Mixing grass with legumes before ensiling is beneficial for improving dry matter and crude protein yield, but additional information is needed to balance nutrient content and fermentation quality.
Hao Guan +10 more
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Bearing/Distance Problems in Mathematics: Teachers’ Construction Efficacy in the Secondary School in Plateau State, Nigeria [PDF]
<p style="text-align:justify">In Nigeria, most teachers among other things lack the necessary teaching skills, and mastery of subject matter for effective teaching of mathematics at the secondary school level. These deficiencies have often resulted in high and repeated failure rates in national and standard mathematics examinations.
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An accurate fringe extraction model of small- and medium-sized urban areas using multi-source data
Urban fringes are of great significance to urban development as connecting hubs between urban and rural areas. However, there are many problems in urban fringes, including disorderly spatial layout, waste of social resources, and low quality of human ...
Jianfeng Li +12 more
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A numerical study of two-phase flow with dynamic capillary pressure using an adaptive moving mesh method [PDF]
Motivated by observations of saturation overshoot, this paper investigates numerical modeling of two-phase flow incorporating dynamic capillary pressure.
Zegeling, Paul Andries, Zhang, Hong
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On Categories of Mathematics Teachers’ Classroom Characteristics and Perceived Influence on Effective Mathematics Teaching in Secondary Schools in Plateau State, Nigeria [PDF]
<p style="text-align: justify;">In this paper, the categories and influence of teachers’ classroom characteristics relative to effective mathematics teaching in secondary schools in Plateau state, Nigeria were examined. The aim was to see how students are assisted to learn mathematics from teachers engaging fully their professional practices ...
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The impact of peripheral circulation characteristics of typhoon on sustained ozone episodes over the Pearl River Delta region, China [PDF]
The peripheral circulation of typhoon forms sustained ozone episodes. However, how it impacts the day-to-day ozone pollution levels during the episodes has not been clearly studied, which is crucial for better prediction of the daily ozone variation.
Y. Li +8 more
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A mathematical model of soil moisture spatial distribution on the hill slopes of the Loess Plateau [PDF]
Based on important factors that affect soil moisture spatial distribution, such as the slope gradients, land use, vegetation cover, and surface water diffusion characteristics together with field measurements of soil moisture data obtained from the surface soil under different land use structures, a soil moisture spatial distribution model was ...
Bojie Fu +3 more
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Data-driven quantification of nitrogen enrichment impact on Northern Hemisphere plant biomass
The production of anthropogenic reactive nitrogen (N) has grown so much in the last century that quantifying the effect of N enrichment on plant growth has become a central question for carbon (C) cycle research.
Yongwen Liu +8 more
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The thinning of lamellae in surfactant-free foams with non-Newtonian liquid phase [PDF]
Thinning rates of liquid lamellae in surfactant-free non-Newtonian gas–liquid foams, appropriate for ceramic or polymer melts and also in metals near the melting point, are derived in two dimensions by matched asymptotic analysis valid at small capillary
Brush, L.B., Roper, S.M.
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Minimal Surfaces with Arbitrary Topology in H^2xR [PDF]
We show that any open orientable surface S can be properly embedded in H^2xR as an area minimizing surface.Comment: 26 pages, 6 figures. With the editors' request, the paper splitted into two parts. The other part posted as APP for Tall Curves (arXiv:
Coskunuzer, Baris
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