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Urbanization and associated forest conversions have given rise to a continuum of native (forest fragments) and modified (artificial grasslands and perennial ecosystems) land-use types. However, little is known about how these shifts affect soil and f...

Sustaining up-to-date land registers in the global south is an increasing concern for the protection of tenure, development of land markets and long-term sustainable planning practices and policy. It requires both the prompt reporting of land transfe...

The main purpose of this paper is to introduce a new family of parametric Kantorovichtype operators on the half-bounded interval. The convergence properties of these new operators are investigated. The Voronovskaja-type weak inverse theorem and the r...

Understanding the integrated effects of vegetation types on the physicochemical properties and quality of sandy soils is crucial for guiding vegetation reconstruction and ecological restoration in desertified areas. This study selected three vegetati...

The Be´zier-type operator has become a powerful tool in operator theory, neural networks, curve and surface design and representation because of its good shape-preserving properties. Motivated by the improvements of the operator in computationa...

This study investigates the applicability of using the sky information from an all-sky imager (ASI) to retrieve aerosol optical properties and type. Sky information from the ASI, in terms of Red-Green-Blue (RGB) channels and sun saturation area, are...

Different types and amounts of steel fibers have varying effects on the improvement of concrete’s mechanical properties. In order to identify the most suitable steel fiber types for the practical production of prefabricated pavements and derive...

The dry root tuber of Apios fortunei contained about 75% starch, indicating that it is an important starch resource. Starch displayed spherical, polygonal, and ellipsoidal granules with central hila. Granule sizes ranged from 3 to 30 μm with a 9.6...

In this work, 3-3 type porous lead zirconate titanate (PZT) ceramics were fabricated by incorporating particle-stabilized foams using the gel-casting method. Then, Portland cement pastes with different water/cement ratios (w/c) were cast into the por...

The paper presents the investigation results of the impact of shear bands on microstructure, mechanical properties, and anisotropy of plastic properties of HSLA (high-strength, low-alloy) type steel plates, produced in the process of thermomechanical...

Studying the variation characteristics of species diversity and soil properties across different forest types, as well as their interrelationships, enhances our understanding of the differences in forest growth and development within the Pisha sandst...

Land-use changes under poor management practices are among the major causes of decline in soil fertility and agricultural productivity in south-central Ethiopia. Therefore, the study of soil properties variations across land-use types will have impli...

The double asymptotic homogenization method originated for analyzing physical systems containing two or more length scales was adopted to predict the characteristic of 1-3 type cement-based piezoelectric composites for the first time. The piezoelectr...

In order to understand the effect of sand type on the rheological properties of self-compacting mortar, four varieties of sand, namely, quartz sand (QS), river sand (RS), and two kinds of manufactured sand, marked as MS-A and MS-B, were studied. As p...

The primary purpose of our study is to clarify the differences in physicochemical properties and microbial community composition with the continuous evolution of soil utilization types. Here, we used natural forest soil (NS), healthy banana garden so...

M-type Sr0.1Ca0.4La0.5Fe12O19 powder specimens doped with different precursors RFe2O4(R = Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, and Mg) were prepared via a traditional solid-state reaction method. The structural and magnetic properties of the specimens were studied. Only...

In this work, a multicomponent PZT-type material doped with manganese Mn, antimony Sb, samarium Sm, and tungsten W was fabricated using classical powder technology. Sintering of the ceramic samples was performed by the free sintering method (pressure...

To explore the structural, vibrational, and thermodynamic properties of the chalcopyrite-type compound AgGaS2 under pressure, we applied hydrostatic pressure to the relaxed compound based on the first principles calculation and quasi-harmonic approxi...

This study demonstrates the impact of two sintering techniques on the fundamental properties of doped PZT-type ceramic materials (with Mn4+, Sb3+, Gd3+, and W6+), with the general chemical formula Pb(Zr0.49Ti0.51)0.94Mn0.021Sb0.016Gd0.012W0.012O3. Th...

This study examined the effects of the laboratory mixer type and mixing time on a hot-mix asphalt (HMA) using three different types of mixers and four different mixing times. The asphalt mix used is a semi-open graded mix (ESG-10) with 30% reclaimed...

The magnetic properties of ThMn12-type Fe-rich compounds were investigated by producing Sm(Fe0.8Co0.2)10Si2 ribbons. The produced ribbons, with different conditions by varying the melt-spinning conditions, were characterized to investigate physical a...

Fiber-reinforced asphalt mixture has been widely used in pavement engineering to not only prevent asphalt binder leakage but also improve engineering properties of asphalt mixture. However, the research on three key parameters, namely fiber type, fib...

We investigated Heusler-type Ru2VAl, a candidate material for next-generation thermoelectric conversion, by first-principle calculations of its thermoelectric conversion properties and direct experimental observations of its electronic structures, em...

This paper explores a certain relationship between the almost fixed point property (AFPP for short) of a compact and n-dimensional Euclidean space and that of its digitized space. Based on several types of digitizations, we prove that the AFPP of a c...

The warm sheet cylindrical deep drawing experiment of aluminum alloy was carried out and macro-mechanical properties and microstructure evolution of hydro-formed cups with different cooling medium were analyzed, which aimed to investigate the effects...

Propolis is a resinous mixture, made by the honeybees from substances collected from tree or other plant buds, plant exudates, or resins found in the stem, branches, or leaves of different plants. The geographical origin of propolis is given by plant...

Open-cell type aluminum foams with various structural conditions and alloy compositions were manufactured using the replication casting process. The porosity of the foams ranged from 55% to 62%, with pore sizes of 0.7~1.0 mm, 1.0~2.0 mm, and 2.8~3.4...

High resistance to heating treatments is a prerequisite for ready-to-eat (RTE) surimi products. In this study, emulsion-formulated surimi gels were prepared, and the effects of oil types and emulsification degrees on the thermal stability of surimi g...

Processed cheese has rapidly been established as a commercial product in recent years. A new ingredient, a byproduct from date fruit seed (DFS), was obtained and tested as a fortified fiber from food industrial waste in block-type processed cheese. T...

C-type starches with different proportions of A- and B-type crystallinities have different intensities and crystallinities of X-ray diffraction peaks. In this study, the intensities and crystallinities of X-ray diffraction peaks, molecular components...

A new tetranuclear zinc(II) complex with an asymmetrical Salamo-type chelating ligand, H3L (5-methoxy-6′-hydroxy-2,2′-[ethylenedioxybis(nitrilomethylidyne)]diphenol), was synthesized and characterized using FT-IR, elemental analyses, X-ray single cry...

Soil bacterial communities play a key role in nutrient cycling and ecosystem functioning. This study aims to reveal how green space type impacts soil quality and the bacterial community, which finally contributes to suggesting strategies for managing...

The temperature-dependent energy storage properties of four tungsten bronze-type ceramics are studied together with an investigation of their structure and temperature-dependent permittivity response, i.e., Ba6Ti2Nb8O30 (BTN), Ba6Zr2Nb8O30 (BZN), Sr3...

By utilizing first principles calculations, p-type transition in graphene-like zinc oxide (g-ZnO) through elemental doping was achieved, and the influence of different doping strategies on the electronic structure, energy band structure, and optoelec...

A new alternative calculation procedure is developed to quantify the effect of yarn distortion characteristics on the mechanical properties of three-dimensional (3D) braided carbon/resin composites. Firstly, the multi-type yarn distortion characteris...

This paper is concerned with the following L2-subcritical Kirchhoff-type equation −a+b∫R2|∇u|2dxsΔu+V(x)u=μu+β|u|2u,x∈R2, with ∫R2|u|2dx=1. We give a detailed analysis of the limit property of the L2-normalized...

This study observed the effect of filler metal type on mechanical properties of NAB (NiAl-bronze) material fabricated using wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) technology. The selection of filler metal type is must consider the field condition, me...

WC-reinforced Ni60 composite coatings with different types of WC particles were prepared on 304 stainless steel surface by laser cladding. The influences of spherical WC, shaped WC, and flocculent WC on the microstructures and properties of composite...

Constructing novel van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) is one of the effective methods for expanding the properties and applications of single materials. In this contribution, a blue phosphorene (Blue P)/MoSi2N4 vertical bilayer vdWH was construct...

Two-dimensional nanomaterials have obvious advantages in thermoelectric device development. It is rare to use the same experimental system to accurately measure multiple thermoelectrical parameters of the same sample. Therefore, scholars have develop...

Let p,q,q′∈[1,∞], q′≤q. Several new characterizations of locally convex spaces with the sequential Dunford–Pettis property of order (p,q) are given. We introduce and thoroughly study the sequential Dunford–Pettis...

This study examined the addition of carrot paste (CP) at levels of 3%, 5%, and 10% as a potential antioxidant in frankfurter-type sausages, denoted as F1, F2, and F3. F0, was a control sample with no addition of CP. All formulated samples were stored...

Three solution-processable D-A-type conjugated polymers P1, P2 and P3 were successfully synthesized via the Pd-catalyzed Stille cross-coupling copolymerization approach, with 6,8-Dibromo-3,3-bis-decyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-thieno[3,4-b][1,4] dioxepine (M1)...

W-type hexaferrites were discovered in the 1950s and are of interest for their potential applications. In this context, many researchers have conducted studies on the partial substitution of Fe sites in order to modify their electric and magnetic pro...

The structures, hydrogen storage behaviors and electrochemical properties of Y0.75La0.25Ni3.5−xMnx (x = 0–0.3) alloys were analyzed by X-ray diffraction, Neutron powder diffraction, pressure–composition isotherms and electrochemical...

This paper presents the research results of multiferroic ceramic composites obtained with three sintering methods, i.e., free sintering FS (pressureless), hot pressing HP, and spark plasma sintering SPS. The multiferroic composite was obtained by com...

CuCrO2 is one of the most promising p-type transparent conductive oxide (TCO) materials. Its electrical properties can be considerably improved by Mg doping. In this work, Cr-deficient CuCrO2 thin films were deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering...

The Boltzmann kinetic equation for dilute granular suspensions under simple (or uniform) shear flow (USF) is considered to determine the non-Newtonian transport properties of the system. In contrast to previous attempts based on a coarse-grained desc...

A new heterohexanuclear ZnII–EuIII dimer [{(ZnL)2Eu}2(bdc)2]·2Cl constructed from a N2O2-type chelating ligand H2L (6,6′-Dimethoxy-2,2′-[ethylenedioxybis(nitrilomethylidyne)]diphenol), Zn(OAc)2·2H2O, EuCl3·6H2O and H2bdc (terephthalic acid) was synth...

In this work, p-type non-stoichiometric Ni1−xO thin films were deposited by oxygen ion beam assisted RF sputtering on glass substrates. The influence of the oxygen flow ratio (0–100%) on the films’ optoelectronic properties was inve...