Power systems, particularly those located near forests, are exposed to wildfires during summer seasons especially in regions with high temperatures. This issue may impact on operation of power grids and thus their reliability ...

Directed Energy Deposition (DED) is considered as one of the potential processes for metallic structural repairs. In this work, the impact properties of the repaired stainless steel 316L were investigated. The repair was ...

There is a near consensus among climate scientists that global temperatures are rising, climate variability will increase, and climate extremes will become more extreme. What is debated, however, is how terrestrial ecosystems ...

Twists are sometimes used to turn or provide passive lateral control for narrow webs in those cases where space for a sufficient twist span length (to avoid a wrinkle) is achievable. This paper uses the finite element ...

Four experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of a nutritional water supplement and threonine to lysine ratios on growth performance of nursery pigs. Two experiments were conducted to understand the effects of a ...

Junior high and high school academic performance of two groups of students were compared in a quasi-experimental study. The experimental group students (N = 86) had received one or more years of bilingual instruction at ...

Tornadoes that spawn from tropical cyclones (TCs) pose a threat to lives and property. Although nearly half of TCs in the Atlantic Ocean undergo extratropical transition, there has only been one study investigating how ...

IT innovations are key to public firms’ competitive advantage, even survival. We investigated the diffusion of a novel IT innovation – Business Intelligence and Analytics (BI&A) from a performance feedback perspective. We ...