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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,352 Views
15 Pages

Improving Princeton Forcing Dataset over Iran Using the Delta-Ratio Method

  • Qinghuan Zhang,
  • Qiuhong Tang,
  • Xingcai Liu,
  • Seyed-Mohammad Hosseini-Moghari and
  • Pedram Attarod

26 February 2020

In this study, we corrected the bias in the Princeton forcing dataset, i.e., precipitation, maximum and minimum temperatures, and wind speed, by adjusting its long-term mean monthly climatology to match observations for the period 1988–2012 usi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
9,167 Views
13 Pages

10 June 2017

Turbulence intensity profiles are compared for smooth- and rough-wall pipe flow measurements made in the Princeton Superpipe. The profile development in the transition from hydraulically smooth to fully rough flow displays a propagating sequence from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,084 Views
15 Pages

4 July 2021

This article seeks to analyze Melvin Grove Kyle and the growth of the League of Evangelical Students (LES) founded by J. Gresham Machen and Princeton Seminary students in 1925. Both Kyle and Machen were scholarly leaders in the LES and served on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,889 Views
22 Pages

29 April 2023

In the Illustrations in Roll and Codex (1947), Kurt Weitzmann developed a methodological apparatus for studying Byzantine and medieval narrative book illumination. His approach had two important features: an evolutionary narrative typology that paid...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
2,781 Views
5 Pages

Mental Health Challenges of Young Labor Migrants from the Healthcare Professionals Perspective: Lessons Learned from a Multi-Country Meeting

  • Daisy Michelle Princeton,
  • Ida Marie Bregård,
  • Marianne Annion,
  • Gine Shooghi,
  • Gitte Rom,
  • Brynja Örlygsdóttir,
  • Hildur Sigurðardóttir,
  • Riita Kuismin,
  • Joonas Korhonen and
  • Sezer Kisa

21 September 2021

The mental health of young labor immigrants (YLI’s) is a public health issue that has become notably more apparent during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is well established in the literature that most YLI’s are young and healthy when they arrive in the ho...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,681 Views
24 Pages

4 August 2023

Background: Physical restraints are known to violate human rights, yet their use persists in long-term care facilities. This study aimed to explore the prevalence, methods, and interventions related to physical restraint use among the elderly in nurs...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,038 Views
28 Pages

Building Resilience and Competence in Bachelor Nursing Students: A Narrative Review Based on Social Cognitive Theory

  • Elisabeth Wille,
  • Helene Margrethe Storebø Opheim,
  • Daisy Michelle Princeton,
  • Sezer Kisa and
  • Kari Jonsbu Hjerpaasen

Background/Objectives: In contemporary nursing education, clinical competence and psychological resilience are both essential; however, they are often treated as separate outcomes. Clinical placements are a central component of nursing education, and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,543 Views
30 Pages

Examining Factors Associated with Attrition, Strategies for Retention Among Undergraduate Nursing Students, and Identified Research Gaps: A Scoping Review

  • Rohangez Lida Sheikoleslami,
  • Daisy Michelle Princeton,
  • Linda Iren Mihaila Hansen,
  • Sezer Kisa and
  • Alka Rani Goyal

Background/Objectives: High-quality healthcare delivery relies on a on a sustainable nursing workforce. However, rising attrition rates and declining enrollment in nursing programs pose a significant challenge. A comprehensive synthesis of these fact...

  • Review
  • Open Access
133 Citations
34,928 Views
17 Pages

Aloe Vera for Tissue Engineering Applications

  • Shekh Rahman,
  • Princeton Carter and
  • Narayan Bhattarai

Aloe vera, also referred as Aloe barbadensis Miller, is a succulent plant widely used for biomedical, pharmaceutical and cosmetic applications. Aloe vera has been used for thousands of years. However, recent significant advances have been made in the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,130 Views
26 Pages

The oil spill risk analysis (OSRA) model is a tool used by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to evaluate oil spill risks to biological, physical, and socioeconomic resources that could be exposed to oil spill contact from oil and gas leasi...

  • Book Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,764 Views
5 Pages

6 August 2019

A book review of Robin Schuldenfrei, Luxury and Modernism: Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900–1933 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018). This book challenges the canonical interpretation of two of the most revered institutions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
4,470 Views
25 Pages

Multi-Criteria Performance Evaluation of Gridded Precipitation and Temperature Products in Data-Sparse Regions

  • Ibrahim Mohammed Lawal,
  • Douglas Bertram,
  • Christopher John White,
  • Ahmad Hussaini Jagaba,
  • Ibrahim Hassan and
  • Abdulrahman Shuaibu

29 November 2021

Inadequate climate data stations often make hydrological modelling a rather challenging task in data-sparse regions. Gridded climate data can be used as an alternative; however, their accuracy in replicating the climatology of the region of interest...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,596 Views
17 Pages

Estimation of Rain Garden Field Hydraulic Conductivity Based on Spot Infiltration Tests

  • Andrea Welker,
  • James Press,
  • Kristin Sample-Lord and
  • Virginia Smith

2 February 2025

Rain gardens are increasingly being used to control stormwater. Infiltration is a key component of volume control. Thus, determining the infiltration rate or field saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat) of rain gardens is critical to their continued...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,241 Views
20 Pages

7 December 2019

In 1976, I took up a faculty position in the Department of Geosciences of Stony Brook University. Over the next half century, in collaboration with graduate students from the U.S., China and Russia and postdoctoral colleagues from Australia, France a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,607 Views
21 Pages

Satellite-Based Operational Real-Time Drought Monitoring in the Transboundary Lancang–Mekong River Basin

  • Xuejun Zhang,
  • Yanping Qu,
  • Miaomiao Ma,
  • Hui Liu,
  • Zhicheng Su,
  • Juan Lv,
  • Jian Peng,
  • Guoyong Leng,
  • Xiaogang He and
  • Chongli Di

24 January 2020

Existing gauging networks are sparse and not readily available in real-time over the transboundary Lancang–Mekong River (LMR) basin, making it difficult to accurately identify drought. In this study, we aimed to build an operational real-time L...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,847 Views
18 Pages

11 October 2016

The main objective of this study is to investigate alternative climate data sources for long-term hydrological modeling. To accomplish this goal, one weather station data set (WSD) and three grid-based data sets including three types of precipitation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,747 Views
20 Pages

Three-Dimensional Simulations of Wind Effects on Green Island Wake

  • Tien-Hung Hou,
  • Jen-Yi Chang,
  • Chia-Cheng Tsai and
  • Tai-Wen Hsu

29 October 2020

The aim of the present study is to apply the three-dimensional Princeton Ocean Model to study the wind effects on Kuroshio-induced island wake in the lee of Green Island, Taiwan. Numerical results indicate that the effect of NE winds squeezes the Kur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,943 Views
15 Pages

Power Maximisation of Wind Energy Using Wind Speed Sensors on Stewart Island

  • Navid Majdi Nasab,
  • Jeff Kilby and
  • Leila Bakhtiaryfard

2 November 2022

This paper evaluates the feasibility of using wind power for power supply to coastal communities isolated from the main supply grid. The case study is Stewart Island, where the cost of electricity provided by a central diesel power station is higher...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,237 Views
21 Pages

Oil Spill Sensitivity Analysis of the Coastal Waters of Taiwan Using an Integrated Modelling Approach

  • Thi-Hong-Hanh Nguyen,
  • Tien-Hung Hou,
  • Hai-An Pham and
  • Chia-Cheng Tsai

Pollution caused by marine oil spills can lead to persistent ecological disasters and severe social and economic damages. Numerical simulations are useful and essential tools for accurate decision making during emergencies and planning response actio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,216 Views
28 Pages

Identification of Inhibitors with Potential Anti-Prostate Cancer Activity: A Chemoinformatics Approach

  • Norberto S. Costa,
  • Lúcio R. Lima,
  • Jorddy N. Cruz,
  • Igor V. F. Santos,
  • Rai C. Silva,
  • Alexandre A. Maciel,
  • Elcimar S. Barros,
  • Maracy L. D. S. Andrade,
  • Ryan S. Ramos and
  • Njogu M. Kimani
  • + 4 authors

Background: Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men, especially after the age of 50. It is a malignant disease that is increasing due to the increased life expectancy of the world population. Its development and progression are dependent on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,735 Views
23 Pages

16 April 2020

This study analyzed changes in CenTrends gridded precipitation (1961–2015) and Potential Evapotranspiration (PET; 1961–2008) across the Lake Kyoga Basin (LKB). PET was computed from gridded temperature of the Princeton Global Forcings. Co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,490 Views
12 Pages

4 June 2022

One of the objectives of structural health monitoring (SHM) is to maximize the information while keeping the number of sensors, and consequently the cost of the sensor system, to a minimum. Besides, the sensor configurations must be robust in the sen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,145 Views
13 Pages

Robustness of Artificial Neural Networks Based on Weight Alterations Used for Prediction Purposes

  • Andreas G. Savva,
  • Theocharis Theocharides and
  • Chrysostomos Nicopoulos

29 June 2023

Nowadays, due to their excellent prediction capabilities, the use of artificial neural networks (ANNs) in software has significantly increased. One of the most important aspects of ANNs is robustness. Most existing studies on robustness focus on adve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,352 Views
18 Pages

Spatial Shift of Aridity and Its Impact on Land Use of Syria

  • Mohammad Rajab Houmsi,
  • Mohammed Sanusi Shiru,
  • Mohamed Salem Nashwan,
  • Kamal Ahmed,
  • Ghaith Falah Ziarh,
  • Shamsuddin Shahid,
  • Eun-Sung Chung and
  • Sungkon Kim

10 December 2019

Expansion of arid lands due to climate change, particularly in water stressed regions of the world can have severe implications on the economy and people’s livelihoods. The spatiotemporal trends in aridity, the shift of land from lower to highe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,127 Views
19 Pages

Finite Element Models of a Benchmark Footbridge

  • Fiammetta Venuti,
  • Marco Domaneschi,
  • Marc Lizana and
  • Branko Glisic

28 September 2021

Modern footbridges are often lively structures, characterized by natural frequencies that fall in the range of pedestrian activities, such as walking, running, and jumping. Therefore, serviceability assessment under human-induced excitation is crucia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,229 Views
18 Pages

17 November 2018

Aedes albopictus has become established in many parts of Europe since its introduction at the end of the 20th century. It can vector a range of arboviruses, of which Chikungunya and Dengue are most significant for Europe. An analysis of the expected...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,372 Views
23 Pages

Comparative Serum and Brain Pharmacokinetics of Quercetin after Oral and Nasal Administration to Rats as Lyophilized Complexes with β-Cyclodextrin Derivatives and Their Blends with Mannitol/Lecithin Microparticles

  • Konstantina Manta,
  • Paraskevi Papakyriakopoulou,
  • Anna Nikolidaki,
  • Evangelos Balafas,
  • Nikolaos Kostomitsopoulos,
  • Sabrina Banella,
  • Gaia Colombo and
  • Georgia Valsami

Quercetin (Que) is one of the most studied flavonoids with strong antioxidant properties ascribed to its ability to bind free radicals and inactivate them. However, the low solubility of the compound along with its inadequate absorption after oral ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,112 Views
20 Pages

8 April 2019

Improving computing performance and reducing energy consumption are a major concern in heterogeneous many-core systems. The thread count directly influences the computing performance and energy consumption for a multithread application running on a h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,485 Views
27 Pages

14 May 2021

The derivation of the mean velocity profile for a given vorticity distribution over the pipe cross-section is presented in this paper1. The velocity profile and the vorticity distribution are axisymmetric, which means that the radius is the only vari...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
6,798 Views
24 Pages

Spatial Pattern of the Unidirectional Trends in Thermal Bioclimatic Indicators in Iran

  • Sahar Hadi Pour,
  • Ahmad Khairi Abd Wahab,
  • Shamsuddin Shahid and
  • Xiaojun Wang

16 April 2019

Changes in bioclimatic indicators can provide valuable information on how global warming induced climate change can affect humans, ecology and the environment. Trends in thermal bioclimatic indicators over the diverse climate of Iran were assessed in...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
7,170 Views
13 Pages

Adjunctive Hemoadsorption Therapy with CytoSorb in Patients with Septic/Vasoplegic Shock: A Best Practice Consensus Statement

  • Steffen Mitzner,
  • Klaus Kogelmann,
  • Can Ince,
  • Zsolt Molnár,
  • Ricard Ferrer and
  • Axel Nierhaus

21 November 2023

A dysregulated host response is a common feature in critically ill patients due to both infectious and non-infectious origins that can lead to life-threatening organ dysfunction, which is still the primary cause of death in intensive care units world...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,630 Views
17 Pages

5 April 2019

In civil structures and infrastructure, assessing true performance and characterizing unusual structural behaviors can help avoid severe structural problems. To further refine or validate the conclusions from structural health monitoring (SHM) analys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
6,255 Views
14 Pages

16 January 2018

Visualization of sensor networks, data, and metadata is becoming one of the most pivotal aspects of the structural health monitoring (SHM) process. Without the ability to communicate efficiently and effectively between disparate groups working on a p...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,871 Views
7 Pages

A New Apheresis Device for Antithrombotic Drug Removal during Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

  • Helmut Mair,
  • Norman Micka,
  • Ferdinand Vogt,
  • Dow Rosenzweig,
  • Frank Vogel,
  • Benedikt Baumer,
  • Stephanie Ulrich and
  • Peter Lamm

10 October 2022

Background and Objectives: The hemoadsorption device CytoSorb® (CytoSorbents Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA) has been shown to efficiently remove ticagrelor from whole blood in vitro. A promising clinical experience was made with the integration of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,362 Views
28 Pages

Intra- and Inter-Server Smart Task Scheduling for Profit and Energy Optimization of HPC Data Centers

  • Sayed Ashraf Mamun,
  • Alexander Gilday,
  • Amit Kumar Singh,
  • Amlan Ganguly,
  • Geoff V. Merrett,
  • Xiaohang Wang and
  • Bashir M. Al-Hashimi

Servers in a data center are underutilized due to over-provisioning, which contributes heavily toward the high-power consumption of the data centers. Recent research in optimizing the energy consumption of High Performance Computing (HPC) data center...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,015 Views
24 Pages

7 April 2024

In order to achieve efficient recognition of 3D images and reduce the complexity of network parameters, we proposed a novel 3D image recognition method combining deep neural networks with fractional-order Chebyshev moments. Firstly, the fractional-or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,344 Views
18 Pages

Ranking of Empirical Evapotranspiration Models in Different Climate Zones of Pakistan

  • Mohammed Magdy Hamed,
  • Najeebullah Khan,
  • Mohd Khairul Idlan Muhammad and
  • Shamsuddin Shahid

30 November 2022

Accurate estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) is vital for water resource development, planning and management, particularly in the present global warming context. A large number of empirical ET models have been developed for estimating ET. The main...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
10,277 Views
13 Pages

1 June 2017

This study integrated coastal watershed models and combined them with a risk assessment method to develop a methodology to investigate the impact resulting from coastal disasters under climate change. The mid-western coast of Taiwan suffering from la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
140 Citations
8,021 Views
18 Pages

Performance Assessment of General Circulation Model in Simulating Daily Precipitation and Temperature Using Multiple Gridded Datasets

  • Najeebullah Khan,
  • Shamsuddin Shahid,
  • Kamal Ahmed,
  • Tarmizi Ismail,
  • Nadeem Nawaz and
  • Minwoo Son

6 December 2018

The performance of general circulation models (GCMs) in a region are generally assessed according to their capability to simulate historical temperature and precipitation of the region. The performance of 31 GCMs of the Coupled Model Intercomparison...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,351 Views
21 Pages

1 March 2018

Temperature changes play a large role in the day to day structural behavior of structures, but a smaller direct role in most contemporary Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) analyses. Temperature-Driven SHM will consider temperature as the principal d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,682 Views
9 Pages

2 May 2018

The purpose of this study was to measure the level of new bone formation induced by various bone graft materials to provide clinicians with more choices. The samples were divided into three groups: group 1 (n = 9: allograft + xenograft, DBX®, San...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
917 Views
12 Pages

Effect of Porcine-Derived Collagen Membrane Crosslinking on Intraoral Soft Tissue Augmentation: A Canine Model

  • Blaire V. Slavin,
  • Vasudev Vivekanand Nayak,
  • Zachary M. Stauber,
  • Quinn T. Ehlen,
  • Joseph P. Costello,
  • Orel Tabibi,
  • Justin E. Herbert,
  • Ricky Almada,
  • Sylvia Daunert and
  • Lukasz Witek
  • + 1 author

Peri-implant disease and gingival recession may be partially attributed to inadequate keratinized tissue. Soft tissue augmentation procedures utilizing non-autologous biomaterials, such as porcine-derived collagen membranes, have been gaining promine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,087 Views
27 Pages

Evaluation of Precipitation Products by Using Multiple Hydrological Models over the Upper Yellow River Basin, China

  • Xiaoxiang Guan,
  • Jianyun Zhang,
  • Qinli Yang,
  • Xiongpeng Tang,
  • Cuishan Liu,
  • Junliang Jin,
  • Yue Liu,
  • Zhenxin Bao and
  • Guoqing Wang

9 December 2020

In this study, 6 widely used precipitation products APHRODITE, CPC_UNI_PRCP, CN05.1, PERSIANN-CDR, Princeton Global Forcing (PGF), and TRMM 3B42 V7 (TMPA), were evaluated against gauge observations (CMA data) from 1998 to 2014, and applied to streamf...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,737 Views
20 Pages

GSV-NET: A Multi-Modal Deep Learning Network for 3D Point Cloud Classification

  • Long Hoang,
  • Suk-Hwan Lee,
  • Eung-Joo Lee and
  • Ki-Ryong Kwon

4 January 2022

Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), which applies light in the formation of a pulsed laser to estimate the distance between the LiDAR sensor and objects, is an effective remote sensing technology. Many applications use LiDAR including autonomous veh...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
1,133 Views
5 Pages

1 December 2009

Adjuvant chemotherapy for early breast cancer improves disease-free and overall survival in pre- and postmenopausal women. The importance of maintaining relative dose intensity (rdi) is well-known; however, little information is available from routin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
702 Views
15 Pages

10 April 2025

In this study, in order to draw a road map for lake water budget modeling, model calibration was performed with statistical results by modeling in a stream that feeds the lake basin and has flow observation results. The aim was to make a preliminary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,316 Views
23 Pages

29 November 2023

In this paper, a point cloud coarse–fine registration method based on a new improved version of the whale optimization algorithm (NIWOA) and iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm is proposed; we use three strategies to improve the whale optim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,639 Views
33 Pages

A nested-grid ocean circulation modelling system (NGMS-swYS) is used for examining the impact of tides and winds on the three-dimensional (3D) circulation, hydrography and seasonal variability over the southwestern Yellow Sea (swYS). The modelling sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,070 Views
26 Pages

A Nowcast/Forecast System for Japan’s Coasts Using Daily Assimilation of Remote Sensing and In Situ Data

  • Yasumasa Miyazawa,
  • Sergey M. Varlamov,
  • Toru Miyama,
  • Yukio Kurihara,
  • Hiroshi Murakami and
  • Misako Kachi

22 June 2021

We have developed an ocean state nowcast/forecast system (JCOPE-T DA) that targets the coastal waters around Japan and assimilates daily remote sensing and in situ data. The ocean model component is developed based on the Princeton Ocean Model with a...

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