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Wei Hu, Zhouming Gao, Xiaoya Dong, Jian Chen and Baijing Qiu
Contact electrification has attracted interest as a mechanism for generating electrical charges on surfaces. To explore the factors contributing to electrification by droplets impacting the leaf surface, high-speed image capture and current measurements ...
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Haifu Pan, Wuyun Zhao, Ruijie Shi, Lu Li, Fei Dai, Huan Deng and Yiming Zhao
Water is an important factor limiting the development of arid rain-fed agriculture. Film mulching is an effective way to ensure yield in arid areas. However, whether biodegradable film can be used instead of polyethylene film for agricultural production ...
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Juan Carlos Suárez, Amara T. Contreras, Milan O. Urban, Miguel A. Grajales, Stephen E. Beebe and Idupulapati M. Rao
One of the strategies to combat micronutrient malnutrition is by developing biofortified common bean lines (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) capable of tolerating different stress conditions. In this study, the adaptive responses of different biofortified bean lin...
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Magnolia del Carmen Tzec-Gamboa, Oscar Omar Álvarez-Rivera, Luis Ramírez y Avilés and Francisco Javier Solorio-Sánchez
Decomposition and N release pattern from the leaves of three shrubs species were studied under field conditions. Leaves of Leucaena leucocephala (Lam.), Guazuma ulmifolia (Lam.) and Moringa oleifera (Lam.) and two mixtures, Leucaena + Moringa and Leucaen...
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Peter A. Roussos, Nikoleta-Kleio Denaxa, Athanassios Tsafouros and Efstathios Ntanos
The present study investigated the impact of cane girdling on the ?Hayward? kiwifruit cultivar, both in terms of leaf physiological functions and fruit quality attributes, at harvest and post-storage. Four treatments were conducted: the control cane gird...
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Samuel Pallis, Andrei Alyokhin, Brian Manley, Thais B. Rodrigues, Ethann Barnes and Kenneth Narva
The Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Say) (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) is an insect defoliator of the potato, Solanum tuberosum L. This species thrives in agricultural environments because of its flexible and complex life history, as wel...
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Kyeong Ho Kim, Md Rayhan Ahmed Shawon, Jin Hee An, Hyoun Jin Lee, Dong Jae Kwon, In-Chul Hwang, Jong Hyang Bae and Ki Young Choi
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of shade screens on the physiological activity, growth parameters and fruit characteristics of the paprika (Capsicum annuum L.) plant. Plants were grown in a protected greenhouse and treated under two d...
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Daniel Hernández-Pitalúa, María Graciela Hernández-Orduña, Gustavo Alonso Martínez-Escalante and Isabel Lagunes-Gómez
Lead (Pb) as a pollutant is not biodegradable, tends to accumulate in different organisms, and can affect, for example, the performance of maize crops. However, only a few studies have reported on the effect of lead (Pb) and the relationship with the pot...
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Indulekha Thekkethuruthel Sadanandan and Bhadrachalam Chitturi
Sorting permutations with various operations has applications in genetics and computer interconnection networks where an operation is specified by its generator set. A transposition tree ??=(??,??)
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Igor A. Chaves, Sean de Prazer, Barbara Jardim do Nascimento and Gregory Flowers
Not counting domestic dwellings, it has been estimated that in Australia alone, some tens of thousands of masonry buildings and structures have exceeded their design life, with many of these being at risk of partial (or worse) collapse from falling or di...
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