The impact of landscape changes on the quality and connectivity of habitats for multiple wildlife species is of global conservation concern.In the southwestern United States, pumas (Puma concolor) are a well distributed and wide-ranging large carnivore that are sensitive to loss of habitat and to the disruption of pathways that connect their popula

With the recent surge of industrialisation and advancement of technologies, supply chain management has been widely permeated by the practice of reverse logistics and zero-waste circular economy.Literature on these topics has covered several reverse logistics optimisation problems; however, the area of the vehicle routing problem has only been expl

Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is one of the most common medical conditions, ranking as the greatest contributor to global disability and accounting for huge societal costs based on the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study.Large genetic and -omics studies provide a promising avenue for the screening, development and validation of biomarkers useful for

Abstract Exceptional room-temperature plastic deformability has been recently uncovered in a series of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) crystals, adding a new facet to these materials alongside the rich physical properties.Although several mechanisms have been proposed to interpret the deformation of specific materials, a deep and systemati

Nickel-titanium shape memory alloys have been widely used in medical fields due to their unique shape memory effect, superelasticity, corrosion resistance and biocompatibility.However, there are still many processing difficulties to achieve required machined surface quality due to their high toughness and low elasticity.This paper proposes a sequen