Grassland aboveground biomass (AGB) is a key indicator of grassland ecosystem structure and function, and its accurate monitoring is of great importance for assessing grassland ecological conditions and supporting sustainable grassland management. Tr...
While Landsat has proved to be effective for monitoring many elements of forest condition and change, the platform has well-documented limitations in measuring forest structure, the vertical distribution of the canopy. This is important because struc...
The Vestnesa Ridge, located off the west Svalbard margin, is a >60 km long ridge consisting of fine-grained sediments that host a deep-marine gas hydrate and associated seepage system. Geological and geophysical observations indicate the predomina...
Soil moisture content is a crucial indicator for understanding the water requirements of crops. The effective monitoring of soil moisture content can provide support for irrigation decision-making and agricultural water management. Traditional ground...
Data saturation in optical sensor data has long been recognized as a major factor that causes underestimation of aboveground biomass (AGB) for forest sites having high AGB, but there is a lack of suitable approaches to solve this problem. The objecti...
The Upper Messinian reservoirs located in the Salma Field of the Nile Delta area contain variable facies. The key reservoir interval of the Abu Madi Formation was deposited in fluvial to deltaic environments. These fine-grained facies form significan...
Performing continuous sets to failure is fatiguing during the plyometric training. Cluster sets have been used to redistribute total rest time to create short frequent sets so that muscle fatigue can be avoided. The purpose of the study was to invest...
Mangrove canopy height (MCH) is a fundamental structural variable for monitoring ecosystem health and quantifying carbon stocks. However, MCH retrieval from optical satellite imagery is often constrained by spectral saturation in dense stands and env...
Long pulse-repetition intervals of 100 to 500 ms of a 193 nm ArF excimer laser successfully increased the height of the photochemical micro-/nano-swelling of silicone rubber, observed with a scanning electron microscope. The effect of the interval wa...
Continuous monitoring of forest biomass is indispensable for establishing transparent carbon budgets and ensuring sustainable forest management toward achieving carbon neutrality. While satellite data has traditionally been used for wide-area biomass...
There have been a number of studies on dipole separations in cyclically deformed FCC single crystals in single slip while there are no such studies in multiple slip. The dipole heights provide insight into the presence of long-range internal stresses...
The estimation accuracy of plant dry matter by spectra- or remote sensing-based methods tends to decline when canopy coverage approaches closure; this is known as the saturation problem. This study aimed to enhance the estimation accuracy of plant dr...
Controlling the Schottky barrier height (
Climatic changes have intensified heavy rainfall events in India, causing daily downpours from 156 to 594 mm, and these are expected to worsen in the future. This study analyses a double-line railway embankment using transient unsaturated–satur...
The unsaturated zone of the subsurface plays a critical role in the environmental fate and transport of a wide range of environmental contaminants, and is also important for plant growth and agriculture. Quantitative prediction of processes in the un...
In urban areas, typhoons frequently cause the tilting and uprooting of trees, resulting in damage to city infrastructure. During periods of intense rainfall, at shallow soil depths, soil water content is typically high, reducing the anchoring resista...
Magnetization of large Nd-Fe-B sintered permanent magnets is still challenging. This type of permanent magnet is electrically conductive, so impulse magnetization causes a flow of eddy currents which prevent magnetization of the whole volume of the m...
Saturated soil irrigation (SSI) has been reported as a great technique that increases water productivity in fully irrigated rice cultivation. However, this technique should be employed in a dry prone area where rainfalls fail to fulfill rice water re...
In porous media, pore geometry and wettability are determinant factors for capillary flow in drainage or imbibition. Pores are often considered as cylindrical tubes in analytical or computational studies. Such simplification prevents the capture of p...
A high-speed debris flow sliding into a reservoir can cause a huge disaster. Consequently, predicting landslide movement accurately and its potential interaction with water is crucial. This paper developed a computational model based on a two–l...
The Arctic and sub-Arctic environments have seen a rapid growth of shrub vegetation at the expense of the Arctic tundra in recent decades. In order to develop better tools to assess and understand this phenomenon, the sensitivity of multi-polarized S...
The aim of this 15-month study was to evaluate and compare two partially saturated (PS) vertical flow (VF) wetlands for total nitrogen (TN) removal. The PS VF wetlands, evaluated in duplicate, were added with corncob (CC) in two different heights of...
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We aimed to investigate the association between nutrition and blood pressure and the role that body composition plays in this relationship. Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data from the years 2008–2020 were reviewed. A to...
In this paper, four lithological parameters, that is, thermal conductivity, particle size, porosity, and saturation, are investigated by combining experimental observations with numerical simulations to study the influence laws and mechanisms of acti...
Binder jetting has the potential to revolutionize the way we produce medicine. However, tablets produced by binder jetting technology can be quite fragile and hard to handle. In this study, the printing process and ink composition were examined to op...
Implementing rain garden (RG) designs is widespread worldwide to reduce peak flow rates, promote stormwater infiltration, and treat pollutants. However, inadequate RG design degrades its hydrological behaviour, requiring the development and validatio...
This article considers “Kubla Khan” and the the Arab dream section from the fifth book The Prelude as precursors to the recently theorized concept of saturated phenomenality. Both Coleridge and Wordsworth insist on the limitedness of thei...
The aim of this research is to find out the effects of different degrees of drought stress on the growth index and yield of semi-late rice. In this experiment, a pot experiment was conducted with hybrid Tian-you-hua-zhan rice as material. Intermitten...
: Saturated soil culture is one of the water saving techniques that can improve water productivity. However, it is either less implemented or adopted because it consumes more time and energy. Therefore, an experiment was conducted to determine the ef...
There is general consensus that accurate model predictions of extreme wave events during marine storms can substantially contribute to avoiding or minimizing human losses and material damage. Reliable wave forecasts and hindcasts, together with stati...
In this paper, an adaptive header height control system is designed. Through the influence of the natural frequency,
Dietary intakes of polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and saturated fatty acids (FAs) have been inconsistently associated with puberty timing. We examined longitudinal associations of prepubertal dietary and plasma phospholipid FAs with several puberty...
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In December 2019, a new infectious respiratory disease called COVID-19 was identified in Wuhan, Hubei province, in China and quickly reached pandemic status in March 2020, in uncertain and frightening situation. The objective of this study was to ana...
The effect of methyl jasmonate (MJ) (1 µM) on wheat (Triticum aestivum L. cv. Moskovskaya 39), seedlings and the fatty acid (FA) content of leaves under optimal and cadmium (Cd) (100 µM) stress conditions wasinvestigated. Height and bioma...
In solid backfill coal mining (SBCM), loose gangue backfill material (LGBM) is used to backfill the goaf after coal resources are exploited from the underground mines. Under certain geological conditions, LGBM with a certain height may be soaked in t...
An improved ultrahigh upper gate 4H-SiC metal semiconductor field effect transistor (IUU-MESFET) is proposed in this paper. The structure is obtained by modifying the ultrahigh upper gate height h of the ultrahigh upper gate 4H-SiC metal semiconducto...
The impact of frequent water deficits on dominant tree species in boreal forests has received increased attention, particularly towards addressing the global climate change scenarios. However, the impacts of coupled light intensity and water deficit...
This work presents the analysis of the stability of magnetic bimerons in a cylindrical nanotube. Through micromagnetic simulations, we study the influence of magnetic and geometrical parameters on the bimeron existence and size. The obtained results...
Spatially continuous canopy height is a vital input for modeling forest structures and functioning. The global ecosystem dynamics investigation (GEDI) waveform can penetrate a canopy to precisely find the ground and measure canopy height, but it is s...
Information on the spatial distribution of forest structure parameters (e.g., aboveground biomass, vegetation height) are crucial for assessing terrestrial carbon stocks and emissions. In this study, we sought to assess the potential and merit of mul...
Combining national forest inventory (NFI) data with digital site maps of high resolution enables spatially explicit predictions of site productivity. The aim of this study is to explore the possibilities and limitations of this database to analyze th...
In this paper, an activated carbon obtained from Pinus radiata sawdust is applied to remove blue, red, and black wood dyes from aqueous solutions in a fixed-bed column. The flow rate (7.7–30.8 mL min−1), initial dye concentration (25&ndas...
Nanoparticles of iron precipitates produced by a microbial consortium are a suitable adsorbent for metal removal from electroplating industry wastewaters. Biogenic iron precipitates were utilized as adsorbents for chromate and zinc in batch condition...
Biochar has an ability to alter the biological, chemical, and physical properties of soil due to its physicochemical properties such as surface area, porosity, nutrient retention ability, available nutrient contents, aromaticity, etc. The present stu...
Soil salinization is a worldwide problem affecting agriculture and the environment. Utilizing saline land by screening and cultivating salt-tolerant crops is an economical and ecological solution. Leaf beet (Beta vulgaris var. cicla) is an important...
To address the lack of systematic quantitative characterization of oil bank dynamic evolution and unclear dominant controlling factors in polymer flooding, this study combines reservoir numerical simulation with Python-based quantitative analysis and...
Air-void distribution is an important internal characteristic of asphalt mixtures, as it affects compaction quality, moisture susceptibility, permeability, and long-term pavement durability. Conventional air-void testing methods generally provide onl...
Pipe structures are commonly encountered in the geophysical context, and in particular in sedimentary basins, where they are associated with fluid migration structures. We investigate pipe formation through laboratory experiments by injecting water l...
The vertical non-uniform distribution of aerosol optical thickness is a core element in regulating atmospheric radiative transmission and influencing the apparent brightness contrast between the target and background. However, current research mainly...
The present research study has been undertaken to carry out slope stability evaluation of the Jhika Gali landslide in Pakistan using GeoStudio. For this purpose, the site geometry of the existing slope adjacent to the slided one was measured and samp...
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