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Simona Pascariello, Michela Mazzoni, Roberta Bettinetti, Marina Manca, Martina Patelli, Roberta Piscia, Sara Valsecchi and Stefano Polesello
Zooplankton is a key node in many trophic webs, both for food that for persistent organic contaminants that can accumulate in biota. Zooplankton of different size was seasonally sampled for two years in three deep Italian subalpine lakes (Maggiore, Como,...
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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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Luay Jabr, P. Emile Rossouw, Dimitrios Michelogiannakis, Shaima Malik, Timothy T. Wheeler and Abdul Basir Barmak
Objective: The objective was to compare the shear bond strength (SBS) and the adhesive remnant index (ARI) amongst six orthodontic bracket groups. Materials and Methods: Three-dimensional printed polycrystalline alumina brackets (3DBs), ceramic brackets ...
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Ugur Ercan, Onder Kabas and Georgiana Moiceanu
Alfalfa holds an extremely significant place in animal nutrition when it comes to providing essential nutrients. The leaves of alfalfa specifically boast the highest nutritional value, containing a remarkable 70% of crude protein and an impressive 90% of...
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Ahmed M. Nor, Octavian Fratu and Simona Halunga
In this article, we propose a new RIS passive beamforming scheme in two main stages. First, a fingerprint-based codebook (FP-CB) design phase occurs, where the area of interest is divided into a number of points and the optimal reflection patterns (RPs) ...
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Khawla Nsiri and Abdelmajid Krouma
Iron deficiency is a worldwide nutritional problem affecting crop production. In Tunisia, this mineral disorder hampers the growth and yield of the major crops due to the abundance of calcareous soils that limit iron availability. The common bean is one ...
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Linghao Wang, Liang Shu and Hao Zhou
Circuit breakers (CBs) are mainly designed to interrupt current flow when faults are detected and have been widely used in industrial applications. The existing CBs manufacturing method is semi-automatic and requires a lot of labor. To realize flexible m...
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Tanawit Sirijaree and Pornsawai Praipipat
Lead is a highly toxic heavy metal that creates a water pollutant. It can be released from industrial processes, agricultural chemistry, and community wastes, affecting creatures and human health even at a low concentration. As a result, it is advised th...
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Georgios Chalkiadakis, Ioannis Ziogas, Michail Koutsmanis, Errikos Streviniotis, Costas Panagiotakis and Harris Papadakis
In this paper, we develop a novel hybrid recommender system for the tourism domain, which combines (a) a Bayesian preferences elicitation component which operates by asking the user to rate generic images (corresponding to generic types of POIs) in order...
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Vitor Probst Curtarelli and Israel Cohen
This paper presents a novel approach utilizing uniform rectangular arrays to design a constant-beamwidth (CB) linearly constrained minimum variance (LCMV) beamformer, which also improves white noise gain and directivity. By employing a generalization of ...
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