Accurately predicting freeway accident severity is crucial for accident prevention, road safety, and emergency rescue services in intelligent freeway systems. However, current research lacks the required precision, hindering the effective implementation of freeway rescue. In this paper, we efficiently address this challenge by categorizing influencing factors into two levels: human and non-human, further subdivided into 6 and 36 categories, respectively.
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December 2022
This study investigated the influence of natural weathering on the mineralogical, physical, and chemical properties of molybdenum tailings from Shaanxi Province, China, stored at different stacking ages. The results showed that the mineralogical and chemical compositions of the molybdenum tailings remained stable after stacking for different years. The analysis of bulk density, porosity, field moisture capacity, and aggregate characteristics indicated that the physical structure of the molybdenum tailings was similar to a nearby soil with increasing stacking age in spite of a time-consuming process.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnimals have developed numerous strategies to contend with environmental pressures. We observed that the same adaptation strategy may be used repeatedly by one species in response to a certain environmental challenge. The ladybird displays thermal phenotypic plasticity at different developmental stages.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe ladybird Harmonia axyridis is an insect that exhibits pupal attachment to plants, which facilitates development and environmental adaptation. The cremaster is highly specialized for this behavior. However, the underlying molecular regulation of the cremaster remains unclear; therefore, we performed experiments to investigate the transcriptional regulation of cremaster development.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWith the fast development of commercial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, there are increasing research interests on UAV communications. In this work, the mobility and deployment flexibility of UAVs are exploited to form a buffer-aided relaying system assisting terrestrial communication that is blocked. Optimal UAV trajectory design of the UAV-enabled mobile relaying system with a randomly located eavesdropper is investigated from the physical-layer security perspective to improve the overall secrecy rate.
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