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Mirka Mobilia and Antonia Longobardi
Evapotranspiration is the major component of the water cycle, so a correct estimate of this variable is fundamental. The purpose of the present research is to assess the monthly scale accuracy of six meteorological data-based models in the prediction of ...
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Scott Kelly
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Infrastructure failure can cause significant disruption of economic activity. The size of economic loss is a direct function of the interdependencies between infrastructure and economic systems raising important questions about infrastructure vulnerabili...
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Eric D. Swain and Jason C. Bellino
The Precipitation-Runoff Modeling System (PRMS) was used to develop a simulation of watershed hydrology on the island of Puerto Rico for the period 1981?2017, concentrating on the Río Grande de Arecibo, a river with some of the highest streamflows on the...
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Hyojae Jung and Chanjin Chung
This study estimates consumers? willingness to pay (WTP) for sustainability turfgrass attributes such as low-input and stress-tolerance attributes, while considering potential trade-off relationships between aesthetic attributes and sustainability attrib...
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Larissa P. Souza, João G. M. Carneiro, Arlen M. Lastre-Acosta, Bruno Ramos and Antonio C. S. C. Teixeira
To investigate the impact of antidepressants (ANT) in water, estimates of the direct and indirect photolysis of standard fluoxetine hydrochloride (FLX) and a pharmaceutical alternative, fluoxetine sulfate (FLXSO4), were evaluated. The second-order kineti...
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Stefano Ercolessi, Giovanni Fabbrocino and Carlo Rainieri
Recent collapses and malfunctions of European bridges threatened the service conditions of road networks and pointed out the need for robust procedures to mitigate the impact of material degradation and overloading of existing bridges. Condition assessme...
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Bichwi Yun, Yoon C. Cho
Understanding the publics interest toward public policy and advertising has become a central issue in marketing and public policy. The purpose of the study was to investigate how the public perceives policy advertising and how their perceptions affect a...
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Adam R. Brandt and Michael Dale
The efficiencies of energy extraction and conversion systems are typically expressed using energy return ratios (ERRs) such as the net energy ratio (NER) or energy return on investment (EROI). A lack of a general mathematical framework prevents inter-com...
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Debjani Ghatak, Benjamin Zaitchik, Sujay Kumar, Mir A. Matin, Birendra Bajracharya, Christopher Hain and Martha Anderson
Accurate meteorological estimates are critical for process-based hydrological simulation and prediction. This presents a significant challenge in mountainous Asia where in situ meteorological stations are limited and major river basins cross internationa...
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Yiyi Wang, Kara M. Kockelman, Xiaokun (Cara) Wang
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This paper develops two new models and evaluates the impact of using different weight matrices on parameter estimates and inference in three distinct spatial specifications for discrete response. These specifications rely on a conventional, sparse, inver...
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YU. D. RESNYANSKY
The variations of the thermal characteristics of the near-surface ocean layers exert a significant impact on the heat influx to the atmosphere, and through this on the atmosphere circulation. To examine the ocean heat sources, the estimates of the cur...
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Antonio Vallecillos, Emilio María-Dolores, Javier Villa, Juan Manuel Afonso and Eva Armero
In the present work, we studied ten new productive traits in meagre (Argyrosomus regius), comprising three related to the carcass (cNiT) and seven related to morphometric (mNiT) characteristics. We harnessed non-invasive technology (NiT) by means of the ...
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Defeng Zhang and Zhilu Sun
Under the condition of opening up, participation in international specialization and global value chains (GVCs) has become the main source for more and more countries to obtain foreign resources and advanced technologies, thereby promoting productivity i...
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Rebecca J. Barthelmie
Direct and indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the ~30+ billion animals consumed as food each year contribute ~14?16% of the global total. The aim of this research is to determine the contribution of meat and animal products to individual GHG fo...
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Luca Massi, Laura Frittitta, Chiara Melillo, Francesca Polonelli, Veronica Bianchi, Anna Maria De Biasi and Caterina Nuccio
Chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) is the fraction of the Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) mainly absorbing UV and blue radiation, influencing water optical properties, light availability for primary production, and water-leaving radiance. In ope...
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Lars E. Sjöberg
Traditionally, geoid determination is applied by Stokes? formula with gravity anomalies after removal of the attraction of the topography by a simple or refined Bouguer correction, and restoration of topography by the primary indirect topographic effect ...
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Lars E. Sjöberg
Traditionally, geoid determination is applied by Stokes’ formula with gravity anomalies after removal of the attraction of the topography by a simple or refined Bouguer correction, and restoration of topography by the primary indirect topographic e...
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Timothy Sands
By reversing paradigms that normally utilize mathematical models as the basis for nonlinear adaptive controllers, this article describes using the controller to serve as a novel computational approach for mathematical system identification. System identi...
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Ilgar Safak
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Drag force at the bed acting on water flow is a major control on water circulation and sediment transport. Bed drag has been thoroughly studied in sandy waters, but less so in muddy coastal waters. The variation of bed drag on a muddy shelf is investigat...
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Morten Simonsen and Hans Jakob Walnum
Transport makes up 20 percent of the World?s energy use; in OECD countries this has exceeded 30 percent. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that the global energy consumption will increase by 2.1 percent annually, a growth rate that is highe...
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