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Katerina Tsikaloudaki, Kostas Laskos and Dimitrios Bikas
Nowadays, subjects such as eco-design requirements, product rating or code compliance with regard to energy efficiency are expanding towards a pan-European level. This leads to the necessity of defining zones within the European region, which share commo...
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Mehmet Ali Kallioglu, Ahmet Yilmaz, Ashutosh Sharma, Ahmed Mohamed, Dan Dobrota, Tabish Alam, Rohit Khargotra and Tej Singh
The current study depicts the effects of different insulation materials and fuel types on the cooling and heating performance of buildings situated in hot and dry, warm and humid, composite, and cold climatic conditions in India. Ten different locations ...
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Jianyong Zhang, Yanling Zhao, Zhenqi Hu and Wu Xiao
Rapid estimation of above-ground biomass (AGB) with high accuracy is essential for monitoring crop growth status and predicting crop yield. Recently, remote sensing techniques using unmanned aerial systems (UASs) have exhibited great potential in obtaini...
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Adriana Cifuentes-Carvajal, Bernardo Chaves-Córdoba, Edgar Vinson, Elina D. Coneva, Dario Chavez and Melba R. Salazar-Gutiérrez
Phenological shifts in peaches have been observed over the last few years due to the fluctuation of the seasonal climate conditions experienced during dormancy, affecting orchard management practices and influencing production and harvest dates. This stu...
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Abdelmalek Temnani, Pablo Berríos, Susana Zapata-García, Pedro J. Espinosa and Alejandro Pérez-Pastor
Irrigated agriculture is facing a serious problem of water scarcity, which could be mitigated by optimizing the application of regulated deficit irrigation (RDI) strategies. For this reason, the aim of our study was to determine irrigation thresholds bas...
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Iphigenia Keramitsoglou, Panagiotis Sismanidis, Olga Sykioti, Vassilios Pisinaras, Ioannis Tsakmakis, Andreas Panagopoulos, Argyrios Argyriou and Chris T. Kiranoudis
A new satellite-enabled interoperable service has been developed to provide high spatiotemporal and continuous time series of Growing Degree Days (GDDs) at the field. The GDDs are calculated from MSG-SEVIRI data acquired by the EUMETCast station operated...
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Chukwuemeka Chinonso Emenekwe and Nnaemeka Vincent Emodi
The global energy system is highly vulnerable to climate variability and change. This results in a vast range of impacts on the energy demand sector and production and supply channels. This article aims to estimate the impacts of variables such as heatin...
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R. Baskaran, V. Karunakaran, A. Kamaraj
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Eduardo Aguayo-Ulloa, Claudia Valderrama-Ulloa, Fabien Rouault
Pág. 172 - 182
The constant increase in the requirement for electric energy on the part of the service sector has driven the development of tools for the analysis of energy data regarding the management of buildings. Particularly university campuses are made up of buil...
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Muhammad Umer Farooq, Abdus Salam Khan, Iqra Ishaaq, Asim Ali Cheema, Muhammad Shahzad Afzal, Asif Ali and Jianqing Zhu
Drought has become more frequent in central Asia causing large losses in cereal yield. To surmount the existing problem, it is imperative to emphasize early maturing varietal development. However, the impact of heat units on spike morphology and its rela...
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Julián Cuevas, Virginia Pinillos, Mercedes Pérez-Macías, Francisca Alonso, Mónica González and Juan José Hueso
To determine if water-stressed trees need more time and heat to mature their fruits, we compared chronological and thermal time from bloom to harvest among control fully-irrigated ‘Algerie’ loquat trees and trees suffering prior-to-bloom defi...
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Anna De Marco, Antonietta Fioretto, Maria Giordano, Michele Innangi, Cristina Menta, Stefania Papa and Amalia Virzo De Santo
This study focuses on two Mediterranean beech forests located in northern and southern Italy and therefore subjected to different environmental conditions. The research goal was to understand C storage in the forest floor and mineral soil and the major d...
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Claudia Bonomelli, Carlos Bonilla, Edouard Acuña, Pamela Artacho
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The period between flowering and harvest in the sweet cherry (Prunus avium L.) is shorter than most fruit trees; thus, competition for assimilate and nutrients occurs early in the season. To properly supply water and nutrients during this critical per...
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Abdulraouf Amro, Mohamed Younis, Ayman Ghania
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Nutritional value of four proteinaceous diets and their physiological effects on honey bee workers were evaluated under laboratory conditions. The tested diets were as follows: diet 1 ? date (Phoenix dactylifera L.) syrup, skimmed milk powder and dried b...
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Wenhao Zhao, Xuping Ji, Yaqing Jiang and Tinghong Pan
This work aims to study the effect of a nucleating agent on cement hydration. Firstly, the C-S-H crystal nucleation early strength agent (CNA) is prepared. Then, the effects of CNA on cement hydration mechanism, early strength enhancement effect, C-S-H c...
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Alexis Renaud, Victor Pommier, Jérémy Garnier, Simon Frappart, Laure Florimond, Marion Koch, Anne-Marie Grolleau, Céline Puente-Lelièvre and Touzain Sebastien
Three different coated steel systems were aged in natural or artificial seawater, in neutral salt spray (NSS), and using alternate immersion tests in order to evaluate the aggressiveness of the different ageing conditions. Commercial epoxy coatings were ...
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Yaneth L. Ruíz-Osorio, Claudia M. Amorocho-Cruz, Nelson Gutiérrez-Guzmán
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We assessed the degree of freshness of gutted and ungutted red tilapia (Oreochromis ssp) using physicochemical and microbiological analyses of samples of gutted red tilapia on days 0, 3, 5, 8, 11, 14 and 17 and of ungutted red tilapia on days 0, 3, 6, 9,...
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Sushant Mehan, Tian Guo, Margaret W. Gitau and Dennis C. Flanagan
Climate is one of the single most important factors affecting watershed ecosystems and water resources. The effect of climate variability and change has been studied extensively in some places; in many places, however, assessments are hampered by limited...
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Manuel J. Carretero-Ayuso, Alberto Moreno-Cansado and Justo García-Sanz-Calcedo
Climate conditions affect buildings? performance and durability. The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of climate conditions on roof deficiencies. 763 cases of such deficiencies were analyzed in this regard. Once the construction deficien...
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Ubair Abdus Samad, Mohammad Asif Alam, Arfat Anis, Hany S. Abdo, Hamid Shaikh and Saeed M. Al-Zahrani
This work focuses on the mechanical, nanomechanical, thermal, and electrochemical properties of epoxy coatings with various percentages of ZnO nanoparticles. The prepared coatings were analyzed after complete curing of 7 days. The dispersion of nanoparti...
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