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Water Use Efficiency in Urban Food Gardens: Insights from a Systematic Review and Case Study

Horticulturae, 2018
Water use and the cost of water are key factors when considering the net value of urban agriculture (UA). This systematic review critically evaluates past and recent UA yield research from the perspective of water use efficiency.
Georgia Pollard, James Ward, Philip Roetman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation and determination of the ecological risk of lead, zinc and cadmium in the atmospheric dust of Isfahan city [PDF]

Muhandisī-i Bihdāsht-i Muḥīṭ, 2022
Background and Objective: Dust is one of the most important sources of heavy metals in the environment. Heavy metals can be dispersion on a large scale by binding to dust particles.
Akram Karimi, Golnar Makhfi, Eisa Solgi, Sahar Bagherpor   +3 more
doaj  

Comparing Three Approaches of Evapotranspiration Estimation in Mixed Urban Vegetation: Field-Based, Remote Sensing-Based and Observational-Based Methods

Remote Sensing, 2016
Despite being the driest inhabited continent, Australia has one of the highest per capita water consumptions in the world. In addition, instead of having fit-for-purpose water supplies (using different qualities of water for different applications ...
Hamideh Nouri, Edward P. Glenn, Simon Beecham, Sattar Chavoshi Boroujeni, Paul Sutton, Sina Alaghmand, Behnaz Noori, Pamela Nagler   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

New low-cost tubular ceramic microfiltration membrane based on natural sand for tangential urban wastewater treatment

Journal of Saudi Chemical Society, 2022
In wastewater treatment, the development of low-cost separation methods is of significant importance. Low-cost membranes based on natural materials have become a highly active research topic in recent years.
Mourad Addich, Noureddine El Baraka, Abdellatif Laknifli, Nabil Saffaj, Abdelilah Fatni, Abdellatif El Hammadi, Awad A. Alrashdi, Hassane Lgaz   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prediction of Students’ Performances Using Course Analytics Data: A Case of Water Engineering Course at the University of South Australia

Education Sciences, 2019
An association between students’ learn-online engagement and academic performance was investigated for a third-year Water Resources Systems Design course at the University of South Australia in 2017.
Faisal Ahammed, Elizabeth Smith
doaj   +1 more source

Water ecosystem health assessment of Zayandeh Rood [PDF]

Muhandisī-i Bihdāsht-i Muḥīṭ, 2023
Background:  Heavy metal pollutants in rivers are one of the serious environmental concerns in aquatic ecosystems. Sediments, as an environmental indicator, have an acceptable ability to express the degree of environmental pollution with heavy metals ...
Samar Mortazavi, Golnar Makhfi, Akram Karimi, Siavash Rezazadeh, Mohamad Parsi Mehr   +4 more
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Components of the Natural Environment

, 2015
Western Sorkapp Land geological structure is very varied. Pre-Quaternary bedrock consists of three complexes: (1) the most extensive rocks from the Middle Proterozoic to the Silurian, folded in the Caledonian Orogeny: dolomites, phyllites, schists, quartzites, limestones, sandstones, breccias, and others; (2) Early Carboniferous clastic sediments ...
Ziaja, Wiesław, Węgrzyn, Michał, Lisowska, Maja, Olech, Maria, Osyczka, Piotr   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Mapping Childhood Cancer Care Services in Oceania: Methodological Lessons From the SIOP Global Mapping Programme

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The International Paediatric Oncology Society Global Mapping Programme aims to collect data on global paediatric oncology services by continent, with Africa and Latin America completed. This study reports on the methodology and lessons learned for Oceania, a unique continent with resource disparity across countries, multiple small island ...
Trisha Soosay Raj, Christy Noble, Amy Gray, Daniel C. Moreira, Jennifer Lowe, Maite Gorostegui, Gwenda Anga, Andrew Soma, Milena Lay Dos Santos, Siobhan Cross, Erin Luttrell, Michael Sullivan, Julie Cayrol, Julia Challinor, Neil Ranasinghe, Jordana McLoone, Claire E. Wakefield   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Environmental Influences on Bridge Deterioration Based on Periodic Inspection Data from Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan

Infrastructures, 2022
In the United States, many people have suffered losses caused by the collapse of deteriorated road bridges and subsequent road closures, and in Japan, bridges built during rapid economic growth are now reaching the end of their planned service period ...
Makoto Fujiu, Takahiro Minami, Jyunichi Takayama   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enteropathogenic E. coli shows delayed attachment and host response in human jejunum organoid‐derived monolayers compared to HeLa cells

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) infects the human intestinal epithelium, resulting in severe illness and diarrhoea. In this study, we compared the infection of cancer‐derived cell lines with human organoid‐derived models of the small intestine. We observed a delayed in attachment, inflammation and cell death on primary cells, indicating that host ...
Mastura Neyazi, Pilar Samperio Ventayol, Natalie Burkard, Nicolas Schlegel, Carmen Aguilar, Sina Bartfeld   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source