Context: Considering the high prevalence of psychological distresses among patients with chronic physical diseases, the question is why do some of these patients not experience any disorders and cope better with their disease? Objectives: The current study aims at reviewing the researches on resilience in adult patients with chronic diseases. Data Source: In the present systematic review, artic...

Pavement condition assessment is a critical step in road pavement management. In contrast to the automatic and objective methods used for rural roads, most commonly method urban areas development of visual surveys usually filled out by technicians, which leads subjective assessment. Whereas previous studies on identification distresses focused crack detection, this research aims not only cover ...

The present study explores the structural pavement design techniques related to distresses in terms of rutting, cracking and International Roughness Index (IRI) based on materials properties, roadbed characteristics, climate traffic loads for highway network Saudi Arabia (KSA). was focused selected site conditions at four regions KSA: Central (Riyadh); Eastern (Al-Ahsa); Western (Jeddah) Northe...

Background: Tuberculosis remains a major health problem affecting about a third of the world population despite a number of preventive and control measures taken in the past few decades. Eighty-five percent of all tuberculosis cases are concentrated in Asia and Africa due to lack of education and health care infrastructure. Objective: To determine factors affecting low tuberculosis case detecti...

Road condition data are very important in transportation management system. Conventional data collection approach is time-consuming and labor intensive. This paper reports the developed techniques for 3D road surface reconstruction in support of unpaved road distress assessment using imagery acquired from a Unmanned Aviation Vehicle (UAV)-based imaging system. This system, produced in a project...

Nowadays, plagiarism has been presented as one of the main distresses that the information technology revolution has lead into our society for which using pattern matching algorithms and intelligent data analysis approaches, these practices could be identified. Furthermore, a fast document copy detection algorithm could be used in large scale applications for plagiarism detection in academia, s...

Abstract The Qinghai-Tibet Railway has been operating safely for 16 years in the permafrost zone and railroad subgrade is generally stable by adopting cooling roadbed techniques. However, settlement caused degradation of embankment-bridge transition sections (EBTS) one most representative severe distresses. A field survey on 440 bridges (including 880 EBTSs) was carried out employing terrestria...