Comprehensive Review Comparing the Development and Challenges in the Energy Performance of Pneumatic and Hydropneumatic Suspension Systems by Ryszard Dindorf

“…The purpose of this review is to comprehensively compare the developments and challenges in the energy performance of unconventional pneumatic suspension (PS) and hydropneumatic suspension (HPS), which have special applications in passenger cars, trucks, military vehicles and agricultural equipment. The main differences between PS and HPS, as well as their advantages and disadvantages, are presented. …”
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Quantification of soil losses using RUSLE model in the Boumlal watershed (Central Rif, Morocco) by El Ouazani Ech-Chahdi Khadija, El-Bouhali Abdelaziz, Amyay Mhamed

“…Water erosion in this watershed directly affects soil quality, agricultural land productivity, arable land area, and the siltation of downstream reservoirs.…”
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A Field Trial to Demonstrate the Potential of a Vitamin B Diet Supplement in Reducing Oxidative Stress and Improving Hygienic and Grooming Behaviors in Honey Bees by Nemanja M. Jovanovic, Uros Glavinic, Jevrosima Stevanovic, Marko Ristanic, Branislav Vejnovic, Slobodan Dolasevic, Zoran Stanimirovic

“…The honey bee is an important insect pollinator that provides critical pollination services for natural and agricultural systems worldwide. However, inadequate food weakens honey bee colonies, making them vulnerable to various biotic and abiotic factors. …”
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Dynamiques de création et trajectoires d’Ateliers de transformation collectifs (ATC) dans la région Occitanie by Agnès Terrieux, Mohamed Gafsi, Ugo Fiaschi

“…Collective transformation workshops (ATC) have emerged over the last thirty years to pool resources for farmers to diversify. Studies about agricultural cooperation are numerous, but those related to these new structures are relatively few. …”
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The Use of Novel Alginate Capsules in a Monitoring System for <i>Drosophila suzukii</i> in a Cherry Orchard in the Region of La Araucanía, Chile by Marcelo Lizama, Fernando Manuel Alves-Santos, Luis Manuel Navas-Gracia, Daniel Martínez-Cisterna, Cristian Medina, Ramón Rebolledo, Manuel Chacón-Fuentes, Leonardo Bardehle

“…This study will contribute from the perspective of nanomaterials, insect biology, agricultural entomology, and pest monitoring.…”
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Multitemporal High-Resolution Satellite Images for the Study and Monitoring of an Ancient Mesopotamian City and its Surrounding Landscape: The Case of Ur by Giacomo Di Giacomo, Giuseppe Scardozzi

“…The research also provided important data concerning the reconstruction of the surrounding landscape, where a lot of traces of old channels and riverbeds of the Euphrates were identified in areas much modified and altered during the last decades by urbanization and agricultural works. Moreover, the multitemporal images allowed the monitoring of the conservation of the archaeological area, particularly before and after second Gulf War.…”
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The Occurrence of Aflatoxins in Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) Worldwide by Merfat Abdulrahman Almaghrabi

“…Aflatoxin contamination in various agricultural commodities has attracted much attention worldwide. …”
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Industrial policy in the chemical industry in the context of economic sanctions against Russia by D. L. Frolov

“…The need to provide all production, household and agricultural areas with products and raw materials supplied from chemical enterprises poses the task of reducing dependence on imports, which has developed over the past decades for most commodity items. …”
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SPATIAL EVOLUTION OF SMART CITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM: A CASE STUDY OF PHUKET PROVINCE, THAILAND by Komsan KIRIWONGWATTANA, Katawut WAIYASUSRI

“…There has been a change from agricultural land to housing developments, residential areas, restaurants, hotels, resorts and homestays. …”
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Assessment of Climate Change Vulnerability at the Local Level: A Case Study on the Dniester River Basin (Moldova) by Roman Corobov, Igor Sîrodoev, Sonja Koeppel, Nickolai Denisov, Ghennadi Sîrodoev

“…The adaptive capacity was expressed by general economic and agricultural indicators, taking into consideration the medical provision and housing conditions. …”
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Vitellogenins Level as a Biomarker of the Honeybee Colony Strength in Urban and Rural Conditions by Łukasz Nicewicz, Agata Wanda Nicewicz, Mirosław Nakonieczny

“…For this purpose, honeybees were kept in two locations—in a city apiary on a roof in the city center and in agricultural areas. Each of the apiaries consisted of six colonies, with the sister queens artificially inseminated with semen from the same pool of drones. …”
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A Semiempirical Method to Estimate Actual Evapotranspiration in Mediterranean Environments by Marta Chiesi, Piero Battista, Luca Fibbi, Lorenzo Gardin, Maurizio Pieri, Bernardo Rapi, Maurizio Romani, Fabio Maselli

“…The current paper proposes a method to normalize annual SWC datasets and integrate them in an ETA estimation procedure suitable for monitoring both agricultural and natural Mediterranean ecosystems. Differently from previous approaches, the SWC normalization is obtained using data-specific information, which renders the new method mostly insensitive to the mentioned problems. …”
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Study Questions for the Certified Pesticide Applicator Examination: Natural Areas Weed Management by Ken A. Langeland

“…This document is SS-AGR-255, one of a series of the Agronomy Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Published August 2005. …”
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Cicada Killer, Giant Ground Hornet, Sphecius hogardii (Latreille) and Sphecius speciosus (Drury) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) by Lionel A. Stange

“…This document is EENY295, one of a series of the Entomology and Nematology Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date June 2003. …”
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Climatic, Regional Land-Use Intensity, Landscape, and Local Variables Predicting Best the Occurrence and Distribution of Bee Community Diversity in Various Farmland Habitats in Uga... by M. B. Théodore Munyuli

“…This study was conducted in 2006 in central Uganda to provide baseline data on relationships between bee community variables and local, climatic, landscape and regional drivers affecting bee community abundance and diversity in agricultural landscapes. Bee abundance and species richness increased significantly () with increase in percent cover of semi-natural habitats and the abundance of wild and cultivated floral resources in the landscape. …”
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The Lignicolous Fungus Hericium erinaceus (Lion’s Mane Mushroom): A Promising Natural Source of Antiradical and DPPH Inhibitory Agents by Akbar Jahedi, Saeideh Ahmadifar, Rahman Mohammadi, Ebrahim Mohammadi Goltapeh

“…The main idea of this study is to ingenious management of these wastes to achieve the highest performance of nutrients, minerals, and antioxidant properties using enriched agricultural waste. After preparing mushroom samples, the amount of mineral and mycochemical substances have been respectively evaluated by the Association of Official Analytical Chemists and Folin–Ciocalteu assay. …”
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New trends of additive manufacturing using materials based-on natural fibers and minerals : A systematic review by Joao Ribeiro, Manuel Rodríguez-Martín, Joaquín Barreiro, Ana Fernández-Abia, Roberto García-Martín, Joao Rocha, Susana Martínez-Pellitero

“…Their main advantage is that they make it possible to use waste and by-products of agricultural, forestry, and mineral origin to generate materials for Additive Manufacturing. …”
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Figuring Out Fertilizer for the Home Lawn by Laurie E. Trenholm, Joseph B. Unruh

“…This document is ENH962, one of a series of the Environmental Horticulture Department, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Original publication date September 9, 2003. …”
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River Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images Based on Composite Attention Network by Zhiyong Fan, Jianmin Hou, Qiang Zang, Yunjie Chen, Fei Yan

“…River segmentation of remote sensing images is of important research significance and application value for environmental monitoring, disaster warning, and agricultural planning in an area. In this study, we propose a river segmentation model in remote sensing images based on composite attention network to solve the problems of abundant river details in images and the interference of non-river information including bridges, shadows, and roads. …”
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Définir un cadre méthodologique commun en cartographie participative by Marie-Christine Cormier-Salem, Tidiane Sané

“…Coupled with other tools of field surveys (interviews, transects, historical profiles, agricultural calendar, etc.), participatory mapping pointed out the rice farming crisis in Casamance and its profound socio-cutural consequences on the Joola communities.Beyond the production of maps and new co-constructed knowledge, this workshop led to explicitly formulate the needs of the local people and their questions about the future of their terroirs and to accompany them in their advocacy (commitment of multidimensional dialogue) with the local or deconcentrated authorities of the Senegalese State. …”
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