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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Standards vary in studies using rainfall simulators to evaluate erosion

California Agriculture, 2012
Rainfall simulators are often employed to measure erosion rates, in order to estimate stream loading of sediment and nutrients in California foothill watersheds.
Mark Grismer
doaj   +1 more source

How are soil use and management reflected by soil organic matter characteristics: a spectroscopic approach [PDF]

, 2006
We studied the quantitative and qualitative changes of soil organic matter (SOM) due to different land uses (arable versus grassland) and treatments (organic manure and mineral fertilizer) within an agricultural crop rotation in a long-term field ...
Haberhaur, G., Knicker, Heike, Kirchmann, H., Gerzabek, M. H., Antil, R. S., Kögel-Knabner, I., Antil, R.S, Knicker, H, Kirchmann, Holger, Kögel-Knabener, I, Gerzabek, M   +10 more
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Advancing SafeWax, A Bio‐Inspired Superhydrophobic Coating, Toward Sustainable and Climate‐Resilient Crop Protection

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study advances SafeWax, a bio‐inspired, fatty‐acids‐based superhydrophobic coating, by identifying an agriculturally compliant solvent and revealing how solvent‐controlled Fatty acid crystallization governs the coating's microscopic structure and performance.
Niv Ben‐Arie, Iryna Polishchuk, Franziska Tauber, Coralie Schneider, Elena Prudnikov, Alessia Calora, Silvia Milita, Simona Fermani, Mireia Alejandra Ibanez Revert, Ilaria Filippetti, Claudio Ratti, Matthias Kellermeier, Markus Rueckel, Boaz Pokroy   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating LLM-Based Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Soil Science Question Answering

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Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for scientific literature require evidence-based choices of document segmentation, representation, retrieval, and generation components, particularly when the source collection varies in topical specificity ...
Karla Topić, Marina Bagić Babac, Vedran Mornar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Soil testing for P and K has value in nutrient management for annual crops

California Agriculture, 2016
Adequate nutrients in forms available to plant roots are essential for sustainable crop production. Soil testing for phosphorus and potassium availability allows growers and crop advisers to determine whether a soil is likely to respond to fertilization.
Daniel Geisseler, Gene Miyao
doaj   +1 more source

Melanin's Role in Balancing Mechanical Strength and Reproductive Output in Environmentally Stressed Fungal Spores

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Melanin content directly controls fungal spore mechanical properties, with pigmented spores achieving rupture forces two orders of magnitude higher than hyaline spores. Environmental stress drives this quantity‐quality tradeoff; stressed species invest energy in melanin‐reinforced, mechanically superior thick‐walled, super‐hydrophobic spores, while ...
Atul Agrawal, Steven E. Naleway
wiley   +1 more source

Soils: the final frontier recedes

Frontiers in Soil Science
Approximately 20 years ago (June 11th, 2004), a highly reputable scientific journal, on a front cover much celebrated by soil scientists, printed an eye-catching phrase: “Soils: The Final Frontier”.
Carlos Garbisu, Itziar Alkorta, Olatz Unamunzaga   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Modeled soil erosion potential is low across California's annual rangelands

California Agriculture, 2018
We used the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) to evaluate how different residual forage dry matter (RDM) levels affect erosion potential in rangelands across California. The model was adapted to operate in a geographic information system (GIS)
Wilson B. Salls, Royce Larsen, David Lewis, Leslie Roche, Danny J. Eastburn, Allan D. Hollander, Mike Walkinshaw, Stephen Kaffka, Kenneth Tate, Anthony O'Geen   +9 more
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Will European soil-monitoring networks be able to detect changes in topsoil organic carbon content? [PDF]

, 2008
Within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, articles 3.3 and 3.4 stipulate that some voluntary activities leading to an additional carbon (C) sequestration in soils could be accounted as C sinks in national greenhouse gas ...
Freudenschuß, Alexandra, PATRICIA H. BELLAMY, Üveges, Judit, NICOLAS P. A. SABY, Simota, Catalin, FRANK G. A. VERHEIJEN, CATALIN SIMOTA, Kibblewhite, Mark, JUDIT BERÉNYI ÜVEGES, Bernyi-Uveges, Judit, Verheijen, Frank G. A., Arrouays, Dominique, D., Kibblewhite, Mark G., XAVIER MORVAN, Morvan, Xavier, MARK G. KIBBLEWHITE, Bellamy, Patricia H., ANN VERDOODT, Saby, Nicolas, Saby, Nicolas, N., Verdoodt, Ann, DOMINIQUE ARROUAYS, Jones, Robert J. A., Bellamy, Patricia, Verheyen, Frank, Jones, Robert, ALEXANDRA FREUDENSCHUß, Arrouays, Dominique, Saby, Nicolas P. A., ROBERT J. A. JONES   +29 more
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