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Tshepang Mmamorena Marema, Loago Molwalefhe and Elisha M. Shemang
The 3 April 2017 Mw 6.5 Moiyabana earthquake (Central Botswana) had a significant impact on groundwater levels; a gradual co-seismic increase and a stepwise decline in groundwater levels were observed in response to the earthquake at boreholes MH2 and Z1...
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Ángel Rivero-Falcón, Baltasar Peñate Suárez and Noemi Melián-Martel
The most recent years of research have shifted the perception of desalination brine from being waste to a high-value resource, in consonance with a circular economy perspective. The Canary Islands, containing the largest number of desalination plants per...
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Martijn T. G. Janssen, Auke Barnhoorn, Deyan Draganov, Karl-Heinz A. A. Wolf and Sevket Durucan
As part of a seismic monitoring project in a geothermal field, where the feasibility of re-injection and storage of produced CO2 is being investigated, a P- and S-wave seismic velocity characterisation study was carried out. The effect of axial (up to 95...
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Craig Heatherington, Alistair Grinham, Irene Penesis, Scott Hunter and Remo Cossu
Marine renewable energy is still in its infancy and poses serious challenges due to the harsh marine conditions encountered for wave or tidal installations and the survivability of devices. Geophysical and hydrodynamic initial site surveys need to be abl...
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Claire Bossennec, Matthis Frey, Lukas Seib, Kristian Bär and Ingo Sass
For an accurate multiscale property modelling of fractured crystalline geothermal reservoirs, an enhanced characterisation of the geometrical features and variability of the fracture network properties is an essential prerequisite. Combining regional dig...
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Theis Raaschou Andersen
The continuous growth of cities in combination with future climate changes present urban planners with significant challenges, as traditional urban sewer systems are typically designed for the present climate. An easy and economically feasible way to mit...
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Nuno Cristelo, João Coelho, Mafalda Oliveira, Nilo Cesar Consoli, Ángel Palomo and Ana Fernández-Jiménez
Mine tailings (MT) could represent a step forward in terms of the quality of the aggregates usually used in civil engineering applications, mostly due to its high density. The Portuguese Neves Corvo copper mine, owned by the Lundin Mining Corporation, pr...
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Luca Taraborrelli, Robyn Grant, Matthew Sullivan, Simon Choppin, James Spurr, Steve Haake and Tom Allen
The tennis racket has developed since the origins of Lawn Tennis in the 1870s. This study investigated how the tennis racket developed from 1874 to 2017, using measurements and material classifications for 525 samples. Racket measurements covered geometr...
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William Megarry, Conor Graham, Bernard Gilhooly, Brendan O?Neill, Rob Sands, Astrid Nyland and Gabriel Cooney
The application of high-resolution imagery from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to classify the spatial extent and morphological character of ground and polished stone tool production at quarry sites in the Shetland Islands is explored in this paper. Thes...
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Hungyen Lin, Zijian Zhang, Daniel Markl, J. Axel Zeitler and Yaochun Shen
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has recently attracted a lot of interest in the pharmaceutical manufacturing industry as a fast, contactless and non-destructive modality for quantifying thin film coatings on pharmaceutical dosage forms, which cannot b...
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Gonzalo Rincón-Llorente, Irene Heras, Elena Guillén Rodríguez, Erik Schumann, Matthias Krause and Ramón Escobar-Galindo
The optimisation of the specular reflectance of solar collectors is a key parameter to increase the global yield of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants. In this work, the influence of filtered cathodic vacuum arc deposition parameters, particularly wor...
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Piotr Kaminski
Ceria, zirconia, and mixed cerium-zirconium mesoporous oxides were synthesized and used as supports for sulfur and gold species. The materials were characterised using selected advanced techniques (Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry...
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Niharika Sharma, Davinder Singh and Kalenahalli Yogendra
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Anissa Yahyaoui, Maroua Oueslati, Agata Motyka-Pomagruk, Natalia Kaczynska, Wojciech Sledz, Belhassen Tarhouni, Mohamed Rabeh Hajlaoui, Ewa Lojkowska and Najla Sadfi-Zouaoui
Soft rot disease in potato is a major problem in fields and warehouses all over the world. Although it is known that bacteria from the genera Pectobacterium and Dickeya are the main causative agents of soft rot diseases, recent studies indicate the invol...
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Claudia Barattini, Luca Dimauro, Angelo Domenico Vella and Alessandro Vigliani
In recent years, significant improvements in the design of leg blade prosthetics have been carried out. After several advances in material and topological optimisations, sport-purpose feet prosthetics have reached high-level performances, allowing athlet...
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Lara Pereira, Joana Grave, Janina Noll, Birgit Derntl, Sandra C. Soares, Susana Brás and Raquel Sebastião
Abnormal sensory perception is among the earliest symptoms of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Despite mixed findings, olfactory perception seems to be altered in ASD. There is also evidence that automatic responses to odours can serve as biomarkers of A...
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Ouahcène Nait-Rabah, Flavio Germain, Yannick Estevez, James Guiraud, Gildas Medjigbodo, Daniel Dias and Chadi Maalouf
This paper presents the first laboratory study of four materials (three lateritic soils and one sandy soil) mainly used in road construction in French Guiana. The analysis of macroscopic behaviour by physical tests, following French standards, made it po...
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Matthew Laffey, Brooke Tornifoglio and Caitríona Lally
Aortic aneurysms (AA) occur in 4.8% of people causing 150,000 deaths annually. While endovascular aneurysm repairs reduce surgical morbidity, device-related failures (leak/displacement) are frequent highlighting the need for test models that better repre...
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Jasper Knight and Mohamed A. M. Abd Elbasit
Remote sensing of coastal sediments for the purpose of automated mapping of their physical properties (grain size, mineralogy and carbonate content) across space has not been widely applied globally or in South Africa. This paper describes a baseline stu...
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Jose Norambuena-Contreras, Jose L. Concha, Luis E. Arteaga-Pérez and Irene Gonzalez-Torre
This work is a preliminary study for the potential application of biopolymeric polynuclear capsules containing waste cooking oil as a promising encapsulated rejuvenator for microcrack self-healing in long-term aged bitumen.
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