Water management for rice production: a key component of food security in East Africa by Denis Bwire, Hirotaka Saito, Roy C. Sidle, Moses Mugisha

“…Rice farming is expanding in the region, with up to 90% produced on smallholder farms using traditional flooding and rain-fed methods, vulnerable to climate change and variability. …”
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Br-Li and stable isotopes to induce groundwater salinity in crystalline and detrital aquifers: Oriental Haouz Morocco by Mohmmed Elgettafi, Samia Rochdane, Abdenabi Elmandour, Juan M. Lorenzo, Mahjoub Himi, Albert Casas

“…In order to identify the origin of salinization, hydrochemical analysis were applied on forty groundwater samples, twenty of them are used for stable isotope measurement, three rivers, a sample from the natural spring in the south-western part and one rain water. New hydrochemical insights: High values of Li are considered with regard to micaschists and evaporite formations. …”
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A Typical Basalt Platform Landslide: Mechanism and Stability Prediction of Xiashan Landslide by Yongliang Huang, Zhiwei Sun, Chunyan Bao, Man Huang, Anyuan Li, Minghao Liu

“…The probability of heavy rain with rainfall intensity of 100–250 mm/day in the landslide area is very high. …”
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Impact of climate and human-induced fire on the Dongyuan Lake, Southern Taiwan during the last 1850 cal years BP by Abdur Rahman, Liang-Chi Wang, Neng-Ti Yu, Jiun-Yee Yen

“…In the past 150 years, human activities, mainly deforestation and acid rain, have contributed to lake acidification.…”
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A novel cellulose-derived graphite carbon with abundant defects for excellent environmental adaptability and superior wideband microwave absorbents by Guangguang Guan, Jiebai Li, Xiaoqiang Li, Jun Xiang, Yangtao Zhou

“…Besides, the CGC still retains a strong and broadband MA ability in the simulated real harsh environmental conditions (acid rain/alkaline solution, salt spray and strong UV exposure). …”
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Predicting nighttime black ice using atmospheric data for efficient winter road maintenance patrols by Jinhwan Jang

“…During winter, hazardous black ice can form anywhere on roads under various weather conditions, including fog, frost, rime ice, freezing rain, and snow. To prevent accidents caused by black ice, nighttime road maintenance patrols have been conducted in Korea since December 2019, following a tragic accident on slippery pavement. …”
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Experimental Study on Fatigue Characteristics and Life Prediction of Rotating Restricted Short Suspender in Suspension Bridge by Lei Zhao, Zhili Yang, Xianneng Tong, Yang Zhang, Ruifeng Nie

“…By introducing traffic data obtained from the WIM system, the stress response of the short suspenders caused by vehicles on each lane was simulated, and the simulation results were converted by the rain flow counting method. The residual life of the rotating restricted short suspender was predicted by the comparison between the fatigue test results and the fitting curve of the simulation results. …”
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Research on Historical and Future Spatial-Temporal Variability of Precipitation in China by Jun Yin, Denghua Yan, Zhiyong Yang, Zhe Yuan, Yong Yuan, Hao Wang, Xiaoliang Shi

“…Besides, decadal and interannual variations of different rain belts were analyzed to reveal the spatial changing pattern of precipitation. …”
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Response of Teff (Eragrostis tef (Zucc) Trotter) to Seeding Rate and Methods of Sowing on Yield and Yield Attributes in a Subhumid Environment, Northern Ethiopia by Abraha Arefaine, Daniel Adhanom, Negasi Tekeste

“…In view of this, a field experiment, under rain-fed condition, was conducted at Laelay Machew district with the objective of evaluating the response of teff to seeding rate and methods of sowing during 2017/18 main cropping season. …”
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Improving Deep Learning Forecasting Model Based on LSTM for Türkiye’s Hydro-Electricity Generation by Mehmet Bulut

“…This varies depending on precipitation such as snow and rain during the year, but when looking at the years, production is shaped according to the years when meteorological data are similar to each other. …”
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Root System Architecture and Physiological Characteristics of Soybean (Glycine max L.) Seedlings in Response to PEG6000-Simulated Drought Stress by Vincent Ishola Esan, Idowu Arinola Obisesan, Timothy Oyebamiji Ogunbode

“…The production of soybean is restricted in sub-Saharan Africa by several stress conditions, including drought because its production is exclusively rain-fed. Identifying drought resistant varieties is of paramount importance. …”
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Ground Testing of a Miniature Turbine Jet Engine for Specific Flight Conditions by Ryszard Chachurski, Łukasz Omen, Andrzej J. Panas, Piotr Zalewski

“…The test program assumed and considered the acting loads and forces in both standard and specific flight conditions, including scenarios for a heavy rain. The preliminary evaluation of the investigation results provided data and insights required for further analysis. …”
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Path Coefficient, Genetic Divergent and Principal Component Analysis on Common Bean (Phaseolus Vulgaris L.) Genotypes in Sekota, North Western Ethiopia by Abebe Assefa, Dereje Mekonnen, Muluken Bantayehu

“…Therefore, this study was initiated with the objective of identifying superior lines for hybridization program, identify the traits that have direct and indirect effect on seed yield and to determine genetic similarity among genotypes using multivariate analysis on 64 genotypes using 8x8 simple lattice design at Aybra main research site during 2023 under rain fed conditions. Analysis of variance was performed using SAS software and the genetic divergent and principal component analysis were done using R software. …”
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Multisite Scenarios of Black Carbon and Biomass Burning Aerosol Characteristics in India by Vivek Kumar, Panuganti C. S. Devara, Vijay K. Soni

“…Minimum concentrations are observed at all stations in the monsoon season due to the wet scavenging of aerosols by rain. There is a clear decrease in the BC mass concentration from winter to monsoon months and an increase in the post-monsoon months. …”
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A comparison of the parasitoid wasp species richness of tropical forest sites in Peru and Uganda – subfamily Rhyssinae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) by Hopkins, Tapani, Tuomisto, Hanna, Gómez, Isrrael C., Sääksjärvi, Ilari E.

“…The difference in the number of individuals caught may largely be due to more rainfall in Peru, since rain reduces Malaise trap catches. Peruvian traps caught species at a faster rate (per individual caught) than Ugandan traps. …”
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Climate Change and Environmental Influence on Prevalence of Visceral Leishmaniasis in West Pokot County, Kenya by Bulle Abdullahi, Joshua Mutiso, Fredrick Maloba, John Macharia, Mark Riongoita, Michael Gicheru

“…Kala-azar cases have been on the rise on aggregate and surge towards the end of dry season and just after the rains. Significant environmental factors included the presence of seasonal rain water pathways and rock piles around houses (AOR = 4.7; 95% CI = (2.3-9.6), p<0.05), presence of acacia trees in and around homesteads (AOR = 8.5; 95% CI = (2.5-28.6), p<0.05), presence of anthills around the homesteads (AOR = 5.2; 95% CI = (1.2-23.4), p<0.05), and presence of animal shed within compound (AOR = 2.8; 95% CI = (0.96-8), p<0.05). …”
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Simulation of Daily Rainfall from Concurrent Meteorological Parameters over Core Monsoon Region of India: A Novel Approach by Utpal Misra, Atri Deshamukhya, Sanjay Sharma, Srimanta Pal

“…This approach has a potential to be used as a rain parameterization scheme in the dynamical atmospheric and coupled models to simulate daily rainfall. …”
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Associer les acteurs de terrain à l’observation de la fréquentation et des pratiques récréatives en montagne : enseignements à partir de deux projets collaboratifs en France et en... by Christophe Clivaz, Marc Langenbach, Olivier Obin, Alexandre Savioz

“…First of all, this concerns the rise in the rain-snow limit and the increasing scarcity of snow (Gonseth, 2013), leading ski lift companies to invest heavily in the production of artificial snow in order to sustain the activities of skiing and snowboarding (Abegg, 2011; Clivaz et al., 2015). …”
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Sewage Sludge Amendment Combined with Green Manuring to a Coastal Mudflat Salt-Soil in Eastern China: Effects on Soil Physicochemical Properties and Maize Yield by Yanchao Bai, Wengang Zuo, Yiyun Yan, Chuanhui Gu, Yongxiang Guan, Lijuan Mei, Weijie Xue, Yuhua Shan, Ke Feng

“…This paper was one of earlier studies to investigate and evaluate the effects of sewage sludge amendment combined with green manuring on selected soil physicochemical properties of the mudflat soil in a rain-fed agroecosystem. The mudflat salt-soil was amended by one-time input of sewage sludge at the rates of 0, 30, 75, 150, and 300 t ha−1. …”
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Simultaneous Evolutionary Fits for Jupiter and Saturn Incorporating Fuzzy Cores by Ankan Sur, Roberto Tejada Arevalo, Yubo Su, Adam Burrows

“…These include the effective temperature, radius, atmospheric heavy-element and helium abundances (including helium rain), and the lower-order gravity moments J _2 and J _4 . …”
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