Environmental performance of rainwater harvesting strategies in Mediterranean buildings [PDF]
, 2016 Purpose: The rapid urbanization and the constant expansion of urban areas during the last decades have locally led to increasing water shortage. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems have the potential to be an important contributor to urban water self ...
Angrill Toledo, Sara +5 more
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Fixed-bed column adsorption study: a comprehensive review
Applied Water Science, 2019 Present paper involved the review of fixed-bed column studies for removal of various contaminants from synthetic wastewater. Basic concept of adsorption, its types (i.e., chemisorption and physisorption) and its mechanism, adsorbents and adsorbates were ...
Himanshu Patel
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A new endemic genus of eomyid rodents from the early Miocene of Japan [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2019 Fossil rodents are generally scarce in the Miocene of Japan. However, as much as three taxa of eomyid rodents had been reported from the early Miocene Nakamura Formation (ca. 18.5 Ma) in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan.
Yuri Kimura +4 more
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Stable signal recovery from incomplete and inaccurate measurements [PDF]
, 2005 Suppose we wish to recover a vector x0 ∈ ℝ𝓂 (e.g., a digital signal or image) from incomplete and contaminated observations y = A x0 + e; A is an 𝓃 × 𝓂 matrix with far fewer rows than columns (𝓃 ≪ 𝓂) and e is an error term.
E. Candès, J. Romberg, T. Tao
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Distribution of plastic polymer types in the marine environment; A meta-analysis.
Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2019 Despite growing plastic discharge into the environment, researchers have struggled to detect expected increases of marine plastic debris in sea surfaces, sparking discussions about "missing plastics" and final sinks, which are hypothesized to be coastal ...
Gabriel Erni-Cassola +3 more
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The Dantzig selector: Statistical estimation when P is much larger than n [PDF]
, 2005 In many important statistical applications, the number of variables or parameters p is much larger than the number of observations n. Suppose then that we have observations y=Xβ+z, where β∈Rp is a parameter vector of interest, X is a data matrix with ...
E. Candès, Terence Tao
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Evolution of cortical geometry and its link to function, behaviour and ecology
Nature Communications, 2023 Studies in comparative neuroanatomy and of the fossil record demonstrate the influence of socio-ecological niches on the morphology of the cerebral cortex, but have led to oftentimes conflicting theories about its evolution.
Ernst Schwartz +8 more
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, 2019 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. PREFACE. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 1 INTRODUCTION. A Brief History. Definitions. Overview: Advantages and Disadvantages. Instrumentation. References. 2 INSTRUMENT OVERVIEW. Carrier Gas. Flow Control and Measurement.
H. Mcnair, James M. Miller
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Climatological variations of total alkalinity and total dissolved inorganic carbon in the Mediterranean Sea surface waters [PDF]
Earth System Dynamics, 2015 A compilation of data from several cruises between 1998 and 2013 was used to derive polynomial fits that estimate total alkalinity (AT) and total dissolved inorganic carbon (CT) from measurements of salinity and temperature in the Mediterranean Sea ...
E. Gemayel +8 more
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La retòrica en el periodisme de Maria Consuelo Reyna: l'anticatalanisme en la premsa valenciana [PDF]
, 2011 En el següent article es realitza una anàlisi dels recursos i els tipus d'argumentacions utilitzats en les columnes de María Consuelo Reyna en el diari Las Provincias entre 1978 i 1999.
Domínguez, Martí, Mateu, Anna
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