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The environmental sustainability assessment of building ceramic manufacturing based on the LCA-emergy approach
As the world’s largest ceramics producer and exporter, China’s ceramic industry is being sharply watched because of excessive resource consumption and pressing environmental issues. Given the specific performa...
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Ecological sustainability assessment of building glass industry in China based on the point of view of raw material emergy and chemical composition
Severe environmental destruction is being driven by excessive resource consumption in the industrial production process. Therefore, there is a necessity to evaluate the sustainability of the production system....
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A quantitative sustainable comparative study of two biogas systems based on energy, emergy and entropy methods in China
In China, as an important source of renewable energy, the standard biogas production module (SBPM) plays a key role and accounts for the majority of biogas production. Given its greater environmental pollution...
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Environmental sustainability in the city of Shanghai municipal solid waste treatment system: an integrated framework of artificial neural network (ANN) and LCA-emergy methodology
The municipal solid waste treatment system is a vital part of sustainable urban development and needs to obtain ecological finance compensation according to the national standard. In this paper, the environmen...
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Urban ecological security dynamic analysis based on an innovative emergy ecological footprint method
In China, with the rapid development of economy and the advancement of urbanization, the deterioration of urban ecological environment is obvious. In order to obtain the quantitative state of urban ecological ...
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Open AccessComparative environmental sustainability study of an improved sewage sludge treatment and sludge reuse system based on emergy analysis in China
As the significant residuals in the sewage treatment system, sludge treatment and reuse play a pivotal impact on the environmental sustainability study in China. In this paper, two sewage sludge treatment syst...
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Open AccessBlended learning with Moodle in medical statistics: an assessment of knowledge, attitudes and practices relating to e-learning
Blended learning that combines a modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment (Moodle) with face-to-face teaching was applied to a medical statistics course to improve learning outcomes and evaluate th...
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Elastic resource provisioning for scientific workflow scheduling in cloud under budget and deadline constraints
With the popularization and development of cloud computing, lots of scientific computing applications are conducted in cloud environments. However, current application scenario of scientific computing is also ...