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Adaptive Crop Management under Climate Uncertainty: Changing the Game for Sustainable Water Use
(MDPI, 2021-08-23)Water supplies are projected to become increasingly scarce, driving farmers, energy producers, and urban dwellers towards an urgent and emerging need to improve the effectiveness and the efficiency of water use. Given that ... -
AFM Image Analysis of the Adsorption of Xanthate and Dialkyl Dithiophosphate on Chalcocite
(MDPI, 2022-08-13)Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been applied to study the adsorption morphology of various collectors, i.e., potassium ethyl xanthate (KEX) and potassium amyl xanthate (PAX) and Cytec Aerofloat 238 (sodium dibutyl ... -
AI-Based Pipeline for Classifying Pediatric Medulloblastoma Using Histopathological and Textural Images
(MDPI, 2022-02-03)Pediatric medulloblastomas (MBs) are the most common type of malignant brain tumors in children. They are among the most aggressive types of tumors due to their potential for metastasis. Although this disease was initially ... -
Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Virtual Energy Assessment
A Virtual energy assessment (VEA) refers to the assessment of the energy flow in a building without physical data collection. It has been occasionally conducted before the COVID-19 pandemic to residential and commercial ... -
Assessing the Reactionary Response of High School Engineering Teachers Offering a Novel Pre-College Engineering Curriculum: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
(MDPI, 2023-04-22)The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic forced a rapid transition of K-16 education to remote and online learning in the final quarter of the 2019–2020 school year. The disruption was extreme for all teachers in K-12 but ... -
Bioremediation of Hexavalent Chromium by Chromium Resistant Bacteria Reduces Phytotoxicity
(MDPI, 2020-08-19)Chromium (Cr) (VI) has long been known as an environmental hazard that can be reduced from aqueous solutions through bioremediation by living cells. In this study, we investigated the efficiency of reduction and biosorption ... -
Changes Associated with the Peri-Ovulatory Period, Age and Pregnancy in ACTH, Cortisol, Glucose and Insulin Concentrations in Mares
(MDPI, 2021-03-20)Although there are many hormonal changes associated with reproduction, the effects of ovulation and early pregnancy on adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) and insulin concentrations are poorly described. We hypothesise that ... -
Characterization of Temperature-Dependent Kinetics of Oculocutaneous Albinism-Causing Mutants of Tyrosinase
(MDPI, 2021-07-21)Human tyrosinase (Tyr) is a glycoenzyme that catalyzes the first and rate-limiting step in melanin production, and its gene (TYR) is mutated in many cases of oculocutaneous albinism type phenotype in patients with ... -
Complete Genome Sequence of the Streptomyces-Specific Bacteriophage BRock
(2020-08)The complete genome sequence of the unique virulent bacteriophage BRock, isolated from compost on Streptomyces sp. strain SFB5A, was determined. BRock is a myovirus with a 112,523-bp genome containing a GC content of 52.3%. ... -
Computational Analysis of Shear Banding in Simple Shear Flow of Viscoelastic Fluid-Based Nanofluids Subject to Exothermic Reactions
(MDPI, 2022-02-25)We investigated the shear banding phenomena in the non-isothermal simple-shear flow of a viscoelastic-fluid-based nanofluid (VFBN) subject to exothermic reactions. The polymeric (viscoelastic) behavior of the VFBN was ... -
Curriculum Design in an Agricultural Education Program in Nigeria: Towards Advancing Career Readiness
(Advancements in Agricultural Development, Inc., 2022)This research explores the effective curriculum design for higher-ed in preparing agricultural education graduates for Nigeria’s labor market. The continuing professional education program planning theory serves as the ... -
The Death of Neoliberal Realism?
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Deep Learning for Forest Plantation Mapping in Godavari Districts of Andhra Pradesh, India
(Virginia Tech, 2019-08)Small-area forest plantations play a vital role in the socioeconomic well-being of farmers in Southeast Asia. Most plantations are established on former agricultural land, often on land less suitable for agriculture. ... -
Deer movement and resource selection during Hurricane Irma: implications for extreme climatic events and wildlife
(Royal Society, 2019-11-19)Extreme climatic events (ECEs) are increasing in frequency and intensity and this necessitates understanding their influence on organisms. Animal behaviour may mitigate the effects of ECEs, but field studies are rare because ... -
Deprivation Has Inconsistent Effects on Delay Discounting: A Review
(Frontiers, 2022-02-10)Delay discounting, the tendency for outcomes to be devalued as they are more temporally remote, has implications as a target for behavioral interventions. Because of these implications, it is important to understand how ... -
Development of Innovative Lateral Resistance Systems Featuring Earthquake-Protective Dampers
(MDPI, 2023-03-17)Several conventional structural systems require sufficient retrofitting design procedures, improvements, and reconstructions to withstand lateral loads and to decrease the occurrence of damage. High strength capacity and ... -
The EarthBox Project in Grayson County, Virginia
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Effect of slurry ice during storage on myofibrillar protein of Pseudosciaena crocea
(2021-07)In order to explore the effect of slurry ice on myofibrillar protein of Pseudosciaena crocea, the changes in myofibrillar protein and muscle microstructure during storage were studied with crushed ice as a control. During ... -
Effects of the Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Fluoxetine on Developing Neural Circuits in a Model of the Human Fetal Cortex
(MDPI, 2021-09-28)The developing prenatal brain is particularly susceptible to environmental disturbances. During prenatal brain development, synapses form between neurons, resulting in neural circuits that support complex cognitive functions. ... -
Elastic Nanofibrous Membranes for Medical and Personal Protection Applications: Manufacturing, Anti-COVID-19, and Anti-Colistin Resistant Bacteria Evaluation
(MDPI, 2021-11-18)Herein, in the present work two series of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) nanofibers were manufactured using the electrospinning techniques with ZnO and CuO nanoparticles for a potential use as an elastic functional layer ...