Calibration of Low-Cost Capacitive Soil Moisture Sensors for Irrigation Management Applications by Ahmed A. Abdelmoneim, Christa M. Al Kalaany, Roula Khadra, Bilal Derardja, Giovanna Dragonetti

“…The results showed that with higher soil moisture contents (above 30%), the sensor-to-sensor variability becomes significant, with a coefficient of variation (CV) ranging between 10 and 16%; meanwhile, in lower soil moisture contents, the CV ranged between 6.5 and 10.3%, implying that it is more consistent in lower moisture content within this soil condition. …”
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Path following control of underground mining articulated vehicle based on the preview control method by MENG Yu, GAN Xin, BAI Guo-xing

“…By considering the relationship between the position and situation of the vehicle, the objective function of the predictive control was optimized by minimizing the lateral deviation of the following path and the heading angle deviation of the vehicle. …”
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Impact of Product, Process, Organisational, and Marketing Innovation on Micro, Small and Medium Scale Enterprises' Sustainability by Erna Listyaningsih, Yuliansyah Yuliansyah, Rissa A. Martinouva, Febrianty Febrianty, Muazza Muazza, Shofia Amin, Etty Puji Lestari, Amirul Mukminin

“…Objective: This study aimed to investigate how innovation, sustainability, and performance function as moderators in Micro, Small, and Medium-Scale Enterprises (MSMES). …”
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The role of housing price mediation in transferring the effect of heterogeneous behavior of investors in the housing sector on Iran's economic growth by Aliakbar Gholizadeh, Shahla Samadipour

“…The housing price is also a variable of economic growth function transfer with a threshold equal to 0.0266 percent The estimated coefficients of the first and second regimes indicate the asymmetric behavior of investors on housing prices. …”
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Imbalanced Power Spectral Generation for Respiratory Rate and Uncertainty Estimations Based on Photoplethysmography Signal by Soojeong Lee, Mugahed A. Al-antari, Gyanendra Prasad Joshi, Yeong Hyeon Gu

“…Thus, accurate estimation of RRs for cardiopulmonary function is essential for home health monitoring systems. …”
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Monitoring Abiotic Stressors in Rainfed Vineyards Involves Combining UAV and Field Monitoring Techniques to Enhance Precision Management by Federico Valerio Moresi, Pasquale Cirigliano, Andrea Rengo, Elena Brunori, Rita Biasi, Giuseppe Scarascia Mugnozza, Mauro Maesano

“…However, precise vineyard management is a crucial component of adaptation strategies aimed at optimizing resource efficiency, which is essential for sustainable farming practices. …”
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Ultrasonographic Nomograms of Foetal Fourth Ventricle Biometry and its Correlation with Transcerebellar Diameter and Gestational Age among Normal Foetuses: A Cross-sectional Study by N Padmalatha, Paarthipan, Parthasarathy, Francis Nanda Prakash Monteiro

“…Regression analysis was performed to determine the equation of the linear fitted function with each of the independent variables (GA, TCD). …”
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Effects of Exercise on Physical Fitness in Older Adults with and Without Severe Cognitive Impairment by Oliver Ramos-Álvarez, Elkin Eduardo Roldán-Aguilar, Mariano Altamiranda-Saavedra, Juan Carlos Marín, Víctor Arufe-Giráldez

“…Physical fitness is defined as the ability to perform daily activities efficiently and without excessive fatigue, involving anthropometric variables and physical capacities. …”
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Analysis of the Stability of the Banking Sector of Azerbaijan in Conditions of Economic Crisis Based on the Econometric Model by S. M. Huseynova, T. Ja. Hajizada

“…Lagged variables may be included in the time series. The lags in the explanatory variables take into account the degree of possible lag with which macroeconomic shocks affect banks. …”
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FUNGSI GREEN UNTUK PERSAMAAN DIFUSI-ADVEKSI DENGAN SYARAT BATAS DIRICHLET by Josua Josua, Evi Noviani, Fransiskus Fran

“…Mathematically, diffusion-advection equation can be written as  where  is concentration of material in the fluid, stands for the advection velocity, and  for diffusion coefficient. In this paper, a solution  is sought by using the Green’s function concept. …”
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Correlation between Stressful Life Events and Suicidal Ideation among Patients with Schizophrenia in Remission Stage: A Cross-sectional Study by Ashok Silamban, Kailash Sureshkumar, Aravindh Manogaran, Shabeeba Z Kailash

“…Introduction: Patients with schizophrenia often exhibit impaired executive brain function, which disrupts their daily activities. Relapse in schizophrenia has been linked to stressful life events. …”
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Changes in life satisfaction over six years in the general population: A longitudinal study with the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS). by Andreas Hinz, Anja Mehnert-Theuerkauf, Heide Glaesmer, Matthias L Schroeter, Ana N Tibubos, Katja Petrowski, Michael Friedrich

“…However, the knowledge about long-term changes in life satisfaction and the associations between such changes and changes in other variables of physical and mental health is limited.…”
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A toolkit for facilitating markerless integration of expression cassettes in Komagataella phaffii via CRISPR/Cas9 by Laura García-Calvo, Charlotte Kummen, Solvor Rustad, Sissel Beate Rønning, Annette Fagerlund

“…Abstract Background The yeast Komagataella phaffii (formerly known as Pichia pastoris) has been widely used for functional expression of recombinant proteins, including plant and animal food proteins. …”
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Selected Aspects of Heat Transfer Study in a Gun Barrel of an Anti-Aircraft Cannon by Mateusz ZIELIŃSKI, Piotr KONIORCZYK, Zbigniew SURMA, Marek PREISKORN, Judyta SIENKIEWICZ

“…In each zone, the heat transfer coefficient, as a function of the time hi(t) and bore gas temperature as a function of the time Tg(t) to the cannon barrel for given ammunition parameters, was developed. …”
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Predictive model for the therapeutic effect of bilateral subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation on the freezing of gait in Parkinson’s disease by Qi Limuge, Yuqing Zhang, Xiaofei Jia, Fang Wang, Dongsheng Yu, Lixia Chen, Li Zhang, Yongqiang Jiang, Yongqiang Jiang

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RAMAS-Net: a module-optimized convolutional network model for aortic valve stenosis recognition in echocardiography by Yejia Gan, Wanzhong Huang, Yan Deng, Xiaoying Xie, Yuanyuan Gu, Yaozhuang Zhou, Qian Zhang, Maosheng Zhang, Yangchun Liu

“…IntroductionAortic stenosis (AS) is a valvular heart disease that obstructs normal blood flow from the left ventricle to the aorta due to pathological changes in the valve, leading to impaired cardiac function. Echocardiography is a key diagnostic tool for AS; however, its accuracy is influenced by inter-observer variability, operator experience, and image quality, which can result in misdiagnosis. …”
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Post-thaw dimethyl sulfoxide reduction in autologous peripheral blood progenitor cell suspensions by Miroslava Jandová, Pavel Měřička, Jiří Gregor, Miriam Lánská, Aleš Bezrouk, Dana Čížková, Jakub Radocha

“…Background and objectives: Dimethyl sulfoxide has become the most common cryoprotectant used for cryopreservation of hematopoietic progenitor cells because of its efficiency, regardless of its potentially toxic side effects. …”
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The MiBlend Randomized Trial: Investigating Genetic Polymorphisms in Personalized Responses to Fruit and Vegetable Interventions for Chronic Disease Prevention by Julia N. DeBenedictis, Na Xu, Theo M. de Kok, Simone G. van Breda

“…As with most dietary intervention studies, inter-individual variability was observed in the responses, which might be the consequence of genetic differences. …”
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Computational studies reveal structural characterization and novel families of Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici effectors. by Raheel Asghar, Nan Wu, Noman Ali, Yulei Wang, Mahinur Akkaya

“…However, due to the lack of an efficient genetic transformation system in Pst, progress in effector function studies has been slow. …”
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Effects of shading on photosynthetic characteristics and shade-tolerance evaluation of three Ranunculaceae plants by HAN Ruiting, ZHAO Dandan, WANG Weiyi, ZHANG Gexiang*

“…The light saturation point(LSP), light compensation point(LCP)and dark respiration rate(Rd)of the three plants decreased gradually.(3)The original fluorescence(Fo)decreased first and then increased, while the maximum fluorescence(Fm), variable fluorescence(Fv), maximum photochemical efficiency of PS Ⅱ(Fv/Fm)and potential activity of PS Ⅱ(Fv/Fo)values increased first and then decreased; the quantum ratio of heat dissipation(φDo)and the energy dissipated per unit reaction center(DIo/RC)decreased first and then increased, while electron transport quantum yield(φEo), light energy absorbed per unit reaction center(ABS/RC), light energy captured per unit reaction center(TRo/RC), energy used to transfer electrons per unit reaction center(ETo/RC), photosynthetic performance index(PIabs)and comprehensive performance index(PItotal)increased first and then decreased.(4)Comprehensive analysis on 20 single indicators by using analysis methods such as principal component analysis and membership function method showed that the shade-tolerance of the three plants ranked as Thalictrum fortunei > Delphinium anthriscifolium var. savatieri > R. japonicus. …”
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