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Composted Municipal Green Waste Enhances Tree Success in Opencast Coal Land Reclamation in Wales

Air, Soil and Water Research, 2019
The United Kingdom has a problem in the disposal of municipal green waste (MGW). This is unsuitable for landfill, but when properly composted may be beneficial to tree growth.
Martin Haigh, Mansi Desai, Mike Cullis, Margaret D’Aucourt, Ben Sansom, Gill Wilding, Elanor Alun, Sergio Garate, Liz Hatton, Marianne Kilmartin, Wilhemina Panhuis, Rhian Jenkins   +11 more
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A Comparison of Plant Growth Rates between an NFT Hydroponic System and an NFT Aquaponic System

Horticulturae, 2019
A comparison of leafy green plant species’ (lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.), dill (Anethum graveolens L.), rocket (Eruca sativa), coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.), and parsley (Petroselinum crispum)) growth rates was performed between an Nutrient Film
Wilson Lennard, James Ward
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Workshop on Mapping with drones for natural and built environments [PDF]

The workshop on mapping with drones for natural and built environments has been organised in the framework of the Brazilian-Swiss Joint Research Programme (BSJRP), which supports research activity and academic cooperation.
Gilliéron, Pierre-Yves, Sayuri Sato, Simone   +1 more
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Tolerance to occasional frosts during germination in Chilean Altiplano quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) cultivars

Frontiers in Plant Science
Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) is increasingly cultivated in marginal environments; however, early-season frosts pose a major constraint to successful stand establishment.
Ignacio Delfino Yurin, José Delatorre-Herrera, Juan Pablo Rodríguez, José Pablo Delatorre-Castillo, Isabel Sepúlveda-Soto, Cristopher Low-Pfeng   +5 more
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Developing Shanghai underground pedestrian system under urbanization: mobility, functionality and equity

Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2013
Shanghai is being transformed through a process of rapid urbanization. Urbanization has the effects of increasing urban population and the income levels of residents as well as changing the structure of transportation.
Jianqiang Cui, Andrew Allan, Michael A. P. Taylor, Dong Lin   +3 more
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A Novel Fabrication Approach for Multifunctional Graphene-based Thin Film Nano-composite Membranes with Enhanced Desalination and Antibacterial Characteristics

Scientific Reports, 2017
A practical fabrication technique is presented to tackle the trade-off between the water flux and salt rejection of thin film composite (TFC) reverse osmosis (RO) membranes through controlled creation of a thinner active selective polyamide (PA) layer ...
Hanaa M. Hegab, Ahmed ElMekawy, Thomas G. Barclay, Andrew Michelmore, Linda Zou, Dusan Losic, Christopher P. Saint, Milena Ginic-Markovic   +7 more
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Assessing the capacity of trees and shrubs species to accumulate of particulate matter (PM10, PM2.5 and PM0.2)

سلامت و محیط, 2019
Background and Objective: Today, the presence and increase of particulate matter is one of the serious factors that threaten human health. In the meantime, trees can accumulate airborne particles by their foliage.
M Hatami-Manesh, S Mortazavi, E Solgi, A Mohtadi   +3 more
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Planetary Health and the Future of Human Capacity: The Increasing Impact of Planetary Distress on the Human Brain

Challenges, 2018
All awareness, thoughts, emotions, perceptions, memories, actions—everything that encompasses our human capacity and reality—are mediated through the biological interface of our brains.
Chong Chen, Shin Nakagawa
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On the design of diploid genetic algorithms for problem optimization in dynamic environments

, 2006
Tihis article is posted here with permission from the IEEE - Copyright @ 2006 IEEEUsing diploidy and dominance is one method to enhance the performance of genetic algorithms in dynamic environments.
Yang, S, Shengxiang Yang, Yang, Shengxiang, Shengxiang Yang (7582940)   +3 more
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Museums as restorative environments [PDF]

, 2010
Restorative environments possess a combination of attributes that facilitate recovery from mental fatigue. Most previous research in this regard has focused on natural environments, but this paper explores the extent to which museum environments also ...
Packer, Jan, Jan Packer, Bond, Nigel, Nigel Bond   +3 more
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