Assessing the Application Effects and Operating Conditions on Three Different Insulation Capacity Walls Using Internal Quantitative Infrared Thermography in China by Huanyu Li, Guohui Feng, Yi Pu, Han Wang

“…Against the backdrop of China’s carbon emission reduction goals, quantitative infrared thermography offers a promising avenue for advancing building energy efficiency testing. This study conducted QIRT testing on three buildings with different insulation capabilities (old buildings, conventional insulated buildings, nearly zero-energy buildings) in Shenyang, China. …”
Get full text

Cropland Loss Under Different Urban Expansion Patterns in China (1990–2020): Spatiotemporal Characteristics, Driving Factors, and Policy Implications by Chengrui Mao, Shanshan Feng, Canfang Zhou

“…However, few studies have examined how different urban expansion patterns contribute to cropland consumption, which has hindered the formulation of sustainable urban development and cropland protection policies. …”
Get full text

The Use of Spectral Vegetation Indices to Evaluate the Effect of Grafting and Salt Concentration on the Growth Performance of Different Tomato Varieties Grown Hydroponically by Elkamil Tola, Khalid A. Al-Gaadi, Rangaswamy Madugundu, Ahmed M. Zeyada, Mohamed K. Edrris, Haroon F. Edrees, Omer Mahjoop

“…Water scarcity has prompted researchers to intensify studies on the optimal use of saline water in irrigating agricultural crops to improve the efficiency of exploiting available water resources. …”
Get full text

Comparative Retreatment Efficacy of Two Multi-File Systems with Different Access Cavity Designs: A Micro-Computed Tomography Study by Emine Odabaşı Tezer, Dilan Kırmızı, Mohamad Abduljalil, Fatma Basmacı, Arda Buyuksungur, Meltem Dartar Öztan

“…This study aimed to evaluate the efficiency of two different multi-file systems in removing obturation materials with two different access cavities utilizing micro-CT scanning. …”
Get full text

Temporal variations of soil saturated hydraulic conductivity under different land use types and its impact on water balance components by Tianqi Guo, Yalin Ji, Xiaoying Yan, Ahmed Yehia Mady, Rui Liu, Mingbin Huang

“…Moreover, the effect of temporal variation of Ks on water balance components was estimated under different land use types. In this study, the double ring infiltrometers were used to measure Ks values for corn field and forestland sites from April to October 2022. …”
Get full text

Coordination of abscisic acid and hydraulic signals in stomatal closure and yield of soybean genotypes with varying isohydry under different water conditions by Sanwei Yang, Haixia Zhang, Yi Jin, Neil C. Turner, Jiayin Pang, Yinglong Chen, Jin He

“…We hypothesize that abscisic acid (ABA) and hydraulic signals, two key factors influencing stomatal regulation, coordinate differently to regulate stomatal closure and impact yield performance under varying drought intensities in soybeans with different isohydric behaviors. …”
Get full text

Annotated image dataset with different stages of European pear rust for UAV-based automated symptom detection in orchardsMendeley Data by Virginia Maß, Pendar Alirezazadeh, Johannes Seidl-Schulz, Matthias Leipnitz, Eric Fritzsche, Rasheed Ali Adam Ibraheem, Martin Geyer, Michael Pflanz, Stefanie Reim

“…For data collection, ten UAV-flight campaigns were realized between 2021 and 2023 under various weather conditions and with different flight parameters in the experimental orchard of the Julius Kühn-Institute for Breeding Research on Fruit Crops in Dresden-Pillnitz (Germany). 1394 images were captured of different pear genotypes, including varieties, wild species and progeny from breeding. …”
Get full text

Exploring the Correlation Between Salt Tolerance and Seed Nutritional Value of Different Quinoa Genotypes Grown Under Saharan Climatic Conditions by Rahma Goussi, Hatem Ben Jouira, Ouiza Djerroudi Zidane, Jemaa Essemine, Halima Khaled, Salma Nait Mohamed, Malek Smida, Salim Azib, Alia Telli, Arafet Manaa

Get full text

Genetic diversity analysis and DNA fingerprinting of different populations of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) in China with fluorescence-labeled microsatellite markers by Jinxing Du, Tao Zhu, Taihang Tian, Hongmei Song, Caixia Lei, Jing Tian, Linqiang Han, Shengjie Li

“…Abstract Background Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides, LMB) is an economic fish in China, which has developed into many different cultured populations in the past decades. …”
Get full text

Effect of Different Early Weaning Diets on Survival, Growth, and Digestive Ontogeny of <i>Channa striatus</i> (Bloch, 1793) Larvae by Pandi Kalaiselvan, Amit Ranjan, Mir Ishfaq Nazir, Eswaran Suresh, Albin Jemila Thangarani, Kavitha Malarvizhi

“…The present study was carried out to evaluate the survival, growth, and digestive ontogeny of <i>C. striatus</i> larvae fed with different experimental diets from 4 days post-hatch (dph) to 32 dph at three-day intervals. …”
Get full text

Diferencias de la pisada en estático después de una maratón (Differences in static footstep after a marathon) by Víctor José Fernández-Torres, Cristina Robles-Rodriguez, Guillermo De Castro-Maqueda, Victoria Candelario Poteleschenko, Jose Vicente Gutierrez-Manzanedo, Jesus Gustavo Ponce-Gonzalez

Get full text

Field Evaluation of Different Unmanned Aerial Spraying Systems Applied to Control <i>Panonychus citri</i> in Mountainous Citrus Orchards by Zongyin Cui, Li Cui, Xiaojing Yan, Yifang Han, Weiguang Yang, Yilong Zhan, Jiapei Wu, Yingdong Qin, Pengchao Chen, Yubin Lan

“…To evaluate the spray performance and field efficacy of different UASS types in controlling <i>P. citri</i>, five representative UASS models (JX25, DP, T1000, E-A2021, and T20), four mainstream pesticide formulations, and four novel tank-mix adjuvants were systematically assessed in a field experiment conducted in a typical hilly citrus orchard. …”
Get full text

Parallel Jacobian Computation Based on Distance-2 Algorithm and Its Application in Coupling Problems by LIU Lixun, ZHANG Han, PENG Xinru, DOU Qinrong, WU Yingjie, GUO Jiong, LI Fu

“…The fission nuclear reactor is a typical complicated multi-physics coupling system because of the nonlinear coupled terms among different physical fields. The Newton-Krylov method is an effective method for solving the multi-physics coupling problem, featuring strong stability and a high-order convergence rate. …”

Advanced numerical simulations of lid-driven cavity flows using an optimized parallelized fractional step method by Muhammad Abid, Tayyaba Akhtar, Mohamed M. Awad, Muhammad Imran

“…To efficiently solve the pressure Poisson equation, the conjugate gradient algorithm is employed. …”
Get full text

Maximum principle preserving the unconditionally stable method for the Allen–Cahn equation with a high-order potential by Junseok Kim

“…To solve the nonlinear equation, we applied the frozen coefficient method, which approximates variable coefficients in differential equations by treating them as constants within small regions, simplifies the problem, and enables more efficient numerical solutions. For several linear equations, which are diffusion equations, we applied a fully implicit finite difference scheme to obtain unconditional stability. …”
Get full text

Old-growth beech forests in Germany as cool islands in a warming landscape by Yojana Adhikari, Nadine Bachstein, Charlotte Gohr, Jeanette S. Blumröder, Caroline Meier, Pierre L. Ibisch

“…There are indications that old-growth forests are relatively resilient and efficient in micro-climatic regulation during extreme climatic conditions. …”
Get full text

Numerical insights into enhanced heat transfer mechanisms in TiO2-Au ethylene glycol nanofluids within Darcy porous media using fractional calculus by Mumtaz Khan, Dianchen Lu, Mudassar Imran, Muhammad Shoaib Anwar

“…The complex fractional partial differential equations governing the system are solved numerically using the finite difference method in combination with the L1 algorithm, ensuring an efficient and accurate solution process. …”
Get full text

Fourier Analysis of CMFD Method in Cylindrical Geometry by WEN Yuchen, HAO Chen, WANG Yizhen

“…The coarse mesh finite difference (CMFD) method has been widely adopted as an acceleration algorithm for neutron transport calculations, effectively reducing computational costs and improving convergence. …”

Numerical solution of one-dimensional differential equations by weighted residual method using Bernoulli wavelets by Lingaraj Angadi

Get full text

Brake Anti-slide Detection and Protection for Metro Vehicles by YU Jieren, QIAN Hua, XIA Shuai, SHAO Yuehu, LI Yiye

“…At the same time, two different strategy of anti-slide recovery were compared, and their influence on the anti-slide efficiency and reference speed was analyzed. …”
Get full text