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Enhanced Energy Recovery in Magnetic Energy-Harvesting Shock Absorbers Using Soft Magnetic Materials

Susana Aberturas, José Luis Olazagoitia, Miguel Ángel García, Antonio Hernando • Magnetochemistry (2023)

In the automobile sector, energy recovery and sustainability are becoming more and more important, and energy-harvesting suspension systems (EHSAs) have a lot of promise to improve vehicle efficiency. This investigation expands on prior wor...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/magnetochemistry9070189

Development of Representative Urban Driving Cycles for Congested Traffic Conditions in Guayaquil Using Real-Time OBD-II Data and Weighted Statistical Methods

Roberto López-Chila, Henry Abad-Reyna, Joao Morocho-Cajas, Pablo Fierro-Jimenez • Vehicles (2025)

Standardized driving cycles such as the FTP-75 fail to represent traffic conditions in cities like Guayaquil, where high congestion and varied driving behaviors are not captured by external models. This study aimed to develop representative...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/vehicles7030095

Natural Earth Pigments as Geological Polymineral Systems: A Structured Approach to Provenance and Degradation Assessment in Heritage Science

Sebastiano Ettore Spoto, Roberta Somma • Heritage (2026)

Natural earth pigments are polymineral materials whose present composition may differ from the source because of selection, grinding, heating, mixing, binder incorporation, and later alteration. This study develops a structured method for s...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/heritage9080322

Deep Mapping and Spatial Anthropology

Les Roberts • Humanities (2016)

This paper provides an introduction to the Humanities Special Issue on “Deep Mapping”. It sets out the rationale for the collection and explores the broad-ranging nature of perspectives and practices that fall within the “undisciplined” int...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/h5010005

gllvm 2.0: fast fitting of advanced ordination methods and joint species distribution models

Pekka Korhonen, Francis K.C. Hui, Jenni Niku, Sara Taskinen et al. • PeerJ (2025)

Background Over the past decade, joint species distribution models (JSDMs) and model-based ordination have emerged as powerful tools for the analysis of community ecology data. Generalized linear latent variable models (GLLVMs) offer a flex...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.7717/peerj.20338

True 2-D Resistivity Imaging from Vertical Electrical Soundings to Support More Sustainable Rural Water Supply Borehole Siting in Malawi

Romain Leborgne, Michael O. Rivett, Gift J. Wanangwa, Philippe Sentenac et al. • Applied Sciences (2021)

To improve borehole siting for rural water supply, an advanced resistivity method was adapted for developing country use and demonstrated in Malawi. The method was designed to be low cost, developing-country accessible, efficient. It allows...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/app11031162

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

Unraveling the Secrets of a Double-Life Fungus by Genomics: <i>Ophiocordyceps australis</i> CCMB661 Displays Molecular Machinery for Both Parasitic and Endophytic Lifestyles

Thaís Almeida de Menezes, Flávia Figueira Aburjaile, Gabriel Quintanilha-Peixoto, Luiz Marcelo Ribeiro Tomé et al. • Journal of Fungi (2023)

Ophiocordyceps australis (Ascomycota, Hypocreales, Ophiocordycipitaceae) is a classic entomopathogenic fungus that parasitizes ants (Hymenoptera, Ponerinae, Ponerini). Nonetheless, according to our results, this fungal species also exhibits...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/jof9010110

Expansão da agricultura e sua vinculação com o processo de urbanização na Região Nordeste/Brasil (1990-2010)

Humberto Miranda • EURE (Santiago) - Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Urbano Regionales (2012)

O processo de urbanização brasileiro tem se modificado nos últimos vinte anos. Os estudos em economia regional têm apontado para a forte influência da expansão da agricultura de exportação em territórios de fronteira como um dos principais ...

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The influence of roadway characteristics and built environment on the extent of over-speeding: An exploration using mobile automated traffic camera data

Boniphace Kutela, Frank Ngeni, Cuthbert Ruseruka, Tumlumbe Juliana Chengula et al. • International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology (2025)

Over-speeding is a pivotal factor in fatal traffic crashes globally, necessitating robust speed management strategies to augment road safety. In 2021, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported over 12 000 speed-related fat...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.ijtst.2024.03.003

Assessing the importance of spectators to soccer clubs in South Africa: A management perspective

Victor S. Mogajane, Engelina du Plessis, Elmarie Slabbert • Acta Commercii (2019)

Orientation: This study investigates and analyses the perceptions of soccer club managers based on spectators’ loyalty factors, values and challenges concerning soccer clubs in South Africa. Research purpose: These results could assist man...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.4102/ac.v19i1.633

Curvature and thermal corrections in tree-level CPT-Violating Leptogenesis

Nick E. Mavromatos, Sarben Sarkar • European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields (2020)

Abstract In a model for leptogenesis based on spontaneous breaking of Lorentz and $$\mathcal {CPT}$$ CPT symmetry [1–3], we examine the consistency of using the approximation of plane-wave solutions for a free spin-$$\frac{1}{2}$$ 12 Dirac ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-8109-1

Slow Solar Wind Connection Science during Solar Orbiter’s First Close Perihelion Passage

Stephanie L. Yardley, Christopher J. Owen, David M. Long, Deborah Baker et al. • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (2023)

The Slow Solar Wind Connection Solar Orbiter Observing Plan (Slow Wind SOOP) was developed to utilize the extensive suite of remote-sensing and in situ instruments on board the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter mission to answer significant outstandin...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/acd24b

Investigation of dipole emission near a dielectric metasurface using a dual-tip scanning near-field optical microscope

Abbasirad Najmeh, Barreda Angela, Arslan Dennis, Steinert Michael et al. • Nanophotonics (2021)

A wide variety of near-field optical phenomena are described by the interaction of dipole radiation with a nanophotonic system. The electromagnetic field due to the dipole excitation is associated with the Green’s function. It is of great i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1515/nanoph-2021-0429

Comparison between GEANT4 and MCNP for well logging applications

Varignier Geoffrey, Fondement Valentin, Carasco Cédric, Collot Johann et al. • EPJ Web of Conferences (2023)

MCNP and GEANT4 are two reference Monte Carlo nuclear simulators, MCNP being the standard in the Oil & Gas nuclear logging industry. While performing a simulation benchmark of these two software for the purpose of “Cased Hole” wellbore eval...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/202328801002

Género y nivel educativo en las narrativas autobiográficas de la infancia

Marcia Leticia Ruíz Cansino, Ma. Del Rosario Contreras Villarreal, Luis Humberto Garza Vázquez • Revista de Psicología y Ciencias del Comportamiento de la Unidad Académica de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales (2012)

The present work deals with autobiographic memory, educative background and gender roles. It is based in socio–cultural psychology research supporting the relationship between context and the development of cognitive processes. 96 structure...

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