There are few studies about the ability of CROPGRO-Tomato model to simulate tomato growth under field conditions as a function of both local weather and soil conditions. The aim of this work was to ...calibrate the CROPGRO-Tomato model, included in the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT) software, for the Thomas F1 indeterminate tomato cultivar grown under open field conditions at two locations in the Czech Republic with different soil and climate conditions. Additionally, this paper focuses on modelling the impact of compound weather events (CEs) on the growth characteristics of the hybrid field tomato variety. The genotype file, including the main parameters of crop phenology and plant growth, was adapted to the Thomas F1 indeterminate tomato cultivar. The CROPGRO-Tomato model was calibrated by inputting the soil characteristics, weather data and crop management data and then by adjusting the genetic coefficients to simulate the observed Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Above Ground Biomass (AGB) from transplanting to harvest under the farmers' field conditions. The comparison of the LAI simulated by the model and measured under field conditions showed adequate representation with the root mean square error of 0.86 and 1.11 m2/m2. Although there was a good fit for LAI and AGB between the simulated and measured data during the first part of the growing season, increasing differences were found in the growing season with cool-wet and/or hot-dry thresholds of CEs.
Human TRIM5α potently restricts particular strains of murine leukemia viruses (the so-called N-tropic strains) but not others (the B- or NB-tropic strains) during early stages of infection. We show ...that overexpression of SUMO-1 in human 293T cells, but not in mouse MDTF cells, profoundly blocks N-MLV infection. This block is dependent on the tropism of the incoming virus, as neither B-, NB-, nor the mutant R110E of N-MLV CA (a B-tropic switch) are affected by SUMO-1 overexpression. The block occurred prior to reverse transcription and could be abrogated by large amounts of restricted virus. Knockdown of TRIM5α in 293T SUMO-1-overexpressing cells resulted in ablation of the SUMO-1 antiviral effects, and this loss of restriction could be restored by expression of a human TRIM5α shRNA-resistant plasmid. Amino acid sequence analysis of human TRIM5α revealed a consensus SUMO conjugation site at the N-terminus and three putative SUMO interacting motifs (SIMs) in the B30.2 domain. Mutations of the TRIM5α consensus SUMO conjugation site did not affect the antiviral activity of TRIM5α in any of the cell types tested. Mutation of the SIM consensus sequences, however, abolished TRIM5α antiviral activity against N-MLV. Mutation of lysines at a potential site of SUMOylation in the CA region of the Gag gene reduced the SUMO-1 block and the TRIM5α restriction of N-MLV. Our data suggest a novel aspect of TRIM5α-mediated restriction, in which the presence of intact SIMs in TRIM5α, and also the SUMO conjugation of CA, are required for restriction. We propose that at least a portion of the antiviral activity of TRIM5α is mediated through the binding of its SIMs to SUMO-conjugated CA.
This paper proposes a hybrid micro grid system for critical consumers like military disaster intervention, health or municipality. The solution is based on a multiple level of redundancy DC micro ...grid. The solution is projected to provide critical functionalities like stability, power quality, coordinated control, grid support capability. The configuration described here takes in consideration the problem integration of renewable energy sources which should have features like redundancy, flexibility and scalability from architecture point of view.
This paper introduces an offline deterministic method for identification of inertia moment, mechanical losses, and electrical parameters for large induction machines, based on direct-on-line starting ...and natural slowdown tests, performed under no-load conditions. The static characteristic of absorbed power is used for the validation of results. Complete experimental results for a 6-kV four-pole 7500-kW machine are presented. The method brings significant cost savings for testing large induction machines.
The authors carried out a theoretical and experimental study of dual stator winding squirrel cage asynchronous generator (DSWA) behaviour in the presence of saturation regime (non-sinusoidal) due to ...the variable speed operation. The main aims are the determination of the relations of calculating the equivalent parameters of the machine windings, FEM validation of parameters and characteristics with free FEMM 4.2 computing software and the practice experimental tests for verifying them. Issue is limited to three phase range of double stator winding cage-asynchronous generator of small sized powers, the most currently used in the small adjustable speed wind or hydro power plants. The tests were carried out using three-phase asynchronous generator having rated power of 6 kVA.
Danube countries have witnessed numerous waves of drought events, causing significant agro-economic loss, but three consecutive dry years amplified the debate on how to deal with future drought risk. ...The European drought of 2022 has shown how important it is to look at food security from an environmental droughts risk assessment approach. The coupling drought–yield losses framework derives from the understanding that all land systems are connected through coupled human and natural systems, and these social, ecological, and agro-economic impacts are the result. Maize is considered a commodity and a staple food in Europe with the largest market share in global maize exports. Drought–heat stress, war and subsequent limitations on Ukrainian trade have created a shortage of maize supply in 2022 over Europe. This study focused on eighteen countries where maize production becomes highly susceptible to drought in the Danube River Basin (DRB; Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia). To understand the coupling drought–yield losses mechanism, time series of maize yield datasets and multiple remote sensing indices were used on arable lands for 278 districts at a high spatial resolution. The main objective of this study was to determine which regions respond to the changes in the rate of evapotranspiration and soil moisture and in which period and how much maize production is affected. The time series of the two-band enhanced vegetation index (EVI2), the evaporative stress index (ESI), and the relative water availability (AWR) were calculated. The spatial evolution of the ESI for 4-week and 12-week time windows, EVI2, and relative soil saturation at the topsoil and rootzone layers demonstrate the progress of agricultural drought under varying agroclimatic conditions and its impacts on maize yields. Our study adopted a novel mechanism-based risk assessment approach using a four-variate C-vine copula in the perspective of modelling yield losses. To assess how much maize production can be limited by drought stress, the weekly dynamics of the strength of bivariate linkage of eight compound modes were provided. The return periods of drought–yield losses signatures in the study region were less than 4 years. The highest chances (once every 2.50–2.86 years) of the occurrence of drought–yield losses signature occurred in Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The availability of soil water is one of the crucial indicators (AWR40) that explain the high degree of yield variability. This is an alarming finding given the expected or increasing year-to-year variability in soil moisture in these regions. The joint cumulative distribution function (FCROP, ESI, AWR40, AWR100) suggests that shorter-term ESI will be most beneficial for maize yield estimation in agricultural districts where crop productivity is primarily impaired by warmer and drier events. This combination of effects can cause short-term compound hot and dry extremes characterized by rapid onset, severe intensity, and devastating impacts on crop production. Droughts between 2015 and 2022 challenged governments across the Danube basin and highlighted the need for intergovernmental interactions and coordination. For the DRB area, user-oriented drought monitoring portals are already providing real-time information about drought occurrences and intensity to practitioners, but drought-yield loss assessments for such predictions for most of the region have been lacking.
•The risk occurrences of drought-induced maize yield losses were provided.•A C-vine copula multivariate probability model was built.•Multiple remote sensing indices were used.•Drought–yield losses signatures are less than 4 years.
Context. Binary systems constitute a valuable astrophysics tool for testing our understanding of stellar structure and evolution. Systems containing at least one oscillating component are interesting ...in this regard because asteroseismology offers independent parameters for the oscillating component that aid in the analysis. Systems of particular interest include those with known inclinations. With ∼0.8 million binary candidates, the two-body orbit catalog (TBO) of Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) substantially increases the number of known binaries and the quality of the astrometric data available for them. Aims. To enlarge the sample of these astrophysically valuable benchmark objects, we searched for new binary system candidates identified in the Gaia DR3 TBO, for which one component has a detection of solar-like oscillations reported in the literature. Methods. We cross-matched the TBO, the full non-single star (NSS) and eclipsing binary catalogs from Gaia DR3 with catalogs of confirmed solar-like oscillators in the main-sequence and red-giant phase from the NASA Kepler mission and stars in the Southern Continuous Viewing Zone of NASA TESS. The wealth of seismic information is used to characterize the oscillating primary. To test the completeness and robustness of the values reported in the TBO catalog, we performed a similar analysis on stars of the Ninth Catalog of Spectroscopic Binary Orbits (SB9). Results. The analysis of the SB9 reveals an overall completeness factor for the Gaia TBO catalog of up to ∼30% providing reliable orbital parameters for ≥90% of the systems below Porb, SB9 ≲ 250 d. We obtained new 954 unique binary system candidates from Gaia DR3, which host solar-like oscillators, of which we found 45 stars in binary candidates to be on the main sequence and 909 in the red giant phase. Additionally, we report 918 oscillators in potentially long-periodic systems. We present the seismic properties of the full sample and test whether the reported orbital periods are physically possible. For 146 giants, the evolutionary state has been determined from their mixed-mode period spacing, showing a clear trend to long periodic and less eccentric systems in the advanced phases of stellar evolution. Two new eclipsing binary systems, hosting a red-giant primary were found. For another 146 systems hosting oscillating stars, the values for the orbital inclination were found in the TBO. Of 181 TBO candidate systems observed multiple times with APOGEE, 149 (82%) are confirmed as binaries from radial-velocity (RV) measurement. Conclusions. We conclude that the grand majority of the orbital elements reported in the TBO catalog are physically reasonable and realistic. This finding increases the number included in the sample of known solar-like oscillators in binary systems by an order of magnitude. The large fraction of confirmed binaries from APOGEE RV measurements indicates that the TBO catalog is robust. We suggest that due to instrumental noise, the seismically inferred masses and radii of stars observed with the TESS satellite and with an excess of oscillation power of νmax ≲ 30 μHz could be significantly overestimated. The differences in the distributions of the orbital period and eccentricity are due to the accumulative effect of the equilibrium tide acting in these evolved binary systems.
Context.
Binary systems constitute a valuable astrophysics tool for testing our understanding of stellar structure and evolution. Systems containing at least one oscillating component are interesting ...in this regard because asteroseismology offers independent parameters for the oscillating component that aid in the analysis. Systems of particular interest include those with known inclinations. With ∼0.8 million binary candidates, the two-body orbit catalog (TBO) of
Gaia
Data Release 3 (DR3) substantially increases the number of known binaries and the quality of the astrometric data available for them.
Aims.
To enlarge the sample of these astrophysically valuable benchmark objects, we searched for new binary system candidates identified in the
Gaia
DR3 TBO, for which one component has a detection of solar-like oscillations reported in the literature.
Methods.
We cross-matched the TBO, the full non-single star (NSS) and eclipsing binary catalogs from
Gaia
DR3 with catalogs of confirmed solar-like oscillators in the main-sequence and red-giant phase from the NASA
Kepler
mission and stars in the Southern Continuous Viewing Zone of NASA TESS. The wealth of seismic information is used to characterize the oscillating primary. To test the completeness and robustness of the values reported in the TBO catalog, we performed a similar analysis on stars of the Ninth Catalog of Spectroscopic Binary Orbits (SB9).
Results.
The analysis of the SB9 reveals an overall completeness factor for the
Gaia
TBO catalog of up to ∼30% providing reliable orbital parameters for ≥90% of the systems below
P
orb, SB9
≲ 250 d. We obtained new 954 unique binary system candidates from
Gaia
DR3, which host solar-like oscillators, of which we found 45 stars in binary candidates to be on the main sequence and 909 in the red giant phase. Additionally, we report 918 oscillators in potentially long-periodic systems. We present the seismic properties of the full sample and test whether the reported orbital periods are physically possible. For 146 giants, the evolutionary state has been determined from their mixed-mode period spacing, showing a clear trend to long periodic and less eccentric systems in the advanced phases of stellar evolution. Two new eclipsing binary systems, hosting a red-giant primary were found. For another 146 systems hosting oscillating stars, the values for the orbital inclination were found in the TBO. Of 181 TBO candidate systems observed multiple times with APOGEE, 149 (82%) are confirmed as binaries from radial-velocity (RV) measurement.
Conclusions.
We conclude that the grand majority of the orbital elements reported in the TBO catalog are physically reasonable and realistic. This finding increases the number included in the sample of known solar-like oscillators in binary systems by an order of magnitude. The large fraction of confirmed binaries from APOGEE RV measurements indicates that the TBO catalog is robust. We suggest that due to instrumental noise, the seismically inferred masses and radii of stars observed with the TESS satellite and with an excess of oscillation power of
ν
max
≲ 30 μHz could be significantly overestimated. The differences in the distributions of the orbital period and eccentricity are due to the accumulative effect of the equilibrium tide acting in these evolved binary systems.
Using Quantum Design SQUID magnetometer, we studied the magnetic and superconducting properties of high quality inclination bicrystal interfaces of Bi, Sb and 3D topological insulator Bi1-xSbx ...(0.06 ≤ x ≤ 0.2). One or two superconducting phases with Tc ≤ 21 K and magnetic hysteresis loops on a diamagnetic background typical for strong type II superconductors were identified in Bi and some Bi-Sb nano-width interfaces. However, the other interfaces of Bi1-xSbx (0.06 ≤ x ≤ 0.2) as well as of Sb with a higher carrier density exhibit a superconducting transition and a ferromagnetic hysteresis loop or a dual loop (superimposed ferromagnetic and superconducting loops) against a paramagnetic background and thereby indicate the occurrence of superconductivity and weak ferromagnetism.
•We study the nano-width inclination bicrystal interfaces of Bi, Sb, and 3D topological insulator Bi-Sb.•The bicrystal interfaces of Bi present superconductivity, while those of Sb and Bi-Sb exhibit superconductivity and weak magnetism.•The superconductivity of bicrystal interfaces results from the reconstruction of the rhombohedral crystal structure A7 under deformations.•We have found that the interfaces of Sb and Bi-Sb bicrystals develop characteristics of 3D topological insulators.
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