In this study, the effect of day/night factor on the detection performance of the FY4A lightning mapping imager (LMI) is evaluated using the Bayesian theorem, and by comparing it to the measurements made by a ground-based low-frequency magnetic field...
Day-night PM10-bound PAHs were studied at an urban site of Xi’an from 20 December 2006 to 28 October 2007. The annual mean concentration of nighttime PAHs (285.0 ng m−3) was higher than that in daytime (239.4 ng m−3). A significant difference of PAH...
Background/Objectives: Night shift workers (NSWs) are at a high risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the association between CVD risk factors and lifestyle behavior (sedentary behavior [SB], physical activity [PA], and sleep) is unclear amo...
This study aimed to identify and compare the risk factors associated with motorcycle crash severity during both daytime and nighttime, for single and multivehicle incidents in Thailand using 2021–2024 data. The research employed the XGBoost (Ex...
Background/Objectives: Urinary urea excretion is a marker of protein catabolism and follows circadian biological rhythms. Although small-scale studies have suggested a diurnal pattern, its population-level characterisation and determinants remain poo...
Plants actively respond to changes in photoperiods, light intensities, and temperatures; an interplay of these three factors can result in increased biomass, growth, and improved plant morphology. This study aimed to investigate the effects of differ...
Solar thermal technology is an important component of low-carbon energy systems, but its application potential is constrained by two key factors: the inherent limits of energy flux density and the temporal mismatch between supply and demand. This stu...
The quadruped robots have superior adaptability to complex terrains, compared with tracked and wheeled robots. Therefore, leader-following can help quadruped robots accomplish long-distance transportation tasks. However, long-term following has to fa...
The circadian clock is the biological timekeeping system that governs the approximately 24-h rhythms of genetic, metabolic, physiological and behavioral processes in most organisms. This oscillation allows organisms to anticipate and adapt to day&nda...
Environmental factors like light, photoperiod, temperature, and water are vital for crop growth, and even slight deviations from their optimal ranges can cause seedling stress and reduce yield. Therefore, this study aimed to quantify seedling stress...
Layered cloud cover (LCC) describes the vertical distribution of cloud occurrence and is a key variable for assessing the radiation budget of the Earth-atmosphere system. However, ground-based radars have limited spatial coverage, while existing sate...
Heat and drought are two major limiting factors for perennial pasture production in south eastern Australia. Although previous studies have focused on the effects of prolonged heat and drought stresses on pasture growth and physiology, the effects of...
This paper has approached the study of dairy wastewater treatment and the simultaneous biocompound production by Porphyridium purpureum under continuous light and under a day–night cycle. The main goals were to achieve a reduction in the lactos...
Downscaling microwave soil moisture (SM) with optical/thermal remote sensing data has considerable application potential. Spatial correlations between SM and land surface temperature (LST) or LST-derived SM indexes (SMIs) are vital to the current opt...
Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) is a biobased and biodegradable polymer with properties comparable to polypropylene and therefore has the potential to replace conventional plastics. PHB is intracellularly accumulated by prokaryotic organisms. For the c...
Sleep is a fundamental part of life for all living beings. The propensity to fall asleep is regulated by a circadian rhythm, which controls the secretion of the hormone melatonin. Melatonin secretion is linked to the light and dark phases of the day/...
Reliable measures of nighttime atmospheric fine particulate matter (PM2.5) concentrations are essential for monitoring their continuous diurnal variation. Here, we proposed a night PM2.5 concentration estimation (NightPMES) model based on the random...
Day–night mobility differentiation provides important insights into the spatial organization of migrant activities, yet its spatial variation and underlying drivers remain insufficiently understood in Asian metropolitan areas. Using kernel dens...
Transcription factors (TFs) affect the production of mRNAs. In essence, the TFs form a large computational network that controls many aspects of cellular function. This article introduces a computational method to optimize TF networks. The method ext...
Introduction: Chronic pain which tends to be localised particularly in the lower back and lower extremities is one of the risk factors for elevated blood pressure (BP). In this cross-sectional study, we evaluated whether chronic low back pain (cLBP)...
Temperature is a key determinant of flowering time and floral pigmentation in plants, and dahlia (Dahlia pinnata) is particularly sensitive to thermal changes in its flower color. This study investigated how day/night temperature regimes regulate flo...
It is difficult to comprehensively master and precisely regulate the external factors distribution of automobile weathering in non-uniform thermal environment as well as the consequent disequilibrium weathering problem, while exploring weather-resist...
This work reports the day-night differences of a suite of chemical species including elemental carbon (EC), organic carbon (OC), water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC), water-soluble organic nitrogen (WSON), selected polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PA...
Forest soils serve as critical terrestrial carbon sinks. While broad hydrothermal controls on soil respiration (Rs) are established, uncertainties persist regarding high-frequency temporal dynamics and moisture-dependent variations in temperature sen...
With the growing size and use of night light time series from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Day/Night Band (DNB), it is important to understand the stability of the dataset. All satellites observe differences in pixel values during re...
Temporal variation of natural light sources such as airglow limits the ability of night light sensors to detect changes in small sources of artificial light (such as villages). This study presents a method for correcting for this effect globally, usi...
Astragalus membranaceus and Codonopsis lanceolata are two important medical herbs used in traditional Oriental medicine for preventing cancer, obesity, and inflammation. Night temperature is an important factor that influences the plug seedling quali...
Objectives: Developmental dyslexia is a heterogeneous neurodevelopmental condition in which motor, perceptual, attentional, respiratory, and sleep-related differences have been reported alongside reading difficulties. This Perspective proposes a prop...
Existing studies on urban public space vitality predominantly focus on single temporal scales or macro-urban levels, lacking a systematic understanding of day–night and weekday–weekend differentiation patterns at the meso-scale. This stud...
The disruption to natural light regimes caused by outdoor artificial nighttime lighting has significant impacts on human health and the natural world. Artificial light at night takes two forms, light emissions and skyglow (caused by the scattering of...
Besides food quantity and quality, food timing and frequency may contribute to weight regulation. It is unclear if these factors during pregnancy can influence maternal weight retention after childbirth. We thus aimed to examine the associations of m...
Late spring cold is a disastrous weather condition that often affects early rice seedlings in southern China, limiting the promotion of direct seeding cultivation. However, there are few reports on the effect of these events and on the growth recover...
Urban water bodies have a cooling effect and alter the local urban thermal environment. However, current research is unclear regarding the relationships between factors such as the spatial density, area proportion, and distribution pattern of water b...
Internal solitary waves (ISWs) are a common marine internal wave phenomenon in the northern South China Sea that cause significant changes in environmental factors and affect phytoplankton communities. This study investigates the short-term response...
Land surface temperature (LST) is an important geophysical element for understanding Earth systems and land–atmosphere interactions. In this study, we developed a nonlinear split-window LST retrieval algorithm for the observation area of GEO-KO...
Human evolution required adaptation to the boundary conditions of Earth, including 1 g gravity. The bipedal mobility of Homo sapiens in that gravitational field causes ground reaction force (GRF) loading of their lower extremities, influencing the in...
The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of cold stress at flowering stage on plant structure, yield and chemical composition of seeds of 15 soybean cultivars. The study was conducted in 2019–2020, using the complete randomization method...
High Frequency (HF) communications through ionospheric reflection is a widely used technique specifically for maritime, aeronautical, and emergency services communication with remote areas due to economic and management reasons, and also as backup sy...
Arctic regions are warming rapidly, elevating extinction risks and accelerating ecosystem change, yet widely used bioclimatic datasets rarely represent polar-specific ecological constraints. Here we present BioClimPolar_2300 v1.0, a raster bioclimati...
Amid global urban transition from sprawling expansion to stock-oriented regeneration, exploring the spatiotemporal heterogeneity and mechanisms of urban spatial vitality in old urban areas is crucial for advancing sustainable urban renewal and enhanc...
Substratum preference is shown to be the most important factor influencing crab distribution. Characterizing habitat selection of the swimming crab Portunus trituberculatus provides crucial information for the successful management of this commercial...
Circadian rhythms are found in almost all organisms from cyanobacteria to humans, where most behavioral and physiological processes occur over a period of approximately 24 h in tandem with the day/night cycles. In general, these rhythmic processes ar...
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is highly valuable for target detection due to its all-weather, day-night operational capability and certain ground penetration potential. However, traditional SAR target detection methods often directly adapt algorithm...
Low temperature, as a kind of stress factor, often leads to tomato growth stagnation or yield reduction or even no harvest in production. At present, numerous genes have been shown to be involved in the regulation of cold resistance in the tomato. Co...
A study was conducted with green and red-leaf lettuce cultivars grown in a deep-water culture production system. Plants were seeded in rockwool and germinated under greenhouse conditions at 25/20 °C (day/night) for 21 days before transplanting. T...
Clouds critically influence Earth’s radiation balance and climate, making accurate cloud detection essential for improving climate models. This study develops the TSAR model to improve the cloud detection accuracy of the FY-4A CLM product by in...
Circadian entrainment to the environmental day–night cycle is essential for the optimal use of environmental resources. In insects, opsin-based photoreception in the compound eye and ocelli and CRYPTOCHROME1 (CRY1) in circadian clock neurons ar...
Light and nutrients are among the most important factors for sustained plant production in agriculture. As one of the goals of the European Green Deal strategy is to reduce energy consumption, greenhouse growers focus on high-value crop cultivation w...
Due to complex radiometric calibration, the imagery collected by the Day/Night Band (DNB) of the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) onboard the Suomi National Polar Partnership (Suomi-NPP) and the NOAA-20 follow-on satellite is subject...
In this study, the behavior of an aerial plant (Tillandsia xerographica) during air biofiltration was investigated by monitoring the trend of the CO2 concentration in the processed air as a response to a change in the environmental conditions. In thi...
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