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Daniel Castro-López, Pablo Rodríguez-Lozano, Rebeca Arias-Real, Víctor Guerra-Cobián and Narcís Prat
The Earth?s freshwater ecosystems are currently under threat, particularly in developing countries. In Mexico, intensive land use and inadequate monitoring policies have resulted in the severe degradation of the country?s freshwater ecosystems. This stud...
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Hang Su, Tao Deng, Zengquan Yang, Jianpeng Qin and Lu Zheng
Shield misalignment is a common problem in shield tunnels, which seriously affects the safety and durability of tunnels. However, at present, there is a lack of research on the influence of shield misalignment on the shear capacity of the circumferential...
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Markeljan Fishta, Erica Raviola and Franco Fiori
The smart management of water resources is an increasingly important topic in today?s society. In this context, the paradigm of Smart Water Grids (SWGs) aims at a constant monitoring through a network of smart nodes deployed over the water distribution i...
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Debra Ortega, Alejandro Amador, Mohiuddin Ahmad, Ahsan Choudhuri and Md Mahamudur Rahman
This paper presents an experimental characterization of liquid nitrogen (LN2) flow boiling in additively manufactured minichannels. There is a pressing need of concerted efforts from the space exploration and thermal transport communities to design high-...
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Younés Noutfia and Ewa Ropelewska
An in-depth determination of date fruit properties belonging to a given variety can have an impact on their consumption, processing, and storage. The objective of this study was to characterize date fruits of the ?Mejhoul? variety using (i) objective and...
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Ying Guo, Shaohua Li, Faqi He and Tao Lei
Sandy braided river deposits are widely observed in ancient stratigraphic records and modern sedimentary basins. Frequent channel migration shapes intricate internal architecture, while research on its influence on fine sedimentary architecture remains l...
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Hui Shi, Yao Luo, Fenghua Zhou, Chunhua Qiu, Dongxiao Wang and Zhenqiu Zhang
The Pearl River Estuary is a typical estuary region in southern China, and the study of surface wave occurrence and characteristics is of great importance for shipping management, nearshore engineering, and monitoring shoreline changes and other human ac...
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Usman Ali, Giuseppe Caso, Luca De Nardis, Konstantinos Kousias, Mohammad Rajiullah, Özgü Alay, Marco Neri, Anna Brunstrom and Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto
The successful rollout of fifth-generation (5G) networks requires a full understanding of the behavior of the propagation channel, taking into account the signal formats and the frequencies standardized by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)....
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Jose Alberto Del Puerto-Flores, José Luis Naredo, Fernando Peña-Campos, Carolina Del-Valle-Soto, Leonardo J. Valdivia and Ramón Parra-Michel
Digital communication over power lines is an active field of research and most studies in this field focus on low-voltage (LV) and medium-voltage (MV) power systems. Nevertheless, as power companies are starting to provide communication services and as s...
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Salvatore Distefano, Niccolò Baldassini, Viviana Barbagallo, Laura Borzì, Natale Maria D?Andrea, Salvatore Urso and Agata Di Stefano
The assessment of the vulnerability of a site to tsunami events should take into consideration the geomorphological setting, which is strongly determined by the stratigraphic framework of the area. Lampedusa island is located in the central portion of th...
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