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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,995 Views
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Characterizing Forest Plot Decay Levels Based on Leaf Area Index, Gap Fraction, and L-Moments from Airborne LiDAR

  • Abubakar Sani-Mohammed,
  • Wei Yao,
  • Tsz Chung Wong,
  • Reda Fekry and
  • Marco Heurich

1 August 2024

Effective forest management is essential for mitigating climate change effects. This is why understanding forest growth dynamics is critical for its sustainable management. Thus, characterizing forest plot deadwood levels is vital for understanding f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,830 Views
15 Pages

Incorporating Word Significance into Aspect-Level Sentiment Analysis

  • Refuoe Mokhosi,
  • ZhiGuang Qin,
  • Qiao Liu and
  • Casper Shikali

27 August 2019

Aspect-level sentiment analysis has drawn growing attention in recent years, with higher performance achieved through the attention mechanism. Despite this, previous research does not consider some human psychological evidence relating to language in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
8,583 Views
14 Pages

23 April 2018

Peaches are susceptible to infection from several postharvest diseases. In order to control disease and avoid potential health risks, it is important to identify suitable treatments for each disease type. In this study, the spectral and imaging infor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,480 Views
19 Pages

Effect of Dimer Structure and Inhomogeneous Broadening of Energy Levels on the Action of Flavomononucleotide in Rigid Polyvinyl Alcohol Films

  • Hanna Grajek,
  • Jacek Kubicki,
  • Ignacy Gryczyński,
  • Jerzy Karolczak,
  • Grażyna Żurkowska,
  • Agnieszka I. Piotrowicz-Cieślak and
  • Piotr Bojarski

The results of time-resolved fluorescence measurements of flavin mononucleotide (FMN) in rigid polyvinyl alcohol films (PVA) demonstrate that fluorescence intensity decays are strongly accelerated in the presence of fluorescent dimers and nonradiativ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
410 Views
22 Pages

4 December 2025

This paper investigates the validity of the long wavelength approximation in the calculation of two-photon decay of 2s1/2 level in hydrogen-like ions with nuclear charge Z=1100 based on time-dependent second-order perturbation theory and angul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,865 Views
20 Pages

26 January 2023

The oblique impact of microscale water droplets on liquid film is numerically investigated. Two-phase flow problems are simulated using three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, and the level-set method is employed for capturing the g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,785 Views
14 Pages

2 November 2023

The behavior of multilevel atomic ensembles (e.g., alkali-metal atoms) can be influenced significantly by the intensity of a driving field (or controlling/coupling field). The phase coherence between two transition pathways driven by a probe light an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,191 Views
21 Pages

7 August 2025

This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the long-term energy performance and economic viability of offshore wind farms planned for locations within the Polish Exclusive Economic Zone of the Baltic Sea. It focuses on the impact of wind farm la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,543 Views
10 Pages

Effects of Wood Moisture Content and the Level of Acetylation on Brown Rot Decay

  • Samuel L. Zelinka,
  • Grant T. Kirker,
  • Amy B. Bishell and
  • Samuel V. Glass

7 March 2020

Acetylation is one of the most common types of wood modification and is commercially available throughout the world. Many studies have shown that acetylated wood is decay resistant at high levels of acetylation. Despite its widespread use, the mechan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,453 Views
17 Pages

Nutrient Dynamics Assessment of Coarse Wood Debris Subjected to Successional Decay Levels of Three Forests Types in Northeast, China

  • Kashif Khan,
  • Tran Thi Tuyen,
  • Lixin Chen,
  • Wenbiao Duan,
  • Anwaar Hussain,
  • Muhammad Atif Jamil,
  • Changzhun Li,
  • Qiwen Guo,
  • Meixue Qu and
  • Attaullah Khan
  • + 1 author

29 March 2021

Coarse wood debris (CWD) plays a critical role in forest productivity, nutrient cycling, decomposition, and carbon sequestration, and shapes the carbon pool in the forest ecosystem. However, the elemental composition of CWD varies among different for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
998 Views
16 Pages

Guava fruit is susceptible to decay, leading to losses in storability and quality. ε-Poly-l-lysine (ε-PL) is a safe antimicrobial polypeptide that has proven to be effective in preserving produce’s quality. In the present resear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,828 Views
12 Pages

Effectiveness of Four Synthetic Fungicides in the Control of Post-Harvest Gray Mold of Strawberry and Analyses of Residues on Fruit

  • Costantino Vischetti,
  • Erica Feliziani,
  • Lucia Landi,
  • Arianna De Bernardi,
  • Enrica Marini and
  • Gianfranco Romanazzi

26 December 2023

Fungicides are usually applied on strawberries to manage gray mold, induced by the fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea. In this study, four reduced-risk fungicides (formulations of pyrimethanil, PYR, 175 mL/hL; boscalid, BOS, 80 g/hL; combination fludio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,202 Views
25 Pages

Reversal of Tau-Dependent Cognitive Decay by Blocking Adenosine A1 Receptors: Comparison of Transgenic Mouse Models with Different Levels of Tauopathy

  • Marta Anglada-Huguet,
  • Heike Endepols,
  • Astrid Sydow,
  • Ronja Hilgers,
  • Bernd Neumaier,
  • Alexander Drzezga,
  • Senthilvelrajan Kaniyappan,
  • Eckhard Mandelkow and
  • Eva-Maria Mandelkow

The accumulation of tau is a hallmark of several neurodegenerative diseases and is associated with neuronal hypoactivity and presynaptic dysfunction. Oral administration of the adenosine A1 receptor antagonist rolofylline (KW-3902) has previously bee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,778 Views
14 Pages

21 April 2023

Most existing methods for determining log decay levels normally use variations in log surface characteristics, and the results are subject to human subjectivity, which is uncertain and inaccurate. In order to investigate a novel method for the quanti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,391 Views
8 Pages

LHC Search Strategy for Squarks in Higgsino-LSP Scenarios with Leptons and b-Jets in the Final State

  • Ernesto Arganda,
  • Antonio Delgado,
  • Roberto A. Morales and
  • Mariano Quirós

19 July 2022

The higgsino Lightest Supersymmetric Particle (LSP) scenario opens up the possibility of decays of strongly produced particles to an intermediate neutralino, due to the Yukawa-suppressed direct decays to the higgsino. Those decays produce multijet si...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,992 Views
18 Pages

14 September 2018

Within the built environment, historic buildings are among the most vulnerable structures to the climate change impact. In the Scandinavian countries, the risk from climatic changes is more pronounced and the right adaptation interventions should be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,620 Views
16 Pages

2 March 2020

The aim of this paper is to investigate the influence of vertical fastener stiffness on the sound power characteristics of rail rolling noise. The rail mobility is obtained by using the Timoshenko-beam track model and the spectral element method. The...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,890 Views
14 Pages

Investigation on Rare Nuclear Processes in Hf Nuclides

  • Vincenzo Caracciolo,
  • Pierluigi Belli,
  • Rita Bernabei,
  • Fabio Cappella,
  • Riccardo Cerulli,
  • Antonella Incicchitti,
  • Matthias Laubenstein,
  • Alice Leoncini,
  • Vittorio Merlo and
  • Peng Wang
  • + 2 authors

31 May 2022

In this work, a review of recent studies concerning rare nuclear processes in Hf isotopes is presented. In particular, the investigations using HP-Ge spectrometry and Hf-based crystal scintillators are focused; the potentiality and the results of the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,741 Views
16 Pages

9 March 2021

The investigation of 2β decay is an important issue in modern physics, allowing the test of the Standard Model of elementary particles and the study of the nature and properties of neutrinos. The crystal scintillators, especially made of isotopically...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
9,527 Views
18 Pages

4 August 2016

Decaying wood is related to nutrient cycling through its role as either a sink or source of nutrients. However, at micro scales, what is the effect of decaying logs on the physical, chemical, and biotic characteristics of the soil underneath? We took...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,687 Views
15 Pages

25 February 2023

Fecal indicator bacteria (FIB: Escherichia coli and enterococci) are used to assess recreational water quality. Viral indicators (i.e., somatic and F+ coliphage), could improve the prediction of viral pathogens in recreational waters, however, the im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,190 Views
16 Pages

The Insider-Outsider Model Reexamined

  • Pascal Billand,
  • Christophe Bravard and
  • Sudipta Sarangi

20 October 2010

In this note we introduce different levels of decay in the Goyal, Galeotti and Kamphorst (GGK) insider-outsider model of network formation. First, we deal with situations where the amount of decay is sufficiently low to avoid superfluous connections...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,740 Views
5 Pages

In these proceedings, we present measurements of open bottom hadron production through multiple decay channels in Au + Au collisions at s NN = 200 GeV by the STAR experiment. Specifically, measurements of nuclear modification factors for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,550 Views
13 Pages

Decay of Free Residual Chlorine in Wells Water of Northern Brazil

  • Taise Ferreira Vargas,
  • Célia Ceolin Baía,
  • Tatiana Lemos da Silva Machado,
  • Caetano Chang Dórea and
  • Wanderley Rodrigues Bastos

4 April 2021

The concentration of chlorine in water declines as it reacts with various substances, causing decay of the residual free chlorine until its total consumption. In light of the typical characteristics of the water from protected dug wells and tube well...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
607 Views
16 Pages

Variation in Microbiota and Chemical Components Within Pinus massoniana During Initial Wood Decay

  • Bo Chen,
  • Hua Lu,
  • Feng-Gang Luan,
  • Zi-Liang Zhang,
  • Jiang-Tao Zhang and
  • Xing-Ping Liu

Deadwood is essential for the forest ecosystem productivity and stability. A growing body of evidence indicates that deadwood-inhabiting microbes are effective decomposition agents, yet little is known about how changes in microbial communities durin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,789 Views
23 Pages

9 December 2022

A detailed analysis of the electronic structure and decay dynamics in a symmetric system with three electrons in three linearly aligned binding sites representing quantum dots (QDs) is given. The two outer A QDs are two-level potentials and can act a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
13,250 Views
12 Pages

A Model to Predict Total Chlorine Residue in the Cooling Seawater of a Power Plant Using Iodine Colorimetric Method

  • Jih-Terng Wang,
  • Ming-Hui Chen,
  • Hung-Jen Lee,
  • Wen-Been Chang,
  • Chung-Chi Chen,
  • Su-Cheng Pai and
  • Pei-Jie Meng

4 April 2008

A model experiment monitoring the fate of total residue oxidant (TRO) in water at a constant temperature and salinity indicated that it decayed exponentially with time, and with TRO decaying faster in seawater than in distilled water. The reduction o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,809 Views
16 Pages

The noise effects in the room impulse response (RIR) make the decay range of the integrated impulse response insufficient for reliable determination of reverberation time (RT). One of the preferred techniques to minimize noise effects is based on noi...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,095 Views
9 Pages

A phenomenological model of planktonic microbial cultures, reported in previous papers, suggests that the whole growth progress seems planned by the microbial population since a pre-growth latency phase, during which the population level remains at i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,045 Views
24 Pages

Noninvasive Sonic Tomography for the Detection of Internal Defects in Relict Woodlands of Polylepis in Peru

  • Yakov Quinteros-Gómez,
  • Abel Salinas-Inga,
  • Jehoshua Macedo-Bedoya,
  • Enzo Peralta-Alcantara,
  • Marcel La Rosa-Sánchez,
  • Fernando Camones Gonzales,
  • Alexandra Yamunaque,
  • Franco Angeles-Alvarez,
  • Doris Gómez-Ticerán and
  • Olga Lidia Solano Dávila

5 June 2025

Polylepis woodlands, endemic to the Andean Mountains, are critical for biodiversity and ecosystem services but face threats from anthropogenic disturbances and climate change. This study employed sonic tomography (ST) to assess the structural integri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
17,391 Views
31 Pages

Evaluation of Three Electronic Noses for Detecting Incipient Wood Decay

  • Manuela Baietto,
  • Alphus D. Wilson,
  • Daniele Bassi and
  • Francesco Ferrini

29 January 2010

Tree assessment methodologies, currently used to evaluate the structural stability of individual urban trees, usually involve a visual analysis followed by measurements of the internal soundness of wood using various instruments that are often invasi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,483 Views
13 Pages

28 August 2024

We propose a new expression of the cooperative decay rate of a one-dimensional chain of N two-level atoms in the single-excitation configuration. From it, the interference nature of superradiance and subradiance arises naturally, without the need to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,758 Views
10 Pages

sCD14 Level in Saliva of Children and Adolescents with and without Dental Caries, a Hurdle Model

  • Gaia Pellegrini,
  • Marcello Maddalone,
  • Matteo Malvezzi,
  • Marilisa Toma,
  • Massimo Del Fabbro,
  • Elena Canciani and
  • Claudia Dellavia

4 August 2021

Objective: Soluble CD14 (sCD14) plays an important role in the innate immune response of the oral cavity. The investigation of this biomarker for detection of carious lesions is an even more actual procedure due to its non-invasiveness and the ease o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
202 Views
13 Pages

16 December 2025

This paper investigates the phenomenon of accelerating propagation for nonlocal reaction-diffusion models with spatial and trait structure in a cylinder domain R×Ω. Unlike previous studies focusing on exponentially decaying or compactly s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,896 Views
18 Pages

Novel Ideas in Nonleptonic Decays of Double Heavy Baryons

  • Thomas Gutsche,
  • Mikhail A. Ivanov,
  • Jürgen G. Körner and
  • Valery E. Lyubovitskij

13 June 2019

The recent discovery of double charm baryon states by the LHCb Collaborarion and their high precision mass determination calls for a comprehensive analysis of the nonleptonic decays of double and single heavy baryons. Nonleptonic baryon decays play a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,456 Views
20 Pages

Chemical Characterisation of Sargassum Inundation from the Turks and Caicos: Seasonal and Post Stranding Changes

  • Birthe Vejby Nielsen,
  • John James Milledge,
  • Heidi Hertler,
  • Supattra Maneein,
  • Md Mahmud Al Farid and
  • Debbie Bartlett

13 December 2021

The Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) have been affected by sargassum inundations, with impacts on the economy and environment. Sargassum removal can be costly, but sargassum use and valorisation may generate income and offset environmental damage. A si...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,566 Views
6 Pages

A Monitored Neutrino Beam at the European Spallation Source

  • Francesco Terranova,
  • F. Acerbi,
  • I. Angelis,
  • L. Bomben,
  • M. Bonesini,
  • F. Bramati,
  • A. Branca,
  • C. Brizzolari,
  • G. Brunetti and
  • L. Votano
  • + 53 authors

Monitored neutrino beams are facilities where beam diagnostics enable the counting and identification of charged leptons in the decay tunnel of a narrow band beam. These facilities can monitor neutrino production at the single particle level (flux pr...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,095 Views
15 Pages

Static and Dynamic Optical Analysis of Micro Wrinkle Formation on a Liquid Surface

  • Antariksh Saxena,
  • Costas Tsakonas,
  • David Chappell,
  • Chi Shing Cheung,
  • Andrew Michael John Edwards,
  • Haida Liang,
  • Ian Charles Sage and
  • Carl Vernon Brown

19 December 2021

A spatially periodic voltage was used to create a dielectrophoresis induced periodic micro wrinkle deformation on the surface of a liquid film. Optical Coherence Tomography provided the equilibrium wrinkle profile at submicron accuracy. The dynamic w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,975 Views
7 Pages

31 December 2020

On the basis of a previously developed model of disperse systems containing non-point dipole particles self-assembled into chains inside a liquid substrate, the decay time of electrical excitations induced in dipoles by an external field is investiga...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,856 Views
26 Pages

The Standard Model Theory of Neutron Beta Decay

  • Mikhail Gorchtein and
  • Chien-Yeah Seng

19 September 2023

We review the status of the Standard Model theory of neutron beta decay. Particular emphasis is put on the recent developments in the electroweak radiative corrections. Given that some existing approaches give slightly different results, we thoroughl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,726 Views
22 Pages

19 February 2020

In this lecture, we provide a basic introduction into the topic of charmed baryons and their nonleptonic two-body decays. Some features of the baryon weak decays on the quark level are discussed in detail in the framework of effective field theory. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
383 Views
15 Pages

Collective Auger Decay of 4d−2 Double Inner-Shell Vacancy in Xe

  • Jiaolong Zeng,
  • Guoqing Wang,
  • Aihua Deng,
  • Cheng Gao and
  • Jianmin Yuan

8 December 2025

Auger decay of all levels of the double core-hole states 4d2 of Xe2+, including collective Auger decay (CAD) pathways, is investigated using the relativistic distorted-wave approximation. Large-scale configuration interaction calculations were...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,877 Views
14 Pages

Commercial harvesting of American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) results in root debris in the soil, but the rate of decay is unknown. In this study, post-harvest root debris decayed mostly over the fall and winter, with almost no ginseng debris remai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,052 Views
11 Pages

Quantum Interference Effects on Information Phase Space and Entropy Squeezing

  • Abdel-Baset A. Mohamed,
  • Shoukry S. Hassan and
  • Rania A. Alharbey

5 February 2019

Wehrl entropy and its density are used to investigate the dynamics of loss of coherence and information in a phase space for an atomic model of two-photon two-level atom coupled to different radiation reservoirs (namely, normal vacuum (NV), thermal f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
897 Views
9 Pages

22 November 2024

We investigate the reliability of the conservation of the vector current (CVC) hypothesis in the neutron beta decay (n β decay). We calculate the contribution of the phenomenological term, responsible for the CVC in the hadronic curr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,004 Views
11 Pages

Damping Scenarios of Kink Oscillations of Solar Coronal Loops

  • Valery M. Nakariakov and
  • Naga V. Yelagandula

11 February 2023

The transition from the large-amplitude rapidly-decaying regime of kink oscillations of plasma loops observed in the corona of the Sun to the low-amplitude decayless oscillations is modelled. In this study, the decayless regime is associated with the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,640 Views
19 Pages

Analysis of Microbial Diversity and Greenhouse Gas Production of Decaying Pine Logs

  • Roberta Pastorelli,
  • Alessandro E. Agnelli,
  • Isabella De Meo,
  • Anna Graziani,
  • Alessandro Paletto and
  • Alessandra Lagomarsino

27 June 2017

In Sustainable Forest Management, decaying wood plays an important role in forest biodiversity, carbon balance and nutrient cycling. The management of this important component of forest ecosystems is limited by the fact that little is known about rel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,698 Views
23 Pages

Ion Manipulation from Liquid Xe to Vacuum: Ba-Tagging for a nEXO Upgrade and Future 0νββ Experiments

  • Dwaipayan Ray,
  • Robert Collister,
  • Hussain Rasiwala,
  • Lucas Backes,
  • Ali V. Balbuena,
  • Thomas Brunner,
  • Iroise Casandjian,
  • Chris Chambers,
  • Megan Cvitan and
  • Liang Yang
  • + 20 authors

19 December 2024

Neutrinoless double beta decay (0νββ) provides a way to probe physics beyond the Standard Model of particle physics. The upcoming nEXO experiment will search for 0νββ decay in 136Xe with a projected half-life sensitivity exc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,941 Views
16 Pages

4 September 2020

RNA decay is an important regulatory mechanism for gene expression at the posttranscriptional level. Although the main pathways and major enzymes that facilitate this process are well defined, global analysis of RNA turnover remains under-investigate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,607 Views
24 Pages

This study introduces a novel approach for predicting the decay levels of potato by integrating an electronic nose system combined with feature-optimized deep learning models. The electronic nose system was utilized to collect volatile gas data from...

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