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Agnieszka Sadlowska-Salega and Krzysztof Was
The paper is an attempt to answer the question whether the material-optimized roof construction using cross-laminated timber (CLT) is safe in terms of moisture content in the demanding northern costal climates. The proposed roof structure meets the stren...
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Long Li, Xiaolan Man, Hong Zhang, Haipeng Lan, Yurong Tang, Xiuwen Fan and Yongcheng Zhang
The conditioning of moisture content is an effective way to improve walnut-crushing performance. In this study, firstly, walnuts with different moisture contents were used to conduct the crushing experiments. The distributions of fragment sizes of shells...
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Aaron A. Akin, Gia Nguyen and Aleksey Y. Sheshukov
Soil erosion by water on agricultural hillslopes leads to numerous environmental problems including reservoir sedimentation, loss of agricultural land, declines in drinking water quality, and requires deep understanding of underlying physical processes f...
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Gaoliang Wang, Binghua He, Dianlei Han, He Zhang, Xinzhong Wang, Yongcheng Chen, Xuegeng Chen, Rongqiang Zhao and Guoyu Li
This study aims to address the current situation of the late start of mechanized harvesting technology for the pod pepper, the high damage rate of existing pod pepper harvesters, and the lack of theoretical support for key harvesting components. The Hert...
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Konstantinos Dolaptsis, Xanthoula Eirini Pantazi, Charalampos Paraskevas, Selçuk Arslan, Yücel Tekin, Bere Benjamin Bantchina, Yahya Ulusoy, Kemal Sulhi Gündogdu, Muhammad Qaswar, Danyal Bustan and Abdul Mounem Mouazen
Irrigation plays a crucial role in maize cultivation, as watering is essential for optimizing crop yield and quality, particularly given maize?s sensitivity to soil moisture variations. In the current study, a hybrid Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) approac...
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Yongwei Gong, Guohong Zhang, Yan Hao and Linmei Nie
Bioretention facilities with different inflow concentrations, growing media and plants were examined to determine whether the soil in these facilities was polluted with heavy metals and whether runoff had obvious toxic effects on plants. Using Beijing so...
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Panagiota P. Giannakopoulou, Petros Petrounias, Aikaterini Rogkala, Basilios Tsikouras, Panagiotis M. Stamatis, Panagiotis Pomonis and Konstantin Hatzipanagiotou
This case study investigates the influence of the mineralogical composition of ultramafic rocks derived from two ophiolite complexes from Greece (Veria-Naousa and Gerania) on their mechanical, physical and physicochemical properties. The investigated lit...
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Samuel V. Glass, Vladimir Kochkin, S. Craig Drumheller and Lance Barta
Long-term moisture performance is a critical consideration for design and construction of building envelopes in energy-efficient buildings, yet field measurements of moisture characteristics for highly insulated wood-frame walls in mixed-humid climates a...
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Zhaoxin Wang, Tiejun Wang and Yonggen Zhang
Knowledge of both state (e.g., soil moisture) and flux (e.g., actual evapotranspiration (ETa) and groundwater recharge (GR)) hydrological variables across vadose zones is critical for understanding ecohydrological and land-surface processes. In this stud...
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Zahra Gharibreza, Mahmoud Ghazavi and M. Hesham El Naggar
Unsaturated soil covers a significant part of the world, and studying the behavior of deep foundations in this medium is an important step in increasing accuracy and economic efficiency in geotechnical studies. This paper presents an analytical solution ...
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Jiahao Chen, Jiaxin Li, Deqian Zheng, Qianru Zheng, Jiayi Zhang, Meimei Wu and Chaosai Liu
The multi-field coupling of grain piles in grain silos is a focal point of research in the field of grain storage. The porosity of grain piles is a critical parameter that affects the heat and moisture transfer in grain piles. To investigate the distribu...
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Peiyu Wang, Huting Wang, Ruoyu Zhang, Rong Hu, Beibei Hao and Jie Huang
Cotton processing is the process of converting harvested seed cotton into lint by cleaning, ginning, and cleaning the lint. The real-time acquisition of lint parameters during processing is critical in improving cotton processing quality and efficiency. ...
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Weiwen Luo, Xulei Chen, Kai Guo, Mingyang Qin, Feng Wu, Fengwei Gu and Zhichao Hu
The soil during the sowing period of wheat after rice stubble cannot be accurately described by existing models and parameters with DEM because of its high moisture content and strong viscosity. The purpose of this study is to conduct an overall simulati...
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Cansu Almaz, Markéta Miháliková, Kamila Bátková, Jan Vopravil, Svatopluk Matula, Tomá? Khel and Recep Serdar Kara
This study introduces a simple and cost-effective method for the indirect determination of field capacity (FC) in soil, a critical parameter for soil hydrology and environmental modeling. The relationships between FC and soil moisture constants, specific...
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Guohui Zhang, Xinlan Ni, Xiong Wei, Zhendong Yang and Yanshuang Gu
Saturated concrete is significantly different from dry concrete in fracture mechanical properties. Using the wedge-splitting tensile method to research the rule of change in moisture content, double-K fracture toughness and fracture energy of three stren...
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Xian Ma, Yiru Bai, Xu Liu and Youqi Wang
The farmland in Yinchuan is composed of sierozem soil, which is characterized by high sand content and low organic matter content, resulting in poor water-holding capacity and weak soil structure. Humic acid is a natural organic polymer soil amendment. I...
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Sang-Hyeon Kang, Youngjin Kim, Sangbong Lee, Heetae Kim and Minyoung Kim
The demand for efficient water use and automatic systems has been increasing due to the frequent drought damage to crops as a result of climate change, the shortage of water resources in rural areas, and the aging of farmers. The existing automatic irrig...
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Lumeng Chao, Xiaodan Ma, Munkhzul Tsetsegmaa, Yaxin Zheng, Hanting Qu, Yuan Dai, Jingpeng Li and Yuying Bao
Vegetation and soil microorganisms are important components of terrestrial ecosystems and play a crucial role in ecosystem functioning. However, little is known about the synergistic changes in soil microbial community with aboveground plants in grasslan...
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Ryo Yamawaki, Akiyo Tei, Kengo Ito and Jun Kikuchi
Bio-based polymers have been considered as an alternative to oil-based materials for their ?carbon-neutral? environmentally degrative features. However, degradation is a complex system in which environmental factors and preparation conditions are involve...
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Hossein Haghighi, Anna Maria Belmonte, Francesca Masino, Giovanna Minelli, Domenico Pietro Lo Fiego and Andrea Pulvirenti
Temperature and time are two critical parameters in sous vide cooking which directly affect eating quality characteristics and food safety. This study aimed to evaluate physicochemical and microbiological properties of sous vide chicken breast fillets co...
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