Quantum computers have the potential to break the public-key cryptosystems widely used in key exchange and digital signature applications. To address this issue, quantum key distribution (QKD) offers a robust countermeasure against quantum computer a...
Chilli is an important commercial crop grown in tropical and subtropical climates. The whitefly-transmitted chilli leaf curl virus (ChiLCV) is a serious threat to chilli cultivation. Vector migration rate and host–vector contact rate, the major...
Photosynthesis is an important physiological response for determination of CO2 fertilization in greenhouses and estimation of crop growth. In order to estimate the whole plant photosynthetic rate, it is necessary to investigate how light interception...
Plastic pollution, particularly microplastic (MP) and nanoplastic (NP) pollution, has become a significant concern. This study explores the use of porous wood for filtration to remove MPs and NPs and investigates their removal mechanisms. Undecorated...
In an urban or suburban area, the sustainability of a waste management process is expected to be closely related to the territorial context and the local citizens’ behaviour. From this perspective, the implementation of the peculiar proximity waste c...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the regrowth capacity of Amelichloa clandestina at different regrowth intervals after non-selective grazing in different seasons of the year. The study was carried out on a 2.23 ha−1 site in northeast...
In the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the rainfall is greater in summer. The technology of rain catching and controlled irrigation of rice help to save water by raising the water depth of the field after rain while the soil water cont...
This study was carried out to characterize the dynamics of forage accumulation during the regrowth of Mulatto grass submitted to rotational grazing strategies. The treatments corresponded to combinations between two pre-grazing conditions (95% and a...
The optimized winter wheat sowing method comprising wide-belt sowing (WBS) can improve the ears number and biomass to increase the grain yield, compared with conventional narrow-drill sowing (NDS). The seed rate and the interaction between the sowing...
Pasture-based livestock production is impacted by management and weather. In pastures, there is conflict between leaf retention for plant growth and leaf harvest for animal nutrition. Defoliated pastures with low light interception (LI) may have a lo...
The Nyquist folding receiver (NYFR) can achieve a high-probability interception of an ultra-wideband (UWB) signal with fewer devices, while the output of the NYFR is converted into a hybrid modulated signal of the local oscillator (LO) and the receiv...
RTA (Rate Transient Analysis) is a valuable method for obtaining reservoir parameters and well performance, but current RTA models hardly consider the MLVF (Multi-Layer Vertical Fractured) well in a layered tight gas reservoir. To capture the product...
Refracturing treatment is an economical way to improve the productivity of poorly or damaged fractured horizontal wells in tight reservoirs. Fracture reorientation and fracture face damage may occur during refracturing treatment. At present, there is...
The massive loss of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) from farmland ditches contributes to non-point source pollution, posing a significant global environmental challenge. Effectively removing these nutrients remains difficult in intensive agricultural...
Afforestation is a widely accepted measure to control soil erosion around the world. A large area of forest has been built to prevent slope soil erosion in the red soil region of southern China since the 1980s. The vegetation coverage has significant...
Nanofiltration application for the separation of Mg2+-Li+ from salt-lake brines was attempted in the present work. Four different nanofiltration membranes identified in the manuscript as DL, DK, NF-270, and NF-90 were used to treat salt brine with a...
Aiming at the air defense task requirements for an enemy’s large-scale aircraft attack, this paper presents a plan generation algorithm which can quickly give an interception scheme. The main contribution of this paper is the modification of th...
Estimating canopy interception of water by plants during rainfall or sprinkler irrigation is a critical step for evaluating water-use efficiency. Most existing experimental studies and mathematic models of canopy interception have paid little attenti...
In view of problems such as the poor control effect of combined sewage pollution caused by traditional intercepting weir and the limited extension of the urban drainage model, which needs a large amount of basic data, this paper not only studied the...
The interception of rainfall by vegetation canopies plays an important role in the hydrologic process of ecosystems. Most estimates of canopy rainfall interception in present studies are mainly through field observations at the plot region. However,...
In plant factories, light is fully controllable for crop production but involves a cost. For efficient lighting, light use efficiency (LUE) should be considered as part of light environment design. The objectives of this study were to evaluate and in...
Unauthorized low-altitude UAVs can challenge conventional fixed-parameter interception algorithms through agile maneuvers. This study develops a three-dimensional one-on-one terminal-interception simulation environment that incorporates protected-zon...
The efficiency of a crop to intercept and utilize solar radiation for photosynthates production serves as one of the deciding factors of the productive potential of the crop stand. Interception and use efficiency of photosynthetically active radiatio...
Plant height is a crucial phenotypic trait that plays a vital role in predicting cotton growth and yield, as well as in estimating biomass in cotton plants. The accurate estimation of canopy height from single-flight LiDAR data remains a formidable c...
The photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) of crop canopy is highly related to yield formation, but how it relates to yield and yield distribution is not well understood. The focus of this study was to explore the relationship between light compet...
To address the challenges of real-time decision-making and resource optimization in multi-agent cooperative interception tasks within dynamic environments, this paper proposes a hierarchical framework for reinforcement learning-based interception alg...
The multi-UAV task assignment problem in large-scale group-to-group interception scenarios presents challenges in terms of large computational complexity and the lack of accurate evaluation models. This paper proposes an effective evaluation model an...
Evaporation losses of rainfall intercepted by canopies depend on many factors, including the temporal scale of observations. At the event scale, interception is a few millimetres, whereas at a larger temporal scale, the number of times that a canopy...
Vegetation canopy interception (Ic) of precipitation is a considerable component of the global hydrological cycles. Although the measurement and modeling of canopy interception have been explored worldwide at the individual, stand or ecosystem scale,...
Paddy runoff pollution is one of the major contributors to limiting the improvement of water quality in Taihu Lake Basin. Grass buffer strips (GBSs) are an effective measure to control paddy runoff pollution. However, most studies only consider a sin...
Grain size has a significant effect on the mechanical properties of metals. It is very important to accurately rate the grain size number of steels. This paper presents a model for automatic detection and quantitative analysis of the grain size of fe...
Rainfall interception plays a role in the hydrological cycle and is a critical component of water balances at the basin level, which is why understanding it is very important; as a result, in recent years, various authors have proposed different mode...
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Organizational justice is an important aspect of the psychosocial work environment, but there is a lack of studies on whether justice perceptions also predict retirement decisions. The aim of this study is to examine trajectories of procedural and in...
Sediment deposition is an ecological and environmental problem faced by most water bodies. In view of the poor structural stability and unrepeatable use of existing permeable structures, this paper proposes a cascade permeable dam, which consists of...
This paper proposes an optimal impact angle control guidance law for homing missiles with a narrow field-of-view of the seekers. As groundwork for designing a guidance law, we first present a general guidance structure that can achieve any terminal c...
In this study, a numerical simulation method was used to explore the impact of changes in riverine runoff input flow variations on the marine environmental dynamics in the northern Yellow Sea of China. Based on the depth-averaged two-dimensional shal...
The security analysis of the Ekert 1991 (E91), Bennett 1992 (B92), six-state protocol, Scarani–Acín–Ribordy–Gisin 2004 (SARG04) quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols, and their variants have been studied in the presence of...
With the increased proliferation of drone use for many purposes, counter drone technology has become crucial. This rapid expansion has inherently introduced significant opportunities and applications. This creates applications such as aerial surveill...
Active area protection against unauthorized UAV swarms requires coordinated target assignment strategies that account for both low-level physical capabilities and the stochastic, consumptive nature of physical interceptions. This paper presents a dec...
(1) Background: Understanding how forest management practices regulate hydrological cycles is critical for sustainable water resource management and addressing global water crises. However, the effects of light-felling (selective thinning) on hydrolo...
In the dynamic marine environment, the high mobility of intrusion targets, complex interference, and insufficient multi-vessel coordination accuracy pose significant challenges to the cooperative interception mission of multiple unmanned surface vehi...
The rapidly increasing availability of low-cost commercial UAVs poses significant security challenges for critical infrastructure and law enforcement agencies. This paper presents an integrated LiDAR-based detection and vision-based verification syst...
Ensuring the structural reliability and interception efficiency of trash-intercepting nets (TINs) is crucial for the security of the water withdrawal engineering of the nuclear power station (NPS). The numerical model of a flexible TIN using the lump...
Straw mulching is a key method for controlling soil and water losses. Mulching costs may be reduced by applying it in strips rather than over entire areas. However, the effect of different straw mulching methods on the effectiveness of reducing soil...
We investigate the effectiveness of inspecting regimes in controlling food and feed products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) non-compliant with European Commission (EC) regulations (i.e., a food/feed import containing above the 0.9%...
Pharmacists have often been viewed as the last line of defence against prescription errors in traditional care models. Although a large number of chronic care patients are using telehealth services to increase their access to continuous care, researc...
Low-altitude incursions by multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) threaten maritime critical infrastructure because defenders face numerous intruders, short engagement windows and target speed advantage, and short engagement windows. Conventional d...
To reveal the physiological mechanism underlying the yield advantage of super hybrid rice compared with inbred super rice, a super hybrid rice cultivar Yliangyou 3218 (YLY) and an inbred super rice cultivar Zhendao 11 (ZD) were field grown under five...
This paper investigates the multi-target interception problem of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms. Existing studies commonly rely on global information, inter-UAV communication, or predefined coordination mechanisms, limiting their applicability...
Guaranteeing food security and improving resource use efficiency are core objectives of winter wheat production. Single agronomic measures, such as simply increasing seeding rate or fertilizer application alone, fail to simultaneously raise grain yie...
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