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Piyabalo Kodom, Antonio J. Aragón-Barroso, Edem K. Koledzi, Kwamivi Segbeaya, Jesús González-López and Francisco Osorio
This study aimed to treat sewage sludge through microwave irradiation at a laboratory scale. The objective was to investigate the effect of microwave irradiation on microorganisms, water content, organic matter, and agronomic nutrients present in sewage ...
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Ying Wang, Lina Li, Xun Zhang and Mingshan Ji
Excessive pesticide application in greenhouses leads to elevated levels of pesticide residues, especially in cold seasons, thereby posing a potential dietary exposure risk to the residents? health. This study aimed to investigate 65 pesticides in 469 lea...
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Changyao Shan, Xinyue You, Li Li, Xin Du, Yonglin Ren and Tao Liu
Ethyl formate (EF), a naturally occurring fumigant, has attracted widespread attention owing to its low toxicity in mammals. Here, Direct Immersion Solid-Phase Microextraction (DI-SPME) was employed for sample preparation in mass spectrometry-based untar...
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Ivan S. Maksymov and Ganna Pogrebna
We propose a quantum-mechanical model that represents a human system of beliefs as the quantised energy levels of a physical system. This model represents a novel perspective on opinion dynamics, recreating a broad range of experimental and real-world da...
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Hadeel Alrubayyi, Moudy Sharaf Alshareef, Zunaira Nadeem, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem and Mona Jaber
The hype of the Internet of Things as an enabler for intelligent applications and related promise for ushering accessibility, efficiency, and quality of service is met with hindering security and data privacy concerns. It follows that such IoT systems, w...
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Jessica J. Sportelli, Kelly M. Heimann and Brittany L. Jones
Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) rely on frequency- and amplitude-modulated whistles to communicate, and noise exposure can inhibit the success of acoustic communication through masking or causing behavioral changes in the animal. At the US Navy ...
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Kees Nederhoff, Sean C. Crosby, Nate R. Van Arendonk, Eric E. Grossman, Babak Tehranirad, Tim Leijnse, Wouter Klessens and Patrick L. Barnard
The Puget Sound Coastal Storm Modeling System (PS-CoSMoS) is a tool designed to dynamically downscale future climate scenarios (i.e., projected changes in wind and pressure fields and temperature) to compute regional water levels, waves, and compound flo...
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Bakry A. Bakry, Mervat Sh. Sadak, Nagla M. Al Ashkar, Omar M. Ibrahim, Mohammad K. Okla and Amira M. El-Tahan
Drought stress is an important challenge to global food security and agricultural output, and dramatic and rapid climate change has made the problem worse, causing unexpected impacts on the growth, development, and yield of different plants. Understandin...
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Dimitris Papadopoulos and Vangelis D. Karalis
Sample size is a key factor in bioequivalence and clinical trials. An appropriately large sample is necessary to gain valuable insights into a designated population. However, large sample sizes lead to increased human exposure, costs, and a longer time f...
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Ying Liu, Wenjing Shen, Kaixuan Fan, Weihao Pei and Shaomin Liu
The impacts of heavy metal pollution in arable soil on agricultural production, environmental health, and the wellbeing of urban and rural residents cannot be overlooked. It has become a significant bottleneck in achieving comprehensive rural revitalizat...
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