Suitability Analysis of Three Quick-Freezing Techniques for Application in Bamboo Shoot Freezing by FAN Zhenmei, SHEN Hui, HU Tenggen, CHENG Lina, YU Lijuan, XU Yujuan, WU Jijun, YU Yuanshan

“…In addition, the structure of vascular bundles was seriously damaged by PSF, resulting in 6.12%-10.47% thawing loss and more serious water migration. …”
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INVESTIGATION OF CROP PRODUCTION IN STABILIZED SAND DUNE USING AMB LAYER ASSOCIATE WITH DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEM by Hassan Rouhipour

“…Thus implementation of the results of this research by farmers can play an important role in increasing water use efficiency as well as their livelihood.…”
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Utilizing nanomaterials to functionalize the Tikoua extract as a powerful green anti-corrosion inhibitor for carbon steel by Rania Farouq, Eman Hamdy, Moustafa M. S. Abbassy, H. A. Farag

“…Abstract The employment of toxic, hazardous, and environmentally damaging inhibitors poses a major risk to both the environment and public health. …”
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Hybrid phase-field modeling of multi-level concrete gravity dam notched cracks by H. Mazighi, M.K. Mihoubi�, D. Santill�n

“…Phase-field models are capable to simulate complex fracture patterns efficiently and straightforwardly. In this paper, we introduce a hybrid phase-?…”
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Mapping the Location and Infrastructure of Slum Settlement Areas in Palembang City Using Mobile-Based GIS by Satrio Rahman, Irwansyah

“…GIS is an organized collection of computer hardware, software, geographic data and personnel designed to efficiently acquire, store, update and display all forms of geographically referenced information. …”
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Acoustic Emissions versus Pressure Stimulated Currents during bending of restored marble epistyles: Preliminary results by Stavros K. Kourkoulis, Ioanna Dakanali, Ermioni D. Pasiou, Ilias Stavrakas, Dimos Triantis

“…The efficiency of two modern sensing techniques, namely the “Acoustic Emissions” and the “Pressure Stimulated Currents” ones, when they are used as Continuous Structural Health Monitoring tools, is assessed experimentally. …”
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Urban green spaces and flood disaster management: toward sustainable urban design by Na Liu, Fang Zhang

“…This paper explores how rapid urbanization and frequent extreme rainfall affect urban flood risk, highlighting that stormwater management challenges worsen due to increased impervious surfaces, altered urban hydrological cycles, and damaged natural retention systems. This paper, grounded in sustainable urban design principles, underscores the significance of green infrastructure for bolstering urban flood resilience. …”
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Research progress on CRISPR/Cas gene editing technology cooperating with plant virus by XU Ziyan, LI Hao, ZHOU Huanbin, ZHOU Xueping

“…In recent years, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein (CRISPR/Cas) system-mediated gene editing technology has become an important research tool in modern plant molecular biology and agricultural breeding due to its simplicity, high efficiency, generality and accuracy. Plant virus disease seriously endangers the normal growth and development of plants, and causes devastating damages to crop production worldwide. …”
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A SA-ANN-Based Modeling Method for Human Cognition Mechanism and the PSACO Cognition Algorithm by Shuting Chen, Dapeng Tan

“…Then, based on the inference model, a Powell SA with combinatorial optimization (PSACO) algorithm is proposed to improve the clustering efficiency and recognition accuracy for the cognition process. …”
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Microstructural properties and cavitation behavior of hypereutectic Al-Si alloy obtained by rheocasting process by Milena Ćosić, Pavlović Zagorka Aćimović

“…Mass loss of specimens was measured by an analytical method. The morphology of damaged surfaces of tested samples was examined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). …”
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Climate change exposure, circular economy and default probability: global evidence by Woraphon Wattanatorn

“…The result further reveals that the effect of climate exposure is amplified over medium and long-term horizons which supports the role of physical damages, regulatory costs and transition risks on the financial outcome. …”
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Minimizing DNA contamination by using UNG-coupled quantitative real-time PCR on degraded DNA samples: application to ancient DNA studies by Mélanie Pruvost, Thierry Grange, Eva-Maria Geigl

“…These include the need (i) to amplify short PCR products due to template fragmentation; (ii) to clone PCR products in order to track possible base misincorporation resulting from damaged templates; and (iii) to avoid incomplete decontamination causing artifactual sequence transformation. …”
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An experimental study on restoration technique for the Acropolis of Athens: developing the experimental set-up for pull-out testing of titanium bars embedded in marble blocks by Ioanna Dakanali, Aikaterini Marinelli

“…For this purpose, two modified tests are proposed aiming at efficiently simulating the bars’ behavior as they are sliding through a marble epistyle. …”
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PLZT-Modified Relaxor Piezoelectric Ceramic System for Medical Diagnostic Applications by Koduri Ramam, Marta Lopez

“…It is essential for sensitive transducers that the piezoelectric ceramics must efficiently convert between electrical and mechanical energy, and so the electromechanical coupling coefficients should be high, as the fabrication process of tiny elements for medical arrays must be carried out without damaging the material and its properties. …”
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Reliability and reliability-based sensitivity analyses of steel moment-resisting frame structure subjected to extreme actions by Abbasali Sadeghi, Hamid Kazemi, Mayasam Samadi

“…This event is a common scenario of buildings' damages. In this study, a nonlinear model of 2-story steel moment-resisting frame (SMRF) is made in OpenSees software. …”
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Machine learning approach for 2D abrasion mapping in Sediment Bypass Tunnels: a case study of Koshibu SBT, Japan by Ahmed Emara, Sameh A. Kantoush, Mohamed Saber, Tetsuya Sumi, Vahid Nourani, Emad Mabrouk

“…The abrasion inventory map, consisting of over 1 million data points indicating damaged and non-damaged sites, was divided equally for training and testing the XGBoost algorithm. …”
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Bioinspired Mitigation Scheme for Cascading Failures in Farmland Wireless Sensor Networks by Jun Wang, Zhuangzhuang Du, Xunyang Wang, Zhengkun He

“…The study showed that the damages of cascading failures can be efficiently lowered by regulating the adjustment coefficient of the load capacity model. …”
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Nanostructured organic sheets sequestering small extracellular vesicles and reactive species to protect against radiation-induced mucositis by Yuefei Zhu, Changyi Xu, Zhixin Li, Xiaomin Bao, Ming Liu, Yangyang She, Renqiang Ma, Xiangzhen Liu, Jian Li, Weiping Wen, Kam W. Leong, Zhaoxu Tu

“…These nanosheets show enhanced vesicle-binding capacity compared to spherical nanoparticles, efficiently suppressing inflammation by inhibiting the stimulator of interferon genes activation in macrophages. …”
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The role of lignin in 17β-estradiol biodegradation: insights from cellular characteristics and lipidomics by Hanyu Pan, Peng Hao, Qiannan Li, Zongshuo Lv, Kun Gao, Xiaojun Liang, Lianyu Yang, Yunhang Gao

“…Our findings demonstrate that lignin significantly enhances E2 degradation efficiency, reaching 94.28% within 5 days with the addition of 0.25 mM lignin. …”
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Comparative investigation of metabolite signatures and hypoadiposity effect between Dali tea and Yunkang tea by Mengwan Li, Dan Liu, Tingting Han, Juan Li, Linbo Chen, Daxiang Li, Zhongwen Xie

“…Furthermore, animal experiment showed that YKT performs better efficiency than DLT on alleviating hyperadiposity and renal damages in high-fat-diet induced obese mice.…”
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