Krivovichev, Sergey V. Hawthorne, Frank C. Williams, Peter A.
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Structural Chemistry
Analysis of the evolution of structural complexity of the Cu2(OH)3Cl polymorphs along the botallackite–atacamite–clinoatacamite Ostwald cascade of phases from the viewpoint of Shannon information-based complexity parameters shows that structural information increases during the transition from less stable to more stable phases. Among the three poly...
Aguilera, Moisés A Broitman, Bernardo R Thiel, Martin
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Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
Coastal urban infrastructures are proliferating across the world, but knowledge about their emergent impacts is still limited. Here, we provide evidence that urban artificial reefs have a high potential to accumulate the diverse forms of litter originating from anthropogenic activities around cities. We test the hypothesis that the structural compl...
Huang, Jinlong Zheng, Xiaoqun Wu, Zhengjun Liu, Haiyang Deng, Fengyun
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Hydrobiologia
Interactions between predators and their prey are influenced by the habitats they occupy. In freshwater ecosystems, submerged vegetation provides protection for prey compared to unvegetated substrata. Using submerged plants (Hydrilla verticillata) as a refuge for Chinese bitterling (Rhodeus sinensis), a native fish, we conducted a series of laborat...
DE BIAGI, VALERIO
Modern requirements on constructions impose that proper design strategies must be adopted in order to obtain a robust structure: in this sense, consequence-based design focuses the attention on the structural response to damage. The behavior of statically indeterminate structural systems under damage is nonlinear because the load paths intertwine e...
Lyons, Patrick J. Arboleda, Enrique Benkwitt, Cassandra E. Davis, Brooke Gleason, Molly Howe, Colin Mathe, Jennifer Middleton, Julia Sikowitz, Nicole Untersteggaber, Lucien
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Biodiversity and Conservation
The effect of recreational SCUBA diving on coral reefs is likely secondary to many of the commonly cited stressors that threaten the long-term survival of coral reefs, such as rising temperatures. However, recreational SCUBA diving has had documented effects on various benthic organisms. Most research on the effect of SCUBA divers has focused on br...
Hamta, Nima Akbarpour Shirazi, M. Behdad, Sara Fatemi Ghomi, S.M.T.
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Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Complexity of assembly supply chains (ASCs) is a challenge for designers and managers, especially when ASC systems become increasingly complex due to technological developments and geographically various sourcing arrangements. One of the major challenges at the early design stage is to make decision about an appropriate configuration of ASC. This p...
Avdontceva, Margarita S. Krzhizhanovskaya, Maria G. Krivovichev, Sergey V. Yakovenchuk, Viktor N.
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Physics and Chemistry of Minerals
The thermal behavior of nacaphite, Na2CaPO4F, was studied by the powder high-temperature X-ray diffraction method. A monoclinic-to-orthorhombic phase transition has been observed at 330 °C associated with the appearance of the Ca/Na disorder at one of the two crystallographically inequivalent Na sites. At room temperature, nacaphite is monoclinic, ...
Lee, S Kim, H Shin, Tae Joo Tsai, E Richardson, JM Korblova, E Walba, D. M Clark, NA Lee, SB Yoon, DK
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Helical nanofilaments (HNFs) have attracted much interest because of their unique optical properties, but there have been many hurdles to overcome in using them for the practical applications due to their structural complexity. Here we demonstrate that the molecular configuration and layer conformation of a modulated HNF (HNFs((mod))) can be studie...
Cúrdia, João Carvalho, Susana Pereira, Fábio Guerra-García, José Manuel Santos, Miguel N. Cunha, Marina R.
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Coral Reefs
The present study aimed to explicitly quantify the link between the attributes of shallow-water gorgonian colonies (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea) and the ecological patterns of associated non-colonial epifaunal invertebrates. Based on multiple regression analysis, we tested the contribution of several attributes (colony height, width, and area, fractal...
McCloskey, Rosemary M Unsworth, Richard K F
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PeerJ
Seagrass meadows globally are disappearing at a rapid rate with physical disturbances being one of the major drivers of this habitat loss. Disturbance of seagrass can lead to fragmentation, a reduction in shoot density, canopy height and coverage, and potentially permanent loss of habitat. Despite being such a widespread issue, knowledge of how suc...
