Tea is a high-value agricultural sector whose sustainable development is closely tied to the livelihoods of numerous smallholders. Persistent rural labor outmigration has made it increasingly difficult for smallholder-dominated tea production to sust...
This article discusses the issues caused by traditional water resource development and utilization, as well as policy issues in China that have led to a water crisis. The article proposes a theoretical approach along with a quantitative accounting of...
As the spatial carrier, the high-quality development of land complements the high-quality development of the economy and society. Imbalanced land use severely restricts regional high-quality development. This study uses panel data from 110 cities at...
Within the German-Vietnamese joint research project “Integrated Water Resources Management Vietnam”, Planning and Decision Support Tools on a regional scale are being developed. A Water Balance Tool is utilized to calculate and assess water demands a...
Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (ATES) systems are garnering attention as high-efficiency air conditioning technologies that contribute to the realization of a carbon-neutral society. This study focuses on an ATES system constructed in Japan, characte...
Digestate, a by-product of methane fermentation in agricultural biogas plants, is a valuable source of nitrogen (D-N); however, the mode of action of this specific (mineral/organic) N carrier has not yet been elucidated. The influence of D-N on yield...
The Weining Plain is in the semi-arid northwest region of China, with groundwater as its main source for various purposes. This research provided a detailed investigation into the groundwater exploitation status in the Weining Plain, analyzed the gro...
Data corruption, including missing and noisy entries, is a common challenge in real-world machine learning. This paper examines its impact and mitigation strategies through two experimental setups: supervised NLP tasks (NLP-SL) and deep reinforcement...
Due to the multiple benefits on energy, well-being, comfort, and the economy, the utilization of daylight remains an imperative topic of architectural design. With the remarkable ability of drawing and increasing daylight deep into the core of buildi...
The protein requirement in athletes increases as a result of exercise-induced changes in protein metabolism. In addition, the frequency, quantity, and quality (i.e., leucine content) of the protein intake modulates the protein metabolism. Thus, this...
Cultivated land in China has faced severe challenges in recent years due to rapid urbanization. In 1997, the “cultivated land requisition-compensation balance” policy was implemented by the government to maintain the quantity and quality of cultivate...
In order to treat deformation as one of the processes taking place in an irreversible thermodynamic transformation, two main conditions must be satisfied: (1) strain and stress should be defined in such a way that the modification of the symmetry of...
According to the well-established fetal programming hypothesis proposed by Barker, consuming a balanced variety and an appropriate quantity of nutritious foods supports optimal fetal growth and improves both obstetric outcomes and infant health [...]
Mining activities generate substantial amounts of waste rock, which are often disposed of in waste rock piles. Drainage from these piles can pose serious environmental risks. It is crucial to reliably predict drainage properties in order to effective...
There are about 100 sites of acid mine drainage (AMD) from abandoned/closed mines in Japan. For their sustainable treatment, future prediction of AMD quantity is crucial. In this study, AMD quantity was predicted for two closed mines in Japan based o...
Quantification of the changes of water balance components is significant for water resource assessment and management. This paper employed the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model to estimate the water balance in a mountainous watershed in nor...
Despite the benefits of inventory transshipment, numerous behavioral experiments have revealed that retailers often deviate from the Nash-equilibrium ordering quantities, which in turn impacts the potential advantages. Motivated by this issue, we dev...
Urban green spaces (UGSs) are considered crucial for enhancing older adults’ subjective well-being. However, limited studies have explored the synergistic effects of UGS quality and quantity on satisfaction across green spaces, residential envi...
Due to the growing population and consequent pressure of use, agricultural soils must maintain adequate levels of quantity and quality to produce food, fiber, and energy, without falling victim to a negative impact on their balance of nutrients, heal...
There is a shift in thinking about dietary protein requirements from daily requirements to individual meal requirements. Per meal, stimulation of muscle protein synthesis has a saturable dose relationship with the quantity of dietary protein consumed...
For single-event radiation damage of power MOSFET devices, this paper aims to establish a statistical analysis method based on external observation (gate/drain current characteristics in irradiation environment) to recognize and evaluate the radiatio...
In typical business situations, sellers usually offer discount schemes to buyers to increase overall profitability. This study aims to design a supply chain network under uncertainty of demand by integrating an all-unit quantity discount policy. The...
Cassava is a form of food that is rich in starch abundant in many countries. Several bio-products can be extracted from its starch and used as an alternative for oil-based products. This study primarily aims to investigate the influence of the starch...
This study developed a cell-based daily soil water analysis model (CellSW) for evaluating agricultural drought and calculated an agricultural drought index called the “Rainfall Effectiveness Index for Crop” (REIC). The model analyzed a da...
The cultivated land requisition–compensation balance (CLRCB) policy is an important policy implemented by China to address the reduction in cultivated land and ensure food security. Although this policy has alleviated the loss of cultivated lan...
Continuous daily estimates of evapotranspiration (ET) spatially distributed at plot scale are required to monitor the water loss and manage crop irrigation needs. Remote sensing approaches in the thermal infrared (TIR) domain are relevant to assess a...
Urban parks are vital public spaces that provide cultural ecosystem services (CESs) that enhance the well-being of city dwellers. As the demand for CESs has greatly increased, the imbalance between CES supply and demand has become prominent. Accurate...
When large earthquakes occur over wide areas, in addition to damage to medical facilities, the disaster response capabilities of local governments are severely compromised. There is a very high possibility that the supply–demand balance of medi...
This research examines a multinational supply chain inventory problem involving one manufacturer and multiple retailers across a range of carbon emission combinations and an incomplete production system. It aims to identify the optimal strategies for...
The systematic and reasonable prediction of pig population is the basis for balance and symmetry between the supply and demand of hogs, which is of great significance to the pig industry. Based on the population prediction model and according to the...
Due to low efficiency and the material choice limitations of traditional evaporation systems to treat acid wastewater, humidification and dehumidification (HDH) as the core process was applied in the treatment and reduction of wastewater with organic...
Introduction. Sleep is an essential component in the recovery, performance, and injury prevention processes of soccer players. Associated psychological variables, such as the balance between stress and recovery, have been less explored, despite their...
This article presents principles for matching reactance parameters for minimizing balancing compensation, whose mathematical origins come from the Currents’ Physical Components (CPC) theory developed by Czarnecki. The construction of minimizing...
We propose a modeling framework for magnetizable, polarizable, elastic, viscous, heat conducting, reactive mixtures in contact with interfaces. To this end, we first introduce bulk and surface balance equations that contain several constitutive quant...
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Reclaimed water is an important resource for irrigation, and exploration in making full use of it is an important way to alleviate water shortage. This paper analyzes the effects of irrigation with reclaimed water through field trials on the content...
Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling propagators, including numerical integrators for stochastic dynamics, are central to the calculation of thermodynamic quantities and determination of structure for molecular systems. Efficiency is paramount, and to a...
Food production and consumption require large amounts of freshwater. There is no literature on the decomposition analysis of the intensities of water supply-demand balances (water balance intensities) for each country worldwide. The aim of this study...
Serially connected statically balanced manipulators with springs have been used in many applications. However, a portion of the torques caused by springs countering each other lead to an imbalance in gravitational torques and, therefore, are deemed a...
Good water supply practice provides benefits such as water and energy conservation but also alters the quality of yield. These effects of irrigation on yield quantity and quality are widely researched in the case of many plants. In tomato it can affe...
Balancing battery cells is a key task for battery management systems (BMS). Imbalances of cells decrease the capacity and lifetime of the battery pack. Many balancing topologies and strategies have been proposed to balance the electric charges among...
Transient dynamic balancing of flexible rotors is of significant practical value in engineering. Traditional dynamic balancing requires repeated trial weights and start–stop cycles, resulting in inefficient balancing. This paper proposed a mult...
This paper examines the role of trade credit insurance in a supply chain consisting of a capital-constrained supplier and a capital-constrained retailer. The retailer faces stochastic market demand and seeks trade credit from the supplier. The suppli...
Lycium barbarum has rich medicinal value and is an important medicinal and economic tree species in China, with an annual output value of 21 billion RMB. The yield and the quality of Lycium barbarum dry fruit are the crucial issues that affect the cu...
Background: The majority of UK adults are failing to consume the recommended fibre intake levels. Whilst insufficient fibre intake is shown across the population as a whole, it is particularly deficient in low-income households. The cost-of-living cr...
Future power systems with a high share of intermittent renewable energy sources (RES) in the energy portfolio will have an increasing need for active power balancing. The integration of controllable and more flexible distributed energy resources (DER...
In this work, we address the beneficial role of noise in two different contexts, the human brain and financial markets. In particular, the similitude between the ability of financial markets to maintain in equilibrium asset prices is compared with th...
Water reuse via land application is old technology; but the water balance only design approach and practice has not worked well. There are many benefits of water reuse by irrigating crops; however, there are some risks if not designed properly. When...
Unconventional water is an important water resource for agricultural utilization in the drought and water shortage of Northeast China. Additionally, exploration in making full use of it is an important way to alleviate water shortage in China. This p...
Background: This study develops a transparent, decision-focused framework that integrates the World Health Organization’s defined daily dose (DDD) standard with the planned-backorder economic order quantity (EOQ) model to manage nursing and pha...
Conventional historical data based material and energy balance analyses are static and isolated computations. Such methods cannot embody the cross-coupling effect of energy flow, material flow and information flow in the process industry; furthermore...
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