The characterisation of ecological strategies to predict drought response is still lacking for Caribbean dry forest seedlings. This study documents growth characteristics and tolerance to drought via xylem hydraulic and leaf cell properties of three...
Water deficit and soil salinization are the primary abiotic stress factors hindering maize growth. To assess the effect of water and salt stress on xylem embolism in maize and investigate the relationship between drought resistance and xylem vulnerab...
To understand the mechanisms underlying species assemblage along salt gradients in intertidal zones, we measured the xylem hydraulic vulnerability curves (HVCs), leaf water potential (ψ), stomatal conductance (gs), specific leaf area (SLA), and w...
Pinus (~113 species, generally early-seral) and Quercus (~435 species, generally late-seral), currently co-occur over a wide range of climates and biomes in the Northern Hemisphere. Climate change is expected to threaten the coexistence dynamics of p...
The physiological mechanisms underlying drought responses are poorly documented in mangroves, which experience nearly constant exposure to saline water. We measured gas exchange, foliar abscisic acid (ABA) concentration, and vulnerability to embolism...
Pump turbines play a quite important role of peak-valley shifting in the grid, and the hump margin is a critical criterion related to the safety and stability of operation in pump mode. Aiming at investigating the influence of runner outlet setting a...
Poplar plantations can acclimate to drought stress in semi-arid areas, where the variation of stand age may result in varied water adaptation strategies presented as hydrodynamic performance. In this study, nine mature Populus simonii Carr. individua...
The practice of operating hydraulic machines and equipment shows that failures can occur earlier than the specified lifespan. At the same time, at the stage of carrying out strength calculations of the designed machines and equipment, significant saf...
The safety performance of nuclear power plants (NPPs) is a very important factor in evaluating nuclear energy sustainability. Safety analysis of passive and active safety systems have a positive influence on reactor transient mitigation. One of the c...
Clay–gravel mixture has been widely used in high embankment dams and understanding its seepage characteristics is critical to dam safety. From the instrumental perspective, the realization of continuous pressurized water supply becomes a key technica...
Hydropower plants are of paramount importance for the integration of intermittent renewable energy sources in the power grid. In order to match the energy generated and consumed, Large hydraulic turbines have to work under off-design conditions, whic...
The actuator is the key to the stepless capacity control system of a reciprocating compressor. The coupling effect between the actuator and the reciprocating compressor was not considered in the traditional design, and the large design margin led to...
Climate change is increasing global temperatures and imposing new constraints on tree regeneration, especially in late-successional species exposed to simultaneous drought and low-light conditions. To disentangle the effects of warming from those of...
The violent fluctuation of hydrodynamic pressure in stilling basins is an important factor threatening the safety of the bottom plates of stilling basins, and plays an important role in the safe operation of stilling basins. In order to deeply unders...
Elevators serve as essential vertical transportation systems for both passengers and heavy loads in modern buildings. Electromechanical lifts have become the dominant choice due to their performance advantages over hydraulic systems. A critical compo...
Flood frequency analysis is essential for designing resilient hydraulic infrastructure, but traditional stationary models fail to capture the influence of climate variability and land-use change. This study applies a bivariate logistic model with non...
In off-road environments, the lateral rollover stability of articulated unmanned rollers (URs) is critical to ensure operational safety and efficiency. This paper introduces the concept of a rollover energy barrier (REB), a symmetry-based metric that...
Concern over the asymmetric phenomena in the core region has increased considering safety issues that are highly possible to reduce the thermal margin significantly in nuclear power plants. Since the seized reactor coolant pump (RCP) accident of an a...
This study is focused on defining and optimizing the design parameters of inherently safe “battery” type sodium-cooled metallic-fueled nuclear reactor cores that operate on a single stationary fuel loading at full power for 30 years. A total of 29 co...
Long-term meteorological analyzes suggest an increase in air temperature and a decrease in rainfall over the Amazon biome. The effect of these climate changes on the forest remains unresolved, because field observations on functional traits are spars...
Urban forests provide considerable ecosystem services for city dwellers, yet the function of forest species is increasingly challenged by urban drought. Understanding drought tolerance of urban forest species would facilitate vegetation conservation...
Drought-induced plant mortality, resulting from either hydraulic failure or carbon starvation, is hypothesized to be modulated by the drought intensity. However, there is a paucity of research investigating the response strategies in desert shrubs un...
The heart is the body’s core pump. Heart failure impairs the heart’s ability to pump blood, leading to circulatory disorders. The artificial heart (blood pump) is an important mechanical circulatory support device that can partially or co...
A combined severe heatwave and drought, starting in 2018 and lasting for several months, restarted the discussion on the resistance of European beech to climatic changes, with severe growth reductions, early leaf senescence, leaf browning, and diebac...
Fault-tolerant control in safety-critical industrial systems demands adaptive responses to equipment degradation, parameter drift, and sensor failures while maintaining strict operational constraints. Traditional model-based controllers struggle unde...
This article examines the effects of climate change on the 32 million inhabitants of the Megalopolis of Central Mexico (MCM), which is threatened by chaotic urbanization, land-use changes, the deforestation of the Forest of Water by organized crime,...
In arid open-pit mines, rainfall-triggered slope instability presents significant risks, but quantitative thresholds are poorly defined due to limited integration of transient seepage and stability in low-permeability soils. This study fills this gap...
Ecologically extreme habitats at a species’ distribution edges bear significance for biota under adverse climatic conditions and climate change. Range-edge populations adjust their functional traits to the special local ecological conditions, leading...
Growing environmental awareness has renewed interest in thorium as a nuclear fuel, underscoring the need for further studies to evaluate how reactors perform when conventional fuels are replaced with thorium-based alternatives. In this study, thermal...
Concrete stress is a key factor influencing the operational safety of concrete dams, and understanding the true distribution and variation of stress is a major research focus in the field of dam engineering. In the heel region of the dam, internal vo...
This paper presents test results of comprehensive laboratory and field-testing program efforts for the development of bioengineering solutions such as growing vegetation for protection of slopes from erosion and landslides in a tropical environmental...