Abstract The tee structure is an integral part of the water distribution system, and pollutants diffuse in complex ways within structure. In this paper, diffusion pattern contaminants was examined using a combination numerical simulations experiments. coefficient variation chosen as evaluation indicator, uniform length (LU) defined to quantify location Several factors were used investigate poll...

The emerging topic of cross-source point cloud (CSPC) registration has attracted increasing attention with the fast development background 3D sensor technologies. Different from conventional same-source clouds that focus on data same kind (e.g., Kinect), CSPCs come different kinds sensors Kinect and LiDAR). CSPC generalizes requirement acquisition to sources, which leads generalized application...

Lower socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with higher levels of life stress, which in turn affect stress physiology. SES is related to basal cortisol and diurnal change, but it is not clear if SES is associated with cortisol reactivity to stress. To address this question, we examined the relationship between two indices of SES, parental education and concentrated neighborhood disadvantage,...

Scholars have become increasingly interested in how social environments condition the relationships between individual risk-factors and adolescent behavior. An appreciable portion of this literature is concerned with the relationship between impulsivity and delinquency across neighborhood settings. The present article builds upon this growing body of research by considering the more nuanced pat...

Drawing from cumulative inequality theory, we examine the relationship between childhood disadvantage and health problems in adulthood. Using two waves of data from Midlife Development in the United States, we investigate whether childhood disadvantage is associated with adult disadvantage, including fewer social resources, and the effect of lifelong disadvantage on health problems measured at ...

Preterm births occur in 9.7% of all US singleton births. The rate for blacks is double that of whites and the rate is 25% higher for Hispanics than for whites. While a number of individual correlates with preterm birth have been identified, race and ethnic differences have not been fully explained. Influenced by a growing body of literature documenting a relationship among health, individual in...