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Yuanyuan Sun, Cailing Liu, Yanwei Zhao, Xianqiang Mao, Jun Zhang and Hongrui Liu
Reducing the degree of flow regime alteration is a basic principle for biodiversity conservation in rivers. The range of variability approach (RVA) is the most widely used method to assess flow regime alteration. Generally, researchers tend to put all of...
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Thomas E. Cropper and Paul E. Cropper
A 133-year length (1883?2015) daily climate record from Sheffield, England (53.38°N, 1.49°W) is analysed. Across the entire length of the record, there are significant warming trends annually and for all seasons, whereas precipitation shows a significant...
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Jeonghoon Lee, Jeonghyeon Choi, Jiyu Seo, Jeongeun Won and Sangdan Kim
In the context of hydrological model calibration, observational data play a central role in refining and evaluating model performance and uncertainty. Among the critical factors, the length of the data records and the associated climatic conditions are p...
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Karen Kim, Edward Steinfeld
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This paper discusses an evaluation of stairway designs featured in Architectural Record, a leading architectural professional journal, over a thirteen-year publication period (2000 to 2012). Images of stairways were classified as either hazard-free or ha...
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Om Prakash Sharma, Narayanan Kannan, Scott Cook, Bijay Kumar Pokhrel and Cameron McKenzie
Most of the recent studies on the consequences of extreme weather events on crop yields are focused on droughts and warming climate. The knowledge of the consequences of excess precipitation on the crop yield is lacking. We attempted to fill this gap by ...
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Jeonghoon Han, Jong Guk Kim, O-Nam Kwon, Jordan Jun Chul Park, Kyun-Woo Lee and Young-Ung Choi
The geoduck clam is a high-value species in South Korea. However, the molecular and morphological characteristics of geoduck clams from the southern coast of South Korea remain unexamined. The accurate identification of native geoduck clams is crucial fo...
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Zeqiang Shao, Emmanuel R. Mwakidoshi, Esther M. Muindi, Rogério P. Soratto, Shivani Ranjan, Smruti Ranjan Padhan, Andrew W. Wamukota, Sumit Sow, Daniel O. Wasonga, Jamal Nasar, Mahmoud F. Seleiman and Harun I. Gitari
Biogas bioslurry, which is normally a bio-digestion product from livestock refuse, can be utilized as an inorganic fertilizer, thus boosting not only soil fertility but also crop growth and yield. Its use can mitigate climate change by reducing methane g...
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Rama Bedri and Thomas Piechota
Historical and future drought and surplus periods in the Colorado River basin are evaluated based on eight climate scenarios. Unimpaired streamflow from 17 stations in the Colorado River are evaluated based on U.S. Geological Survey, Bureau of Reclamatio...
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Haiyu Liu, Fangping Tang, Shikai Yan and Daliang Li
The S-shaped hydrofoil is often used in the design of reversible machinery due to its centrally symmetrical camber line. The objective of this paper is to study the influence of cloud cavitation on the flow structure and the unsteady characteristics of l...
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Rigoberto Guardado-France, Markes E. Johnson, Jorge Ledesma-Vázquez, Miguel A. Santa Rosa-del Rio and Ángel R. Herrera-Gutiérrez
The 450-m long spit that extends westward from the northwest corner of Isla San Luis Gonzaga is one of the largest and most complex constructions of unconsolidated cobbles and boulders found anywhere in Mexico?s Gulf of California. The material source de...
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SallyRose Anderson, Ross Ogle, Glenn Tootle and Abdoul Oubeidillah
This study reports the preliminary results from a statistical screening of tree-ring width records from the International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB), to evaluate the strength of the hydrological signal, in dendrochronological records from the Tennessee ...
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Kervin Chunga,Felipe Ochoa-Cornejo,Maurizio Mulas,Theofilos Toulkeridis,Edgar Menéndez
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Few moderate-to-strong earthquakes associated with active and capable geological faults have been documented for the southern coastal region of Ecuador. The seismic record of Ecuador initiates with the Guayaquil earthquake in 1787 (Mw 6.5), followed by t...
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Liisa Nevalainen, Meghan Brown and Marina Manca
We examined fossil Cladocera (Crustacea) communities and their functional assemblages in a ~60-year sediment record from Lake Maggiore, northern Italy. Our main objective was to document the response of aquatic community functioning to environmental stre...
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Zoltán Fazekas, Lászlo Gerencsér, Péter Gáspár
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In the paper, logs of traffic signs - possibly recognized and recorded by an automatic traffic sign recognition system - are analyzed to detect change in some aspect of the road environment along a route and to locate the change point - also along the ro...
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Dickson Cunningham
The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) records multiple Phanerozoic tectonic events involving consolidation of disparate terranes and cratonic blocks and subsequent reactivation of Eurasia?s continental interior. The final amalgamation of the CAOB terran...
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Dickson Cunningham
The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) records multiple Phanerozoic tectonic events involving consolidation of disparate terranes and cratonic blocks and subsequent reactivation of Eurasia?s continental interior. The final amalgamation of the CAOB terran...
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Brian F. Atwater,Marco Cisternas,Eko Yulianto,Amy L. Prendergast,Kruawun Jankaew,Annaliese A. Eipert,Warnakulasuriya Ignatius Starin Fernando,Iwan Tejakusuma,Ignacio Schiappacasse,Yuki Sawai
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The Chilean tsunami of 22 May 1960 reamed out a breach and built up a fan as it flowed across a sparsely inhabited beach-ridge plain near Maullín, midway along the length of the tsunami source. Eyewitnesses to the flooding, interviewed mainly in 1988 and...
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