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Environments, Volume 5, Issue 7

July 2018 - 12 articles

Cover Story: Environmental factors, such as light, could influence interactions between trace metals and photosynthetic microorganisms in the aquatic environment, either directly, by affecting vital cellular functions or indirectly, by changing ambient medium characteristics. Research on the combined exposures of photosynthetic microorganisms to metals and light reveal antagonistic, additive or synergistic interactions depending on light intensity, spectral composition or light pre-exposure history, as well as on the exposure sequence and duration and species-specific sensitivity of the microorganisms. View the paper here.
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Articles (12)

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,977 Views
13 Pages

Characterization of Recycled Wood Chips, Syngas Yield, and Tar Formation in an Industrial Updraft Gasifier

  • Ehsan Oveisi,
  • Shahab Sokhansanj,
  • Anthony Lau,
  • Jim Lim,
  • Xiaotao Bi,
  • Fernando Preto and
  • Cliff Mui

In this study, the moisture content, calorific value, and particle size of recycled wood chips were measured. The wood chips were used to fuel an 8.5 MWth updraft gasifier to produce syngas for combustion in a steam-producing boiler. In-situ syngas c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,594 Views
13 Pages

Zinc (Zn) and arsenic (As) occur as mixed contaminants in soil and the interactions between them remain unclear. Here, we investigated a Zn2+ and H2AsO4− mixture interaction and their effects on plant growth. Three different soils were spiked w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,348 Views
12 Pages

Oxidative Destruction of Organic Pollutants on the Polypropylene Fiber Modified by Nanodispersed Iron

  • Ludmila Naumova,
  • Tamara Minakova,
  • Nikolay Gorlenko,
  • Irina Kurzina and
  • Irina Vasenina

This study aims to solve the problem of deep destruction of organic pollutants in industrial effluents by creating new composite materials with prescribed functional properties. This paper researches the possibility of using composites based on a pol...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,516 Views
19 Pages

In the present review, we critically examine the state-of-the-art of the research on combined effects of trace metals and light on photosynthetic microorganisms in aquatic environment. Light of different intensity and spectral composition affects the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,836 Views
9 Pages

Commercial microwave links have a great potential to be used as sensors for rain. However, the use of commercial microwave links to monitor the rain depends heavily on the availability of the links’ attenuation measurements. The cellular operat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,707 Views
13 Pages

The peri-urban and urban forests in Greece occupy a total area of 105.353 ha. In these vulnerable ecosystems, fire constitutes a natural disaster presenting particular challenges and specific difficulties. These include the high number of visitors as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,931 Views
14 Pages

Elevated nutrient concentrations are of concern in many agricultural streams. This study observed seasonal variation of inorganic nitrogen concentrations in small drainage streams that receive discharge predominantly from three different types of agr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,430 Views
16 Pages

Recently, the popularity of anaerobic digestion (AD) has been increasing, and selecting a site for AD is a complex process for both individuals and decision-makers. This process requires the selected site to fulfill all regulation requirements, simul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,790 Views
14 Pages

Fisheries in Cambodia play an important role in supporting household food security and livelihoods throughout the country. Inland fisheries production is largely dependent on numerous ecosystem services, particularly the floodwaters of the Tonle Sap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,601 Views
11 Pages

While the effect of rainfall and other environmental phenomena on a link budget in microwave wireless communication has been well studied for network design, it has usually been done for each microwave-link separately. Recently, attenuation in multip...

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