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Bisphenol A on Anaerobic Digestion of Sewage Sludge
Anaerobic digestion for stabilizing sewage sludge in WWTPs, which produces biogas and stabilized biosolids, is a mature technology used worldwide. Bisphenol A (BPA) is an alkylphenol composed of acetone and phenol. It is a plastic additive that is most commonly used to produce different industrial and personal care products, e.g., polycarbonate, polysulphone, epoxy, polyacrylate, polyetherimide resins, thermal paper, beverage containers, dental sealant, and so on.
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  • 26 Feb 2024
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The Social Fabric of Watershed Management
Watershed management, a critical component in preserving and enhancing our natural environments, necessitates a comprehensive understanding of the social networks that underpin the organizations dedicated to this cause. The intricate web of relationships and interactions within and between such organizations can influence their operational efficacy and impact on watershed conservation and management. A social network analysis (SNA) encompasses theoretically grounded methods designed to analyze various types and attributes of relations among individuals and groups. 
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  • 20 Feb 2024
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Higher Education Institutes on Community-Level Climate Action Plans
To drive a radical change toward a zero-carbon transition at the city scale, massive decarbonization is required at the institutional level (academic/non-academic campus) of a city. Among all the nongovernmental actors, it is always expected that Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) would take the lead in promoting a resilient and sustainable future for the cities through their education, research, and innovation. HEIs’ multidimensional activity resembles the “small scale model of a city” interacting with different subsystems like education, administration, transport, housing, health, etc. 
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  • 26 Sep 2023
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Ecosystem-Services Provided by Microbiota in Vineyards and Wines
The progression in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies is helping to facilitate the identification of microbial dynamics during winemaking. These advancements have aided winemakers in gaining a more comprehensive understanding of the role of microbiota in the fermentation process, which, in turn, is ultimately responsible for the delivery of provisioning (wine features and its production), regulating (such as carbon storage by vineyards, regulation of soil quality, and biocontrol of pests and diseases) or cultural (such as aesthetic values of vineyard landscapes, scholarly enjoyment of wine, and a sense of belonging in wine-growing regions) ecosystem services. Ecosystem services can be defined as the conditions and processes through which natural ecosystems and their component species sustain and enable human life. The main classifications group them into three broad categories: provisioning, regulating, and cultural.
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  • 09 Jan 2024
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Dynamic Groundwater Contamination Vulnerability Assessment Techniques
Assuring the quantity and quality of groundwater resources is essential for the well-being of human and ecological health, society, and the economy. For the last few decades, groundwater vulnerability modeling techniques have become essential for groundwater protection and management. Groundwater contamination is highly dynamic due to its dependency on recharge, which is a function of time-dependent parameters such as precipitation and evapotranspiration. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the time-series analysis in the “approximation” process to model the dynamic vulnerability of groundwater contamination. 
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  • 20 Nov 2023
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Innovation and Drivers of Productivity
Innovation and technology are important tools for delivering efficiency and productivity improvement in the minerals sector. The uptake of technologies has proven to be an important lever for increasing the productivity of the mining sector.
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  • 08 Dec 2023
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Carbon Footprint Reduction through Modern Supply-Chain Measures
The worldwide Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for smart cities and communities focus significant attention on air quality and climate change. Technology and management can reduce fossil fuel dependence in smart cities’ energy supply chains (SC). A sustainable smart city and reduced carbon emissions require coordinated technology and management with appropriate infrastructure. 
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  • 01 Dec 2023
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Effect of Hydrochar Products in the Soil
Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) is a proven cost-effective and energy-efficient method for waste management and value-added product recovery. Except for functionalized HCs, the most widely considered utilization pathways apart from biofuel would be their soil applications, aiming mainly at soil improvement and carbon sequestration. The morphology (e.g., particle size, surface area, and pore structure) and chemical structure of HC provide the initial information on its potential effects on soil systems. 
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  • 01 Feb 2024
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Hornfels-like Rocks in Early Paleozoic Olkhon Collisional Orogen
Some metamorphic rocks discovered within the Olkhon terrane on the western side of central Lake Baikal (southeastern Siberia, Russia) are remarkable for their hornfels-like features, granular textures, and mafic compositions, with a typical mineral assemblage of Opx+Cpx+Amp+Pl+Ilm±Ol±Bt±Spl±Ti-Mag. The hornfels-like rocks lack any evident source of heat that would be responsible for the thermal alteration of the igneous protolith.
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  • 15 Nov 2023
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The Impact of Microplastics on Global Food Production
Microplastics (MPs), a new class of pollutants, are extremely varied and their effects are particular to each organism, making the qualitative assessment and evaluation of their effects on the global food industry extremely complex. MPs are present in air, earth, and water, and hence can access all sectors of the food production industry.
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