In-situ burning (ISB) is a conventional method in oil spill cleanup. It requires less equipment compared to manual or mechanical recovery. It is also faster…
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In 2016, over three million children in the United States were subjects of a child protective service (CPS) investigation. One in five of these children…
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Conditioning of built environments dominates global energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. If lighting can be used actively to stimulate our perception of the thermal…
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What is aggressiveness? When we try to imagine an aggressive person, some of us would imagine a person who initiates fights or arguments, while others…
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It is clear that we cannot live without plastic anymore. Plastic has become an essential material for our life, from the moment we get up…
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The presence of soluble salts, such as sodium chloride, in agricultural soils can dramatically reduce crop yield. In irrigated agriculture, especially in arid and semi-arid…
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Ice streams and outlet glaciers are relatively fast-flowing regions of ice that are adjacent to nearly stagnant ice or mountains. These ice streams are visible…
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Dams have expanded rapidly in the world. People focus on issues ranging from irrigation, hydroelectric power, water resource allocation, and ecological restoration and believe it…
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Billions of larval blue crabs, or zoeae, are spawned each year into the many estuaries and bays of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the…
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There are two venerable rules about how relationships form. We like people who are physically and psychologically similar to us (homophily or propinquity), and we…
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During the last century in medicine, much progress was made in controlling infectious diseases. The associated human mortality has considerably gone down and nowadays most…
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