Article
Environmental Sciences
Vasilis Letsios, Ioannis Faraslis, Demetris Stathakis
Summary: To address the lack of information for new buildings in many countries, a method based on public domain synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite data is introduced. The method uses the persistent scatterer interferometry (PSI) technique to detect new buildings and estimate their heights. The key concept of the method is the residual height, which is the difference in height of each point compared to a reference point. The proposed method can provide valuable spatial information for building activity and urban studies in a rapidly changing world.
Review
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Ulrike Auer, Zsofia Kelemen, Veronika Engl, Florien Jenner
Summary: Horses' behavior, as indicated by their time budgets for specific activities, can serve as an important indicator of their welfare status. Variations in time budgets between studies are largely attributed to differences in age and environmental conditions. Management interventions in domesticated horses can lead to time budgets similar to semi-feral horses, highlighting the significance of environmental conditions in monitoring horses' welfare.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Sk. Hasane Ahammad, Md. Zia Ur Rahman, L. Koteswara Rao, Asiya Sulthana, Navarun Gupta, Aime Lay-Ekuakille
Summary: Detecting sagittal spine and spinopelvic disorder or injury is crucial due to shape and orientation variations, especially for remote patient monitoring. This study aims to improve the classification rate of vertebral spinal cord sensing data for automatic rehabilitation. By implementing a filter-based segmentation and classification approach, the severity level of spinal cord disorders can be predicted with high true positive rate.
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Surgery
Eric B. Pillado, Ruojia Debbie Li, Joshua S. Eng, Matthew C. Chia, Allan Conway, Clara Gomez-Sanchez, Palma Shaw, Malachi G. Sheahan, Karl Y. Bilimoria, Yue-Yung Hu, Dawn M. Coleman
Summary: The study aimed to characterize the forms and sources of racial/ethnic discrimination among vascular surgery trainees. Through a cross-sectional study of 510 trainees from vascular surgery training programs in the U.S., it was found that Asian and Black trainees reported higher rates of racial/ethnic discrimination. The discrimination primarily came from patients and their families, as well as healthcare staff and co-trainees. Further interventions are needed to address this issue and improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in surgical training programs.
JOURNAL OF VASCULAR SURGERY
(2023)
Review
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Michael H. McGillion, Katherine Allan, Sara Ross-Howe, Wenjun Jiang, Michelle Graham, Maura Marcucci, Ana Johnson, Ted Scott, Carley Ouellette, Dejan Kocetkov, Jennifer Lounsbury, Marissa Bird, Prathiba Harsha, Karla Sanchez, Valerie Harvey, Jessica Vincent, Flavia K. Borges, Sandra L. Carroll, Elizabeth Peter, Ameen Patel, Sverre Bergh, P. J. Devereaux
Summary: The application and study of remote patient monitoring systems for cardiovascular patient care have grown significantly, with a disparity in regulation and evaluation data for consumer-grade products. Continuous multiparameter remote automated monitoring (CM-RAM) devices have the potential to revolutionize virtual patient care by monitoring multiple biophysical parameters continuously and simultaneously, facilitating early detection of negative changes in patient health status.
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Priyam P. Tripathy, Pradip P. Kalbar, Anish Modi
Summary: The global carbon budget, which is crucial for studying climate change, is rapidly decreasing and likely to be depleted in the near future. The excessive use of non-renewable resources has contributed to this decline. However, there is a lack of studies examining the long-term impact of different sectors on the diminishing global carbon budget.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Valentina Doric, Ivana Pozojevic, Natalija Vuckovic, Marija Ivkovic, Zlatko Mihaljevic
Summary: Chironomid identification at genus or species level is crucial for assessing organic and nutrient enrichment in freshwater ecosystems. This study in the Dinaric western Balkan ecoregion demonstrates the potential of chironomids to improve existing models and assess even finer levels of pollution. The development of a new metric, the Lake Chironomid Metric (LCM), based on high taxonomic resolution chironomid data, suggests that chironomids have great potential in monitoring lake ecosystems.
ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
(2021)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Xue Chen, Junhuan Peng, Zeyang Song, Yueze Zheng, Biyao Zhang
Summary: Coal fires pose significant threats to energy resources, the environment, and human safety. This study proposes a methodology for monitoring persistent coal fires using long-term Landsat thermal images and analyzing their spatiotemporal dynamics. By processing a large number of Landsat images, the surface temperature of the coal field area in China was retrieved. The temperature time series was decomposed and analyzed to identify coal fire areas and trace their dynamics. The proposed methodology was validated through comparisons with field surveys and other algorithms.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
(2022)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Taehwan Jeon, Ki-Weon Seo, Byeong-Hoon Kim, Jae-Seung Kim, Jianli Chen, Clark R. Wilson
Summary: Research shows that sea level fingerprint mass change estimated using leakage-corrected GRACE data is in better agreement with altimetry rates, especially at specific oceanic locations.
EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Wenjun Zhang, Zongci Huang, Feng Jiang, Malte F. Stuecker, Guosen Chen, Fei-Fei Jin
Summary: During June-July 2020, the plum rain belt over China, Japan, and Korea experienced the strongest flooding in nearly four decades, with extreme rainfall heavily influenced by the exceptionally long-lasting and quasi-stationary Madden-Julian Oscillation activity.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Chao-Yu Cui, Bin Li, Xun-Cheng Su
Summary: A sensitive F-19-NMR method is presented to quantify real-time variations of glutathione (GSH) in live cells, allowing accurate determination of intracellular GSH content and monitoring of GSH variations. This method avoids extracellular leakage and irreversible consumption of GSH. It can be used to investigate the differences between extracellular and intracellular GSH levels and monitor GSH-involved cellular processes.
ACS CENTRAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Jian Zhang, Yuyu Zhang, Jayne Wu, Haochen Qi, Meiqi Zhao, Maoxiang Yi, Zhenmin Li, Lei Zheng
Summary: A simple-to-use aptasensor was developed in this study for rapid detection of Cd2+ in liquid media, which is of great significance in food safety and environmental monitoring. The sensor has a sample-to-result time as short as 30 seconds, a wide linear response range, and high selectivity.
SENSORS AND ACTUATORS B-CHEMICAL
(2021)
Article
Acoustics
Yong Chen, Ming Wu, Ling Lu, Xing Fang, Jun Yang
Summary: A microphone array is utilized to enhance the target signal and suppress non-target interference when measuring the SPL of a target noise source in an outdoor environment. A real-time calibration method is introduced to compensate for the SPL difference caused by the mismatch in a MEMS microphone array. The method has been experimentally verified and shown to provide accurate and robust SPL calibration.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Sumit Majumder, M. Jamal Deen
Summary: Advancements in micro-electromechanical systems technology have led to the development of miniature, low-power, and high-performance inertial motion sensors that are widely used in smart gadgets. These sensors have the potential to enable efficient home-based health monitoring, especially in the continuous monitoring of lower-limb joints on wearable platforms for tele-rehabilitation of patients with motor impairments. The proposed sensor fusion algorithm successfully estimates lower-limb joint angles in real-time, demonstrating robustness against external acceleration and magnetic disturbances.
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
(2021)
Article
Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science
Zsofia Kelemen, Herwig Grimm, Claus Vogl, Mariessa Long, Jessika M. Cavalleri, Ulrike Auer, Florien Jenner
Summary: Housing and management conditions strongly impact horse health, welfare, and behavior. This study aimed to compare time budgets of older horses and those with chronic orthopaedic disease in different husbandry systems, finding that horses in varied conditions showed similar behavior time budgets compared to healthy controls. Livestock in open-air group housing had less pronounced peaks in feeding and movement activities compared to those in more restrictive conditions, suggesting areas for potential improvement.