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The moisture content of wood components varies with changes in the external environment, which significantly affects the mechanical properties, moisture stress, decay, drying shrinkage, and cracking of wood components. Therefore, calculating the mois...

NDN is one of the new emerging future internet architectures which brings up new solutions over today’s internet architecture, facilitating content distribution, in-network caching, mobility support, and multicast forwarding. NDNs ubiquitous in-netwo...

Shrinkage cracks are some of the most common defects in timber structures obtained from woods with an uneven distribution of moisture content and are subject to external dynamic environmental changes. To accurately predict the changes in the moisture...

Plant sand fixation is the most durable and environmentally friendly sand mitigation measure for windblown sand hazards. For aeolian–sand composite soil, the fines content is the main factor affecting the pore size distribution characteristics...

The paper studies the application of various content distribution policies for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) and compares their effectiveness under various simulation scenarios. Our implementation augments the existing Veins tool, an open source...

This article studies the effective design of content distribution networks over cloud computing platforms. This problem is relevant nowadays to provide fast and reliable access to content on the internet. A bio-inspired evolutionary multiobjective op...

To fulfill the increasing demand on low-latency content distribution, this paper considers content distribution using generation-based network coding with the belief propagation decoder. We propose a framework to design generation-based network codes...

For its small square footage, a vertical bed biofilter was developed for odor emission mitigation for livestock facilities with limited area available for biofilter installation. However, a concern about the design is that airflow and moisture may be...

Facilitated by the Internet of Things (IoT) and diverse IoT devices, remote sensing data are evolving into the multimedia era with an expanding data scale. Massive remote sensing data are collected by IoT devices to monitor environments and human act...

To get an insight into the residual sodium content of Al–Mg alloys, three types of sodium-containing fluxes were introduced into the melt with different magnesium content. The increment, existing form and distribution of sodium in Al–Mg alloys with d...

Volumetric changes induced by soil moisture phase changes can lead to pore system redistribution in freezing and thawing soil, which in turn affects soil strength and stability. The prefreezing water content and the number of freeze–thaw cycles...

In this study, an approach to visualize the spatial distribution of sugar content in white strawberry fruit flesh using near-infrared hyperspectral imaging (NIR-HSI; 913–2166 nm) is developed. NIR-HSI data collected from 180 samples of “T...

Soil aggregation, a critical component of soil structure, is significantly influenced by soil moisture content, which can vary substantially across different field conditions. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of soil relative wa...

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) enables vehicular data services and applications through vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications. One of the key services provided by IoV is popular content distribution (PCD), which aims to quickly deliver popular c...

Cu in tea leaves can be easily leached into the tea broth during brewing and ingested by humans; therefore, excessive accumulation of Cu in tea leaves may pose potential health risks. In this study, the relationship between soil Cu and Cu content in...

In traditional symbol-level network coding (SLNC)-based cooperative content distribution approaches, they ignore nodes in the vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) having various network-coded content pieces and distinct levels of interests and selfishnes...

Fuel layered-distribution sintering (FLDS) is a technology that can effectively reduce fuel consumption and achieve a more uniform temperature distribution within the sintering bed compared to traditional iron ore sintering. In this study, the meltin...

Power transmission technology plays an important role in energy sustainability. Bushing is an indispensable type of equipment in power transmission. In production, the accelerator changes the temperature distribution during the curing process, influe...

This study analyzed the vertical distribution of gravimetric water content (GWC), relative water content (RWC), and equivalent water thickness (EWT) in winter wheat during heading and early ripening stages, and evaluated the position of leaf number a...

Monitoring vertical profile of leaf water content (LWC) within wheat canopies after head emergence is vital significant for increasing crop yield. However, the estimation of vertical distribution of LWC from remote sensing data is still challenging d...

Due to being lightweight, fine-grained sediments easily flow with water and thus amplify the destructive effect of debris flow hazards. In such hazards, water content and shear strength are key inter-controlled factors relating to the stability of fi...

InGaN-based photovoltaic devices have attracted great attention due to their remarkable theoretical potential for high efficiency. In this paper, the influence of different distributions of step-gradient indium content within the intrinsic region on...

Accurate estimation of the canopy chlorophyll content (CCC) plays a key role in quantitative remote sensing. Maize (Zea mays L.) is a high-stalk crop with a large leaf area and deep canopy. It has a non-uniform vertical distribution of the leaf chlor...

Accurate estimation of canopy chlorophyll content (CCC) is critically important for agricultural production management. However, vegetation indices derived from canopy reflectance are influenced by canopy structure, which limits their application acr...

Content-centric vehicular networks (CCVNs) have considered distributed proactive caching as an attractive approach for the timely provision of emerging services. The naïve caching schemes cache all of the contents to only one selected roadside u...

Next generation cellular systems need efficient content-distribution schemes. Content-sharing via Device-to-Device (D2D) clustered networks has emerged as a popular approach for alleviating the burden on the cellular network. In this article, we util...

In this study, the step vacuum preloading method was used to reinforce high clay content dredger fill in the laboratory. The pore structures and permeability characteristics of dredger fill under different vacuum pressures were tested. The correlatio...

This study investigates the temporal dynamics of the drop size distribution (DSD) and its influence on the relationship between the liquid water content (LWC) and the radar reflectivity (Z) in fogs. Data measured during three radiation fog events at...

Eggplants are rich in acetylcholine (ACh), which can improve high blood pressure and negative psychological states. However, information on ACh content in individual parts of eggplant and the changes in ACh content during eggplant development is limi...

This study had two main objectives: To examine the association between body fat distribution and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and liver fat content, and to determine whether the relationship between NAFLD and regional body fat distributi...

To evaluate the distribution characteristics of water vapor content (WVC), cloud liquid water content (CLWC) and cloud ice water content (CIWC) in arid areas of central Asia from 1980 to 2019 were analyzed by using average data of ERA5 in the Europea...

This study presents the possibility of using digital image analysis for the assessment of the starch content and distribution in potatoes. Tubers of six cultivars that were stored for 3 months in contrasting conditions (4 °C vs. −15 °C)...

Spatiotemporal distribution of the soil moisture content of 0–10 cm underground has been assessed across the aroclimatic zones of Ukraine for the period 2000–2019. Calculated Soil Moisture Anomaly Index (SMAI) was used to characterize the degree of s...

Reclaimed water is an important resource for irrigation, and exploration in making full use of it is an important way to alleviate water shortage. This paper analyzes the effects of irrigation with reclaimed water through field trials on the content...

Willows (genus Salix) are versatile plants with applications in construction, medicine, and biomass fuel in North America. Advances in breeding have improved willow clones for higher yields and pest resistance, but the chemical content and distributi...

The soil moisture content at shearing and other factors, including dry density and grain size, influence its shear strength. This study investigated the effect of moisture content at compaction and grain size distribution on the unsaturated soil shea...

The distribution of Hg in the vicinity of roads is probably not exclusively dependent on car emissions, but also on the presence of other point or diffuse sources of Hg emissions located from metres to several km away. The source of mercury in urbani...

Remote sensing approaches have several advantages over traditional methods in determining information on physical and chemical parameters, including timely data acquisition, low costs, and wide coverage. Thus, remote sensing is widely used in crop gr...

Karst features such as polje are highly vulnerable to natural and anthropogenic pollution. The main objectives of this study were to investigate the soil quality in the Ioannina polje (north-west Greece) concerning arsenic (As) and zinc (Zn), and del...

Contamination of the water and sediment with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) was studied for the lake impacted by the release of PFAS-containing aqueous film forming foam (AFFF). PFAS concentrations were analyzed in lake water and sediment...

This paper presents a method for the online determination of the spatial distribution of the moisture content in granular material. It might be essential for the monitoring and optimal control of, for example, drying processes. The proposed method ut...

Calcium is an essential macronutrient in soils and plays an important role in the structure and function of an ecosystem. In this study, we selected the Huajiang dry-hot valley region in southwest China as our research object, aiming to comprehend th...

To provide reliable input information for the load design and extraction of lunar soil water ice samples, it is necessary to study the water content distribution and water migration of simulated lunar soil water ice samples. On this basis, the temper...

Cosmic ray neutron probes (CRNPs) provide continuous monitoring of average near-surface soil water content (SWC) on hectometer scales. However, the performance of CRNPs on surfaces of highly heterogeneous vegetation and SWC remains uncertain. This st...

The physical and mechanical properties of thermally modified wood (TMW) have been comprehensively studied; however, the quantitative analysis of water states and cell wall pores of TMW is limited. In this work, Douglas fir and Norway spruce were ther...

In the past century, plant biostimulants have been increasingly used in agriculture as innovative and sustainable practice. Plant biostimulants have been mainly investigated as potential agents able to mitigate abiotic stress. However, few informatio...

Digital watermarking is a promising technology to embed information as unperceivable signals in digital contents. Various watermarking techniques have been proposed to protect copyrights of multimedia digital contents over Internet trading so that ow...

The aim of this study was to determine the concentrations of Cu and Zn in soils in the vineyards of La Rioja and to calculate reference values for the two elements. Samples were taken from the surface horizon (0–20 cm) and the subsurface horizo...

Heterogeneity exists in the vertical distribution of the biochemical components of crops. A leaf chlorophyll deficiency occurs in the bottom- and middle-layers of crops due to nitrogen stress and leaf senescence. Some studies used multi-angular remot...

Lead and cadmium are prevalent heavy metal toxins that contaminate the natural environment through animal husbandry and agricultural and industrial activities. Exposing dairy cows to these pollutants can have detrimental effects on milk production an...