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Wind-steered Eastern Pathway of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
The spreading pathway of the North Atlantic Deep Water, which is the lower limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), determines how climate change signals are transported throughout the g...
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Microplastic risk assessment and toxicity in plants: a review
Microplastics have recently emerged as major pollutants widely occurring in the atmosphere, seawater, and soils. Microplastic toxicity in plants results in economic losses from declining crop yields. Here, we ...
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Open AccessOptimal allocation model and method for parallel ‘reservoir and pum** station’ irrigation system under insufficient irrigation conditions
The effective regulation and storage of water resources by reservoirs in arid and semi-arid areas is important for alleviating water resource shortages. In this paper, multiple irrigation reservoirs and pumpin...
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Open AccessOrganic laser power converter for efficient wireless micro power transfer
Wireless power transfer with collimated power transmission and efficient conversion provides an alternative charging mode for off-grid and portable micro-power electronics. However, charging micro-power electr...
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Biofouling in Membrane Bioreactors—Mitigation and Current Status: a Review
Biological fouling as termed biofouling is caused by varied living organisms and is difficult to eliminate from the environment thus becoming a major issue during membrane bioreactors. Biofouling in membrane b...
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An assessment of the simulation of East-Asia precipitation in the high-resolution community earth system model
Data analyses of long-term historical experiments using version 1.3 of the Community Earth System Model with 100 km resolution for both atmosphere and ocean (low-resolution, LR), and 25 km resolution for atmos...
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Rhizosphere-induced shift in the composition of bacterial community favors mineralization of crop residue nitrogen
In agricultural systems, residue amendment is an important practice for nutrient management, but the role of microbes in mineralization of crop residue nitrogen (N) is not well known. Therefore, this study aim...
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Open AccessLikely accelerated weakening of Atlantic overturning circulation emerges in optimal salinity fingerprint
The long-term response of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) to anthropogenic forcing has been difficult to detect from the short direct measurements available due to strong interdecadal va...
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The linear behavior of the joint initial-boundary-value predictability of the climate system
The primary sources of predictability of the Earth climate system come from initial conditions and external radiative forcings, which is a joint initial-boundary-value problem. It is crucial to clearly underst...
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Zero-Sum Game-Based Controller Design Using Reinforcement Learning for Formation Tracking of Multi-agent Systems
This paper proposes a hierarchical distributed formation tracking controller for continuous multi-agent systems (MASs). Firstly, a zero-sum game-based regulation controller is designed according to a min-max g...
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Reduced energetic disorder enables over 14% efficiency in organic solar cells based on completely non-fused-ring donors and acceptors
The large energetic disorder has been regarded as a limitation for the further advance of organic solar cells (OSCs). The intramolecular energetic disorder, which originates from the molecular conformational d...
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Tank-dependence of the functionality and network differentiation of activated sludge community in a full-scale anaerobic/anoxic/aerobic municipal sewage treatment plant
Understanding the structures and dynamics of bacterial communities in activated sludge (AS) in full-scale wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is of both engineering and ecological significance. Previous invest...
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Co–elevation of CO2 and temperature enhances nitrogen mineralization in the rhizosphere of rice
It is unclear how elevated CO2 (eCO2) and warming interactively influence soil N mineralization in the rhizosphere of rice (Oryza sativa L.), given that the N mineralization process in anaerobic paddy soils diffe...
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Open AccessThreat by marine heatwaves to adaptive large marine ecosystems in an eddy-resolving model
Marine heatwaves (MHWs), episodic periods of abnormally high sea surface temperature, severely affect marine ecosystems. Large marine ecosystems (LMEs) cover ~22% of the global ocean but account for 95% of glo...
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Research on the Propagation Characteristics of Millimeter Wave Signals in Complicated Enclosed Spaces
This paper aims at simulating the electromagnetic environment inside an enclosed chamber with high conductivity and complicated structure, validating the feasibility of high-speed wireless communications insid...
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Multi-UAVs Collaboration Routing Plan Based on Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm with Elite Strategy
In this paper, the multi-UAVs collaboration routing plan problems are defined by route penalty, which is used to perform the multi-UAVs routes. An Artificial Bee Colony with Elite Strategy (ES-ABC), which incl...
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Real-Time Routing Plan Based on Modified Ant Colony Algorithm
In this paper, the situation of the real-time routing plan problems firstly is analyzed. In order to solve these problems, we propose a new optimization algorithm based on ant colony algorithm (modified ant co...
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Coordinated Path Planning for Multi-aircrafts Based on Improved Differential Evolution Algorithm
In order to solve the problem of path planning and maximize the cooperative combat effectiveness of manned aircrafts and unmanned aircrafts, firstly, considering the battlefield environment model and the perfo...
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Multi-UAVs Collaboration Routing Plan Based on Modified Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm
In this paper, the multi-UAVs collaboration routing plan problem is formally defined, and the route penalty degree is used to evaluate the multi-UAVs routes. A Modified Artificial Bee Colony (M-ABC), which inc...
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An Intelligent Data Routing Scheme for Multi-UAV Avionics System Based on Integrated Communication Effectiveness
The rapid development of information technology promotes the transformation and development of future air combat, from mechanization to informatization, intelligence, and multiplatform integration. For the mul...
