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2020-10-01ZeitschriftenartikelMechanochemical Syntheses of Isostructural Luminescent Cocrystals of 9-Anthracenecarboxylic Acid with two Dipyridines Coformers Tuning and controlling the solid-state photophysical properties of organic luminophore are very important to develop next-generation organic luminescent materials. With the aim of discovering new functional luminescent ...
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2020-10-15ZeitschriftenartikelA Test Study of an Energy and Mass Balance Model Application to a Site on Urumqi Glacier No. 1, Chinese Tian Shan In this study, energy and mass balance is quantified using an energy balance model to represent the glacier melt of Urumqi Glacier No. 1, Chinese Tian Shan. Based on data from an Automatic Weather Station (4025 m a.s.l) ...
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2020-03-13ZeitschriftenartikelPerception of Natural Hazards in Rural Areas: A Case Study Examination of the Influence of Seasonal Weather A series of factors affect the social perception of hazards in a rural context. This article analyzes how weather conditions influence farmers’ perceptions of natural hazards. In order to understand the relationship between ...
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2020-03-11ZeitschriftenartikelStandards for Methods Utilizing Environmental DNA for Detection of Fish Species Environmental DNA (eDNA) techniques are gaining attention as cost-effective, non-invasive strategies for acquiring information on fish and other aquatic organisms from water samples. Currently, eDNA approaches are used to ...
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2020-03-06ZeitschriftenartikelMusic Teachers’ Perspectives and Experiences of Ensemble and Learning Skills In this article, we report data from two survey studies administered to expert music teachers. Both questionnaires aimed to explore teachers’ pedagogical and performative practice and included open questions elucidating ...
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2020-01-25ZeitschriftenartikelPeacebuilding in Rural Colombia—A Collective Perception of the Integrated Rural Reform (IRR) in the Department of Caquetá (Amazon) The 2016 peace agreement between the Government of Colombia and the FARC-EP created institutional space for an effective implementation of needed rural reforms. However, the change of power structures also contains risks, ...
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2020-01-21ZeitschriftenartikelThe Effect of the Paleolithic Diet vs. Healthy Diets on Glucose and Insulin Homeostasis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials Recently, the Paleolithic diet became popular due to its possible health benefits. Several, albeit not all, studies suggested that the consumption of the Paleolithic diet might improve glucose tolerance, decrease insulin ...
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2020-01-06ZeitschriftenartikelErgodic Subspace Analysis Properties of psychological variables at the mean or variance level can differ between persons and within persons across multiple time points. For example, cross-sectional findings between persons of different ages do not ...
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2020-01-11ZeitschriftenartikelNot Simply Green: Nature-Based Solutions as a Concept and Practical Approach for Sustainability Studies and Planning Agendas in Cities The concept of a nature-based solution (NBS) has been developed in order to operationalize an ecosystem services approach within spatial planning policies and practices, to fully integrate the ecological dimension, and, ...
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2020-01-10ZeitschriftenartikelEffects of Pre-Processing Hot-Water Treatment on Aroma Relevant VOCs of Fresh-Cut Apple Slices Stored in Sugar Syrup In practice, fresh-cut fruit and fruit salads are currently stored submerged in sugar syrup (approx. 20%) to prevent browning, to slow down physiological processes and to extend shelf life. To minimize browning and microbial ...
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2020-01-30ZeitschriftenartikelExploring Farmers’ Perceptions of Agricultural Technologies: A Case Study from Tanzania The low agricultural productivity of key crops and food insecurity continue to be key issues in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and Tanzania. The growing population, depleting resources, and changing climate further amplify these ...
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2020-01-18ZeitschriftenartikelGroundwater−Surface Water Interactions: Recent Advances and Interdisciplinary Challenges The interactions of groundwater with surface waters such as streams, lakes, wetlands, or oceans are relevant for a wide range of reasons—for example, drinking water resources may rely on hydrologic fluxes between groundwater ...
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2020-01-18ZeitschriftenartikelChemical Reaction Networks Possess Intrinsic, Temperature-Dependent Functionality Temperature influences the life of many organisms in various ways. A great number of organisms live under conditions where their ability to adapt to changes in temperature can be vital and largely determines their fitness. ...
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2020-01-29ZeitschriftenartikelInsights into the CaSO4−H2O System: A Raman-Spectroscopic Study Even though being the subject of natural scientific research for many decades, the system CaSO4–H2O, consisting of the five crystalline phases gypsum, bassanite, and the anhydrites III, II, and I, has left many open questions ...
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2020-02-21ZeitschriftenartikelInfluence of Soil Characteristics and Land Use Type on Existing Fractions of Radioactive 137Cs in Fukushima Soils Radioactive cesium (137Cs) in distinct soil fractions provides key information to its bioavailability, and therefore determining the effect of soil characteristics and land use types on existing fractions of 137Cs in soils ...
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2020-02-22ZeitschriftenartikelFatalism, Climate Resiliency Training and Farmers’ Adaptation Responses: Implications for Sustainable Rainfed-Wheat Production in Pakistan Climate change is a severe threat to the agricultural sector in general and to rainfed farming in particular. The aim of this study was to investigate the factors that can potentially affect the adaptation process against ...
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2020-02-25ZeitschriftenartikelDeriving a Bayesian Network to Assess the Retention Efficacy of Riparian Buffer Zones Bayesian networks (BN) have increasingly been applied in water management but not to estimate the efficacy of riparian buffer zones (RBZ). Our methodical study aims at evaluating the first BN to predict the RBZ efficacy ...
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2020-02-24ZeitschriftenartikelEvaluation of a Spatial Heterodyne Spectrometer for Raman Spectroscopy of Minerals Spatial heterodyne spectroscopy (SHS) is a novel spectral analysis technique that is being applied for Raman spectroscopy of minerals. This paper presents the theoretical basis of SHS and its application for Raman measurements ...
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2020-02-11ZeitschriftenartikelMeasuring Characteristics of Explanations with Element Maps What are the structural characteristics of written scientific explanations that make them good? This is often difficult to measure. One approach to describing and analyzing structures is to employ network theory. With this ...
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2020-02-12ZeitschriftenartikelPhysiological and Anatomical Mechanisms in Wheat to Cope with Salt Stress Induced by Seawater Two pot experiments were conducted in a greenhouse to examine 14C fixation and its distribution in biochemical leaf components, as well as the physiological and anatomical adaptability responses of wheat (Triticum aestivum ...
