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Fei Gao, Gary Feng, Ying Ouyang, Johnie Jenkins and Changming Liu
Groundwater storage and level have declined rapidly in the Big Sunflower River Watershed (BSRW) of Mississippi Delta in recent years. Farmers in this region are beginning to save groundwater resources by increasing surface water usage for agricultural ir...
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Jin Hun Park and Pavel Pereslavtsev
Research and development of the DEMOnstration power plant (DEMO) breeder blanket (BB) has been performed in recent years based on a predefined DEMO tritium breeding ratio (TBR) requirement, which determines a loss of wall surface due to non-breeding in-v...
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Sara M. Marcelino, Pedro Dinis Gaspar, Arminda do Paço, Tânia M. Lima, Ana Monteiro, José Carlos Franco, Erika S. Santos, Rebeca Campos and Carlos M. Lopes
Agriculture intensification has driven the loss of biodiversity at a global level. The implementation of strategies to conserve and promote biodiversity in agricultural areas can be favoured by adequate assessment methods that foster the awareness of dec...
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Joana Carneiro, Dália Loureiro, Marta Cabral and Dídia Covas
This paper presents and demonstrates a novel scenario-building methodology that integrates contextual and future time uncertainty into the performance assessment of water distribution networks (WDNs). A three-step approach is proposed: (i) System context...
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Mingming Yang, Changhai Qin, Yongnan Zhu, Yong Zhao, Guohua He and Lizhen Wang
Inter-basin water transfer (IBWT) projects are an effective means of addressing regional water resource imbalances. However, owing to the long construction cycle, large investment amount, and wide impact range, water diversion projects exhibit delayed an...
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Yali Li, Hongjuan Zhang, Mengzhu Liu and Hongwei Pei
Reclamation of treated sewage is an important way to alleviate urban water scarcity and optimize ecological layout, especially in irrigating urban turfgrass. Nevertheless, the irrational use of reclaimed sewage could result in risk of excessive nitrogen ...
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Karma Tempa, Masengo Ilunga, Abhishek Agarwal and Tashi
Gelephu, located in the Himalayan region, has undergone significant development activities due to its suitable topography and geographic location. This has led to rapid urbanization in recent years. Assessing land use land cover (LULC) dynamics and Norma...
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Jiashuo Yu, Hanbin Xiao, Feiyue Sun, Likang Yan and Min Liu
In the port domain, quayside container cranes are an indispensable component of maritime freight transport. These cranes are not only costly but also associated with safety accidents that often result in casualties and property loss, severely impacting p...
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Sergio Vélez, Enrique Barajas, José Antonio Rubio, Dimas Pereira-Obaya and José Ramón Rodríguez-Pérez
This study explores spectroscopy in the 350 to 2500 nm range for detecting powdery mildew (Erysiphe necator) in grapevine leaves, crucial for precision agriculture and sustainable vineyard management. In a controlled experimental vineyard setting, the sp...
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Abdullahi T. Sulaiman, Habeeb Bello-Salau, Adeiza J. Onumanyi, Muhammed B. Mu?azu, Emmanuel A. Adedokun, Ahmed T. Salawudeen and Abdulfatai D. Adekale
The particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is widely used for optimization purposes across various domains, such as in precision agriculture, vehicular ad hoc networks, path planning, and for the assessment of mathematical test functions towards ben...
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