Recycling and source separation (R&SS) are believed to have been the first attempt to minimise waste. This research adopted mixed methods that followed sequential quantitative then qualitative data collection, combining questionnaire surveys from...
In an urban or suburban area, the sustainability of a waste management process is expected to be closely related to the territorial context and the local citizens’ behaviour. From this perspective, the implementation of the peculiar proximity waste c...
Measures that challenge the generation of waste are needed to address the global problem of the increasing volumes of waste that are generated in both private homes and workplaces. Source separation at the workplace is commonly implemented by environ...
This paper examines how and to what degree government policies of garbage fees and voluntary source separation programs, with free indoor containers and garbage bags, can affect the effectiveness of municipal solid waste (MSW) management, in the sens...
This paper evaluates the impact of the second municipal solid waste (MSW) source separation program on municipal solid waste generation (MSWG) in China. Without considering the spatial interactions between cities, the second MSW source separation pro...
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A source separation program for household kitchen waste has been in place in Beijing since 2010. However, the participation rate of residents is far from satisfactory. This study was carried out to identify residents’ preferences based on an improved...
With the rapid development of underground infrastructure and the uncertainty of its location, the possibility of damage due to nearby construction has increased. Thus, for the early warning of dangerous construction behaviors around underground facil...
There are many problems with the waste management systems (WMSs) in developing countries. In order to provide applicable strategies for improving the WMSs in these countries, there is a need to identify the barriers and challenges at the community le...
Mainlobe interference can severely degrade the performance of distributed phased-array radar systems in the presence of strong jamming or low-reflectivity targets. This paper introduces a signal–data dual-domain cooperative antijamming and loca...
Curved vane demisters with high efficiency are widely used in power, chemical, and gas industries. To reveal the relationship between the separation performance and the basic geometric parameters used in the steam generator. In this paper, the influe...
The bed separation water inrush disasters in the Jurassic coalfield of Huanglong, China occur frequently, and they seriously threaten the safety of coal mining. This study systematically collected data from multiple instances of bed separation water...
Inadequate municipal solid waste (MSW) management has become a pressing concern, resulting in significant environmental contamination, particularly in developing countries. Composting has demonstrated its practicality and feasibility for addressing t...
School tasks often include individual and collaborative activities supported by a wide variety of learning materials. These materials can elicit varied levels of attention and learning depending on the complexity (i.e., element interactivity level) a...
Member 2 of the Xujiahe Formation in the Anyue area of the Sichuan Basin exhibits significant resource potential for tight sandstone gas. However, its characteristic of “extensive gas presence with localized enrichment” leads to substanti...
The signal space separation (SSS) method is routinely employed in the analysis of multichannel magnetic field recordings (such as magnetoencephalography (MEG) data). In the SSS method, signal vectors are posed as a multipole expansion of the magnetic...
Single-channel singing voice separation has been considered a difficult task, as it requires predicting two different audio sources independently from mixed vocal and instrument sounds recorded by a single microphone. We propose a new singing voice s...
One of the ways to achieve an energy transformation is to reduce environmental degradation through the use of, among other things, renewable energy sources (RES). The widespread use of RES depends not only on economic and technical aspects, but also...
In practical engineering applications, the vibration signals collected by sensors often contain outliers, resulting in the separation accuracy of source signals from the observed signals being seriously affected. The mixing matrix estimation is cruci...
Every experimental measurement is affected by random and/or systematic error sources, causing the measurand to have an associated uncertainty quantified in terms of a confidence interval and confidence level. For high-accuracy spherical near-field an...
Insoluble dietary fiber is a macromolecular polysaccharide aggregate composed of pectin, glycoproteins, lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose. All agricultural by-products contain significant levels of insoluble dietary fiber. With the recognition of...
Palm oil (PO) is currently the most widely used fat source for food production, but insect fat from Hermetia illucens larvae (HF) might be a suitable alternative fat source, because its production is less harmful to the environment. The present study...
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Fluorine (F) enrichment originating from natural sources is difficult to remove using chemical washing methods due to the large chemical-resistant residual fraction. This study evaluates the feasibility of using a froth-flotation separation method to...
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In order to maintain an adequate iron status in young women, effective dietary interventions should provide sufficient amounts of iron in everyday meals and improve the bioavailability of non-heme iron by providing vitamin C. While some intervention...
We develop a finite-resolution empirical framework for applying nonnegative Mages–Anastasiadi–Rohner partial information decomposition (MAR-PID) to continuous and non-binary discrete variables. The variables are represented by recursive q...
The continuous demand for energy-critical elements such as lithium, cobalt, uranium and so on will soon exceed their availability increasing further their significance of geopolitical resources. Seawater is a relevant, not conventional source of crit...
Biomass as a whole offers a more diverse potential for valorisation than any other renewable energy source. As one of the stages in the separation of bio-oil involves a liquid mixture of acetol and acetic acid, and as both components are particularly...
High participation rates by the public in authority projects are key in increasing resident recycling levels. Understanding waste separation behavior is crucial to achieving sustainable waste management within such household-based schemes. To identif...
Editors of published Korean Easy-Read documents changed 50 aligned sentences by widely varying amounts (edit distance 0.39–0.89), motivating rewrite intensity as a control variable for large language models (LLMs). We ask whether a requested in...
Ensuring early leak detection and implementing effective secondary containment systems are critical for preventing the dispersion of hazardous liquids and minimizing the casualties of a chemical accident. This study reviews the standards for leak det...
Based on the shear stress transfer (SST) k-ω model, Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings (FW–H) equation, and Lilley sound source equation, the flow and sound field of high-temperature and high-pressure steam ejectors are simulated. The entrainme...
Urban plastic waste management in large metropolitan regions remains constrained by low recovery rates despite growing policy attention. This study adopts a sustainability-oriented innovation (SOI) perspective to examine how policy–technology i...
The level of renewable energy use and economic development of a country, as separate indicators, have an influence on the level of energy resource imports, but the mutual impact of renewable energy sources and gross national product on the growth or...
Owing to their endocrine disruption effect, the hormone levels in animal-source food and medicines need to be efficiently and accurately quantified by a reliable analytical method. In the current study, by using a homonuclear decoupling and heteronuc...
While integrating greenhouse gas and air pollutant (AP) mitigation is essential for urban sustainability and public health, municipal-level prioritisation of co-control targets remains hindered by fragmented microdata and decoupled emission inventori...
The co-occurrence of non-toxic phytoplankton alongside cyanobacteria adds to the challenge of treating source waters with harmful algal blooms. The non-toxic species consume the oxidant and, thereby, reduce the efficacy of oxidation of both the extra...
The smart sustainable city (SSC) is a concept created in response to problems and challenges arising from rapid urbanization. This is a relatively new term that is developing dynamically, which is confirmed by the growing number of publications over...
Particulate matter is widely known as a significant air pollutant due to its proven detrimental impact on human health. Furthermore, ultrafine particles (UFPs) are those with diameters smaller than 100 nm, which can cause numerous serious health effe...
Most currently available wearable devices to noninvasively detect hypoxia use the spatially resolved spectroscopy (SRS) method to calculate cerebral tissue oxygen saturation (StO2). This study applies the single source—detector separation (SSDS...
The urgent need for effective food waste management, coupled with the scarcity of carbon sources for sewage treatment, highlights the potential of producing carbon sources from food waste as a mutually beneficial solution. This study investigated the...
Hydrological responses to climate change are a widely concerning question, particularly for the source region of the Yellow River (SRYR), which is sensitive to climate change and is widely underlain by frozen ground. In considering climate change imp...
Sheep’s milk is a significant source of nucleotide monophosphates (NMPs) but can also contain undesirable residues from veterinary drugs, posing a potential human health risk. This study introduces a novel application of two-dimensional liquid...
Psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are systemic immune-mediated diseases, but the features that distinguish cutaneous-dominant psoriasis from musculoskeletal involvement remain unclear. We analyzed four core public cross-sectional datasets spann...
Interpreting eye-fixation durations in terms of cognitive processing load is complicated by the multimodality of their distribution. An important source of multimodality is the distinction between single and multiple fixations to the same object. Bas...
This paper presents a transformerless step-up multilevel inverter based on a switched-capacitor structure. One of the main contributions of the proposed topology is replacing the separated DC voltage source with capacitors which are charged at predet...
Partial discharges (PDs) are one of the most important classes of ageing processes that occur within electrical insulation. PD detection is a standardized technique to qualify the state of the insulation in electric assets such as machines and power...
Near-infrared technology is an emerging non-invasive technique utilized for various medical applications. Recently, there have been many attempts to utilize NIR technology for the continues monitoring of blood glucose levels through the skin. Differe...
Laying hens require substantial quantities of calcium (Ca) to maintain egg production. However, maintaining recommended dietary Ca through inclusion of limestone may impede nutrient digestibility, including that of other minerals. It was hypothesized...
Zsigmondy–Palmer dental notation, still used in dentistry and dental education, has a two-dimensional, quadrant-based structure that is difficult to reproduce consistently in modern digital documents. Earlier digital approaches enabled symbol e...
Soybean-based food products are a major source of protein. In the present study, proteins in soybean milk from seeds of the cultivar Bunya (Glycine max) were extracted using the cheesecloth and the centrifuge methods. The milk was produced through me...
This study introduces an innovative optimization method to identify the optimal configuration of a sparse symmetric 2D array for applications in security, particularly multistatic imaging. Utilizing genetic algorithms (GAs) in a sophisticated optimiz...
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