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Precision agriculture has emerged as a dominant force in the United States, with widespread adoption of advanced technologies and decision support systems (DSS) since the 1980s. Key tools such as variable rate application (VRA), autopilot systems,...

• Robot driven combined site-specific seeding and N fertilization (CSSF = SSS + SNF).
• Both Kings (KA) and Robin Hood (RHA) prescriptions are contrasted in SNF.
• SNF-KA reduces N and seed inputs but SNF-RHA increases little N use.
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Autonomous agricultural management combats the labor crisis in farming industry and ensures efficient farm operations, whereas variable rate technology has proven to increase resource use efficiency and reduce environmental impacts. This study ...

• The AGB estimation performance of ASD and UHD185 was compared.
• HD was employed to improve spectral sensitivity to AGB.
• The AGB spatial distribution map was created.

Accurately estimating potato above-ground biomass (AGB), which is closely associated with the growth and yield of crops, carries significant importance for guiding field management practices. Hyperspectral techniques have emerged as a powerful ...

• A hybrid model based on components failure propagation for the TBS dynamic risk assessment is developed.
• A multi-state Markov model is proposed to describe the multi-state component degradation and different repair strategies.
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The train brake system (TBS) is a critical segment for the safety of train system whose failure can lead to serious consequences. Due to the dynamic and multi-factors coupling characteristics of TBS failure, it is important to construct a ...

• A system was developed to monitor multi-node environments in a plant factory.
• Applied monitoring system, collected data at 13 nodes in a plant factory.
• Proved non-uniform indoor environments in the growing space and analyzed ...

In plant factories, multi-layered shelves are used to maximize production per unit area by densely growing plants. The large number of plants placed in a spacious area leads to complex interactions between the plants and the growing environment, ...

• Developed an intelligent hybrid energy system using hydrogen fuel cells and batteries.
• A microcontroller is used to control the developed hybrid energy system in an intelligent way.
• The developed system coordinates the power flow ...

This study uses a fuel cell system with backup batteries coupled to renewable energy sources with intelligent control. The system developed for this research is built on a battery bank for energy storage and a fuel cell stack for energy ...

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• The impact of covid-19 on the tourism sector has been forecasted in India.
• AI models have been developed using time series-forecasting & multi-level modelling.
• Tourism trends of Ebola (EVD) have also been used to predict the ...

COVID-19 pandemic has given a sudden shock to economy indices worldwide and especially to the tourism sector, which is already very sensitive to such crises as natural calamities, terrorist activities, virus outbreaks and unwanted conditions. The ...

• Integrated framework using geoinformatics for sustainable crop rotation planning.

Sustainable agricultural management is essential for ensuring food security and economic development. Efficient agricultural land use based on crop rotation practices can deliver greater soil fertility and higher economic potential. We ...

• Estimation error with model-based sampling can be related to samples properties.

Model sampling has proven to be an interesting approach to optimize the sampling of an agronomic variable of interest at the field level. The use of a model improves the quality of the estimates by making it possible to integrate the ...

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• A stand-alone and open-source hyperspectral image processing software (HSI-PP) was designed.

Hyperspectral imaging has become one of the most popular techniques for high-throughput plant phenotyping. Extracting and analyzing useful plant phenotypic traits from hyperspectral images represents a major bottleneck for plant ...

• A practical parcel-level inversion method was proposed to retrieve crop LAI.
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Crop leaf area index (LAI) mapping from remote sensing observations is highly demanded for regional agricultural applications, such as crop health monitoring and crop yield prediction. However, the popularly used model inversion method ...

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• Personas can be used to stratify the risk relevant to mental health issues.
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In this paper we propose a novel framework for the definition of Personas for healthcare workers based on an online survey, with the aim of highlighting different levels of risk of developing mental disorders ...

• In agriculture, SVM models outperformed most models, except for RF and DL.
• SVM could be improved with spatial information, phenology and remote sensing data.
• SVM approximates well at low samples and dimensions, but is sensitive to ...

The Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a Machine Learning (ML) algorithm which may be used for acquiring solutions towards better crop management. The applications of SVM in precision agriculture (PA) are compared by identifying its interactions ...

• Rice NNI was monitored with UAV using nonlinear machine learning algorithms.
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Rapid and accurate estimation of rice Nitrogen Nutrition Index (NNI) is beneficial for management of nitrogen application in rice production. Traditional estimation methods required manual actual measurement data in the field, which ...

• The selection of the economically optimal fertilizer strategy is very complex.
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Farmers and consultants make the best use of existing resources to increase profitability, and this begins at the operating resources level. Existing literature primarily deals with the optimal intensity of fertilization. A multitude ...

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Viola tricolor (Pansy) is a well-known herb in the traditional medicine prescribes and its bioactive peptides have been introduced as responsible for these remediation ...

• A potentially novel gene product suggested here, which may encode a cyclotide-like precursor with a conserved ER-signal sequence, a cysteine-rich sequence ...

The cyclotides are the largest known family of cyclic proteins, which are found in several plant families including Violaceae. They are circular bioactive peptides consisting of 28-37 amino acids, which possess a cyclic cystine knot (...

• A low-cost image analysis technique for measuring tissue nitrogen content was developed.

Monitoring and maintaining plant tissue nitrogen (N) content in the optimal range is crucial for proper growth and quality of floriculture crops. Direct laboratory measurements of tissue N content is destructive, time-consuming and ...

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• A 3D QSAR study of thiazolidine derivatives as PIM1 inhibitors is reported.
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Proviral Integration site for Moloney murine leukemia virus-1 (PIM1) belongs to the serine/threonine kinase family of Ca²⁺-calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CAMK) group, which is involved in cell survival and proliferation as well ...

We describe the primary ways researchers can determine the size of a sample of research participants, present the benefits and drawbacks of each of those methods, and focus on improving one method that could be useful to the CHI community: local ...

Distributed storage of data files in different nodes of a network enhances its fault tolerance capability by offering protection against node and link failures. Reliability is often achieved through redundancy in one of the following two ways: i storage ...