Chlorophyll meters are promising tools for improving the nitrogen (N) management of vegetable crops. To facilitate on-farm use of these meters, sufficiency values that identify deficient and sufficient crop N status are required. This work evaluated...
Many local governments in Germany aim to reach Renewable Energy Self-Sufficiency (RESS) in their municipalities. In this context, ambitious time horizons for reaching this goal make it necessary to address the question of how less absolute energy can...
Excessive N application occurs in greenhouse vegetable production. Monitoring methods of immediately available soil N are required. [NO3−] in soil solution, sampled with ceramic cup samplers, and [NO3−] in the 1:2 soil to water (v/v) extr...
Agriculture is essential to any country’s economy. Agriculture is crucial not only for feeding a country’s population but also for its impact on other businesses. The paradox of agri-food companies generating substantial profits despite s...
Finite element (FE) modeling is a commonly used method to investigate the influence of medical devices, such as implants and screws, on the biomechanical behavior of the spine. Another simulation method is multibody simulation (MBS), where the model...
Sufficient conditions are obtained for a signed maximum principle for boundary value problems for Riemann–Liouville fractional differential equations with analogues of Neumann or periodic boundary conditions in neighborhoods of simple eigenvalu...
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Strong materialistic values help to maintain consumer capitalism, but they can have negative consequences for individual well-being, for social equity and for environmental sustainability. In this paper, we add to the existing literature on the adver...
As energy systems globally are transitioning into renewable energy, simultaneous targets of high self-sufficiency have led to complex system design proposals. While conventional technology solutions would reduce the complexity in theory, limitations...
Several types of linear and nonlinear singularly perturbed time-delay differential systems are considered. Asymptotic stability of the linear systems and asymptotic stability of the trivial solution of the nonlinear systems, valid for any sufficientl...
A boundary-value problem for a couple of scalar nonlinear differential equations with a delay and several generalized proportional Caputo fractional derivatives is studied. Ulam-type stability of the given problem is investigated. Sufficient conditio...
Efforts to achieve an energy transition often neglect to account for the levelling of benefits realizable with higher levels of energy use, despite knowledge of a saturation effect and recognition of increasing harms of use. This research examines en...
Two types of singularly-perturbed nonlinear time delay controlled systems are considered. For these systems, sufficient conditions of the functional null controllability are derived. These conditions, being independent of the parameter of singular pe...
Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) proposed two-dose measles vaccination coverage of at least 95% of the population and percentages of measles immunity in the population of 85%−95% in order to achieve measles elimination in Europe....
A plethora of sufficient convergence criteria has been provided for single-step iterative methods to solve Banach space valued operator equations. However, an interesting question remains unanswered: is it possible to provide unified convergence crit...
We study convergence in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) through the lens of sufficient conditions, using a single-point-of-failure analysis applied to multi-agent policy iteration integrated with linear programming (MAPI-LP), where results...
We consider the dynamics of a logistic equation with delays and modified nonlinearity, the role of which is to bound the values of solutions from above. First, the local dynamics in the neighborhood of the equilibrium state are studied using standard...
Food security is an important foundation of national security. Since China entered a new era in 2012, the supply of agricultural and animal husbandry products in Qinghai has continuously enhanced. However, the implementation of ecological policies su...
This paper investigates the interval-valued-multi-objective-optimization problem, whose objective function is a vector-valued max-plus interval function and the constraint function is a real-affine function. The strong and weak solvabilities of the i...
Crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian-Ukrainian war, and challenges associated with sustainable development have emphasized the need for local food to increase the food system’s resilience. Therefore, this research analyzes the food se...
In this paper, we study the information lost when a real-valued statistic is used to reduce or summarize sample data from a discrete random variable with a one-dimensional parameter. We compare the probability that a random sample gives a particular...
One of the important factors determining the biochemical processes in bioreactors is the quality of the wastewater inflow to the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). Information on the quality of wastewater, sufficiently in advance, makes it possible t...
In this paper, we investigate the global behavior of the weak solutions to the initial boundary value problem for the nonlinear wave equation in a bounded domain. The nonlinearity includes a logarithmic term and several power-type terms with nonnegat...
Finite element analysis of complex bodies is frequently used in design to determine the size of deformations. Successive iterations, with progressive refinement of mesh densities, are most often required to obtain a sufficiently accurate convergent n...
Four variants of elastic optical data center network (DCN) architectures based on optical circuit switching were proposed in an earlier study. The necessary and sufficient values of frequency slot units (FSUs) per fiber required for these four DCNs i...
This paper utilises a two-stage demand response-enabled energy management algorithm for a typical Turkish self-sufficient living space. The proposed energy management model provides an additional gain in line with the goal of self-sufficiency by sche...
In the context of the larger sustainability discourse, “sufficiency” is beginning to emerge as a new value throughout Western societies, and the question asked in this article is: Can we observe and conceptually identify opportunities to link success...
The main task of forest seed farming is to ensure that there is a sufficient number of fruit/seeds of high genetic value from all required tree species for annual management [...]
Vitamin D is known as an antirachitic factor, although it also plays a critical role in several nonskeletal diseases. In our study, we evaluated vitamin D status and sex, age and seasonal association in a general population cohort living in central I...
A variable selection method is put forward for multivariate linear regression models which obey normality. This method hinges on minimizing a generalized
The goal of this paper is to present the necessary and sufficient conditions that every extremizer of a given class of functionals, defined on the set
(1) Background: To estimate resistance, reactance, and phase angle values among moderate preterm infants and their variation according to neonatal and maternal characteristics and nutritional intake. (2) Methods: This was a cohort that evaluated 43 m...
In this paper, we consider optimization problems with stochastic constraints. We derive quantitative stability results for the optimal value function, the optimal solution set and the feasible solution set of optimization models in which the underlyi...
This cross-sectional study aimed to examine the association of various aspects of physical activity, including intensity, duration, type, and purpose, with the phase angle (PhA), an objective indicator of health, in Korean adults after stratification...
In this paper, a tensor splitting AOR iterative method for solving the
In recent years, Germany has experienced an increasing number of extreme wet and dry years. In the North German lowlands, wet grassland sites with shallow water table conditions are widespread landscape elements. They are characterized by a special w...
Background: Previous research has established good test–retest reliability for isokinetic dynamometry in fibromyalgia. However, the reliability of this test under dual-task conditions has not been investigated in fibromyalgia. Methods: A total...
The main purpose of this paper is to improve, generalize, unify, extend and enrich the recent results established by Dung and Hang (2015), Piri and Kumam (2014, 2016), and Singh et al. (2018). In our proofs, we only use the property (F1) of Wardowski...
The behavior of all the solutions of the logistic equation with delay and diffusion in a sufficiently small positive neighborhood of the equilibrium state is studied. It is assumed that the Andronov–Hopf bifurcation conditions are met for the coeffic...
In this paper, by using the normal subdifferential and equilibrium-like function we first obtain some properties for K-preinvex set-valued maps. Secondly, in terms of this equilibrium-like function, we establish some sufficient conditions for the exi...
In this work, a finite-horizon zero-sum linear-quadratic differential game, modeling a pursuit-evasion problem, was considered. In the game’s cost function, the cost of the control of the minimizing player (the minimizer/the pursuer) was much smaller...
The assessment of foot pad dermatitis at slaughter is a suitable method to assess and monitor the welfare of broilers. The goals of this study were to define and validate a camera-based score that could identify macroscopic lesions of the foot pads,...
In this paper, we establish sufficient Karush–Kuhn–Tucker (for short, KKT) conditions of a set-valued semi-infinite programming problem (SP) via the notion of contingent epiderivative of set-valued maps. We also derive duality results of Mond–Weir (M...
In this paper, a class of controlled variational control models is studied by considering the notion of
We present solutions for general theorems regarding algebraic independence of solutions of hypergeometric equation ensembles and the values of these solutions at algebraic points. The conditions of the theorems are necessary and sufficient. Furthermo...
There is a growing need to establish alternative approaches for mixture safety assessment of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Due to limitations with current component-based approaches, and the lack of established methods for using whole mixt...
Obtaining the reverberation time of a multipurpose building is most effective when accurate data is used to simulate the building. Therefore, this study proposes a method of measuring the sound absorption coefficient that is close to the sound absorp...
Instead of sole nutrient starvation to boost algal lipid production, we addressed nutrient limitation at two different seasons (autumn and spring) during outdoor cultivation in flat panel photobioreactors. Lipid accumulation, biomass and lipid produc...
The combinatorial problem in this paper is motivated by a variant of the famous traveling salesman problem where the salesman must return to the starting point after each delivery. The total length of a delivery route is related to a metric known as...
The problem of complete controllability of a linear time-invariant singularly-perturbed system with multiple commensurate non-small delays in the slow state variables is considered. An approach to the time-scale separation of the original singularly-...
In this study, based on Pyatov-Salamov method, the properties of the Gamow-Teller(GT) 1+ states in 90 Nb have been investigated and the agreement of our results calculated by this method for the energy of Gamow-Teller Resonance (GTR) and the correspo...
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