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  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,029 Views
15 Pages

18 May 2024

Accurate short-term electrical load forecasting is crucial for the stable operation of power systems. Given the nonlinear, periodic, and rapidly changing characteristics of short-term power load forecasts, this paper introduces a novel forecasting me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,792 Views
15 Pages

31 March 2022

Retinoids are essential in balancing proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis, and they exert their effects through retinoic acid receptors (RARs) and retinoid X receptors (RXRs). RARβ is a tumor-suppressor gene silenced by epigenetic mechan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,915 Views
15 Pages

Effect of a Radical Mutation in Plastidic Starch Phosphorylase PHO1a on Potato Growth and Cold Stress Response

  • Anna V. Nezhdanova,
  • Gleb I. Efremov,
  • Maria A. Slugina,
  • Anastasia M. Kamionskaya,
  • Elena Z. Kochieva and
  • Anna V. Shchennikova

The plant response to stresses includes changes in starch metabolism regulated by a complex catalytic network, in which plastidic starch phosphorylase PHO1a is one of the key players. In this study, we used the CRISPR-Cas9 system to edit the PHO1a ge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,350 Views
26 Pages

Innovative Expert-Based Tools for Spatiotemporal Shallow Landslides Mapping: Field Validation of the GOGIRA System and Ex-MAD Framework in Western Greece

  • Michele Licata,
  • Francesco Seitone,
  • Efthimios Karymbalis,
  • Konstantinos Tsanakas and
  • Giandomenico Fubelli

Field-based landslide mapping is a crucial task for geo-hydrological risk assessment but is often limited by the lack of integrated tools to capture accurate spatial and temporal data. This research investigates a Direct Numerical Cartography (DNC) s...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
191 Citations
16,523 Views
34 Pages

8 May 2021

This article focuses on the molecular and hormonal mechanisms underlying the control of fleshy fruit ripening and quality. Recent research on tomato shows that ethylene, acting through transcription factors, is responsible for the initiation of tomat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,610 Views
17 Pages

18 January 2023

Thermophilic anaerobic digestion (TAD) technology has been adopted worldwide mainly due to it being a pathogen-free process in addition to the enhanced biogas yield and short hydraulic retention time (HRT). Taking the high metabolic rate of the therm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,801 Views
22 Pages

Impact of the Acquisition Geometry of Very High-Resolution Pléiades Imagery on the Accuracy of Canopy Height Models over Forested Alpine Regions

  • Livia Piermattei,
  • Mauro Marty,
  • Wilfried Karel,
  • Camillo Ressl,
  • Markus Hollaus,
  • Christian Ginzler and
  • Norbert Pfeifer

25 September 2018

This work focuses on the accuracy estimation of canopy height models (CHMs) derived from image matching of Pléiades stereo imagery over forested mountain areas. To determine the height above ground and hence canopy height in forest areas, we u...

  • Review
  • Open Access
228 Citations
17,010 Views
30 Pages

5 August 2021

Among abiotic stressors, drought and salinity seriously affect crop growth worldwide. In plants, research has aimed to increase stress-responsive protein synthesis upstream or downstream of the various transcription factors (TFs) that alleviate droug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,591 Views
19 Pages

Proteomic Approach during the Induction of Somatic Embryogenesis in Coffea canephora

  • Ana Odetth Quintana-Escobar,
  • Esaú Bojórquez-Velázquez,
  • Eliel Ruiz-May and
  • Víctor Manuel Loyola-Vargas

7 December 2023

Plant growth regulators (PGR) are essential for somatic embryogenesis (SE) in different species, and Coffea canephora is no exception. In our study model, previously, we have been able to elucidate the participation of various genes involved in SE by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
265 Views
27 Pages

Urban business-to-business distribution in Casablanca relies heavily on light commercial vehicles (LCVs) operating in a constrained street environment where loading/unloading access, intersection capacity, and recurring bottlenecks jointly shape perf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,781 Views
19 Pages

Human Health Risk Associated with As, Cu, Pb, and Zn in Soils of the Aconcagua and Casablanca River Basins, Valparaíso Region, Chile

  • Jaume Bech,
  • Daniela Pradenas,
  • Pedro Tume,
  • Óscar Cornejo,
  • Javiera Pedreros,
  • Sofía Toledo,
  • Claudio Correa,
  • Bernardo Sepúlveda and
  • Núria Roca

27 February 2025

Chile is an important producer of copper, and it has serious soil contamination problems, mainly related to mining activities. A typical example is the Aconcagua River basin, which has been the scene of large-scale mining operations throughout histor...