Water Intake, Water Balance, and the Elusive Daily Water Requirement. [PDF]
Nutrients, 2018 Water is essential for metabolism, substrate transport across membranes, cellular homeostasis, temperature regulation, and circulatory function. Although nutritional and physiological research teams and professional organizations have described the daily total water intakes (TWI, L/24h) and Adequate Intakes (AI) of children, women, and men, there is no
Armstrong LE, Johnson EC.
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Irrigated Agriculture and the Cost Recovery Principle of Water Services: Assessment and Discussion of the Case of the Guadalquivir River Basin (Spain) [PDF]
, 2018 The Cost Recovery Principle (CRP) is considered by the European Union (EU) water policy as a substantial requirement for economic efficiency, transparency, fairness, and sustainability in the use of water resources.
Expósito García, Alfonso
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Light Filaments Without Self Guiding [PDF]
, 2003 An examination of the propagation of intense 200 fs pulses in water reveals light filaments not sustained by the balance between Kerr-induced self-focusing and plasma-induced defocusing. Their appearance is interpreted as the consequence of a spontaneous
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The Many Faces of Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation: Interplay Between Surface Morphology and Hydrophobicity [PDF]
, 2015 What makes a material a good ice nucleating agent? Despite the importance of heterogeneous ice nucleation to a variety of fields, from cloud science to microbiology, major gaps in our understanding of this ubiquitous process still prevent us from ...
Cox, Stephen J +3 more
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Rain water harvesting management system in Zoo Negara, Selangor [PDF]
, 2018 Water is a key requirement either to human, animal or plant. Rainwater Harvesting System (RWH) is a technology used to collect and store rainwater from the roof for reuse.
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Practical application of ferrate(VI) for water and wastewater treatment: site study’s approach [PDF]
, 2018 This paper presents the work aiming to validate the practical feasibility of ferrate(VI) used as an alternative to the existing coagulant (e.g., ferric chloride/sulphate) for both drinking water and domestic sewage treatment via series of pilot plant ...
Jiang, Jia-Qian +2 more
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The status of river water quality in some rural areas, in state of Johor and its effects to life [PDF]
, 2018 Water is a basic requirement of human and other life. Water resources stems from rivers, streams, drains, ponds and so forth. The river is the natural water resources are very important for a human habitat.
Md. Yassin, Azlina +3 more
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Bacterial invasion potential in water is determined by nutrient availability and the indigenous community [PDF]
, 2013 In drinking water (DW) and the distribution systems, bacterial growth and biofilm formation have to be controlled both for limiting taste or odour development and preventing clogging or biocorrosion problems. After a contamination with undesired bacteria,
Boon, Nico +2 more
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Energy-water-environment nexus underpinning future desalination sustainability [PDF]
, 2017 Energy-water-environment nexus is very important to attain COP21 goal, maintaining environment temperature increase below 2 °C, but unfortunately two third share of CO2 emission has already been used and the remaining will be exhausted by 2050.
Ang, Li +3 more
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Protein and amino acid requirements of warm-water fishes: a tool to efficient and low-cost fish feed production in Nigeria [PDF]
, 1993 Numerous investigations have utilized various semi-purified and purified diets to estimate the protein and amino acid requirements of several temperate fishes. The vast literature on the protein and amino acid requirements of fishes has continued to omit
Balogun, A.M. +2 more
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