31 July 2022
Many uncertainties such as variable irregular structure and complex flow conditions bring difficulties to the design of a nature-like fishway. This study defines the main factors and parameters affecting flow conditions such as permeability ratio, of...
14 March 2013
Natural thermal bathing pools contain geothermal water that is very popular to bathe in but the water is not sterilized, irradiated or treated in any way. Increasing tourism in Iceland will lead to increasing numbers of bath guests, which can in turn...
Ecosystem services offered by freshwater ecosystems, in the form of natural pools have not been fully realized by the public, which has led to limited attention on the conservation of these pools. This study therefore was conducted to investigate the...
The use of rocks containing high amounts of natural zeolites (zeolitites) as soil amendment has been found as a valuable method for increasing agriculture sustainability. However, the potentialities and the effects of zeolitites on the biogeochemical...
Chiral pool α-amino acids have been used as powerful tools for the total synthesis of structurally diverse natural products. Some common naturally occurring α-amino acids are readily available in both enantiomerically pure forms. The applications of...
Spatially and sectorally disaggregated gas demand projections are essential for infrastructure planning and decarbonisation, yet records of consumption and its drivers often span only a few years, which is insufficient for conventional time-series me...
Natural swimming ponds using treatment wetlands (TWs) as an element of treatment of swimming water are an ecologically beneficial alternative to conventional pools. Unlike conventional swimming pools, in natural swimming ponds, the water treatment av...
Anthropogenic barriers fragment Portuguese rivers, threatening endemic freshwater fish communities. This study compiled national inventories and peer-reviewed research (2002–2024) to quantify fishway implementation, evolution and typology, whil...
The need for sustainable energy sources has recently promoted the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a low-carbon fuel. Although economic evaluations indicate the transportation of LNG as a convenient solution for long distances between markets an...
Predicting species’ ecological responses to landcovers within landscapes could guide conservation practices. Current modelling efforts derived from classic species–area relationships almost always predict richness monotonically increasing...
Microscopic eukaryotes are important components of coastal wetland ecosystems. The goal of this study was to investigate the diversity of microeukaryotes in the tidal pools of a New Jersey salt marsh and to compare the assemblages of natural and arti...
This study extends recent research on informal property rights at surf breaks by exploring the process through which nature, by establishing conditions conducive (or not) to the presence of sharks, shapes the baseline level of exploitation by surfers...
Water treatment systems in swimming ponds support the natural self-cleaning capabilities of water based on the functions of repository macrophytes in their regeneration zone and the regulation of the internal metabolism of the reservoirs. As part of...
The success of nature-based tourism destinations depends on the sustainable use of common pool resources (CPRs). More often than not, tourism demands compete for these resources, exerting pressure on them, resulting in decline of the CPRs. Managing t...
The Aquila Optimizer (AO), inspired by the hunting behavior of Aquila birds, is a recent nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithm recognized for its simplicity and low computational cost. However, the conventional AO often suffers from premature conve...
The chemical nature of intracellular labile iron pools (LIPs) is described. By virtue of the kinetic lability of these pools, it is suggested that the isolation of such species by chromatography methods will not be possible, but rather mass spectrome...
The integrity of a pressure vessel (PRV) is affected by the decay heat of the molten pool in the lower head, so it is very important to study the natural convection heat transmission in the lower head. Scholars from all over the world have carried ou...
This paper studies the energy behavior of several public heated swimming pools with semi-transparent covers located in southeastern Spain with high consumption of their air-conditioning installations. The scientific novelty of the work is to determin...
Abstractive summarization is a technique that allows for extracting condensed meanings from long texts, with a variety of potential practical applications. Nonetheless, today’s abstractive summarization research is limited to testing the models...
It is always a hot issue in the intelligence analysis field to predict the trend of news description by pre-trained language models and graph neural networks. However, there are several problems in the existing research: (1) there are few Chinese dat...
Due to the exponential increase in internet and social media users, fake news travels rapidly, and no one is immune to its adverse effects. Various machine learning approaches have evaluated text and images to categorize false news over time, but the...
This paper investigates the influence of low-pressure glow plasma water treatment on boiling phenomenon. The presented results show the novel influence and potential new applications of low-pressure glow plasma treated water. Low-pressure glow plasma...
Sphingolipids (SLs) are a class of bioactive lipids characterized by sphingoid bases (SBs) as their backbone structure. These molecules exhibit distinct cellular functions, including cell growth, apoptosis, senescence, migration, and inflammatory res...
Climate change-induced frequent cyclones are pumping saline seawater into the Sundarbans. Fani, Amphan, Bulbul, and Yaas were the major cyclones that hit the region during 2019–2021. This study represents the changes in the soil parameters, man...
There are a number of gaps in reviews relating Ostrom’s design principles (DPs) to common-pool resource (CPR) institutions. These include the geographical distribution of CPRs, the performance of young CPRs relative to the DPs, and the relationship b...
Mires are significant C-sinks and important habitats for biodiversity conservation. Particularly in the Alpine peatlands, grazing and trampling cause mires to degrade, causing changes in plant communities that increase bulk density, peat erosion, and...
The rapid global emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Klebsiella pneumoniae threatens public health, as treatment options remain limited and resistance to last-line antibiotics is rising. Natural phenolic compounds emerge as promising adjuvants to...
The Indo-Pacific warm pool (IPWP) is enclosed by a 28 °C isotherm and plays a vital role in controlling atmospheric circulations. However, the effects of changes in regional warm pool sea surface temperatures (SSTs) remain unexplored. We divided...
Inland aquatic ecosystems, encompassing lakes, reservoirs, and ponds, serve as vital repositories of water resources and provide essential ecological, social, and cultural services. Water color, a key indicator of water quality, reflects the complex...
In order to study internal relation among the behavior of the weld pool, the microstructure of weld bead and the waveform of short-circuiting gas metal arc welding (S-GMAW), a high speed photograph-images analysis system was formed to extract charact...
Despite the global implementation of rock-rubble groyne structures, there is limited research investigating their ecology, much less than for other artificial coastal structures. Here we compare the intertidal ecology of urban (or semi-urban) rock-ru...
6 May 2022
This paper presents the estimation of micropollutant decomposition effectiveness and the identification of transformation intermediates formed during selected processes used in the treatment of swimming pool water. Tests were carried out under both i...
Surface coal mining activities have numerous consequences on terrestrial ecosystems. Loss of soil and biomass carbon pool due to mining activities is a serious concern in the rapidly changing environment. We investigated the effect of fast-growing tr...
Streamflow intermittency can reshape fish assemblages and present challenges to recovery of imperiled species. During streamflow intermittency, fish can be subjected to a variety of stressors, including exposure to crowding, high water temperatures,...
Disease monitoring informs the opportunities for intervention by natural resource agencies tasked with managing chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild cervids. However, allocating funds toward testing can reduce those available for education, outreach...
Real-time quality monitoring through molten pool images is a critical focus in researching high-quality, intelligent automated welding. However, challenges such as the dynamic nature of the molten pool, changes in camera perspective, and variations i...
For lotic salmonids, pool habitats are critical to persistence and resilience. In the central Appalachians, brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis Mitchill 1814) is an imperiled species that relies on pool habitats for refuge during drought and for spawn...
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative agent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic spreading around the world, causing massive distress to the world’s economy and affecting healthcare systems world...
Here, the main goal is to assess natural infections of Plasmodium spp. in anophelines in a forest reserve from the same region where we previously found a surprisingly high rate (5.2%) of plasmodia infections (n = 25) in Kerteszia mosquitoes (N = 480...
Cancer is a heterogeneous disease and one of the major issues of health concern, especially for the public health system globally. Nature is a source of anticancer drugs with abundant pool of diverse chemicals and pharmacologically active compounds....
The bacterium Legionella pneumophila is a ubiquitous microorganism naturally present in water environments. The actual presence of this opportunistic premise plumbing pathogen in recreational swimming pools and hot tubs in the northwestern part of Cr...
Natural bioactive compounds include a plethora of structures and functionalities providing a consistent pool of molecules to produce nutraceuticals, functional foods, and food additives [...]
Seawater is a long-standing remedy against a number of skin or rheumatic conditions since ancient times, now popular in many countries, where spa, thalassotherapy and seawater pools have considerably boomed. Exposure to seawater and sunlight is an es...
Community-based conservation is advocated as an idea that long-term conservation success requires engaging with, providing benefits for, and establishing institutions representing local communities. However, community-based conservation’s efficacy an...
In the search for new antimicrobial lead compounds, interest in natural-product-based screening has enjoyed a renaissance, driven by the fact that plants present a unique pool of compounds [...]
Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) attracts the attention of high-end manufacturing sectors for its capability of depositing free-form components with elevated mechanical properties. However, due to the intrinsic nature of the feedstock material and the...
The increase in the incidence of hyperglycemia and diabetes poses the challenge of finding cost-effective natural inhibitors of starch digestion enzymes. Among natural compounds, phenolics have been considered as promising candidates. The aims of thi...
Aedes aegypti is a primary vector for globally significant arboviruses such as dengue virus (DENV). The mosquito’s metavirome, particularly its insect-specific virus (ISV) component, is recognized as a key modulator of arboviral transmission. H...
Wild aquatic birds constitute the main natural reservoir of the influenza A virus (IAV) gene pool, from which novel IAVs can emerge to infect other animals including avian and mammalian species [...]
In classification of satellite images acquired over smallholder agricultural landscape with complex spectral profiles of various crop types, exploring image spatial information is important. The deep convolutional neural network (CNN), originally des...
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