The aim of this study is to enhance the detection accuracy of rice chlorophyll content under complex backgrounds, optimize rice production management models, and improve the efficiency and quality of grain production. To achieve this, a spectral devi...
The large-scale studies of the Lower Don and the Taganrog Bay coastal zone were carried out to determine the background concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soils. The content of 15 priority PAHs was determined by saponificati...
Leaf chlorophyll content (LCC) is a pivotal parameter in the monitoring of agriculture and carbon cycle modeling at regional and global scales. ENVISAT MERIS and Sentinel-3 OLCI data are suitable for use in the global monitoring of LCC because of the...
This study explores the relationship between journalistic background, content creation experience, and self-reported information literacy among global content creators. Based on an online survey of 500 content creators in eight languages around the w...
Soil moisture plays a critical role in the global water cycle, the exchange of matter and energy within ecosystems, and the movement of water in plants. Accurate monitoring of soil moisture is essential for drought early warning systems, irrigation d...
Fish skin color is usually strongly affected by the background color of their environment. The study investigated the effects of five different background colors on the skin color of leopard coral groupers (Plectropomus leopardus). More than 450 juve...
Individual recognition among instruments of the same type is a challenging problem and it has been rarely investigated. In this study, the individual recognition of violins is explored. Based on the source–filter model, the spectrum can be divi...
Trace heavy metals Cd, Pb, and Cu were determined (by square wave anodic stripping voltammetry) in aerosol samples collected at Dome C (the Italo-French Station Concordia), a remote site of the Central East Antarctic plateau, for which no data are av...
24 December 2020
Mental illnesses in adolescence and young adulthood are steadily increasing. Thus, mental disorders represent an individual and societal challenge and an enormous health economic burden, creating an urgent need for research and action. Mental health...
This paper presents two novel network methods developed for education research. These methods were used to investigate online discussions and the structure of students’ background knowledge in a blended university course for pre-service teacher...
The study aims to evaluate the applicability of the slurry-TXRF method for estimating background contents and ecological indices in a rapid and convenient way. For this reason, the agricultural soils of the Itata Valley were used as a case study, whe...
LNC (leaf nitrogen content) in crops is significant for diagnosing the crop growth status and guiding fertilization decisions. Currently, UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) remote sensing has played an important role in estimating the nitrogen nutrition...
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Down syndrome (DS), trisomy of the long arm of human chromosome 21 (Hsa21), is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability (ID). Currently, there are no effective pharmacotherapies. The success of clinical trials to improve cognition dep...
The correct development of seeds is a pivotal requirement for species preservation. This process depends on the balance between sensing the environmental stimuli/stressors and hormone-mediated transduction, which results in physiological responses. T...
An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of an application of biostimulants, against the background of varied nitrogen regime, on the share of neutral detergent fraction (NDF), acid detergent fraction (ADF), and acid detergent lignin (ADL)...
In order to study the changing relevance of stimulus features in time and space, we used a task with rapid serial presentation of two stimulus streams where two targets (“T1” and “T2”) had to be distinguished from background s...
In order to analyze and compare the phenolic characteristics of red wine grapes with diverse genetic backgrounds, skin phenolics among 21 different cultivars belonging to Vitis vinifera L., East Asian and North American Vitis species and hybrids, as...
Maize (Zea mays L.) is a staple food in many parts of Africa, but the endosperm generally contains low levels of the pro-vitamin A carotenoid β-carotene, leading to vitamin A deficiency disease in populations relying on cereal-based diets. However, m...
Landfilling is the least desirable of waste management methods, but despite tightening legal regulations it remains among the most common. Assessing the impact of landfills on the soil environment is even more important when there are arable lands in...
Sustainable nutrient management in sweet potato requires matching fertilizer inputs with site-specific soil nutrient supply while maintaining productivity and processing quality. This study characterized site-specific NPK responses and identified fer...
In this study, carbon and nitrogen contents in the undisturbed terrestrial ecosystems in the northern taiga zone of Russia’s Murmansk region were estimated. The goal of this study was to examine the carbon and nitrogen dynamics in atmospheric p...
Two generally agreed upon characteristics of presuppositions are projection and backgroundedness. Yet, presuppositions sometimes fail to project. To derive the necessary local interpretations, standard semantic local accommodation accounts posit an o...
Many studies on the bioavailability of Hg in soil–plant systems have been conducted. However, studies on the soil–tea plant system are still limited. In this study, we collected soil and tea leaf samples from 69 tea gardens in the Anxi ar...
Elemental gamma spectroscopy logging while drilling is crucial for assessing element content in unconventional oil and gas reservoirs. Unlike wireline elemental spectroscopy logging, the high cross section and high-density characteristics of the dril...
Of significant scientific and public concern is the high toxicity, significant bioaccumulation, and magnified concentration within the food web of mercury (Hg). Hg content both dissolved and in suspended forms in water as well as in biomass of differ...
This article analyzes the lanthanum, cerium, samarium, europium, terbium, ytterbium, lutetium, uranium, and thorium content in humic acids within soil and paleosol surface horizons from the southern steppe in the Southern Urals. Research demonstrates...
Accurate prediction of chlorophyll content in Brassica napus L. (rapeseed) is essential for monitoring plant nutritional status and precision agricultural management. The current study focuses on single cultivars, limiting general applicability. This...
Geochemical indices used to identify the emerging anomalies of potentially harmful elements in topsoil depend on background values (BVs). For urban sites, it is reasonable to estimate native BVs through the targeted selection of peri-urban sampling s...
22 December 2022
In audiovisual contexts, different conventions determine the level at which background music is mixed into the final program, and sometimes, the mix renders the music to be practically or totally inaudible. From a perceptual point of view, the audibi...
The advancement in mobile communication and technologies has led to the usage of short-form digital content increasing daily. This short-form content is mainly based on images that urged the joint photographic experts’ group (JPEG) to introduce...
Strong tectonic movement brings great risk to exploration of shale gas in southern China, especially in Lower Cambrian shale with complex tectonic backgrounds, which has good hydrocarbon-generation matter but low or no gas content. In this paper, the...
While mixing, sound producers and audio professionals empirically set the speech-to- background ratio (SBR) based on rules of thumb and their own perception of sounds. There is no guarantee that the speech content will be intelligible for the general...
Bedrock rivers, whose sedimentary geochemistry has been scarcely investigated, are suitable to test geochemical approaches in order to assess the existence and extent of human alterations in the natural abundance of rare earth elements. This work pre...
Identifying saline soils is of great importance for protecting land resources and for the sustainable development of agriculture. Total soil salinity (TSS) is the most commonly used indicator for determining soil salinization, but the application of...
Some of Russia’s large industrial cities are sources of hazardous contamination in the environment. Tyumen is one of the most rapidly developing cities in Siberia due to oil and gas extraction in the northern Tyumen Region. Concentrations of 14...
The automatic transformation of short background videos from real scenarios into other forms with a visually pleasing style, like those used in cartoons, holds application in various domains. These include animated films, video games, advertisements,...
This study assessed heavy metal contamination in industrial solid waste (S1, S2, S3, and S4) from the Yangtze River Delta region, employing nine risk assessment methods including total content indices (e.g., Igeo, CF) and speciation indices (e.g., IC...
Brassica cover crops have been widely used for improving soil health and as a feed resource for grazing cows, but their use in backgrounding diets is unknown. The objective of this study was to determine the impact of feeding a brassica cover crop mi...
Defect generation is a crucial method for solving data problems in industrial defect detection. However, the current defect generation methods suffer from the problems of background information loss, insufficient consideration of complex defects, and...
The problem of the contamination of soils with high background values of heavy metals has attracted increasing attention. In this paper, the contents, spatial distribution characteristics and correlations of five heavy metals in seven types of arable...
The paper aims to investigate users’ behavior regarding inbound marketing while consuming content, in particular, to reveal the source of the reasons and triggers affecting content need in the case of long-consumption products. In the theoretic...
Analysis of the apple tree rhizosphere and phylloplane microbiota revealed the presence of pathogenic and conditionally pathogenic micromycetes: Penicillium, Cladosporium, Fusarium, Mucor, Trichotecium, Alternaria. The application of microbial fertil...
Amylose content controlled by Wx determines rice grain quality, which is easily affected by high temperature. Wxa and Wxb are the two typical Wx alleles in rice, however, their effects on quality formation in response to high temperature under the ba...
Video action recognition models can rely heavily on recurring scene context rather than action-relevant cues, limiting their generalization to background changes. foreground–background mixing has therefore emerged as a useful augmentation strat...
The aim of the research has been to assay the contents of Zn, Cu, Mn, Fe, and Pb in soil and in the organs of wild Thymus serpyllum L. acquired from three natural habitats from the Kuyavia-Pomerania Province (Poland) not exposed to contamination with...
Soil samples from eight soil profiles under different land-use types were collected at the Puding Karst Critical Zone Observatory, Southwest China, to investigate the distribution, fractionation, and controlling factors of rare earth elements (REEs)....
Zinc deficiency poses a significant health challenge worldwide, particularly in regions where access to and the affordability of dietary diversity are limited. This research article presents a time course analysis of kernel development on the zinc co...
Dielectric characterization of biological tissues has become a fundamental aspect of the design of medical treatments based on electromagnetic energy delivery and their pre-treatment planning. Among several measuring techniques proposed in the litera...
Research highlights: In the present survey we examined the sandy grasslands appearing in the steppe-forest-steppe vegetation in the central part of the Carpathian Basin along the Danube. Background and objectives: We aimed to answer the following que...
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