Sciences de la Terre et de l'environnement

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Photocatalytic degradation and photo-Fenton oxidation of Congo red dye pollutants in water using natural chromite—response surface optimization

Refined natural Fe-chromite was characterized by XRD, FT-IR, reflected polarized microscope, XRF and UV spectrophotometer. Photocatalytic degradation and photo-Fenton oxidation …

2017 Open Access

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Climate change accelerates growth of urban trees in metropolises worldwide

Despite the importance of urban trees, their growth reaction to climate change and to the urban heat island effect has …

2017 Open Access

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Randomised Field Trial of Water Treatment System Diagnostics for Risk Reduction in Rwanda

{ "background": "Inadequate water treatment infrastructure in many regions contributes to persistent public health risks. Systematic diagnostic protocols for existing …

2017 Open Access

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Characterizing Biodiversity Data Leaks v1

Biodiversity data exist in large quantities, which is a boon to biodiversity science. In spite of large numbers of data …

2017 Open Access

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Users’ awareness and satisfaction with the Biodiversity information in Tanga, Dar es Salaam, Morogoro and Coast regions.

This article examines the users’ awareness and satisfaction with biodiversity information that was being provided by their respective information systems. …

2017 Open Access

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Could night-guards be used as a simple method to detect leached-elements from dental restorations intra-orally? A study on amalgam restorations

Background: Detection of leached-elements from dental restorations intra-orally has been a subject of prime importance in dental research. However, this …

2017 Open Access

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A summary index for antimicrobial resistance in food animals in the Netherlands

BACKGROUND: The Dutch government has set targets for reduction of antimicrobial usage in food animals, stipulating a 50% reduction in …

2017 Open Access

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Delineation of shallow channel geometry and infill lithology using Spectral decomposition and seismic attributes: A case study from the North Sea Basin, Netherlands

Abstract. In the Southern North Sea, 3D seismic data had been widely acquired to explore for hydrocarbons, but interpretations of …

2017 Open Access

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Correspondence: Numerical modelling of the PERM anomaly and the Emeishan large igneous province

Large igneous provinces (LIPs) are the result of catastrophic melting in the upper mantle, and by reconstructing their positions over …

2017 Open Access

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Chemical, microbial and antibiotic susceptibility analyses of groundwater after a major flood event in Chennai

During floods, human exposure to pathogens through contaminated water leads to the outbreak of epidemic diseases. This research presents the …

2017 Open Access

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Aantekeninge by drie klein geskiedenisse

The reviewer identifies three disparate texts, Koos Malgas Sculptor of the Owl House (Julia Malgas and Jeni Couzyn, 2008), The …

2017 Open Access

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Climate wars and fat wars: A new role for law

Public trust in science is eroding because of a number of conflicts. In the sphere of climate science and of …

2017 Open Access

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Program-assisted sizing of a photovoltaic-powered water pumping system

Climate change has had perhaps the most adverse effect on African rural communities where we witness persistent droughts and erratic …

2017 Open Access

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Technological challenges influencing the implementation of green energy in the SME sector in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN)

Electricity is an essential basic need that the South African government needs to pay special attention. A continuous or uninterrupted …

2017 Open Access

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Towards Enhancing Rainfall Projection using Bias Correction Method : Case Study Egypt

Climate models are numerical representations of various parts of the Earth

2017 Open Access

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Reduction of in utero lead exposures in South African populations: Positive impact of unleaded petrol

BACKGROUND: Prenatal exposure to lead (Pb) has been shown to have negative and irreversible health impacts on foetal and early …

2017 Open Access

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From Mice to Mole-Rats: Species-Specific Modulation of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis

Rodent populations living in their natural environments have very diverse ecological and life history profiles that may differ substantially from …

2017 Open Access

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The collection of birds from Mozambique at the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical of the University of Lisbon (Portugal)

The Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical of the University of Lisbon, which resulted from the recent merger (in 2015) of …

2017 Open Access

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Analysing taxonomic structures and local ecological processes in temperate forests in North Eastern China

BACKGROUND: One of the core issues of forest community ecology is the exploration of how ecological processes affect community structure. …

2017 Open Access

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A Spanner in the Works: Human–Elephant Conflict Complicates the Food–Water–Energy Nexus in Drylands of Africa

The two major conservation issues for drylands of Africa are habitat loss or degradation and habitat fragmentation, largely from agriculture, …

2017 Open Access