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Summary: Drought, especially terminal drought, severely limits wheat growth and yield. Understanding the complex mechanisms behind the drought response in wheat is essential for developing drought‐resistant varieties. This study aimed to dissect the genetic architecture and high‐yielding wheat ideotypes under terminal drought.An automated high‐throughput phenotyping platform was used to examine 28 392 image‐based digital traits (i‐traits) under different drought conditions during the flowering stage of a natural wheat population. Of the i‐traits examined, 17 073 were identified as drought‐related. A genome‐wide association study (GWAS) identified 5320 drought‐related significant single‐nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 27 SNP clusters.A notable hotspot region controlling wheat drought tolerance was discovered, in which TaPP2C6 was shown to be an important negative regulator of the drought response. The tapp2c6 knockout lines exhibited enhanced drought resistance without a yield penalty. A haplotype analysis revealed a favored allele of TaPP2C6 that was significantly correlated with drought resistance, affirming its potential value in wheat breeding programs.We developed an advanced prediction model for wheat yield and drought resistance using 24 i‐traits analyzed by machine learning. In summary, this study provides comprehensive insights into the high‐yielding ideotype and an approach for the rapid breeding of drought‐resistant wheat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although waste‐to‐energy (WtE) incineration projects have boosted the economic effectiveness of the waste management system, locals frequently view them with suspicion, opposition, or even outright rejection because of potential environmental and health risks. In this study, by incorporating two additional variables, namely, objective knowledge and benefit perceptions, the planned risk information seeking model (PRISM) was extended in the context of the WtE incineration project. A total of 1726 respondents were interviewed in person. Results from the structural equation modeling indicated that the extended PRISM achieved excellent fits, suggesting the generalizability of the model in these contexts. Objective knowledge and subjective knowledge have a positive and direct impact on perceived knowledge insufficiency. The impact of benefit and risk perceptions on worry is the opposite, with risk perceptions having a greater direct effect on worry. However, compared with risk perceptions, the direct effect that benefit perceptions have on perceived knowledge insufficiency is stronger. Additionally, perceived knowledge insufficiency partially or completely mediates the relationships between all antecedents, except perceived seeking control, and information‐seeking intention. This study suggests that risk managers carefully consider how to establish powerful communication tactics to shape these antecedents when introducing a "not in my backyard" project to the local community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: To explore the job demands of healthcare workers (HCWs) working in mobile cabin hospitals in Shanghai and identify the influencing factors. Design: The study had a cross‐sectional design. Methods: Using the convenience sampling method, we selected 1223 HCWs (medical team members) working in these mobile cabin hospitals during April–May 2022. The findings of the general information questionnaire and the hierarchy scale of job demands of HCWs working in mobile cabin hospitals were used for the investigation. Results: The total score of job demands of the included HCWs was 132.26 ± 9.53; the average score of the items was 4.73 ± 0.34. Multivariate linear regression analyses showed that the following HCWs had significantly higher job demands: female HCWs and HCWs who received psychological training or intervention during the COVID‐19 pandemic, were satisfied with the doctor/nurse–patient relationship, received support from family members/friends/colleagues, believed that the risk of working in mobile cabin hospitals was high, had adapted to the working environment of mobile cabin hospitals and had college/undergraduate level of education. They would benefit from increased social support and better training in terms of psychological coping mechanisms(both theoretical knowledge and applicable skills) and COVID‐19 prevention,control and treatment abilities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Summary: To reduce the sampling rate from analog to digital converter for the feedback loop of digital predistortion (DPD) in a microwave power amplifier (MPA), a model was proposed and used to obtain the formulae for the cyclostationarity of the digital modulation signal, which shows that the nonlinear parameter of the MPA model is only determined by the correlation matrix of the signal and can be estimated with the under‐sampled output signal. The output signal of the MPA, similar to a high sampling rate, can be recovered by combining the nonlinear parameter with the input signal. Then the DPD of the MPA is implemented through indirect learning architecture to realize its linearization. A Ka‐band traveling wave tube amplifier is used to the circuit for performing a low sampling rate DPD process to validate the rationality of the proposed model and formulae. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As one typical aluminum‐ and sodium‐bearing silicate mineral in the crust, the high‐pressure behaviors of NaAlSi2O6 jadeite are always of interest for investigation. However, the phase transition of jadeite at lower mantle remains elusive; thus, further static compression experiments and systematic theoretical calculations are highly needed. Here, we report a new monoclinic to monoclinic phase transition of jadeite with a volume collapse of 3.17% at around 68 GPa by in situ Raman experiments and first‐principles calculations at high pressures. Such transition leads to the increase of coordination numbers of Si from four‐ to five‐fold coordination, because of Bader charge transfer between Si─O and Al─O bonds. The physical mechanism behind this transition provides important value to understand the minerals in the lower mantle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

his article incorporates timing considerations into the site-swap method and shows that the total dwell time, vacant time, and flight time over a period of a general juggling pattern satisfy the same equation as that in Shannon's original work for uniform juggle. Necessary and sufficient conditions on the dwell ratios to facilitate an executable juggling sequence are presented. The range of possible juggling periods incorporating maximum and minimum length of dwell times is also given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]