The Laptev Sea is one of the main source regions of sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. Most ice forms in winter in a prominent, quasi-permanent flaw lead or polynya (region of open water), separating landfast from drifting sea ice. In winter 2003/2004 we have deployed two seafloor moorings in the polynya, equipped with sensors to continuously observe ice, water, and sediment properties. In parallel, ...

Beauveria bassiana (Bb) strain GHA is a major component of an integrated pest management (IPM) program for coffee berry borer (CBB) in Hawai‘i. Efforts to measure effectiveness spray applications have been complicated by activity naturally-occurring Bb. Studies were thus designed provide more accurate efficacy assessments accounting this natural activity. BotaniGard® ES + Widespread Max® (WSM) ...

The quantum Hall effect in three-dimensional Weyl semimetal (WSM) receives significant attention for the emergence of Fermi loop where underlying two-dimensional conductivity, namely, sheet shows quantized plateaus. In tilt multi-Weyl semimetals (mWSMs) lattice models, we systematically study Landau levels (LLs) and magneto-Hall conductivity both under parallel perpendicular magnetic field (ref...

The use of the high-order Flux Reconstruction (FR) spatial discretization scheme for LES on unstructured meshes is investigated. Simulations of the compressible Taylor-Green vortex at Re = 1600 demonstrate that the FR scheme has low numerical dissipation and accurately reproduces the turbulent energy cascade at low resolution, making it ideal for high-order LES. To permit the use of subgrid-sca...

Problems associated with annual grain agriculture, such as soil erosion and water and air pollution, indicate that reliance on annual grain production is a fundamental problem of current agricultural practice (23). Annual plant roots are less efficient micromanagers of water, soil, and soil nutrients than their perennial counterparts, resulting in nutrient and pesticide contamination of water s...

A technique to provide quite accurate monitoring of small displacements by means of ASAR ScanSAR acquisition is here presented. This technique merges the advantages provided by Permanent Scatterers, namely the high accuracy, and the correlation over wide temporal and spatial baselines, with the advantages provided by WSM, in terms of short revisiting time and global coverage. It is then possibl...

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a combination of homogeneous and heterogeneous sensor nodes which are physically deployed at different places. Heterogeneous WSM can be characterized with different parameters such as hardware resources, application, services, software platform and network. WSN are powerful technology, which is used to build up many applications in the era of technological devel...