre whole blood transfusion program in a civilian helicopter emergency medical service | 10.1186/s13049-022-01051-z |
2022-12-07 | In this work, we have reported the colossal cyclic stability of oxygen-vacancy-rich LaMnO 3 thin film resistive switching device synthesized by tuning the oxygen partial pressure within the pulsed laser deposition (PLD) chamber with suitably chosen non-inert electrode combination (Ag and ITO). Increasing profile of cyc... | Enhanced stability and low operational voltage of resistive switching behavior in defect engineered LaMnO3 film | 10.1007/s00339-022-06265-7 |
2022-12-03 | The global economy’s growths due to industrialization, accompanied by urbanization high rate, have led to severe anthropogenic pollution impacting both the environment and human health. Regarding particularly the aquatic systems’ chemical pollution, as resulting mainly from the release of liquid effluents containing dy... | Regeneration and reusability of non-conventional low-cost adsorbents to remove dyes from wastewaters in multiple consecutive adsorption–desorption cycles: a review | 10.1007/s13399-022-03604-9 |
2022-12-02 | This article reviews the various housing schemes implemented in India post-independence. This year marking the 75 years of independence, the demand for affordable housing for economically weaker sections and low-income group are at stake in the country. In achieving “Housing for all” in the rapidly urbanizing Indian co... | A state-of-the-art review on sustainable low-cost housing and application of textile reinforced concrete | 10.1007/s41062-022-01010-8 |
2022-12-02 | Background Effective surveillance of microbial communities in the healthcare environment is increasingly important in infection prevention. Metagenomics-based techniques are promising due to their untargeted nature but are currently challenged by several limitations: (1) they are not powerful enough to extract valid si... | An improved workflow for accurate and robust healthcare environmental surveillance using metagenomics | 10.1186/s40168-022-01412-x |
2022-12-01 | The Great Barrier Reef Expedition (1928–1929) observed two of the earliest known examples of coral bleaching during a 13-month stay on Low Isles, northern Great Barrier Reef, Australia. The first was during austral summer in February 1929 in a shallow moat and the second during austral winter in June 1929 on a deeper s... | Coral bleaching at Low Isles during the 1928–1929 Great Barrier Reef Expedition | 10.1007/s00338-022-02327-7 |
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