Abstract Preventing plunge pool scouring in hydraulic structures is crucial engineering. Although many studies have been conducted experimentally to determine relationship between the scour depth and water jets several fields, available equations deficiencies calculating exact due complexity of process. This study investigated local using Metaheuristic Artificial Bee Colony-Optimized Feed Forwa...

—Quantitative data on how high brook trout Salvelinus fontinalis can jump are crucial for efforts by fisheries managers to exclude brook trout from streams containing native cutthroat trout Oncorhynchus clarkii subspp. and to build effective fishways for brook trout migration. We identified factors that could influence brook trout jumping ability and demonstrated how this knowledge could be app...

As excess water is discharged from a high dam, low frequency noise (air pulsation lower than 10 Hz, LFN) is generated and propagated in the surrounding areas, causing environmental hazards such as the vibration of windows and doors and the discomfort of local residents. To study the generation mechanisms and key influencing factors of LFN induced by flood discharge and energy dissipation from a...

BACKGROUND Substrate-based ablation is useful for nonhemodynamically tolerated postinfarct ventricular tachycardia. We assessed the accuracy of the CARTO contact and EnSite noncontact systems at identifying scar in a chronic ovine model with intramural plunge needle electrode recording and histological validation. METHODS AND RESULTS Scar mapping was performed on 8 male sheep with previous pe...

Data depth is a modern nonparametric tool for the analysis of multivariate, and recently also functional and general Banach-valued data. The notion of halfspace depth was introduced by Tukey (1975) as a powerful tool for the picturing of multivariate data and exploratory analysis. Two decades later the data depth has start to be developed as a general nonparametric tool for multivariate data. D...