DROUGHT RISK ANALYSIS USING SPI FOR EFFECTIVE AGRICULTURAL PROJECTS’ AND WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OVER VICTORIA STATE, AUSTRALIA by Bernard Moeketsi Hlalele

“…Drought is a gradual and persistent hazard resulting from below-average precipitation, which poses a threat to various economic sectors and human life as a whole. …”
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First-trimester nutrition insights from the United Arab Emirate Birth Cohort Study (UAE-BCS): assessment of dietary intake, micronutrient profiles, and folic acid supplementation i... by Sharon Mutare, Maysm Mohamad, Jack Feehan, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Habiba I. Ali, Lily Stojanovska, Howaida Khair, Abdullah Shehab, Raghib Ali, Nahla Hwalla, Samer Kharroubi, Andrew Hills, Michelle Fernandes, Salama Al Neyadi, Ayesha S. Al Dhaheri

“…There is a need for research into dietary patterns and influences in pregnant women in the UAE. …”
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Evaluation of Adaptive Measures of Climate Change on the Income of Rural Farmers in Tarshiz Plain by Hamid Mohammadi, Sanaz Hedayat Shishvan

“…On the other hand, the yield of most selected crops has a negative and significant effect and leads to a decrease in the area under irrigated wheat, saffron and eggplant in the crop pattern of Tarshiz plain. With the occurrence of climate change, the total gross yield of rural farmers in Tarshiz plain decreases by 11.17% and the total water consumption in the cultivation pattern decreases by 5.77% compared to the base year conditions. …”
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Energy Management of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles for Autonomous Driving in a Following Environment Based on Fuzzy Adaptive PID Control by Jixin Wang, Yujin Zhou

“…The results showed that the average energy consumption of the model in 140 following experiments was about 21.5 KJ. …”
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The Potential of Hydroponic Kit-Based Growing on a Self-Fertigation System for Pagoda Mustard (Brassica narinosa L) Production by Sophia Dwiratna, Kharistya Amaru, Muhammad Achirul Nanda

“…A total of 50 pagoda mustard seeds were arranged evenly on a self-fertigation system tray following a zig-zag planting pattern for forty days. The seed has the following morphological characteristics: average height of 22.88 cm, biomass width of 26.42 cm, root length of 23.4 cm, and weight of 241.5 g. …”
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Investigating the Impact of Climate Change on Changes in the Cultivated Area of Selected Agricultural Products in Jiroft Plain by Mohammadjavad Mehdizadehrayeni, Hamid Mohammadi, Saman Ziaee, Ali Azareh

“…Residue values are determined by subtracting the average values from the observed values, and the minimum and maximum data are utilized in time autocorrelation analysis. …”
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Enhancing Tire Condition Monitoring through Weightless Neural Networks Using MEMS-Based Vibration Signals by Siddhant Arora, Sridharan Naveen Venkatesh, Vaithiyanathan Sugumaran, Anoop Prabhakaranpillai Sreelatha, Vetri Selvi Mahamuni

“…This approach yields a variety of features, such as autoregressive moving average (ARMA), statistical and histogram features. …”
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Facilitating Solid Waste Handling System in Port Harcourt Cosmopolis by Awoala Joybel Emine, Nwosu Harold Ugochukwu, Nwika Choice Adiamologi

“…The increase is a consequence of an advance in population rise and consumption pattern. The paper reports an approximate valuation and depiction of municipal solid waste with emphasis from questionnaire survey on socio-economic status of the inhabitants in the zones that make up the cosmopolis. …”
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Studying the Requirement of Water Police to Control Groundwater Resources in the Villages Iij, Jovin and Soufiabad of Sorkheh - Semnan by Peyman Akbarzadeh, Mohammadreza Yazdani, Shima Nikoo

“…The highest level of education among the selected sample was below basic education or diploma with 50.62% and the post-graduated level was PhD with 1.2%. The pattern of water consumption is currently undergoing drastic changes (10 years ago). …”
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Study on Alfalfa Water Use Efficiency and Optimal Irrigation Strategy in Agro-Pastoral Ecotone, Northwestern China by Xiangyang Miao, Guoshuai Wang, Bing Xu, Ruiping Li, Delong Tian, Jie Ren, Zekun Li, Ting Fan, Zisen Zhang, Qiyu Xu

“…During the branching stage and the bud stage, water consumption was 30–31% and 31–33% of the total water consumption, and the water consumption intensity averaged 2.97–3.04 mm/d and 4.23–4.97 mm/d. …”
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Evaluation of Important Vegetative, Phenological and Pomological Characteristics of 36 Promising Almond (Prunus dulcis L.) Genotypes on GN15 Vegetative Rootstock by S.A. Mousavi, A. Vatankhah, A. Imani

“…Introduction Almond (Prunus dulcis L.) is one of the valuable nut trees that is cultivated in many temperate regions and Mediterranean climatic conditions for domestic consumption and export. Almond belongs to the genus Prunus, from the Rosaceae family. …”
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The Assessment of Environmental Justice in Tehran Based on Spatial Distribution of Air and Noise Pollution by Sareh Ghorbani, Esmaeil Salehi, Shahrzad Faryadi, Hamid Reza Jafari

“…Local R2 showed a significant relationship between the percentage of car ownership and pollutants from domestic consumption and socioeconomic rank. The results of modeling the pollutant emissions from domestic consumption, car ownership and motorcycle ownership with local R2 are 0.94, 0.59 and 0.85, respectively, with acceptable accuracy for modeling the correlation between the socioeconomic status and air pollution emission. …”
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Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial of Brief Psychotherapy versus Usual Treatment for Common Mental Disorders in Adults by Marco A. Luengo-Castro, Javier Fernández-Méndez, José M. García-Montes, Pedro J. Caunedo-Riesco, Juan M. García-Haro, Begoña Braña-Menéndez, Dolores González-Díaz, Andrés Cabero-Álvarez, Marcelino Cuesta-Izquierdo

“…Pre-treatment and up to 3-year assessments were conducted on clinical-administrative, symptomatic, disability, satisfaction, and psychopharmacological consumption. Results: The EG had an average of 7 sessions compared to 6.17 sessions for the CG. …”
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Valley-filling Potential Evaluation of Urban Public Charging Stations Based on Price Incentive by Dawei SU, Yihui FAN, Tianhui ZHAO, Hongjin PAN, Youhui HUANG, Gang WANG, Yongyong JIA

“…The results show that the simulated charging load is consistent with the actual load in tendency, and the change pattern is similar to the actual situation. When the service fee discount exceeds 30%, for every additional 10% discount, the average valley-filling response will increase by approximately 23.6 MW. …”
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A novel wound dressing material with prolonged action by S. M. Dronov, V. Yo. Mamchur, I. P. Koshova, D. O. Stepanskyi, H. M. Kremenchutskyi, V. M. Toropin, B. V. Murashevych, K. S. Burmistrov

“…Acute toxicity pharmacological studies of material test-samples containing 6 % and 9 % active chlorine in a single application on the skin of rats and rabbits found that these applications did not lead to deaths, as well as changes in their behavioral pattern, consumption of feed and water. The epithelization rate of uninfected wound surface in application of dressings containing both sodium N-chlorosulfonamide and N, N-dichlorosulfonamide was significantly, on average 1.5 times, faster at the end of the observational period (day 14) in comparison with the control group animals. …”
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Far-field ammonia gas sensing at room temperature with graphene nanoplatelets-infused PEDOT:PSS transparent thin film by Vinod K Ganesan, Chun Hui Tan, Pei Song Chee, Jen Hahn Low, Soon Poh Lee, Eng Hock Lim

“…Synthesized through a low-temperature, full-solution approach, the film demonstrates an average transmittance of 76.18 % in visible spectrum. …”
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Prediction analysis and control strategies on coupling coordination between low-carbon transportation and high-quality economic development in the backward U-shaped bend metropolit... by Wang Wei, Mo Yuan-rui, Guan Lei, Gong Liang

“…The CCDs of these 15 cities have shown a growth trend, with the average CCD projected to reach the stage of barely coordinated development（0.554）by 2030. (3) Four key indicators，which include the share of non-fossil energy consumption, highway network density, air passenger traffic per 10,000 people and high-speed rail mileage per 10,000 people, have significant positive driving effects on the development of LCT. …”
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Enhancing agricultural sustainability with water and crop management strategies in modern irrigation and drainage networks by Seyedeh-Zohreh Hashemi, Abdullah Darzi-Naftchali, Fatemeh Karandish, Henk Ritzema, Karim Solaimani

“…The adoption of IDM led to a total annual water savings of 382.4 m3 ha−1. The 10-year average reductions in BWF from May to August ranged from 1.7 to 3.1 MCM, with approximately 88–93 % of these savings attributed to decreased water consumption in rice fields. …”
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Variability of daily feed intake as an indicator of resilience in Pietrain pigs by C. Casto-Rebollo, P. Nuñez, S. Gol, J. Reixach, N. Ibáñez-Escriche

“…A total of 111 121 DFI records of 1 634 healthy purebred Pietrain boars were used, ranging from 47 to 90 days, with an average of 69 DFI records per boar. Three RIs were calculated: residual variance, RMSE and logarithm of the variance of the deviations from an expected pattern (LnVar). …”
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High Consistency Ramp Design Method for Low Noise Column Level Readout Chain by Zhongjie Guo, Lin Li, Ruiming Xu, Suiyang Liu, Ningmei Yu, Yuan Yang, Longsheng Wu

“…The experimental results show that the ramp generation circuit proposed in this paper can reduce the inconsistency among the ramp signals to 0.4% LSB, decreases the column fixed pattern noise (CFPN) caused by inconsistent ramps of each column to 0.000037% (0.15 <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msup><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo></msup></semantics></math></inline-formula>), and increases the overall chip area and power consumption by only 0.6% and 0.5%, respectively. …”
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