In the past decade it became customary to relate the probability of appearance of extremely steep (the socalled freak, or rogue waves) to the value of the BenjaminFeir Index (BFI) that represents the ratio of wave nonlinearity to the spectral width. This ratio appears naturally in the cubic Schrödinger equation that describes evolution of unidirectional narrow-banded wave field. The notion of t...

Baseflow is the portion of streamflow derived from delayed subsurface pathways. The baseflow index (BFI) a ratio to total streamflow, and an important hydrological variable when linking watershed characteristics baseflow. ‘smoothed minima’ procedure separation was applied data (29–67 years) twenty-six gauges watersheds in eastern Japan. Mann-Kendall statistical test Sen’s slope estimator were u...

Papers published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions are under open-access review for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Abstract Predicting discharge in ungauged catchments requires knowledge on the distribution and spatial heterogeneity of hydrological soil properties. Because hydrological soil information is not available on a European scale, we reclassified the S...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the metric properties of distinct measures of psychological personal factors comprising feelings, beliefs, motives, and patterns of experience and behaviour assessed in the Swiss Spinal Cord Injury Cohort Study (SwiSCI), using Rasch methodology. METHODS SwiSCI Pathway 2 is a community-based, nationwide, cross-sectional survey for persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) (n ...

Abstract The Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2) assesses personality through the big five factor model (FFM). This study aimed to verify whether internal structure of BFI-2 is corroborated in a Brazilian sample. Participants were 908 cisgender adults, aged between 17 and 93 years, 532 whom women. Confirmatory analysis Exploratory structural equation modeling performed with BFI-2. 15 facets resulted a...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of art therapy to control fatigue in cancer patients during course of radiotherapy and its impact on quality of life (QoL). MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty cancer patients receiving radiotherapy received weekly art therapy sessions using famous painting appreciation. Fatigue and QoL were assessed using the Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI...

PURPOSE Laxative-refractory opioid-induced constipation (OIC) is defined as OIC despite using 2 laxatives with a different mechanism of action (based on the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System level 4 term [contact laxatives, osmotically acting laxatives, softeners/emollients, enemas, and others]). OIC has a significant impact on the treatment and quality of life of patients w...

A 23 factorial experimental design has been used to quantitatively study individual and interaction effects of the nature of binder (N), concentration of binder (C) and the applied pressure (P) on two mechanical properties, namely, tensile strength (TS) and brittle fracture index (BFI), of paracetamol tablets. The factorial design was also used to study the quantitative effects of coprocessing ...

Documenting how ground- and surface water systems respond to climate change is crucial understanding resources, particularly in the U.S. Great Lakes region, where drastic temperature precipitation changes are observed. This study presents baseflow index (BFI) trend analyses for 10 undisturbed watersheds Michigan using (1) multi-objective optimization (MOO) (2) modified Mann–Kendall (MK) tests c...