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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mathilde Josserand, Emma Meeussen, Asifa Majid, Dan Dediu
Summary: The presence of specific terms for blue in different languages is influenced by factors such as UV incidence and cultural complexity. Moreover, UV incidence may have a negative impact on abnormal red-green color perception.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
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Ecology
Miranda A. Sinnott-Armstrong, Michael J. Donoghue, Walter J. Jetz
Summary: The study found that fruit colours are influenced by both dispersers and environmental factors, and there is interaction between the two. In warm areas, bird-associated fruit colours become more distinct with higher prevalence of bird frugivores, whereas in cold places these colours dominate regardless of the prevalence of mammalian dispersers.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
L. Kelsey, M. Sullivan, P. Wiseman, P. Armstrong, R. Chen, D. Brout, T. M. Davis, M. Dixon, C. Frohmaier, L. Galbany, O. Graur, R. Kessler, C. Lidman, A. Moeller, B. Popovic, B. Rose, D. Scolnic, M. Smith, M. Vincenzi, T. M. C. Abbott, M. Aguena, S. Allam, O. Alves, J. Annis, D. Bacon, E. Bertin, S. Bocquet, D. Brooks, D. L. Burke, A. Carnero Rosell, M. Carrasco Kind, J. Carretero, M. Costanzi, L. N. da Costa, M. E. S. Pereira, S. Desai, H. T. Diehl, S. Everett, I. Ferrero, J. Frieman, J. Garcia-Bellido, D. Gruen, R. A. Gruendl, J. Gschwend, G. Gutierrez, S. R. Hinton, D. L. Hollowood, K. Honscheid, D. J. James, K. Kuehn, N. Kuropatkin, G. F. Lewis, J. Mena-Fernandez, R. Miquel, A. Palmese, F. Paz-Chinchon, A. Pieres, A. A. Plazas Malagon, M. Raveri, M. Rodriguez-Monroy, A. K. Romer, E. Sanchez, V. Scarpine, M. Schubnell, I. Sevilla-Noarbe, E. Suchyta, M. E. C. Swanson, G. Tarle, D. L. Tucker, N. Weaverdyck
Summary: Recent analyses have found correlations between the color of type Ia supernovae and their mass-step size, as well as the relationship between SN Ia host galaxy stellar mass and SN Ia Hubble residual. The study suggests that different colored SNe show differences in their Hubble residual, with blue SNe in low mass/blue environments exhibiting the lowest scatter.
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
(2022)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Shengneng Hu, Wei Tong, Kexin Mao
Summary: The assessment and grading of a highway landscape environment are crucial for the layout and planning of the highway route, as well as its integration into the surrounding environment. This article proposes a method for highway landscape environment assessment that combines quantitative and humanistic assessments. A comprehensive indicator system is constructed, consisting of landscape features, environmental harmony, visual environment, and environmental carrying capacity. The model divides the highway landscape environment into four grades and provides planning and design strategies accordingly. Applied to the Xi'an-Baoji highway in China, the results reveal an overall Grade 2 assessment with weak environmental carrying capacity but good landscape quality. This theoretical approach combines discursive cognition and quantitative analysis for a systematic and refined assessment of the highway construction environment.
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Thomas Breithaupt, Lars N. Hansen, Srikanth Toppaladoddi, Richard F. Katz
Summary: Grain size distribution is influenced by the local environment, and larger grains evolve in a random walk manner, leading to a broader distribution than traditional models.
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Agronomy
Emma G. Matcham, Filipe Matias, Brian D. Luck, Shawn P. Conley
Summary: This article introduces an open-source software package called cleanRfield, which aims to improve the efficiency of processing spatial agricultural data, such as yield maps. Compared to current standard solutions, cleanRfield is capable of reading and interpreting a wider range of data formats, and it also features automatic field boundary delineation and batch processing of multiple fields.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Pankaj C. Bhambhani, Ivan K. Baldry, Sarah Brough, Alexander D. Hill, M. A. Lara-Lopez, J. Loveday, B. W. Holwerda
Summary: Galaxy populations are characterized by a bimodal distribution of colors, with blue star-forming and red quiescent subpopulations. The relative abundance of these subpopulations varies with stellar mass and environment. In this study, we investigate the impact of environment using different types of measurements. We analyze a sample of 49,911 galaxies from the Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey and find that the fraction of red galaxies changes with the environment at a fixed stellar mass. The local environmental measures have a stronger influence on the red fraction compared to the large-scale geometric environment measures. Moreover, combining different environmental densities does not fully explain the observed variation in the red fraction, suggesting that different measures contain distinct information.
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
(2023)
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Construction & Building Technology
Shi Qiu, Chenglong Xu, Fei Wang, Qiang Yu
Summary: This study examines the heat environment intensity and the impact of ecological land on alleviating heat environment stress in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (BTH) urban agglomeration using a heat environment assessment and the MCR model. The findings reveal a hierarchical natural cooling system in the urban agglomeration, but the central and southern regions have relatively few corridors and patches, requiring optimization and improvement.
SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY
(2023)
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Geochemistry & Geophysics
Yuansheng Jiang, Ying Guo, Yufei Zhou, Xiang Li, Simin Liu
Summary: Chrysoprase is a popular gemstone due to its charming apple green color, but a scientific classification of its color has not yet been achieved. This research determined the most effective background for chrysoprase color grading and applied a clustering algorithm for the first time. The study classified chrysoprase colors into five groups and verified the feasibility of the color grading scheme using the DE2000 formula.
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Chemistry, Physical
Koichi Takasawa, Kenta Nishimoto, Ryo Ikeda, Kunihiko Hashi
Summary: This study investigated the hydrogen environment embrittlement (HEE) of a nickel-base superalloy, INCONEL(R) Alloy 617, using a notch tensile test in a 99 MPa hydrogen atmosphere. The function of grain boundary carbides was examined, and it was found that an increase in grain boundary coverage led to a higher ratio of intergranular fracture surface. Strain distribution analysis revealed localized strain accumulation near the grain boundary covered with carbide. The suggested mechanism of HEE in this alloy involves crack formation at the interface between the matrix and the grain boundary carbide, followed by crack growth along the grain boundary, ultimately resulting in fracture.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Miao Tian, Hongqiu Wang, Yingxue Sun, Shaozhi Wu, Qingqing Tang, Meixia Zhang
Summary: This paper proposes a novel fine-grained attention & knowledge-based collaborative network (FA+KC-Net) to improve the accuracy of diabetic retinopathy (DR) grading. By combining the fine-grained attention network and the knowledge-based collaborative network, the network is able to effectively capture meaningful small image features from a large amount of retinopathy fundus images and perform the final grading. Experimental results show that FA+KC-Net achieves excellent performance on the DDR, Messidor, and APTOS datasets.
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Mechanics
Jiding Zhang, Yue Sheng, Hongda Yang, Wentao Ma, Xiaoyu Jiang
Summary: A new hydrogen embrittlement fracture model is proposed based on the discrete distributed dislocation method. The effect of hydrogen atoms distribution at the crack tip on dislocation emission before micro-crack nucleation in the early stage of corrosion fracture is investigated. The results show that hydrogen can promote the emission, diffusion and movement of dislocations, increasing the plastic zone at the crack tip.
ENGINEERING FRACTURE MECHANICS
(2022)
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Chemistry, Applied
Sen Li, Ningjing Liu, Di Cai, Cheng Liu, Jin Ye, Bingjie Li, Yu Wu, Li Li, Songxue Wang, H. J. van der Fels-Klerx
Summary: This study explored the factors influencing deoxynivalenol (DON) concentrations in wheat, including environmental factors like air temperature and precipitation, as well as agronomic factors like crop rotation and planting density. An empirical model for DON prediction was established, with high classification accuracy for both internal and external validation.
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Food Science & Technology
Marina Mefleh, Rosella Motzo, Fatma Boukid, Francesco Giunta
Summary: This study assessed the effects of clipping, cultivar, season, and their interactions on the protein composition of six old and ancient wheat cultivars. Clipping delayed and shortened the grain filling period of all cultivars. Some cultivars showed different protein composition behaviors under different environmental conditions.
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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Changzhi Zhao, Huajian Hu, Meizhen Zhuo, Chunying Shen
Summary: In this study, SBSC porous ceramics were prepared by mixing two different particle size of SiC powder and the properties of different SiC mixtures were investigated. The results showed that mixing an appropriate proportion of coarse and fine powder improved pore size distribution and significantly increased bending strength.
MATERIALS RESEARCH EXPRESS
(2022)