Academic Articles & Research Papers

Spatially contextualized analysis of energy use for commuting in India

India’s land transport GHG emissions are small in international comparison, but growing exponentially. Understanding of geographically-specific determinants of GHG emissions is crucial to devise low-carbon sustainable development strategies...

Multidimensional Correlates of Childhood Stunting in India: A Spatial Machine Learning and Explainable AI Approach

Childhood stunting remains a major public health challenge in India and is influenced by multiple socioeconomic and environmental factors. This ecological study examined district-level correlates of childhood stunting, including Crimes Agai...

Directional Gaussian Mixture Models of the Gut Microbiome Elucidate Microbial Spatial Structure

ABSTRACT The gut microbiome is spatially heterogeneous, with environmental niches contributing to the distribution and composition of microbial populations. A recently developed mapping technology, MaPS-seq, aims to characterize the spatial...

Mapping drivers of tropical forest loss with satellite image time series and machine learning

The rates of tropical deforestation remain high, resulting in carbon emissions, biodiversity loss, and impacts on local communities. To design effective policies to tackle this, it is necessary to know what the drivers behind deforestation ...

Portable NIR Spectroscopy Combined with Machine Learning for Kiwi Ripeness Classification: An Approach to Precision Farming

This study aims to evaluate and classify the ripening stages of yellow-fleshed kiwifruit by integrating spectral and physicochemical data collected from the pre-harvest phase through 60 days of storage. A portable near-infrared (NIR) spectr...

Epidemiology and Ecology of Toscana Virus Infection and Its Global Risk Distribution

Toscana virus (TOSV), a member of the Phlebovirus genus transmitted by sandflies, is acknowledged for its capacity to cause neurological infections and is widely distributed across Mediterranean countries. The potential geographic distribut...

Development of a Transfer Learning Technique for Rapid Adaptation of Thermal Compensation Models to Long-Term Machine Thermal Behavior Changes

Structural aging and environmental changes associated with long-term operation can substantially modify the thermal behavior of machine tools, diminishing the accuracy of existing thermal compensation models. Traditional neural network appr...

Integrating InVEST and machine learning to model mangrove habitat degradation trend in in Northern Persian Gulf, Iran

Abstract The expansion of human activities and environmental changes in coastal desert and semi-desert ecosystems significantly impact habitat quality. This study used remote sensing data on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform to generat...

Towards a physics informed digital twin to predict cerebral blood flow and cerebral vascular regulation

Abstract Cerebral blood flow is essential for brain function and is governed by cerebral perfusion pressure and physiological mechanisms collectively referred to as cerebral vascular regulation (CVR). Direct measurement of cerebral blood fl...

Use of machine learning algorithms to determine the relationship between air pollution and cognitive impairment in Taiwan

Air pollution has become a major global threat to human health. Urbanization and industrialization over the past few decades have increased the air pollution. Plausible connections have been made between air pollutants and dementia. This st...

Spatializing Air Conditioner and Evaporative Cooler Ownership, Use, and Inequality across 400+ Districts Pan-India: Unpacking Social, Environmental, and Urbanization Correlates.

Unlocking pseudocapacitors prolonged electrode fabrication via ultra-short laser pulses and machine learning

Summary: Pseudocapacitors outperform lithium-ion batteries in terms of charging rate and power density. However, their electrode manufacturing procedures are prolonged and environmentally unfriendly, posing a research challenge. To address ...

Modeled Groundwater Decline is Associated with Lower Arsenic Concentrations in Hanoi.

Impact of environmental factors on cardiovascular health in Castilla-La Mancha: the CarVasCLiMa cohort study protocol.

Using generalized random forests to characterize vulnerability to adverse health outcomes following wildfire smoke exposure in California

Background: As the health burden attributable to wildfire activity increases under climate change, it is crucial to determine which subgroups face heightened vulnerability to wildfire smoke. Marginalized communities may experience dispropor...

Classification of bioactive peptides: A systematic benchmark of models and encodings

Bioactive peptides are short amino acid chains possessing biological activity and exerting physiological effects relevant to human health. Despite their therapeutic value, their identification remains a major problem, as it mainly relies on...

Improving the Robustness of Odour Recognition with Odour-Image Data Fusion in Open-Air Settings

Odour recognition with low-cost gas sensors is challenging in open-air settings due to the non-specificity of the sensors and environmental variability. This can be mitigated by incorporating additional information into the classification p...

Machine learning approach for the estimation of missing precipitation data: a case study of South Korea

Precipitation is one of the driving forces in water cycles, and it is vital for understanding the water cycle, such as surface runoff, soil moisture, and evapotranspiration. However, missing precipitation data at the observatory becomes an ...

Predicting Urban Quality of Life Using Machine Learning on Street Images and Personal Information with Statistical Feature Selection: A Comparative Study of Bangkok and London

This study proposes a machine learning framework for predicting perceived urban quality of life (QoL) by integrating visual features from street-level imagery with personal attributes, including demographic, socioeconomic, and travel behavi...

Surface circulation properties in the eastern Mediterranean emphasized using machine learning methods

The eastern Mediterranean surface circulation is highly energetic and composed of structures interacting stochastically. However, some main features are still debated, and the behavior of some fine-scale dynamics and their role in shaping t...