PICT: A low‐cost, modular, open‐source camera trap system to study plant–insect interactions by Vincent Droissart, Laura Azandi, Eric Rostand Onguene, Marie Savignac, Thomas B. Smith, Vincent Deblauwe

“…The focus distance can be manually adjusted to under 5 cm. In low light conditions, a near‐infrared light automatically illuminates the subject. …”
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Long-term adoption of plow tillage and green manure improves soil physicochemical properties and optimizes microbial communities under a continuous peanut monoculture system by Yunfeng Yao, Rongyv Zhu, Xiangdong Li, Guoqing Hu, Yuanjie Dong, Zhaoxin Liu

“…It was found that both PTGM and PT remarkably decreased the average bulk density (BD), while elevated the mean soil porosity (SP) in 0–30 cm soil layer. …”
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A Trap-Assisted Photomultiplication-Type Organic Photodetector With High Detectivity From Visible to Shortwave Infrared Light by Jingwen Chen, Claire Qing-Ying Huang, Xin Zhang, Sheng Dong, Xiye Yang

“…This letter reports a trap-assisted photomultiplication-type organic photodetector (PM-OPD) with a broad sensing range from 400 to 1400 nm. By easily tunning the donor/acceptor ratio in bulk-heterojunction layer consisting Poly([2,6&#x2019;-4,8-di(5-ethylhexylthienyl)benzo[1,2-b;3,3-b]dithiophene]{3-fluoro-2[(2-ethylhexyl)carbonyl] thieno[3,4-b]thiophenediyl}) (PTB7-Th) and a novel non-fullerene acceptor (NFA) pendant 2,2&#x2019;-(((2,5-bis(2-octyldodecyl)-3,6-dioxo-2,3,5,6-tetrahydropyrrolo [3,4-c]pyrrole-1,4-diyl)bis(thiophene-5,2-diyl))bis(4-oxonaphthalene-3(4H)-yl-1(4H)-ylidene)) dimalononitrile named DPP-QC, the device shows specifically a high external quantum efficiency (EQE) value of 112% and specific detectivity (D*) over <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$10^{10}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> Jones at 1200 nm at a light intensity of 0.108 mW/cm2. …”
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Effects of Soil and Water Conservation Structures on Selected Soil Physicochemical Properties: The Case of Ejersa Lafo District, Central Highlands of Ethiopia by Adugna Tolesa, Siraj Mammo, Eve Bohnett

“…A total of 12 composite soil samples were collected from the depth of 0 to 20 cm at two subwatersheds, namely, Jamjam laga batu and Koriso Odo guba with SWC and without SWC structures at three landscape positions. …”
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Effects of Land Use Types on Selected Soil Properties in Central Highlands of Ethiopia by Daniel Jaleta Negasa

“…The randomized complete block design, including three adjacent land use types as treatments with three replications and two soil depths (0–15 and 15–30 cm), was applied in this study. There were significant differences in some soil properties among the three land use types. …”
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Slurry Synthesis and Thin-Film Fabrication Toward Production of Li₂O-B₂O₃-Al₂O₃-Based Multilayer Oxide Solid-State Batteries for Internet of Things Applications by Jihyun Park, Jongmin Choi, Jihye Seo, Wolil Nam, Soobeom Lee, Seungchan Cho, Kyungchul Park, Geonhyoung An, Beomkyeong Park, Moonhee Choi

“…Evaluation of a 32-layer bulk sample of solid-electrolyte sheets revealed an ionic conductivity of 2.33 × 10⁻⁷ S/cm and charge transfer resistance of 100.1 kΩ at a sintering temperature of 430 °C. …”
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Building a near-infrared (NIR) soil spectral dataset and predictive machine learning models using a handheld NIR spectrophotometerZenodo by Colleen Partida, Jose Lucas Safanelli, Sadia Mannan Mitu, Mohammad Omar Faruk Murad, Yufeng Ge, Richard Ferguson, Keith Shepherd, Jonathan Sanderman

“…Machine learning predictive models were developed for soil organic carbon (SOC), pH, bulk density (BD), carbonate (CaCO3), exchangeable potassium (Ex. …”
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Microclimate monitoring in commercial tomato (Solanum Lycopersicum L.) greenhouse production and its effect on plant growth, yield and fruit quality by Jakub Šalagovič, Dorien Vanhees, Pieter Verboven, Kristof Holsteens, Bert Verlinden, Marlies Huysmans, Bram Van de Poel, Bram Van de Poel, Bart Nicolaï, Bart Nicolaï, Bart Nicolaï

“…The local microclimate effect on plant growth was always larger than the bulk climate variation measured by a central sensor, as commonly done in commercial greenhouses. …”
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Optimization, characterization and biosafety of oregano, rosemary and mint oil mixture against Penicillium digitatum in citrus using L-optimal mixture design by Rahaf Khaled, Sara Mohamed, Amira Mohamed, Aya Khairy, Hesham Elhariry, Ashraf Bakry, Neima K. Elsenosy, Naglaa Ebeed, Salem S. Salem, Thanaa ElNoby, Samah H. Abu-Hussien

“…The antimicrobial activity of individual essential oils was evaluated, with oregano exhibiting the highest antifungal activity (inhibition zone diameter of 4.2 cm) against P. digitatum. L-optimal mixture design of response surface methodology (RSM) optimization revealed a highly effective mixture (Run 8) comprising 46.26% oregano and 53.74% rosemary, with a 99.65% actual growth reduction. …”
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Green Synthesis of Nanostructure CeO2 Using Tea Extract: Characterization and Adsorption of Dye from Aqueous Phase by Chengshun Liu, Xiyao Liu, Yilin Wu, Zhuotong Chen, Zhuanrong Wu, Shumao Wang, Hua Han, Zhenbang Xie, Yixuan Wang, Tzu-Hsing Ko

“…All samples show a strong Raman signal at a well-defined chemical shift of 463 cm−1 and a significant symmetry feature was observed, suggesting that the tetravalent ceria is the dominant species throughout the bulk sample. …”
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Advanced TSGL-EEGNet for Motor Imagery EEG-Based Brain-Computer Interfaces by Xin Deng, Boxian Zhang, Nian Yu, Ke Liu, Kaiwei Sun

“…The testing results show that the proposed model has achieved 78.96&#x0025; (0.7194) average classification accuracy (kappa) on the dataset BCI Competition IV 2a, which are greater than EEGNet, C2CM, MB3DCNN, SS-MEMDBF and FBCSP, especially on insensitive subjects. …”
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Enhancing Food Security via selecting Superior Camelina (Camelina sativa L.) parents: a positive approach incorporating pheno-morphological traits, fatty acids composition, and Toc... by Amin Ebrahimi, Hamzeh Minaei Chenar, Sajad Rashidi-Monfared, Danial Kahrizi

“…Within the current investigation, the measurements of height, sub-branch number, and thousand seed weight varied from 53.50 to 86.50 cm, 3.50 to 14, and 0.73 to 1.52 g, respectively. …”
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Woody Species Structure and Regeneration Status in Kafta Sheraro National Park Dry Forest, Tigray Region, Ethiopia by Fitsum Temesgen, Bikila Warkineh

“…The study was conducted in Kafta Sheraro National Park (KSNP) dry woodland natural forest located in Kafta Humera and Tahitay Adiyabo weredas (districts), Western and Northwestern Zones of Tigray regional governmental state, North Ethiopia. …”
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Effect of Fish Meal Substitution with Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) on Growth Performance, Feed Stability, Blood Biochemistry, and Liver and Gut Morphology of Siamese Fight... by Zulhisyam Abdul Kari, Guillermo Téllez-Isaías, Noor Khalidah Abdul Hamid, Nor Dini Rusli, Khairiyah Mat, Suniza Anis Mohamad Sukri, Muhammad Anamul Kabir, Ahmad Razali Ishak, Nazri Che Dom, Abdel-Wahab A. Abdel-Warith, Elsayed M. Younis, Martina Irwan Khoo, Faizuan Abdullah, Md Shahjahan, Md Fazle Rohani, Simon J. Davies, Lee Seong Wei

“…The expansion rate, pellet durability index, floatability, bulk density, and water stability of the prepared feed have been assessed. …”
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Investigation of Woody Species Structure and Regeneration Status in the Central Rift Valley, Sidama Regional State, Ethiopia by Assegid Assefa, Tamrat Bekele, Sebsebe Demissew, Tesfaye Abebe

“…The regeneration assessment results demonstrate that 32.35% had poor regeneration, 19.12% had good regeneration, 16.17% had fair regeneration, 8.82% lacked regeneration, and 14.08% appeared as newly regenerated species in the national park. The majority of woody species had a small population size, and some of them were found in specific habitats which need attention for conservation, and those woody species lack regeneration study soil seed bank and propagation methods for sustainable conservation.…”
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Sensitive Detection of Lasalocid Residue in Chicken by Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy by Yao WANG, Yingying SUN, Yubing JING, Xiyan YANG, Yanfei LI, Jiaxiang HUANG, Xiujin CHEN, Zhaozhou LI, Li CAO, Huaibin KANG

“…Finally, the method was evaluated by establishing the standard curve and the recovery test of chicken sample. Results showed that AuNPs with a particle size of 40 nm had good enhancement effect, the SERS characteristic peak of LAS was at 1118 cm−1, the AuNPs substrate had good reproducibility, and the optimal addition concentration of HNO3 was 0.5 mol/L. …”
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Fine-mapping of PmHHM, a broad-spectrum allele from a wheat landrace conferring both seedling and adult resistance to powdery mildew by Bisheng Fu, Bisheng Fu, Bisheng Fu, Zhixin Lin, Lijuan Yan, Qiaofeng Zhang, Caiyun Liu, Caiyun Liu, Jin Cai, Jin Cai, Wei Guo, Wei Guo, Ying Liu, Wenling Zhai, Shuangjun Gong, Feng Xu, Jizhong Wu, Jizhong Wu, Jizhong Wu

“…It was then fine-mapped to an interval with a genetic distance of 0.0031 cM and a physical distance of 187.4 kb on chromosome 4AL of the Chinese Spring reference sequence v.2.1. …”
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Étude de trois grands tonneaux mis au jour à Reims/Durocortorum (Marne) : le savoir-faire des tonneliers antiques by Pierre Mille, Philippe Rollet

“…The pitch coating, which ensured the sealing of the three vats, was up to 0,50 cm thick at some points. During Antiquity pitch was produced by pyrogenation (distillation) of pine wood (Pinus sp.) in large jars. …”
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