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Jorge E. Pesantez, Adam Behr and Elizabeth Sciaudone
This work considers a database of pre-storm morphological factors and documented impacts along a coastal roadway. Impacts from seven storms, including sand overwash and pavement damage, were documented via aerial photography. Pre-storm topography was exa...
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Yansu Qi, Xuefei Li, Yingjie Liu, Xiujuan He, Weijun Gao and Sheng Miao
Morphological indicators, which are important for urban planning, can be adjusted to effectively mitigate the heat island effect and promote a more comfortable urban environment. Most studies obtain the relationship between morphological indicators and l...
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Gabriela Ioana-Toroimac, Liliana Zaharia and Gabriel Minea
River morphological quality assessment, derived from quantification of human pressures as well as river channel alteration, is a demand of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in terms of integrating hydromorphological elements in defining ecological stat...
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Gabriela Ioana-Toroimac, Liliana Zaharia and Gabriel Minea
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Yanyan Huang, Ruixin Tu, Wutikeer Tuerxun, Xudong Jia, Xu Zhang and Xiaokang Chen
In the context of an increasingly extreme climate, Urban Heat Island (UHI) mitigation of communities through ventilation has recently attracted more attention. To explore the impact mechanisms of different morphological renovation schemes on its wind and...
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Fan Zhang, Junming Zhang, Qifeng Li, Yang Yang and Yunyan Sheng
Soil salinization is one of the main problems faced by modern agricultural production, especially cucumber production. This study screened the salt?alkali-tolerant cultivar ?D1909? and the salt?alkali-sensitive cultivar ?D1604? from 32 different cucumber...
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Lorenzo Gianquintieri, Maria Antonia Brovelli, Andrea Pagliosa, Gabriele Dassi, Piero Maria Brambilla, Rodolfo Bonora, Giuseppe Maria Sechi and Enrico Gianluca Caiani
The epidemic of coronavirus-disease-2019 (COVID-19) started in Italy with the first official diagnosis on 21 February 2020; However, it is not known how many cases were already present in earlier days and weeks, thus limiting the possibilities of conduct...
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Current concerns focus on the need to reduce energy consumption in construction and over the lifespan of buildings. A major objective is to create affordable housing. However, reducing the energy needs of the present without harming the needs of future g...
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William Megarry, Conor Graham, Bernard Gilhooly, Brendan O?Neill, Rob Sands, Astrid Nyland and Gabriel Cooney
The application of high-resolution imagery from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to classify the spatial extent and morphological character of ground and polished stone tool production at quarry sites in the Shetland Islands is explored in this paper. Thes...
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Manuel Doval Abad
El presente trabajo, resumen de la tesis doctoral de su autor, trata de caracterizar, desde el punto de vista morfológico y a través de índices de diferente tipo (concentración, dispersión, atracción, funcionalidad, centralidad, regularidad, compacidad, ...
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Kai Li, Quan Liu, Yuan Tian, Cong Du and Zhixiang Xu
Asphalt mixtures exhibit complex mechanical behaviors due to their multiphase internal structures. To provide better characterizations of asphalt pavements under various forms of potential distress, a two-dimensional (2D) finite element simulation based ...
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Zhijuan Qi, Sheng Guan, Zhongxue Zhang, Sicheng Du, Sirui Li and Dan Xu
Methane (CH4), which is an important component of the greenhouse gases from paddy ecosystems, is a major contributor to climate change. CH4 emissions from paddy ecosystems are closely related to the rice root system; however, how the rice root system aff...
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Rossana Caroni, Monica Pinardi, Gary Free, Daniela Stroppiana, Lorenzo Parigi, Giulio Tellina, Mariano Bresciani, Clément Albergel and Claudia Giardino
A study was carried out to investigate the effects of wildfires on lake water quality using a source dataset of 2024 lakes worldwide, covering different lake types and ecological settings. Satellite-derived datasets (Lakes_cci and Fire_cci) were used and...
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Junhua Wang, Junfei Xu, Yan Lu, Tancheng Xie, Jianjun Peng, Junliang Chen and Yanwei Xu
Laser?arc composite additive manufacturing holds significant potential for a wide range of industrial applications, and the control of morphological dimensions in the deposited layer is a critical aspect of this technology. The width and height dimension...
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Bin Xu, Dapeng Li, Kaijin Wei, Xiangyun Zhu, Jin Xu and Baoshan Ma
Due to a sharp decline in resources, Schizothorax waltoni Regan and Percocypris retrodorslis have been listed as wildlife under second-class protection in China. Under culture conditions, the early development and allometric growth patterns of S. waltoni...
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Damian Absalon, Magdalena Matysik and Lukasz Pieron
The proper characteristics of the catchment area of dammed reservoirs is of great importance when managing their capacity in the context of enabling proper functioning, including retention of the planned amount of water and counteracting the effects of d...
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Dhriti Sharma, Savita Bhardwaj, Ali Raza, Rattandeep Singh, Dhriti Kapoor, Neeta Raj Sharma and P. V. Vara Prasad
Amplified concentrations of lead (Pb) in cultivable soils, being a major environmental concern, bring about malicious consequences for plant and human health. Trigonella foenum-graecum (fenugreek) is a multipurpose herb used as a spice, tonic, leafy vege...
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Zhihui Zhang, Li Guo, Hongchun Sun, Jinhua Wu, Liantao Liu, Jianwei Wang, Biao Wang, Qianyi Wang, Zhimei Sun and Dongxiao Li
Melatonin application has obvious improving effects on alleviating the drought-induced inhibition of plant growth. However, the root phenotypic dynamics in wheat treated with melatonin remain unknown. This study was conducted using RhizoPot, a novel and ...
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Khawla Nsiri and Abdelmajid Krouma
Iron deficiency is a worldwide nutritional problem affecting crop production. In Tunisia, this mineral disorder hampers the growth and yield of the major crops due to the abundance of calcareous soils that limit iron availability. The common bean is one ...
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Olga Stanishevskaya, Yulia Silyukova, Vera Tereshina, Elena Ianutsevich, Nikolai Pleshanov, Anton Kurochkin and Elena Fedorova
Low-temperature semen storage technologies are already being used in poultry conservation programs, but the quality of reproductive material stored in cryobanks varies greatly and cannot always be successfully used for practical purposes. Therefore, it i...
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