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January 2025
Departamento de Ciencias de la Construcción, Facultad de Ciencias de la Construcción Ordenamiento Territorial, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile.
There is an initiative driven by the carbon-neutrality nature of biochar in recent times, where various countries across Europe and North America have introduced perks to encourage the production of biochar for construction purposes. This objective aligns with the zero greenhouse emission targets set by COP27 for 2050. This research work seeks to assess the effectiveness of biochar in soils with varying grain size distributions in enhancing the soil-water characteristic curve (SWCC).
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December 2024
Institute of Biomedical Research August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain.
Background: Bilingualism can stimulate brain plasticity (Jafari et al. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2021;1505(1):8-22) and is also associated with better executive function (Grundy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhilos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
January 2025
Georgina Mace Centre for the Living Planet, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK.
Africa boasts high biodiversity while also being home to some of the largest and fastest-growing human populations. Although the current environmental footprint of Africa is low compared to other continents, the population of Africa is estimated at around 1.5 billion inhabitants, representing nearly 18% of the world's total population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Environ Manage
January 2025
Sun Yat-sen University, School of Geography and Planning, GuangZhou, 510275, China. Electronic address:
Surface urban heat islands (SUHI) in urban agglomerations display diverse spatiotemporal patterns, particularly in rapidly urbanizing regions, where these patterns are not well understood. This study examined the spatiotemporal trends of SUHI intensity (SUHII) on the west bank of the Pearl River Estuary, China, from 1990 to 2020, focusing on spatial variations within urban core (UC) and urban expansion (UE) areas and their driving mechanisms. Results show that urban areas expanded rapidly, leading to the formation of a regional heat island, with SUHI intensity varying across the region and the hottest areas shifting from the UC to the UE.
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December 2024
Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
Background: The swift expansion of the invasive malaria vector throughout Africa presents a major challenge to malaria control initiatives. Unlike the native African vectors, thrives in urban settings and has developed resistance to multiple classes of insecticides, including pyrethroids, organophosphates, and carbamates.
Methods: Insecticide susceptibility tests were performed on field-collected mosquitoes from Awash Sebac Kilo, Ethiopia, to assess insecticide resistance levels.
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