The management and disposal of wastewater treatment sludge can be a costly resource-intensive process. To provide cost-effective sustainable alternative, Sludge Treatment Wetlands (STW) have emerged as viable solution for enhancing quality through dewatering biodegradation. In this study, the effectiveness full-scale STW stabilizing digested microalgal biomass from domestic agricultural system ...

The fossiliferous deposits within the lower-lying Jacovec Cavern in locality of Sterkfontein yielded valuable hominin remains, including StW 578 specimen. Because mainly preserves calotte, taxonomic status this specimen has been a matter discussion. Within context, here we employed high-resolution microtomography and landmark-free registration method to explore taxonomically diagnostic features...

Action recognition is a challenging task that requires understanding the temporal relationships between frames. However, capturing and processing spatio-temporal motion features computationally expensive, making it difficult to apply practical situations. We propose novel approach called Spatio-Temporal-Wise (STW) network address this problem. The STW inserts blocks, consisting of Spatio-Tempor...

Environmental androgens are a group of compounds that to date have received very little attention. In this study, a yeast-based androgen screen (YAS) was used to determine the level of in vitro androgenic activity in seven United Kingdom estuaries. Surface water, sediment pore water, and sediment particulate material solvent extracts collected from Southampton Water, the Thames, Mersey, Tees, T...

This study examined the beta-adrenergic regulation of uncoupling protein (UCP) 2 and UCP3 gene expression in porcine tissues. In vitro experiments examined changes in UCP2 and UCP3 gene expression in middle (MSQ) and outer (OSQ) subcutaneous adipose tissues from crossbred neutered male pigs. Incubation of tissue slices (24 h) with 0 to 1000 nM isoproterenol increased UCP2 and UCP3 mRNA abundanc...

A new technique which we call Iterative Redeployment of Illumination and Sensing (IRIS) is introduced and applied to See-Through-the-Wall radar imaging. IRIS is applicable to adaptive sensing scenarios where the medium is illuminated and measured multiple times using different illiminator/sensor configurations, e.g., position, bandwidth, or polarization. These configurations are adaptively sele...

Objective: This study investigates the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on employment situation parents and in turn subjective financial well-being families with children Austria.
 Background: The had strong repercussions Austrian labour market. short-time work (STW) programme covered a third employees first half 2020 helped to maintain levels. We provide evidence how an unprecedented market cr...

Bloom’s Taxonomy (BT) is widely used in educational institutions to produce high-quality exam papers evaluate students’ knowledge at different cognitive levels. However, manual question labeling takes a long time, and not all evaluators are familiar with BT. The researchers worked automate the classification process based on BT as solution. Enhancement term weighting one of ways increase accura...

six different Wavelet based Image Compression techniques are analyzed. The techniques involved in the comparison process are Embedded Zero tree Wavelet (ezw) , Set Partitioning In Hierarchical Trees (Spiht), Spatialorientation Tree Wavelet (stw), Wavelet Difference Reduction (wdr), Adaptively Scanned Wavelet Difference Reduction (aswdr) and Spiht_3d. Here, there are six types of Wavelet transfo...