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Factors Influencing the Adoption of Online Health Consultation Services: The Role of Subjective Norm, Trust, Perceived Benefit, and Offline Habit

Zepeng Gong, Zepeng Gong, Ziqiang Han, Xudan Li et al. • Frontiers in Public Health (2019)

The cyberspace plays an important role in improving the quality, equity, and efficiency of health services. Studying people's adoption of online health services, such as online health consultation services (OHCS) can benefit both industry a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00286

Best practice relief supply for emergency services in a developed economy

Mark M.J. Wilson, Peter Tatham, John Payne, Cécile L’Hermitte et al. • Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management (2018)

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the challenges inherent in planning and responding to disaster events in a multi-agency context where numerous governmental and non-governmental actors and agencies are involved in the plann...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1108/JHLSCM-03-2017-0008

Evolution characteristics of seepage-stress fields and optimization of waterproof-drainage system during operation period of urban tunnels with small interval

CHEN Ziquan 1 , HE Chuan 1, YU Bingxin 1, LI Zheng 1, 2, ZHANG Hang 2, LIU Maoyi 2 • Yantu gongcheng xuebao (2025)

The long-term structural safety issues of water-rich tunnels under complex hydrogeological conditions during operation period and their mutual interaction mechanism with groundwater environment are receiving increasing attention. To study t...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.11779/CJGE20240323

The Economic Impact of Environmentally Sustainable Transport in Germany

Burkhard Schade, Werner Rothengatter • European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research (2004)

The economic assessment of the Environmentally Sustainable Transportation (EST) scenarios developed throughout this paper are part of Phase 3 of the overall project, which is on social and economic assessment and on devising packages of ins...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.18757/ejtir.2004.4.1.4260

Numerical investigation of corroded middle‐high strength pipeline subjected to combined internal pressure and axial compressive loading

Linlin Lu, Lecai Liang • Energy Science & Engineering (2021)

Abstract Buried oil and gas pipelines may face the threat of geological disasters such as landslides, faults, and floods. However, long‐term buried oil and gas pipelines often have corrosion defects, which bring greater challenges to the sa...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/ese3.830

The effect of freeze-thaw cycles on the frost resistance of energy tunnels in cold regions

Yue Guo, Chenglong Wang, Abdelmalek Bouazza, Xuanming Ding et al. • Case Studies in Thermal Engineering (2026)

Seasonal temperature fluctuations in cold regions induce freeze–thaw cycles that can significantly impact the structural safety and maintenance of tunnels. This study uses the Daban Mountain Tunnel as a case study to develop a full-scale nu...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.csite.2026.108518

Seismic Risk Assessment of Ancient Timber Structures Based on Improved Matter-element Extension Model

Chenzi ZHAI, Xiaodong GUO, Wei WANG • Taiyuan Ligong Daxue xuebao (2023)

In order to accurately predict the risk level of ancient timber structures under earthquake,22 evaluation indexes were selected, including hazard of disaster-causing factors, susceptibility assessment of disaster environment, and vulnerabil...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.16355/j.cnki.issn1007-9432tyut.2023.01.015

Two-Stage Framework for Efficient UAV-Based Wildfire Video Analysis With Adaptive Compression and Fire Source Detection

Yanbing Bai, Rui-Yang Ju, Lemeng Zhao, Junjie Hu et al. • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (2026)

Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have become increasingly important in disaster emergency response by facilitating aerial video analysis. Due to the limited computational resources available on UAVs, large models cannot be run efficiently fo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2026.3685660

Landslide monitoring with interferometric SAR in Liugui, a vegetated area

Peter Tian-Yuan Shih, Huijung Wang, Kuo-Wei Li, Jyh-Jong Liao et al. • Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (2019)

Interferometric SAR analysis with a time series of images obtained from satellite has been proven to be a useful monitoring scheme for geomorphological changes, particularly related to the vertical dimension. The success of this technique r...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3319/TAO.2019.04.13.01

Misalignment-modulated magnetoelastic transduction for field-tunable stiffness in chain-like magnetorheological elastomers: a Green-function-weighted traction-transfer framework

ShuLei Sun, Kesheng Zhang, Shunke Zhang, Ning Tian et al. • Materials Research Express (2026)

Magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) are field-responsive composites whose stiffness can be tuned by a magnetic field. In chain-like MREs, strong local magnetic interactions and Maxwell tractions do not necessarily translate into a measurab...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1088/2053-1591/aeb47a

Optimizing runoff prediction in plains river network areas: a hybrid XAJ-BP modelling framework with basin structure division

Xu Cheng, Shiqiang Wu, Jiangyu Dai, Xiufeng Wu et al. • Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics (2026)

The plain water network area is characterized by its flat terrain and a dense crisscrossing of rivers. The runoff process in this region is significantly influenced by human activities, resulting in a complex relationship between water stor...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1080/19942060.2026.2749141

Urban Flood Zoning Using an Integrated Hydrological-Hydraulic Watershed Modeling Approach, Case Study: Districts 21 and 22 of Tehran

Ali Nasiri, Esmaeil Salimi, Morteza Delfan Azari, Jafar Yazdi et al. • دانش پیشگیری و مدیریت بحران (2025)

Flood zoning has extensive applications in flood management and is considered one of the fundamental and critical pieces of information in flood risk management. Flood zoning in urban areas is much more challenging than modeling in floodpla...

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Intra-seasonal Variation of Rainfall and Climate Characteristics in Kabul River Basin

Jamal Abdul Naser Shokory, Jun-ichiro Giorgos Tsutsumi, Hiroyuki Yamada, Bjørn Kløve • Central Asian Journal of Water Research (2017)

In Afghanistan, spring and summertime flash floods result in 54.3% of all natural disasters with an average annual economic loss of US$92.17 million between 1990 and 2014. Knowledge of climate and rainfall periodicity are urgently needed fo...

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Integration of Hydrological Model and Time Series Model for Improving the Runoff Simulation: A Case Study on BTOP Model in Zhou River Basin, China

Qintai Xiao, Li Zhou, Xin Xiang, Lingxue Liu et al. • Applied Sciences (2022)

Improving the accuracy of runoff simulations is a significant focus of hydrological science for multiple purposes such as water resources management, flood and drought prediction, and water environment protection. However, the simulated run...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/app12146883

In-Situ Monitoring and Prediction of Frost Growth on Plant Leaves Based on Dielectric Spectrum Analysis and an SWT-SSA-LSTM Model

Huan Song, Lijun Wang, Yuguo Gao, Shuman Guo et al. • AgriEngineering (2026)

Accurate and in-situ monitoring of frost growth on plant leaves is crucial for disaster prevention in smart agriculture. To address the limitations of traditional methods in quantification and continuity, this study proposes a novel monitor...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/agriengineering8020067

Influence of check dams on water and sediment processes and deposition patterns under simulated rainfall conditions

Zhiwei Cui, Peng Li, Tian Wang, Shaobo Xue et al. • Geoderma (2024)

The Loess Plateau in China has the highest soil erosion and water loss rates in the world. Therefore, check dams, which are more useful engineering measures, have been established to improve soil and water conservation in small watershed. T...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116758

Influence of convectively coupled equatorial Kelvin waves on March-May precipitation over East Africa

Okello Ochieng Phillip, Tan Guirong, Ongoma Victor, Nyandega Isaiah • Geographica Pannonica (2021)

Convectively coupled equatorial Kelvin waves (CCEKWs) are those types of equatorially trapped disturbances that propagate eastward and are among the most common intra-seasonal oscillations in the tropics. There exists two-way feedback betwe...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5937/gp25-31132