Drought has negative impacts on water resources, food security, soil degradation, desertification and agricultural productivity. The meteorological and hydrological droughts prediction using standardized precipitation/runoff ...

One of the feasible retrofitting techniques for existing reinforced concrete (RC) structures is to use Fiber Reinforced Polymers (FRPs). On the other hand, the efficiency of the FRP jacketing strategy in rectangular RC ...

Multi-level trend analysis of extreme climate variables is an efficient method for in-depth investigation of the climate change impacts on ecohydrology. However, most of existing statistical methods do not reveal potential ...

This paper reviews development exploitation semi and full automatic strategies for interpretation of Polypropylene Modifed Bitumen (PMB) in the last decade. The main purpose of this study is to provide a new automatic ...

Mangroves play a crucial role in filtering pollutants from water and sediments. However, excessive accumulation of potentially toxic elements (PTEs) has harmful effects on marine organisms. This article investigates the ...

Diffuse pollution control through the implementation of best management practices (BMPs) is essential for integrated water management. This study presents a comprehensive approach that integrates monitoring and deterministic ...

Soft computing (SC) is a group of technigues and methodologies applied to solve a wide range of problems spread in several areas of science. The aim is to exploit tolerance for imprecision, uncertainiy and partial truth ...

The island of Cyprus, like other Mediterranean islands, is located in a semi-arid climate zone. Since the annual rainfall in the region is low and it only rains in winter, drought and water shortages have been experienced ...

Increase in construction activities has led to rapid depletion of natural resources, particularly aggregates which are utilized in the production of concrete. At the same time, there are huge amount of solid wastes originating ...