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Detection of Coastal Saline Land Uses with Multi-Temporal Landsat Images in Shangyu City, China
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Application of artificial neural network approach and remotely sensed imagery for regional eco-environmental quality evaluation
Eco-environment quality evaluation is an important research theme in environment management. In the present study, Fuzhou city in China was selected as a study area and a limited number of 222 sampling field s...
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Genetic algorithm-based decision tree classifier for remote sensing map** with SPOT-5 data in the HongShiMao watershed of the loess plateau, China
The loess plateau in China has faced severe soil erosion and runoff. Check-dams are effective measures for soil and water conservation; concomitantly check-dam planning and construction urgently require curren...
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Determination of potential management zones from soil electrical conductivity, yield and crop data
One approach to apply precision agriculture to optimize crop production and environmental quality is identifying management zones. In this paper, the variables of soil electrical conductivity (EC) data, cotton...
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Exciton-lattice polaritons in multiple-quantum-well-based photonic crystals
Coherent interaction of an ensemble of dipole active atoms or excitons with a vacuum electromagnetic field has been studied extensively since its initial conception by Dicke in 19541,2,3,4,5,6. However, when the ...
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Definition of Management Zones for Enhancing Cultivated Land Conservation Using Combined Spatial Data
The loss of cultivated land has increasingly become an issue of regional and national concern in China. Definition of management zones is an important measure to protect limited cultivated land resource. In th...
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Development of a national VNIR soil-spectral library for soil classification and prediction of organic matter concentrations
Soil visible-near infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (vis-NIR DRS) has become an important area of research in the fields of remote and proximal soil sensing. The technique is considered to be particula...
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Open AccessImpacts of the Three Gorges Dam on microbial structure and potential function
The Three Gorges Dam has significantly altered ecological and environmental conditions within the reservoir region, but how these changes affect bacterioplankton structure and function is unknown. Here, three ...
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Open AccessUniversal structure of transmission eigenchannels inside opaque media
As the desire to explore opaque materials is ordinarily frustrated by multiple scattering of waves, attention has focused on the transmission matrix of the wave field. This matrix gives the fullest account of ...
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Open AccessThe functional gene composition and metabolic potential of coral-associated microbial communities
The phylogenetic diversity of coral-associated microbes has been extensively examined, but some contention remains regarding whether coral-associated microbial communities are species-specific or site-specific...
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Farmland productivity and its application in spatial zoning of agricultural production: a case study in Zhejiang province, China
The spatial distribution of farmland productivity is important for reducing the loss of productive farmland and develo** sustainable agro-ecosystems in China. This study calculated theoretical, realizable an...
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Degradation of oxcarbazepine by UV-activated persulfate oxidation: kinetics, mechanisms, and pathways
The degradation kinetics and mechanism of the antiepileptic drug oxcarbazepine (OXC) by UV-activated persulfate oxidation were investigated in this study. Results showed that UV/persulfate (UV/PS) process appe...
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Characterization of field scale soil variability using remotely and proximally sensed data and response surface method
Soil salinization of the reclaimed tidelands is problematic. Therefore, there is a need to characterize the spatial variability of soil salinity associated with soil moisture and other soil properties across t...
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Degradation of Diuron by Electrochemically Activated Persulfate
An electrochemically activated persulfate (EC/PS) system was proposed for the degradation of herbicide diuron in this study. In the EC/PS system, the ferrous ions (Fe2+) produced from iron electrode can activate ...
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Degradation of carbamazepine by UV/chlorine advanced oxidation process and formation of disinfection by-products
Pharmaceuticals in water are commonly found and are not efficiently removed by current treatment processes. Degradation of antiepileptic drug carbamazepine (CBZ) by UV/chlorine advanced oxidation process was s...
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Enhanced degradation of Orange G by permanganate with the employment of iron anode
Iron anode was employed to enhance the degradation of Orange G (OG) by permanganate (EC/KMnO4). Continuously generated Fe2+ from iron anode facilitated the formation of fresh MnO2, which plays a role in catalyzin...
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HuMiChip2 for strain level identification and functional profiling of human microbiomes
With the massive data generated by the Human Microbiome Project, how to transform such data into useful information and knowledge remains challenging. Here, with currently available sequencing information (ref...
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Magnetic EDTA functionalized CoFe2O4 nanoparticles (EDTA-CoFe2O4) as a novel catalyst for peroxymonosulfate activation and degradation of Orange G
EDTA functionalized CoFe2O4 nanoparticles (EDTA-CoFe2O4) synthesized using a facile one-pot solvothermal method were employed as catalysts to activate peroxymonosulfate (PMS) with Orange G (OG) as the target poll...
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Open AccessOrganic carbon prediction in soil cores using VNIR and MIR techniques in an alpine landscape
Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), including visible and near-infrared (VNIR) and mid-infrared (MIR) radiation, is a rapid, accurate and cost-effective technique for estimating soil organic carbon (SOC). ...
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Assessment of the potential health risks of heavy metals in soils in a coastal industrial region of the Yangtze River Delta
Soil heavy metal contamination is a serious environmental problem. Human beings may be directly exposed to heavy metals in soils through the inhalation of soil particles, dermal contact, and oral ingestion, wh...
