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Enhancing Magnetic Coupling Using Auxiliary Short-Circuited Coils by Phulpin, Tanguy, Kabbara, Wassim, Terrah, Mohammed, Smail, Mostafa-Kamel, Bensetti, Mohamed

“…The efficiency of Dynamic Inductive Power Transfer (DIPT) depends mainly on the coupling coefficient within the coupler. In order to improve this parameter, a…”
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Analyzing Scenarios for the Integration of Renewable Energy Sources in the Mexican Energy System by Sarmiento, Luis, Burandt, Thorsten, Löffler, Konstantin, Oei, Pao-Yu

“…This paper uses numerical techno-economic modelling to analyse the effect of current national renewable targets and climate goals on the cost and structural…”
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Physical activity promotion tools in the Portuguese primary health care : an implementation research by Mendes, Romeu, Nunes Silva, Marlene, Santos Silva, Catarina, Marques, Adilson, Godinho, Cristina, Tomás, Rita, Agostinho, Marcos, Gamboa Madeira, Sara, Marques, Alexandre, Martins, Henrique, Teixeira, Pedro, Cruz, Diogo

“…© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative…”
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Phenotyping Conservation Agriculture Management Effects on Ground and Aerial Remote Sensing Assessments of Maize Hybrids Performance in Zimbabwe by Gracia-Romero, Adrian, Vergara-Díaz, Omar, Thierfelder, Christian, Cairns, Jill E, Kefauver, Shawn C, Araus, José L

“…In the coming decades, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces challenges to sustainably increase food production while keeping pace with continued population growth…”
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Modeling Quiet Solar Luminosity Variability from TSI Satellite Measurements and Proxy Models During 1980–2018 by Scafetta, Nicola, Willson, Richard C., Lee, Jae N., Wu, Dong L.

“…A continuous record of direct total solar irradiance (TSI) observations began with a series of satellite experiments in 1978. This record requires comparisons…”
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Implementation of Exome Sequencing in Prenatal Diagnosis and Impact on Genetic Counseling: The Polish Experience by Kucińska-Chahwan, Anna, Geremek, Maciej, Roszkowski, Tomasz, Bijok, Julia, Massalska, Diana, Ciebiera, Michał, Correia, Hildeberto, Pereira-Caetano, Iris, Barreta, Ana, Obersztyn, Ewa, Kutkowska-Kaźmierczak, Anna, Własienko, Paweł, Krajewska-Walasek, Małgorzata, Węgrzyn, Piotr, Dudarewicz, Lech, Krzeszowski, Waldemar, Rybak-Krzyszkowska, Magda, Nowakowska, Beata

“…Despite advances in routine prenatal cytogenetic testing, most anomalous fetuses remain without a genetic diagnosis. Exome sequencing (ES) is a molecular…”
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Pathways for Germany's Low-Carbon Energy Transformation Towards 2050 by Bartholdsen, Hans-Karl, Eidens, Anna, Löffler, Konstantin, Seehaus, Frederik, Wejda, Felix, Burandt, Thorsten, Oei, Pao-Yu, Kemfert, Claudia, Hirschhausen, Christian von

“…Like many other countries, Germany has defined goals to reduce its CO2-emissions following the Paris Agreement of the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP). The…”
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Geographic and Research Center Origins of Rice Resistance to Asian Planthoppers and Leafhoppers: Implications for Rice Breeding and Gene Deployment by Horgan, Finbarr G, Srinivasan, Thanga Suja, Bentur, Jagadish S, Kumar, Ram, Bhanu, K Vasanta, Sarao, Preetinder Singh, Chien, Ho Van, Almazan, Maria Liberty P, Bernal, Carmencita C, Ramal, Angelee Fame, Ferrater, Jedeliza B, Huang, Shou-Horng

“…This study examines aspects of virulence to resistant rice varieties among planthoppers and leafhoppers. Using a series of resistant varieties, brown…”
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Multi-Temporal and Spectral Analysis of High-Resolution Hyperspectral Airborne Imagery for Precision Agriculture: Assessment of Wheat Grain Yield and Grain Protein Content by Rodrigues, Francelino A., Blasch, Gerald, BlasDefournych, Pierre, Ortiz-Monasterio, J. Ivan, Schulthess, Urs, Zarco-Tejada, Pablo J., Taylor, James A., Gérard, Bruno

“…This study evaluates the potential of high resolution hyperspectral airborne imagery to capture within-field variability of durum wheat grain yield (GY) and…”
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Burnout and Quality of Work Life among Municipal Workers: Do Motivating and Economic Factors Play a Mediating Role? by Pereira, Dina, Leitão, João, Ramos, Ludovina

“…This study analyzes the relationship between burnout and quality of work life among municipal workers subjected to higher levels of stress and emotional…”
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A brief review of the supercritical antisolvent (SAS) technique for the preparation of nanocatalysts to be used in biodiesel production by Pereira dos Santos, Samuel, Puna, Jaime, Gomes, João

“…In an era where sustainability is becoming the main driving force for research and development, supercritical fluids-based techniques are presented as a very…”
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Data Assimilation of Terrestrial Water Storage Observations to Estimate Precipitation Fluxes: A Synthetic Experiment by Girotto, Manuela, Reichle, Rolf, Rodell, Matthew, Maggioni, Viviana

“…The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission and its Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission provide unprecedented observations of terrestrial water…”
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Compact Midwave Imaging System: Results from an Airborne Demonstration by Kelly, Michael A., Carr, James L., Wu, Dong L., Goldberg, Arnold C., Papusha, Ivan, Meinhold, Renee T.

“…The Compact Midwave Imaging System (CMIS) is a wide field of view, multi-angle, multi-spectral push frame imager that relies on the forward motion of the…”
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Reconstructing PM2.5 Data Record for the Kathmandu Valley Using a Machine Learning Model by Bhatta, Surendra, Yang, Yuekui

“…This paper presents a method for reconstructing the historical hourly concentrations of particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) over the Kathmandu Valley from 1980 to…”
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A Workflow for Automated Satellite Image Processing: from Raw VHSR Data to Object-Based Spectral Information for Smallholder Agriculture by Stratoulias, Dimitris, Tolpekin, Valentyn, de By, Rolf, Zurita-Milla, Raul, Retsios, Vasilios, Bijker, Wietske, Hasan, Mohammad, Vermote, Eric

“…Earth Observation has become a progressively important source of information for land use and land cover services over the past decades. At the same time, an…”
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Analyzing 21st Century Video Data on Situational Dynamics—Issues and Challenges in Video Data Analysis by Nassauer, Anne, Legewie, Nicolas M

“…Since the turn of the millennium researchers have access to an ever-increasing pool of novel types of video recordings. People use camcorders, mobile phone…”
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Communication on the Science-Policy Interface: An Overview of Conceptual Models by Sokolovska, Nataliia, Fecher, Benedikt, Wagner, Gert G

“…This article focuses on scholarly discourse on the science-policy interface, and in particular on questions regarding how this discourse can be understood in…”
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Cryosphere and Psychrophiles: Insights into a Cold Origin of Life? by Feller, Georges

“…Psychrophiles thrive permanently in the various cold environments on Earth. Their unsuspected ability to remain metabolically active in the most extreme low…”
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Validation of Automatically Generated Global and Regional Cropland Data Sets: The Case of Tanzania by Laso Bayas, Juan, See, Linda, Perger, Christoph, Justice, Christina, Nakalembe, Catherine, Dempewolf, Jan, Fritz, Steffen

“…There is a need to validate existing global cropland maps since they are used for different purposes including agricultural monitoring and assessment. In this…”
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Influence of an Extreme Saharan Dust Event on the Air Quality of the West Region of Portugal by Gomes, João, Esteves, Helder, Rente, Luis

“…This paper describes how an extreme Saharan dust event that took place in March 2022 affected the Iberian Peninsula and was noticed not only by the outdoor air…”
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