Global warming upsets the environmental balance and leads to more frequent and severe climatic events. These extreme events include floods, droughts, and heatwaves. These widespread extreme events disrupt various sectors of ecosystems directly. However, among all these events, drought is one of the most prolonged climatic events that significantly destroys the ecosystem. Therefore, accurate and efficient assessment of droughts is necessary to mitigate their detrimental impacts. In recent years, several drought indices based on global climate models (GCMs) of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) have been proposed to quantify and monitor droughts. However, each index has its advantages and limitations. As each index ensembles different models by using different statistical approaches, it is well known that the margin of error is always a part of statistics. Therefore, this study proposed a new drought index to reduce the uncertainty involved in the assessment of droughts. The proposed index named the Ridge Ensemble Standardized Drought Index (RESDI) is based on the innovative ensemble approach termed ridge parameters and distance-based weighting (RDW) scheme. And the development of this RDW scheme is based on two types of methods i.e., ridge regression and divergence-based method. In this research, we ensemble 18 different GCMs of CMIP6 using the RDW scheme. A comparative analysis of the RDW scheme is performed against the simple model average (SMA) and Bayesian model averaging (BMA) schemes at 32 locations on the Tibetan plateau. The comparison revealed that RDW has less mean absolute error (MAE) and root-mean-square error (RMSE). Therefore, the developed RESDI based on RDW is used to project drought properties under three distinct shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP) scenarios: SSP1-2.6, SSP2-4.5, and SSP5-8.5, across seven different time scales (1, 3, 7, 9, 12, 24, and 48). The projected data is then standardized by using the K-components Gaussian mixture model (K-CGMM). In addition, the study employs steady-state probabilities (SSPs) to determine the long-term behavior of drought. The outcome of this research shows that "normal drought (ND)" has the highest probability of occurrence under all scenarios and time scales.
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Environ Monit Assess
June 2024
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Collage of Science, Taif University, P.O. Box 11099, Taif, 21944, Saudi Arabia.
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September 2023
Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Red blood cell distribution width (RDW) and visual assessments of anisocytosis assess variability in erythrocyte size. Veterinary studies on the correlation between the two methods and on observer agreement are scarce. The objectives were to assess the correlation of the grading of anisocytosis by means of conventional microscopy of canine blood smears to RDW, and to assess intra- and inter-observer variation in assessing the degree of anisocytosis.
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April 2024
From the Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (C.K., A.C., M.S., M.A.); Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (M.D.); Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (R.Y.); Northeastern Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH (R.G.B.); and Department of Radiology, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA (Y.K.).
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IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph
April 2024
With the recent rise of Metaverse, online multiplayer VR applications are becoming increasingly prevalent worldwide. However, as multiple users are located in different physical environments, different reset frequencies and timings can lead to serious fairness issues for online collaborative/competitive VR applications. For the fairness of online VR apps/games, an ideal online RDW strategy must make the locomotion opportunities of different users equal, regardless of different physical environment layouts.
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May 2022
Laboratorio de Endocrinología y Reproducción, Laboratorio de Investigación y Desarrollo (LID), Facultad de Ciencias y Filosofía, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima 15102, Peru.
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