Publications by authors named "F Hafeez"
Pakistan, like many other regions around the world, is experiencing the impacts of climate change, particularly in its northern region. These changes have adverse impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity. Herein, we have investigated future projections of temperature and precipitation trends for three periods historical (HT = 1975-2005), near-term (NT = 2010-2029), and mid-term (MT = 2030-2050) using climate model intercomparison projects along with global climate models (GCMs) including RCP4.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiochar is widely acknowledged for its remarkable impact on soil conditioning. However, the influence of different sources of biochar, particularly anaerobic digested sludge biochar (ADBC) derived from anaerobic digested sludge and biochar derived from waste activated sludge, on alkaline soil remains largely unexplored. To address this knowledge gap, a comprehensive field experiment was conducted over a period of 180 days to investigate the effects of ADBC on slightly alkaline soil.
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- The maize crop faces significant threats from four major pest species during various larval stages, making manual identification and control challenging.
- To address this, an automated system using different Convolutional Neural Network models was developed, focusing on classifying the larval stages of these pests, including the Asian corn borer and fall armyworm.
- Among the models tested, Densenet121 with the Adam optimizer achieved the highest classification accuracy of 96.65%, and performed well in real field conditions, demonstrating a 90% accuracy in identifying pest instars, highlighting its potential for improving pest management strategies in agriculture.