Coal surface morphology plays a pivotal role in advanced coal processing operations, encompassing comminution, beneficiation, flotation kinetics, and intelligent process optimization. However, conventional characterization approaches are inherently l...
The Nanfengmiju (Citrus reticulata cv. Nanfengmiju), a high-quality local variety of mandarin, is one of the major fruit crops in Jiangxi Province, China. Citrus melanose and stem-end rot, two common fungal diseases of Nanfengmiju, are both caused by...
The growing interest in maize landraces over the past two decades has led to the need to characterize the Italian maize germplasm. In Italy, hundreds of maize landraces have been developed, but only a few of them have been genetically characterized,...
Electrospun scaffolds can imitate the hierarchical structures present in the extracellular matrix, representing one of the main concerns of modern tissue engineering. They are characterized in order to evaluate their capability to support cells or to...
Zanthoxylum zanthoxyloides is a West African forest tree that is used for example against malaria and sickle cell anemia in Burkina Faso. The goal of this study was to analyze the genetic and morphological diversity of the species within wild populat...
Prunus serotina (black cherry) is native to America and has five subspecies: serotina, eximia, hirsuta, virens, and capuli. P. serotina subsp. capuli is found in Central and South America with superior fruits found in Ecuador. These have large, juicy...
The paper introduces some aspects of the characterization of hydrophobized multilayer ceramic membranes intended for use in membrane distillation (MD) operations. Four-layer hydrophobic carbon-based titania membranes, manufactured by the Fraunhofer I...
The aim of this study was to establish an accessible methodology for the objective identification and 3D morphological characterization of renal glomeruli in mice. 3D imaging of the renal cortex was performed by light sheet microscopy on iDISCO+ opti...
The perception of textures is based on high-level features such as symmetry, brightness, color or direction. Texture characterization is a widely studied topic in the image processing community. The normalized volume of morphological series is used a...
Ilheus virus (ILHV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus circulating throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean. It has been detected in several mosquito genera including Aedes and Culex, and birds are thought to be its primary amplifying and r...
Local citrus germplasm is a valuable resource for biodiversity conservation and the preservation of traditionally maintained plant material. This study characterized 16 deliberately selected citrus accessions from private gardens in southern Croatia,...
Two inter-subspecific F1 hybrids have been obtained by crossing olive cultivars (‘Frantoio’ and ‘Coratina’) with pollen donors from olive subspecies (Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata) to enrich the germplasm of cultivated olive in southern China. This...
Recent studies confirmed that some Hepatozoon-like blood parasites (Apicomplexa) of birds are closely related to the amphibian parasite Lankesterella minima. Little is known about the biology of these pathogens in birds, including their distribution,...
This study aimed to morphologically characterize and determine the aflatoxigenic and non-aflatoxigenic Aspergillus flavus isolates. Forty isolates of A. flavus were obtained from sweet corn kernels and soil samples collected from Kampong Raja, Rose V...
The goal of the study was to compare the surface characteristics of typical implant materials used in orthopedic surgery and traumatology, as these determine their successful biointegration. The morphological and chemical structure of Vortex plate an...
Quinoa, in addition to its nutritional benefits, is adaptable to, and tolerant of, high-altitude and Mediterranean environmental conditions. However, its largely cross-compatible free-living ancestor, pitseed goosefoot, possesses expansive adaptive v...
Mediterranean dehesa ecosystems are highly valuable agroforestry systems from ecological, social and economic perspectives. Their structural characterization has traditionally relied on resource-intensive field inventories. This study assesses the ap...
This study presents a comparative analysis of starch-based active films functionalized with alcoholic extracts from the fruits (AF) and leaves (AL) of Bixa orellana (2.5–10% w/w), evaluating their structural, morphological, optical, mechanical,...
The morphology of coarse aggregate has a significant impact on the road performance of asphalt mixtures and aggregate characterization studies, but many studies were based on the two-dimensional morphology of coarse aggregate, which failed to conside...
Due to their peculiar qualities, metal-based nanostructures have been extensively used in applications such as catalysis, electronics, photography, and information storage, among others. New applications for metals in areas such as photonics, sensing...
This paper addresses the problem of reconstructing realistic, irregular pore geometries of lotus-type porous iron for computer models that allow for simple porosity and pore size variation in computational characterization of their mechanical propert...
Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) is a climacteric fruit native to India which, due to its edaphoclimatic adaptability, is also found in Mexico, the main exporter of the fruit in Latin America. Despite this, information on the characterizatio...
Different cyanobacterial species have been shown to be a valuable source of biologically active compounds with immunomodulatory activity. To date, little is known about members of the genus Tolypothrix (Cyanophyceae). Therefore, the present study foc...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the genetic diversity among traditional common bean accessions through morphological descriptors and molecular markers. Sixty-seven common bean accessions from the Germplasm bank of the Instituto Federal of...
An experimental morphology-based information extraction methodology is presented for locating reinforcing bars and estimating their effective ultrasonic scattering diameters in reinforced concrete (RC) members using ultrasonic pitch–catch (UPC)...
The Kelpie is a breed developed in Australia for use as a livestock herding dog. It has been proposed that the development of the breed included gene flow from the Australian Dingo (Canis dingo), a canid species present on the Australian continent fo...
The current devices used to produce massive amounts of snow (i.e., snow machines) can be improved with concern to both the energy efficiency and the quality of snow. Here we investigate an alternative snow production method based on the ultrasonic ne...
Apple scab, caused by the fungus Venturia inaequalis, is one of the most widespread and economically significant diseases of apple orchards, leading to reduced photosynthesis, fruit damage, and yield losses of up to 70%. In this study, a survey of 30...
Aluminum–silicon (Al–Si) alloys are the most commonly cast aluminum alloys. Fe is the most deleterious element for Al–Si die casting alloys, as its existence causes the precipitation of substantial intermetallics that result in the...
Hydrogels are of intense recent interest in connection with biomedical applications ranging from 3-D cell cultures and stem cell differentiation to regenerative medicine, controlled drug delivery, and tissue engineering. This prototypical form of sof...
To understand why hematite of different genesis behave diversely in flotation systems, this study assesses the flotation response at pH 5 of bulk (morphology, texture, Crystal Preferential Orientation (CPO)) plus interfacial (surface area, zeta poten...
The identification of unknown groundwater pollution sources and the characterization of pollution plume remains a challenging problem. In this study, we addressed this problem by a linked simulation-optimization approach. This approach couples a cont...
This paper presents a numerical simulation method to determine the surface morphology characteristics of metallic materials. First, a surface profiler (NV5000 5022s) was used to measure the surface, and the morphology data thereof were characterized....
Twenty-five marine cyanobacteria isolated from Irish coasts were characterized based on their morphological characters and 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. In addition, superoxide dismutase (SOD) and malate dehydrogenase (MDH) isoenzyme banding patte...
Only 18S rDNA sequences of Sarcocystis spp. in South American camelids (SACs) are deposited in GenBank as references, and the definitive host of S. masoni in SACs is still unclear. Here, S. masoni sarcocysts detected in an alpaca (Vicugna pacos) in C...
Sarcocystis cruzi in cattle (Bos taurus) and Sarcocystis poephagicanis in yaks (Bos grunniens) are morphologically indistinguishable. However, the relationship between the two parasites is still unclear. Here, muscular tissues of the two species of d...
Coatings have a fundamental role in covering the external surface of yachts by acting both as protective and aesthetic layers. In particular, fillers represent the essential layer from the point of view of mechanical properties and consist of a polym...
This study aimed at morphologically identifying Aspergillus flavus in soil and maize and at determining their aflatoxin-producing potentials. Five hundred and fourteen isolates obtained from maize and soil in Kenya were cultivated on Czapeck Dox Agar...
Despite the economic and ecological importance of the carob tree, few studies are available on the morphological characterization and chemical composition of carob in Algeria. This has resulted in the lack of selection of commercial cultivars of high...
Solution blow spinning was used to prepare nonwoven bicomponent fibers constituted by poly (ethylene oxide)-Polysulfone (PEO-PSF). As a new material, deep characterization was carried out to have a database to understand final performance regarding i...
Complex surfaces exhibit hierarchical morphological organizations that cannot be fully described by conventional roughness parameters alone. In this study, a fractal–statistical framework is proposed to elucidate the substrate-controlled morpho...
Hops (Humulus lupulus L.) is a species that grows spontaneously in Corsica, but the characterization of this species in this territory has not yet been investigated. The main objectives of this study are to explore the features of wild hops from Cors...
In this study, the production of particulate films of iodine (V) oxides is investigated. The influence that sonication and solvation of suspended particles in various alcohol/ketone/ester solvents have on the physical structure of spin or drop cast f...
The olive tree (Olea europaea L.) is one of the most cultivated crops in the Mediterranean basin. Its economic importance is mainly due to the intense production of table olives and oil. Cultivated varieties are characterized by high morphological an...
Teak (Tectona grandis L.f.) plantations have increased recently in India; however, morphological descriptors for teak are still lacking. Thus, the goal of this work was to develop descriptors based on morphological characteristics. Among 30 seed sour...
Surfactants are widely used to promote hydrate formation and improve flow assurance, yet their effects on hydrate surface morphology at the microscale remain poorly understood. Here, in situ Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) was employed to quantitativel...
This study investigates the effect of Eucomis autumnalis (EA) cellulose on the structural, thermal, and crystallization behaviour of polybutylene succinate (PBS) and polycaprolactone (PCL) composites. X-ray diffraction (XRD) results showed that in bo...
The understanding of chemical–physical, morphological, and mechanical properties of polymer coatings is a crucial preliminary step for further biological evaluation of the processes occurring on the coatings’ surface. Several studies have...
Polymer composites containing magnetic fillers are promising materials for a variety of applications, such as in energy storage and medical fields. To facilitate the engineering design of respective components, a comprehensive understanding of the me...
A detailed petrographical, mineralogical, morphological, geochemical and physicochemical characterization of talc from an Argentinean ore is presented. This deposit is located in the San Juan province at the foothills of the Andes. Characterization w...
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