The Quality of Clarity: Lessons from the Sixty‐Year Struggle to Maintain the Purity of Lake Taupō
Sixty years of effort to protect the exceptionally clear water of Lake Taupō, the largest lake in Aotearoa New Zealand, show how environmental memory can help manage a cultural and natural resource. I describe how water clarity and quality in this lake have been protected, through managing soil erosion and phosphorus flows during the 1960s–1980s, and ...
Jonathan West
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Development and performance evaluation of variable width raised bed former with optimal parameters predicted by RBF neural network-PSO technique. [PDF]
Sawant CP +6 more
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ABSTRACT Mungbean is predominantly cultivated within a subtropical climate, and its potential for cultivation in temperate regions as a summer crop has not been comprehensively assessed. This research investigates the influence of temperature and seasonal variation with sowing time on mungbean phenology, growth and yield at five locations within the ...
Sachesh Silwal +5 more
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Agriculture surrounding monitoring and object identification based on optimized you only look once and single shot multibox detector setups using combined vision and thermal images. [PDF]
Tarasiuk K +5 more
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ABSTRACT Common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) are essential raw material for the canning industry. This article reviews recent advances in assessing canning quality and the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into breeding methodologies aimed at developing genotypes with superior yield and canning‐quality traits.
Arash Ghaitaranpour +2 more
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Prevalence and Risk Factors of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Dockworkers: The Role of Psychosocial Stress and Physical Demands in an Iranian Port. [PDF]
Tajvar A, Mohseni S, Kazempour M.
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The management of weeds can influence organic matter (OM) and organic carbon (OC) levels, impacting the productivity and sustainability of coffee plantations. This study aimed to evaluate OM and OC levels in coffee soils under different weed management practices and their influence on coffee tree physiology and productivity. The experiment featured six
Indira Pereira de Oliveira +9 more
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SPAmix: a scalable, accurate, and universal analysis framework for large-scale genetic association studies in admixed populations. [PDF]
Ma Y +13 more
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ABSTRACT A 2‐year field experiment (2022–2023) was conducted on a clay loam soil in Quebec, Canada, to evaluate the short‐term effect of spring‐seeded cover crop termination methods on soil health indicators. A mixture of field peas (Pisum sativum L.) with oats (Avena sativa L.) in 2022 and with faba beans (Vicia faba L.) in 2023 was seeded in early ...
Michaël Brière +5 more
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Analyzing sustainable cotton production in Türkiye through the water energy carbon nexus framework. [PDF]
Ertuğrul Ö +3 more
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