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Liang Xiao, Jinghua Wu, Wenhan Li, Guodong Yuan, Qing Xu, Jing Wei and Fengxiang Han
Biochar holds great promise for carbon sequestration but is restricted by high costs. Here, we introduced the water?fire coupled method and developed a mineral coating technique for biochar production from paulownia waste (Paulownia fortune). Exposure ti...
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Sabrina Rovelli, Andrea Cattaneo, Camilla P. Nuzzi, Andrea Spinazzè, Silvia Piazza, Paolo Carrer and Domenico M. Cavallo
Indoor size-fractioned particulate matter (PM) was measured in seven schools in Milan, to characterize their concentration levels in classrooms, compare the measured concentrations with the recommended guideline values, and provide a preliminary assessme...
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Narcisa Gabriela Pricope and Greer Shivers
Flood mitigation in low-gradient, tidally-influenced, and rapidly urbanizing coastal locations remains a priority across a range of stakeholders and communities. Wetland ecosystems act as a natural flood buffer for coastal storms and sea level rise (SLR)...
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Howard Peng, Jirat Bhanpato, Ameya Behere and Dimitri N. Mavris
Aviation noise remains a key barrier to the sustainable growth of commercial aviation. The advent of emerging technologies, such as urban air mobility, and the renewed interest in commercial supersonic transport aircraft, has only further raised concerns...
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Anna Christina Miller and Thomas Michael Ravens
Rising waters and land subsidence are increasing relative sea levels in western and northern Alaska, forcing communities to relocate or armor in place. To appropriately plan and make equitable decisions, there is a need to forecast the risk of flood expo...
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Pius Lee, Rick Saylor and Jeff McQueen
Air quality forecasting is a vital tool for local health and air managers to make informed decisions on mitigation measures to reduce public exposure risk.[...]
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José I. Barredo and Guy Engelen
It is generally accepted that flood risk has been increasing in Europe in the last decades. Accordingly, it becomes a priority to better understand its drivers and mechanisms. Flood risk is evaluated on the basis of three factors: hazard, exposure and vu...
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AnnMarie Lee Walton and Bonnie Rogers
Nursing assistants (NAs) make up a large share of the healthcare provider workforce and their numbers are expected to grow. NAs are predominantly women who earn a low wage and report financial, work, and family demands. Working as a NA is hazardous; this...
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Hadeel Alrubayyi, Moudy Sharaf Alshareef, Zunaira Nadeem, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem and Mona Jaber
The hype of the Internet of Things as an enabler for intelligent applications and related promise for ushering accessibility, efficiency, and quality of service is met with hindering security and data privacy concerns. It follows that such IoT systems, w...
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Kevin Cresswell, Diana Mitsova, Weibo Liu, Maria Fadiman and Tobin Hindle
Urbanization and warming climate suggest that health impacts from extreme heat will increase in cities, thus locating vulnerable populations is pivotal. However, heat vulnerability indices (HVI) overwhelmingly interpret one model that may be inaccurate o...
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Sonia Giovinazzi, Corinna Marchili, Antonio Di Pietro, Ludovica Giordano, Antonio Costanzo, Luigi La Porta, Maurizio Pollino, Vittorio Rosato, Daniel Lückerath, Katharina Milde and Oliver Ullrich
Historic areas (HAs) are highly vulnerable to natural hazards, including earthquakes, that can cause severe damage, if not total destruction. This paper proposes methods that can be implemented through a geographical information system to assess earthqua...
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Unni Eidsvig, Monica Santamaría, Neryvaldo Galvão, Nikola Tanasic, Luca Piciullo, Rade Hajdin, Farrokh Nadim, Hélder S. Sousa and José Matos
Keeping transport links open in adverse conditions and being able to restore connections quickly after extreme events are important and demanding tasks for infrastructure owners/operators. This paper is developed within the H2020 project SAFEWAY, whose m...
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Marta Solé, José-Manuel Fortuño, Mike van der Schaar and Michel André
Global change is the origin of increased occurrence of disturbance events in natural communities, with biological invasions constituting a major threat to ecosystem integrity and functioning. The apple snail (Pomacea maculata) is a freshwater gastropod m...
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Johanna Engström, Keighobad Jafarzadegan and Hamid Moradkhani
Droughts are among the costliest natural hazards in the U.S. and globally. The severity of the hazard is closely related to a region?s ability to cope and recover from the event, an ability that depends on the region?s sensitivity and adaptive capacity. ...
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António Sampaio Duarte,Filipe Miguel Rodrigues
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A aplicação de compostos clorados na desinfeção da água pode induzir à formação de subprodutos da desinfeção (SPD) com efeitos carcinogénicos e mutagénicos comprovados. Neste trabalho, apresenta-se uma síntese de um estudo sobre a ocorrência de trihalome...
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António Sampaio Duarte,Filipe Miguel Rodrigues
Pág. 35 - 49
A aplicação de compostos clorados na desinfeção da água pode induzir à formação de subprodutos da desinfeção (SPD) com efeitos carcinogénicos e mutagénicos comprovados. Neste trabalho, apresenta-se uma síntese de um estudo sobre a ocorrência de trihalome...
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Morto Baiém Fandé, Cristina Ponte Lira and Gil Penha-Lopes
The increased exposure to coastal flooding in low-lying coastal areas is one of the consequences of sea-level rise (SLR) induced by climate changes. The coastal zone of Guinea-Bissau contains significant areas of low elevation and is home to most of the ...
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Sarah Syed, Tracey L. O?Sullivan and Karen P. Phillips
Background: Extreme heat caused by climate change is a major public health concern, disproportionately affecting poor and racialized communities. Gestational heat exposure is a well-established teratogen in animal studies, with a growing body of literatu...
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Jacob Schurkman, Irma Tandingan De Ley and Adler R. Dillman
Succinea snails are considered to be invasive and pestiferous gastropods to those in the floricultural industry. Their small size makes them difficult to locate within large plant shipments, and their presence on decorative plants can constitute for an e...
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Yekaterina Y. Kontar, John C. Eichelberger, Tuyara N. Gavrilyeva, Viktoria V. Filippova, Antonina N. Savvinova, Nikita I. Tananaev and Sarah F. Trainor
Every spring, riverine communities throughout the Arctic face flood risk. As the river ice begins to thaw and break up, ice jams?accumulation of chunks and sheets of ice in the river channel, force melt water and ice floes to back up for dozens of kilome...
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