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Yeon Moon Choo, Deok Jun Jo, Gwan Seon Yun and Eui Hoon Lee
Frequent localized torrential rains, excessive population density in urban areas, and increased impervious areas have led to massive flood damage that has been causing overloading of drainage systems (watersheds, reservoirs, drainage pump sites, etc.). F...
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Vasileios Thomopoulos and Kostas Tsichlas
In this research, we present the first steps toward developing a data-driven agent-based model (ABM) specifically designed for simulating infectious disease dynamics in Greece. Amidst the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2, this research hold...
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Kalyan Chatterjee, M. Raju, N. Selvamuthukumaran, M. Pramod, B. Krishna Kumar, Anjan Bandyopadhyay and Saurav Mallik
According to global data on visual impairment from the World Health Organization in 2010, an estimated 285 million individuals, including 39 million who are blind, face visual impairments. These individuals use non-contact methods such as voice commands ...
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Angel James Medina Medina, Rolando Salas López, Jhon Antony Zabaleta Santisteban, Katerin Meliza Tuesta Trauco, Efrain Yury Turpo Cayo, Nixon Huaman Haro, Manuel Oliva Cruz and Darwin Gómez Fernández
One of the world?s major agricultural crops is rice (Oryza sativa), a staple food for more than half of the global population. In this research, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical images are used to analyze the monthly dynamics of this crop in th...
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Libero Nigro and Franco Cicirelli
K-Means is a ?de facto? standard clustering algorithm due to its simplicity and efficiency. K-Means, though, strongly depends on the initialization of the centroids (seeding method) and often gets stuck in a local sub-optimal solution. K-Means, in fact, ...
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Esther Lantero, Beatriz Matallanas and Carmen Callejas
Mediterranean olive cultivation faces challenges in the global environmental change context. Pests and diseases caused by arthropods such as Bactrocera oleae, Prays oleae, and certain vectors of Xylella fastidiosa are expected to increase and spread in p...
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Halil Ibrahim Gündüz, Ferruh Yilmaztürk and Osman Orhan
Although approximately one-tenth of the world?s population lives near volcanoes, most of the 1500 active volcanoes are not monitored by ground-based instruments because of the cost and difficulty of access. Since the development of interferometric synthe...
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Laura Caggiu, Federico Fiorani, Elisa Corradini, Enrico Felice and Alberto Minelli
In Europe, more than two-thirds of the population live in urban areas. The management of urban green areas and trees is becoming increasingly relevant involving different players and stakeholders, as well for keeping a focus on the Sustainable Developmen...
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Sara Zollini, Donatella Dominici, Maria Alicandro, María Cuevas-González, Eduard Angelats, Francesca Ribas and Gonzalo Simarro
Coastal environments are dynamic ecosystems, constantly subject to erosion/accretion processes. Erosional trends have unfortunately been intensifying for decades due to anthropic factors and an accelerated sea level rise might exacerbate the problem. It ...
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J. Dhakshayani and B. Surendiran
Amaranth, a pseudocereal crop which is rich in nutrients and climate resistant, can provide an opportunity to increase food security and nutritional content for the growing population. Farmers rely mainly on synthetic fertilizers to improve the quality a...
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