Understanding the controls upon lag time, can improve river and flood management decision-making. This study investigates the relative importance of catchment characteristics in explaining lag time variability across the Philippines. Numerically simulated 5-year return period lag times for 291 catchme...

Direct particle-scale sediment measurements remain difficult in turbid, high-energy rivers where optical methods fail. We present an integration-free IMU workflow that maps short windows to projected speed and kinetic energy using physics-aware preprocessing, orientation-invariant Hankel embeddings, Gaussian pr...

All Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have a multi-payer healthcare system that comprises governmental health coverage (GHC), funded by the government, and private health insurance (PHI), mainly sponsored by employers and purchased by individuals. Both are expected to influence healthcare ...

Studies on sports event management have focused on how host residents perceive the event and its impacts, but very little is still known about how such experiences can facilitate organizational learning (OL) in host sports organizations. The study explores the potential of major sp...

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The UK government is planning to make it significantly harder for migrants to obtain permanent residence. If the proposals go ahead, the UK would become more restrictive than most other high-income democracies. In the case of refugees it would create a situation that is arguab...

Background: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) faces a “triple burden” of public health threats which includes climate change, protracted armed conflict, and the under-recognized spread of arboviral diseases. Arboviruses, such as dengue, chikungunya, Zika, and yellow fever, are transmi...

An innovative and superior coarsening/creep resistant Al-based ternary short-range order (SRO,0–2nm)/cluster(2–10nm) at critically high temperature and stress of 300°C/50MPa was proposed and verified in Mg, and a highly heat-resistant die-cast Mg alloy was thus successfully developed with the...

The formation of halos was investigated for hypoeutectic, eutectic and hypereutectic Zn-Al alloys under conventional and under convection solidification. It was found that the Zn-rich halos occurred in the surroundings of the Al-rich primary phase for the hypereutectic Zn-Al alloys at Al>...