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Manuel López-Vicente and Gao-Lin Wu
This special issue includes six articles that cover a variety of issues about the topic of soil and water conservation in agricultural systems, including the following: a bibliometric analysis of soil and water conservation in the Loess Region of China; ...
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Danlu Jiang, Dong Bai, Zhaowei Yin and Gongyuan Fan
With the rapid development of shale gas exploration (SGE) in China, there is an urgent need to evaluate the public?s preferences with respect to the environmental risks that go along with the exploration, which have not yet been studied in the literature...
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Tomasz Gruszczynski, Jerzy J. Malecki, Anastasiia Romanova and Maciej Ziulkiewicz
Studies with application of stable isotopes of oxygen and carbon have been performed on calcareous tufa, groundwater and dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) from the spring mire cupola in Wardzyn. This study was focused on the verification of the a priori h...
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Flavia D. Frederick, Malvin S. Marlim and Doosun Kang
Chlorine decay over time and distance travelled poses challenges in maintaining consistent chlorine levels from treatment plants to demand nodes in water distribution networks (WDNs). Many studies have focused on optimizing chlorine booster systems and a...
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Pawel Lisowski and Michal A. Glinicki
The wide use of multi-component cement of highly reduced Portland clinker factor is largely impeded by detrimental changes in the rheological properties of concrete mixes, a substantial reduction in the early rate of cement hardening, and sometimes the i...
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Daniel Suarez-Riera, Luca Lavagna, Juan Felipe Carvajal, Jean-Marc Tulliani, Devid Falliano and Luciana Restuccia
Biochar, the solid sub-product of biomass pyrolysis, is widely considered an effective water retention material thanks to its porous microstructure and high specific surface area. This study investigates the possibility of improving both mechanical and r...
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Toshiharu Kojima, Ryoma Shimono, Takahiro Ota, Hiroshi Hashimoto and Yasuhiro Hasegawa
The ecosystem services of forests, such as the water conservation function, are the combined results of diverse processes, and the modification of one part of a forest affects each ecosystem service separately via complex processes. It is necessary to de...
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Yi-Ming Zhang, Peter Brimblecombe and Chon-Lin Lee
Microplastics are a major environmental issue. In marine systems, these break down into small fragments that may lodge within organisms, but they behave as vectors for chemicals when pollutants such as metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), pes...
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Hatice Yildirim, Elif Aksöz, Burcu Efe Daskan, Fazilet Sen and Murat Çelebi
This study aimed to investigate the changes in Paraoxonase (PON), Carbonic Anhydrase (CA), and ß-glucosidase levels of different aged rats and scopolamine-induced memory impairment rats. This study used young, adult, and middle-aged male Wistar Albino ra...
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David Mattie, Zihang Fang, Emi Takahashi, Lourdes Peña Castillo and Jacob Levman
Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tractography is a powerful tool for non-invasively studying brain architecture and structural integrity by inferring fiber tracts based on water diffusion profiles. This study provided a thorough set of baseline...
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