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The hydrological connectivity below the soil surface can influence the forest structure and function, especially soil and plant productivity. However, few studies have determined the changes in the hydrological connectivity below the soil surface wit...

Plant roots influence soil infiltration by altering its properties like porosity and bulk density, which are essential for ecohydrological cycles. Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis), using its well-developed underground root system, invades neighbor...

Bushing-insert connections have emerged as efficient blade root connection designs. Bushing-insert connections with fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) wedge-sticks enhance the strength and stability of the blade root, prevent stress concentration at the...

Root system architecture (RSA), a critical attribute of plant roots, necessitates in situ reconstruction to advance the understanding of the subsurface plant root system. Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), a non-invasive geophysical technique for in sit...

Background: This study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis to assess the differences in the performance of root coverage between collagen matrix and subepithelial connective tissue. Methods: A comprehensive search using a combination of controlled vocab...

Background and Objectives: Gingival recession is a common periodontal condition that can lead to aesthetic and functional problems if untreated, necessitating the development of effective root coverage techniques. The aim of this study was to compare...

In the natural environment, plants grow and interact with both conspecific and heterospecific neighbours under different environmental conditions. In this study, we tested whether Chenopodium quinoa Willd genotypes differ in growth performance when g...

In friction stir welding (FSW), many defects (such as kissing bond, incomplete penetration, and weak connection) easily occur at the root of the welded joint. Based on the Levy–Mises yield criterion of the Zener–Hollomon thermoplastic con...

Clinically, periodontal regeneration may be achieved by the application of barrier membranes, grafts, wound-healing modifiers, and their combinations. Combination therapy refers to the simultaneous application of various periodontal reconstructive tr...

Introduction: Gingival recession, characterized by the apical displacement of the gingival margin, presents challenges to oral health. This study compares the effectiveness of the coronally advanced flap (CAF) and the tunnel technique (TT) for treati...

Abstracting causal knowledge from process measurements has become an appealing topic for decades, especially for fault root cause analysis (RCA) based on signals recorded by multiple sensors in a complex system. Although many causality detection meth...

To address the persistence of traditional welded joints in the construction of static drill rooted nodular piles, high-strength bolted connections are introduced. Tensile performance tests were conducted on seven sets of full-scale joint specimens to...

(1) Background: This study compared the clinical and esthetic results of the double lateral sliding bridge flap (DLSBF) and the laterally closed tunnel (LCT) techniques, with a subepithelial connective tissue graft (SCTG), for the treatment of single...

Background: Aortic root dilation (ARD) has been described in 22q11.2DS, even without congenital heart disease (CHD). However, the clinical implications and longitudinal course are unclear. In this study, we evaluated aortic root (AR) dimensions in 22...

Background: The long-term stability after soft tissue graft for covering gingival recession remains a pivotal goal for both patient and periodontist. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare the four-year outcomes of the coronally advanced fla...

Background and Objectives: The aim of the present systematic review and meta-analysis was to investigate the efficacy of leukocyte–platelet-rich fibrin (L-PRF) in addition to coronally advanced flap (CAF) for the treatment of both single and multiple...

Wicked problems defy simple solutions. From climate change to mass shootings, their causes are not singular but systemic, interconnected, and often politicized. Yet in both public discourse and policy design, one-cause and root-cause thinking continu...

The presence of isolated or multiple gingival recessions in the mandibular anterior region is a challenge for the clinician, as they may be associated with a shallow vestibule, high frenum insertion and/or little or no attached gingiva. Only limited...

Explicit links of the multivariate discrete (anti)symmetric cosine and sine transforms with the generalized dual-root lattice Fourier–Weyl transforms are constructed. Exact identities between the (anti)symmetric trigonometric functions and Weyl...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a key part of the Internet, and it is used for global domain name resolution. However, it has security risks due to its centralized or semi-centralized design and reliance on a few root servers. To improve DNS security...

To improve treatment efficacy of gingival recessions (GR), chemical preparation of the exposed root surface was advocated. The aim of this study was to compare the additional influence of root biomodifications with 24% ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid...

Aims: Changes in root system architecture (RSA) and soil depth affect the root decomposition rate. However, due to soil opacity, many variables of RSA have not been well studied or even measured. Methods: To investigate the effects of soil depth and...

The bonded lingual retainer (BLR) is considered a favorable choice for retaining lower incisors’ alignment post-orthodontic treatment; however, it may cause some unwanted effects such as inadvertent tooth movement and torque changes. These ofte...

It has been conjectured that for each positive integer k and each tree T with bipartite $(Z_1,Z_2)$, every k-connected bipartite graph G with $\delta \left(G\right)\ge k+max\left\{\right|Z_1|,|Z_2\left|\right\}$ admits a subgraph $T^{\prime }\cong T$ such that $G-V\left(T^{\prime }\right)$ is still k-connec...

Dental implants represent the gold standard for the treatment of single edentulism, even in anterior areas. Today, the basic criteria for implant success has changed from mobility, pain, radiolucency, and peri-implant bone loss (>1.5 mm) to prosth...

Inhibition of root elongation is an important growth response to salinity, which is thought to be regulated by the accumulation of jasmonates and auxins in roots. Nevertheless, the mechanisms of the interaction of these hormones in the regulation of...

Plant growth and productivity are orchestrated by a network of signaling cascades involved in balancing responses to perceived environmental changes with resource availability. Vascular plants are divided into the shoot, an aboveground organ where su...

In this work, a multi-ring tree algorithm is proposed for Bluetooth low-energy networks with non-uniform distribution of devices. In a dense area, a leader root is elected during the leader election phase and a min-path algorithm is introduced to det...

Root system architecture (RSA) refers to the geometric features and topology of the root system. Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a possible method of RSA reconstruction. However, because the topology of the root system is not directly accessible by...

Smoke is an early visual phenomenon of forest fires, and the timely detection of smoke is of great significance for early warning systems. However, most existing smoke detection algorithms have varying levels of accuracy over different distances. Thi...

Dinoflagellates are a member of the Alveolata, and elucidation of the early evolution of alveolates is important for our understanding of dinoflagellates, and vice versa. The ultrastructure of the flagellar apparatus has been described from several d...

An analysis of the defects in the vicinity of the selector–root connection plane occurring during the creation of single-crystalline turbine blades made of CMSX-6 Ni-based superalloy was performed. X-ray diffraction topography, scanning electro...

Plant roots show distinct gene-expression profiles from those of shoots under abiotic stress conditions. In this study, we performed mRNA sequencing (mRNA-Seq) to analyze the transcriptional profiling of Arabidopsis roots under osmotic stress conditi...

Soybean seedling root morphology is important to genetic breeding. Root segmentation is a key technique for identifying root morphological characteristics. This paper proposed a semantic segmentation model of soybean seedling root images based on an...

An antimagic labeling of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a bijection from the set of edges of G to $\left\{1,2,\cdots ,\left|E\left(G\right)\right|\right\}$ and such that any two vertices of G have distinct vertex sums where the vertex sum of a vertex v in $V\left(G\right)$ is nothing but the sum of all the incident...

Many modeling efforts have been made for shallow soil, but little has been done in deep-rooted ecosystems, especially on the long-term impact of deep-rooted vegetation to understand the impact of vegetation type on hydrological processes. In this stu...

The assessment of aortic root dimensions is a cornerstone in cardiac pre-participation screening as dilation can result in severe cardiac events. Moreover, it can be a hint for an underlying connective tissue disease, which needs individualized sport...

To examine root canal morphology of mandibular second premolars (Mn2P) of a mixed Swiss-German population by means of micro-computed tomography (micro-CT). Root canal configuration (RCC) of 102 Mn2P were investigated using micro-CT unit (µCT 40...

The roots of most plants host diverse assemblages of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), which benefit the plant hosts in diverse ways. Even though we understand that such AMF assemblages are non-random, we do not fully appreciate whether and how env...

Root zone soil moisture (RZSM) is one of the least-monitored variables within the hydrologic cycle. Given the importance of RZSM to agriculture, more effort is needed to understand the potential impacts of the El Niño southern oscillation (ENS...

Seed germination and seedling root development are important indicators of plant development. This work designed and fabricated a foldable microfluidic chip array for conducting nondestructive and continuous evaluation of seed germination and subsequ...

This paper investigates the intersection of Sufism and philosophy in the Shii context during the post-Mulla Ṣadrā era. Specifically, it traces the scholars who emphasized Ṣadrian philosophical and mystical approaches on both theoreti...

The importance of a reliable blade root connection has grown due to the higher-gravity-induced edgewise loads on the blade root that resulted from the recent increased size and weight of a wind turbine rotor blade. To avoid the loosening of a bolt jo...

(1) Background: To assess the clinical outcome of coronally advanced flap combined with connective tissue graft for the treatment of orthodontic-associated Miller Class III gingival recession of the lower incisors. (2) Methods: This study included 15...

This paper aimed to increase accuracy of an Alzheimer’s disease diagnosing function that was obtained in a previous study devoted to application of decision roots to the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. The obtained decision root is a di...

In the static stability analysis of the grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) generation and energy storage (ES) system, the grid-side is often simplified using an infinite busbar equivalent, which streamlines the analysis but neglects the dynamic charact...

With the warming global climate, drought stress is considered to be the most important abiotic factor limiting plant growth and yield in the world. Drought stress has serious impacts on crop production. Many researchers have studied the influences of...

The rhizosphere community represents an “ecological interface” between plant and soil, providing the plant with a number of advantages. Despite close connection and mutual influence in this system, the knowledge about the connection of plant and rhiz...

Plant roots are very plastic and can adjust their tissue organization and cell appearance during abiotic stress responses. Previous studies showed that direct root illumination and sugar supplementation mask root growth phenotypes and traits. Sugar a...

Root-operator factorization à la Dirac provides an effective tool to deal with equations, which are not of evolution type, or are ruled by fractional differential operators, thus eventually yielding evolution-like equations although for a multicompon...