Effects of continuous cropping on bacterial community diversity and soil metabolites in soybean roots by Liwei An, Xinnan Lu, Pengyu Zhang, Jiayao Sun, Baiming Cong, Rula Sa, Dexin He

“…The process that included rotating corn soybeans significantly enhanced their grain yield, dry weight, soil nitrogen concentration, urease activity, as well as the accumulation of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium in various plant organs, compared to the traditional practice of continuous soybean cultivation. …”
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Investigating the Association between Healthy Eating Index and Early Childhood Caries in Iranian Preschool Children: A Case-Control Study by Maryam Mehrabkhani, Taraneh Movahhed, Mohsen Nematy, Melika Hoseinzadeh, Homeira Mohammadi

“…Results:  The HEI for CF group was significantly higher than ECC group (P<0.001, CI 95%: 57.58-67.93 vs. 51.72-65.49), respectively). The mean scores of grain, milk, fruits, vegetables, and meat groups were significantly higher in CF group (P<0.001).  …”
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A Verifiable and Secure Industrial IoT Data Deduplication Scheme With Real-Time Data Integrity Checking in Fog-Assisted Cloud Environments by Jakkarin Lapmoon, Somchart Fugkeaw

“…In this paper, we proposed VERDUP, a verifiable and secure deduplication scheme with the support of real-time data integrity checking and fine-grained access control specifically designed for IIoT environments. …”
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Effect of Porous Coating on Heat Transfer in Minichannels with Intensive Localised Heating by Pukhovoy M.V., Zaitsev D.V.

“…A technology was created for forming various porous coatings on a heater based on Nickel powder with a characteristic grain size of about 60-100 μm. As a result, three different thin (150 μm scale) porous coatings were obtained: Nickel (100% Ni) and two bimetallic coatings containing copper or zinc powders (80% Ni + 20% Cu, 50% Ni + 50% Zn). …”
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The study and determination of causes of fracture of the shaft of the roll working the wire cassette unit by I. A. Kovaleva, P. A. Bobkov, I. A. Ovchinnikova

“…The fracture surface has a fine-grained fracture (formed under conditions of small plastic deformation) and is characterized by the presence of shiny flat areas on the fracture surfaceThe study of the microstructure after etching in a reagent «Nital» and reagent Oberhoffer. …”
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Genome sequencing and comparison of five Tilletia species to identify candidate genes for the detection of regulated species infecting wheat by Hai D. T. Nguyen, Tahera Sultana, Prasad Kesanakurti, Sarah Hambleton

“…Historically, diagnostic methods have relied on cryptic morphology to differentiate these species in subsamples from grain shipments. Of the DNA-based methods published so far, most have focused on sequence variation among tested strains at a single gene locus. …”
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Lip forgery detection via spatial-frequency domain combination by Jiaying LIN, Wenbo ZHOU, Weiming ZHANG, Nenghai YU

“…In recent years, numerous “face-swapping” videos have emerged in social networks, one of the representatives is the lip forgery with speakers.While making life more entertaining for the public, it poses a significant crisis for personal privacy and property security in cyberspace.Currently, under non-destructive conditions, most of the lip forgery detection methods achieve good performance.However, the compression operations are widely used in practice especially in social media platforms, face recognition and other scenarios.While saving pixel and time redundancy, the compression operations affect the video quality and destroy the coherent integrity of pixel-to-pixel and frame-to-frame in the spatial domain, and then the degradation of its detection performance and even misjudgment of the real video will be caused.When the information in the spatial domain cannot provide sufficiently effective features, the information in the frequency domain naturally becomes a priority research object because it can resist compression interference.Aiming at this problem, the advantages of frequency information in image structure and gradient feedback were analyzed.Then the lip forgery detection via spatial-frequency domain combination was proposed, which effectively utilized the corresponding characteristics of information in spatial and frequency domains.For lip features in the spatial domain, an adaptive extraction network and a light-weight attention module were designed.For frequency features in the frequency domain, separate extraction and fusion modules for different components were designed.Subsequently, by conducting a weighted fusion of lip features in spatial domain and frequency features in frequency domain, more texture information was preserved.In addition, fine-grained constraints were designed during the training to separate the inter-class distance of real and fake lip features while closing the intra-class distance.Experimental results show that, benefiting from the frequency information, the proposed method can enhance the detection accuracy under compression situation with certain transferability.On the other hand, in the ablation study conducted on the core modules, the results verify the effectiveness of the frequency component for anti-compression and the constraint of the dual loss function in training.…”
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Evaluation of Different Rates of Ampligo Insecticide against Fall Armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda (JE Smith); Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in the Coastal Savannah Agroecological Zone of... by Michael Y. Osae, Justice O. Frimpong, Joshua O. Sintim, Benjamin K. Offei, Dinah Marri, Selorm E. K. Ofori

“…Also, FAW infestation did not impact maize grain yield. The study, therefore, concluded that Ampligo pesticide falls in low-risk plant protection product category with a very potent active ingredient that reduces FAW populations. …”
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Can Soil Compaction Alter Morphophysiological Responses and Soybean Yield under Application of Selective Herbicides? by Bruno César Silva Pereira, Camila Jorge Bernabé Ferreira, Guilherme Braga Pereira Braz, Matheus de Freitas Souza, Rose Luiza Moraes Tavares, Márcio Rosa, Eduardo Lima do Carmo, Gabriel Henrique Vian, Ana Paula Sousa Silva, Fellipe Goulart Machado

“…The isolated soil compaction factor negatively impacted the plant stand and the thousand-grain mass of soybean, showing reductions in the values of this parameter when the soybean was grown in compacted soil.…”
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Microstructural Evolution and Oxidation Resistance of Fe-30Ni-15Cr Alloy for Internal Combustion Engine Valves Under Long-Term High-Temperature Exposure and Heat Treatment by Yuguo Tu, Xueshan Xiao, Zhiyuan Zhu, Linzhen Zhou

“…During prolonged thermal exposure, grain growth occurs mainly in the initial stage, and after 200 h, the prolonged exposure time leads to a significant coarsening of γ′ precipitates, whose area fraction increases by more than 10 times compared to their unaged state. …”
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Change of salt tolerance in common wheat after introgression of genetic material from Aegilops speltoides and Triticum timopheevii by R. S. Yudina, I. N. Leonova, E. A. Salina, E. K. Khlestkina

“…Salt-sensitive wheat varieties have poor yield and impaired grain quality when exposed to salinity. The aim of this study was to evaluate the degree of influence of alien genetic material on salinity tolerance in common wheat seedlings. …”
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The valuable characteristics of oats genotypes and resistance to Fusarium disease by I. G. Loskutov, E. V. Blinova, O. P. Gavrilova, T. Yu. Gagkaeva

“…An integral analysis has shown that the duration of the second half of the vegetation period, resistance to lodging and pathogen infection, plant height and panicle elongation facilitate grain infection. It has been found that A. strigosa and A. sativa are less susceptible to Fusarium than A. byzantina and A. abyssinica. …”
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Assessment of drought resistance in sorghum CMS lines based on various sterility sources by O. P. Kibalnik, T. V. Larina, O. B. Kameneva, D. S. Semin

“…Twenty sterile lines of grain sorghum with 8 types of CMS were studied in 2019 and 2020 in the arid conditions of Saratov Province. …”
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Gastronomy vs gastro-anomie? Japan’s foodscape by А. V. Malov, S. V. Chugrov

“…In conclusion, the authors diagnose the dialectical nature of the process of Kawaii-fication of Japan’s foodscape, characterized by the charm of infantilism with a grain of salt – radical escapism and social maladjustment.…”
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Rural-urban transformation shapes oasis agriculture in Morocco’s High Atlas Mountains by Youness Boubou, Kira Fastner, Andreas Buerkert

“…A typical example is the oasis of Tizi N’Oucheg in the country’s High Atlas Mountains, which over centuries was largely self-sufficient in food grain and livestock production. Improved infrastructure and better connections to distant urban centers have caused declining livelihood reliance on agricultural activities and enhanced dependence on remittances and the tourism sector in the region. …”
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Stabilization of soil organic matter in Luvisols under the influence of various tree species in temperate forests by Karolina Staszel-Szlachta, Ewa Błońska, Jarosław Lasota

“…Forest stands growing in the same soil conditions (Luvisols) with similar geological material (loess) and grain size were selected for the study. We evaluated labile and heavy fractions of soil organic matter (SOM). …”
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Profiling the Properties of SILAR Synthesized MnSe Films as Potential Material for Absorber Layer of Thin Film Solar Cells by Asielue O Kingsley, Opene J Nkechi, Okoli N Livinus

“…Morphological analysis revealed uniform grain-like structures at moderate TEA concentrations, which are optimal for photovoltaic performance. …”
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Effects of Different Straw Return Methods on Farmland Carbon Footprint and Water Footprint by Lu Hua, Yang Gao, Dingyang Li, Zhenxing Yang, Zhiping Liu

“…Both SR and ISR treatments also improved maize growth indicators, such as leaf area index (LAI), stem biomass, leaf biomass, and grain biomass. In terms of environmental effects, the ISR measure reduced N₂O emissions and significantly lowered the carbon footprint (CF) and water footprint (WF). …”
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ABIOTIC STRESSORS AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE ACCUMULATION OF ASSIMILATES BY PLANTS AND THE YIELD OF VEGETABLE PEA by O. V. Putina, A. G. Besedin

“…Dry matter content was measured by drying the aerial parts of plants (axial organs, foliar apparatus [leaf, stipules], flowers, unripe beans, pod valves, grain) to constant dry matter at 105°C. Dry matter contents were compared using the t-test. …”
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Determination of the Standardized Ileal Amino Acid Digestibility of U.S. Tannin-Free Sorghum in Broilers by Santiago Sasia, William Bridges, Mireille Arguelles-Ramos

“…Three of these sorghum samples were obtained from North Carolina (NC-PL, NC-T2, NC-LW), four samples from South Carolina (SC-Flo, SC-Pei, SC-Tub, SC-Experience), and one from Georgia (GA-Gf). Each tested grain was assigned to eight cages, with thirteen birds/cage. …”
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