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Lei Zhang, Ping Wang, Chengyi Huang, Bo Ai and Wenjun Feng
Terrain rendering is an important issue in Geographic Information Systems and other fields. During large-scale, real-time terrain rendering, complex terrain structure and an increasing amount of data decrease the smoothness of terrain rendering. Existing...
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Lakesh K. Sharma, Sukhwinder K. Bali and Ahmed A. Zaeen
Recent phosphorus (P) pollution in the United States, mainly in Maine, has raised some severe concerns over the use of P fertilizer application rates in agriculture. Phosphorus is the second most limiting nutrient after nitrogen and has damaging impacts ...
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Florence Bodeau-Livinec, Philippe Glorennec, Michel Cot, Pierre Dumas, Séverine Durand, Achille Massougbodji, Pierre Ayotte and Barbara Le Bot
Lead in childhood is well known to be associated with poor neurodevelopment. As part of a study on maternal anemia and offspring neurodevelopment, we analyzed blood lead level (BLL) with no prior knowledge of lead exposure in 225 mothers and 685 offsprin...
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Yuying Chen, Yajie Li, Xiangfeng Gu, Qing Yuan, Nan Chen and Qi Jin
Cultural tourism development potential (CTDP) is the future value and supporting force of the environmental value, economic and social efficiency, innovation ability and supporting system of cultural tourism. At present, there are few relevant studies on...
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Hao Zhang, Hong Li, Qingzhu Zhang, Yujie Zhang, Weiqi Zhang, Xuezhong Wang, Fang Bi, Fahe Chai, Jian Gao, Lingshuo Meng, Ting Yang, Yizhen Chen, Qi Cheng and Fenmei Xia
Atmospheric volatile organic compounds (VOCs) measurement was carried out using gas chromatography-flame ionization detector (GC-FID) technique (Airmo VOCs online analyzer) in a typical urban area in Beijing from April 2014 to January 2015. Ambient level...
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Julio Garrote, Ignacio Gutiérrez-Pérez and Andrés Díez-Herrero
Calibration and validation of flood risk maps at a national or a supra-national level remains a problematic aspect due to the limited information available to carry out these tasks. However, this validation is essential to define the representativeness o...
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Sangsoo Hwang, Byongug Jeong, Kwanghyo Jung, Mingyu Kim and Peilin Zhou
This research was focused on a comparative analysis of using LNG as a marine fuel with a conventional marine gas oil (MGO) from an environmental point of view. A case study was performed using a 50K bulk carrier engaged in domestic services in South Kore...
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Todd Pagano, Morgan Bida and Jonathan E. Kenny
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Todd Pagano, Morgan Bida and Jonathan E. Kenny
Over the past several decades, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in inland natural water systems has been a popular research topic to a variety of scientific disciplines. Part of the attention has been due to observed changes in DOC concentrations in many o...
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Robin Lovelace, Anna Goodman, Rachel Aldred, Nikolai Berkoff, Ali Abbas, James Woodcock
Getting people cycling is an increasingly common objective in transport planning institutions worldwide. A growing evidence base indicates that high quality infrastructure can boost local cycling rates. Yet for infrastructure and other cycling measures t...
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Yue Wang, Hong Gao, Xiao-Lin Na, Shu-Ying Dong, Hong-Wei Dong, Jia Yu, Li Jia and Yong-Hui Wu
The toxicity and carcinogenicity of aniline in humans and animals have been well documented. However, the molecular mechanism involved in aniline-induced liver toxicity and carcinogenesis remains unclear. In our research, primary cultured hepatocytes wer...
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Changying Xiang and Lulu Tao
Vertical greenery not only helps to cool the surfaces of buildings but, more importantly, it can also mitigate the Urban Heat Island effect. The growth of vertical greenery is highly dependent on ongoing maintenance, such as irrigation. Wind-driven rain ...
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Sophie Steinhagen, Swantje Enge, Karin Larsson, Joakim Olsson, Göran M. Nylund, Eva Albers, Henrik Pavia, Ingrid Undeland and Gunilla B. Toth
The growing world population demands an increase in sustainable resources for biorefining. The opening of new farm grounds and the cultivation of extractive species, such as marine seaweeds, increases worldwide, aiming to provide renewable biomass for fo...
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B. MIKY FUNATSU,M. A. GAN,E. CAETANO
This study presents a synoptic and dynamic analysis of a cyclogenesis event that occurred between July 8 and 9, 1996, over Uruguay, in the region of maximum frequency of cyclogenesis as detected in previous studies. The study is...
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Julio Cabero-Almenara, Fernando De-La-Portilla-De-Juan, Julio Barroso-Osuna and Antonio Palacios-Rodríguez
Numerous studies suggest that immersive reality (IR) is an educational technology with great potential in the field of health sciences. Its integration allows for an increase in the motivation and academic performance of students. In this sense, this res...
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Menglei Yin, Peng Song and Weifeng Yan
Against the backdrop of new carbon peak and carbon neutrality targets, China must address livestock carbon emissions (LCEs), which account for the largest proportion of agricultural carbon emissions in China. China has been promoting network infrastructu...
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Thomas James Tiam-Lee, Rui Henriques and Vasco Manquinho
Emergency medical services (EMS) around the world face the challenging task of allocating resources to efficiently respond to medical emergencies within a geographical area. While several studies have been done to improve various aspects of EMS, such as ...
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Hamdhani Hamdhani, Drew E. Eppehimer, David Walker and Michael T. Bogan
Chlorophyll-a measurements are an important factor in the water quality monitoring of surface waters, especially for determining the trophic status and ecosystem management. However, a collection of field samples for extractive analysis in a laboratory m...
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Thomaz W. F. Xavier, Roberto N. V. Souto, Thiago Statella, Rafael Galbieri, Emerson S. Santos, George S. Suli and Peter Zeilhofer
The reduction of the production cost and negative environmental impacts by pesticide application to control cotton diseases depends on the infection patterns spatialized in the farm scale. Here, we evaluate the potential of three-band multispectral image...
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