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Huiying Ren, Z. Jason Hou, Mark Wigmosta, Ying Liu and L. Ruby Leung
Changes in extreme precipitation events may require revisions of civil engineering standards to prevent water infrastructures from performing below the designated guidelines. Climate change may invalidate the intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) computatio...
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Julio Garrote, Ignacio Gutiérrez-Pérez and Andrés Díez-Herrero
Calibration and validation of flood risk maps at a national or a supra-national level remains a problematic aspect due to the limited information available to carry out these tasks. However, this validation is essential to define the representativeness o...
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João Dehon Pontes Filho, Maria Manuela Portela, Ticiana Marinho de Carvalho Studart and Francisco de Assis Souza Filho
The standardized precipitation index (SPI), is one of the most used drought indices. However, it is difficult to use to monitor the ongoing drought characteristics because it cannot be expeditiously related to precipitation deficits. It also does not pro...
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Valéria Menezes de Souza,Denilson Teixeira,Jéssica Gonçalves Barbosa
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As águas subterrâneas são recursos esgotáveis e a sua exploração desregrada pode acarretar uma série de problemas socioeconômicos e ambientais. Assim, as bases conceituais e os instrumentos de gestão propostos pela legislação são fundamentais para a cons...
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Ioannis Karampinis, Lazaros Iliadis and Athanasios Karabinis
Structures inevitably suffer damage after an earthquake, with severity ranging from minimal damage of nonstructural elements to partial or even total collapse, possibly with loss of human lives. Thus, it is essential for engineers to understand the cruci...
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Valentina Melini, Domizia Vescovo, Francesca Melini and Antonio Raffo
The Maillard reaction (MR) is one of the main reactions that occurs during the thermal processing of food. It contributes positively to the flavor, aroma, and color of food but also produces harmful by-products, including acrylamide and advanced glycatio...
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Jingxiong Lei, Xuzhi Liu, Haolang Yang, Zeyu Zeng and Jun Feng
High-resolution remote sensing images (HRRSI) have important theoretical and practical value in urban planning. However, current segmentation methods often struggle with issues like blurred edges and loss of detailed information due to the intricate back...
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Konstantinos Psychogyios, Andreas Papadakis, Stavroula Bourou, Nikolaos Nikolaou, Apostolos Maniatis and Theodore Zahariadis
The advent of computer networks and the internet has drastically altered the means by which we share information and interact with each other. However, this technological advancement has also created opportunities for malevolent behavior, with individual...
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Mario E. Rivero-Angeles, Iclia Villordo-Jimenez, Izlian Y. Orea-Flores, Noé Torres-Cruz and Angel Pretelín Ricárdez
In modern and future communication systems, we expect peaks of traffic that largely exceed the capacity of the system, since they are originally designed to support normal traffic loads. Such peaks can be caused by emergency events and cultural or sporti...
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Jia Fang, Xiang Yan, Tao Tao, Changjie Chen
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Understanding the connections between the built environment and travel mode choice is a major research topic in transportation. However, existing studies usually examine the relationship through trip-based analyses rather than tour-based approaches. A to...
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