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  • Irrigation demand modelling using the UKCP09 weather generator: lessons learned 
    Green, Michael; Weatherhead, E. K. (IWA Publishing, 2013-12-03)
    The determination of irrigation demand is typically based on crop modelling using a long historic record of local daily weather data. However, there are rarely adequate weather station records near to given sites; often ...
  • Is chemically reactive membrane crystallisation faciliated by heterogeneous primary nucleation? Comparison with conventional gas-liquid crystallisation for ammonium bicarbonate precipitation in a CO2-NH3-H2O system 
    Bavarella, Salvatore; Hermassi, Mehrez; Brookes, Adam; Moore, A.; Vale, P.; Di Profio, G.; Curcio, E.; Hart, P.; Pidou, Marc; McAdam, Ewan (American Chemical Society, 2020-01-27)
    In this study, membrane crystallisation is compared to conventional gas-liquid crystallisation for the precipitation of ammonium bicarbonate, to demonstrate the distinction in kinetic trajectory and illustrate the inherent ...
  • Is global ozone recovering? 
    Steinbrecht, Wolfgang; Hegglin, Michaela I.; Harris, Neil R. P.; Weber, Mark (Elsevier, 2018-10-13)
    Thanks to the Montreal Protocol, the stratospheric concentrations of ozone-depleting chlorine and bromine have been declining since their peak in the late 1990s. Global ozone has responded: The substantial ozone decline ...
  • Is it feasible to use mixed orchards to manage apple scab? 
    Stewart, Katie; Passey, Thomas; Verheecke-Vaessen, Carol; Kevei, Zoltan; Xu, Xiangming (Maximum Academic Press, 2023-10-10)
    Apple scab, caused by the fungus Venturia inaequalis, is one of the most damaging diseases of cultivated apples (Malus x domestica) worldwide. It results in huge losses as it diminishes fruit quality and impacts tree growth. ...
  • Is the hyporheic zone relevant beyond the scientific community? 
    Lewandowski, Jörg; Arnon, Shai; Banks, Eddie; Batelaan, Okke; Betterle, Andrea; Broecker, Tabea; Coll, Claudia; Drummond, Jennifer D.; Garcia, Jaime Gaona; Galloway, Jason; Gomez-Velez, Jesus; Grabowski, Robert C.; Herzog, Skuyler P.; Hinkelmann, Reinhard; Höhne, Anja; Hollender, Juliane; Horn, Marcus A.; Jaeger, Anna; Krause, Stefan; Löchner Prats, Adrian; Magliozzi, Chiara; Meinikmann, Karin; Babak Mojarrad, Brian; Mueller, Birgit Maria; Peralta-Maraver, Ignacio; Popp, Andrea L.; Posselt, Malte; Putschew, Anke; Radke, Michael; Raza, Muhammad; Riml, Joakim; Robertson, Anne; Rutere, Cyrus; Schaper, Jonas L.; Schirmer, Mario; Schulz, Hanna; Shanafield, Margaret; Singh, Tanu; Ward, Adam S.; Wolke, Philipp; Wörman, Anders; Wu, Liwen (MDPI, 2019-10-25)
    Rivers are important ecosystems under continuous anthropogenic stresses. The hyporheic zone is a ubiquitous, reactive interface between the main channel and its surrounding sediments along the river network. We elaborate ...
  • Is urban growing of fruit and vegetables associated with better diet quality and what mediates this relationship? Evidence from a cross-sectional survey 
    Mead, Bethan R.; Christiansen, Paul; Davies, Jessica A. C.; Falagán, Natalia; Kourmpetli, Sofia; Liu, Lingxuan; Walsh, Lael; Hardman, Charlotte A. (Elsevier, 2021-03-18)
    Urban agriculture (UA), the growing of fruits and vegetables in urban and peri-urban areas, may improve food security and access, public health and dietary quality on both a broad and personal scale. However, there is ...
  • Isobutanol production by Candida glabrata – A potential organism for future fuel demands 
    Lakshmi, Nair M.; Binoop, Mohan; Salini, Chandrasekharan Nair; Vivek, Narisetty; Sindhu, Raveendran; Pandey, Ashok; Binod, Parameswaran (Elsevier, 2021-08-13)
    Due to global concern on the sustainability of energy from fossil fuels, isobutanol as a biofuel has urged attention in recent years due to its high octane number, higher blending capacity, low vapour pressure and higher ...
  • Isoprene hotspots at the Western Coast of Antarctic Peninsula during MASEC′16 
    Nadzir, M. S. M.; Cain, M.; Robinson, A. D.; Bolas, C.; Harris, Neil R. P.; Parnikoza, I.; Salimun, E.; Mustafa, E. M.; Alhasa, K. M.; Zainuddin, M. H. M.; Ghee, O. C.; Morris, K.; Khan, M. F.; Latif, M. T.; Wallis, B. M.; Cheah, W.; Zainudin, S. K.; Yusop, N.; Ahmad, M. R; Hussin, W. M. R. W.; Salleh, S. M.; Hamid, H. H. A.; Lai, G. T.; Uning, R.; Bakar, M. A. A.; Ariff, N. M.; Tuah, Z.; Wahab, M. I. A.; Foong, S. Y.; Samah, Azizan Abu; Chenoli, S. N.; Wan Johari, W. L.; Zain, C. R. C. M.; Rahman, N. A.; Rosenstiel, T. N.; Yusof, A. H.; Sabuti, A. A.; Alias, S. A.; Noor, A. Y. M. (Elsevier, 2018-12-28)
    Isoprene (C5H8) plays an important role in the formation of surface ozone (O3) and the secondary organic aerosol (SOA) which contributed to the climate change. This study aims to determine hourly distribution of tropospheric ...
  • Isotopic signatures of methane emissions from tropical fires, agriculture and wetlands: the MOYA and ZWAMPS flights 
    MOYA/ZWAMPS Team; Nisbet, Euan; Allen, Grant; Fisher, Rebecca E.; France, James L.; Lee, James D.; Lowry, David; Andrade, Marcos F.; Bannan, Thomas J.; Barker, Patrick; Bateson, Prudence; Bauguitte, Stéphane J.-B.; Bower, Keith N.; Broderick, Tim J.; Chibesakunda, Francis; Cain, Michelle; Cozens, Alice E.; Daly, Michael C.; Ganesan, Anita L.; Jones, Anna E.; Lambakasa, Musa; Lunt, Mark F.; Mehra, Archit; Moreno, Isabel; Pasternak, Dominika; Palmer, Paul I.; Percival, Carl J.; Pitt, Joseph R.; Riddle, Amber J.; Rigby, Matthew; Shaw, Jacob T.; Stell, Angharad C.; Vaughan, Adam R.; Warwick, Nicola J.; Wilde, Shona E. (The Royal Society, 2021-12-06)
    We report methane isotopologue data from aircraft and ground measurements in Africa and South America. Aircraft campaigns sampled strong methane fluxes over tropical papyrus wetlands in the Nile, Congo and Zambezi basins, ...
  • Itaconic acid and its applications for textile, pharma and agro-industrial purposes 
    Devi, Nisha; Singh, Shubhangi; Manickam, Shivakumar; Cruz-Martins, Natália; Kumar, Vinod; Verma, Rachna; Kumar, Dinesh (MDPI, 2022-10-24)
    Itaconic acid (IA) is a well-known bio-based monounsaturated organic acid (C5H6O4), with a white color and crystalline structure. It is widely used in the agro-based, plastics, textile, paint and pharmaceutical sectors, ...
  • JellyNet: The convolutional neural network jellyfish bloom detector 
    Mcilwaine, Ben; Rivas Casado, Monica (Elsevier, 2021-01-21)
    Coastal industries face disruption on a global scale due to the threat of large blooms of jellyfish. They can decimate coastal fisheries and clog the water intake systems of desalination and nuclear power plants. This can ...
  • Keep ecological restoration open and flexible 
    Higgs, Eric S.; Harris, Jim A.; Heger, Tina; Hobbs, Richard J.; Murphy, Stephen D.; Suding, Katharine N. (Nature Publishing Group, 2018-02-05)
    The stakes are high as investment commitments to ecological restoration intensify1. The ‘international standards’ published by the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER)2 and the adoption of a narrow definition of ...
  • Key challenges and priorities for modelling European grasslands under climate change 
    Kipling, Richard P.; Virkajarvi, Perttu; Breitsameter, Laura; Curnel, Yannick; De Swaef, Tom; Gustavsson, Anne-Maj; Hennart, Sylvain; Hoglind, Mats; Jarvenranta, Kirsi; Minet, Julien; Nendel, Claas; Persson, Tomas; Picon-Cochard, Catherine; Rolinski, Susanne; Sandars, Daniel L.; Scollan, Nigel D.; Sebek, Leon; Seddaiu, Giovanna; Topp, Cairistiona F. E.; Twardy, Stanislaw; van Middelkoop, Jantine; Wu, Lianhai; Bellocchi, Gianni (Elsevier, 2016-05-19)
    Grassland-based ruminant production systems are integral to sustainable food production in Europe, converting plant materials indigestible to humans into nutritious food, while providing a range of environmental and cultural ...
  • Kinetic characterisation of a single chain antibody against the hormone abscisic acid: comparison with its parental monoclonal 
    Badescu, George; Marsh, Andrew; Smith, Timothy R.; Thompson, Andrew J.; Napier, Richard M. (Public Library of Science, 2016-03-09)
    A single-chain Fv fragment antibody (scFv) specific for the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) has been expressed in the bacterium Escherichia coli as a fusion protein. The kinetics of ABA binding have been measured using ...
  • Kinetic simulation of a 100kWth oxy-combustor using Aspen Plus 
    Jurado Pontes, Nelia; Gohari Darabkhani, Hamidreza; Anthony, Edward J.; Oakey, John (C2ES, 2013-12)
    Oxy-fuel combustion is a clean coal technology based on firing fuel in an enriched oxygen atmosphere to obtain high CO2 concentrations in the exhaust gas. Experimental tests were performed at Cranfield University using a ...
  • Kinetic study and modeling on the regeneration of Li4SiO4-based sorbents for high-temperature CO2 capture 
    Chen, Shuzhen; Qin, Changlei; Yuan, Weiyang; Hanak, Dawid P.; Ran, Jingyu (Elsevier, 2021-08-06)
    Li4SiO4 is acknowledged as a promising sorbent candidate in high-temperature CO2 adsorption. However, reaction kinetics for the regeneration process of Li4SiO4, especially its dependence on CO2 pressure is lack of ...
  • A kinetic study on lignite char gasification with CO2 and H2O in a fluidized bed reactor 
    Tong, Shuai; Li, Lin; Duan, Lunbo; Zhao, Changsui; Anthony, Edward J. (Elsevier, 2018-10-25)
    Lignite char gasification experiments in CO2, H2O and their mixture were performed in a fluidized bed reactor over the temperatures range of 1060–1210 K. The active sites occupied by different gasifying agents in CO2/H2O ...
  • Kinetics of catalytic biomass pyrolysis using Ni-based functional materials 
    Yang, Hang; Ji, Guozhao; Clough, Peter T. (Elsevier, 2019-07-12)
    The pyrolysis behaviors of three types of biomass (cellulose, sawdust and straw) in three cases (no catalyst, Ni-CaO-Ca2SiO4 and Ni-Ca2SiO4) were investigated by non-isothermal thermogravimetric analysis. The non-isothermal ...
  • Kinetics of duplex oxide growth on 9Cr steels exposed in CO2: application of dimensional metrology 
    Sumner, Joy; Simms, Nigel; Shin, Aya; Pearson, Jonathan (Springer, 2017-04-05)
    Investigations into potentially extending the lives of UK advanced gas-cooled reactors have highlighted the need for improved understanding of the long-term oxidation and carburisation of 9Cr ferritic steels. These steels ...
  • Knowledge brokering at the science—policy interface: designated knowledge brokers or scientists as boundary spanners in practice? 
    Sodomkova, Kristina (2013-04)
    The environmental sector has witnessed a steep increase in the number of published studies promoting knowledge brokering as a solution for bridging the alleged science—policy gap. A critical review exposed knowledge brokering ...

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