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20 August 2025

In many practical applications, data collected over time often exhibit autocorrelation, which, if unaccounted for, can lead to biased or misleading statistical inferences. To address this issue, we propose a varying-coefficient additive model for den...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Theory, Probability and Statistics)
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19 Citations
4,284 Views
21 Pages

10 November 2019

Perceiving how animals adjust their feeding rate under a variety of environmental conditions and understanding the tradeoffs in their foraging strategies are necessary for conservation. The Holling functional response, which describes the relationshi...

(This article belongs to the Section Wildlife)
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1 Citations
2,528 Views
19 Pages

A Theory of Dynamical Responses for Metal Films: Surface Roughness Effects

  • Sam Praill,
  • Charlotte Lawton,
  • Hasan Balable and
  • Hai-Yao Deng

18 September 2023

A generic expression is derived for the dynamical response function of metal films, with conductivity tensors as the only input. The semi-classical model is then used to provide an analytical expression for the conductivity tensor, thus establishing...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Solids in Europe)
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33 Citations
4,928 Views
12 Pages

Effect of Dietary Chlorogenic Acid on Growth Performance, Antioxidant Function, and Immune Response of Broiler Breeders under Immune Stress and Stocking Density Stress

  • Dongying Bai,
  • Kexin Liu,
  • Xianglong He,
  • Haiqiu Tan and ,
  • Yanhao Liu,
  • Yuqian Li,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Wenrui Zhen,
  • Cai Zhang and
  • Yanbo Ma
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

21 October 2022

The study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary chlorogenic acid supplementation on the growth performance, antioxidant function, and immune response of broiler breeders exposed to immune stress or high stocking density stress. The test wa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Animal Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases)
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6 Citations
5,632 Views
21 Pages

31 August 2017

Functional response traits influence the ability of species to colonize and thrive in a habitat and to persist under environmental challenges. Functional traits can be used to evaluate environment-related processes and phenomena. They also help to in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Insights into Climate Sensitivity of Forest Growth, Health, and Disturbance: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Change)
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11 Citations
3,148 Views
37 Pages

Design and Optimization of Self-Powered Photodetector Using Lead-Free Halide Perovskite Ba3SbI3: Insights from DFT and SCAPS-1D

  • Salah Abdo,
  • Ambali Alade Odebowale,
  • Amer Abdulghani,
  • Khalil As’ham and ,
  • Yacine Djalab,
  • Nicholas Kanizaj and
  • Andrey E. Miroshnichenko
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

30 October 2025

All-inorganic halide perovskites have attracted significant interest in photodetector applications due to their remarkable photoresponse properties. However, the toxicity and instability of lead-based perovskites hinder their commercialization. In th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Nanostructured Metal Halide Perovskites for Optoelectronics: Materials, Devices and Commercialization)
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6 Citations
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5 September 2021

In this paper, we investigate the stability of equilibrium in the stage-structured and density-dependent predator–prey system with Beddington–DeAngelis functional response. First, by checking the sign of the real part for eigenvalue, local stability...

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2 Citations
1,328 Views
19 Pages

25 July 2025

In this study, three alternating donor–acceptor (D–A) type [12]cycloparaphenylene ([12]CPP) derivatives ([12]CPP 1a, 2a, and 3a) were designed through precise molecular engineering, and their multidimensional photophysical responses and c...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational and Theoretical Chemistry)
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5 Citations
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20 Pages

Towards TDDFT for Strongly Correlated Materials

  • Shree Ram Acharya,
  • Volodymyr Turkowski and
  • Talat S. Rahman

We present some details of our recently-proposed Time-Dependent Density-Functional Theory (TDDFT) for strongly-correlated materials in which the exchange-correlation (XC) kernel is derived from the charge susceptibility obtained using Dynamical Mean-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 50th Anniversary of the Kohn-Sham Theory—Advances in Density Functional Theory)
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2 Citations
1,455 Views
19 Pages

Magnetically Modified Bentonite for Optimized Erythromycin Removal via RSM and DFT Analysis

  • Ying-Chieh Hung,
  • Yu-Qi Wu,
  • Ru-Hau Ye,
  • Hsiu-Min Hung and
  • Gui-Bing Hong

16 April 2025

Erythromycin (ERY), an antibiotic widely used in human and veterinary medicine, persists in the environment due to its low degradability, accumulating in wastewater and soil. This study presents a novel adsorbent synthesized by magnetically modifying...

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21 May 2026

Background/Objectives: Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD) is a key determinant of calcium-phosphorus homeostasis and bone metabolism; however, its role as a modifier of the bone mineral density (BMD) response to romosozumab, a dual-action anabolic age...

(This article belongs to the Section Nutritional Epidemiology)
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4 Citations
1,550 Views
15 Pages

27 August 2024

Inthe present paper, we investigate neutral current (NC) antineutrino scattering with the constituents of neutron star (NS) matter at zero temperature. The modeling of standard matter in NS is constructed within the framework of both extended relativ...

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1 Citations
1,754 Views
20 Pages

Bioactive Profiling of Cowpea Pods via Optimized Extraction and Experimental–Computational Approaches

  • María Victoria Traffano-Schiffo,
  • Margarita M. Vallejos,
  • Andrea G. Gómez,
  • Beatriz I. Avalos and ,
  • Belén A. Acevedo and
  • María Victoria Avanza
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11 July 2025

Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) pods are an underexploited by-product of legume production with significant antioxidant potential. Their recovery and characterization support sustainable waste valorization in agri-food systems. This study aimed to opti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Waste to Wealth: Resource Utilization of Agricultural Waste Through Effective Biomass Management)
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4 October 2026

Chlorogenic acid (CA), the principal bioactive constituent of honeysuckle, is conventionally extracted by time-consuming methods using toxic organic solvents, which carry the risk of thermal degradation. This study provides a rapid and efficient micr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Trends in Microextraction Techniques for Bioanalytical Applications)
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111 Citations
13,058 Views
22 Pages

13 July 2020

In the last two decades, GaN nanostructures of various forms like nanowires (NWs), nanotubes (NTs), nanofibers (NFs), nanoparticles (NPs) and nanonetworks (NNs) have been reported for gas sensing applications. In this paper, we have reviewed our grou...

(This article belongs to the Section Biomedical Sensors)
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37 Citations
4,913 Views
20 Pages

Key Electronic, Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Designed Disubstituted Quinoline with Carbazole Compounds

  • Bakhat Ali,
  • Muhammad Khalid,
  • Sumreen Asim,
  • Muhammad Usman Khan and ,
  • Zahid Iqbal,
  • Ajaz Hussain,
  • Riaz Hussain,
  • Sarfraz Ahmed,
  • Akbar Ali and
  • Changrui Lu
  • + 10 authors+ 5 authors

Organic materials development, especially in terms of nonlinear optical (NLO) performance, has become progressively more significant owing to their rising and promising applications in potential photonic devices. Organic moieties such as carbazole an...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational and Theoretical Chemistry)
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2 Citations
4,712 Views
29 Pages

Linear Response Functions of Densities and Spin Densities for Systematic Modeling of the QM/MM Approach for Mono- and Poly-Nuclear Transition Metal Systems

  • Colin K. Kitakawa,
  • Tomohiro Maruyama,
  • Jinta Oonari,
  • Yuki Mitsuta and ,
  • Takashi Kawakami,
  • Mitsutaka Okumura,
  • Kizashi Yamaguchi and
  • Shusuke Yamanaka
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

25 February 2019

We applied our analysis, based on a linear response function of density and spin density, to two typical transition metal complex systems-the reaction centers of P450, and oxygen evolving center in Photosystem II, both of which contain open-shell tra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Open-Shell Systems for Functional Materials)
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12 Citations
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12 Pages

Implications of Temperature and Prey Density on Predatory Mite Amblyseius swirskii (Acari: Phytoseiidae) Functional Responses

  • Mohammed M. E. Elmoghazy,
  • Dalia Mahmoud Abdelmonem Elsherbini,
  • Abadi M. Mashlawi,
  • Ateya Megahed Ibrahim and ,
  • Ahmed A. El-Mansi and
  • Mohamed El-Sherbiny
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 June 2024

Amblyseius swirskii are predaceous mites that feed on phytophagous mites, pollens, and plant exudates and are known as one of the most potent biological pest management agents. Tetranychus urticae is a global mite that is difficult to manage because...

(This article belongs to the Collection Plant Responses to Insect Herbivores)
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11 Citations
4,377 Views
21 Pages

We consider kinetic energy functionals that depend, beside the usual semilocal quantities (density, gradient, Laplacian of the density), on a generalized Yukawa potential, that is the screened Coulomb potential of the density raised to some power. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Commemorative Issue in Honor of Professor Karlheinz Schwarz on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday)
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8 Citations
4,022 Views
17 Pages

29 July 2021

Subtropical mixed forest ecosystems are experiencing dramatic changes in precipitation and different plant functional types growing here are expected to respond differently. This study aims to unravel the water use patterns of different plant functio...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)
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  • Open Access
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14 Pages

Despite the fact that yttria-stabilized zirconia has been studied experimentally by optical and electron energy-loss spectroscopies, a first-principles theoretical interpretation of the dielectric response and electronic excitations is still lacking....

(This article belongs to the Section Physics of Materials)
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1 October 2026

This study investigated the effects of stocking density on growth, antioxidant responses, hepatic inflammatory signaling, and intestinal barrier function in cage-cultured large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea). Fish (~288 g) were reared for 8 wee...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Antioxidants and Aquaculture: A Synergistic Approach for Sustainable Aquatic Production—2nd Edition)
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29 Citations
3,892 Views
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21 December 2021

In this paper, a diffusive predator–prey system with a functional response that increases in both predator and prey densities is considered. By analyzing the characteristic roots of the partial differential equation system, the Turing instabili...

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11 Citations
2,497 Views
18 Pages

29 November 2021

In this study, the performance of an organic dye obtained from the bark of the red pine (Pinus brutia) tree growing in Muğla/Turkey as an interface layer in the Au/n-Si Schottky diode (SD) structure was evaluated. For this purpose, at first, the...

(This article belongs to the Section D1: Advanced Energy Materials)
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9 Citations
3,129 Views
25 Pages

Electronic Currents Induced by Optical Fields and Rotatory Power Density in Chiral Molecules

  • Francesco Ferdinando Summa,
  • Guglielmo Monaco,
  • Riccardo Zanasi,
  • Stefano Pelloni and
  • Paolo Lazzeretti

10 July 2021

The electric dipole–magnetic dipole polarizability tensor κ′, introduced to interpret the optical activity of chiral molecules, has been expressed in terms of a series of density functions kαβ′, which can be integrated all over the three-dimensional...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Chemical Bonding: A Commemorative Special Issue Honoring Professor Linus Pauling)
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4 Citations
3,946 Views
17 Pages

10 October 2024

The development of a suitable set of input ground motions is crucial for dynamic time history analyses. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requires that these motions generate response spectra closely matching the plant’s design spectru...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Geotechnical Engineering (2nd Edition))
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23 Citations
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10 Pages

17 August 2022

We report a theoretical investigation of the influence of Cu doping into TiO2 with various concentrations on crystal structure, stability, electronic structures and optical absorption coefficient using density functional theory via the hybrid formali...

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2 Citations
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30 Pages

2 November 2024

There have been increasing efforts to compute magnetic exchange coupling constants for transition metal complexes and magnetic insulators using the magnetic force theorem and Green’s function-based linear response methods. These were originally...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Chemistry)
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10 Citations
7,075 Views
17 Pages

29 April 2016

We report on the short-term test-retest baseline variability in macular function tests in ZEASTRESS-Pilot participants (n = 18), on their cross-sectional correlation with macular pigment optical density (MPOD), and on the effects of four months (FUV4...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dietary Carotenoids and The Nervous System)
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13 Citations
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17 Pages

Unveiling the pH-Responsive Mechanisms of the Carbon Dot–Proximicin-A Peptide Conjugate for Targeted Cancer Therapy Using Density Functional Theory

  • Azeez Ahamed,
  • Piumantha Samaranayake,
  • Visal de Silva,
  • Muhammad Raziq Rahimi Kooh and ,
  • Nadeesha Wickramage,
  • Indu G. Rajapaksha and
  • Roshan Thotagamuge
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

14 February 2025

This study investigates the pH-responsive dissociation mechanism of carbon dot (CD) conjugated with the anticancer peptide proximicin-A (PROXI) using density functional theory (DFT) simulations. The CD@PROXI system, designed for targeted cancer thera...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiconfigurational and DFT Methods Applied to Chemical Systems—2nd Edition)
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23 Citations
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18 Pages

Electron Polarons in Lithium Niobate: Charge Localization, Lattice Deformation, and Optical Response

  • Falko Schmidt,
  • Agnieszka L. Kozub,
  • Uwe Gerstmann,
  • Wolf Gero Schmidt and
  • Arno Schindlmayr

13 May 2021

Lithium niobate (LiNbO3), a material frequently used in optical applications, hosts different kinds of polarons that significantly affect many of its physical properties. In this study, a variety of electron polarons, namely free, bound, and bipolaro...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Lithium Niobate: From Bulk to Nanocrystals)
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39 Pages

21 February 2019

Toxic gases, such as NOx, SOx, H2S and other S-containing gases, cause numerous harmful effects on human health even at very low gas concentrations. Reliable detection of various gases in low concentration is mandatory in the fields such as industria...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gas Sensors and Smart Sensing Systems)
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3 Citations
3,184 Views
19 Pages

Examining Energy Storage Potential in Weakly Polar Nematic Liquid Crystals Infused with Anthraquinone Dye: A Comprehensive Approach

  • Bhupendra Pratap Singh,
  • Shikha Agarwal,
  • Mohammad Rafe Hatshan,
  • Keshav Kumar Singh and ,
  • Kulurumotlakatla Dasha Kumar,
  • Rajiv Manohar,
  • Pankaj Kumar Tripathi and
  • Dharmendra Pratap Singh
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

10 November 2023

The applications of liquid crystals in the field of renewable, clean and sustainable technologies of energy storage are of utmost importance at present. This paper delves into dielectric spectroscopic studies of a weakly polar nematic liquid crystal...

(This article belongs to the Section Composites Applications)
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1 Citations
951 Views
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A Method for Determining Medium- and Long-Term Renewable Energy Accommodation Capacity Considering Multiple Uncertain Influencing Factors

  • Tingxiang Liu,
  • Libin Yang,
  • Zhengxi Li,
  • Kai Wang and ,
  • Pinkun He and
  • Feng Xiao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

3 October 2025

Amid the global energy transition, rapidly expanding wind and solar installations challenge power grids with variability and uncertainty. We propose an adaptive framework for renewable energy accommodation assessment under high-dimensional uncertaint...

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Efficient Photo-Driven Electron Transfer from Amino Group-Decorated Adamantane to Water

  • Xiangfei Wang,
  • Jonathan Remmert,
  • Beate Paulus and
  • Annika Bande

16 August 2025

Nanodiamonds in water can generate solvated electrons under ultraviolet (UV) excitation, but UV light constitutes only a small portion of solar energy. To harvest solar energy in the visible range, we investigate band gap reduction via surface amino...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Chemistry Insights into Molecular Interactions)
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5 Citations
3,172 Views
21 Pages

9 October 2019

The proposed study presents a novel probabilistic method for optimal allocation of spinning reserves taking into consideration load, wind and solar forecast errors, inter-zonal spinning reserve trading, and demand response provided by consumers as a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Power Electronics for Energy Saving)
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49 Citations
10,134 Views
28 Pages

25 December 2019

Multiphase systems are important in minerals processing, and usually include solid–solid and solid–fluid systems, such as in wet grinding, flotation, dewatering, and magnetic separation, among several other unit operations. In this paper, the current...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Modeling, Design and Optimization of Multiphase Systems in Minerals Processing)
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8 Citations
4,935 Views
36 Pages

9 November 2022

The idea of a canonical ensemble from Gibbs has been extended by Jean-Marie Souriau for a symplectic manifold where a Lie group has a Hamiltonian action. A novel symplectic thermodynamics and information geometry known as “Lie group thermodynam...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geometric Structure of Thermodynamics: Theory and Applications)
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1 Citations
675 Views
35 Pages

Construction of Multi-Functional Composite Resilient Ecological Networks in High-Density Cities

  • Hui Li,
  • Jiaheng Du,
  • Wanqi Guo,
  • Qing Xu and ,
  • Jinli Zhu,
  • Zhenzhou Xu and
  • Wei Gao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 June 2026

The rapid development of high-density cities has triggered severe ecological challenges, including habitat fragmentation, urban heat island (UHI) effects, and conflicting demands for public recreation. Traditional ecological networks (ENs) often focu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ecology of the Landscape Capital and Urban Capital—Second Edition)
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Origin of Large Second-Harmonic Generation in Nonpolar Molybdenum Tellurite Compounds

  • Zhian Li,
  • Xiyue Cheng,
  • Qian Xu,
  • Xiu Wang and ,
  • Guoliang Liu and
  • Shuiquan Deng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 February 2026

Molybdenum tellurite compounds have attracted increasing interest as promising nonlinear optical (NLO) materials, yet their microscopic second-harmonic generation (SHG) mechanisms remain unclear. In this work, the electronic structures and SHG respon...

(This article belongs to the Section Inorganic Chemistry)
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Predictors of Functional Responsiveness to Exercise in Postmenopausal Women

  • António M. Monteiro,
  • André Schneider,
  • Luciano Bernardes Leite,
  • José E. Teixeira and ,
  • Tiago M. Barbosa,
  • Pedro Forte and
  • Daniel Pecos-Martín
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 July 2026

Osteoporosis and functional decline are major health concerns among postmenopausal women. Identifying factors associated with exercise responsiveness may improve understanding of interindividual variability in exercise adaptations and support the dev...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sport Physiology: Advances and Prospects)
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Mathematical Modeling of the Dynamics of the Carding Process for Fibrous Material on Modern Carding Machines

  • Lastochkin Pavel,
  • Parpieva Nilufar,
  • Parpiev Khabibulla,
  • Guocheng Zhu and ,
  • Parpiyev Doniyor,
  • Gafurov Adkhamjon and
  • Izatillaev Muzaffarkhon
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The carding process plays a key role in determining sliver quality in fibrous material production. However, the dynamic aspects of the process, particularly the influence of time delays and internal positive feedback loops on the unevenness of the ca...

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Electron Donor and Acceptor Influence on the Nonlinear Optical Response of Diacetylene-Functionalized Organic Materials (DFOMs): Density Functional Theory Calculations

  • Muhammad Khalid,
  • Riaz Hussain,
  • Ajaz Hussain,
  • Bakhat Ali and ,
  • Farrukh Jaleel,
  • Muhammad Imran,
  • Mohammed Ali Assiri,
  • Muhammad Usman Khan,
  • Saeed Ahmed and
  • Chaudhary Jahrukh Tariq
  • + 9 authors+ 4 authors

Herein, we report the quantum chemical results based on density functional theory for the polarizability (α) and first hyperpolarizability (β) values of diacetylene-functionalized organic molecules (DFOM) containing an electron acceptor (A...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in DFT: Theory, Simulations and Applications)
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12 Citations
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26 Pages

2 January 2020

Irrigation-yield production functions (IYPFs), irrigation water use efficiency (IWUE), and grain production per unit of applied irrigation of non-drought-tolerant (NDT) and drought-tolerant (DT) maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids were quantified in four loc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Irrigation Strategies for Improving Crop Water Productivity)
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1 Citations
442 Views
32 Pages

Qualitative Analysis of a Density-Dependent Prey–Predator Model with Holling Type III Functional Responses

  • Md. Mutakabbir Khan,
  • Md. Jasim Uddin,
  • M. T. Alharthi,
  • Ibraheem M. Alsulami and
  • Najat A. Alghamdi

6 August 2026

This research examines the behavioral shifts within a discrete-time predator–prey framework, constructed by applying the forward Euler discretization to a continuous model. The system incorporates Smith’s growth dynamics for the prey popu...

(This article belongs to the Section C2: Dynamical Systems)
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22 Citations
3,771 Views
9 Pages

Functional Response and Control Potential of Orius sauteri (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae) on Tea Thrips (Dendrothrips minowai Priesner)

  • Qiuping Zhang,
  • Ruifang Zhang,
  • Qiuqiu Zhang,
  • Dezhong Ji and ,
  • Xia Zhou and
  • Linhong Jin
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 December 2021

This study aimed to clarify the functional response and control potential of O. sauteri in relation to tea thrips. The functional response, interference response, and control potential of O. sauteri on adult tea thrips, in different insect stages and...

(This article belongs to the Topic Insects in Sustainable Agroecosystems)
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2 Citations
1,465 Views
12 Pages

Accurate and Scalable Quantum Hydrodynamic Simulations of Plasmonic Nanostructures Within OFDFT

  • Qihong Hu,
  • Runfeng Liu,
  • Xinyu Shan,
  • Xiaoyun Wang and ,
  • Hong Yang,
  • Heping Zhao and
  • Yonggang Huang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

21 August 2025

Quantum hydrodynamic theory (QHT) provides a computationally efficient alternative to time-dependent density functional theory for simulating plasmonic nanostructures, but its predictive power depends critically on the choice of ground-state electron...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Plasma Technology for Nanomaterials and Applications)
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11 Pages

Host Plant Effects on the Functional Response of Scolothrips takahashii to Amphitetranychus viennensis

  • Pinhong Zhu,
  • Ming Wei,
  • Shien Pang,
  • Zhenjie Hu and ,
  • Junfeng Dong,
  • Dingxu Li and
  • Haibo Yang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

13 August 2026

The hawthorn spider mite, Amphitetranychus viennensis, can damage various Rosaceae fruit trees. When using predatory natural enemies for biological control, the effects of the physical characteristics of host plant leaves (such as trichomes) on the f...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Ecology, Diversity and Conservation)
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498 Citations
21,311 Views
15 Pages

30 September 2016

A new theory for the study of the reactivity in Organic Chemistry, named Molecular Electron Density Theory (MEDT), is proposed herein. MEDT is based on the idea that while the electron density distribution at the ground state is responsible for physi...

(This article belongs to the Section Computational and Theoretical Chemistry)
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3 Citations
2,007 Views
16 Pages

Functional and Numerical Responses of Tytthus chinensis (Hemiptera: Miridae) to Sogatella furcifera (Hemiptera: Delphacidae)

  • Qian Huang,
  • Liping Long,
  • Suosheng Huang,
  • Biqiu Wu and ,
  • Cheng Li and
  • Yan Ling
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 March 2025

The predatory function and numerical responses of natural enemy insects are critical for evaluating their biological control potential, particularly in understanding pest suppression mechanisms and ecological adaptability. Here, we examined the preda...

(This article belongs to the Section Insect Pest and Vector Management)

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