Sewage pipelines play a pivotal role in urban underground lifeline systems. However, due
to imperfect planning and design, inferior pipeline quality, rough construction, multi-load …

Background Metastatic lymph node count (MLNC) is the most intensively prognostic indicator
of gastric cancer. How to efficiently evaluate the best classification of MLNC is unclear. The …

Purpose The goal of this study was to investigate the recurrence patterns of gastric cancer
and determine the predictive information of recurrence patterns of gastric cancer following a …

Background The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of the negative lymph node
(NLN) count on the prognostic prediction of the ratio between positive and examined lymph …

Dam construction has far-reaching impacts on pollutant accumulation and the pollutant-induced
quality of aquatic environments. Nonetheless, its large-scale effects on pollutant …

Anaerobic digestion and incineration are widely used sewage sludge (SS) treatment and
disposal approaches to recovering energy from SS, but it is difficult to select a suitable …

Intense harmful algal blooms (HABs) can occur in the backwaters of tributaries supplying
large-scale reservoirs. Due to the characteristics of process-based models and difficulties in …

Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is of far-reaching implications for the sustainable
development of a conventional domestic wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). GHG …

While dam construction supports social and economic development, changes in hydraulic
conditions can also affect natural aquatic ecosystems, especially microbial ecosystems. The …

The regular detection and diagnosis mechanism for the silting disease of drainage pipelines
(SDP) is critical for making dredging decisions and flood forecasting. Simultaneously, there …