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IMPRESS BIM Methodology and Software Tools (iBIMm) for Façade Retrofitting Using Prefabricated Concrete Panels
IMPRESS is a H2020 funded project that has developed prefabricated façade panels to reduce building energy demand. In order to accelerate and optimise the retrofit process, IMPRESS has developed an iterative design methodology...
Geoinformatics Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Ingestive Behaviour Activities Based on Bioacoustic Signals in Grazing Cattle
This work focuses on the development of an autonomous, electronic platform based on bioacoustic techniques to monitor animal sounds related to ingestive activities and sub-activities in beef cattle. The authors have developed an...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Geographic Analysis of Domestic Violence Incident Locations and Neighborhood Level Influences
Domestic violence is an important public health issue, and there is limited research to date that examines community-level influences on this serious form of violence. This article investigates the neighborhood characteristics...
Geoinformatics Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Detection and Identification of Microbial Volatile Organic Compounds of the Green Mold Disease
Button mushrooms are one of the most commonly cultivated mushroom species facing different risks e.g.: viral, bacterial and fungal diseases. One of the most common problems is caused by Trichoderma aggressivum, or ‘green mould'...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Smart Farming
With the increasing demand on smart agriculture, the effective growth of a plant and increase its productivity are essential. To increase the yield and productivity, monitoring of a plant during its growth till its harvesting is...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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A Visual Insight Into Tweeting Activity Before and During Natural Disasters
Big data provided by social media has been increasingly used in various fields of research including disaster studies and emergency management. Effective data visualization plays a central role in generating meaningful insight...
Geoinformatics Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Prediction of Soybean Price Trend via a Synthesis Method With Multistage Model
Soybean is an important crop, so it is very important to forecast soybean price trend, which can stabilize the market. This paper presents a Synthesis Method with Multistage Model (SMwMM) in order to identify and forecast...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Identification of Tomato Leaf Diseases Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Crop disease is a major issue now days; as it drastically reduces food production rate. Tomato is cultivated in major part of the world. The most common diseases that affect tomato crops are bacterial spot, early blight...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Economic, Agronomic, and Environmental Benefits From the Adoption of Precision Agriculture Technologies
Precision agriculture (PA) as an integrated information- and production-based farming system is designed to delivery high-end technology solutions to increase farm production efficiency and profitability while minimizing...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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The Environmental Pollution Effects of Industrial Agglomeration
To analyze the environmental pollution effects elicited by industrial agglomeration, a spatial econometric model is constructed based on the Green Solow model. Using data derived from 285 Chinese cities between 2003and 2014, the...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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A Bayesian Probability Model Can Simulate the Knowledge of Soybean Rust Researchers to Optimize the Application of Fungicides
Asian rust is the main soybean disease in Brazil, causing up to 80% of yield reduction. The use of fungicides is the main form of control; however, due to farmer's concern with outbreaks many unnecessary applications are...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Computer vision and image processing procedures could obtain crop data frequently and precisely, such as vegetation indexes, and correlating them with other variables, like biomass and crop yield. This work presents the...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Field Weed Recognition Based on an Improved VGG With Inception Module
The precision spraying of herbicides can significantly reduce herbicide use, and recognizing different field weeds is an important part of it. In order to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of field weed recognition, this...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Agricultural Environment Information Management
Xi Cai
Jul 01, 2020
ZigBee communication technology was used to design the internal information transmission system of intelligent gateway in the monitoring system. Finally, the system was used to detect the changes of temperature and humidity in...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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A Geospatial Expose of Flood-Risk and Vulnerable Areas in Nigeria
Flooding is recurrent in Nigeria, occurring yearly at different scales. This geared the need for a study to reveal local government areas (LGAs) that are at risk and vulnerable to flooding. The multi-criteria approach was...
Geoinformatics Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Water Availability Challenges in Low-Income Areas of Agbowo Community, Ibadan, Nigeria
Water is crucial to life. This has led to the inclusion of a specific water-related target in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The study by World Health Organization (WHO) stated...
Economics & Economic Theory Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Identifying Surface Mine Extent Across Central Appalachia Using Time Series Analysis, 1984-2015
The Appalachians, and Central Appalachia in particular, have a long history of resource extraction including coal mining. In the past half century, the region experienced a shift from underground to surface mining, which leaves...
Geoinformatics Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Realization of Agricultural Machinery Equipment Management Information System Based on Network
In order to study the role of information technology in the promotion of agricultural development and information in today's social and economic development of the most important strategic impact, on the basis of modern...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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How to Manage Incompleteness of Nutritional Food Sources?
Patrice Buche, Julien Cufi, Stéphane Dervaux, Juliette Dibie, Liliana Ibanescu, Alrick Oudot, Magalie Weber
Oct 01, 2021
In order to correctly assess the nutritional quality of a raw or manufactured food product, the first step is to obtain the associated nutritional values. Food composition databases (FCDBs) managed at national level provide...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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LLC Converter Based PV Water Pumping System With Enhanced User Safety Approach
Anuradha Tomar
Oct 01, 2021
In this paper, LLC resonant converter based Photovoltaic (PV) water pumping is proposed. Commercially, the available PV based water pumping system consists of a non-isolated DC-DC converter, which is suitable for low power...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Utilizing Volunteered Information for Infectious Disease Surveillance
With the advent of Web 2.0, the public is becoming increasingly interested in spatial data exploration. The potential for Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) to be adopted for passive disease surveillance and mediated...
Geoinformatics Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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A Delta Normal Approach for Modelling Risk Forecasting of Currency Portfolio
This research explores the benefits of a proactive model developed through delta normal approach implementation for the forecasting of currency portfolio volatility. The latter becomes a necessity for the Albanian agro exporters...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Performance Analysis of Target Information Recognition System for Agricultural Robots
In this paper, an agricultural robot vision system is proposed for two typical environments—farmland and orchard—combined with weeding between crops. The system includes orchard production monitoring and prediction tasks, the...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Characteristics of Red Spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) Encroachment at Two Central Appalachian Heathland Study Areas
During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, intensive land use nearly eliminated red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) throughout portions of West Virginia (WV). Red spruce has been slow to regenerate on mountaintop heathland...
Geoinformatics Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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Research on Multi-Cooperative Combine-Integrated Scheduling Based on Improved NSGA-II Algorithm
To promote the integration and optimal allocation of agricultural machinery resources to achieve the purpose of reducing cost and increasing efficiency, the scheduling problem of agricultural machinery in agricultural machinery...
Environmental Technologies Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences Environmental Science and Technologies
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