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Sustainability, Volume 13, Issue 12

June-2 2021 - 474 articles

Cover Story: Commercially available bio-based products are labelled as biodegradable, and, given the priorities in the waste management hierarchy, they should be collected with biowaste and biologically treated. For end-of-life scenarios, it is essential to provide as much information as possible to create a database on the biodegradability of these products and the timeframe for their biodegradation. To this end, a one-year mesophilic anaerobic degradation test of bio-based products was conducted. Despite their high content of organic matter, the bio-based materials produced only small amounts of biogas. The structure of the bio-based foils started to show damage, and individual cracks and fissures revealed that, after one year of the process, the foils were only in the initial phase of degradation. This information may be useful for assessing regulations for the management of bio-based materials. View this paper
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Articles (474)

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,364 Views
21 Pages

21 June 2021

Data-driven methods using synchrophasor measurements have a broad application prospect in Transient Stability Assessment (TSA). Most previous studies only focused on predicting whether the power system is stable or not after disturbance, which lacked...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,070 Views
18 Pages

21 June 2021

Over the past decade, open innovation (OI) literature has extended its scope beyond strictly economic contexts to the context of societal value creation. This has given rise to the notion of (local) distributed knowledge as a driver for sustainable i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
69 Citations
25,575 Views
19 Pages

Rethinking Tourism Industry in Pandemic COVID-19 Period

  • Anca Antoaneta Vărzaru,
  • Claudiu George Bocean and
  • Marian Cazacu

21 June 2021

The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) has significantly affected the tourism industry. Tourist destinations have adopted emergency measures and restrictions that have affected the mobility of individuals around the world. Beaches and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
7,254 Views
22 Pages

Developing a Risk Management Process for Infrastructure Projects Using IDEF0

  • Hui-Ping Tserng,
  • I-Cheng Cho,
  • Chun-Hung Chen and
  • Yu-Fan Liu

21 June 2021

The Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) project is a massive, large-scale construction venture with a complex interface. In order to reduce the risk of disasters and industrial accidents in the project and to save costs, a simple and flexible risk management sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,104 Views
15 Pages

Optical-Sensor-Based Nitrogen Management in Oat for Yield Enhancement

  • Junaid Shah,
  • Xiukang Wang,
  • Sami Ullah Khan,
  • Sajjad Khan,
  • Zulfiqar Ali Gurmani,
  • Sajid Fiaz and
  • Abdul Qayyum

21 June 2021

The deficiency of nitrogen (N) in soil restricts agricultural productivity and its overdosage pollutes the atmosphere. Nitrogen is a vital component of protein, chlorophyll and various physiological processes. When it is applied at a recommended dose...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,511 Views
15 Pages

The Reverse Gender Gap in Volunteer Activities: Does Culture Matter?

  • Héctor Bellido,
  • Miriam Marcén and
  • Marina Morales

21 June 2021

Women take on 57% (men: 43%) of all volunteering globally (UN 2018). In this paper, we follow an epidemiological approach to explore the possible role of culture in determining this reverse gender gap in the time devoted to volunteer activities. To t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,487 Views
20 Pages

LEED Scores of Residential Buildings in Poor Cities: Kabul City Case

  • Najib Rahman Sabory,
  • Tomonobo Senjyu,
  • Adina Hashemi Momand,
  • Hadya Waqfi,
  • Nilofar Saboor,
  • Rabia Mobarez and
  • Farida Razeqi

21 June 2021

Urbanization and technology have proven to be detrimental to the environment. Buildings contribute a significant portion of this damage. This issue motivated governments, builders, engineers, and architects to seek ways to reduce buildings’ environme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,460 Views
10 Pages

21 June 2021

This paper examines the athletes’ perception of their coaches according to the role of starter or substitute in the final phase of the season. The variables analyzed were: leadership style, perceived justice, competence, and support for basic psychol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,855 Views
17 Pages

21 June 2021

This survey examines how mechanical engineers are being prepared to be responsible stewards of the environment by offering a multi-channeled look at a diverse collection of twelve US colleges and universities, with connections to the larger global co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
3,205 Views
16 Pages

Parameter Extraction of Three Diode Solar Photovoltaic Model Using Improved Grey Wolf Optimizer

  • Abd-ElHady Ramadan,
  • Salah Kamel,
  • Tahir Khurshaid,
  • Seung-Ryle Oh and
  • Sang-Bong Rhee

21 June 2021

The enhancement of photovoltaic (PV) energy systems relies on an accurate PV model. Researchers have made significant efforts to extract PV parameters due to their nonlinear characteristics of the PV system, and the lake information from the manufact...

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