The net carbon effect of farming is crucial for climate change mitigation, yet there is insufficient research on the impact of land management scale on it in China. This study aims to explore the magnitude and role of land management scale on the net...
Climatic extremes have adverse concurrent and lagged effects on terrestrial carbon cycles. Here, a concurrent effect refers to the occurrence of a latent impact during climate extremes, and a lagged effect appears sometime thereafter. Nevertheless, t...
The bare row spacing between young jujube trees reduces resource use efficiency. Planting cotton between rows of jujubes can improve the efficiency of light, heat, water, and temperature resources. However, it is not clear how many rows of cotton bet...
Scientifically evaluating net carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is the pivotal strategy for mitigating global climate change and fostering sustainable urban development. Shaanxi Province is situated in central China, and boasts robust energy resources i...
As a key biotic factor, phenology exerts fundamental influences on ecosystem carbon sequestration. However, whether spring phenology affects the subsequent seasonal ecosystem productivity and the underlying resource limitation mechanism remains uncle...
As a critical region for ecological construction in China, the upper Yellow River is still relatively short of research on the time-lag and cumulative effects of regional-scale drought on vegetation growth. Therefore, based on net primary productivit...
Although the net primary productivity (NPP) of arid/semiarid ecosystem is generally thought to be controlled by precipitation, other factors like CO2 fertilization effect and temperature change may also have important impacts, especially in the cold...
Investigating the spatiotemporal dynamics of vegetation net primary productivity (NPP) and its influencing factors are crucial for green and low-carbon development and facilitate human well-being in the Yellow River Basin (YRB). Although the research...
Considering the comparative perspective of the net agricultural carbon effect in China’s three major functional grain production areas, the Dagum Gini coefficient, kernel density estimation and Markov chain analysis are used to investigate the...
Urban vegetation provides ecological services that promote both the ecosystem integrity and human well-being of urban areas, and thus is critical to urban sustainability. As a key indicator of ecological health, net primary productivity (NPP) provide...
Security systems are essential for maintaining public safety and protecting critical assets, yet most existing evaluation approaches remain static, capture only partial interactions among assets, security systems, and offenders, and lack qualitative...
Generation system interruptions in net-zero energy buildings (NZEBs) may result in missing the net-zero targets by a great margin. Consequently, it is significant to incorporate a realistic reliability model for renewable energy systems (RESs) that c...
Climate change affects crop production by distorting the indestructible productive power of the land. The objective of this study is to examine the economic impacts of climate change on net crop income in Nile Basin Ethiopia using a Ricardian fixed e...
Lumpfish are widely used for removing sea lice in salmonid sea-based aquaculture. If these fish are to be harvested and used for human consumption, it is necessary to know how the physical strain associated with removing the lumpfish from the net-cag...
The UK government has legal binding objectives under the “climate change act 2008” to accomplish net-zero carbon emissions by the year 2050. The government has implemented a variety of measures across many different sectors of the UK econ...
Knotless nets have been extensively used in sea cages and offshore fish farms; the explicit illustrations of local flow patterns and subjected hydrodynamic loads have practical implications for the safe operations of aquaculture pens in open oceans....
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Background: Long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) have significantly reduced the malaria burden in recent decades, and this malaria prevalence reduction has been achieved through the upgrading of pyrethroid long-lasting insecticidal nets. However, t...
Reliable field estimation of near-surface soil hydraulic parameters remains challenging, particularly in heterogeneous or stony soil environments. Conventional drip infiltrometers (DI) are widely used, but their field deployment may limit mobility an...
Promoting the transfer of rural residential land is paramount in enhancing the efficiency of its utilization. The willingness of farmers to transfer rural residential land is influenced by the number of permanent residents. Existing research has draw...
In recent years, significant progress has been made in understanding that Parkinson’s disease (PD) is associated not only with the dopamine (DA) but also with the norepinephric (NE) system. In order to investigate the potential involvement of N...
Rising temperatures in most viticultural regions are associated with a higher incidence of drastic weather circumstances such as heatwaves. The consequences are reflected in qualitative and quantitative white grapes characteristics. In fact, there is...
Biofouling is a serious problem in marine aquaculture facilities, exerting several negative effects on cage structures. In this study, different materials of nets were placed in the Fujian Sea area of China, and the main biological adhesion species w...
Utilizing cover crop treatments can have significant agronomic benefits for a farm enterprise. However, implementing this technology introduces additional costs. Data were obtained from a Central Indiana case farm to evaluate the relationship between...
Nitrogen is an indispensable and limiting element for plant and microbial growth. To investigate the combined effects of salinity and freezing–thawing (FT) processes on soil inorganic nitrogen (SIN) transformation in seasonally freezing saliniz...
Drought has extensive, far-reaching, and long-lasting asymmetric effects on vegetation growth worldwide in the context of global warming. However, to date, few scholars have attempted the systematic quantification of the temporal effects of drought o...
Tropospheric ozone impacts the health and productivity of forest ecosystems. The concentration of ozone on Earth will increase in the future, particularly in China and its neighboring countries, including Korea, due to a projected rise in nitrogen di...
Photoselective netting is well known for filtering the intercepted solar radiation, thus affecting light quality. While its effects on leaf mineral elements have been well investigated, how color netting affects fruit mineral nutrients remains elusiv...
The lunar crater recognition plays a key role in lunar exploration. Traditional crater recognition methods are mainly based on the human observation that is usually combined with classical machine learning methods. These methods have some drawbacks,...
Insect proof nets are widely used in agriculture as mechanical and physical barriers to regulate pest populations in a greenhouse. However, their integration in the greenhouse ventilation openings is highly associated with the decrease of air flow an...
We examined the effects of elevated CO2 and elevated O3 concentrations on net CO2 assimilation and growth of Fagus crenata in a screen-aided free-air concentration-enrichment (FACE) system. Seedlings were exposed to ambient air (control), elevated CO...
Globally, forest ecosystems, especially subtropical forests, play a central role in biogeochemical cycles and climate regulation, demonstrating their irreplaceable function. The subtropical region of China, characterized by its unique forest ecosyste...
Lack of color in the skin of red table grape varieties is a serious problem in areas of warm climate. This problem is often addressed by the application of ethylene release products such as ethephon. Strict regulation in the use of this product in EU...
With the industry development of sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus aquaculture, the indoor high cost and low survival rate have become serious problems. Therefore, it is necessary to optimize substrate selection for seedling protection in outdoor p...
Oxidative stress elicited by reactive oxygen species (ROS) and chronic inflammation are involved both in deterring and the generation/progression of human cancers. Exogenous ROS can injure mitochondria and induce them to generate more endogenous mito...
This study aims to examine innovation using an entrepreneurial event model by exploring the effects of failure acceptance, entrepreneurial orientation, and social safety nets on entrepreneurial intention. A survey was conducted with employees in Sout...
In this study, we investigated the greenhouse gas emission under different application of biochar in the conditions of continuous flooding and water-saving irrigation in paddy fields, whereas, plant and soil carbon sequestration were considered in th...
The seismoelectric effect is the fundamental basis for seismoelectric logging. Most of the existing theories for the seismoelectric effect are based on the Pride theory, which adopts the assumption of a thin electric double layer and uses the volume-...
26 November 2024
Keratoconus is a burden to health systems and patients worldwide. Corneal collagen crosslinking (CXL) treatment has been shown abroad to be cost-effective for treating progressive keratoconus. However, no cost-effectiveness studies have been performe...
The incidental capture (bycatch) of protected cetaceans in fishing gear has become a serious problem worldwide. Bycatch has also had many serious consequences for pantropical spotted dolphins (Stenella attenuata) in the light-falling net fishery with...
Climate change has posed serious challenges to food production and sustainable development. We evaluated crop yields, N2O emissions, and soil organic carbon (SOC) in a typical wheat–corn rotation system field on the North China Plain on a 50-ye...
GEP-NETs are heterogeneous tumors originating from the pancreas (panNET) or the intestinal tract. Only a few patients with NETs are amenable to curative tumor resection, and for most patients, only palliative treatments to successfully control the di...
Background: Aggressive and metastatic PitNETs are challenging conditions. Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are currently considered in cases resistant to temozolomide (TMZ). However, clinical experience is essentially limited to case reports, with...
The first global stocktake (GST) at 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) pointed out that accelerating the phasing down of fossil fuels has become an important mitigation policy to maintain a maximum temperature limit of 1.5 °C. The optimal...
Fish diel activity can affect the catch of fishing gear, such as gill nets, thereby influencing fishery resource assessment and management. This study investigated diel catch variations of primary fish species in Gehu Lake using monofilament trammel...
Resilience optimization in adversarial Multi-Agent Mission Systems (MAMSs) requires a decision mechanism whose objective is explicitly aligned with the resilience metric, not merely resilience measurement. This paper proposes a net-effectiveness-base...
Water rights trading policies play a crucial role in optimizing water resource allocation, improving agricultural water use efficiency, and promoting the sustainability of both agriculture and the environment, while also providing strong support for...
Investigating elevational gradient of climate driving effects on cropland ecosystem net primary productivity (NPP) plays an important role in food security in alpine region. We simulated cropland NPP by coupling a remote sensing model with an ecosyst...
As the cost of solar photovoltaic (PV) falls, their potential for transforming modern electricity generation increases. Solar PV provides a simpler way of producing clean and affordable energy, which makes it an attractive investment. Great investmen...
A comprehensive case study on life-cycle cost analysis (LCCA) was conducted on a two- story education building with a projected 40-year lifespan in College Park, Maryland. The aim of this paper was to (1) create a life cycle assessment model, using a...
The 2001–2012 MODIS MCD12Q1 land cover data and MOD17A3 NPP data were used to calculate changes in land cover in China and annual changes in net primary productivity (NPP) during a 12-year period and to quantitatively analyze the effects of lan...
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