As former chemical sites, especially retired pesticide plants, the redevelopment of “brownfield” land imposes urgent demands for detailed environmental investigation and remediation. Addressing the current limitations in pollution charact...
High-Resolution Site Characterization (HRSC) offers a promising approach to delineate spatially heterogeneous contamination in complex petrochemical sites, overcoming limitations of conventional discrete sampling. This study implemented an integrated...
This study presents the reassessment and stabilization design of a failed stepped slope located above a power plant structure in Murgul, Türkiye. Site characterization combined unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based Light Detection and Ranging (LiD...
Local site conditions can significantly influence the amplitude, duration, and frequency content of seismic recordings, making the characterization of subsoil properties a critical component in seismic hazard assessment. However, despite extensive re...
Data-driven site characterization in geotechnical engineering increasingly relies on high-dimensional waveform data and computationally intensive inverse modeling. Full waveform inversion and finite element model updating typically rely on gradient-b...
Industrial activities have resulted in severe environmental contamination that may expose rural and urban populations to unacceptable health risks. For example, chlor-alkali plants (CAPs) have historically contributed mercury (Hg) contamination in di...
Many of the urban settlements in Central Italy are placed nearby active faults and, consequently, the ground motion evaluation and seismic site effects under near-fault earthquakes are noteworthy issues to be investigated. This paper presents the res...
Geotechnical site characterizations aim to determine site-specific subsurface profiles and provide a comprehensive understanding of associated soil properties, which are important for geotechnical engineering design. Traditional methods often neglect...
We present findings from a geotechnical survey for a gravity-based Wave Energy Converter (WEC) to be installed in King Island, Tasmania. The goal of this work was to assess the deployment location for a 200 kW Oscillating Water Column (OWC) and to id...
Below the central nave of the Gothic Cathedral of Palencia (14th to 16th centuries) lies the Crypt of San Antolín, which represents the remains of a Visigothic building from the mid-7th century. The crypt itself has suffered recurrent episodes...
The focus of this study is to examine the soil properties and liquefaction potential of the Erenler center district in a critical tectonic zone that can produce large earthquakes, such as the North Anatolian Fault Zone (NAFZ). In this sense, 40 surfa...
The Athenet network is the network of the Seismological Laboratory of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. We present the geophysical investigation that has been carried out at six seismological stations of the Athenet network for thei...
Heat Shock Protein 70s (HSP70s) are key molecular chaperones that are overexpressed in many cancers and often associated with metastasis and poor prognosis. It has proven difficult to develop ATP-competitive, drug-like small molecule inhibitors of HS...
Geological and topographic site effects lead to variations in the spatial distribution of ground motion during large earthquakes. Despite the impact of such phenomena, they remain poorly understood. There is a lack of joint studies of numerical predi...
The goal of the study was to characterize the limestone that was used extensively in the ancient city of Pella (Macedonia, Greece), the birthplace of Alexander the Great. An on-site examination of the building material was carried out to record the t...
Shear wave velocity (Vs) is a critical parameter in geophysical investigations, micro-zonation research, and site classification. In instances where conducting direct tests at specific locations is challenging due to equipment unavailability, limited...
Rainfall-induced landslides are a disastrous natural hazard causing loss of life and significant damage to infrastructure, farmland and housing. Hydromechanical models are one way to assess the slope stability and to predict critical combinations of...
In this paper, we describe recent studies for the geophysical and geomechanical characterization of soils in Hispaniola (Greater Antilles), an island threatened by the eventual rupture of major seismogenic fault systems. The investigations were perfo...
The present study focuses on a site contaminated with halogenated hydrocarbons, utilizing a detailed inventory of contamination data to achieve the precise characterization of groundwater pollution. Employing MOFLOW-2000 software, a groundwater flow...
The development of organic–inorganic hybrid materials bearing both acidic and basic functionalities is a challenging task, as it requires preserving the integrity and availability of two distinct active sites within a single porous network, suc...
The Lenghu site has emerged as a prominent candidate for future large telescopes, making a detailed understanding of its meteorological environment essential as it directly determines telescope performance, observational efficiency, and data quality....
Background/Objectives: High-performance affinity chromatography (HPAC) was used to investigate the binding affinity of a series of synthetic cannabinoids, a widely abused class of new psychoactive substances, to human serum albumin (HSA) and obtain i...
In this study, the results of the field exposure activity conducted between 2014 and 2017 on the façade of the Milano cathedral (Italy) are reported. The main research aim was to characterize environmental deposition in real exposure condition...
Full waveform inversion (FWI) and distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) are powerful tools with potential to improve how seismic site characterization is performed. FWI is able to provide true 2D or 3D images of the subsurface by inverting stress wave r...
Several pottery sherds from the Svilengrad-Brantiite site, Bulgaria, were mineralogically and petrographically analyzed. The aim was to add information to the very scarce material data available for Early Bronze Age pottery in the southeastern Thrace...
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The United States Department of Energy (DOE) is the lead federal agency for the development and deployment of carbon sequestration technologies. Its mission includes promoting scientific and technological innovations and transfer of knowledge for saf...
Fatty acid elongases play crucial roles in synthesizing long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids. Identifying more efficient elongases is essential for enhancing oleaginous microorganisms to produce high yields of target products. We characterized thre...
Megalithism in Sardinia (Italy) had its highest expression during the Bronze Age with the creation of monumental complexes known as Nuraghes. These unique monuments have recently been the subject of in-depth investigations for their potential to be r...
Seabed surveying is the basis of engineering development in shallow waters. At present, geophysical survey methods mainly utilize sonars for qualitative surveying, which requires the calibration of the results found through in situ drilling and sampl...
The reflectance-based vicarious calibration approach uses measurements at well-understood test sites to provide top-of-atmosphere reference reflectance values suitable for inter-calibration approaches and does not require coincident views. The challe...
In contaminated sites, remediation measures mostly depend on previous high-resolution site characterization (HRSC) results. In the case of industrial sites, where there is a high pollution risk for groundwater, many hydrogeological models are often a...
Active sites play an essential role in heterogeneous catalysis and largely determine the reaction properties. Yet identification and study of the active sites remain challenging owing to their dynamic behaviors during catalysis process and issues wit...
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The most important first step in the management and remediation of contaminated groundwater aquifers is unknown contaminant source characterization. Often, the hydrogeological field data available for accurate source characterization are very sparse....
The global climate crisis forces mankind to develop carbon storage technologies. “Ladoga” carbon monitoring site is part of the Russian climate project “Carbon Supersites”, which aims to develop methods and technologies to con...
222Radon (Rn) was proposed in the late 1990s as a naturally occurring tracer for light non-aqueous phase liquids (LNAPLs) in the subsurface, due to its preferential partitioning behavior in the non-aqueous phase, resulting in a reduction in Rn activi...
Infrasound and seismic waves are supposed to be the main contributors to the gravity-gradient noise (Newtonian noise) of the third-generation subterranean gravitational wave detectors. This noise will limit the sensitivity of the instrument at freque...
This study reports the results obtained on seventeen glass finds collected from the archaeological site of Muricelle near Cosenza in Calabria (Italy), dated between the first and third century AD. Chemical characterization was undertaken by using an...
This study aims to estimate the shear wave velocity and identify the depth of the bedrock and the engineering site characterization utilizing the multichannel analysis of surface waves (MASW) method for sustainable urban development in the Al-Madinah...
N-acetylornithine aminotransferase (AcOAT) is a pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (PLP)-dependent enzyme that catalyzes a key transamination step in arginine biosynthesis. In cyanobacteria, arginine metabolism is closely associated with nitrogen assimilat...
The shear wave velocity profile is of primary interest for geological characterization of soil sites and elucidation of near-surface structures. Multichannel Analysis of Surface Waves (MASW) is a seismic exploration method for determination of near-s...
The large scale and complexity of Carbon, Capture, Storage (CCS) projects necessitates time and cost saving strategies to strengthen investment and widespread deployment of this technology. Here, we successfully demonstrate a novel geologic site char...
La Vispesa is an archaeological settlement occupied from the First Iron Age to the Imperial Roman Period. The objectives of this study were to (i) perform a geomorphological characterization of the site; (ii) place it in its regional context; (iii) o...
The expansion of offshore renewable energy development in Portugal necessitates accurate geological and geotechnical site characterization, especially in regions with limited baseline information. This study focuses on the S. Pedro de Moel area (NW c...
To investigate the geotechnical soil properties of Emilia Romagna Region, a large series of in situ tests, laboratory tests and geophysical tests have been performed, particularly at the damaged city of Scortichino—Bondeno. Deep site investigations h...
This paper proposes the Chilean natural zeolite as catalyst on bio-oil upgrade processes. The aim of this study was to analyze chemical composition of bio-oil samples obtained from catalytic pyrolysis of Chilean native oak in order to increase bio-oi...
Abandoned quarries are frequently used as sites of illegal dumping of solid urban waste. These sites often occur nearby or within urban areas so that their detection may turn out to be quite difficult from the surface. This study focuses on the detec...
Slope failures in roadway embankments are common occurrences and can lead to traffic disruptions and large costs to repair damage. In areas with high-plasticity clays, special attention must be paid to characterizing both the stratigraphy and the pot...
Armenia is located within the Arabia–Eurasia collision zone and is exposed to a significant seismic hazard associated with active fault systems capable of generating destructive earthquakes. The 1988 Spitak earthquake highlighted the vulnerabil...
This investigation intends to study and characterize the mortars and bricks from walls and floors used in the funerary nucleus of the archaeological site of Dr. Gonçalo Sampaio Street (Braga, Portugal), associated with the Via XVII necropolis of the...
Military activities drastically affect soil properties mainly via physical/chemical disturbances during military training and warfare. The present paper aims to review (1) physical/chemical disturbances in soils following military activities, (2) app...
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