Guilbaud, Marie-Noëlle Ortega-Larrocea, María del Pilar Cram, Silke van Wyk de Vries, Benjamin
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Geoheritage
The conservation of geosites in a region can foster its sustainability and develop geotourism. These geosites provide geoeducation, raise people’s awareness on natural hazards, and increase their resilience. Low-income cities located in tectonically active areas combine high geohazards with high vulnerability and low sustainability. Geosites in the...
Chan, Ho Fai Moy, Naomi Schaffner, Markus Torgler, Benno
Communication is a key determining factor of success in crowdfunding environments. In this paper, we examine the link between language used by founders and the contribution behavior of funders. Particularly, we investigate how verbal cues – money saliency and sustainability intention – in the communication text can affect the size of the contributi...
Zaman, Mahvash Tiong, Denise Saw, Jacqueline Zaman, Sarah Daniels, Matthew J.
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Current Treatment Options in Cardiovascular Medicine
Purpose As second and third waves of the COVID-19 pandemic challenge healthcare in North America and Europe once again, we analyze the impact of the first wave on routine elective cardiovascular care, and the differential COVID risk emerging within our patient groups and staff. Perspective We describe the need to sustainably resume, and temporarily...
Goodarzian, Fariba Taleizadeh, Ata Allah Ghasemi, Peiman Abraham, Ajith
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Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Nowadays, in the pharmaceutical industry, a growing concern with sustainability has become a strict consideration during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a lack of good mathematical models in the field. In this research, a production–distribution–inventory–allocation–location problem in the sustainable medical supply chain network is designed to fil...
Hakim, Rachman Haryanto, Tri Sari, Dyah Wulan
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Scientific Reports
Rice is a staple food in East Java, and the average consumption is 100 kg/capita/year. However, rice productivity has declined dramatically in recent years. Food security can be reached by improving the technical efficiency of rice farming, especially in rice farming centers such as East Java Province. This study aims to measure technical efficienc...
Chen, Ming Su, Fenzhen Cheng, Fei Zhang, Yu Wang, Xuege
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Scientific Reports
Coral reef islands provide precious living space and valuable ecological services for human beings, and its sustainability cannot be ignored under the pressure of human activities. Carrying capacity (CC) assessment has gradually become an important means to measure sustainability of islands. However, there is little comprehensive evaluation of the ...
García Pinillos, Rebeca
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Applied Animal Behaviour Science
One Welfare describes the interconnection between animal welfare, human wellbeing and their physical and social environment. The SARS-CoV-2 virus is the cause of COVID-19 and emerged as a human pathogen in 2019 although is thought to have a zoonotic source. The original wildlife reservoir and any potential intermediate hosts have not yet been ident...
Li, Jun Xiong, Fengyin Chen, Zhuo
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Scientific Reports
Biomass gasification, especially distribution to power generation, is considered as a promising way to tackle global energy and environmental challenges. However, previous researches on integrated analysis of the greenhouse gases (GHG) abatement potentials associated with biomass electrification are sparse and few have taken the freshwater utilizat...
Zhang, Hailin Antonangelo, João Penn, Chad
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Scientific Reports
Portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) spectrometer allows fast in-situ elemental determination without wet digestion for soils or geological materials, but the use of XRF on wet materials is not well documented. Our objective was to develop a rapid field method using pXRF to measure metals in the residues from horizontal directional drilling (HDD) ope...
Finnegan, Alexander Matthew David Gouramanis, Christos
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Scientific Reports
Freshwater plastic pollution is critically understudied in Southeast Asia (SEA). Recent modelling studies indicate that SEA rivers contribute vast quantities of plastic to the world’s oceans, however, these fail to capture the complexity of individual systems. We determine the volume of mismanaged plastic waste (MPW) entering Tonle Sap Basin (TSB)—...
