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Emerging challenges of ozone impacts on asian plants: actions are needed to protect ecosystem health
(Informa UK Limited, 2021)Context: Ozone concentrations near the land surface are rising in Asia while they are declining or stagnating in Europe and North America. Ozone is the most widespread air pollutant negatively affecting vegetation, and its ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Emission characteristics of polychlorinated dibenzo-ρ-dioxins and dibenzofurans from industrial combustion of biomass fuels
(Elsevier BV, 2021)Although biomass fuel has always been regarded as a source of sustainable energy, it potentially emits polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs). This study investigated PCDD/F emissions from industrial ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Emissions and atmospheric processes influence the chemical composition and toxicological properties of urban air particulate matter in Nanjing, China
(Elsevier BV, 2018)Ambient inhalable particulate matter (PM) is a serious health concern worldwide, but especially so in China where high PM concentrations affect huge populations. Atmospheric processes and emission sources cause spatial and ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Emissions from a fast-pyrolysis bio-oil fired boiler: Comparison of health-related characteristics of emissions from bio-oil, fossil oil and wood
(Elsevier BV, 2019)There is currently great interest in replacing fossil-oil with renewable fuels in energy production. Fast pyrolysis bio-oil (FPBO) made of lignocellulosic biomass is one such alternative to replace fossil oil, such as heavy ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds from adjacent boreal fen and bog as impacted by vegetation composition
(Elsevier B.V., 2023)Peatland ecosystems emit biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOC), which have a net cooling impact on the climate. However, the quality and quantity of BVOC emissions, and how they are regulated by vegetation and peatland ...
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Empowering Street Vendors through Technology: an Explorative Study in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)Street vending business is important for the economy and the livelihood of the poor less educated people in developing countries, as it provides employment, and a means for survival. However, street vendors face a number ...conferenceObject
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End-to-End Listening Agent for Audiovisual Emotional and Naturalistic Interactions
(Escola das Artes, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, 2018)In this work, we established the foundations of a framework with the goal to build an end-to-end naturalistic expressive listening agent. The project was split into modules for recognition of the user’s paralinguistic and ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Endogenous toxins and the coupling of gregariousness to conspicuousness in Argidae and Pergidae sawflies
(Springer Nature, 2018)Phytophagous insects tend to be either cryptic and solitary, or brightly colored and gregarious, as a defense against vertebrate predators. Here, we tested whether potent defensive chemicals produced de novo by larvae of ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Endosulfan removal through bioremediation, photocatalytic degradation, adsorption and membrane separation processes: A review
(Elsevier BV, 2019)Endosulfan is a highly polluting and toxic pesticide which has been used in many areas globally to control pests in view to improve productivity. Concomitantly, endosulfan has also been associated with many cases of ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Endurance Exercise Improves Heart Rate Complexity in the Presence of Vagal Withdrawal in 1025 Young Adults
(Computing in Cardiology 2015, 2015)Sudden cardiac death (SCD) has been reported during and following physical activity. SCD may be due to vagal withdrawal and/or sympathetic dominance associated with the exercise occurring at any time during, immediately ...info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Engineered Sulfur-Resistant Catalyst System with an Assisted Regeneration Strategy for Lean-Burn Methane Combustion
(Wiley, 2018)Catalytic combustion of methane, the main component of natural gas, is a challenge under lean‐burn conditions and at low temperatures owing to sulfur poisoning of the Pd‐rich catalyst. This paper introduces a more ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Engineered/designer hierarchical porous carbon materials for organic pollutant removal from water and wastewater: A critical review
(Informa UK Limited, 2020)Hierarchical porous carbon (HPC) materials have found advanced applications in energy storage, adsorption, and catalysis in recent years. The HPC can be synthesized from a vast range of inexpensive carbon precursors, and ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Enhanced acetone-butanol-ethanol production from lignocellulosic hydrolysates by using starchy slurry as supplement
(Elsevier BV, 2017)This study aims to improve acetone-butanol-ethanol production from the hydrolysates of lignocellulosic material by supplementing starchy slurry as nutrients. In the fermentations of glucose, xylose and the hydrolysates of ...info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Enhanced nitrogen removal of low carbon wastewater in denitrification bioreactors by utilizing industrial waste toward circular economy
(Elsevier BV, 2020)Aquaculture needs practical solutions for nutrient removal to achieve sustainable fish production. Passive denitrifying bioreactors may provide an ecological, low-cost and low-maintenance approach for wastewater nitrogen ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Enhanced saturable absorption in the laser-treated free-standing carbon nanotube film
(The Optical Society, 2020)We demonstrate an increase of optical transmittance and saturable absorption of laser-treated free-standing single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) films. The combined acid and low-power non-destructive laser treatment ensures ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Enhancing Computing Education in India: A Design Story
(2017)In the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in India, the number of engineering institutions grew from under 10 to over 500 from 1978 to 2008. This resulted in a severe shortage of good quality teachers and therefore ...info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Environmental and taxonomic controls of carbon and oxygen stable isotope composition in Sphagnum across broad climatic and geographic ranges
(Copernicus GmbH, 2018)Rain-fed peatlands are dominated by peat mosses (Sphagnum sp.), which for their growth depend on nutrients, water and CO2 uptake from the atmosphere. As the isotopic composition of carbon (12,13C) and oxygen (16,18O) of ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Environmental conditions regulate the impact of plants on cloud formation
(Springer Nature, 2017)The terrestrial vegetation emits large amounts of volatile organic compounds (VOC) into the atmosphere, which on oxidation produce secondary organic aerosol (SOA). By acting as cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), SOA influences ...info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Environmental Control ofTriplet Emission in Donor-Bridge-Acceptor Organometallics
(Wiley, 2020)Carbene‐metal‐amides (CMAs) are a promising family of donor–bridge–acceptor molecular charge‐transfer (CT) emitters for organic light‐emitting diodes. A universal approach is demonstrated to tune the energy of their CT ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit
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Environmentally superior cleaning of diatom frustules using sono-Fenton process: Facile fabrication of nanoporous silica with homogeneous morphology and controlled size
(Elsevier BV, 2020)Existing techniques for the preparation of silica structures from diatom cells include cleaning of frustules through baking at high temperature and oxidant cleaning using concentrated sulfuric acid, hydrogen peroxide, ...Tieteelliset aikakauslehtiartikkelit