Earth and related environmental sciences topic list of research papers
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Peculiar Features for the Consideration of Ecological and Economical Aspects of the Course of Underground Construction
Abstract The International Commission for the United Nations developed general requirements for the strategy of civilization development considering environmental conditions in the course of human wants satisfaction. It has been established that it...
2016 / Larisa V. Prykina, Alexandr K. Orlov -
The solar activity by wavelet-based multifractal analysis
Abstract The interest in the relation between the solar activity and climate change is increasing. As for the solar activity, a fractal property of the sunspot series was studied by many works. In general, a fractal property was observed in the time ...
2016 / Fumio Maruyama -
Inhomogeneous distribution of chemical species in lithium nickel oxide cathode of lithium ion battery2016 / T Uenoyama, R Miyahara, M Katayama, Y Inada
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Estimation of European Union residential sector space cooling potential
Abstract Data on European residential space cooling demands are scarce and often of poor quality. This can be concluded from a review of the Comprehensive Assessments on the energy efficiency potential in the heating and cooling sector performed by...
2016 / Mindaugas Jakubcionis, Johan Carlsson -
Influence of metal-mediated aerosol-phase oxidation on secondary organic aerosol formation from the ozonolysis and OH-oxidation of α-pinene2017 / Biwu Chu, John Liggio, Yongchun Liu, Hong He, Hideto Takekawa, et al.
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From phase drift to synchronisation – pedestrian stepping behaviour on laterally oscillating structures and consequences for dynamic stability
Abstract The subject of this paper pertains to the contentious issue of synchronisation of walking pedestrians to lateral structural motion, which is the mechanism most commonly purported to cause lateral dynamic instability. Tests have been...
2016 / Mateusz Bocian, Jeremy F. Burn, John H.G. Macdonald, James M.W. Brownjohn -
High Stabilized Efficiency Single and Multi-junction Thin Film Silicon Solar Cells
Abstract We present the study of high efficiency single and multi-junction solar cells, focusing on the stability against degradation under illumination. In both single and multijunction solar cells, the thickness of the a-Si:H absorber layer was...
2016 / V. Smirnov, F. Urbain, A. Lambertz, F. Finger -
Numerical modeling of the effects of roughness on flow and eddy formation in fractures
Abstract The effect of roughness on flow in fractures was investigated using lattice Boltzmann method (LBM). Simulations were conducted for both statistically generated hypothetical fractures and a natural dolomite fracture. The effect of increasing ...
2016 / Scott Briggs, Bryan W. Karney, Brent E. Sleep -
Re-evaluation of Apollo 17 Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment data
Abstract We re-analyzed Apollo 17 Lunar Seismic Profiling Experiment (LSPE) data to improve our knowledge of the subsurface structure of this landing site. We use new geometrically accurate 3-D positions of the seismic equipment deployed by the...
2016 / Alexandra Heffels, Martin Knapmeyer, Jürgen Oberst, Isabel Haase -
Studying the Life-cycle Performance of Gravity Sewer Rehabilitation Liners in North America
Abstract Pipe rehabilitation and trenchless replacement technologies have seen a steadily increasing use and represent an increasing proportion of the annual expenditure on operations and maintenance of the water and wastewater infrastructure around ...
2016 / Raymond Sterling, Shaurav Alam, Erez Allouche, Wendy Condit, John Matthews, et al. -
An improved version of the consequence analysis model for chemical emergencies, ESCAPE
Abstract We present a refined version of a mathematical model called ESCAPE, “Expert System for Consequence Analysis and Preparing for Emergencies”. The model has been designed for evaluating the releases of toxic and flammable gases into the...
2016 / J. Kukkonen, J. Nikmo, K. Riikonen -
High Temperature Unfolding and Low Temperature Refolding Pathway of Chymotrypsin Inhibitor 2 Using Molecular Dynamics Simulation2016 / N D Malau, T Sumaryada
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Prospects for Underground Parking Lots Arrangement at the Construction of Moscow Region Residential Property
Abstract This article is dedicated to determination of the development peculiarities of the current Moscow region residential property market. It is advised to consider Moscow and the Moscow Oblast as a unified Moscow region with the coinciding and...
2016 / Arkadiy Larionov, Yulia Larionova -
A new record for aliphatic and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon accumulation in the surficial sediments of El Mex Bay, Alexandria, Egypt after 19years from the first one
Abstract Petroleum hydrocarbons were identified and quantified in the surficial sediments of El-Mex Bay, Alexandria during 2013 and 2014. The results were compared with a previous study in 1995. Contamination by aliphatic hydrocarbons in the...
2016 / Laila A. Mohamed, Gehan M. El Zokm, Kamal Z. El Deeb, Mohamed A. Okbah -
Ten years of measurements and modeling of soil temperature changes and their effects on permafrost in Northwestern Alaska
Abstract Multiple studies demonstrate Northwest Alaska and the Alaskan North Slope are warming. Melting permafrost causes surface destabilization and ecological changes. Here, we use thermistors permanently installed in 1996 in a borehole in...
2016 / Joseph F. Batir, Matthew J. Hornbach, David D. Blackwell -
Front Metal Finger Inhomogeneity: Its Influence on Optimization and on the Cell Efficiency Distribution in Production Lines
Abstract A model is developed for simulating the inhomogeneity of front metal fingers and its influence on the performance of mass-produced crystalline silicon solar cells. First, it is shown by numerical device simulations that, in modern cell...
2016 / Y. Chen, Y. Yang, W. Deng, A. Ali, P.J. Verlinden, et al. -
Quantitative Evaluation of the Potential of Underground Space Resources in Urban Central Areas Based on Multiple Factors: A Case Study of Xicheng District, Beijing
Abstract Compared with those of other areas, the conditions for the development and utilization of urban central areas are often more complex and diverse. Taking Xicheng District of Bejing as an example, this research sorts out and extracts the main ...
2016 / Yiting Zhao, Kejie Wu -
ENSO-driven energy budget perturbations in observations and CMIP models2016 / Michael Mayer, John T. Fasullo, Kevin E. Trenberth, Leopold Haimberger
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Coupling of Geochemical and Multiphase Flow Processes for Validation of the MUFITS Reservoir Simulator Against TOUGH
Abstract A benchmark study is presented comparing the outcome of two different simulators, the established TOUGH and the modern, more efficient MUFITS, with the purpose to evaluate the coupling of geochemical processes to multiphase flow in the...
2016 / M. De Lucia, T. Kempka, A. Afanasyev, O. Melnik, M. Kühn -
Assessment of Data Driven and Process Based Water Management Tools for the Geothermal Reservoir Waiwera (New Zealand)
Abstract The reservoir below the village is commercially used since 1863. Due to overproduction in the 1960s and 1970s the water level declined critically. Therefore, abstraction rates were limited, monitoring deployed and models set up to manage...
2016 / Michael Kühn, Charlotte Altmannsberger