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António Carlos Pinheiro Fernandes, Luís Filipe Sanches Fernandes, Daniela Patrícia Salgado Terêncio, Rui Manuel Vitor Cortes and Fernando António Leal Pacheco
Interactions between pollution sources, water contamination, and ecological integrity are complex phenomena and hard to access. To comprehend this subject of study, it is crucial to use advanced statistical tools, which can unveil cause-effect relationsh...
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Daniel Castro-López, Pablo Rodríguez-Lozano, Rebeca Arias-Real, Víctor Guerra-Cobián and Narcís Prat
The Earth?s freshwater ecosystems are currently under threat, particularly in developing countries. In Mexico, intensive land use and inadequate monitoring policies have resulted in the severe degradation of the country?s freshwater ecosystems. This stud...
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Jakub Staniszewski
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The paper reviews the economic theories that describe the relationship between agricultural productivity growth and economic development. Historical examples of such relationships are also presented. The review proves that improvements in the productivit...
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Valentina Gallina, Silvia Torresan, Alex Zabeo, Jonathan Rizzi, Sandro Carniel, Mauro Sclavo, Lisa Pizzol, Antonio Marcomini and Andrea Critto
Coastal erosion is an issue of major concern for coastal managers and is expected to increase in magnitude and severity due to global climate change. This paper analyzes the potential consequences of climate change on coastal erosion (e.g., impacts on be...
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Joana Carneiro, Dália Loureiro, Marta Cabral and Dídia Covas
This paper presents and demonstrates a novel scenario-building methodology that integrates contextual and future time uncertainty into the performance assessment of water distribution networks (WDNs). A three-step approach is proposed: (i) System context...
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Yochai Eisenberg, Mackenzie Hayes, Amy Hofstra, Delphine Labbé, Robert Gould and Robin Jones
Safely walking or wheeling in a wheelchair in the community is a civil and human right. Some progress has been made in the US towards making walking/wheeling paths more accessible for people with disabilities through the construction of new curb ramps, f...
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Alex Galis
This paper presents a comprehensive set of design methods for making future Internet networking fully energy-aware and sustainably minimizing and managing the energy footprint. It includes (a) 41 energy-aware design methods, grouped into Service Operatio...
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Javid Misirli and Emiliano Casalicchio
The Internet of Things (IoT) uptake brought a paradigm shift in application deployment. Indeed, IoT applications are not centralized in cloud data centers, but the computation and storage are moved close to the consumers, creating a computing continuum b...
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Claudia Yohana Arias-Portela, Jaime Mora-Vargas and Martha Caro
The conceptual framework for assessing the situational awareness (SA) of drivers consists of three hierarchical levels: perception of the elements of the environment, comprehension of the elements, and decision-making in the near future. A common challen...
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Junling Zhang, Min Mei, Jun Wang, Guangpeng Shang, Xuefeng Hu, Jing Yan and Qian Fang
The deformation of tunnel support structures during tunnel construction is influenced by geological factors, geometrical factors, support factors, and construction factors. Accurate prediction of tunnel support structure deformation is crucial for engine...
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