1,442 Results Found

Target and off-target spray depositions determine the spray’s effectiveness and impact on the environment. A decisive stage in the measurement of spray deposition and drift is selecting an appropriate sampling approach under field conditions. T...

The fragile paper is treated to improve the stability and appearance of the paper artifact, such as washing, lining, deacidification, and reinforcement. During the above treatments, paper documents inevitably make contact with water directly, leading...

Precision agriculture seeks to optimize crop yields while minimizing resource use. A key challenge is achieving uniform pesticide spraying to prevent crop damage and environmental contamination. Water-sensitive paper (WSP) is a common tool used for a...

Continued population growth demands a significant increase in agricultural production to ensure food security. However, agricultural output is limited by environmental crises and the negative impacts of open-field farm practices. As an alternative, v...

Unmanned aerial spraying systems (UASSs) are widely used today for the effective control of pests affecting crops, and more advanced UASS techniques are now being developed. To evaluate such systems, artificial targets are typically used to assess dr...

With the rapid development of precision agriculture spraying technology, the evaluation and detection of deposition effects have gradually become research hotspots. Rhodamine-B is often used for the quantitative elution detection of droplet depositio...

Grapevines are one of the most intensely treated crops with a high potential risk to health and biodiversity. Thus, the distribution control of agrochemicals is crucial to obtain a high quality and sustainable product for intensive viticulture. Altho...

The use of unmanned aerial spray systems (UASS) has increased owing to their many advantages. However, studies related to a standardized method to evaluate the spray performance of UASS are lacking. Therefore, in the present study, a quantitative ana...

Efficient pesticide application remains a critical resource-management challenge in modern agriculture, where limited spray penetration reduces treatment efficacy, wastes chemical inputs, and increases environmental losses. This study quantified the...

Advances in sensor technology have significantly improved the efficiency and precision of agricultural spraying. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are widely utilized for applying plant protection products (PPPs) and fertilizers, offering enhanced spat...

Unmanned aerial application systems (UAAS) have recently gained momentum for the application of crop protection (CP) products. Due to their high operational efficiency, mobility, and low cost, UAAS may be perceived as a more viable option for spray a...

The study relates to the use of automated plant protection systems in agriculture. The article presents a proprietary automated mobile platform with an aerosol generator of hot mist. Furthermore, the cause of the loss of a chemical preparation in the...

Pesticides are essential for removing plant pests and sustaining good yields on agricultural land. Excessive use has detrimental repercussions, such as the depletion of soil fertility and the proliferation of immune insect species, such as Nilaparvat...

Measuring the spray parameters and providing feedback on the quality of the spraying is critical to ensuring that the spraying material reaches to the appropriate region. A novel software entitled DropSense was developed to determine spray parameters...

Thoron (radon-220, ²²⁰Rn, half-life 55.6 s) is a useful aqueous tracer suitable for applications such as locating and measuring groundwater discharge in surface waters (including the coastal ocean) and detecting radium-224 (²²⁴Ra) bearing scale insid...

The water-sensitive effect of expansive soil (ES) poses a serious challenge to the safety and durability of infrastructure. To reduce the effect of water sensitivity on expansive soil, a new powder soil passivator with polyacrylic (PA) as the main co...

The notion of a ‘Water-saving society’ may help China achieve sustainable development and high-quality development. In this paper, the concept of water resources development and utilization level is discussed from the perspective of a wat...

The paper presents results and sensitivity analysis of the results of a real detailed study focused on changes in water consumption and its unevenness with changing pressure conditions in a particular observed office building. The dependence of water...

Long distance water diversion projects are developed to alleviate the conflicts between supply and demand of water resources across different watersheds. However, the significant scale water diversion projects bring new challenges for the water suppl...

Water is the most important and sensitive factor controlling urban development in basins. This paper developed a novel approach to construct a Basin Water Sensitivity Index (BWSI) from the perspective of integrated basin management. The correlation b...

Monitoring the quality of drinking water is a crucial responsibility for all water infrastructure networks, as it guarantees access to clean water for the communities they serve. With water infrastructure deteriorating due to age and neglect, drinkin...

The determination of water influx in naturally fractured reservoirs is always a significant and difficult task in gas reservoir engineering. To improve this situation, this paper presents a new global search algorithm to determine water influx in the...

Copper ions (Cu²⁺) are the third most essential transition metal ions critical to human health. Rapid detection of Cu²⁺ in water and biological fluids is of significant importance. In this study, we develop a sensitive multi-channel paper microfluidi...

Accurate and reliable estimates of water levels are essential to assess flood risk in river systems. In current practice, uncertainties involved and the sensitivity of water levels to these uncertainties are studied in single-branch rivers, while man...

Trees in dense urban environments are often planted in bioretention cells with an underlying trench (BC-T) providing both stormwater pretreatment and storage. The BC-T design is based on a water balance; however, some input data (tree water uptake an...

Nitrogen overload is one of the main reasons for the deterioration of surface water quality. Hence, monitoring nitrogen loadings is vital in maintaining good surface water quality. Increasingly, the use of spectral reflectance to monitor nitrogen con...

This paper studies the measurement requirements of spectral resolution and radiometric sensitivity to enable the quantitative determination of water constituents and benthic parameters for the majority of optically deep and optically shallow waters o...

Copper ion is closely associated with the ecosystem and human health, and even a little excessive dose in drinking water may result in a range of health problems. However, it remains challenging to produce a highly sensitive, reliable, cost-effective...

Herein is presented a novel and efficient portable paper-based sensing platform using paper-incorporated histidine stabilized gold nanoclusters (His-AuNCs), for the sensitive and selective detection of Fe ions from low-volume real water samples based...

Discovering very small water leaks at the household level is one of the most challenging goals of smart metering. While many solutions for sudden leakage detection have been proposed to date, the small leaks are still giving researchers a hard time....

The Tarim River Basin in China has predominantly assumed the task of commodity cotton and other high water-intensive crop production in recent years. The spatial matching status of agricultural water and land resources is a prerequisite for local eco...

Development of paper-based sensors that do not suffer with humidity interference is desirable for practical environmental applications. In this work, a laser processing method was reported to effectively modulate the cross-sensitivity to humidity of...

Ecological importance evaluation can clearly identify the ecological service functions and ecological values of a region. This paper takes the Yanshan-Taihang Mountain area in Hebei Province as the research area, utilizing 2020 land use data. With th...

Insufficient sensitivity is a general issue of colorimetric paper-based analytical devices (PADs) for trace analyte detection, such as metal ions, in environmental water. This paper demonstrates the colorimetric detection of zinc ions (Zn²⁺) on a pap...

The paper aims to develop a practice and evaluation model for public open spaces in residential areas that considers water sensitive urban design techniques contributing to place-making.

Beyond data transmission, antennas have recently been utilized as sensors, offering the advantage of reducing hardware requirements and power consumption compared to systems where sensors are separate from antennas. Patch antennas, in particular, are...

Responsible use and effective treatment of mine water are prerequisites of sustainable mining. The behavior of contaminants in mine water evolves in relation to the metastable characteristics of some species, changes related to the mine life cycle, a...

In the 21st century, the creation of built environments that are carbon neutral and water sensitive is critical for addressing sustainable urban development challenges. Both require transformative change: Decarbonisation to mitigate greenhouse gas em...

Paper-based carbon working electrodes were modified with mercury or bismuth films for the determination of trace metals in aqueous solutions. Both modification procedures were optimized in terms of selectivity and sensitivity for the determination of...

Due to the large number of waterborne bacteria presenting in drinking water, their rapid and accurate identification has become a global priority. The surface plasmon resonance (SPR) biosensor with prism (BK7)-silver(Ag)-MXene(Ti₃T₂Cx)-graphene- affi...

In order to realize rapid and accurate evaluation of drinking water quality, a small-scale water quality detection instrument is designed in this paper that can detect two representative water quality parameters: the permanganate index and total diss...

Improving the water vapor barrier of cellulose-based packaging in tropical conditions is very challenging for moisture-sensitive products. In this work, we developed a crosslinked polyvinyl alcohol/nanoclay (PVA/NC) hydrogel for paper surface coating...

The frequency range of terahertz waves (THz waves) is between 0.1 and 10 THz and they have properties such as low energy, penetration, transients, and spectral fingerprints, which are especially sensitive to water. Terahertz, as a frontier technology...

The drum water level plays a crucial role in the safety and economy of heat recovery boilers. However, the control of the drum water level faces many challenges, such as external disturbances and system uncertainties. To enhance the control performan...

Oil-water two-phase flow is widespread in petroleum industry processes. The study of oil-water two-phase flow in horizontal pipes and the liquid holdup measurement of oil-water two-phase flow are of great importance for the optimization of the oil pr...

Nowadays, there is a great deal of interest in the development of practical optimization models and intelligent solution algorithms for solving disassembly-line balancing problems. Based on the importance of energy efficiency of product disassembly a...

This paper establishes a water resources vulnerability framework based on sensitivity, natural resilience and artificial adaptation, through the analyses of the four states of the water system and its accompanying transformation processes. Furthermor...

Detection of methyl mercaptan (CH₃SH) is essential for environmental atmosphere assessment and exhaled-breath analysis. This paper presents a sensitive CH₃SH sensor based on wavelength modulation spectroscopy (WMS) with a mid-infrared distributed fee...

Climate Compatible Development (CCD) aims to deliver adaptation and mitigation without compromising development progress. To date, adaptation, mitigation and development related to key climate-sensitive sectors have often been treated separately. Thi...

Cross border areas face common challenges on water management, such as monitoring water demands and quality, because they share a common water basin for covering their water needs. This paper presents the first results of a new, accurate, sensitive a...