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Intensive or organic farming systems may expose pigs to management or environmental challenges. Our preliminary results concluded that organic farming might enhance adaptive immune function, showing that improvements in welfare can translate into measurable immunological benefits, based on the correlation between welfare assessment and physiological ...
Dorotea Ippolito +15 more
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Adaptive design of tipping bucket flow meters for continuous runoff measurement
Introduction: Runoff measurement and monitoring is a laborious, time-consuming, and costly task. Additionally, common runoff monitoring usually primarily provide water level, requiring information on the stage-discharge relation. Automatic equipment such
Dimaghi Schwamback +5 more
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Circular Economy in the Management of Wastewater Treatment Plant: A Business Model Approach
ABSTRACT The water and wastewater management sector faces many challenges related to the implementation of a circular economy (CE). To date, sectoral CE solutions have focused mainly on technological innovations, with limited attention paid to social and economic aspects.
Marzena Smol +2 more
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ABSTRACT The last five years of research on sustainability labelling, reported in 175 journal articles, documents its effectiveness in increasing consumer choices of more sustainable food products. Some sustainability labels come out as stronger than others and their impact varies across products, countries, and individual consumers, depending on label
John Thøgersen +2 more
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Value engineering and its application to the construction industry [PDF]
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-54).by Panagiota E.
Paraoulaki, Panagiota E. (Panagiota Emmanouil), 1975-
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ABSTRACT Transition of consumption models towards a circular economy is fundamental, particularly in the food packaging sector, which generates a high proportion of waste. In this context, consumers play a fundamental role, especially at the domestic level through separate waste collection, to limit the use of virgin materials and facilitate the reuse ...
Maria Vittoria Rizzo +3 more
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Fair Business Models for Climate‐Smart Agriculture: A Design Science Research Approach
ABSTRACT Organisations in agri‐food value chains face urgent demands to address climate change, environmental degradation and social inequities through climate‐smart agriculture (CSA). However, sustained CSA implementation remains constrained by business models (BMs) that fail to offer fair solutions to stakeholders. Existing business model innovation (
Christopher Jr. Galgo +9 more
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Technology and policy for removal of sulfur from fuel [PDF]
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (p.
Dong, Jaimee Ilene, 1975-
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This work introduces UniFlowCell, a compact solar redox flow cell (SRFC) designed to harmonize experimental procedures and benchmarking. It minimizes efficiency losses, supports long‐term operation, and performs measurements under various electrode/illumination conditions.
Telmo da Silva Lopes +2 more
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Technology enabled science teaching : software framework for electromagnetism [PDF]
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 85-87).by Ralph R.
Rabbat, Ralph R., 1978-
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