Citrus fruit farmers’ adaptation capacities to climate variability in Ngora district, Eastern Uganda by Simon Peter, Achuu, Sarah, Nachuha, Joweria, Nakizito, Henry Musoke, Semakula, Hosea Enos, Opedes

“…Findings indicated that 82% of the respondents attested that rainfall amounts and temperature patterns had changed with the highest rainfall of 1686 mm received in 1991, and the lowest amount of 785mm received in 2009. Average annual temperatures in the same period varied between 23.8ºC and 25.7ºC. …”
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Citrus Fruit Farmers’ Adaptation Capacities to Climate Variability in Ngora District, Eastern Uganda. by Achuu, Simon Peter, Nachuha, Sarah, Nakizito, Joweria, Musoke, Semakula Henry, Opedes, Hosea Enos

“…Findings indicated that 82% of the respondents attested that rainfall amounts and temperature patterns had changed with the highest rainfall of 1686 mm received in 1991, and the lowest amount of 785mm received in 2009. Average annual temperatures in the same period varied between 23.8ºC and 25.7ºC. …”
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Preparation of Phosphorus-Doped Boron Nitride Aerogel and Its Heavy Metal Ion Adsorption Properties by Junzhong ZHANG, Zheng LIU, Bo LIU, Yanlong LI

“…The superior adsorption performance of P-BNaerogel was attributed to three synergistic effects: (1) phosphorus-induced active sites accelerating surface reactions, (2) optimized mesoporous structure (average pore size reduced to 2.9 nm from 3.4 nm in BNaerogel) enhancing ion diffusion, and (3) stabilized coordination environments via P—O bonding. …”
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Achieving refined microstructures and improved mechanical properties in a cup-shaped Mg-Gd-Y-Zr alloy casting by novel near-liquidus squeeze cast process by Cunlong Wang, Qiuxu Chen, Jianghao Chen, He Xie, Wencai Liu, Liang Zhang, Guohua Wu

“…The cup-shaped VW103K alloy castings fabricated by NSC process show good surface quality and dimensional accuracy, as well as with fine microstructures and no megascopic pores and surface shrinkages. …”
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Southern Ocean control on atmospheric CO₂ changes across late Pliocene Marine Isotope Stage M2 by S. Hou, L. Toebrock, M. van der Linden, F. Rothstegge, M. Ziegler, L. J. Lourens, P. K. Bijl

“…New dinoflagellate cyst assemblage data are combined with previously published sea surface temperature reconstructions to reveal past surface conditions, including latitudinal migrations of the subtropical front (STF) over the late Pliocene at Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1168, offshore of western Tasmania. …”
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The Spatiotemporal Evolution and Driving Forces of the Urban Heat Island in Shijiazhuang by Xia Zhang, Yue Liu, Ruohan Chen, Menglin Si, Ce Zhang, Yiran Tian, Guofei Shang

“…The mono-window algorithm (MW) was used to retrieve land surface temperatures (LSTs), and the seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) model was used to predict LST trends. …”
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Synthesis and properties of nanoparticles based on С/Fe₃O₄, С/Fe_3-xCr_xO₄, С/Li_0.5Fe_1.5CrO₄ –... by S. M. Malovanyy, E. V. Panov, E. A. Genkina, V. A. Galaguz, T. S. Glushchak

“…Decrease of grain size down to 10–30 nm and conducting carbon on the grain surface provide better kinetics of the charging/discharging processes. …”
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Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease by Using Curcumin-Containing Self-Microemulsifying Delivery System: Macroscopic and Microscopic Analysis by Nabeela Ameer, Muhammad Hanif, Ghulam Abbas, Muhammad Azeem, Khalid Mahmood, Dure Shahwar, Ahmed Khames, Essam Mohamed Eissa, Baher Daihom

“…<b>Methods:</b> From preformulation studies, Lauroglycol FCC (oil), Tween 80 (surfactant), Transcutol HP (co-surfactant), and Avicel (solid carrier) were selected for the preparation of blank liquid and solid Cur-loaded SMEDDSs (S-Cur-SMEDDSs). <b>Results:</b> Z-average size (12.36 ± 0.04 nm), zeta potential (−14.7 ± 0.08 mV), and polydispersity index (PDI) (0.155 ± 0.036) showed a comparative droplet surface area and charge of both SMEDDSs. …”
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Spatiotemporal Distribution of Wine Grape Under Climate Change in Northwestern China by Yanyan Liu, Xuejia Shi, Hongjuan Du, Mengjiao Jiang, Fang Li, Jing Wang, Xiaoyu Zhang

“…However, excessively high average temperatures in January and July tended to have a detrimental effect. …”
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Critical energy distribution and fracture characteristics of heterogeneous rock under splitting condition by Hongguang JI, Zhen FU, Yuezheng ZHANG, Chunrui ZHANG, Dongsheng CHEN

“…It also conducted relevant analyses on the acoustic emission bi value, critical energy distribution, RA (rise time/amplitude) - AF (average frequency) characteristic parameters, and fracture surface morphology of granites with different deformation coordination during the loading process. …”
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Meridional Circulation. I. A Formation Channel for Lithium-rich and Super-lithium-rich Red Clump Stars by Xue-Feng Li, Jian-Rong Shi, Yan Li, Hong-Liang Yan, Jing-Hua Zhang

“…Current observations indicate that stars with higher rotation rates appear to maintain more surface lithium, and the majority of lithium-rich giants are indeed red clump stars. …”
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Cerium oxide nanoparticles prepared through Bio-combustion using Ficus carica as effective antioxidant, anticancer and dye degrading agent by Sanjay S. Majani, Pallavi Singh, Pallavi Kumari, Poojitha B. Sridhara Setty, Chandan Shivamallu, Chandrashekar Srinivasa, Kasim Sakran Abass, Muzaffar Iqbal, Raghavendra G. Amachawadi, Victor Stupin, Ekaterina Silina, Shiva Prasad Kollur

“…The SEM/TEM images displayed spherical, agglomerated particles with an average diameter of 13.5 nm. The BET analysis revealed a surface area of 30.081 m2/g, a pore radius of 1.374 nm, and a pore volume of 0.057 cm3/g, confirming the presence of microporosity. …”
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Preparation and characterization of Arctium lappa L. polysaccharide-Zn(II) complex and evaluation of its immune activity by Yang Liu, Wanbing Pan, Lingyu Li, Jianquan Gong, Hongjing Dong, Bin Zhang, Jiahao Lin, Zhenjia Zheng

“…The results showed that the weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of ALP-Zn was 60,268 Da. …”
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Contents and ecological stoichiometry characteristics of soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in wetlands of Ningxia plain by BO Xiaoyan, MI Wenbao, XU Hao, ZHANG Xueyi, MI Nan, SONG Yongyong

“…SOC and TN are cumulative in surface 10-20 cm layer cross the longitudinal section of all plots. …”
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DBA-RTMDet: A High-Precision and Real-Time Instance Segmentation Method for Identification of Damaged Buildings in Postearthquake UAV Imagery by Kangsan Yu, Shumin Wang, Yitong Wang, Ziying Gu, Yuanhao Wang

“…We conduct experiments on postdisaster UAV imagery collected during the 2021 Yangbi earthquake with surface wave magnitude scale of 6.4 in Yunnan, China. …”
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Biodegradation of polypropylene by Bacillus cereus PP-5 isolated from waste landfill by Huizhen Xue, Xue Chen, Zhitong Jiang, Jinghui Lei, Jie Zhou, Weiliang Dong, Zhoukun Li, Gang Hu, Zhongli Cui

“…Meantime, the weight-average molecular weight and thermal stability of PP decreased, while melting enthalpy and average crystallinity increased after PP-5treatment. …”
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A comparison of four decontamination procedures in Reusing healing abutments: An in vitro study by Narges Naghsh, Arezoo Hosseini, Ahmad Mogharehabed, Jaber Yaghini, Zahra Pezeshki, Niloofar Khaleghi

“…Results: The one-way ANOVA test indicated that the average percentage of contamination residues on the occlusal surface did not show a significant difference among the five groups: control: 5.5 ± 2.8, sodium hypochlorite: 4.9 ± 2.5, Chlorhexidine: 5.3 ± 2.5, air polisher: 3.1 ± 1.8 and Hydrogen peroxide: 4.8 ± 3.1. …”
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Evolução da salinidade e pH de solo sob cultivo de melão irrigado com água salina Evolution of salinity and pH of soil cultivated with melon irrigated with brackish water by Francisco de Q. Porto Filho, José F. de Medeiros, Hans R. Gheyi, Nildo da S. Dias, Paulo S. de Sousa, Daniel da C. Dantas

“…There was greater accumulation of salts in the surface layer (up to 15 cm) in all salinity levels and the use of more saline water produced higher average salinity in the profile. …”
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Immigration reduces selection in water microbial community assembly by Fen-Guo Zhang, Kefan Wu, Sanqing Zhang, Furong Liang, Zhihua Du, Yongji Wang, Quan-Guo Zhang

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Heterogeneous geometric characteristics of coal piles based on numericalreconstruction and its spontaneous combustion process by Shuanglin SONG, Yuntao LIANG, Qi LIN, Kun LI, Hongyang YANG, Cheng WANG

“…The results show that: ① The overall porosity of the bulk material slightly increases with the increase of dumping height, but the influence of dumping height on the distribution law of porosity within the bulk material is not significant. The average change in porosity when the dumping height increases from 0.55 m to 0.95 m is only 5.1%. ② Influenced by the gravity and compression of particles above, the porosity within the bulk material gradually decreases from high to low along the vertical direction, but the porosity of large particles near the ground will increase, reaching the lowest value at a height of about 3 cm above the ground. ③ The porosity within the bulk material is approximately uniformly distributed along the horizontal direction, with an average value of about 0.45. ④ The homogeneous assumption has no significant effect on the natural ignition period, but after adopting the homogeneous bulk material assumption, the center of the self-heating zone migrates 0.3 m towards the surface of the bulk material, and the length of the self-heating zone is shortened from 10.2 m to 3.1 m, significantly underestimating the risk and concealment of coal self-heating. …”
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