Agriculture is facing immense challenges. We have to produce enough food while safe-guarding the environment for future generations. This results in need use less water and fertilizer, harness soil quality. Key achieving this goal improving understanding of processes interactions governing soil–plant–atmosphere continuum agricultural ecosystems. Geophysical tools great potential better characte...

Given the steady increase in the number of cancer patients and media reports on controversial carcinogens related to occupation and lifestyle, people’s interest in cancer is growing. Since the Korean government pledged to overcome cancer, establishing its “Conquering Cancer 10-Year Plan” in 1966, the “Conquering Cancer” policy has achieved an increased cancer survival rate; however, the number ...

The reuse of design patterns in realistic software systems is often a result of blending multiple pattern elements together rather than instantiating them in an isolated manner. Pattern blends can manifest in heterogeneous ways, typically including overlaps and interlaces of inner class members taking part in the patterns implementation. The explicit description of pattern compositions is the k...

One of the most powerful synthetic transformations with the ability to stereospecifically create new carbon-carbon bonds by simple orbital reorganization are electrocyclic reactions. One of the most recognized electrocyclic reactions is known as Nazarov cyclization. This reaction involves the conversion of divinyl ketones to cyclopentenones by activation with a Brønsted or Lewis acid. It was or...