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The Influence of a Water Absorbing Geocomposite on Soil Water Retention and Soil Matric Potential

, 2019
Climate change induces droughts that are becoming more intensive and more frequent than ever before. Most of the available forecast tools predict a further significant increase in the risk of drought, which indicates the need to prepare solutions to ...
Michał Śpitalniak, Krzysztof Lejcuś, Jolanta Dąbrowska, Daniel Garlikowski, Adam Bogacz   +4 more
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Development of a real-time monitoring system for soil moisture and matric potential

Guan'gai paishui xuebao
【Objective】Real-time monitoring of soil water content and matric potential is crucial for optimizing agricultural management. Traditional tensiometers require manual readings and frequent maintenance, which limits their scalability. This paper presents a
HAO Pingping, HAN Jinzhao, DING Fan, SONG Lei, LI Liuke, MA Ning, ZHANG Xiaobin, FENG Junjie   +7 more
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Bureaucrat assignments as instruments of political control: Theory and evidence from land administration officials in India

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates how politicians use the assignment of officials to geographical posts—a personnel system found in many countries—as a system of incentives to control, and possibly corrupt, bureaucratic behavior. The argument is developed with a matching model and tested with a nationwide survey of Indian officials who administer land ...
Anustubh Agnihotri, Aditya Dasgupta, Devesh Kapur   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soil wetting and drying processes influence stone artefact distribution in clay‐rich soils: A case study from Middle Gidley Island in Murujuga, northwest Western Australia

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
Abstract Soils that contain swelling clay minerals (e.g., montmorillonite) expand and contract during wetting and drying, causing movement within the soil profile. This process, known as argilliturbation, can alter artefact distributions, destroy stratigraphy and complicate the interpretation of archaeological deposits.
Caroline Mather, Matthias Leopold, Kaitlin Sullivan, Kane Ditchfield, Tom Horrocks, Luke Gliganic, Emma Beckett, Diana Patalwala, Emielda Yusiharni, Michael Smirk, William Hiscock, Jo McDonald   +11 more
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“Yet the Problem Remains”: Why Genetic Determinism Still Haunts Biomedical Research

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After the horrors of the Holocaust and its connections to eugenics were revealed to the world, many post‐war population geneticists sought to establish rhetorical distance from the Nazi's state‐led campaigns, without abandoning their belief that actively shaping the population's genetics would produce a prosperous society.
Christopher R. Donohue, Ian A. Myles
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Technological Upgrades to the SHYPROM IoT-Based System for Monitoring Soil Water Status

Sensors
Effective water resource management plays a crucial role in achieving sustainability in agriculture, hydrology, and environmental protection, particularly under growing water scarcity and climate-related challenges. Soil moisture (θ), matric potential (h)
Alessandro Comegna, Shawkat Basel Mostafa Hassan, Antonio Coppola   +2 more
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What Is the Ideal Time to Provide Corrective Feedback? An Approximate Replication of Li, Zhu, and Ellis (2016)

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract This replication study examines feedback timing in vocational language learners and verifies the hypothesis that the advantage of immediate over delayed feedback found in the original study (Li, Zhu, & Ellis, 2016) is due to practice opportunities in immediate feedback.
Shaofeng Li, Jie Li, Jiancheng Qian
wiley   +1 more source

BEAN PRODUCTIVITY UNDER DIFFERENT MATRIC POTENTIAL AND DEPLETION FACTORS OF WATER IN SOIL

, 2015
Irrigated agriculture still suffers with decreases in productivity of crops on account of inefficient irrigation management therefore becomes paramount the use of methodologies and tools that allow the monitoring of water content in the soil.
Cury Saad, Joao Carlos [UNESP], Filho, Helio Grassi [UNESP], Brito, Ramilos Rodrigues de [UNESP], Mendes Oliveira, Simone Raquel   +3 more
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Drought and salinity stress remodel Asian rice (Oryza sativa) leaf development through cell‐type‐specific regulatory programs

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Osmotic stressors induce developmental and physiological changes in rice (Oryza sativa) seedlings, which are modulated by cell‐type‐specific gene expression and regulatory networks. We exposed plants to two levels of drought and salinity stress and measured the effects of these stressors on developing leaves by measuring physiological traits, ion ...
Sean M. Robertson, Obaid Maqsood, Chi Dang, Asher Pasha, Claudio Stasolla, Nicholas J. Provart, Olivia Wilkins   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fingered Flow in Two Dimensions 1. Measurement of Matric Potential

Precise management of the changing matric potential during infiltration into unsaturated soil required the development of miniature, high-speed, planar tensiometers. A novel design was developed, with response time of less than 1 s.
Parlange, J.-Y., Selker, J., Leclerq, P., Steenhuis, T.   +3 more
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