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Construction waste reduction is crucial for conserving resources, protecting the environment, and promoting sustainable development. However, few studies have explored the factors that may prompt construction waste reduction behavior among contractor...

In order to evaluate the effect of secondary cold reduction rate on the drawing performance of double reduction tinplate and explain the mechanism, a detailed investigation into the microstructural characterization, dissolved carbon atoms, texture ch...

The persistent generation of plastic waste represents a critical environmental challenge. Despite the implementation of various management policies spanning from usage to disposal that are aimed at incentivizing plastic reduction, the accumulation of...

Reformulation of food products to reduce salt content has been a central strategy for achieving population level salt reduction. In this paper, we reflect on current reformulation strategies and consider how consumer behavior determines the ultimate...

This study sought to investigate the role of consumers’ emotional, cognitive, and financial concerns in the development of food waste reduction, reuse, and recycling behavior among restaurant patrons. Food waste in restaurants is a major problem for...

As an integral part of urban functions, waste reduction behaviors inside the airport and outside in society form a linkage mechanism that influences each other, but the coupling mechanism between the two is not clear. In this study, we constructed a...

Under the background of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, compared with a traditional carbon thermal reduction to produce nickel, gas-based reduction has outstanding advantages in efficiency and carbon reduction. However, there are few studies on...

Food loss and waste are a major global problem as reflected in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 12. Households constitute the primary source of food waste worldwide. The development of effective solutions depends on a comprehensive und...

Farmers, as the primary decision makers in agricultural production, are crucial to ensuring food safety and ecological security through chemical pesticide reduction, thereby contributing to agricultural sustainability. While existing research has ack...

Many countries have committed to carbon reductions and carbon neutrality targets in response to the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With economic development, the transportation sector has become a major source of carbon emi...

The oxygen blast furnace (OBF) represents a key pathway toward deep decarbonization in ironmaking. The main difference between it and the traditional blast furnace is that the atmosphere in the furnace has high reduction potential and little nitrogen...

Food waste represents an economic, environmental, and social threat, which makes it an important subject of investigation. Food waste behavior has a crucial effect on everyone’s food security, food safety, economic growth, and the environment;...

Urban residents play an essential role in the carbon-reduction process, and it is significant to effectively guide them to reduce carbon voluntarily to achieve the “double carbon” target. In this study, a model was developed to investigat...

Coal-based reduction followed by magnetic separation is an effective way to recover iron from high phosphorus-containing oolitic hematite ore. Given that high quantities of dephosphorization agent are needed to obtain low phosphorus reduced iron, a n...

Coal-based reduction and magnetic separation behavior of low-grade vanadium-titanium magnetite pellets were studied in this paper. It is found that the metallization degree increased obviously with an increase in the temperature from 1100 °C to 1400...

The objective of this paper is to explore the effects of longitudinal speed reduction markings (LSRMs) on vehicle maneuvering and drivers’ operation performance on interchange connectors with different radii. Empirical data were collected in a drivin...

Construction land reduction (CLR) was implemented in China to improve the efficiency of construction land use. CLR also limited the development of net reduction areas of CLR. By analyzing the Task-Quota-Financial-Benefit flow of CLR, this paper propo...

To reveal the growth behavior and size characterization of iron particles in coal-based reduction, we reduced oolitic hematite–coal composite briquettes at various temperatures, durations and ore size fractions. The degree of metallization and micros...

Promoting pesticide reduction is a key step toward green vegetable production and ecological safety. Based on survey data collected from 356 leek growers in Weifang City—the largest facility-based vegetable production base in Shandong Province&...

Background/Objectives: Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is an internationally recognized training program designed to improve mental health literacy, reduce stigma, and train non-clinicians with supportive skills to assist individuals experiencing psyc...

Ocean manganese nodules, which contain abundant Cu, Co, Ni and Mn resources, were reduced using biomass (sawdust) pyrolysis technology. Valuable metals were further extracted by acid leaching after the reduction process with high efficiency. The effe...

Aims: This study aimed to describe risk reduction behaviors regarding ambient particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less (PM_2.5) among outdoor exercisers and to explore potential factors influencing those behaviors in the urban area of N...

The sustainability of food waste is one of the most important contemporary economic, social, and environmental issues that encompasses useful academic, practical, and policymaking implications. Under the domain of sustainability, food waste is a seri...

Construction waste reduction (CWR) is an important approach to tackling the environmental problems resulting from increasing construction and demolition activities. Existing studies have explored various factors influencing construction stakeholders&...

In recent years, there has been an increase in the practice of chemsex, which is becoming an increasingly serious public health problem. The complex interaction between chemsex and mental health underscores the need to understand the psychological, s...

Coastal areas are subject to greater pH fluctuation and more rapid pH decline as a result of both natural and anthropogenic influences in contrast to open ocean environments. Such variations in pH have the potential to pose a threat to the survival a...

The connection between chronic psychological stress and the onset of various diseases, including diabetes, HIV, cancer, and cardiovascular conditions, is well documented. This review synthesizes current research on the neurological, immune, hormonal,...

This study investigates the behavior of phosphorus during high-temperature smelting of hydrogen-reduced high-phosphorus oolitic iron ore from the Lisakovsk deposit. The preliminary reduction was carried out at temperatures ranging from 600 to 900 &de...

This study aims to investigate the effects of slag chemical composition on the smelting reduction behavior and microstructural evolution of chromite at 1525–1550 °C, thereby providing theoretical guidance for optimizing the smelting reducti...

Speed management remains a central challenge in road safety, particularly in road segments where geometric design, crash concentration, or downstream stopping conditions require drivers to reduce speed. Although conventional traffic signs provide reg...

Hydrogen-based reduction followed by the electric furnace smelting of vanadium–titanium magnetite pellets offers notable advantages, including high reduction efficiency, reduced energy consumption, lower CO₂ emissions, and improved titanium rec...

Calcium carbonate, renowned for its affordability and potent dephosphorization capabilities, finds widespread use as a dephosphorization agent in the direct reduction roasting of high-phosphorus oolitic hematite (HPOIO). However, its precise impact o...

The compensation a farmer requires to reduce fertilizer use reflects the behavioral factors behind the decision to participate. This study examines how they are associated with compensation expectations, and whether these associations differ across o...

On account of the rigid structure of alginate chains, the oxidation-reductive amination reaction was performed to synthesize the reductive amination of oxidized alginate derivative (RAOA) that was systematically characterized for the development of p...

Nb-Ti binary alloys are widely employed as high value-added materials in the manufacture of super heat-resistant alloys, biomaterials, and superconductors. Therefore, there is significant interest to produce Nb-Ti master alloys in a cost-effective ma...

The application of H₂ to pre-reduce manganese ores is a sustainable approach to performing decarbonization in the ferroalloy industry. The process has been extensively studied and tested in a lab-to-pilot scale in the HAlMan EU project. This work pre...

Plastic waste reduction has become a global priority, with consumer engagement playing a crucial role in the success of sustainability initiatives. This study examines the demographic and behavioral determinants of consumer engagement in plastic tabl...

The immense food waste, generated by restaurants is not only a serious burden for the foodservice business but also a cause of anguish for the emerging nations in which eating out is becoming increasingly trendy. Consumers’ food wastes account...

This work reports on the fabrication of a novel planar reduced graphene oxide (rGO) memristor (MR) device. For the first time in the literature, the MR tunable resistive switching behavior is controlled by the GO reduction time at a constant temperat...

The reduction pretreatment process was proposed to be applied to large billets for the purpose of alleviating the center porosities and reducing the rolling ratio. This study focused on the evolution behavior and closure mechanism of porosity in a la...

Lump ore reduction generates fines that can induce furnace hanging or slipping. Reducing this degradation is key to maintaining stable operation. To address the degradation problem of lump ores during direct reduction in hydrogen-based shaft furnaces...

This study investigates how environmental regulations and social norms affect farmers’ chemical fertilizer reduction behaviors (CFRBs) and investigates the mediating role played by social norms and the moderating role played by social networks....

This study investigated lignin as a reducing agent instead of fossil carbon for the reduction of zinc oxide and zinc ferrite contained in steelmaking dusts. Three types of dusts from different steelmaking processes were considered: ferrochrome conver...

The utilization of CO₂ neutral carbon instead of fossil carbon is one way to mitigate CO₂ emissions in the steel industry. Using reactive reducing agent, e.g., bio-coal (pre-treated biomass) in iron ore composites for the blast furnace can also enhan...

The effects of Al₂O₃ content on the morphology and reducibility of sinter were respectively investigated using confocal laser microscopy and thermogravimetric analysis at 1273 K under CO gas. To understand the effects of the sintering process, separa...

In this study, oxygen reduction behavior of TiH₂ powders during dehydrogenation process was investigated based on thermodynamics. During the hydrogenation–dehydrogenation (HDH) method to fabricate Ti powder, TiH₂ was formed from a Ti sponge thr...

The effect of oxygen reduction on the magnetic properties of LaFeO_3−δ (LFO) thin films was studied to better understand the viability of LFO as a candidate for magnetoionic memory. Differences in the amount of oxygen lost by LFO and its m...

Blast furnace (BF) ironmaking remains one of the most efficient countercurrent processes; however, achieving further CO₂ emission reductions through conventional methods is increasingly challenging. Currently, BF ironmaking emits approximately 2.33 t...

COVID-19 caused an increase in the demand for medications, which led to an increase in pharmaceutical waste and there is no doubt that this contributes to environmental pollution. Hence, it became necessary to search for how to protect and improve th...

Hydrogen-based reduction of manganese ores has attracted increasing attention as a promising route for low-carbon manganese production. In this study, the reduction behavior, microstructural evolution, and kinetics of a high-barium-rich manganese ore...