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João Dehon Pontes Filho, Maria Manuela Portela, Ticiana Marinho de Carvalho Studart and Francisco de Assis Souza Filho
The standardized precipitation index (SPI), is one of the most used drought indices. However, it is difficult to use to monitor the ongoing drought characteristics because it cannot be expeditiously related to precipitation deficits. It also does not pro...
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Richard A. Falk, Ernest R. Blatchley III, Thomas C. Kuechler, Ellen M. Meyer, Stanley R. Pickens and Laura M. Suppes
Current regulatory codes for swimming pool disinfection separately regulate free chlorine (FC) and cyanuric acid (CYA). It is well-known that CYA affects disinfection rates by reversibly binding to FC in aqueous solutions. However, limits for these regul...
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Mngereza Miraji, Jie Liu and Chunmiao Zheng
River basins around the world face similar issues of water scarcity, deficient infrastructure, and great disparities in water availability between sub-regions, both within and between countries. In this study, different strategies under the Water Evaluat...
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Chitransh Shrivastava, Nor Hafizah Ramli Sulong, Tatheer Zahra, Mohamed Elchalakani, Kumari Gamage and Sabrina Fawzia
The environmental concerns raised by the over-exploitation of fresh water and river sand have driven researchers to explore seawater sea sand concrete (SWSSC) as a substitute for conventional concrete in structural columns. With numerous investigations o...
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Daniel Gugerell, Benedikt Gollan, Moritz Stolte and Ulrich Ansorge
Task batteries mimicking user tasks are of high heuristic value. Supposedly, they measure individual human aptitude regarding the task in question. However, less is often known about the underlying mechanisms or functions that account for task performanc...
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Prashanth Barla, Hemalatha Shivarama, Ganesan Deepa and Ujjwal Ujjwal
Hybrid magnetic tunnel junction/complementary metal oxide semiconductor (MTJ/CMOS) circuits based on in-memory-computation (IMC) architecture is considered as the next-generation candidate for the digital integrated circuits. However, the energy consumpt...
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Zhiyuan Hu, Peng Yu, Guohua Xu, Yongjie Shi, Feng Gu and Aijun Zou
Tiltrotors permit aircrafts to operate vertically with lift, yet convert to ordinary forward flight with thrust. The challenge is to design a tiltrotor blade yielding maximum lift and thrust that converts smoothly without losing integrity or efficiency. ...
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Wahhaj Ahmed, Baqer Al-Ramadan, Muhammad Asif and Zulfikar Adamu
Energy and environmental challenges are a major concern across the world and the urban residential building sector, being one of the main stakeholders in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions, needs to be more energy efficient and reduce carbon...
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Nikolay S. Ivanov, Arlan Z. Abilmagzhanov, Oleg S. Kholkin and Iskander E. Adelbaev
This article presents the results of the study of the morphological composition of municipal solid waste (MSW) from the landfill of Atyrau city, and the waste?s energy characteristics and presence of microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi and viruses....
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Candida Duarte Manuel, Carla Rebelo Magalhães, Claudia Maria Huber, Luká? Smerek, Artur Fernandes Costa and José Ribeiro Alves
Translation, adaptation, and validation of instruments for cross-cultural investigation requires a rigorous methodological procedure that should be carefully planned to deliver instruments with adequate reliability and validity. This process was applied ...
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