Effects of agronomic traits and climatic factors on yield and yield stability of summer maize (Zea mays L) in the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain in China

Zhengdan 958 (ZD958) is the summer maize variety with the widest planting area in Huang-Huai-Hai plain in the past 20 years.Understanding the agronomic characteristics of maize and its adaptability to climatic factors is of great significance for breeding maize varieties with high yield and stability.In this study, the experimental data of 33 exper

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Routing Protocol for Intelligent Unmanned Cluster Network Based on Node Energy Consumption and Mobility Optimization

Intelligent unmanned clusters have played a crucial role in military reconnaissance, disaster rescue, border patrol, and other domains.Nevertheless, due to factors such as multipath propagation, electromagnetic interference, and frequency band congestion in high dynamic scenarios, unmanned cluster networks experience frequent topology changes and s

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Factors predicting PhD affirmation and regret in PhD holders

Abstract As PhD programmes across disciplines face many questions about return on investment and the many challenges in pursuing the degree, popular discourse surrounding leaving academia has included questions of whether PhD holders regret their PhD.Using a heterogenous choice model, this study shows that despite the many detractors, those who do

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Early life stressful experiences escalate aggressive behavior in adulthood via changes in transthyretin expression and function

Escalated and inappropriate levels of aggressive behavior referred to as pathological in psychiatry can lead to violent outcomes with detrimental impact on health and society.Early life stressful experiences might increase the risk of developing pathological aggressive behavior in adulthood, though molecular mechanisms remain elusive.Here, we provi

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