Wheat GSPs and Processing Quality Are Affected by Irrigation and Nitrogen through Nitrogen Remobilisation.

The rheological properties and end-use qualities of many foods are mainly determined by the types and levels of grain storage proteins (GSPs) in wheat. GSP levels are influenced by various factors, including tillage management, irrigation, and fertiliser application. However, the effects of irrigation and nitrogen on GSPs remain unclear.

Long-term conservation tillage improves soil stoichiometry balance and crop productivity based on a 17-year experiment in a semi-arid area of northern China.

Although conservation tillage has been widely implemented to address the challenge to improve crop yield and soil quality with fewer environmental costs, its long-term effects on crop yields and soil stoichiometry balance remain uncertain. Here, four different long-term (17-year) tillage practices (conventional tillage (CT), deep scarification (DS), no tillage (NT), and ridge tillage (RT)) were conducted in northern China to evaluate their effects on crop yield, soil nutrients, C sequestration, and soil stoichiometry. The conservation tillage (DS, NT, and RT) increased the recent 5-year average yields by 12.

Analysis of Fatigue Strength and Reliability of Lower Limb Arterial Stent at Different Vascular Stenosis Rates and Stent-to-Artery Ratios.

In order to study the influence of different vascular stenosis rates and stent-to-artery ratios on the fatigue strength and reliability of lower limb arterial stents, numerical simulation was conducted for the fatigue strength of complete SE stents under pulsating loads using a finite element method. Then, fracture mechanics and conditional probability theory were adopted for mathematical modeling, whereby analyzing the crack growth rate and reliability with stents of different thickness (0.12, 0.

Numerical simulation and experimental study of thrombus capture efficiency of a new retrievable vena cava filter.

The vena cava filter is a filtering device to prevent pulmonary embolism caused by thrombosis from lower limbs and pelvis. A new retrievable vena cava filter was evaluated in this paper. To evaluate the hemodynamic performance and thrombus capture efficiency after transplantation, numerical simulation of computational fluid dynamics was performed.

Analysis of Physiological Indicators Associated with Drought Tolerance in Wheat under Drought and Re-Watering Conditions.

Wheat ( L.) production is severely threatened by an increase in the frequency of drought events. It is crucial to determine stable and effective morphological, physiological, and associated oxidative stress indicators, to evaluate the drought tolerance of wheat for breeding and cultivation.