Effects of long-term full straw return on yield and potassium response in wheat-maize rotation by You-lu BAI, Lei WANG, Yan-li LU, Li-ping YANG, Li-ping ZHOU, Lu NI, Ming-fang CHENG

“…K2SO4 application in rate of 60 kg K2O ha−1 showed no significant effect on wheat and maize yield, K content in crop straw, total K uptake by the crops, soil available K content, and soil organic matter. The apparent K utilization rate (percentage of applied K absorbed by the crop in the season) showed difference for wheat and maize with different K sources. …”
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Okara: A Promising Resource for Novel Bioflocculant Synthesis by Yuana Elly Agustin, Ning He, Swee Keong Yeap, Abdullah Amru Indera Luthfi, Gongtao Ding, Peer Mohamed Abdul, Shareena Fairuz Abdul Manaf, Nur Syakina Jamali, Binghui Chen, Jian Ping Tan

“…By utilizing okara as a carbon source in novel bioflocculant synthesis, enhances waste management efficiency and reduces environmental impact, contributing to sustainable infrastructure development and cleaner manufacturing technologies that reduce pollution and industrial operations’ carbon footprint.…”
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Structured design of a hydrochar-supported LDH/MOF composite for improved photocatalytic applications by Gilberto Rafael Jarre-Vera, Bryan Fernando Rivadeneira-Mendoza, Kevin Jhon Fernández-Andrade, Krishna Kumar Yadav, Iris B. Pérez-Almeida, María Dolores Saquete, Nuria Boluda-Botella, Joan Manuel Rodríguez-Díaz

“…Consequently, we present a novel material that exhibits exceptional energy utilization efficiency for AOPs, particularly effective against emerging contaminants.…”
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Remaining Available Energy Prediction for Energy Storage Batteries Based on Interpretable Generalized Additive Neural Network by Ji Qi, Pengrui Li, Yifan Dong, Zhicheng Fu, Zhanguo Wang, Yong Yi, Jie Tian

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Research and application progress of abandoned mine compressed air energy storage by Longxuan WANG, Wen ZHANG, Xiaolin YANG, Xiaoming CONG, Hanxun WANG, Xinyu WANG, Yongkang LONG

“…However, due to the intermittent and unstable nature of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power, large-scale commercial utilization is hindered. …”
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MEMS-Based Micropacked Thermal Desorption GC/PID for In-Field Volatile Organic Compound Profiling from Hot Mix Asphalt by Stefano Dugheri, Giovanni Cappelli, Riccardo Gori, Stefano Zampolli, Niccolò Fanfani, Ettore Guerriero, Donato Squillaci, Ilaria Rapi, Lorenzo Venturini, Alexander Pittella, Chiara Vita, Fabio Cioni, Domenico Cipriano, Mieczyslaw Sajewicz, Ivan Elmi, Luca Masini, Simone De Sio, Antonio Baldassarre, Veronica Traversini, Nicola Mucci

“…Results and conclusions: The method was successfully deployed on site for source-specific sampling at an HMA plant, generating robust emission fingerprints. …”
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Costing of the breeding operations for the national maize programs in Eastern and Southern Africa by Biswanath Das, Biswanath Das, Samuel K. Mutiga, Samuel K. Mutiga, Olivia Odiyo, Olivia Odiyo, Sammy Madahana, Sammy Madahana, Dragan Milic, Dragan Milic, Lubasi Sinyinda, Kabamba Mwansa, Ronica Mukaro, Davison Chaingeni, Godfrey Asea, Daniel B. Kwemoi, Lennin Musundire, Lennin Musundire

“…Breeding programs are being guided in using the University of Queensland’s open-source breeding costing tool (UQ-BPCT). This paper outlines the costing strategy and demonstrates the tool’s utility using data from national breeding programs in Uganda (NARO), Zambia (ZARI), and Zimbabwe (DR&SS). …”
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Performance Analysis of Reuse Distance in Cooperative Broadcasting by Jimmi Grönkvist, Anders Hansson, Arwid Komulainen

“…After the packet has traveled a specific number of hops out from the source, denoted as reuse distance, the source node transmits a new broadcast packet in the time slot used for the previous broadcast packet. …”
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Construction and Overall Protection of Ecological and Marine Cultural Composite Landscape Network in Quanzhou, Fujian by Dongfang LU, Yaru ZHENG, Tianteng HAN, Shunhe CHEN

“…The construction and optimization strategy of Quanzhou’s ecological and marine culture composite landscape network provides a basis for the integration, flow, efficient utilization and overall protection of Quanzhou’s ecological and cultural resources, it also provides a reference template for the comprehensive coordinated protection of ecology and culture and the integrated sustainable development of coastal cities.…”
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A Hybrid PV/Fuel Cell–Fed Multiport DC-DC Converter for Water Irrigation Application by Sivaram N. V., Lavanya A., Jagabar Sathik Mohamed Ali, Divya Navamani J.

“…A power management technique has been developed to ensure the maximum power utilization sources even if either one of the sources is absent and simultaneously manages power demanded by the load. …”
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Design and analysis of a dual-port multiband RF-to-DC converter for IoT energy harvesting applications. by Bismah Tariq, Muhammad Amjad, Khaled A Al-Jaloud, Waqar Ahmad Malik, Syed Tamoor Shah, Rifaqat Hussain

“…Internet of Things (IoT) demands efficient and sustainable energy sources for autonomous power systems. …”
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Interactive visualization of large molecular systems with VTX: example with a minimal whole-cell model by Maxime Maria, Valentin Guillaume, Simon Guionnière, Nicolas Dacquay, Cyprien Plateau–Holleville, Vincent Larroque, Vincent Larroque, Jean Lardé, Jean Lardé, Yassine Naimi, Jean-Philip Piquemal, Jean-Philip Piquemal, Jean-Philip Piquemal, Guillaume Levieux, Nathalie Lagarde, Stéphane Mérillou, Matthieu Montes, Matthieu Montes

“…VTX source code is available at https://github.com/VTX-Molecular-Visualization.…”
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Advancing Computational Humor: LLaMa-3 Based Generation with DistilBert Evaluation Framework by He Jinliang, Mei Aohan

“…Utilizing DistilBERT for efficient evaluation, the fine-tuned LLaMA-3 achieved an impressive accuracy of 95.6% and an F1-score of 97.75%, surpassing larger models such as GPT-4o, and Gemini. …”
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PhyloFunc: phylogeny-informed functional distance as a new ecological metric for metaproteomic data analysis by Luman Wang, Caitlin M. A. Simopoulos, Joeselle M. Serrana, Zhibin Ning, Yutong Li, Boyan Sun, Jinhui Yuan, Daniel Figeys, Leyuan Li

“…We provide PhyloFunc as an open-source Python package (available at https://pypi.org/project/phylofunc/ ), enabling efficient calculation of functional beta-diversity distances between a pair of samples or the generation of a distance matrix for all samples within a dataset. …”
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Smart forecasting: Enhancing virtual power plant performance with analytical frameworks by Maja Celeska Krstevska, Petar Krstevski, Mare Srbinovska, Vesna Andova, Aleksandra Krkoleva Mateska

“…These forecasts can be utilized to optimize energy scheduling, demand response, and improve the grid integration of renewable energy sources, ultimately leading to more efficient and sustainable energy systems.…”
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Optimization design of an acoustic cover layer for a cylindrical cavity based on porous materials by Bohan ZHANG, Jili RONG, Xiuyan CHENG

“…These results contribute to the ongoing development of more efficient and lightweight noise control solutions for carrier rockets.…”
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Development of High-Resolution Proton Transfer Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer and its Application in Continuous Fixed-Point Monitoring of Atmospheric VOCs by Zhong-jun ZHAO, Han-lu YUE, Xing GUO, Fu-long DENG, Xing-liang HE, Cheng-lin LI, Yun-hai XU, Yan-ting YANG, Yi-xiang DUAN

“…This study reported the development of a high-resolution proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometer (PTR-TOF MS 6000) and its exploratory applications in accurately identifying compounds with the same nominal mass but different molecular weights, as well as in real-time monitoring of the atmospheric VOCs. This instrument utilized a hydrated ion molecule-ion reactor as an efficient ionization source, achieving soft ionization with the limit of detection below 0.005 nmol/mol for various VOCs, and sensitivity reaching thousands of counts per nmol/mol. …”
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Investigating Synoptic Influences on Tropospheric Volcanic Ash Dispersion from the 2015 Calbuco Eruption Using WRF-Chem Simulations and Satellite Data by Douglas Lima de Bem, Vagner Anabor, Franciano Scremin Puhales, Damaris Kirsch Pinheiro, Fabio Grasso, Luiz Angelo Steffenel, Leonardo Brenner, Umberto Rizza

“…In WRF-Chem, we implemented a more efficient methodology to determine the Eruption Source Parameters (ESP). …”
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Grid-connected PV inverter system control optimization using Grey Wolf optimized PID controller by Monika Gupta, P. M. Tiwari, R. K. Viral, Ashish Shrivastava, Basem Abu Zneid, Iryna Hunko

“…The system architecture, simulated in MATLAB/Simulink, comprises a 50 kW PV array with a boost converter employing an Incremental Conductance (INC) Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) algorithm, a three-phase voltage source inverter, RLC filters, and a dual-loop (voltage and current) control system synchronized with the utility grid through a Phase-Locked Loop (PLL). …”
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Isolation and characterization of diphenyl ether degrading bacterium Sphingomonas sp. DZ-3 by Feng Zhuo, Wang Sheng, Bai Naling, Zhao Yuhua

“…A few works of biological degradation of PBDEs have been done in recent years.An efficient diphenyl ether degrading bacterium strain DZ-3, which was able to utilize diphenyl ether as a sole source of carbon and energy under aerobic condition, was isolated from activated sludge of a wastewater treatment plant. …”
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