abstract due to limited water resources in agriculture, application of each strategy to economize water use and increase area under cultivation is very important. one such strategy is deficit irrigation. for optimal planning of deficit irrigation, it is necessary to determine different sensitive stages of plant water shortages. in this study the effect of deficit irrigation on growth and yield ...

In a previous paper [Y. Dain and R. M. Lueptow, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 109, 1955 (2001)], a model of acoustic attenuation due to vibration-translation and vibration-vibration relaxation in multiple polyatomic gas mixtures was developed. In this paper, the model is improved by treating binary molecular collisions via fully pairwise vibrational transition probabilities. The sensitivity of the model ...

COVID-19 has evolved into a global pandemic. Early and rapid detection is crucial to control of the SARS-CoV-2 transmission. While representing gold standard for early diagnosis, nucleic acid tests are often complicated time-consuming. Serological antibody characterized by high rates false-negative diagnoses, especially during infection. Here, we developed novel nanozyme-based chemiluminescence...

The formation of smart emulsions or foams whose stability can be controlled on-demand by switching external parameters is great interest for basic research and applications. An emerging group stabilizers are microgels, which nano- micro-sized, three-dimensional polymer networks that swollen a good solvent. In the last decades, influence various stimuli on two-dimensional phase behavior microgel...

To improve its resilience to increasing climatic uncertainty, the City of Cape Town (the City) aims become a water sensitive city by 2040. undertake this challenge, means measure progress is needed that quantifies urban systems at scale enables whole-of-system approach management. Using an metabolism framework, we (1) provide first city-scale quantification cycle integrating natural and anthrop...