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Study on safety of a high earth-core rockfill dam considering contact effect between dam and foundation

LI Guoying, HAN Chaojun, WEI Kuangmin, MI Zhankuan • Shuili Shuiyun Gongcheng Xuebao (2019)

With a traditional method to calculate the stress and deformation of earth-rock dam, the contact effect between the dam and the bedrock is neglected, which is not consistent with the actual condition. The contact friction has a significant ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.16198/j.cnki.1009-640X.2019.06.012

Restoration of the Zoige alpine wetland played a role in the recent reduction in water yield in the Source Region of the Yellow River

Nana Zhao, Edward Johnson, Lingyao Meng, Muyuan Ma et al. • HydroResearch

Ecological restoration efforts have been actively promoted in the Source Region of the Yellow River (SRYR) since the late 1990s, but their hydrological effects remain poorly understood. This study quantified long-term runoff changes from 19...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.hydres.2026.09.004

Structure and assembly mechanism of soil bacterial community under different soil salt intensities in arid and semiarid regions

Yuxi Wei, Lijuan Chen, Qi Feng, Haiyang Xi et al. • Ecological Indicators (2024)

Soil salinization has become the most expansive form of soil degradation in arid and semiarid regions, and the management of soil salinization is imperative for achieving sustainable development. Soil microorganisms are supposed to play an ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.111631

Critical Factors Affecting Water and Nitrogen Losses from Sloping Farmland during the Snowmelt Process

Qiang Zhao, Jifeng Zhang, Jingwei Wu, Chenyao Guo et al. • Agronomy (2023)

Water and nitrogen losses from farmland during the snowmelt process play a vital role in water and nitrogen management in cold regions. To explore the mechanisms and factors contributing to water and nitrogen loss from different sloping far...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/agronomy13020350

Dissenting Design

Simona Cosentino, Eleonora Lupo • piano b (2017)

As part of the discipline and practice of design (understood in its broadest sense of «strategic problem-solving process that drives innovation, builds business success, and leads to a better quality of life through innovative products, sys...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.6092/issn.2531-9876/7697

Understanding the Attitudes of Communities to the Social, Economic, and Cultural Importance of Working Donkeys in Rural, Peri-urban, and Urban Areas of Ethiopia

Martha Geiger, Jo Hockenhull, Henry Buller, Gebre Tefera Engida et al. • Frontiers in Veterinary Science (2020)

Working donkeys (Equus africanus asinus) are vital to the development and support of people's livelihoods in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas of Ethiopia. However, despite their critical role in providing transport, food security, and inc...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2020.00060

Motivation and context of concurrent stimulant and opioid use among persons who use drugs in the rural United States: a multi-site qualitative inquiry

R. J. Fredericksen, R. Baker, A. Sibley, A. T. Estadt et al. • Harm Reduction Journal (2024)

Abstract Background In recent years, stimulant use has increased among persons who use opioids in the rural U.S., leading to high rates of overdose and death. We sought to understand motivations and contexts for stimulant use among persons ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12954-024-00986-z

URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT WITH THE USE OF ELECTRIC BUSES – DEVELOPMENT TENDENCIES

Stanisław KRAWIEC, Bogusław ŁAZARZ, Sylwester MARKUSIK, Grzegorz KAROŃ et al. • Transport Problems (2016)

The programing documents of the European Union determine the direction of transport systems development, including large cities and agglomerations. The context of these actions which aim to transform into ecologically clean and sustainable ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.20858/tp.2016.11.4.12

An enhanced model predictive control method for single-stage three-phase transformerless grid-connected photovoltaic inverter

Zhonglin Guo, Zhijie Liu, Miao Guo, Ke-Jun Li et al. • International Journal of Electrical Power & Energy Systems (2025)

The single-stage transformerless photovoltaic (PV) topology is an attractive configuration as it offers high efficiency, low installation cost and smaller size. For such a configuration, the control algorithm should be designed to track the...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.ijepes.2025.111239

Resource-Constrained Edge AI Solution for Real-Time Pest and Disease Detection in Chili Pepper Fields

Hoyoung Chung, Jin-Hwi Kim, Junseong Ahn, Yoona Chung et al. • Agriculture (2026)

This paper presents a low-cost, fully on-premise Edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) system designed to support real-time pest and disease detection in open-field chili pepper cultivation. The proposed architecture integrates AI-Thinker ESP32...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/agriculture16020223

Right-lateral offset associated with the most recent earthquake on the Ikeda fault of the Median Tectonic Line, southwest Japan, revealed by ground-penetrating radar profiling

Adi Patria, Haruo Kimura, Yoshihiro Kitade, Hiroyuki Tsutsumi • Progress in Earth and Planetary Science (2022)

Abstract The Median Tectonic Line (MTL) is an arc-parallel strike-slip fault that accommodates much of the arc-parallel component of the oblique convergence of the Philippine Sea and Eurasian plates at the Nankai Trough. The MTL in Shikoku ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s40645-022-00466-7

Securing Electric Vehicle Performance: Machine Learning-Driven Fault Detection and Classification

Mahbub Ul Islam Khan, Md. Ilius Hasan Pathan, Mohammad Mominur Rahman, Md. Maidul Islam et al. • IEEE Access (2024)

Electric vehicles (EVs) are commonly recognized as environmentally friendly modes of transportation. They function by converting electrical energy into mechanical energy using different types of motors, which aligns with the sustainable pri...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3400913

Women’s Water Access Is Associated With Measures of Empowerment and Social Support: A Cross-sectional Study in Sub-Saharan Africa

Hiliary Monteith, Davod Ahmadi, Kate Sinclair, Narges Ebadi et al. • Journal of Rural and Community Development (2020)

Water access is an important global issue that impacts health and wellbeing and has been recognized by the United Nations as a significant area for improvement. Despite some global improvements from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) t...

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Deployment-related mental health support: comparative analysis of NATO and allied ISAF partners

Eric Vermetten, Neil Greenberg, Manon A. Boeschoten, Roos Delahaije et al. • European Journal of Psychotraumatology (2014)

Background: For years there has been a tremendous gap in our understanding of the mental health effects of deployment and the efforts by military forces at trying to minimize or mitigate these. Many military forces have recently systematize...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3402/ejpt.v5.23732

The works of А. N. Radishchev: A study of economic and anthropological interpretation

Vadim A. Maximov • Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия «Экономика. Управление. Право» (2022)

Introduction. A. N. Radishchev in his writings lays the foundations of a humanistic study of Russian society and an anthropological understanding of economic orders. Most of the works were not published during his lifetime; the scientific ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.18500/1994-2540-2022-22-4-384-395