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Challenges, Volume 6, Issue 2

December 2015 - 7 articles

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Articles (7)

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
8,862 Views
12 Pages

Wildfire Likelihood’s Elements: A Literature Review

  • Mario Mhawej,
  • Ghaleb Faour and
  • Jocelyne Adjizian-Gerard

8 December 2015

Wildfires occur in different climatic zones, forest cover types and eras. Wildfire or forest fire has always shaped the landscape. Different methodologies and indexes have emerged to determine the likelihood of wildfire, commonly confused with the wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
13,367 Views
11 Pages

Estimation of Groundwater Recharges in Odeda Local Government Area, Ogun State, Nigeria using Empirical Formulae

  • Oluseyi O. Adeleke,
  • Victor Makinde,
  • Ayobami O. Eruola,
  • Oluwaseun F. Dada,
  • Akintayo O. Ojo and
  • Taiwo J. Aluko

27 November 2015

Estimation and forecast of groundwater recharge and capacities of aquifers are essential issues in water resource investigation. In the current research, groundwater recharge and the recharge coefficient were determined through a case study using emp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,621 Views
13 Pages

26 November 2015

The transportation sector is severely correlated with major problems in environment, citizens’ health, climate and economy. Issues such as traffic, fuel cost and parking space have make life more difficult, especially in the dense urban environment....

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
8,097 Views
14 Pages

13 November 2015

There is widespread contamination of the environment of the Niger Delta, which may include enhanced background levels of naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM) due to oil production and rapid urbanization activities. Sediments and seafood f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
16,662 Views
15 Pages

23 September 2015

Introduction: Diarrhea remains the second leading cause of death among children under five years globally. Nearly one in five child deaths, about 1.5 million each year, are due to diarrhea. It kills more young children than Acquired Immunodeficiency...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7,452 Views
27 Pages

7 September 2015

An exercise has been prepared and executed to simulate international interactions on policies related to greenhouse gases and global albedo management. Simulation participants are each assigned one of six regions that together contain all of the coun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
12,336 Views
14 Pages

Wind Turbine Waste Heat Recovery—A Short-Term Heat Loss Forecasting Approach

  • George Xydis,
  • George Pechlivanoglou and
  • Navid Christian Nayeri

1 July 2015

The transition from the era of massive renewable energy deployment to the era of cheaper energy needed has made scientists and developers more careful with respect to energy planning compared with a few years ago. The focus is—and will be—placed on r...

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