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Liquid Metals in Radio Frequency Applications: A Review of Physics, Manufacturing, and Emerging Technologies

open access: yesAdvanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
This paper reviews the physics of liquid metals in RF devices, including the influence of mechanical strain on resonance as well as fabrication methods and strategies for designing tunable and strain‐tolerant inductors, capacitors, and antennas.
Md Saifur Rahman, William J. Scheideler
wiley   +1 more source

How access to urban potable water and sewerage connections affects child mortality [PDF]

open access: yes
Using a city-level database of global Urban Indicators, the author finds that: 1) Improved access to urban potable water and sewerage connections is consistently associated with low child mortality.
Shi, Anqing
core  

Urban Sanitation Research Initiative 2017-2020: Driving Sector Change in Urban Sanitation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The Urban Sanitation Research Initiative aims to make a substantive contribution to achieving universal urban sanitation coverage in low-income contexts.

core  

How to better include environmental assessment in public decision- making: Lessons from the use of an LCA-calculator for wastewater systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), although widely disseminated in the industrial sector, remains underutilized in the public sector. The literature has addressed the relationship between scientific knowledge and decision-making from positivist and relativist ...
Biard, Yannick   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

Odours in Sewerage—A Description of Emissions and of Technical Abatement Measures

open access: yesEnvironments, 2019
Malodorous compounds arise at practically every stage of wastewater management, starting from the sewer network, via the technological sewage-treatment system, through to the sludge-management stage.
Kamil Pochwat   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Impact of Prophylactic Cefepime on Surgical Site Infection and Severe Morbidity in Patients Who Underwent Pancreaticoduodenectomy With Preoperative Biliary Drainage

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Although prophylactic broad‐spectrum antibiotics can reduce postoperative complications after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD), the optimal regimen remains uncertain. This study evaluated the impact of prophylactic cefepime (CFPM) on surgical site infection (SSI) and severe morbidity after PD with preoperative biliary drainage.
Genki Watanabe   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Application of existing knowledge: the only way to meet the MDG sanitation target in developing countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
The MDG sanitation target is, at current progress, unlikely to be met. The most important reasons for this are (1) that at local level, and in some countries at national level, engineers and planners simply do not know what sanitation systems are ...
Mara, D.D.
core  

Effect of Broad‐Spectrum Antibiotic Prophylaxis on Post‐Pancreatoduodenectomy Infectious Complications: Nationwide Inpatient Database Study in Japan

open access: yesAnnals of Gastroenterological Surgery, EarlyView.
Using a nationwide Japanese inpatient database, we evaluated whether broad‐spectrum antibiotic prophylaxis improves postoperative outcomes after pancreatoduodenectomy compared with narrow‐spectrum antibiotics. In propensity score–weighted analyses of 45 099 patients, broad‐spectrum prophylaxis was associated with significantly lower rates of intra ...
Hiroki Kitagawa   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pricing of water and sewerage charge rates of a selected water management company in the Czech Republic – a case study [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences
The article deals with water and sewerage charge rates issues in the Czech Republic over the last 4 years. This article is focused only on part of the research. Research is based on data collection.
Obloukova Aneta, Vitkova Eva
doaj   +1 more source

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