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Persistence of fertilization effects on soil organic carbon in degraded alpine wetlands in the Yellow River source region
In the restoration of degraded wetlands, fertilization can improve the vegetation-soil-microorganisms complex, thereby affecting the organic carbon content. However, it is currently unclear whether these effec...
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Experimental and numerical interpretation on composite foundation consisting of soil-cement column within warm and ice-rich frozen soil
Affected by climate warming and anthropogenic disturbances, the thermo-mechanical stability of warm and ice-rich frozen ground along the Qinghai-Tibet engineering corridor (QTEC) is continuously decreased, whi...
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Open AccessPre-oxidized ultramicroporous carbon cloth with ultrahigh volumetric capacity and ultralong lifespan for capacitive desalination
Capacitive deionization is a promising desalination technique to tackle with freshwater scarcity, due to its facile, energy-efficient and eco-friendly operation. Carbon materials are primary electrode material...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Case Study on Inter-Building Occupancy Using GIS-Based Movement Data on Campus
Research on the impact of occupant behavior (OB) on energy use at various spatiotemporal resolutions in the district/community/urban scale remains limited and should be explored for district operational manage...
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Analyzing point cloud of coal mining process in much dust environment based on dynamic graph convolution neural network
Environmental perception is an important research direction of coal mine sustainable development. There is much dust in the underground working environment of coal mine. This study is to identify the marker (b...
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An investigation of the pullout behaviors of tire strips embedded in tire-derived aggregate reinforced sand
The recycling of scrap tires has become an important issue in the area of environmental protection in the past 20 years. In recent years, tire strips and tire-derived aggregates (TDA) have been used in geotech...
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Microstructure Evolution and Strengthening of a New High-Nitrogen Heat-Resistant Martensitic Steel Regulated by Heat Treatment
Generally, the high-temperature performance of martensitic heat-resistant steels is limited by the content of δ-ferrite and the degradation of precipitates. Herein, a 9Cr high-nitrogen heat-resistant martensit...
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Characteristics of soil organic carbon fractions under different land use patterns in a tropical area
To explore the effects of land use patterns on the accumulation of soil organic carbon (SOC) fractions in tropical areas, soil samples from paddy fields, abandoned croplands and vegetable-growing lands were co...
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Open AccessGiant panda foraging and movement patterns in response to bamboo shoot growth
Diet plays a pivotal role in dictating behavioral patterns of herbivorous animals, particularly specialist species. The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is well-known as a bamboo specialist. In the present st...
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Pyrometallurgical Recovery of Platinum Group Metals from Spent Catalysts
As an important secondary resource with abundant platinum group metals (PGMs), spent catalysts demand recycling for both economic and environmental benefits. This article reviews the main pyrometallurgical pr...
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Microwave Power Absorption in Materials for Ferrous Metallurgy
The characteristics of microwave power absorption in materials for ferrous metallurgy, including iron oxides (Fe2O3, Fe3O4 and Fe0.925O) and bitumite, were explored by evaluating their dielectric loss (Q ...
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Spatial variability of soil arsenic and its association with soil nitrogen in intensive farming systems
Arsenic (As) accumulation in agricultural lands has become a big environmental and health issue with rapid agricultural modernization and urbanization in China. We investigated the spatial variation of soil As...
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Enhancement of cadmium tolerance and accumulation by introducing Perilla frutescens (L.) Britt var. frutescens genes in Nicotiana tabacum L. plants
The tobacco has the genetic potential to remove toxic metals from the soil. To develop hyperaccumulating tobacco plants, distant hybridization between tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.), a high-biomass crop, and Peri...
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Experimental study on oxidative decomposition of nitrobenzene in aqueous solution by honeycomb ceramic-catalyzed ozonation
The ozonation of nitrobenzene in aqueous solution was carried out in a semi-batch reactor to investigate the degradation efficiency, the effect factors, and the reaction mechanism, where honeycomb ceramic was ...
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Effect of Drip Irrigation with Saline Water on Water Use Efficiency and Quality of Watermelons
High ground water salinity, high water table and secondary soil salinization are dominant in the Hetao Region, China. For the purposes of eliminating secondary salinity and enhancing water use efficiency, drip...