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Xinkai Zhao, Xiaoyu Song, Danyang Wang, Lanjun Li, Pengfei Meng, Chong Fu, Long Wang, Wanyin Wei, Nan Yang, Yu Liu and Huaiyou Li
Straw mulching is a key method for controlling soil and water losses. Mulching costs may be reduced by applying it in strips rather than over entire areas. However, the effect of different straw mulching methods on the effectiveness of reducing soil eros...
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Charles Lan, Alec Wild, Ryan Paulik, Liam Wotherspoon and Conrad Zorn
This study investigates the direct and indirect impacts of extreme sea level (ESL) flooding on critical infrastructure. While methods to quantify the direct impacts of ESL flooding on coastal areas are well established, the indirect impacts that extend b...
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Cleovan Barbosa Pinto, Daiane das Graças do Carmo, Juliana Lopes dos Santos, Marcelo Coutinho Picanço Filho, Juliana Magalhães Soares, Renato Almeida Sarmento, Eraldo Lima, Leandro Bacci and Marcelo Coutinho Picanço
Maize (Zea mays) is the most consumed food in the world. The leafhopper, Dalbulus maidis, (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) is one of the most important maize pests, and due to its direct and indirect damage, it can cause losses of up to 100%. Sampling plans are...
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Marta Olczyk, Elisabeth H. Koschier, Tomasz Wójtowicz and Maria Pobozniak
Thrips tabaci Lind. (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) is a key pest of onions worldwide. It causes both direct and indirect damage to onion crops, resulting in high yield losses. Today, the Integrated System of Production and Plant Protection requires onion grow...
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Hristina Lebanova, Svetoslav Stoev, Emilia Naseva, Violeta Getova, Wei Wang, Ugne Sabale and Elina Petrova
Bulgaria is among the European Union (EU) countries with the highest burden of cervical cancers and life expectancy below the EU average. The majority of cervical cancer cases (more than 95%) are caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). The aim of this ...
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Inamullah Khan, Abdul Wahab Khattak, Alireza Bahrami, Shahab Khattak and Ali Ejaz
Flexible pavements are mostly affected by meteorological factors in addition to traffic loads, which results in premature pavement failures like rutting and moisture-induced damage. This study focuses on the impacts of adding various contents of nano-sil...
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Kyudae Shim, Eduardo Berrettini and Yong-Gyun Park
Because of population growth, rapid urbanization, and climate change, many water supply utilities globally struggle to provide water that is safe to drink. A particular problem is the aging of the water supply facilities, which is exacerbated by their in...
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Beáta Ballóková, Marián Lázár, Natália Jasminská, Zuzana Molcanová, ?tefan Michalik, Tomá? Brestovic, Jozef ?ivcák and Karol Saksl
SARS-CoV-2 is the causative agent of severe acute respiratory diseases. Its main transmission pathway is through large and small respiratory droplets, as well as a direct and indirect contact. In this paper, we present the results of the development and ...
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Amedeo Flora, Donatello Cardone, Marco Vona and Giuseppe Perrone
Comprehensive methodologies based on a fully probabilistic approach (i.e., the performance-based earthquake engineering approach, PBEE), represent a refined and accurate tool for the seismic performance assessment of structures. However, those procedures...
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Marcello Arosio, Chiara Arrighi, Luigi Cesarini and Mario L. V. Martina
The development of strategies to adapt to and mitigate the potential adverse consequences of natural hazards requires support from risk assessment studies that quantify the impacts of hazardous events on our society. A comprehensive analysis of risk comm...
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