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Environmental Stability of Enveloped Viruses Is Impacted by Initial Volume and Evaporation Kinetics of Droplets
(American Society for Microbiology, 2023-04)Efficient spread of respiratory viruses requires the virus to maintain infectivity in the environment. Environmental stability of viruses can be influenced by many factors, including temperature and humidity. Our study ... -
Comparison of Cefotaxime-Resistant Escherichia coli and sul1 and intI1 by qPCR for Monitoring of Antibiotic Resistance of Wastewater, Surface Water, and Recycled Water
(MDPI, 2023-07-29)Awareness of the need for surveillance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in water environments is growing, but there is uncertainty regarding appropriate monitoring targets. Adapting culture-based fecal indicator monitoring ... -
Multispectral Imaging for Identification of High-Water Marks in Postdisaster Flood Reconnaissance
(ASCE, 2023-05)Flooding annually causes thousands of fatalities and billions of dollars in damage globally. Predicting future floods has become increasingly challenging due to changing urban environments and land surface conditions. ... -
Evaluation of Electrical Cardiometry for Measuring Cardiac Output and Derived Hemodynamic Variables in Comparison with Lithium Dilution in Anesthetized Dogs
(MDPI, 2023-07-20)Numerous cardiac output (CO) technologies were developed to replace the ‘gold standard’ pulmonary artery thermodilution due to its invasiveness and the risks associated with it. Minimally invasive lithium ... -
Comparative Analysis of Parametric and Non-Parametric Data-Driven Models to Predict Road Crash Severity among Elderly Drivers Using Synthetic Resampling Techniques
(MDPI, 2023-06-21)As the global elderly population continues to rise, the risk of severe crashes among elderly drivers has become a pressing concern. This study presents a comprehensive examination of crash severity among this demographic, ... -
Microbiological and chemical drinking water contaminants and associated health outcomes in rural Appalachia, USA: A systematic review and meta-analysis
(Elsevier, 2023-09)In rural areas of the United States, an estimated ~1.8 million people lack reliable access to safe drinking water. Considering the relative dearth of information on water contamination and health outcomes in Appalachia, ... -
Investigations on The Structural Behavior of Steel Plate Shear Walls with Partially Interconnected Infill Plates
(2023-07-08)Steel plate shear walls are considered an effective lateral load-resisting system widely used in space-constrained high-rise buildings. Steel plate shear walls could improve several structural parameters such as strength, ... -
Relating side scan sonar backscatter data to geotechnical properties for the investigation of surficial seabed sediments
(Springer, 2023-06)Side scan sonar is a common tool for seafloor imaging and surveying due its efficiency and high resolution. The backscatter information from side scan sonar enables to identify sediment types and seabed roughness, often ... -
What Wildfire Smoke, Gas Stoves and Covid Tell Us About Our Air
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Failure mechanism, existing constitutive models and numerical modeling of landslides in sensitive clay: a review
(2023-05-26)Landslides involving sensitive clays are recurrent events in the world's northern regions and are especially notorious in eastern Canada. The two critical factors that separate sensitive clay landslides from traditional ... -
A Mycorrhizal Model for Transactive Solar Energy Markets with Battery Storage
(MDPI, 2023-05-13)Distributed market structures for local, transactive energy trading can be modeled with ecological systems, such as mycorrhizal networks, which have evolved to facilitate interplant carbon exchange in forest ecosystems. ... -
Soil-Water-Structure Interactions
(MDPI, 2023-05-05)Interactions between soil, fluids (e.g., water), and structures are intrinsic to most geotechnical problems. However, these can be extremely complex and further understanding is needed in this field. Soil–water&nda ... -
Biomimetic Transparent Nanoplasmonic Meshes by Reverse-Nanoimprinting for Bio-Interfaced Spatiotemporal Multimodal SERS Bioanalysis
(Wiley-V C H Verlag, 2022-11)Multicellular systems, such as microbial biofilms and cancerous tumors, feature complex biological activities coordinated by cellular interactions mediated via different signaling and regulatory pathways, which are ... -
Probabilistic tropical cyclone surge hazard under future sea-level rise scenarios: A case study in the Chesapeake Bay region, USA
(2023-05-21)Storm surge flooding caused by tropical cyclones is a devastating threat to coastal regions, and this threat is growing due to sea-level rise (SLR). Therefore, accurate and rapid projection of the storm surge hazard is ... -
Estimated timescales for wet deposition of organic compounds as a function of Henry's law constants
(Royal Society Chemistry, 2022-11)Atmospheric organic compounds may deposit to Earth's surfaces via dry deposition, driven by concentration gradients, and wet deposition, driven by the scavenging of compounds by precipitation. Their removal by deposition ... -
Dynamic Fracture and Crack Arrest Toughness Evaluation of High-Performance Steel Used in Highway Bridges
(MDPI, 2023-04-26)Impact energy tests are an efficient method of verifying adequate toughness of steel prior to it being put into service. Based on a multitude of historical correlations between impact energy and fracture toughness, minimum ... -
Agreement between Electrical Cardiometry and Pulmonary Artery Thermodilution for Measuring Cardiac Output in Isoflurane-Anesthetized Dogs
(MDPI, 2023-04-21)In animals, invasive pulmonary artery thermodilution (PATD) is a gold standard for cardiac output (CO) monitoring, but it is impractical in clinical settings. This study evaluates the agreement between PATD and noninvasive ... -
Simple Diesel Train Fuel Consumption Model for Real-Time Train Applications
(MDPI, 2023-04-20)This paper introduces a simple diesel train energy consumption model that calculates the instantaneous energy consumption using vehicle operational input variables, including the instantaneous speed, acceleration, and ... -
Evaluating the cost of collection, processing, and application of face masks in hot-mix asphalt (HMA) pavements
(Elsevier, 2022-11)Human activities significantly contribution to the yearly generated plastic wastes. Moreover, the enormous in-crease in face masks and face shields caused by the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has doubled the generated ...
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