Counterfactual Based Approaches for Feature Attributions of Stress Factors Affecting Rice Yield by Nisha P. Shetty, Balachandra Muniyal, Ketavarapu Sriyans, Kunyalik Garg, Shiv Pratap, Aman Priyanshu, Dhruthi Kumar

“…DICE provided the clearest causal insights, demonstrating how adjustments to attributes like sandy alfisols and surface texture could lead to significant changes in crop yield by affecting water retention and nutrient availability. SHAP ranked features like phosphate and potash based on their average importance across the dataset, offering a global view of influential factors but lacking in‐depth causal understanding. …”
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Cytokinin B-Mo-based Product Influences the Source-to-sink Dynamics and Nonstructural Carbohydrate Contents in Hydroponic Lettuce Plants by Mayra A. Toro-Herrera, Rosa E. Raudales

“…Each experimental unit consisted of a deep-water culture reservoir with three lettuce plants. …”
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Optimization of a large-area grid electrode for negative ion source in fusion neutral beam injector by Jinhong Wang, Yan Wang, Yuwen Yang, Yuming Gu, Yahong Xie, Lizhen Liang, Jianglong Wei

“…First, the grid temperature, thermal stress and thermal deformation are compared with an inlet water rate of 1.21 kg/s at 35 °C, and the channel forming methods and welding types mechanisms are compared. …”
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<i>Vibrio vulnificus</i>—A Review with a Special Focus on Sepsis by Marcello Candelli, Marta Sacco Fernandez, Cristina Triunfo, Andrea Piccioni, Veronica Ojetti, Francesco Franceschi, Giulia Pignataro

“…Transmission occurs primarily through the consumption of contaminated seafood, exposure of open wounds to infected water, or, in rare cases, insect bites. The bacterium thrives in warm, brackish waters with high salinity levels, and its prevalence is rising due to the effects of climate change, including warming ocean temperatures and expanding coastal habitats. …”
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Enhancing Cementitious Materials: A Detailed Review of Bentonite’s Role in Optimizing Concrete Performance by Zakaria Mekhnache, Tewfik Ali-Dahmane, Zine-El-Abidine Kameche, Ivan Alhama-Manteca, Ahmed Sofiane Benosman, Sidi-Mohammed Aissa-Mamoune

“…One such material is bentonite, a naturally occurring clay with high plasticity and excellent water retention properties. When added to cement mixtures, bentonite improves essential properties like decreasing permeability, enhancing workability, and boosting chemical resistance. …”
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Effects of Biogas Slurry Drip Irrigation on Growth Performance of Brassica chinensis L. and Soil Nutrient Dynamics by DongXue Yin, Jiajun Qin, Dongdong Chen, Baozhong Wang, Wei Liu, Yingxian Wang, Weijuan Lan, Zhihao Wang, Jiachen Wang

“…An experiment was set up with six sets of drip irrigation gradients (1:3 mix of biogas and water) of 12 (BS-1), 15 (BS-2), 18 (BS-3), 21 (BS-4), 24 (BS-5), and 27 (BS-6) L. …”
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Ensuring the Reliability and Efficiency of the Power Industry in the Agricultural Sector of the Republic of Belarus in Modern Conditions by I. V. Protosovitskii, E. P. Zabello, M. A. Prishchepov, V. A. Daineko

“…Taking into account the increase in electricity consumption for heating and hot water supply, we consider the option of eliminating cross-subsidization, which stimulates the interest of consumers in saving electricity and reducing the fee for electricity consumption by changing the operating modes of equipment and devices. …”
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Thermal Convective Instabilities and Chaos in a Rotating Hybrid Nanofluid Layer with Cattaneo–Christov Heat Flux Model by Sèmako Justin Dèdèwanou, Adjimon Vincent Monwanou, Aimé Audran Koukpémèdji, Amoussou Laurent Hinvi, Clément Hodévèwan Miwadinou, Jean Bio Chabi Orou

“…The different results showed that the addition of hybrid nanoparticles (alumina-copper) to a thermal fluid (water) subjected to the rotation force in the presence or absence of the thermal relaxation time allows control of the chaotic convection in the base fluid. …”
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Effects of the Salt-Processing Method on the Pharmacokinetics and Tissue Distribution of Orally Administered Morinda officinalis How. Extract by Ji Shi, Xiaohang Ren, Jia Wang, Xiaofeng Wei, Bonan Liu, Tianzhu Jia

“…Salt processing, which involves steaming with salt water, directs herbs into the kidney channel. After being salt processed, kidney invigorating effects occur. …”
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Growth and viability of juvenile humpback grouper (Cromileptes altivelis) supplemented with inorganic and organic selenium by Muhaimin Hamzah, Muhammad Agus Suprayudi, Nur Bambang Priyo Utomo, Wasmen Manalu

“…Fishes were reared for 40 days at a stocking density of 12 fish per aquarium on sea water with salinity of 30–31 ppt and temperature of 28–29 °C. …”
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Effect of yellow rice wine on anti-aging ability in aged mice induced by d-galactose by Rong Liu, Zukang Fu, Fengjie Zhang, Qingzhong Mao, Chunguang Luan, Xinglin Han, Jie Xue, Deliang Wang, Si Qin, Feike Hao

“…Besides, results from the Morris water maze test suggested that YRW significantly reversed cognitive impairment and also alleviated neuroapoptosis in the experimental mice by regulating the gene expressions of Bax/Bcl-2 and caspase-3. …”
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Medieval Overexploitation of Peat Triggered Large-Scale Drowning and Permanent Land Loss in Coastal North Frisia (Wadden Sea Region, Germany) by Hanna Hadler, Antonia Reiß, Timo Willershäuser, Dennis Wilken, Ruth Blankenfeldt, Bente Majchczack, Stefanie Klooß, Ulf Ickerodt, Andreas Vött

“…AD tidal flat deposits on top of the cultivated marsh prove that human impact lowered the ground surface below the mean high water of that time, clearly increasing the coastal vulnerability. …”
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Effects of a Multifunctional Cover Crop (LivinGro^®) on Soil Quality Indicators in Zaragoza, Spain by Javier González-Pérez, José Antonio Sillero-Medina, Paloma Hueso-González, José Damián Ruiz-Sinoga, Francisco Javier Peris-Felipo, Ana Lia Gayán-Quijano

“…During many sample periods, the MCC zones of the treelines and inter-rows had significantly increased soil organic matter, basal respiration, total nitrogen, nitrate, total porosity, and available water content, but the MCC and control zones had no significant differences in bulk density. …”
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Analysis of the Synergistic Effect of Endophytic Bacteria and Metabolites on Yield in Soybean Roots Under Biochar with Nitrogen Fertilization by Hui Liu, Wanyu Dou, Wenlong Zhang, Yutao Li, Guoxin Shi, Lifang Fu, Lihong Wang

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Ensemble machine learning-based extrapolation of Penman-Monteith-Leuning evapotranspiration data by Vahid Nourani, Ramin Ahmadi, Yongqiang Zhang, Dominika Dąbrowska

“…In the Ahar Chay basin, actual ET (AET) was estimated using the water balance equation, as direct observations were unavailable, and was evaluated via dynamic time warping from 2002 to 2016. …”
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Combining habitat selection, behavioural states, and individual variation to predict fish spatial usage near a barrier by Rachel Mawer, Jelger Elings, Stijn P. Bruneel, Ine S. Pauwels, Eliezer Pickholtz, Renanel Pickholtz, Johan Coeck, Peter L.M. Goethals

“…Overall, barbel preferred deeper or faster water while for grayling, few trends could be described. …”
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Developing an indicator system and assessing China's progress on climate change adaptation in 2010–2022 from dual-dimension by Yang Song, Xiu Yang, Huimin Li, Mingyu Liu

“…Notably, China has continuously advanced its efforts in promoting adaptation concepts; enhancing monitoring and early warning systems; implementing disaster prevention and mitigation strategies; addressing public health concerns; while significantly improving adaptive capacities within key areas such as agriculture, forestry ecosystems; water resources management; infrastructure development. …”
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Environmental impacts of crop production systems in subtropical plateau regions: case study of Yunnan, China by Yousheng He, Minghao Li, Wei Zhang, Xinping Chen, Zhengxiong Zhao, Zhi Yao

“…The average annual mean greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, soil acidification potential (AP), and water eutrophication potential (EP) of crop production from 2002 to 2021 were 837 kg CO2-eq·Mg−1, 15.7 kg SO2-eq·Mg−1, and 2.71 kg PO4-eq Mg−1, respectively. …”
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Atmospheric Deposition: Sampling Procedures, Analytical Methods, and Main Recent Findings from the Scientific Literature by M. Amodio, S. Catino, P. R. Dambruoso, G. de Gennaro, A. Di Gilio, P. Giungato, E. Laiola, A. Marzocca, A. Mazzone, A. Sardaro, M. Tutino

“…The atmosphere is a carrier on which some natural and anthropogenic organic and inorganic chemicals are transported, and the wet and dry deposition events are the most important processes that remove those chemicals, depositing it on soil and water. A wide variety of different collectors were tested to evaluate site-specificity, seasonality and daily variability of settleable particle concentrations. …”
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Efficacy of DNA vaccine encoding koi herpesvirus glycoprotein GP-25in common carp juvenile by immersion by Soko Nuswantoro, . Alimuddin, Munti Yuhana, Ayi Santika, Sri Nuryati, Zakki Zainun, Mira Mawardi

“…A total of 400 common carp juveniles at 30-day-old were immersed in 1-L water containing 1.3×108CFU/mL of the killed Escherichia coli cells carrying DNA vaccine. …”
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