Planetary Scale Information Transmission in the Biosphere and Technosphere: Limits and Evolution [PDF]
Life, 2023 Information transmission via communication between agents is ubiquitous on Earth, and is a vital facet of living systems. In this paper, we aim to quantify this rate of information transmission associated with Earth’s biosphere and technosphere (i.e., a ...
Manasvi Lingam, Adam Frank, Amedeo Balbi
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Social Sciences, 2021 Throughout the 20th century, several thinkers noticed that Technology was becoming a global phenomenon. More recently, US geologist Peter Haff claimed that a Technosphere is now in place and can be conceived as a new Earth geological system.
João Mendes
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Features of Uranium Recovery from Complex Aqueous Solutions Using Composite Sorbents Based on Se-Derivatives of Amidoximes [PDF]
GelsThe article presents a comprehensive comparative performance evaluation and validation of composite adsorbents based on the Se-derivative of 4-amino-N′-hydroxy-1,2,5-oxadiazole-3-carboximidamide for U (VI) recovery from complex multicomponent aqueous ...
Eduard A. Tokar’ +5 more
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Design of Water Fire Extinguishing System for Protection of Metro Rolling Stock Stagnation Zones [PDF]
EPJ Web of Conferences, 2021 Metro rolling stock stagnation zones are quite long. This causes a number of difficulties in choosing and designing a water fire extinguishing system, as it directly affects the pressure loss in pipelines when water is supplied over such a long distance.
Filippov Ilya +4 more
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Technosphere-Urban Society and its Problems [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The technosphere which is the artificial shell of the Earth can be considered the contemporary result of developing the society and the world as a whole.
Mamichev Mikhail, Dergacheva Elena
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Intensity of Mass Transfer Processes in Concrete with Inhibitors in Chloride Corrosion [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 The article presents the results of a study of the effect of alkaline and alkaline-earth metal nitrates added to concrete cement stone on the intensity of mass transfer processes occurring during corrosion in a highly aggressive liquid chloride ...
Konovalova Viktoriya +2 more
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Composite Sorbents Based on Polymeric Se-Derivative of Amidoximes and SiO2 for the Uranium Removal from Liquid Mineralized Media [PDF]
GelsA new composite material with enhanced sorption-selective properties for uranium recovery from liquid media has been obtained. Sorbents were synthesized through a polycondensation reaction of a mixture of 4-amino-N’-hydroxy-1,2,5-oxadiazole-3 ...
Anna I. Matskevich +7 more
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Composite Sorbents Based on Chitosan Polymer Matrix and Derivatives of 4-Amino-N′-hydroxy-1,2,5-oxadiazole-3-carboximidamide for Uranium Removal from Liquid Mineralized Media [PDF]
GelsComposite adsorbents based on a natural biopolymer matrix of chitosan, to which 4-amino-N′-hydroxy-1,2,5-oxadiazole-3-carboximidamide and its Se derivative were attached, were synthesized.
Anna I. Matskevich +7 more
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Increasing the Biostability of Concrete by the Introduction Of Additives [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2023 To increase the resistance to fungal corrosion and improve the performance of concrete cement stone, it is proposed to introduce calcium stearate and active metal nitrates in an amount of 0.5% by weight of cement into the cement mixture at the ...
Rumyantseva Varvara +3 more
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Teaching technosphere safety and environmental culture at a technical university [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The article discusses the psychological and pedagogical components of the environmental-cultural development of students of technical and humanitarian specialties, as well as cause-and-effect relationships of environmental problems of the largest ...
Bazaliy R
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