The pesticides and their degraded products may be transported long distances before they return to the earth’s surface by the removal process of wet and dry deposition of the atmosphere [28], [29]. 6. Pesticide contamination in Indian context The soil and water contamination caused by ...
The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami was one of the most devastating tsunamis in world history. The tsunami caused damage to most of the Asian and other countries bordering the Indian Ocean. After a decade, reconstruction has been completed with different levels of tsunami countermeasures in most areas; ...
In 1819, Sir Raffles landed in Singapore on behalf of the British East Indian Company, and planned and rapidly developed Singapore into a free trading port in Southeast Asia. During this period of time, the Chinese started to migrate to this island off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula...
Interestingly, superlubricity is not exclusive to any specific class of materials. It has been observed in various systems, ranging from traditional layered materials such as graphite [6,7] to advanced engineering composites [8,9] and diamond-like carbons [10,11]. This versatility points to a ...
They collected the data from an introductory computer science class at the University of North Texas. From ten assignments, two exams were conducted. The dataset, however, includes 2273 student responses to the 80 questions. Meanwhile, most of the questions are factoids and descriptive. The ...
The blockchain-integrated IoUT ensures security, consensus, traceability, privacy, and transparency, which makes it a possible solution to many of the challenges faced in an underwater environment. However, integrating blockchain in such a resource-constrained environment indeed poses certain challenges...
Deep learning based short-range forecasting of Indian summer monsoon rainfall using earth observation and ground station datasets. Geocarto Int. 2022, 37, 17994–18021. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Simanjuntak, F.; Jamaluddin, I.; Lin, T.-H.; Siahaan, H.A.W.; Chen, Y.-N. Rainfall ...
Beginning in December 2019, the world faced a critical new public health stressor with the emergence of SARS-CoV-2. Its spread was extraordinarily rapid, and in a matter of weeks countries across the world were affected, notably in their ability to manage health care needs. While many sectors...
Microbiome research in the pig industry has been propelled by the need to reduce animal stress that may otherwise turn into economic losses for farmers [101]. In this context, weaning is a critical life stage in which the piglet diet undergoes a sharp change. Studies on the swine gut microbi...
During AD, a series of challenges, such as VFAs and hydrogen accumulation, which may be toxic for methanogenic and acetogenic bacteria, or the slow electron transfer through hydrogen or format, need to be faced [6], since they restrict biogas production. Novel approaches, such as genetic tech...