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Soil organic matter (SOM) is unevenly distributed in arable fields in undulated landscapes, but the chemical composition resulting from their turnover, transport and deposition processes is insufficiently known. Therefore, we aimed at disclosing the...

Precipitation leaches soil organic matter (SOM), transporting it downward where it accumulates at the soil–bedrock interface. Intensive agriculture, particularly tillage, accelerates this process. Microbial decomposition of SOM generates CO2, f...

Alleviating public traffic congestion is an efficient and effective way to improve the travel time reliability and quality of public transport services. The existing public network optimization models usually ignored the essential impact of public tr...

Identifying potential sources of suspended sediment (SS) in headwater catchments is crucial for water quality management. To differentiate these potential SS sources, we investigated the distribution of two fallout radionuclides (FRNs), 137Cs and 210...

Slash-and-burn of Amazon Forest (AF) for pasture establishment has increased the occurrence of AF wildfires. Recent studies emphasize soil organic matter (SOM) molecular composition as a principal driver of post-fire forest regrowth and restoration o...

Understanding the characteristics of wildfires in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) region is crucial for improving the monitoring of local wildfire danger. Our investigation first establishes the spatial distributions of fire weather index...

Since Chernozems are among the most fertile soils in the world, the study of their degradation is of great interest. However, the microstructure and composition of the soil organic matter (SOM) in eroded Chernozems have not yet been sufficiently stud...

The focus of this study was based on examining the impact of endometritis on the chemical coding of the paracervical ganglion (PCG) perikaryal populations supplying pig uterus. Four weeks after the injection of Fast Blue retrograde tracer into uterin...

Understanding the characteristics of wildfires in North China is critical for advancing regional fire danger prediction and management strategies. This study employed satellite-based burned area products of the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED) a...

This paper examines hybrid threats to maritime transportation systems and their governance responses; focusing on the congested Straits of Malacca and Singapore (SOMS) as an illustrative case study. The methodology combines secondary sources with pri...

Although the built environment and certain psychosocial factors are related to adolescents’ active commuting to and from school (ACS), their interrelationships have not been explored in depth. This study describes these interrelationships and b...

Various studies have been conducted in the fields of sustainable operations management (SOM), optimization, and wastewater treatment, yielding unsubstantiated recovery. In the context of Europe’s climate neutrality vision, this paper reviews ef...

Forest topsoil supports vegetation growth and contains the majority of soil nutrients that are important indices of soil fertility and quality. Therefore, estimating forest topsoil properties, such as soil organic matter (SOM), total nitrogen (Total...

Efforts have been underway worldwide to reintroduce seawater to many historically diked salt marshes for restoration of tidal flow and associated estuarine habitat. Seawater restoration to a diked Cape Cod marsh was simulated using the computer progr...

Barrier machines are a key component of automatic level crossing systems ensuring safety on railroad crossings. Their failure results not only in delayed railway transportation, but also puts human life at risk. To prevent faults in this critical saf...

Nine precipitation regimes over South China are obtained by applying the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) technique to the sub-daily precipitation during the pre-monsoon season (April to June) of 1979–2015. These nine regimes are distinct from each ot...

This study investigates the cluster approach to optimize strategies for agricultural enterprises in Ukraine, emphasizing geographical proximity as a key factor in cluster formation. The research applies Kohonen Self-Organizing Maps (SOMs) and Ward&rs...

Software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualisation (NFV) are crucial technologies for integration in the fifth generation of cellular networks (5G). However, they also pose new security challenges, and a timely research subject is...

Silver nanoparticles are one of the most commonly used forms of silver (Ag) in nanotechnology applications due to their antibacterial properties and electrical and thermal resistance. The increasing production and use of products containing nanoparti...

The aviation industry is one of the fastest-growing sectors and is crucial for both passenger transport and logistics. However, the high costs associated with maintenance, refurbishment, and overhaul (MRO) constitute one of the biggest challenges fac...

Today’s global food supply chains are highly dispersed and complex. The adoption and effective utilization of information technology are likely to increase the efficiency of companies. Because of the broad variety of sensors that are currently...

Although huge numbers of gullies have been widely formed and have severely decreased the quality of farmlands in mollisols, it is still unclear how the microbial community distributes after natural vegetation restoration (NVR), which highly relates t...

In this work, a data-driven methodology for modeling combustion kinetics, Learned Intelligent Tabulation (LIT), is presented. LIT aims to accelerate the tabulation of combustion mechanisms via machine learning algorithms such as Deep Neural Networks...

Urban stormwater runoff represents a significant challenge for the practical assessment of diffuse pollution sources on receiving water bodies. Given the high dimensionality of the problem, the main goal of this study was the comparison of linear and...

This study aimed to investigate the influence of different organic fertilizers and their concentrations on the growth of ‘Orah’ (Citrus reticulata Blanco) seedlings, as well as on the mineral nutrient contents, chemical and biological pro...

Cadmium (Cd) is a naturally occurring element often associated with lead (Pb) in the Earth’s crust, particularly in karst regions, posing significant safety hazards for locally grown rice. Identifying the key factors controlling Cd and Pb conte...

Under the one-season-a-year cropping pattern in Northeast China, continuous cropping is one of the main factors contributing to the degradation of black soil. Previous studies (on maize–soybean, maize–peanut, and maize–wheat intercr...