$800K landslide stabilization assessment at Grovemont begins using FEMA funds

Asheville geotechnical firm Engineering Consulting Services (ECS) Southeast is moving forward with a nearly $800,000 ...
BBC

What is soil made from?

Greetings, Emmet here and I have something incredible to show you – soil! Mmm. Soil is the thin layer of lovely mucky stuff that covers the land. It's vital to all living things. Oh, lovely. It's made ...
IEEE

A novel sampling design that considers local soil heterogeneity in both geographical and feature spaces for mapping multiple soil properties at the farm level

Abstract: Sampling design plays a crucial role in managing soil variability at the farm level by ensuring the collection of reliable soil samples. Current methods focus on optimizing sample size and ...
Nature

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs): Transgenic Crops and Recombinant DNA Technology

If you could save lives by producing vaccines in transgenic bananas, would you? In the debate over large-scale commercialization and use of GMOs, where should we draw the line? Vaccines Tobacco ...
IEEE

A Reinforcement Learning-Based Two-Modes Multi-Surrogate-Assisted Evolutionary Algorithm for the Inversion of Soil Thermal Resistivity for Power Cables

Abstract: To solve the computationally heavy inversion of the soil thermal resistivity and the real time ampacity of power cable, a reinforcement learning-based two-modes (Mode 1 and Mode 2) ...