Lymphatic filariasis (Lf) is one of the oldest and most debilitating tropical diseases. Millions of people are suffering from this prevalent disease. It is estimated to infect over 120 million people in at least 80 nations of the world through the tropical and subtropical regions. More than one billion people are in danger of getting affected with this life-threatening disease. Several studies ...

The present study aims to determine spectral bands that are best suited for characterizing rice agronomic variables. The data for this study came from ground-level hyperspectral reflectance measurements of rice at different stage. Reflectance was measured in discrete narrow bands between 350 and 2500 nm. Observed rice agronomic variables included leaf area index (LAI), wet biomass (WBM includin...

In-depth understanding and accurate simulation of hydrological processes are great significance for sustainable development management water resources. The study focused on a semi-arid catchment, the upper Tang River catchment in northern China, investigated performance RCCC-WBM model based detection results trend, mutation, periodicity. Results show that (1) as result climate change intensive ...

Most of the currently available numerical prediction techniques for the analysis of steady-state dynamic vibro-acoustic problems can be classified as being either deterministic or statistical approaches. The Finite Element Method (FEM), the most popular deterministic technique, is limited to the low-frequency range due to its sensitivity to interpolation and pollution errors. The statistical me...

Wolbachia are well known as bacterial symbionts of arthropods, where they are reproductive parasites, but have also been described from nematode hosts, where the symbiotic interaction has features of mutualism. The majority of arthropod Wolbachia belong to clades A and B, while nematode Wolbachia mostly belong to clades C and D, but these relationships have been based on analysis of a small num...

A combination of a simple and universal crop growth simulator (SUCROS) of van Keulen et al. [van Keulen, H., Penning de Vries, F.W.T., Drees, E.M., 1982. A summary model for crop growth. In: Penning de Vries, F.W.T., Laar van, H.H. (Eds.), Simulation of Plant Growth and Crop Production. Simulation Monographs, Pudoc, Wageningen] with a water balance model (WBM) of Arora et al. [Arora, V.K., Prih...

In a weakly coupled structural-acoustic problem, the boundary conditions may be composed by two conditions. One is a velocity boundary condition, which can be obtained from a dynamic structural analysis and the other is an acoustic impedance boundary condition. The acoustic impedance boundary condition is used for modeling acoustic absorbent behavior at boundaries proportional to the velocity d...

The Bonferroni mean BM was introduced by Bonferroni six decades ago but has been a hot research topic recently since its usefulness of the aggregation techniques. The desirable characteristic of the BM is its capability to capture the interrelationship between input arguments. However, the classical BM andGBM ignore theweight vector of aggregated arguments, the general weighted BM WBM has not t...

Arabidopsis thaliana is the first model plant, the genome of which has been sequenced. In general, intensive studies on this model plant over the past nearly 30 years have led to many new revolutionary understandings in every single aspect of plant biology. Here, we review the current understanding of anthocyanin biosynthesis in this model plant. Although the investigation of anthocyanin struct...

Abstract Drilling fluids are the core of drilling operations, and they responsible for many roles, such as lubricating drill string, cooling down equipment, maintaining wellbore integrity, transporting cuttings to surface. High-energy demands have caused oil gas production rates increase by orders magnitude, which is accompanied increased usage different fluids, including oil-based muds (OBM) w...