The present paper presents the interactions between water retention/evaporation and cracking during desiccation of intact disturbed Belgian Luvisol. (DS) undisturbed (NDS) samples (reduced-tillage-residue-in (RTRI) conventional-tillage-residue-out (CTRO)) were collected from an agricultural field in Gembloux, Wallonia, Belgium. drying experiment took place controlled laboratory conditions at 25...

We studied the impacts of re-vegetation on soil moisture dynamics and evapotranspiration (ET) of five land cover types in the Loess Plateau in northern China. Soil moisture and temperature variations under grass (Andropogon), subshrub (Artemisia scoparia), shrub (Spiraea pubescens), plantation forest (Robinia pseudoacacia), and crop (Zea mays) vegetation were continuously monitored during the g...

Jellyfish collagen (JC) was extracted from jellyfish umbrella and hydrolyzed to prepare jellyfish collagen hydrolysate (JCH). The effects of JC and JCH on UV-induced skin damage of mice were evaluated by the skin moisture, microscopic analyses of skin and immunity indexes. The skin moisture analyses showed that moisture retention ability of UV-induced mice skin was increased by JC and JCH. Furt...

E-commerce has an important influence on China’s economic and social development. The rapidly emerging Internet of Things other information technologies can promote the revolutionary innovation development e-commerce products industries. Online direct sales channels fully apply technology e-commerce. operations have more power to technology. If offline business stronger advantages than online o...

Irrigated row-crop agriculture is contributing to declining groundwater in areas such as the Mississippi Delta region of eastern Arkansas. There is a need to move toward sustainable levels of groundwater withdrawal. Recent improvements in remote monitoring technologies such as wireless soil moisture sensors and unmanned aerial vehicles offer the potential for farmers to effectively practice sit...