Assessing the role of genotype by environment interaction of winter wheat cultivars using envirotyping techniques in North China by Haiwang Yue, Yanbing Wang, Zhaoyang Chen, Jiashuai Zhu, Partha Pratim Behera, Pengcheng Liu, Haoxiang Yang, Jianwei Wei, Junzhou Bu, Xuwen Jiang, Xuwen Jiang, Wujun Ma

“…Among the meteorological and soil variables, minimum temperature (TMIN), fruiting rate (FRUE), temperature at 2 meters (T2M), and clay content (CLAY) emerged as the most significant contributors to yield variation during the study period. …”
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Screening and Identification of Cold-Tolerant Phosphorus and Potassium Solubilizing Bacteria and Their Growth-Promoting Effects on Soybean in Cold Regions by Hao Yan, Tianyi Wang, Haocheng Wang, Nan Sun, Xuebing Wang, Xingbo Zhao, Zhongbao Yao, Hao Tian, Shengjie Chen, Songyan Tang, Chenyang Li

“…In this study, we collected soybean inter-root soil (clay soil) from the cold region of Heilongjiang Province, China, screening for cold-tolerant phosphorus- and potassium-solubilizing bacteria by the gradient-cooling-directed screening and design of mixed bacterial agents. …”
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Soil porosity as a key factor of soil aggregate stability: insights from restricted grazing by Yi Yang, Yi Yang, Yi Yang, Zhongju Meng, Zhongju Meng, Zhongju Meng, Haonian Li, Haonian Li, Haonian Li, Yue Gao, Yue Gao, Yue Gao, Tianyang Li, Tianyang Li, Tianyang Li, Lei Qin

“…Additionally, SG significantly increased clay (<0.002 mm), silt (0.002–0.02 mm), and macroaggregates (>0.25 mm) in the 0–10 cm layer. …”
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Experimental Study on Frost Heave Behavior of Steel Fiber Improved Soil by Rongjian Shi, Feng Huang, Fengtian Yue, Zequn Hong, Yichen Li

“…In terms of soil property influence, the frost heave rate of the clay samples was reduced by 14.31% compared to the silt samples, while the water migration was reduced by 11.99%. …”
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Micro- and Nanoscale Pore Structure Characterization and Mineral Composition Analysis of Clayey-Silt Hydrate Reservoir in South China Sea by Cheng Lu, Yuxuan Xia, Xuwen Qin, Chao Ma, Hang Bian, Donghui Xing, Hongfeng Lu

“…The mineral composition of the reservoir is mainly quartz and contains a certain amount of clay minerals, mainly illite, while the mineral composition of reservoir rich in microbial fossils is mainly carbonate. …”
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Quantification and Evaluation of Soil Erosion in the Estuaries of Cameroon, Gulf of Guinea: Case of Nylon Area by Eric Flavien Mbiakouo-Djomo, Ebénézer Njeugna, Denis Tcheukam-Toko, Didier Fokwa

“…The high level of rainfall in this town, soil texture (sand-clay-silt), and the anarchic occupation of the area play a part in the important deterioration of the bare ground on the upstream of the catchment area. …”
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Numerical Analysis of a Dual-Layer Geosynthetic-Encased Stone Column Installed in Soft Soil by Neeraj Kumar, Rakesh Kumar, Bhawani S. Nirola, Akash Jaiswal

“…Improvement of 15–25% was observed for the analysis of a single column installed in soft clay, according to the result obtained. Improvement ratios have been discussed in detail for various encasement conditions.…”
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Optimizing the Prediction Accuracy of Friction Capacity of Driven Piles in Cohesive Soil Using a Novel Self-Tuning Least Squares Support Vector Machine by Doddy Prayogo, Yudas Tadeus Teddy Susanto

“…This comprehensive evaluation confirmed the capability of hybrid approach SOS and LS-SVM to modeling the accurate friction capacity of driven piles in clay. It makes for a reliable and robust assistance tool in helping all geotechnical engineers estimate friction pile capacity.…”
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Influence of Boundary Conditions on Cracking of Sanxingdui Moon Bay City Wall by Jin Qu, Jianlin Ma, Bai Yang

“…The Sanxingdui Moon Bay City Wall, in China, is built of pale-yellow sand and yellow-brown clay, and the yellow-brown layers are suffering severely. …”
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Response of Sorghum bicolor L. to Residual Phosphate on Two Contrasting Soils Previously Planted to Cowpea or Maize by Tola Omolayo Olasunkanmi, Ezekiel Akinkunmi Akinrinde

“…The test crops in the first cropping performed better on the slightly acidic loamy sand than on the strongly acidic sandy clay loam. Performance of each crop was improved by P supply in the first and second cropping. …”
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Experimental evaluation of nanoclay assisted water based EOR method by Hamid Mohammad Soleimani, Mohammad Taghi Sadeghi

“…Experiments such as nanofluid preparation, nanofluid stability, Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS), Zeta potential, X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) analysis, clay swelling tests, CA and IFT measurements were performed for this purpose. …”
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Estimation of apparent thermal inertia of roofing materials from aerial thermal imagery by Emanuele Mandanici, Gabriele Lo Grasso, Maria A. Tini, Antonio Zanutta

“…Statistics on the buildings in the test areas are computed considering different classes of roofing materials (e.g. bituminous sheath, clay tiles, metal sheet, gravel tiles). Observed median ATI values for each class range from 0.03 to 0.09 K $$^{-1}$$ - 1 with interquartile ranges between 0.02 and 0.14 K $$^{-1}$$ - 1 , so the intra-class variability in some cases appears higher than the variability among different material classes, proving the importance of ATI mapping for UHI investigations.…”
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Effects of LECA Content on the Behavior of Steel Fiber-Reinforced Geopolymer Concrete at High Temperature by Lafta Ghassan M., Ali Ahmed S.

“…This paper examines how steel fiber and the amount of lightweight expanded clay aggregate (LECA) affect the mechanical and microstructural properties of geopolymer concrete (GPC) made from fly ash after being heated. …”
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Research on Shear Strength Parameters of the Silty Fine Sand and the Rounded Gravel Layers in Nanning City by Liming Yang, Fan Yang, Qian Zhou, Guangbin Zhang

“…The silty fine sand and rounded gravel layers are widely distributed in Nanning City, China. Due to the low clay content, the silty fine sand and rounded gravel layers are prone to disturbance during sampling and transportation, which affects the shear strength test results. …”
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Geotechnical Properties of Wood Ash-Based Composite Fine-Grained Soil by Bayshakhi Deb Nath, Grytan Sarkar, Sumi Siddiqua, Md. Rokunuzzaman, Md. Rafiqul Islam

“…It could be managed by using wood ash as a stabilizer of soft clay. It is found that there is an enhancement of the engineering properties of existing soil in stabilized forms particularly unconfined compressive strength (UCS), shear strength parameters, workability, and compaction and compressibility characteristics. …”
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The bearing capacity based on standard penetration test by Widiarso Dian Agus, Qadaryati Nurakhmi, Winarno Tri

“…N-SPT correlation with soil physical properties (clay fraction percentage, plasticity index percentage, and activity value) was also carried out, but most of the data stations were not in accordance with normal conditions.…”
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L’agglomération secondaire de Famars/Fanum Martis (Nord) durant l’Antiquité tardive : d’un pôle commercial au centre militaire by Raphaël Clotuche, Bérangère Fort, Julie Donnadieu, Nicolas Tisserand, Annick Thuet

“…The presence of considerable amounts of raw material (clay deposits, sandstone and iron ore) has enabled its development from the end of the 1st c. …”
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Particle-Size Distribution Models for the Conversion of Chinese Data to FAO/USDA System by Wei Shangguan, YongJiu Dai, Carlos García-Gutiérrez, Hua Yuan

“…The performance of PSD models also varied with clay content of soils. The Anderson, Fredlund, modified logistic growth, Skaggs, and Weilbull models were the best.…”
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Logging Characteristics and Identification Methods of Low Resistivity Oil Layer: Upper Cretaceous of the Third Member of Qingshankou Formation, Daqingzijing Area, Songliao Basin, C... by Congjun Feng, Murray Gingras, Mengsi Sun, Bing Wang

“…Low amplitude structure, high clay content, high irreducible water saturation, and high formation water salinity are attributed to the origin of low resistivity oil layer.…”
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