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Optimum irrigation scheduling is important for ensuring high yield and water productivity in substrate-cultivated vegetables and is determined based on information such as substrate water content, meteorologic...
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Open AccessResponses of butter leaf lettuce to mixed red and blue light with extended light/dark cycle period
To investigate the effects of extended light/dark (L/D) cycle period (relative to the diurnal L/D cycle) on lettuce and explore potential advantages of abnormal L/D cycles, butter leaf lettuce were grown in a ...
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Open AccessRed and blue wavelengths affect the morphology, energy use efficiency and nutritional content of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.)
Since red (R) and blue (B) LED light has different quantum efficiency and photoelectric conversion efficiency, mixed RB with different proportions of R and B results in varied energy consumption. In order to i...
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Open AccessSugar accumulation and growth of lettuce exposed to different lighting modes of red and blue LED light
The present study evaluated the growth response and sugar accumulation of lettuce exposed to different lighting modes of red and blue LED light based on the same daily light integral (7.49 μmol·m−2). Six lighting...
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Yield, nitrogen use efficiency and economic benefits of biochar additions to Chinese Flowering Cabbage in Northwest China
Enhancing nitrogen productivity and economic benefits are the key for organic vegetable production across the Northwest China. Through three crop** cycles in net house, changes under organic fertilizer (comp...
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A Multi-objective Algorithm Based on Discrete PSO for VLSI Partitioning Problem
The problem of circuit partitioning is a key phase in the physical design of VLSI. In this paper, we propose a multi-objective discrete PSO (DPSO) algorithm for the problem of VLSI partitioning. Moreover, a ne...
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Polyclonal B-Cell Expansion in the Cerebrospinal Fluid of Patients with Psedotumor Cerebri
To investigate the hypothesis that pseudotumor cerebri (PTC) is associated with humoral immunity, we analyzed immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region (Ig-V H ) genes of B cell...