In recent years, large-area heavy haze pollution cases occur frequently in eastern China, especially evident in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the surrounding regions.
Qiao Wang+5 more
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Experimental protection of 2-qubit quantum gates against environmental noise by dynamical decoupling [PDF]
Hybrid systems consisting of different types of qubits are promising for building quantum computers if they combine useful properties of their constituent qubits. However, they also pose additional challenges if one type of qubits is more susceptible to environmental noise than the others.
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A new Boulenophrys species (Anura, Megophryidae) from the coastal hills of eastern Fujian Province, China [PDF]
A new species of the genus Boulenophrys is described from the coastal hills of eastern Fujian Province, China. The new taxon can be distinguished from all recognized congeners by a combination of discrete morphological character state differences and ...
Shi-Shi Lin+5 more
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Applying the index of watershed integrity to the Matanuska–Susitna basin
The Matanuska–Susitna Borough is the fastest growing region in the State of Alaska and is impacted by a number of human activities. We conducted a multiscale assessment of the stressors facing the borough by developing and mapping the Index of Watershed ...
Kelsey B. Aho+4 more
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Investigations Regarding The Contamination with Emerging Pharmaceutical Pollutants in Representative Rivers and Lakes in Romania [PDF]
The presence of emerging pharmaceutical pollutants in the aquatic environment is generally related to anthropogenic activities such as domestic, industrial and hospital wastewater discharges and landfills.
Ghita Gina+6 more
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Detecting Environmental Violations with Satellite Imagery in Near Real Time: Land Application under the Clean Water Act [PDF]
This paper introduces a new, highly consequential setting for the use of computer vision for environmental sustainability. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) (aka intensive livestock farms or "factory farms") produce significant manure and pollution.
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Environmental Impacts of Personal Protective Clothing Used to Combat COVID-19 [PDF]
Personal protective clothing is critical to shield users from highly infectious diseases including COVID-19. Such clothing is predominantly single-use, made of plastic-based synthetic fibres such as polypropylene and polyester, low cost and able to provide protection against pathogens.
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Implementing result-based agri-environmental payments by means of modelling [PDF]
From a theoretical point of view, result-based agri-environmental payments are clearly preferable to action-based payments. However, they suffer from two major practical disadvantages: costs of measuring the results and payment uncertainty for the participating farmers. In this paper, we propose an alternative design to overcome these two disadvantages
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Protection of entanglement from sudden death using continuous dynamical decoupling [PDF]
We show that continuous dynamical decoupling can protect a two-qubit entangled state from sudden death at finite temperature due to uncorrelated dephasing, bit flipping, and dissipation. We consider a situation where an entangled state shared between two non-interacting qubits is initially prepared and left evolve under the environmental perturbations ...
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FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AT THE LEVEL OF S.C. TURCENI ENERGY COMPLEX [PDF]
The environment protection at microeconomic level can be characterized by socio-economic and political situation relatively unstable, which puts serious mark on the output of Romanian companies.
HOLT GHEORGHE
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