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Illustrative Analysis of Probabilistic Sea Level Rise Hazard
(American Meteorological Society, 2020-02)Sea level rise results from several contributing physical processes, including ocean thermal expansion and glacier and ice sheet mass loss. Future projections of sea level remain highly uncertain due to several sources of ... -
Large-scale adoption of self-synchronized universal droop controller-based inverters to enable ancillary services for different modes of distribution system operations
(IEEE, 2020)This work proposes the large-scale adoption of self-synchronized universal droop controller (SUDC)-based inverters to enable ancillary services for different modes of distribution system operations. The IEEE 123 bus system ... -
StEER-EERI: Petrinja, Croatia December 29, 2020, Mw 6.4 Earthquake Joint Reconnaissance Report (JRR)
(2021)On December 29, 2020 a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurred in the Sisak-Moslavina county of Croatia. The earthquake occurred along the Popusko-Petrinja strike slip fault within the Eurasia plate at a depth of 10 km with an ... -
The impact of height-independent errors in state variables on the determination of the daytime atmospheric boundary layer depth using the bulk Richardson approach
(American Meteorological Society, 2021)Rawinsonde observations have long been used to estimate the atmospheric boundary layer depth (BLD), which is an important parameter for monitoring air quality, dispersion studies, weather forecast models, and inversion ... -
Political domination and urban development: Altering the cultural identity of Tripoli's historic center
(2020)This chapter outlines three different political systems of power (two periods of colonization and one dictatorship) in Libya and examines how they collectively contributed to the alteration of the urban form and cultural ... -
Finite element driven design domain identification of a beating left ventricular simulator
(2019)Almost ten percent of the American population have heart diseases. Since the number of available heart donors is not promising, left ventricular assist devices are implemented as bridge therapies. Development of the assist ... -
Row spacing of alfalfa interseeded into native grass pasture influences soil‐plant‐water relations
(2020)Interseeding alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) can improve forage quality of grasslands by adding a high‐protein species, but this runs the risk of accelerating soil water depletion. The objective was to evaluate effects of ... -
Comparison of bootstrap confidence interval methods for GSCA using a Monte Carlo simulation
(2019)Generalized structured component analysis (GSCA) is a theoretically well-founded approach to component-based structural equation modeling (SEM). This approach utilizes the bootstrap method to estimate the confidence intervals ... -
Effects of yuan–dollar exchange rate changes on world cotton markets
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)From April 2018 to August 2019, the Yuan has declined in value relative to the US dollar by 12.6%, and the effects of this decline have not been studied. This study analyzes the effects of this fall in Yuan value, in ... -
Crisis social media data labeled for storm-related information and toponym usage
(2020)Social media provides citizens and officials with important sources of information during times of crisis. This data article makes available labeled, storm-related social media data collected over a six-hour period during ... -
Effect of handler knowledge of the detection task on canine search behavior and performance
(2020)Detection dogs are commonly trained and tested under conditions in which the handler or the evaluator knows the true presence or absence of a target odor. Previous research has demonstrated that when handlers are deceived ... -
Sustainable, portable, and efficient electricity delivery (SPEED): Design, control, and testing
(IEEE, 2020)During emergencies or natural disasters, or at remote areas, the main electrical grid might be damaged or not accessible, therefore, a sustainable electricity generation is critical for human survivals or other electricity ... -
The winning weaning food (WWF): The development of a complementary food for food-insecure infants and young children in Malawi
(2019)Growing evidence exists for the benefits of adequate infant and young children feeding (IYCF) practices at the weaning stage (≥ 6 months), including optimal growth, building the immune system, cognitive development, healthy ... -
Intelligent diagnosis of heart murmurs in children with congenital heart disease
(Hindawi, 2020)Heart auscultation is a convenient tool for early diagnosis of heart diseases and is being developed to be an intelligent tool used in online medicine. Currently, there are few studies on intelligent diagnosis of pediatric ... -
Integrated design approaches for 3D printed tissue scaffolds: Review and outlook
(2019)Emerging 3D printing technologies are enabling the fabrication of complex scaffold structures for diverse medical applications. 3D printing allows controlled material placement for configuring porous tissue scaffolds with ... -
Development of a PCR-based, genetic marker resource for the tomato-like nightshade relative, Solanum lycopersicoides using whole genome sequence analysis
(2020)Solanum lycopersicoides is a wild nightshade relative of tomato with known resistance to a wide range of pests and pathogens, as well as tolerance to cold, drought and salt stress. To effectively utilize S. lycopersicoides ... -
Analysis of offshore wind energy in Colombia: Current status and future opportunities
(2020)Offshore wind energy is a sustainable and innovative energy source. However, its performance is extremely dependent on the local meteorology and oceanographic conditions. There are numerous opportunities as well as challenges ... -
Theory and methodology of exploratory social science research
(2017-02)Confirmatory, deductive research cannot produce absolute truths, according Karl POPPER (2002). If we accept this premise, then it is worth giving inductive and explorative research another chance. Exploration can produce ... -
A theory of whiteness as symbolic racial capital: Bourdieu 2.0
(2020)This article seeks to propose a theoretical and analytical framework for examining whiteness as a symbolic, racial capital. I propose to treat whiteness as an unexplained residual for different outcomes, similar to how ... -
La epistemología y metodología de la investigación exploratoria en ciencias sociales: Cruzando Popper con Marcuse
(2015)Karl Popper demuestra que la inducción no lleva a la verdad y sugiere la deducción como única forma de llegar a propuestas científicas. Al mismo tiempo deja claro que teorías y hipoteses son modelos mentales que no ...
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