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Evaluating the scaling potential of sustainable land management projects in the Sahelian Great Green Wall countries

The Great Green Wall (GGW) Initiative aims at combatting land degradation while achieving socio-economic development across the Sahel through a mosaic of sustainable land management (SLM) and restoration practices. As the Global Environment Facility (GEF) is the main funding mechanism for land degradation neutrality related projects, we have analyzed its previous SLM projects in four pilot countri

Coupled electromagnetic-thermal solution strategy for induction heating of ferromagnetic materials

Induction heating is used in many industrial applications to heat electrically conductive materials. The coupled electromagnetic-thermal induction heating process is non-linear in general, and for ferromagnetic materials it becomes challenging since both the electromagnetic and the thermal responses are non-linear. As a result of the existing non-linearities, simulating the induction heating proce

Identifying important conceptual areas in a nursing education programme to meet future demands, using group concept mapping

A nursing programme in southern Sweden was revised to meet future demands. The aim of this study was to explore important conceptual areas to be included in a nursing programme in order to meet long-term societal and health care requirements. Group concept mapping (GCM), a mixed-methods approach, was used. Thirty-four experienced teachers participated. Data was collected during brainstorming sessi

Numerical investigations on residual stresses in orthogonal cutting of Ti-6A1-4V

Titanium is widely employed in aerospace space, where the surface integrity plays an important role in part quality. This paper presents the numerical and experimental results of residual stress when machining Titanium based on a CEL (Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian) method. The performance of proposed model is compared with LAG (Lagrangian) and ALE (Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian) methods regarding se

Numerical and experimental investigation on the residual stresses generated by scanning induction hardening

Induction hardening is widely used in the industry as a surface heat treatment that improves the surface and the subsurface hardness of components greatly. The hardened case, which usually is a few mm, highly impacts the surface and structural integrity of the component. In this work, we simulate the scanning induction hardening process by means of finite element modeling. The computed hardness, m

Optimal growth temperature of Arctic soil bacterial communities increases under experimental warming

Future climate warming in the Arctic will likely increase the vulnerability of soil carbon stocks to microbial decomposition. However, it remains uncertain to what extent decomposition rates will change in a warmer Arctic, because extended soil warming could induce temperature adaptation of bacterial communities. Here we show that experimental warming induces shifts in the temperature–growth relat

Supply chain visibility for improving inbound logistics : a design science approach

Supply chain visibility (SCV) has been gaining recognition in recent years as a key factor for achieving analytical capabilities and improving supply chain performance. However, levels of SCV implementation lag behind current technological advances. This research was motivated by the lack of visibility in inbound logistics, which limits the possibility of managing deviation, in particular concerni

Impact of patient and prosthesis characteristics on common reasons for total knee replacement revision : a registry study of 36,626 revision cases from Australia, Sweden, and USA

Background and purpose — Total knee replacement (TKR) studies usually analyze all-cause revision when con-sidering relationships with patient and prosthesis factors. We studied how these factors impact different revision diagnoses. Patients and methods — We used data from 2003 to 2019 of TKR for osteoarthritis from the arthroplasty regis-tries of Sweden, Australia, and Kaiser Permanente, USA to st

Ventilation Systems in Wetland Plant Species

Molecular oxygen and carbon dioxide may be limited for aquatic plants, but they have various mechanisms for acquiring these gases from the atmosphere, soil, or metabolic processes. The most common adaptations of aquatic plants involve various aerenchymatic structures, which occur in various organs, and enable the throughflow of gases. These gases can be transferred in emergent plants by molecular

A novel model for glaze ice accretion

This paper introduces a novel model to predict ice accretion in glaze ice conditions due to supercooled water droplets. Glaze icing is controlled by a large number of interacting physical phenomena. The purpose of the suggested model was to offer a faster alternative to explicitly modelling these phenomena. The paper presents the suggested model and investigates the sensitivity of the predictions

The Variation of University Physics Students’ Experience of Plus and Minus Signs in 1D Vector-kinematics Revisited

This article revisits and expands upon a previous phenomenographic study characterising the qualitatively different ways in which South African undergraduate physics students may experience the use of +/– signs in one-dimensional kinematics (1DK). We find the original categorisation as applicable for interpreting Swedish university-level students’ responses to 1DK questions. However, by way of a t

Testing exotic scalars with HiggsBounds

The program HiggsBounds is a well-established tool for testing Beyond-the-Standard Model (BSM) theories with an extended Higgs sector against experimental limits from collider searches at LEP, Tevatron and LHC. Thus far, it could be applied to any neutral or charged Higgs bosons originating from the modified Higgs sector. Implicitly, these particles were assumed to exhibit a somewhat hierarchical

A novel knee joint model in FEBio with inhomogeneous fibril-reinforced biphasic cartilage simulating tissue mechanical responses during gait : data from the osteoarthritis initiative

We developed a novel knee joint model in FEBio to simulate walking. Knee cartilage was modeled using a fibril-reinforced biphasic (FRB) formulation with depth-wise collagen architecture and split-lines to account for cartilage structure. Under axial compression, the knee model with FRB cartilage yielded contact pressures, similar to reported experimental data. Furthermore, gait analysis with FRB c

Linking Hydro-Physical Variables and Landscape Metrics using Advanced Data Mining for Stream-Flow Prediction

In Streamflow prediction the most important triggering/controlling variables are related to climate, physiography, and landscape patterns. This study investigated the effect of different landscape metrics to relate spatial patterns to surface runoff processes and predict monthly streamflow using climatic and physiographic variables for the 42 sub-basins of the Urmia Lake Basin in Iran. We develope

Applications of AM

In this chapter, three strategic domains of Additive Manufacturing application are presented: tool making, medicine and transportation, with main benefits and results obtained by application of AM. Chapter presents some of on-going or already finished project from mentioned AM application fields.

Evaluation of Control over the Edge of a Configurable Mid-band 5G Base Station

Mission-critical applications such as industrial control processes are evolving towards a new development paradigm by offloading their heavy computations to the edge of the emerging Fifth Generation Wireless Specifications (5G) network. In this manner, the applications can gain the economical and efficiency benefits of cloud computing, as well as reliable communication from the 5G network. However

Fever therapy in febrile adults : systematic review with meta-analyses and trial sequential analyses

Objective: To investigate the effects of fever therapy compared with no fever therapy in a wide population of febrile adults. Design: Systematic review with meta-analyses and trial sequential analyses of randomised clinical trials. Data sources: CENTRAL, BIOSIS, CINAHL, MEDLINE, Embase, LILACS, Scopus, and Web of Science Core Collection, searched from their inception to 2 July 2021. Eligibility cr

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Background: Hesitancy towards COVID-19 vaccination and its rejection remains a major public health concern worldwide, especially in the Middle East and North African countries. The current study aimed to assess the intentions to get COVID-19 vaccines and its determinants among the general public in Algeria. Methods: A self-administered online survey was distributed during August-September 2021 usi