Predicting changes in agricultural yields under climate change scenarios and their implications for global food security by Christine Li, James Camac, Andrew Robinson, Tom Kompas

“…Our estimates show projected yield responses of − 22% (maize), − 9% (rice), − 15% (soy), and − 14% (wheat) from 2015 to 2080–2100 under the business-as-usual scenario of SSP5–8.5, which reduce to − 3.8%, − 2.7%, 1.4%, and − 1.5% respectively under the lower emissions scenario of SSP1–2.6. …”
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Emergy Evaluation of a Production and Utilization Process of Irrigation Water in China by Dan Chen, Zhao-Hui Luo, Jing Chen, Jun Kong, Dong-Li She

“…Its emergy evaluation shows that water is the major component of inputs into the irrigation water production and utilization systems (24.7% and 47.9% of the total inputs, resp.) and that the transformities of irrigation water and rice as the systems’ products (1.72E+05 sej/J and 1.42E+05 sej/J, resp.; sej/J = solar emjoules per joule) represent their different emergy efficiencies. …”
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Efficacy of Household and Commercial Washing Agents in Removing the Pesticide Thiabendazole Residues from Fruits by Xinyi Du, Lauren Ho, Sisheng Li, Jeffery Doherty, Junghak Lee, John M. Clark, Lili He

“…This study investigates the efficacy of household ingredients (corn starch, all-purpose flour, rice flour and baking soda) and four commercial fresh produce wash products in eliminating a model pesticide thiabendazole with and without a model non-ionic surfactant Alligare 90^® from postharvest fruits. …”
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Moderate and Severe Level of Food Insecurity Is Associated with High Calorie-Dense Food Consumption of Filipino Households by Imelda Angeles-Agdeppa, Marvin B. Toledo, Jezreel Ann T. Zamora

“…In comparison with food secure households, moderate and severe food insecure households consume higher amounts of cereals and cereal products, rice, and vegetables. Moderate and severe food insecure households have higher consumption of total carbohydrates but have significantly lower average intake of vitamin A, riboflavin, niacin, and total fat related to food stable households. …”
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The effect of misinformation acceptance on COVID-19 prevention behaviors by Leila Dehghani, Tahereh Tamimi, Mazyar Ganjoor, Parisa Eskandari

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Insect Pests and Diseases in Stored Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) and Maize (Zea mays L.) in West Hararghe, Ethiopia by Gelana Keno Beyene, Amin Mohammed Yones, Ahmed Beyan Heji, Mukaddes Kayim

“…The results revealed that maize and sorghum grains stored in sacks, ground pits, markets, and hanging (maize cob) storage containers were infested with insect species: maize weevil (S. zeamais), Angoumois grain moth (S. cerealella), rice weevil (S. oryzae), Red flour beetle (T. castaneum), confused flour beetle (T. confusum), and Lesser grain borer (R. dominica). …”
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Optimization of Physiochemical Parameters during Bioremediation of Synthetic Dye by Marasmius cladophyllus UMAS MS8 Using Statistical Approach by Fatin Nur Sufinas Shuib, Ahmad Husaini, Azham Zulkharnain, Hairul Azman Roslan, Tay Meng Guan

“…Biodegradation analyses were carried out on a soil spiked with RBBR and supplemented with rice husk as the fungus growth enhancer. A two-level Plackett-Burman design was used to screen the medium components for the effects on the decolourization of RBBR. …”
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Public Library Makerspace in Iran: A Qualitative Study on Components and Advantages by Abdolrasool Khosravi, Maryam Ravanipour, Heidar Mokhtari, Maryam Heydari, Reza BasirianJahromi

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Dynamic connectedness and volatility spillover in the Brazilian agricultural market after the Covid-19 pandemic by Daniel Henrique Dario Capitani, Luiz Eduardo Gaio

“…Additionally, wheat was a significant volatility receiver after the Russia-Ukraine conflict and rice was a net transmitter during the Covid-19 pandemic. …”
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Partial substitution of coal with palm kernel in cement kilns: effects on cement production and quality by Kalamba Harlene Tshibola, Bolanle Deborah Ikotun, Bilal Patel

“…Therefore, alternative fuels such as biomass waste (palm kernel, rice, and coffee husks etc.) or processed waste materials (refuse derived fuel, waste tires, waste plastics, used oil etc.) and other types of waste have gained much interest recently in cement industries as they present a potential substitution option. …”
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Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships Based on Mitogenomes of Spider: Insights Into Evolution and Adaptation to Extreme Environments by Rongxiang Zhang, Niyan Xiang, Xiaoman Gao, Guiyu Zhang, Tian Lu, Tao Yuan

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Rapid Residue Analysis of Phthalanilic Acid in Cereals and Oilseed Rape by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Coupled to Tandem Mass Spectrometry by Aijuan Zhang, Li Zhou, Miao Yu, Yizhi Feng, Yanli Bian, Jinju Pan, Bojun Zuo, Lin Liang

“…In this study, a rapid and sensitive method was developed based on QuEChERS and LC-MS/MS to detect phthalanilic acid in cereals (wheat, rice, corn, and millet), wheat straw, and rapeseeds. …”
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DFMA: an improved DeepLabv3+ based on FasterNet, multi-receptive field, and attention mechanism for high-throughput phenotyping of seedlings by Liangquan Jia, Tao Wang, Xiangge Li, Lu Gao, Qiangguo Yu, Xincheng Zhang, Shanlin Ma

“…On our self-constructed rice seedling dataset, the model achieved a mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 81.72%. …”
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Identification and investigation of the area under cultivation in Lenjanat using Landsat 8 satellite images by Vahid Riahi, Parviz Zeaiean Firouzabadi, Farhad Azizpour, Parastoo Darouei

“…The results showed that there were differences equal to 10.2%, 18.6% and 1.8%, in the area under cultivation of wheat and barley, rice, and potato and forage, respectively, in maximum likelihood classification, comparing with the statistics of Agriculture Jihad while the results of NDVI comparing with Jihad statistics showed the errors equal to 6.6 %, 6.5 % and 3.2%, respectively, that indicated the better performance of temporal vegetation indices in estimation of area under cultivation according to its phenology. …”
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A Low-Duty-Cycle and Congestion-Robust Design of Adaptive Wi-Fi 7 Multi-Link Operation Control Over User Side by Yirong Cheng, Abhishek Sehgal, Kyeong Jin Kim, Neha Dawar, Yuming Zhu

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Impact of processing conditions on the rehydration kinetics and texture profile of freeze-dried carbohydrates sources by Vitor Andre Silva Vidal, Sara Slettemark Juel, Kirill Mukhatov, Ida-Johanne Jensen, Jørgen Lerfall

“…The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of boiling, freeze-drying, and the subsequent rehydration process on the rehydration kinetics of different carbohydrate sources (potato, rice, white pasta, and whole-grain pasta) and texture profile. …”
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Dietary Pattern and Metabolic Syndrome in Thai Adults by W. Aekplakorn, W. Satheannoppakao, P. Putwatana, S. Taneepanichskul, P. Kessomboon, V. Chongsuvivatwong, S. Chariyalertsak

“…The third, high carbohydrate pattern, had a high intake of glutinous rice, fermented fish, chili paste, and bamboo shoots. …”
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Predicting Nanobinder-Improved Unsaturated Soil Consistency Limits Using Genetic Programming and Artificial Neural Networks by Ahmed M. Ebid, Light I. Nwobia, Kennedy C. Onyelowe, Frank I. Aneke

“…., liquid limits, plastic limit, and plasticity index of unsaturated soil treated with a composite binder known as hybrid cement (HC) made from blending nanostructured quarry fines (NQF) and hydrated-lime-activated nanostructured rice husk ash (HANRHA). The database needed for the prediction operation was generated from several experiments corresponding with treatment dosages of HANRHA between 0 and 12% at a rate of 0.1%. …”
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Effects of Harvesting Age and Barley Varieties on Morphological Characteristics, Biomass Yield, Chemical Composition, and Economic Benefits under Hydroponic Conditions in Fogera Di... by Yeshambel Alemnew, Yeshambel Mekuriaw

“…The objectives of this study were to evaluate the effects of harvesting age at 6, 8, 10, and 12 days and four barley varieties HB-1307, Debark-1, Tila, and local varieties on morphological characteristics, biomass yield, chemical composition, and economic benefits under hydroponics in the Fogera district at Fogera National Rice Research and Training Center of Amhara Region, Ethiopia. …”
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Intensified Drought Threatens Future Food Security in Major Food-Producing Countries by Zihao Liu, Aifeng Lv, Taohui Li

“…Based on historical data, this study examines the yield response characteristics of key crops—maize, rice, soybean, spring wheat, and winter wheat—under drought conditions during their growth cycles, highlighting variations in drought sensitivity among major food-producing countries. …”
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