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Determining vertical variation of water quality parameters is contributed to a better understanding of the true nature of lakes. Lakes are classified into holomictic and meromictic lakes by their mixing mode; the former occurs physico-chemical mixing between the surface and deep waters, while the latter...

This study examined diurnal and seasonal variability in secondary weather parameters- refractivity, refractivity gradient, k-factor, and field strength- over Ogbomoso, Nigeria. Results showed significant diurnal variations, with maximum refractivity of 375 N-units and k-factor of 1.48 in the early hours,...

The paper presents the measurement results of construction and finishing materials, agricultural products (honey) on the content of radionuclides in Penza and Penza Region. The obtained dependences allow confirming the dependences between a radon exhalation, type of construction and finishing materials....

In June 2020, the Indonesian Government announced to implement a new normal policy as a result of the increasing number of new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) every day, but many new cases until August 2021 were still above June 2020. To control the spread of this pandemic, the Government implements...

The erratic and often fluctuating price of cayenne pepper has caused many people to complain about the situation. Especially if the price increases significantly. This is because cayenne pepper is a basic necessity and cannot be separated from every Indonesian seasoning. Price changes that occur in cayenne...

The researches give results on the ecology and phenology of the most basic and common types of blood-sucking midges of the Simuliidae family. This article shows dynamics of the species composition and average seasonal number of blood-sucking subfamily Simuliinae midges in water reservoirs of the Volgograd...

This paper uses quantitative analysis approach of urban color and the comparative study method, using China Color System National Technical Standards (GB/T15608-1995) and China Building Color Card as a basic tool for recording and analysis of urban color information. This paper researches on landscape...

Seasonal products occupy an essential place in the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) sector, one of the most rapidly expanding industries worldwide. These items—spanning electronics, electrical appliances, computer accessories, fashion apparel, and perishable foods—share a common trait: they spoil quickly...

The massively increasing of micro, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is prompting changes in the competition of enterprises and supply chains, which put forward higher requirements to risk controlling level of supply chain financing. The development and innovation of logistics financing provides an...

Gansu Province, located in the west of China, is one of the provinces where earthquakes occur frequently. We try to understand the actual population in different areas of long-term and seasonal changes, building types and different structure proportion, topography and secondary geological disaster hazard...

The increasing maturation of digital technology has facilitated the protection and promotion of a growing number of Chinese intangible cultural heritage sites through digital media. Digital three-dimensional scene technology has reached a high level of maturity, yet most available scene animations display...

Informal settlements located near major transport corridors reflect the coexistence of socio-economic dependence and spatial marginalization within rapidly urbanizing cities. This study investigates a participatory urban design process undertaken at Veer Chand Patel Marg, adjacent to Patna Junction,...

The Imphal River is major river in Manipur, India, that connects Manipur River and Bay of Bengal. The seasonal variations of organic carbon in surface sediments and the major sources along the course of the river were studied. Sediment samples were collected from five sampling sites, namely Lamlong Thong...

A novel model was used to simulate how an existing district heating (DH) network for Holywell Park, Loughborough University (Loughborough, UK) could be transitioned to low/zero carbon heat. A simulation which includes heat pumps (HPs) and evacuated-tube solar thermal collectors (ETSTCs) to both provide...

In an international context (e.g. Germany, Denmark), the integration of long-term thermal energy storage (TES) into block heating systems already exists. Yet, the so-called pit TES cannot be easily applied to central European district heating (DH) systems because of the varying heat demand, temperature...

To investigate the seepage evolution patterns of gravel-stabilized heavy clay slopes under dry-wet cycling conditions, a comparative study was conducted using large-scale indoor slope model tests and numerical simulations. Through five wet-dry cycles, the slope morphology, moisture content, and migration...

This study aims to determine the future value and the value-at-risk estimation of four selected currencies, namely United States Dollar (USD), Australian Dollar (AUD), European Union Euro (EUR) and Japanese Yen (JPY) against Indonesian Rupiah (IDR). The Monte-Carlo simulation is implemented to estimate...

In Mongolia, two subspecies of brown bears are distributed: the common brown bear are in the northern forested area of the country, and the Gobi bear (Mazaalai) inhabit the southwestern desert area. The Gobi bear, a desert-dwelling species, is critically endangered due to its extremely small population....

Learning a foreign language may influence the learners’ awareness on local culture. Learning a foreign language is learning its culture. They probably copy or even think that foreign culture is better than theirs. It can threaten their native culture awareness. It is necessary to insert materials with...

Large-scale thermal energy storages (TES) are advantageous to bridge the seasonal gap between heat demand and availability of renewables. However, the high investment costs associated with large-scale TES is still seen as a major barrier. Among others, challenges are space availability and the presence...

Understanding water discharge processes in mountainous areas with large amounts of precipitation and high hydraulic gradients is important for disaster prevention and water resource management. In recent years, it has become clear that mountain bodies themselves have water storage functions in addition...

This study aims to analyze the application of the AISAS model (Attention, Interest, Search, Action, Share) in the WhatsApp Marketing strategy of Raja Kurma Bengkulu, an MSME engaged in the trade of dates, Hajj/Umrah souvenirs, and Middle Eastern specialty products. A qualitative case study approach was...

The article defines the conditions for strategic planning in the economic space of the region: stability, the value and the importance of economic space, the high capital intensity of enterprises in the region, well-prescribed business processes, and elaborate organizational structure of management of...

In developing countries like Bangladesh, various types of inconsistencies in business are relatively high. There are certain codes of conduct and ethics that, at the same time, play important roles in improving business and ensuring consumer rights. Nevertheless, the trend of selling manufactured goods...

This project’s objective is to classify as safe and unsafe levels of heavy metals using machine learning. In the southern state of Tamil Nadu, samples of groundwater collected from the Arani Taluk were used to generate these levels. An integrated machine-learning framework was developed during this study...

This paper discusses the general conception of a local district heating system for the implementation of a zero-emission quarter in Zwickau (living lab). The heat supply is to be provided by regenerative energy sources. For this purpose, solar thermal collectors, seasonal thermal energy stores, an electrical...

A large proportion of the Lower Kuma region shows large scale negative changes due to uncontrolled grazing, which are characterized by the emergence of non-stable communities. They feature a poorer composition, a simpler structure and lower values of projective cover, medium height of grass stand, along...

Ramadan Effect, one type of market anomaly, is a seasonal anomaly which shows a difference in average returns in the month of Ramadan compared to other months in one year. The phenomenon of increasing public consumption in the month of Ramadan is suspected to be a phenomenon that causes returns in Ramadan,...

This study aims to forecast the export value of main commodities in the provinces of the Sumatra region from January 2025 to December 2027 using the SARIMA (Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average) method. The data used consists of monthly export values of key commodities in each province of...

Groundwater storage (GWS) within the Cauvery River Basin is facing increasing stress due to the combined effects of climate variability and land use/land cover (LULC) changes. This study provides a comprehensive assessment of the spatial and temporal variations in GWS and examines the influence of LULC...

Hebei Province is a region sensitive to global climate change. Under the background of climate change and frequent extreme climate events, existing agricultural production structure is facing enormous risk of climate disasters. In order to reduce the risk level of agricultural meteorological disasters,...

in the ArcGIS environment through IDW interpolation method analysis of the spatial variation of water content in soil, and soil moisture content of the internal and seasonal variations, discusses the precipitation and temperature on the effect of soil moisture content changes. The results showed that...

Background: A marked geographic variability has been reported in stone disease, partially attributed to the Mean Annual Temperature (MAT), as well as to the seasonal fluctuations of climatic conditions. Accordingly, peaks in Emergency Department (ED) visits for renal colic are commonplace during the...

In recent years, with the establishment of cultural self-confidence, people’s attention to traditional festivals has gradually deepened, and the consumption demand of traditional festivals has continued to rise. Moon cake is a necessary seasonal product in the Mid-Autumn Festival. With the emphasis on...

Mobile traffic modeling and forecasting are the key techniques in terms of network optimization and management because better network management can be achieved through improving the forecasting accuracy. While mobile traffic has been studied extensively and proved to be effectively modeled with ARIMA...

This study aimed to predict seasonal influenza activity and detection of influenza outbreaks. Data of all registered cases (n = 53,526) of influenza-like illnesses (ILIs) from sentinel sites of healthcare centers in Iran were obtained from the FluNet web-based tool, World Health Organization (WHO), from...

Solar photovoltaics (PV) on building rooftops is a major contributor to the decarbonization of energy systems and provides electricity close to consumption. However, high shares of PV challenge distribution grids and require energy storages due to the fluctuating daily and seasonal production profile....

India is a great country with about 160 million hectares of arable land. It is the second highest producer of agro-products in the world. 40% of its GDP is agriculture based. However, in the recent times, the contribution of agriculture to the GDP and area of arable land has reduced considerably mainly...

As supply chains become leaner, supply chain (SC) managers are often subjected to decrease inventory. Determining the appropriate inventory level for seasonal products without compromising the level of service provided to customers is crucial. This poses a challenge for supply chain managers to find...

Environmental characteristics and phytoplankton size structure were investigated during spring and summer cruises in 2015 in Xiamen Bay of China. The distribution of total Chlorophyll a (Chla) showed a seasonal and spatial variation. In surface water, total Chla concentration increased from west to east...

This paper analyzed the vertical distribution and seasonal variations of Zn in waters of Jiaozhou Bay, Shandong Province, eastern China. Results showed that the Zn contents in Jiaozhou Bay waters were highest in spring and then decreasing from summer to autumn. There was an accumulation process of Zn...

The development of the transit of flood resources utilization, increase of surface storage capacity, is the strategic measures to alleviate the shortage of water resources and flood multiple contradictions. Shilianghe reservoir is a large reservoir of Jiangsu Province, Lianyungang City, is also the key...

This paper analyzed the input and transfer processes of Cu in waters of Jiaozhou Bay, Shandong Province, eastern China. Results showed that the input of Cu was stream flow discharge and atmospheric deposition; while the major transfer processes of Cu was vertical sedimentation and horizontal diffusion....

There is limited information on the causes of paediatric diarrhoea in Sydney. This cross-sectional study used clinical and microbiological data to describe the clinical features and pathogens associated with gastrointestinal illnesses for children presenting to two major public hospitals in Sydney with...

The Vellar is a seasonal river and is one of the seventeen river basins of Tamil Nadu (110 13’ N, 790 47’ E). The river has a length of 150km. It originates on the southern slope of Kalvarayan hills in Salem Dist. and drains into Bay of Bengal. Rainfall increases towards the east and the lower Vellar...

Greenhouse gases (GHGs) released from permafrost regions may have positive feedback on climate change, but there is much uncertainty about additional warming from the permafrost carbon cycle. One of the main reasons for this uncertainty is that the observation data for large-scale GHG fluxes are sparse,...

High levels of unhealthy Air Pollution Index (API) can severely impact human health and the environment. Thus, effective preparation for such risk events relies on precise estimation of unhealthy API levels. This study proposes the Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD) Method based on the Bayesian framework...

This paper based on the monthly precipitation data of 9 surface meteorological stations in the Hengyang basin for 53 years (1960 to 2012), by using the methods of Morlet wavelet transform and Mexican hat wavelet analysis, the multi-time scales of precipitation of the Hengyang basin has analyzed. The...

This study aims to forecast the inflation rate in Indonesia for the period from January 2025 to December 2027. The analytical method used is SARIMA (Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average). The data consist of monthly inflation figures from 34 provinces in Indonesia, obtained from the Central...

This essay categorizes the empirical evidence by developed countries firstly and developing countries secondly. Within these two groups, this essay divides each group into two subgroups, by general and specific evidence. In addition, we allow the inclusion of evidence on seasonal price changes on developed...