Medicinal plants play an important role in the treatment of a wide range of diseases, even if their chemical constituents are not always completely recognized. Observations on their use and efficacy significantly contribute to the disclosure of their...
Due to the increasing global demand of food grain, early and reliable information on crop production is important in decision making in agricultural production. Remote sensing (RS)-based forecast models developed from vegetation indices have the pote...
Wire-guided localisation (WGL) has been the mainstay for localising non-palpable breast lesions before excision. Due to its limitations, various wireless alternatives have been developed. In this prospective study, we evaluate the role of radiation-f...
Saturation effects limit the application of vegetation indices (VIs) in dense vegetation areas. The possibility to mitigate them by adopting a negative soil adjustment factor X is addressed. Two leaf area index (LAI) data sets are analyzed using the...
A comprehensive study on essential oils extracted from different Calamintha nepeta (L.) Savi subsp. glandulosa (Req.) Ball samples from Tarquinia (Italy) is reported. In this study, the 24-h steam distillation procedure for essential oil preparation,...
Urban green infrastructure plays a crucial role in enhancing environmental resilience in cities, particularly in arid regions characterized by water scarcity, soil salinity, and high climatic stress. However, arid coastal cities remain insufficiently...
Accurate district-level wheat yield forecasting is critical for Kazakhstan, the world’s seventh-largest wheat exporter. Prior remote-sensing studies typically compute vegetation indices over entire administrative units without isolating croplan...
STING-associated vasculopathy with onset in infancy (SAVI) is a type I interferonopathy caused by gain-of-function mutations in STING1 encoding stimulator of interferon genes (STING) protein. SAVI is characterized by severe inflammatory lung disease,...
Background: Non-palpable breast cancer management has become less invasive and more efficient, driven by advances in tumor localization and sentinel lymph node (SLN) identification. Savi Scout, using a radar-based localization system, can be implante...
Background/objectives: Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING)-associated vasculopathy with onset in infancy (SAVI) is a rare autoinflammatory disorder caused by gain-of-function mutations in the TMEM173 gene. These mutations result in chronic activat...
The current situation of global environmental degradation as a result of anthropogenic activities makes it necessary to open new research lines focused on the causes and effects of the main alterations caused in the ecosystems. One of the most releva...
STING-associated vasculopathy with onset in infancy (SAVI) is a rare type Ι interferonopathy caused by gain of function mutations in an encoding stimulator of interferon genes (STING) protein 1. SAVI is characterized by neonatal or infantile-ons...
Precision agriculture (PA) is a management strategy that analyzes the spatial and temporal variability of agricultural fields using information and communication technologies with the aim to optimize profitability, sustainability, and protection of a...
The Ping River, located in northern Thailand, is facing various challenges due to the impacts of climate change, dam operations, and sand mining, leading to riverbank erosion and deposition. To monitor the riverbank erosion and accretion, this study...
Background and Objectives: Wide local excision is a common procedure in the treatment of breast cancer. Wire-guided localisation (WGL) has been the gold standard for many years; however, several issues have been identified with this technique, and th...
Remote sensing (RS) platforms such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) represent an essential source of information in precision agriculture (PA) as they are able to provide images on a daily basis and at a very high resolution. In this framework, thi...
Time-series of imagery acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) has previously been used to estimate woody and herbaceous vegetation cover in savannas. However, this is challenging due to the mixture of woody and herbaceo...
In the Mexican Caribbean, environmental changes, hydrometeorological events, and anthropogenic activities promote dynamism in the coastal vegetation cover associated with the dune; however, their pace and magnitude remain uncertain. Using Landsat 7 i...
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with multispectral sensors are transforming precision viticulture by enabling detailed monitoring of vineyard variability. Vegetation indices such as NDVI, NDRE, GNDVI, and SAVI are widely applied to estimate vine vigo...
Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten. is a plant from the Asteraceae family that is commonly used in traditional medicine. The purpose of this work was to investigate the antioxidant and antimicrobial characteristics of phenolic compounds found in ethanol and...
Agricultural droughts in South Africa, particularly in the Amahlathi Local Municipality (ALM), significantly impact socioeconomic activities, sustainable livelihoods, and ecosystem services, necessitating urgent attention to improved resilience and f...
The values of vegetation indices can provide a new source of data for use in the estimation of land to be consolidated. The results of research work carried out so far indicate a significant advantage of low-volume imaging over satellite methods when...
The aims of this study were to determine surface urban heat island (SUHI) effects and to analyze the land use/land cover (LULC) and land surface temperature (LST) changes for 11 time periods from the years 2002 to 2020 using Landsat time series image...
Irresponsible human interventions, encroachment of natural habitats, and climate change negatively affect wildlife. In this study, the effects of human influence on Wadi Hagul, an unprotected area in the north of the Egyptian Eastern Desert that has...
Monitoring plant water status is relevant for the sustainable management of irrigation under water deficit conditions. Two treatments were applied to an early-maturing nectarine orchard: control (well irrigated) and precise deficit irrigation (PDI, b...
Elucidating the impact of Land Surface Temperature (LST) is an important aspect of urban studies. The impact of urbanization on LST has been widely studied to monitor the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon. However, the sensitivity of various urban f...
The spectral reflectance of crop canopy is a spectral mixture, which includes soil background as one of the components. However, as soil is characterized by substantial spatial variability and temporal dynamics, its contribution to the spectral refle...
This study investigates the spatial–temporal dynamics of vegetation indices in olive orchards across two traditionally rainfed regions of the Iberian Peninsula, namely the “Trás-os-Montes” (TM) agrarian region in Portugal and...
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are increasingly used to promote conservation, but evidence of their biophysical outcomes remains mixed because participation is rarely assigned at random. This study assessed the association between participatio...
Impervious surfaces (IS) are a key indicator of environmental quality, and mapping of urban IS is important for a wide range of applications including hydrological modelling, water management, urban and environmental planning and urban climate studie...
Spatial variability in a crop field creates a need for precision agriculture. Economical and rapid means of identifying spatial variability is obtained through the use of geotechnology (remotely sensed images of the crop field, image processing, GIS...
New solar energy facilities on public lands in the deserts of southern California are being monitored long-term to detect environmental impacts. For this purpose, we have developed a framework for detecting changes in vegetation cover region-wide usi...
Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disease that is a constant problem. Previous studies have reported that Benincasa cerifera Savi. extracts are effective in treating diabetes and its complications. Benincasae Exocarpium (BE) is a fruit peel of B. cerif...
The coastal dunes of the Colombian Caribbean show highly variable vegetation dynamics between 2015 and 2025. The study was conducted on five different beaches: Lipe, Salguero, Costa Verde, Gairaca, and Mendihuaca. Satellite images and SAVI estimates...
Despite the achievements of antiretroviral therapy, discovery of new anti-HIV medicines remains an essential task because the existing drugs do not provide a complete cure for the infected patients, exhibit severe adverse effects, and lead to the app...
Increasing woody cover and overgrazing in semi-arid ecosystems are known to be the major factors driving land degradation. This study focuses on mapping the distribution of the slangbos shrub (Seriphium plumosum) in a test region in the Free State Pr...
This study investigates the potential for early yield prediction in nine winter wheat (Triticum aestivum) varieties using multispectral data acquired at different growth stages. The data were collected using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) equipped...
The Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa hosts the most important osteological collection of extant cetaceans in Italy as well as one of the most relevant all over Europe. Furthermore, it also preserves a significant palaeontological coll...
This study investigates the vegetation dynamics and phenotypic differentiation of five triticale (×Triticosecale Wittm.) varieties under the region-specific agroecological conditions of Southern Dobruja, Bulgaria, across two growing season...
The degradation of soil, vegetation and socio-economic transformations are a huge threat to Africa’s land production. This study aimed to (i) assess the soil and land productivity of standing biomass and (ii) determine the effect of rainfall on...
Urban heat island (UHI) effect, the side effect of rapid urbanization, has become an obstacle to the further healthy development of the city. Understanding its relationships with impact factors is important to provide useful information for climate a...
SAVI SCOUT® or radar reflector localisation (RRL) has proven accurate in localising non-palpable breast and axillary lesions, with minimal interference with MRI. Targeted axillary dissection (TAD), combining marked lymph node biopsy (MLNB) and se...
Vulnerability prediction, in which static analysis is leveraged to predict the vulnerabilities of binary programs, has become a popular research topic. Traditional vulnerability prediction methods depend on vulnerability patterns, which must be prede...
Monitoring vegetation-index dynamics in tropical regions remains challenging due to persistent cloud contamination, landscape heterogeneity, and the lack of standardised and reproducible analytical workflows. This paper presents an open-source, fully...
Suncus etruscus is the smallest living mammal on Earth by mass. Most adults weigh 1.8–3 g with a body length of 35–48 mm. Catching it in small mammal traps in nature is extremely difficult due to its minute size, and therefore special trapping method...
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) aspects have a growing relevance in the corporate world where the objective for sustainability becomes an essential point. The supply chain (SC) is a buyer’s responsibility and accounts for a large pa...
The rate constant kOH for the reaction of 1,1,1,3,3,3-hexafluoroprop-2-imine with OH radicals was measured relative to two reference compounds, CH3F and CH3CHF2, to be kOH = (4.2 ± 1.1) × 10−14 cm3 molecule−1 s−1 at 295...
Steel production accounts for approximately 7% of global GHG emissions. Brazil is the largest steel producer in Latin America, and carbon pricing is rapidly moving from a policy debate to an operational reality, making the financial exposure of Brazi...
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is a heterogeneous group of diseases with probably differential underlying physiopathology. Despite the revolutionary era of biologics, some patients remain difficult to treat because of disease severity, drug adve...
The universal soil loss equation (USLE) is a widely used empirical model for estimating soil loss. Among the USLE model factors, the cover management factor (C-factor) is a critical factor that substantially impacts the estimation result. Assigning C...
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