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Yizhou Zhuang, Xiaoyao Hu, Wenbin He, Danyi Shen and Yijun Zhu
Landslides not only cause great economic and human life losses but also seriously affect the safe operation of infrastructure such as highways. Rainfall is an important condition for inducing landslides, especially when a fault and weak interlayer exist ...
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José-Luis Molina, Santiago Zazo, Fernando Espejo, Carmen Patino-Alonso, Irene Blanco-Gutiérrez and Domingo Zarzo
Floods are probably the most hazardous global natural event as well as the main cause of human losses and economic damage. They are often hard to predict, but their consequences may be reduced by taking the right precautions. In this sense, hydraulic inf...
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Hongguo Ren, Yujun Wang, Jing Zhang, Ziming Zheng and Qingqin Wang
As the quality of life and the spiritual and cultural well-being of the inhabitants progress, the current rural infrastructure has challenges in adequately addressing the physical and psychological requirements of individuals. This work presents a method...
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Yochai Eisenberg, Mackenzie Hayes, Amy Hofstra, Delphine Labbé, Robert Gould and Robin Jones
Safely walking or wheeling in a wheelchair in the community is a civil and human right. Some progress has been made in the US towards making walking/wheeling paths more accessible for people with disabilities through the construction of new curb ramps, f...
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Christos Tzimopoulos, Kyriakos Papadopoulos, Nikiforos Samarinas, Basil Papadopoulos and Christos Evangelides
In this work, a novel fuzzy FEM (Finite Elements Method) numerical solution describing the recession flow in unconfined aquifers is proposed. In general, recession flow and drainage problems can be described by the nonlinear Boussinesq equation, while th...
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Fernanda Santos Mota de Jesus, Antonio Miguel Vieira Monteiro and Javier Tomasella
Access to drinking water is recognized as a human right, meaning that it is necessary to guarantee its universal and equitable access. Since analyzing only the average access rates to drinking water may obscure inequalities, studies have adapted socioeco...
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Arvind Mukundan, Akash Patel, Bharadwaj Shastri, Heeral Bhatt, Alice Phen and Hsiang-Chen Wang
From the farthest reaches of the universe to our own galaxy, there are many different celestial bodies that, even though they are very different, each have their own way of being beautiful. Earth, the planet with the best location, has been home to peopl...
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Cleo Valentine
Virtual architecture has been increasingly relied on to evaluate the health impacts of physical architecture. In this health research, exposure to virtual architecture has been used as a proxy for exposure to physical architecture. Despite the growing bo...
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Rui Cunha Marques, Pedro Simões, Inês Machete and Thalita Fagundes
Water access is recognized as a human right by the United Nations since 2010. However, even when piped water is available, the economic crisis has limited poorer households to afford those services on a regular basis. Users become debtors as utilities fa...
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Vojtech Ilko, Dominika Sosnová, Petra Hru?ová, Jakub Fi?nar, ?tepán Czornyj, Marek Dole?al, Kristina Nakonechna and Zuzana Réblová
Vitamin E, as the most important lipophilic antioxidant of eukaryotic cells, plays an important role in human nutrition. So far, information has focused on the content of vitamin E in raw food materials or foods, and its losses under various processes an...
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