Multiscale Performance of Global Blended Satellite Precipitation Products Over Taiwan by Liping Wang, Haonan Chen, Zhe Li

“…To recognize the error patterns of the mainstream SPPs over Taiwan, this study evaluates the temporal and spatial performance of NOAA Climate Prediction Center (CPC) morphing technique (CMORPH V1) and NASA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG V07 Final) during 2019–2021, with an emphasis on exploring the multi-scale performance of CMORPH and IMERG and their dependence on precipitation intensity and season. The precipitation estimates produced from the operational Quantitative Precipitation Estimation and Segregation Using Multiple Sensors (QPESUMS) system are employed as ground-based reference data, and various statistical metrics are calculated against this reference grid by grid to evaluate the performance of CMORPH and IMERG at yearly, seasonal and daily scales. …”
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Robust Identification of Vegetation Change Using Shapelet-Based Temporal Segmentation of Landsat Time-Series Stacks: A Case Study in the Qilian Mountains by Lipeng Jiao, Randolph H. Wynne

“…A temporal sliding window-based anomaly checking procedure is applied to the annual maximum composite of spectral vegetation indices in the growing season to remove the unmasked clouds, cloud shadows, and other temporary changes. …”
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Trend Analysis of Lake Surface Temperatures in Lake Van by Kebir Emre Saraçoğlu, Fevziye Ayça Saraçoğlu

“…The highest increase in seasonal analyses was seen in night data (0,080-0,099 °C/year) in the spring season. …”
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Process Assessment of Fencer's Parents within the scope of the Covid-19 Normalization Steps by Yusuf Barsbuğa

“…The objective of this study is to measure and construe the opinions of the parents of athletes who are actively participating in competitions in our country and who are licensed by the Turkish Fencing Federation for the 2019-2020 season, regarding the organizations to be planned and the issues to be paid attention, within the scope of the Covid-19 normalization steps. …”
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Identification and development of source material for breeding early bushy and short-vined cultivars of <i>Cucurbita moschata</i> Duch. ex Poir. by A. G. Elatskova

“…Cultivars of C. moschata are grown in southern regions, where a growing season of no less than 110–130 days is required. C. moschata has no bushy cultivars suitable for cultivation. …”
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The impact of weather factors on operation of radiation heating system by V. I. Karagusov, I. S. Kolpakov

“…The work of radiation panels is affected by a number of weather factors such as cloudiness, temperature and humidity of atmospheric air, precipitation, fog, season of year and day, sun position angles and inclination angles of solar panels. …”
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Beyond Microbial Variability: Disclosing the Functional Redundancy of the Core Gut Microbiota of Farmed Gilthead Sea Bream from a Bayesian Network Perspective by Federico Moroni, Fernando Naya-Català, Ahmed Ibrahem Hafez, Ricardo Domingo-Bretón, Beatriz Soriano, Carlos Llorens, Jaume Pérez-Sánchez

“…We combined three experiments performed with gilthead sea bream juveniles of the same hatchery batch, reared at the same season/location, and fed with diets enriched on processed animal proteins (PAP) and other alternative ingredients (NOPAP-PP, NOPAP-SCP). …”
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The trend of suicide and self-harm in the Chinese population from 2018 to 2022 based on ambulance medical emergency cases: a retrospective study by Ruizhe Yang, Jinsu Zhou, Francis Manyori Bigambo, Wu Yan, Xu Wang, Haibo Yang

“…It notes significant trends by age, gender, and season, with males showing higher rates of self-harm. …”
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Test-Retest Reliability of the Isometric Soleus Strength Test in Elite Male Academy Footballers by David Rhodes, Josh Jeffery, Daniel Brook-Sutton, Jill Alexander

“…The test was performed mid-competitive season. All data bilaterally were checked for normality using the Shapiro-Wilk test before a Pearson's Correlations and Bland-Altman's analyses were performed…”
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Investigation to Characterise Field Pests That Affect Bean Plants in Lowlands and Uphills of Mwanjari Parish Southwestern Division Kabale District. by Wakayiya, Derick

“…Furthermore, 68.75% of farmers cultivated beans during the second season, which offers high yields due to moderate rainfall. …”
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Assessing the Effects of Solid Waste Dump Sites on the Quality of Water Resources: A Case Study of Kabale Municipality Dumpsite by Mutaawe, Bob Wamala

“…The improper management of the leachate from the dump site accompanied with the uncontrolled access to runoff in the rainy season together with the impaired rainwater harvest system on the dump site structures makes it very vulnerable. …”
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An Overview: PM2.5 Concentration Levels in Urban Residential Buildings during the Past Two Decades by Yu Liu, Jiankai Dong, Hongqiang Ma, Yiqiang Jiang, Wenke Zheng, Xinmei Luo

“…Factors influencing PM2.5 concentrations were as follows: indoor activities, ventilation type and air cleaner (AC) use, building type and performance, ambient environment and season. Smoking and cooking considerably increased PM2.5 concentrations in the living rooms, even in measurements conducted over a short time. …”
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Detecting tropical freshly-opened swidden fields using a combined algorithm of continuous change detection and support vector machine by Ningsang Jiang, Peng Li, Zhiming Feng

“…Next, CCD-SVM is applied to generate the 2019 map of newly-opened swidden in Laos using Landsat-8 dry-season (February to April) imagery. Comparisons with the same year results obtained from the CCDC-Spectral Mixture Analysis (SMA) show that CCD-SVM (94.69%) outperforms CCDC-SMA (87.52%) primarily due to less commission errors. …”
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Machine Learning Does Not Improve Humeral Torsion Prediction Compared to Regression in Baseball Pitchers by Garrett S Bullock, Charles A Thigpen, Gary S Collins, Nigel K Arden, Thomas K Noonan, Michael J Kissenberth, Ellen Shanley

“…Age, arm dominance, injury history, and continent of origin were collected as well as preseason shoulder external and internal rotation, horizontal adduction passive range of motion, and humeral torsion were collected each season. Regression and machine learning models were developed to predict humeral torsion followed by internal validation with 10-fold cross validation. …”
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Continuous Genetic Assessment of the Impact of Hatchery Releases on Larimichthys crocea Stocks in China by Lina Wu, Lisheng Wu, Hungdu Lin, Min Liu, Shaoxiong Ding

“…The high genetic similarity between SBS and HRS suggests that the Bay may provide favorable conditions for the survival of released stocks compared to open waters. Seasonal genetic variation observed in SBS stocks before and after winter, along with interannual differences in contribution rates, underscoring the winter season is a critical survival bottleneck. …”
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Estimating Potential Evapotranspiration by Missing Temperature Data Reconstruction by Eladio Delgadillo-Ruiz, Eusebio Jr. Ventura-Ramos, Julián González Trinidad, Hugo Enrique Júnez-Ferreira, Carlos Francisco Bautista-Capetillo, Olivia Delgadillo-Ruiz

“…The reconstruction of missing data was carried out in three steps: (1) application of a 4-parameter sinusoidal type regression to temperature data, (2) linear regression to residuals to obtain a regional behavior, and (3) estimation of missing temperature values for a certain year and during a certain season within the basin under study; estimated and observed temperature values were compared. …”
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Organic manure and fertilizer N management strategies improve soil health at different growth stages of pearl millet under pearl millet-wheat sequence by Sunita Sheoran, Dhram Prakash, Dev Raj, Parmod Kumar Yadav, Rameshwar Singh, Rajeev Kumar Gupta, Saud Alamri, Manzer H. Siddiqui, Shahbaz Khan

“…Results Applying 15 Mg of farmyard manure (FYM) per hectare in both growing seasons significantly boosted soil organic carbon (SOC), dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and key nutrients compared to one-season application. …”
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Effect of expansive agent on temperature and deformation of concrete under simulated actual construction condition by Ming Li, Ang Su, Hua Li, Yujiang Wang, Qian Tian

“…Prolonging the setting time of concrete is a common requirement for the construction of massive structural engineering, and the molding temperature of concrete changes greatly with the construction season temperature. These actual construction conditions may bring challenges to the use of expansive agent (EA) to inhibit concrete cracking. …”
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Diversity and Abundance of the Species of Arboreal Mammals in a Tropical Rainforest in Southeast Mexico by J. Vladimir Rojas‐Sánchez, Rosamond Ione Coates, Víctor Sánchez‐Cordero, Mario C. Lavariega, José J. Flores‐Martínez

“…Spatial and seasonal alpha‐diversity and community evenness patterns were estimated using Hill's numbers, and Sørensen's dissimilarities were used as a proxy to estimate beta‐diversity. …”
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Present status of capture fisheries in West Kutai regency of East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia by Solihin Iin, Nugroho Thomas, M Wildan Dudi, Sulistiono Sulistiono, Nurussalam Wildan, Effendi Irzal, Hestiriannoto Totok, Edriyan Edriyan, Nurimala Mala, Steven Florensius, Yulian Yulian

“…Among the issues faced in the field include the usage of poison, fishing with forbidden gear, and the water level (particularly Jempang Lake) being drastically reduced or even drying up during the dry season.…”
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