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Ecosystem Service Assessments in Water Policy Implementation: An Analysis in Urban and Rural Estuaries

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019
Coastal waters provide a wide range of ecosystem services (ES), but are under intensive human use, face fast degradation and are subject to increasing pressures and changes in near future. As consequence, European Union (EU) water policies try to protect,
Gerald Schernewski, Gerald Schernewski, Philipp Paysen, Esther Robbe, Miguel Inácio, Miguel Inácio, Johanna Schumacher, Johanna Schumacher   +7 more
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Degradable Magnetic Composites from Recycled NdFeB Magnets for Soft Actuation and Sensing

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work presents a degradable soft magnetic composite made from recycled NdFeB particles embedded in a gelatin‐based organogel. The material is processed into magnetic sensors and soft robotic components, which can later be dissolved in a green solvent to recover NdFeB magnetic particles.
Muhammad Bilal Khan, Lin Guo, Kilian Schäfer, Eduardo Sergio Oliveros‐Mata, Xiaotao Wang, Florian Hofmann, Matthias Lutzi, Mark Suppelt, Proloy Taran Das, Jan Schmidtpeter, Imants Dirba, Stephan Rinderknecht, Mario Kupnik, Denys Makarov, Oliver Gutfleisch   +14 more
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Modeling the effect of improved sewage disposal rates on ecological status for aquatic organisms in Japan. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2023
Nakakubo T, Kawabata M, Ishikawa Y, Iwasaki Y.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Multimodal Engagement Assessment in Children During Invented Story Paradigm With a Social Robot

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A multimodal framework is proposed to assess children's engagement during storytelling interactions with a social robot. Gaze, physiological, and behavioral data are combined and validated against observer ratings. An automated gaze‐labeling strategy is introduced, and supervised classifiers achieve high accuracy. The study supports scalable engagement
Laura Fiorini, Elena Adelucci, Stefano Scatigna, Lorenzo Pugi, Alice Bruni, Benedetta Carotenuto, Chiara Pecini, Filippo Cavallo   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A dataset and template for assessing the ecological status of marine sediments and waters, based on microbial taxa. [PDF]

GigaByte, 2023
Borja A.
europepmc   +1 more source

From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Characteristics of the Zooplankton Community Structure in Shengjin Lake and Its Response to the Restored Aquatic Vegetation

Limnological Review
Macrophytes taxa composition determines microinvertebrates utilized as environmental indicators in freshwater ecosystems. This study was conducted in Shengjin Lake.
Dagne Tafa Dibar, Kun Zhang, Zhongze Zhou   +2 more
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A Pentaradial and Bilateral Combined Photoreception System in the Sea Cucumber is Mediated by a Blue Light‐Sensitive R‐Opsin

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The sea cucumber Holothuria leucospilota detects blue and adjacent wavelengths of light via an r‐opsin with a maximum absorption at 459 nm. In the oral tentacles, papillae, and tube feet, distinct light‐sensing structures with specialized morphologies are formed, constituting a unique pentaradial and bilateral combined photoreception system.
Jiasheng Huang, Chunhua Ren, Zhou Qin, Yimeng Cui, Bingbing Zhang, Peng Luo, Xuan Wang, Yaoqi Xie, Xin Zhang, Aifen Yan, Yang Zhang, Dingding Fan, Yang Liu, Wenjie Pan, Xiao Jiang, Lihong Yuan, Haipeng Qin, David M. Irwin, Chaoqun Hu, Yang Liu, Ting Chen   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of photosynthetic Taxa in the Venice Lagoon from the nineteenth century to present day

Frontiers in Marine Science
The Venice Lagoon is the largest transitional environment within the Mediterranean Sea (almost 550 km2). Being a transitional environment, it contains many different ecological niches, hence the biodiversity in this environment is very high.
Filippo Drigo, Chiara Stefanelli, Isabella Moro, Cristiano De Pittà   +3 more
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Phytoplankton in the ecological status assessment of European lakes – advantages and constraints

Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, 2016
Although the phytoplankton indices describing the response of phytoplankton to the eutrophication have been developed and used for many years in the routine lake monitoring programme in some countries, the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (
Pasztaleniec Agnieszka
doaj   +1 more source