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Evangelos Machairas and Emmanouil A. Varouchakis
Mining activities are prolific worldwide in light of the perpetual production of metal. The high need for metal materials in human life necessitates the development of mining operations, especially in places characterized as being highly enriched in meta...
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Elizabeth Delfín-Portela, Luis Carlos Sandoval-Herazo, David Reyes-González, Humberto Mata-Alejandro, María Cristina López-Méndez, Gregorio Fernández-Lambert and Erick Arturo Betanzo-Torres
Tilapia farming is the predominant aquaculture activity, with 4623 aquaculture farms in Mexico alone. It is relevant to apply technological alternatives to mitigate production costs, mainly those associated with supporting energy savings for aeration and...
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Gezahegn Weldu Woldemariam, Kalid Hassen Yasin and Anteneh Derribew Iguala
Water erosion is accelerating soil loss rates in the East Hararghe Zone due to inappropriate human activities and their complex and intertwined interactions with natural factors, particularly in sensitive agroecosystems that lack soil and water conservat...
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Zicheng Zhu, Steve Rowlinson, Tianzhuo Chen and Alan Patching
Point cloud models are prevalently utilized in the architectural and civil engineering sectors. The registration of point clouds can invariably introduce registration errors, adversely impacting the accuracy of point cloud models. While the domain of com...
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Márcia Lima, Ana Margarida Ferreira and Carlos Coelho
The artificial sand bypassing systems are coastal interventions designed to transfer sediments from areas of accretion to areas where erosion is observed. The goal of these systems is to reduce the littoral drift gradients where sediment transport is int...
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Carlos Coelho, Márcia Lima and Margarida Ferreira
Worldwide, artificial nourishments are being considered as one of the main coastal erosion mitigation measures. However, this solution is not permanent, since the natural removal of sediments that occurs after the sand deposition leads to the need of re-...
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Hsuan Yang and Cherng-Yuan Lin
There are excellent offshore wind resources in the ocean off the west coast of Taiwan, and renewable offshore wind power has been actively developed in recent years. This study intends to establish a cost-effectiveness assessment model to compare the pol...
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Carlos Coelho, Pedro Narra, Bárbara Marinho and Márcia Lima
There are no sequential and integrated approaches that include the steps needed to perform an adequate management and planning of the coastal zones to mitigate coastal erosion problems and climate change effects. Important numerical model packs are avail...
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Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq, Rashid Farooq and Nick van de Giesen
All over the world, probability-based flood protection designs are the ones most commonly used. Different return-period design floods are standard criteria for designing structural measures. Recently, risk-based flood management has received a significan...
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Chong-Ju Chae
If a ship?s hull or tank breaks, the ship may sink, or oil spills can cause enormous damage to the environment. If the ship is equipped with a capable, cost-effective oil or liquid flow stop emergency device, casualties and marine pollution could be redu...
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