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Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Manrui Xue, Tim Li
Summary: The role of ENSO in modulating the mean SST in the tropical eastern Pacific was investigated. Analytical framework was constructed to quantify the contributions of ODH and surface heat fluxes to rectify mean SST. The results showed that both linear and nonlinear ODH, as well as surface heat fluxes, contribute to the slight mean SST difference between ENSO and non-ENSO periods.
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Construction & Building Technology
Ashmin Aryal, Pipat Chaiwiwatworakul, Surapong Chirarattananon, Wipawadee Wongsuwan
Summary: This study investigated the thermal comfort of subjects accustomed to a hot humid climate in a radiant cooling system. The analysis showed that air movement was a key factor influencing subject preference in radiant cooling, while room relative humidity had less significance. Comparisons with a conventional mixed-air system revealed different thermal responses from the subjects.
ENERGY AND BUILDINGS
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Juan A. Acero, Angela Dissegna, Yon Sun Tan, Adrian Tan, Leslie K. Norford
Summary: This paper evaluates the reliability of the 150 mm black globe thermometer in Singapore and recalibrates its mean radiant temperature. The results show an improvement in estimating T-mrt with the new coefficient, and increasing the averaging periods of the measured variables improves the performance of the derived mean convective coefficients to estimate T-mrt.
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
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Business
Chun-Tuan Chang, Dickson Tok, Xing-Yu (Marcos) Chu, Yu-Kang Lee, Shr-Chi Wang
Summary: This paper examines how exposure to sexual images activates the urge to yield to temptation, with a focus on the moderating effects of self-construal and gender differences. Findings show that an independent self-construal increases indulgent consumption for men, while an interdependent self-construal facilitates women's indulgent consumption. Perceived sensation-seeking serves as the underlying mechanism in these effects.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MARKETING
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Juan Huang, Wei Zhang, Yuelin Li, Senhao Wang, Jinhua Mao, Jiangming Mo, Mianhai Zheng
Summary: Long-term nitrogen deposition did not significantly affect soil acidity in tropical broadleaf plantations, with most of the added nitrogen lost through leaching and emissions without exacerbating soil acidification.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
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Behavioral Sciences
John Anthony Jones, Jordan Boersma, Jiawen Liu, Doka Nason, Serena Ketaloya, Jordan Karubian
Summary: Studied the impact of natural and experimentally manipulated feather coloration on the aggressive behavior of female white-shouldered fairywrens, with results showing no significant effect of feather color on aggression.
BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
(2022)
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Infectious Diseases
Kamini Mendis, Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Risintha Premaratne
Summary: The study found that the cost of malaria elimination in Sri Lanka is similar to that of malaria control, ranging from 21 to 45 million USD per year when adjusted for inflation. Although the cost per case of malaria was higher during the elimination phase, expenditure was focused on general systems strengthening rather than individual cases.
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Environmental Sciences
Matthew G. Hethcoat, Joao M. B. Carreiras, Robert G. Bryant, Shaun Quegan, David P. Edwards
Summary: Tropical forests are important for carbon and hydrological cycles, biodiversity, climate change mitigation, and the global economy. However, rapid population growth has led to degradation of these forests. The UN's REDD+ program aims to address this, but effective monitoring systems for forest degradation are still needed.
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Hanna Scheuffele, Erica V. Todd, John A. Donald, Timothy D. Clark
Summary: Global warming is causing an increase in extreme weather events, affecting ecosystems and the behavior of ectotherms. More research is needed to understand the impact of diurnal thermal variability and improve climate change predictions.
COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
(2024)
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Forestry
Greta Formaglio, Alex Vladimir Krusche, Louis Mareschal, Jean-Pierre Bouillet, Jose Leonardo de Moraes Gonsalves, Yann Nouvellon, Juan Sinforiano Delgado-Rojas, Alexandra Montebelo, Jacques Ranger, Jean -Paul Laclau
Summary: Planting nitrogen-fixing species can increase nitrogen availability for tree growth without causing large leaching losses, making mixed plantations with these trees valuable. Our study in São Paulo, Brazil, evaluated nutrient fluxes in soil solutions in monocultures and mixed plantations of Acacia mangium and Eucalyptus grandis. We found that Acacia monocultures had higher nitrogen concentrations in the topsoil solutions compared to Eucalyptus, but this difference was no longer observed at deeper depths. Leaching losses of dissolved nutrients were low in fast-growing plantations established on deep Ferralsols.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Plant Sciences
Guangcan Yu, Jing Chen, Mengxiao Yu, Andi Li, Ying-Ping Wang, Xinhua He, Xuli Tang, Hui Liu, Jun Jiang, Jiangming Mo, Shuo Zhang, Junhua Yan, Mianhai Zheng
Summary: Nitrogen deposition does not increase plant phosphorus demand in a nitrogen-saturated mature tropical forest. Different nitrogen addition rates regulate soil phosphorus transformation through microbial community transition.
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
(2023)
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Computer Science, Software Engineering
Scott A. Mitchell, Patrick Knupp, Sarah Mackay, Michael F. Deakin
Summary: This paper proposes primal-dual mesh optimization algorithms that address the limitations of the standard algorithm while preserving some of its desirable features. It introduces the HOT energy as a measure of the discretization error in the diagonalized Delaunay Hodge star operator. However, the HOT energy is unstable due to mathematical and algorithmic reasons, with minima occurring for collapsed edges and inaccurate extrapolation for non-regular triangulations. The paper suggests a different extrapolation method and avoids extrapolation by recalculating the objective beyond the flip threshold. New objectives based on normalizations of the HOT energy are proposed to prevent edge collapses and undesirable configurations. Mesh improvement algorithms are introduced to couple these objectives, allowing for edge collapses and vertex removal when necessary. By combining discrete connectivity changes with continuous optimization, the proposed algorithms explore a wider range of possible meshes and achieve higher quality solutions.
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
(2023)
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Soil Science
Ana Gabriela Perez-Castillo, Cristina Chinchilla-Soto, Jorge Alberto Elizondo-Salazar, Ronny Barboza, Dong-Gill Kim, Christoph Mueller, Alberto Sanz-Cobena, Azam Borzouei, Khadim Dawar, Mohammad Zaman
Summary: The study in tropical pastureland in Costa Rica showed that nitrapyrin is not a viable option for reducing gaseous nitrogen losses from urea fertilizer application. Both urea and urea with nitrification inhibitor had significant effects on grass yield and crude protein production.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Javeria Amin, Muhammad Sharif, Ghulam Ali Mallah, Steven L. Fernandes
Summary: This article proposes a computerized system for malaria diagnosis, including cell segmentation and classification methods. The method achieves high classification accuracy by utilizing various techniques to process and analyze malaria cells, and outperforms existing methods.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
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Business
Yunzhou Du, Phillip H. Kim
Summary: New ventures face various challenges and require high performance, necessitating different strategy configurations to adapt to complex environments. Configurational theory and methods can help analyze the complexities of entrepreneurship and offer insights into the pathways to high performance.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2021)
