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Cities under pressure: a global review of acute urban water scarcity governance

Environmental Research Letters
Urban water scarcity is one of the most pressing governance challenges of our time, driven by climate change and rapid urbanization. Despite a growing body of research, scholarship remains fragmented across disciplines and regions, with the social and ...
Merel Laauwen, Johanna Koehler, Mary Greene, Dave Huitema   +3 more
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TRPML1 agonist ML‐SA5 attenuates pulmonary fibroblast activation by suppressing mTOR and restoring autophagic flux

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
TGF‐β1 stimulation downregulates lysosomal channel TRPML1 in pulmonary fibroblasts. The TRPML1 agonist ML‐SA5 suppressed fibroblast‐to‐myofibroblast activation and collagen production. Mechanistically, ML‐SA5 inhibited mTOR phosphorylation, restored autophagic flux, and its effects were enhanced by rapamycin (mTOR inhibitor) and reversed by MHY1485 ...
Jiatong Yao, Xiaoting Kang, Lulu Meng, Shaoxuan Zhang, Qiujie Li, Jinyu Zhou, Mengyue Xue, Chu Li, Hua Zhu, Pengzhou Hang, Jing Zhao   +10 more
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Pollution exacerbates China’s water scarcity and its regional inequality

Nature Communications, 2020
The impact on inadequate water quality on water scarcity is unclear. Here the authors quantify China’s present-day water scarcity and show that inadequate water quality exacerbates China’s water scarcity, which is unevenly distributed across the country.
Ting Ma, Siao Sun, Guangtao Fu, Jim W. Hall, Yong Ni, Lihuan He, Jiawei Yi, Na Zhao, Yunyan Du, Tao Pei, Weiming Cheng, Ci Song, Chuanglin Fang, Chenghu Zhou   +13 more
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Affecting the Properties of Copper–Graphene Electroconductive Composite by Severe Plastic Deformation

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Copper‐based composites enhanced with carbon feature convenient mechanical properties and favorable electric conductivity. Processing via deformation and thermomechanical treatments can introduce advantageous microstructures further enhancing their performance. Herein, copper–graphene powder‐based composites are directly consolidated via rotary swaging
Radim Kocich, Lenka Kunčická, Pavel Czernek, Zifan Wang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Non‐Additive Criteria Assessment in Sustainability Evaluation of High Entropy Alloys: A Toxicity‐Weighted Framework

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Sustainability assessment requires methodologies that appropriately distinguish between additive and non‐additive material properties. A toxicity‐weighted scoring system is developed and applied that accounts for the disproportionate influence of highly toxic constituents through nonlinear weighting functions, providing more realistic estimates than ...
Seth Mehalic, Oladele A. Ogunseitan, Julie M. Schoenung   +2 more
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Review and classification of indicators of green water availability and scarcity [PDF]

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2015
Research on water scarcity has mainly focussed on blue water (ground- and surface water), but green water (soil moisture returning to the atmosphere through evaporation) is also scarce, because its availability is limited and there are competing demands ...
J. F. Schyns, A. Y. Hoekstra, M. J. Booij   +2 more
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Fabrication Routes for Ionic Conducting Fiber Strain Sensors

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Ionic conducting fiber strain sensors (ICFSs) offer compliant, textile‐integrable sensing. Thus far, the commercialization of ICFSs has been constrained by fiber fabrication routes. This review provides a fabrication‐centric analysis of ICFSs correlating processing strategies with material properties and scalability.
Leo John Kershaw, Zhanhong Yang, Anne Ladegaard Skov, Magdalena Skowyra   +3 more
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Leveraging Symbolic Artificial Intelligence and Fuzzy Logic for Materials Science: A Review of Methods, Challenges, and Applications to Scarce and Imperfect Experimental Data

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
This article explores the transformative potential of symbolic artificial intelligence (AI) in the field of materials science, particularly in leveraging experimental data. The article presents several symbolic AI models and discusses their applications in materials science.
Ahmed Amrani, Mohamed‐Ali Belloum, Laurence Boudet, Valentin Fouillard, Edwin Friedmann, Guillaume Lacharme, Ali Mahmoud, Jean‐Philippe Poli   +7 more
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Understanding water scarcity through sentiment analysis

Discover Cities
Water scarcity in Brazil’s semiarid cities disrupts daily life and magnifies inequalities in essential services. This study examines the predominant emotions and sentiment polarity expressed within televised news narratives about water shortages in the ...
Higor Brito, Priscila Alves, Marccus Hendricks, Iana Rufino   +3 more
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A Multi‐Scale Machine Learning Framework for the Inverse Design of High Entropy Alloys

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
High‐entropy alloys offer vast potential for various applications, including electrocatalysis; however, their compositional complexity challenges conventional screening. We introduce an inverse‐design framework combining two neural networks to determine optimal compositions and reconstruct nanoparticle geometry from targeted properties and conventional
Mikael Takoutsin, Marta Campolucci, Nicolas de Andrade Ishiki, Nathan Mirgot, Nadir Zhamantay, Frédéric Kanoufi, Jennifer Peron, Jean Charlety, Emiliano Fonda, Valérie Briois, Marco Faustini, Maria‐Letizia De Marco, Christine Goyhenex, Ovidiu Ersen, Hervé Bulou   +14 more
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