bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Effect of Irrigation Scheduling and Varieties on Yield, Yield Attribute and Profitability of Indian Mustard [Brassica juncea (L.)]
Authors: Maurya Shravan Kumar , Kalhapure Aniket , Sah Dinesh , Chaudhary Manthan , Verma Shikhar , Yadav Rajat Kumar , Gupta Devrani 
Published: July 2022

An agronomic investigation to study the response of various mustard varieties to different irrigation scheduling treatments through critical growth stage approach was conducted during Rabi season of year 2019-20 at IFS research Unit farm in Banda University of Agriculture and Technology, Banda (U.P.-210001). The experiment was laid out in strip plot design with three replications. Four irrigation scheduling treatments [viz. I0: No Irrigation, I1: One Irrigation at Rosette stage, I2: One Irrigation at Pod formation and I3: Two Irrigations (1st at Rosette + 2nd at Pod Formation)] were allocated to horizontal plots; whereas two mustard varieties (viz. NRCHB-101 and PM-28) were sown in vertical plots. Higher yield attributing characters at different crop stages and at harvest viz. pod plant-1, pod length, grain pod-1 and test weight and yield (grain yield, straw yield, biological yield and harvest index) along with crop water use efficiency were recorded under treatment irrigating the crop with two times during rosette and pod formation. Similarly maximum gross return (93759 INR ha-1), net return (65238 INR ha-1) and benefit cast ratio (2.29) were recorded under two irrigations (1st at Rosette + 2nd at Pod Formation). NRCHB-101 was observed maximum yield attributing characters and yield in compared to PM-28.
Outcomes of Intraplaque Verapamil Injection for Treatment of Peyronie’s Disease
Authors: Ahmed Faraz , Hussain Saddam , Ullah Muhammad Hassam 
Published: July 2022

Objective: To determine the outcomes of intraplaque verapamil injection for treatment of Peyronie's disease.
Aim: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the outcomes & efficacy of intraplaque verapamil injection in Peyronie’s disease management.
Methods: The quasi experimental study was conducted from July 2018 to July 2019 on a group of 26 subjects suffering from Peyronie's disease. After detailed history, complete physical and genital examination, the diagnosis was confirmed. After informed consent, questionnaires regarding pain and sexual satisfaction of patients were filled. All patients received verapamil injections on weekly basis for a period of 10 weeks. After that, all necessary variables were recorded and data analyzed using SPSS version 16.
Results: Most of the patients in our study were in the age group of 30-65 years. 26.9 % patients were in the range of 51-55 years old. 53.8% patients got no effect of intralesional injection of verapamil on pain while pain relieved in 38.5% of patients & 7.7% patients experienced an increased in pain intensity after 10 weeks of intralesional injection of verapamil. 61.5%of patients satisfied with their sexual life after 10 week of injections & 30.8% of patients remained unsatisfied with their sexual life while in 7.7%of patients symptoms aggravated. 53.8% of patients experienced no change in size of lesion and curvature of penis, while 30.8% got less than 50% reduction in size of lesion while 15.4% of patients got more than 50% reduction in size after 10 weeks.
Conclusion: This study concluded the efficacy of Verapamil injection for management of Peyronie’s disease.
Elucidating the cognitive processes involved in the note‐taking effect
Authors: Lalchandani Lakshmi A. , Healy Alice F. 
Published: July 2022

AbstractThere are three unique cognitive mechanisms during note taking: generative processing, summarization, and sustained attention. Generative processing is active construction of associations between novel information and prior knowledge and experiences. Summarization forces identification of the most pertinent information to create a coherent synopsis. Sustained attention is selectively concentrating on novel information while ignoring irrelevant distraction. This investigation compared the operation of the three cognitive mechanisms in relation to the note‐taking effect—the advantage of note taking when there is no opportunity to review the notes. Experiment 1, through measurement of task‐relevant and task‐irrelevant distraction, showed that sustained attention is positively related and generative processing negatively related to retention. Experiment 2, through an instruction manipulation, showed that generative processing impeded and summarization facilitated retention. Therefore, generative processing cannot account for the note‐taking effect. Instead, these results suggest that summarization and sustained attention are the primary cognitive processes underlying the note‐taking effect.
Superhydrophobic Phosphonium Modified Robust 3D Covalent Organic Framework for Preferential Trapping of Charge Dispersed Oxoanionic Pollutants
Authors: Wang Yue , Lan Jianhui , Yang Xiaofan , Zhong Shouchao , Yuan Liyong , Li Jiuqiang , Peng Jing , Chai Zhifang , Gibson John K. , Zhai Maolin , Shi Weiqun 
Published: July 2022

AbstractCharge dispersed and less hydrophilic anionic pollutants are often difficult to be preferentially captured by common cationic framework materials. A gamma radiation modification approach is employed to anchor a superhydrophobic phosphonium‐containing coating on a robust crystalline 3D covalent organic framework (COF). By regulating the surface hydrophobicity, the prepared 3DCOF‐g‐VBPPh3Cl is endowed with a strong affinity for charge dispersed and less hydrophilic oxoanions, such as MnO4−, TcO4−and ReO4−, to surmount the Hofmeister bias, which much favors remediation of oxoanionic pollutants in complex aqueous systems. Batch and column experiments with 3DCOF‐g‐VBPPh3Cl in both tap water and simulated groundwater are performed, and rapid sequestration is achieved with removal efficacy up to 99.995%, record‐high distribution coefficient of 1.0 × 108 mL g−1, and desirable priority over competing anions such as Cl−, SO42−, HCO3−, and NO3−, confirming promise for remediation of charge dispersed anionic pollutants. Theoretical calculations reveal a mechanism of preferential capture based on electrostatic and dispersion interaction between charge dispersed anions and 3DCOF‐g‐VBPPh3Cl that effectively competes with solvation of the aqueous anions.
Modulation of the Tumor Immune Microenvironment by Bi2Te3‐Au/Pd‐Based Theranostic Nanocatalysts Enables Efficient Cancer Therapy
Authors: Wu Fengxia , Chen Haoran , Liu Ruiqi , Suo Yongkuan , Li Qiqing , Zhang Youlin , Liu Hongguang , Cheng Zhen , Chang Yulei 
Published: July 2022

AbstractNanozymes with multienzyme‐mimicking activities have shown great potential in cancer therapy due to their ability to modulate the complex tumor microenvironment (TME). Herein, a second near‐infrared (NIR‐II) photothermal‐nanocatalyst by decorating Bi2Te3 nanosheets with ultrasmall Au/Pd bimetallic nanoparticles (Bi2Te3‐Au/Pd) to reverse the immunosuppressive TME is developed. The peroxidase (POD)‐like and catalase (CAT)‐like activities, and glutathione (GSH) consumption capacity of Au/Pd modulates the TME by disrupting the intracellular redox homeostasis and relieving hypoxia in the TME. Notably, the amplified oxidative stress induces the accumulation of lipid hydroperoxides (LPO) for enhanced ferroptosis. Moreover, upon NIR‐II photoirradiation at 1064 nm, the localized heat generated by Bi2Te3 not only directly ablates the cancer cells but also enhances the Au/Pd‐mediated catalysis‐mediated cancer therapy. Furthermore, both in vitro and in vivo studies confirm that the Bi2Te3‐Au/Pd nanocatalysts (BAP NCs) can effectively suppress tumor growth by inducing immunogenic cell death (ICD), and suppressing metastasis and recurrence by the synergistic treatment. Overall, this study provides a promising theranostic strategy for effective tumor inhibition.
Thermal Runaway of Silicon‐Based Laser Sails
Authors: Holdman Gregory R. , Jaffe Gabriel R. , Feng Demeng , Jang Min Seok , Kats Mikhail A. , Brar Victor W. 
Published: July 2022

AbstractLaser sail‐based spacecraft—where a powerful Earth‐based laser propels a lightweight outer‐space vehicle—have been recently proposed by the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative as a means of reaching relativistic speeds for interstellar space travel. The laser intensity at the sail required for this task is at least 1 GW m−2 and, at such high intensities, thermal management of the sail becomes a significant challenge even when using materials with low linear absorption coefficients. Silicon is proposed as one leading candidate material for the sail due to its low sub‐bandgap absorption and high index of refraction, which allows for low‐mass‐density designs. However, here it is shown that the temperature‐dependent linear absorption of silicon can lead to thermal runaway at temperatures above 400–500 K for even the most optimistic viable assumptions of the material quality. Additionally, above a design‐specific threshold laser intensity, nonlinear two‐photon absorption triggers thermal runaway regardless of initial temperature. Resonator‐based designs, which concentrate the field, exhibit lower threshold intensities than geometries that minimize the electric field such as Bragg reflectors.
High‐Harmonic Generation Enhancement with Graphene Heterostructures
Authors: Alonso Calafell Irati , Rozema Lee A. , Trenti Alessandro , Bohn Justus , Dias Eduardo J. C. , Jenke Philipp K. , Menghrajani Kishan S. , Alcaraz Iranzo David , García de Abajo F. Javier , Koppens Frank H. L. , Hendry Euan , Walther Philip 
Published: July 2022

AbstractHigh‐harmonic generation (HHG) in graphene heterostructures, consisting of metallic nanoribbons separated from a graphene sheet by either a few‐nanometer layer of aluminum oxide or an atomic monolayer of hexagonal boron nitride, is investigated. The nanoribbons amplify the near‐field at the graphene layer relative to the externally applied pumping, thus allowing the observation of third‐ and fifth‐harmonic generation in the carbon monolayer at modest pump powers in the mid‐infrared. The dependence of the nonlinear signals on the ribbon width and spacer thickness, as well as pump power and polarization are studied, and enhancement factors (EF) relative to bare graphene reaching 1600 and 4100 for third‐ and fifth‐harmonic generation, respectively, are demonstrated. The work supports the use of graphene heterostructures to selectively enhance specific nonlinear processes of interest, an essential capability for the design of nanoscale nonlinear devices.
Advances in Near‐Infrared Organic Micro/Nanolasers
Authors: Wu Jun‐Jie , Gao Hanfei , Wang Xue‐Dong , Wu Yuchen , Jiang Lei , Liao Liang‐Sheng 
Published: July 2022

AbstractNear‐infrared (NIR) micro/nanolasers hold great potential for integration of optoelectronic circuitry, medical diagnosis, sensing, and so forth. For the laser medium, organic gain molecules are highly attractive in NIR micro/nanolasers due to the inherent merits of abundant excited‐state processes, chemical tunability, and solution processing. Herein, the recent advances of NIR organic micro/nanolasers on nondoped molecule aggregates are reviewed from the aspects of gain materials, fabrication of self‐assembled microcavities, and NIR lasing actions, as well as some typical examples in applications, supporting the effective construction of internal quantitative relationship of gain molecular structures, excited‐state gain processes, self‐assembled micro/nanostructures, and NIR lasing performance. Finally, conclusion and outlook are given, aiming at offering valuable revelation for further development of high‐performance NIR organic micro/nanolasers.
Electrically Tunable Microlens Array Enabled by Polymer‐Stabilized Smectic Hierarchical Architectures
Authors: Wu Jin‐Bing , Wu Sai‐Bo , Cao Hui‐Min , Chen Quan‐Ming , Lu Yan‐Qing , Hu Wei 
Published: July 2022

AbstractLiquid crystals (LCs) are key functional materials that are broadly adopted in various fields due to their stimuli‐responsiveness. Recently, LCs with hierarchical architectures have brought new effects to optics and attracted intensive attention. In smectic A phase, the parallel molecular layers are periodically wrapped to form toric focal conic domains (TFCDs) under antagonistic boundary conditions (i.e., hybrid alignment conditions). TFCD shows great potential in nanofabrication and integral imaging. However, the arbitrary tailoring of TFCD is still challenging, and the robustness of hierarchical configuration hinders the tunability. Here, a radial alignment lattice is adopted to guide the local orientation of LCs and thus facilitates predefining the lattice symmetry and domain size of TFCDs. By introducing polymer stabilization and optimizing the composition, the sample simultaneously maintains the director distribution inside smectic layers and possesses the stimuli‐responsiveness of nematic phase at room temperature. By this means, microlens arrays are demonstrated with reversible electrical tunability. The strategy can be extended to other smectic configurations and may upgrade existing dynamic optics.
Switching Electrolyte Interfacial Model to Engineer Solid Electrolyte Interface for Fast Charging and Wide‐Temperature Lithium‐Ion Batteries
Authors: Liu Gang , Cao Zhen , Wang Peng , Ma Zheng , Zou Yeguo , Sun Qujiang , Cheng Haoran , Cavallo Luigi , Li Shiyou , Li Qian , Ming Jun 
Published: July 2022

AbstractEngineering the solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) that forms on the electrode is crucial for achieving high performance in metal‐ion batteries. However, the mechanism of SEI formation resulting from electrolyte decomposition is not fully understood at the molecular scale. Herein, a new strategy of switching electrolyte to tune SEI properties is presented, by which a unique and thinner SEI can be pre‐formed on the graphite electrode first in an ether‐based electrolyte, and then the as‐designed graphite electrode can demonstrate extremely high‐rate capabilities in a carbonate‐based electrolyte, enabling the design of fast‐charging and wide‐temperature lithium‐ion batteries (e.g., graphite | LiNi0.6Co0.2Mn0.2O2 (NCM622)). A molecular interfacial model involving the conformations and electrochemical stabilities of the Li+‐solvent‐anion complex is presented to elucidate the differences in SEI formation between ether‐based and carbonate‐based electrolytes, then interpreting the reason for the obtained higher rate performances. This innovative concept combines the advantages of different electrolytes into one battery system. It is believed that the switching strategy and understanding of the SEI formation mechanism opens a new avenue to design SEI, which is universal for pursuing more versatile battery systems with greater stability.
High‐Performance Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells: From Competing Indexes of Transparency and Efficiency Perspectives
Authors: Xu Tao , Luo Yiran , Wu Shiwei , Deng Baozhong , Chen Shi , Zhong Yunbo , Wang Shenghao , Lévêque Gaëtan , Bachelot Renaud , Zhu Furong 
Published: July 2022

AbstractSemitransparent organic solar cells (ST‐OSCs) offer potentially more opportunities in areas of self‐powered greenhouses and building‐integrated photovoltaic systems. In this work, the effort to use a combination of solution‐processable gold nanobipyramids (AuNBPs)‐based hole transporting layer and a low/high dielectric constant double layer optical coupling layer (OCL) for improving the performance of ST‐OSCs over the two competing indexes of power conversion efficiency (PCE) and average visible transmittance (AVT) is reported. The fabrication and characterization of the ST‐OSCs are guided, at design and analyses level, using the theoretical simulation and experimental optimization. The use of a low/high dielectric constant double layer OCL helps enhancing the visible light transparency while reflecting the near‐infrared (NIR) photons back into the photoactive layer for light harvesting. NIR absorption enhancement in the ST‐OSCs is realized through the AuNBPs‐induced localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR). The weight ratio of the polymer donor to nonfullerene acceptor in the bulk heterojunction is adjusted to realize the maximum NIR absorption enhancement, enabled by the AuNBPs‐induced LSPR, achieving the high‐performance ST‐OSCs with a high PCE of 13.15% and a high AVT of 25.9%.
Strain Driven Conducting Domain Walls in a Mott Insulator
Authors: Puntigam Lukas , Altthaler Markus , Ghara Somnath , Prodan Lilian , Tsurkan Vladimir , Krohns Stephan , Kézsmárki István , Evans Donald M. 
Published: July 2022

AbstractRewritable nanoelectronics offer new perspectives and potential to both fundamental research and technological applications. Such interest has driven the research focus into conducting domain walls: pseudo‐2D conducting channels that can be created, positioned, and deleted in situ. However, the study of conductive domain walls is largely limited to wide‐gap ferroelectrics, where the conductivity typically arises from changes in charge carrier density, due to screening charge accumulation at polar discontinuities. This work shows that, in narrow‐gap correlated insulators with strong charge‐lattice coupling, local strain gradients can drive enhanced conductivity at the domain walls—removing polar‐discontinuities as a criteria for conductivity. By combining different scanning probe microscopy techniques, it is demonstrated that the domain wall conductivity in GaV4S8 does not follow the established screening charge model but likely arises from the large surface reconstruction across the Jahn–Teller transition and the associated strain gradients across the domain walls. This mechanism could turn any structural, or even magnetic, domain wall conducting, if the electronic structure of the host is susceptible to local strain gradients—drastically expanding the range of materials and phenomena that may be applicable to domain wall‐based nanoelectronics.
Porous Electrode Modeling and its Applications to Li‐Ion Batteries
Authors: Chen Zhiqiang , Danilov Dmitri L. , Eichel Rüdiger‐A. , Notten Peter H. L. 
Published: July 2022

AbstractBattery modeling has become increasingly important with the intensive development of Li‐ion batteries (LIBs). The porous electrode model, relating battery performances to the internal physical and (electro)chemical processes, is one of the most adopted models in scientific research and engineering fields. Since Newman and coworkers’ first implementation in the 1990s, the porous electrode model has kept its general form. Soon after that, many publications have focused on the applications to LIBs. In this review, the applications of the porous electrode model to LIBs are systematically summarized and discussed. With this model, various internal battery properties have been studied, such as Li+ concentration and electric potential in the electrolyte and electrodes, reaction rate distribution, overpotential, and impedance. When coupled with thermal, mechanical, and aging models, the porous electrode model can simulate the temperature and stress distribution inside batteries and predict degradation during battery operation. With the help of state observers, the porous electrode model can monitor various battery states in real‐time for battery management systems. Even though the porous electrode models have multiple advantages, some challenges and limitations still have to be addressed. The present review also gives suggestions to overcome these limitations in future research.
Agricultural sciences and the environment: Reviewing recent technologies and innovations to combat the challenges of climate change, environmental protection, and food security
Authors: Popescu Gheorghe Cristian , Popescu Monica , Khondker Moniruzzaman , Clay David E. , Pampana Silvia , Umehara Mikihisa 
Published: July 2022

AbstractAgricultural production systems currently face multiple challenges: Climate change, natural resource depletion, and supply chain disruption, together with global population growth. As sustainable agriculture must simultaneously deliver myriad services (e.g. provide food security, maintain natural resources, retain and improve framers’ profitability, and sustain biodiversity), a systemic and multidisciplinary approach is thus needed. In this context, new technologies based on sensors, automatic machines, robots, and digital applications show much potential. The special section of the Agronomy Journal, entitled, “Agricultural and Biological Sciences: Plant, Soil, Animal and Environment Nutrient Management,” brings together a coherent set of research studies. All papers published in this special section address current, relevant topics for agriculture, biology and environmental sciences with a multidisciplinary approach aimed at generating new scientific information on digital technologies, bioinformatics, plant science, soil resources, agricultural waste, and environmentally conscious approaches. A total of 58 papers were submitted, each of which was evaluated by expert reviewers using a double‐blind reviewing process and 25 full text papers were accepted for publication in the special section. The present paper highlights the findings of the published papers, with the aim of bringing cutting‐edge innovation to applied research in agriculture and biology. The published papers here provide new knowledge and viable solutions for better performance in agricultural and biological sciences. New technologies will change the concept of farming and agribusiness making it more profitable, efficient, safer, attractive, simple, smart, and finally sustainable. Rural development and food security policies must support and finance the easiest possible access to new technologies for agricultural producers.
Same DNA, same location, same price? Price differences across distribution e‐channels of a single online retailer
Authors: Fedoseev Vladimir , Fedoseeva Svetlana 
Published: July 2022

AbstractAlthough price dispersion remains a prominent feature of international and domestic markets, the development of e‐commerce has been increasingly promoting uniform pricing. Existing studies suggest that online competition, especially from Amazon, reduces price dispersion within individual retailer's chains and among stores in different chains. Although Amazon's effect on the rivals have been analyzed, little is known about its pricing across own distribution channels. Do pricing strategies differ among Amazon's online channels within a single geographical market? We use a large dataset on grocery price quotes from Amazon's main platform and its subsidiary Amazon Fresh in Berlin, Germany, to test whether those (both pure online) channels apply deviating pricing strategies. Our results indicate that Amazon's channels partially set unequal prices for overlapping parts of the assortment, focus on assortments with different average unit values, and vary in their application of price promotions.[EconLit Citations: E31, L11, M31, Q11].