Published in E3S Web of Conferences
In Morocco, agriculture is an important sector of the economy, accounting for 15 to 20% of Gross Domestic Product. However, it has faced several challenges: intensive tillage of land that has accelerated water erosion, seriously threatening water and soil potential, low plant cover density and misuse of traditional agricultural practices, causing a...
Published in Regional Environmental Change
North Africa is considered a climate change hot spot. Existing studies either focus on the physical aspects of climate change or discuss the social ones. The present article aims to address this divide by assessing and comparing the climate change vulnerability of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia and linking it to its social implications...
Published in Current Urology Reports
Purpose of ReviewThe role of the mineral constituents in water and their role in kidney stone disease (KSD) have been a long-standing subject of debate. The aim of our systematic review was to evaluate the relevance of different types of water in stone disease.Recent FindingsStudies to date have had varying results regarding the importance of hardn...
Published in SN Applied Sciences
Concrete is expected to be placed right after the mixing of cement, aggregates, and water. However, an unexpected delay before placing can occur for many reasons. This affects the compressive strength of the hardened concrete. The aim of the study is to observe the effect of casting delay (up to 480 min or 8 h) on the 28-day compressive strength of...
Published in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
This study evaluates the concentrations of lead (Pb) in 6 selected vegetables and drinking water samples taken from an agricultural/mining town Ishiagu. This evaluation is important because these vegetables and water are major gateway of lead exposure through ingestion, especially children in the Pb mining environment. Pb at even very low concentra...
Published in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Chilika Lake is the largest coastal lagoon in Asia and the second largest in the world covering an area of 1100 km2 and spread over three districts of Odisha state of India. It is the first Indian wetland designated as a wetland of international importance under the Ramsar Convention in 1981. The lake ecosystem sustains large and diversified resour...
Published in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Analysis of elemental concentration in soil and water was carried out in Ortum to ensure safe utilization of soil and water resources for agriculture, industrial, and household purposes. Elemental analysis of soil and water was done using the EDXRF spectrometer and the inductively coupled plasma – optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), respective...
As the chemical compositions of CI chondrites closely resemble that of the Sun’s photosphere, their oxygen isotopic compositions represent a powerful tool to constrain the origin and dynamics of dust and water ice grains in the protoplanetary disk. However, parent-body alteration processes make straightforward estimation of the primordial isotopic ...
Published in SN Applied Sciences
The aim of this study involves establishing a three-dimensional computational fluid dynamic (3D-CFD) model of solar flat plate collector (SFPC) in order to investigate the effect of operating and geometric parameters on thermal efficiency. In this research work, commercial CFD code ANSYS FLUENT®14.0 version was used for the development of a model o...
Published in Applied Water Science
Though different technical approaches have been applied, Addis Ababa water bodies are persistently facing problems that affect their biological, economic, sociological, and ecological assets. To fill the technical gaps, multi-stakeholder collaborative governance approaches are unfolding, in the academia, as the important tools or methods of dealing...
