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Gravity Concentration in Urban Mining Applications—A Review

Recycling, 2023
Urban mining has emerged as a concept that goes beyond conventional recycling, as it aims to tackle both the challenges of solid waste generation and management, as well as the scarcity of primary resources.
Weslei M. Ambrós
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Analysis of vegetation dynamics from 2001 to 2020 in China's Ganzhou rare earth mining area using time series remote sensing and SHAP-enhanced machine learning

Ecological Informatics
Rare earth mining, essential for modern industries and economic growth, often leads to severe environmental degradation. Previous research has explored the ecological impacts of rare earth mining but has not fully investigated the intricate interplay and
Lei Ming, Yuandong Wang, Guangxu Liu, Lihong Meng, Xiaojie Chen   +4 more
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Terahertz Channel Modeling, Estimation and Localization in RIS‐Assisted Systems

Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces have become a recent intensive research focus. Based on practical applications, channel strategies for RIS‐assisted terahertz wireless communication systems are categorized into three different types: channel modeling, channel estimation, and channel localization.
Hongjing Wang, Weipeng Wang, Xuan Cong, Shiyu Wang, Gao Li, Sen Gong, Lin Huang, Hongxin Zeng, Yaxin Zhang, Ziqiang Yang   +9 more
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Biodegradation and Recycling of Urban Solid Waste [PDF]

American Journal of Environmental Sciences, 2009
Problem statement: Rapid urbanization and population growth are largely responsible for very high increasing rate of solid waste in the urban areas, its proper management and recycling is major problems of Municipal Corporation. The proposed study attempted to proper management, physicochemical analysis of Urban Solid Waste (USW) and its conversion to ...
S.P. Gautam, P.S. Bundela, A.K. Pandey, R.K. Jain, P.R. Deo, S.K. Khare, M.K. Awasthi, Surendra Sarsaiya   +7 more
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Design and optimization of processes for recovering rare earth elements from end‐of‐life permanent magnets

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Recovery of rare earth elements (REEs) from end‐of‐life (EOL) products represents a strategic opportunity to strengthen the domestic supply chain for rare earth elements. This work presents a superstructure‐based optimization framework for finding the most economical processing pathway for different EOL rare earth permanent magnets (REPMs ...
Chris Laliwala, Oluwamayowa O. Amusat, Akintomiwa Ojo, Alejandro Garciadiego, Thomas Tarka, Debangsu Bhattacharyya, Ana I. Torres   +6 more
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IDENTIFICATION OF ORGANIC COMPONENTS OF SOLID WASTE ON SATELLITE IMAGERY WHILE MANAGING ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY [PDF]

, 2018
Solid domestic wastes contain a components which can become nutrients for a pretty wide spectrum of types of microorganisms some of which are harmful for human and environment.
Kondratenko, Oleksandr, Suchikova, Yana, Vambol, Serhij, Vambol, Viola   +3 more
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Enabling Future Sustainability Transitions: An Urban Metabolism Approach to Los Angeles Pincetl et al. Enabling Future Sustainability Transitions [PDF]

, 2014
Summary: This synthesis article presents an overview of an urban metabolism (UM) approach using mixed methods and multiple sources of data for Los Angeles, California.
Chester, M, Circella, G, Fraser, A, Mini, C, Murphy, S, Pincetl, S, Reyna, J, Sivaraman, D   +7 more
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Voxel‐SLAM: A Complete, Accurate, and Versatile Light Detection and Ranging‐Inertial Simultaneous Localization and Mapping System

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
: In this work, Voxel‐SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) is introduced: a complete, accurate, and versatile LiDAR (light detection and ranging) ‐inertial SLAM system consisting of five modules: initialization, odometry, local mapping (LM), loop closure (LC), and global mapping (GM), all employing the same map representation, an adaptive voxel
Zheng Liu, Haotian Li, Chongjian Yuan, Xiyuan Liu, Jiarong Lin, Rundong Li, Chunran Zheng, Bingyang Zhou, Wenyi Liu, Fu Zhang   +9 more
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Solid Wastes Provide Breeding Sites, Burrows, and Food for Biological Disease Vectors, and Urban Zoonotic Reservoirs: A Call to Action for Solutions-Based Research

Frontiers in Public Health, 2020
Background: Infectious disease epidemiology and planetary health literature often cite solid waste and plastic pollution as risk factors for vector-borne diseases and urban zoonoses; however, no rigorous reviews of the risks to human health have been ...
Amy Krystosik, Gathenji Njoroge, Lorriane Odhiambo, Jenna E. Forsyth, Francis Mutuku, A. Desiree LaBeaud   +5 more
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