When interpreting magnetotelluric (MT) data, because of the inherent anisotropy of the earth, considering electrical anisotropy is crucial. Accordingly, using the edge-based finite element method, we calculated the responses of MT data for electrical...
The purpose of this research is to analyze how changes in acquisition time and incidence angle affect various C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) polarimetric intensities, co-polarized phase information, polarimetric response plots and decompositio...
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The present study was aimed at determining airborne concentrations of PAHs, Nitro-/Oxy-PAHs and elements in industrial and urban areas of Taranto, a site of environmental risk in Southern Italy, after the issue of strategic measures for air pollution...
In the present study, the effect of post weld heat treatment (PWHT) on the microstructure and corrosion kinetics of butter welded Nickel Alloy 617 and 12Cr steel was investigated. Buttering was carried out on the 12Cr side with the Thyssen 617 filler...
Croton lechleri, commonly known as Dragon’s blood, is a tree cultivated in the northwest Amazon rainforest of Ecuador and Peru. This tree produces a deep red latex which is composed of different natural products such as phenolic compounds, alka...
For successful applications of microwave remote sensing endeavors it is essential to understand how surface targets respond to changing synthetic aperture radar (SAR) parameters. The purpose of the study is to examine how two particular parameters, a...
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic broke out in Wuhan at the end of 2019 and spread around the whole of China in 2020. In order to reduce the spread of COVID-19, transportation and industrial activities in different regions were limited to var...
This study aims to present the atmospheric CO2 and CH4 levels and analyze their source characteristics at an observation station in a northeastern highland area of Korea for the 2012–2014 period. We summarized the measured CO2 and CH4 concentra...
Mass suspension of anthropogenic activities is extremely rare, the quarantine due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) represents a natural experiment to investigate the impact of anthropogenic activities on air quality. The mitigation of air p...
Authoritative, trustworthy, continual, automatic hourly air quality monitoring is a relatively recent innovation. The task of reliably identifying long-term trends in air quality is therefore very challenging, as well as complex. Ports are major sour...
Molecular aromatic corrosion inhibitors are frequently applied to slow down the corrosion of iron, its alloys and numerous other metallic materials. This case study with three representative aromatic inhibitors and a pure iron electrode aims at the v...
The present study analyzed long-term observed visibility over Eastern Thailand, with a focus on urbanized/highly industrialized coastal areas. The temporal coverage spans 9 to 35 years for visibility data and 9 to 15 years for air quality data for th...
The effective integration of energy storage systems is paramount for the widespread deployment of renewable energy technologies. Selection of a specific storage system is typically dictated by the primary challenge it aims to mitigate, such as interm...
Carbon steel is one of the most employed materials in many industrial sectors due to its unique physical and mechanical properties. However, within a certain period of time, carbon steel-based materials are susceptible to corrosion under operating co...
Advanced wastewater treatment such as powdered activated carbon (PAC) reduces the load of organic micropollutants entering the aquatic environment. Since mobile and persistent compounds accumulate in water cycles, treatment strategies need to be eval...
This paper aims to investigate a multiple fractional derivative order system control with multiple delays. The generalized Lyapunov function and YkP lemma are used to obtain algebraic and frequency criteria for asymptotic stability for these systems....
Estimation of forest aboveground biomass (AGB) has become one of the main challenges of remote sensing science for global observation of carbon storage and changes in the past few decades. We examine the impact of plot size at different spatial resol...
The remote excitation and remote-controlling of the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) in a heterotype and hollow gold nanosheet (HGNS) is studied using FDTD simulations. The heterotype HGNS contains an equilateral and hollow triangle in the...
Better management of water consumption and irrigation schedule in irrigated agriculture is essential in order to save water resources, especially at regional scales and under changing climatic conditions. In the context of water management, the aim o...
This article performs computer simulations of the change in magnetization in the ferromagnetic film when polarized electric current passes through it. The model examines multilayer structures from ferromagnetic and nonmagnetic films. A sandwich syste...
A new rapid detecting method (called dynamic measurements ) was reported to detect and distinguish the presence of two pesticide gases in the ambient atmosphere. The method employed only a single SnO2-based gas sensor in a rectangular temperature mod...
The objective of this study is to model backscattering coefficients over bare soils at intra-plot spatial scales (from almost 80 to 2800 m2), in a context where the plot is the reference spatial scale in most past studies. A statistical modeling appr...
Polarimeters are useful instruments that measure concentrations of optically active substances in a given solution. The conventional polarimetric principle consists of measuring the rotation angle of linearly polarized light. Here, we present a novel...
Mapping irrigated plots is essential for better water resource management. Today, the free and open access Sentinel-1 (S1) and Sentinel-2 (S2) data with high revisit time offers a powerful tool for irrigation mapping at plot scale. Up to date, few st...
In mathematics, distance and similarity are known as dual concepts. However, the concept of similarity is interpreted as fuzzy similarity or T-equivalence relation, where T is a triangular norm (t-norm in brief), when we discuss a fuzzy environment....
This study aimed to examine the extract of barks of Tamarix aphylla as a corrosion inhibitor. The methodology briefly includes plant sample collection, extraction of the corrosion inhibitor, gravimetric analysis, plotting potentiodynamic polarization...
Forest aboveground biomass (AGB, Mg/ha) measurement is one of the key indicators for carbon storage evaluation. Remote sensing techniques have been widely employed to predict forest AGB. However, little attention has been paid to the implications inv...
Liquid rubber is a common filler introduced to epoxy resin to improve its toughness for electrical insulation and electronic packaging applications. The improvement of toughness by adding liquid rubber to epoxy resin leads to the variation of its die...
The loss of spontaneous liquid repellency on the surface of AISI 304 stainless steel under UV irradiation has been investigated depending on the textures formed by femtosecond laser pulses using Owens–Wendt plot analysis. Laser-induced periodic...
This paper presents an approach for retrieval of soil moisture content (SMC) by coupling single polarization C-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical data at the plot scale in vegetated areas. The study was carried out at five different site...
This paper presents corrosion resistance results of a 12Cr ferritic ODS steel (Fe-12Cr-2W-0.5Zr-0.3Y2O3) fabricated via a powder metallurgy route as a prospective applicant for fuel cladding materials. In a spent nuclear fuel reprocessing facility, n...
This research work is devoted to collecting a high-quality dataset of BODIPYs in a series of 10–30 solvents. In total, 115 individual compounds in 71 solvents are represented by 1698 arrays of the spectral and photophysical properties of the fl...
The research on highly inclined mean motion resonances (MMRs), even retrograde resonances, has drawn more attention in recent years. However, the dynamics of polar resonance with inclination
The aim of this study is to understand the relationship between radar backscattering (σ°, β° and γ) of a multi-polarized Radarsat-2 C-band image with the structural attributes of regenerating mangrove vegetation located at the mouth of the Amazon Riv...
The systematic studies of the extrinsic Maxwell–Wagner–Sillars polarization process in compressed antimony sulfoiodide (SbSI) nanowires are carried out by dielectric spectroscopy. The dielectric response is studied in temperature (
An Ni2Al3 coating was prepared via the electrodeposition of nickel followed by pack aluminization. Polarization curve and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy were performed to study the room temperature corrosion behavior of the coating in a 3.5 w...
Monitoring crop status at plot scale in agricultural areas is essential for crop and irrigation management and yield optimization. The Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD) of canopy is directly related to the canopy water content, and thus, it represents a...
An attempt was made to study the corrosion behavior of austenitic stainless-steel SS 316L/Monel 400 alloy dissimilar metal welded joints using gas tungsten arc welding. This combination of welded joints is used in re-heaters and heat exchangers in ga...
The novel benzanthrone derivative, 2-bromo-3-aminobenzo[de]anthracene-7-one (2-Br-3-NH2BA), was synthesized and extensively characterized to investigate its photophysical behavior in various solvents. It was prepared through selective bromination of...
The goal of the research is to describe the aggregation process inside the mucilage produced by plant seeds using molecular dynamics (MD) combined with time series algorithmic analysis based on the recurrence plots. The studied biological molecules m...
Broadband metasurface-based devices are essential and indispensable in modern wireless communication systems. This paper presents an ultra−wideband and wide incident angle reflective cross−polarization converter metasurface. The unit cell...
The effects of various properties on the tight focusing of light are considered. In particular, polarization of the incident field is an important consideration. Plots are presented for the variations in the focal intensity, and the area and volume o...
In the last few years, the need to evaluate the seismic performances of buildings on sustaining strong motion has encouraged the development of simplified non-linear static analyses. Several procedures are available today to assess the behavior of pl...
Dissymmetric 1,3-diphenylallene derivative 3 connected with 4,5-bis(methyl-thio)tetrathiafulvalenyl and 1-pyrenyl substituents was prepared and characterized. The molecular structure was determined by X-ray crystallographic analysis. Optical resoluti...
The goal of the work is to enhance existing financial market forecasting frameworks by including an additional factor–in this example, a collection of carefully chosen tweets—into a long-short repetitive neural channel. In order to produc...
The thermally stable zirconium-based MOF, UiO-66, was employed for the preparation of bonded porous-layer open-tubular (PLOT) GC columns. The synthesis included the in situ growth of the UiO-66 film on the inner wall of the capillary through a one-st...
The corrosion inhibition characteristics of the derivatives of biopolymer hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC), hydroxypropyl methylcellulose phthalate (HPMCP), and hydroxypropyl methylcellulose acetate succinate (HPMCAS) film are investigated. Based...
It has been recognized that a connection may exist between defects of oxide coating and its corrosion protection. Such a link has not been substantiated. We prepare two coatings of anodized aluminum oxide (AAO) and plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO)...
We have studied experimentally the interaction of isolated needle-like domains created in an array via local switching using a biased scanning probe microscope (SPM) tip and visualized via piezoelectric force microscopy (PFM) at the non-polar cuts of...
In the last few years, several countries have accomplished their determined renewable energy targets to achieve their future energy requirements with the foremost aim to encourage sustainable growth with reduced emissions, mainly through the implemen...
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