Abstract Studies have shown a worrisome condition as to the conservation of Civil Engineering Structures (CESs) in Brazilian highways. This situation mainly results from lack an efficient system for managing such structures, specifically during their operational stage, when periodic maintenance is required. As solution, Bridge Information Modeling (BrIM) has proven be CESs, integrating differen...

Abstract Context In the Tibetan Plateau (TP), supply of cultural ecosystem services (CESs) is unique, and demand for CESs gradually increasing with rapid urbanization. Evaluating relationship between critical guiding regional sustainable development. However, due to difficulty in obtaining empirical data high altitude complex topography TP, relevant research still lacking. Objectives The object...

Topological valley photonics has emerged as a new frontier in with many promising applications. Previous boundary transport relies on kink states at internal boundaries between two topologically distinct domains. However, recent studies have revealed novel class of topological chiral edge (CESs) external materials, which remained elusive photonics. Here, CESs are proposed and experimentally dem...

This paper proposes a cooperative environment scan system (CESS) using multiple robots, where each robot has low-cost range finders and low processing power. To organize and maintain the CESS, a base robot monitors the positions of the child robots, controls them, and builds a map of the unknown environment, while the child robots with low performance range finders provide obstacle information....

Ecosystem cultural services (CESs) are crucial for rural revitalization and sustainable development. As research on monitoring mapping CESs continues to increase, there is a relative lack of perspectives that effectively combine spatial modeling techniques with the local context in areas. Rural areas China face challenges such as encroachment ecological service spaces displacement relocation th...

BACKGROUND High idiopathic premature ventricular contractions (PVC) burden has been associated with PVC-induced cardiomyopathy. Patients may be symptomatic before left ventricular (LV) dysfunction develops. N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and circumferential end-systolic wall stress (cESS) on echocardiography are markers for increased ventricular wall stress. This study ai...

Cultural ecosystem services (CESs), despite providing multiple non-material benefits associated with human well-being, have been overlooked in urban planning. Using as a pilot study the municipality of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, we map and evaluate inclusion CESs into land use policy to better inform We tested framework for: (1) assessing preferences local inhabitants for landscape features; (2) e...

The number of mobile applications has increased drastically in the past few years. A recent study has shown that reusing source code is a common practice for Android application development. However, reuse in mobile applications is not necessarily limited to the source code (i.e., program logic). User interface (UI) design plays a vital role in constructing the user-perceived quality of a mobil...

For multisenor integration, a primary prerequisite is time synchronization. Methods that have been used in many operational systems are either too expensive, or have inconvenient features, that make them inappropriate for research purposes. In this paper the system design of a Cost Effective Synchronization System (CESS) is described. Tests show that a synchronization accuracy of 0.4ms can be a...