Life Cycle Assessment of an Avocado: Grown in South Africa-Enjoyed in Europe.

Food production is known to have significant environmental impacts, with the main contributors residing in the farming and transportation life cycle phases. Of the various food products transported around the world, avocados have increasingly gained attention as a high-commodity superfood. Avocados require specific climatic and agricultural conditions for farming, with the most fertile land and conditions located outside Europe.

MADV-DAQ: Multi-channel Arduino-based differential voltage data acquisition system for remote strain measurement applications.

Wind turbine power generation, both onshore and offshore, has gained significant popularity over the past few decades. However, the design of a turbine's foundation, capable of supporting a tall structure subject to large horizontal forces, remains challenging. Complex wind loading and intricate soil-structure interaction between the foundation and the supporting soil requires consideration.

TD-DAQ: A low-cost data acquisition system monitoring the unsaturated pore pressure regime in tailings dams.

Tailings dams are large, often self-contained, storage facilities of mine residue. On self-contained tailings dams the tailings material itself is used to raise the containment embankments holding newly deposited residue. To develop the necessary strength, it is essential that material must dry out sufficiently.

A low-cost, mobile real-time kinematic geolocation service for engineering and research applications.

Centimetre accurate geolocation service is beneficial to a wide range of applications, ranging from sports engineering, civil infrastructure, autonomous vehicles, surveying to digitisation of historically significant structures. Previously, these features were confined to prohibitively expensive commercial hardware, requiring technical knowledge and experience to operate. Continued technological advancements have seen the miniaturisation of electronics and antennas, coupled with an increase in the number and performance of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) by various nations and organisations, providing global signal coverage.

Artificial Termite-Fishing Tasks as Enrichment for Sanctuary-Housed Chimpanzees: Behavioral Effects and Impact on Welfare.

Artificial termite-fishing tasks are a common enrichment for captive great apes, promoting species-typical behaviors. Nonetheless, whether these activities are linked to changes in other behaviors and whether these changes persist over time has seldom been investigated. We assessed whether the use of an artificial termite-fishing task was linked to changes in the solitary behavior and social dynamics in two groups of sanctuary-housed chimpanzees ().