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The Impact of Covid 19 on Seaweed Smallholder Farmers in Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia

Hafiizh Prasetia, Firman Zulpikar, Jeverson Renyaan, Muhammad Safaat et al. • Omni-Akuatika (2022)

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the seaweed industry and business. The export-import trade is the most severely impacted sector, mainly the raw material export of seaweed. The purpose of this study was to determine how smallholder farmer...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.20884/1.oa.2022.18.S1.986

The Threefold Role of the University in Fostering the Energy Transition: The Case of Bologna and Its Cesena Campus

Andrea Boeri, Beatrice Turillazzi, Francesca Sabatini, Louise-Nour Sassenou et al. • Energies (2024)

As acceleration toward the transition to a carbon-neutral energy production becomes an urgent imperative, universities are called to play a multifaceted role: to produce knowledge and cutting-edge research for the pursuit of energy transiti...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/en17153751

Gasification of Lignocellulosic Waste in Supercritical Water: Study of Thermodynamic Equilibrium as a Nonlinear Programming Problem

Julles Mitoura dos Santos Junior, Adriano Pinto Mariano • Eng (2024)

As one of the main industrial segments of the current geoeconomics scenario, agro-industrial activities generate excessive amounts of waste. The gasification of such waste using supercritical water (SCWG) has the potential to convert the wa...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/eng5020060

Nuclear Engineering Handbook

• CRC Press eBooks (2009)

Section I Introduction: Nuclear Power Reactors * Historical Development of Nuclear Power Kenneth D. Kok * Pressurized Water Reactors Richard Schreiber * Boiling Water Reactors Kevin Theriault * Heavy Water Reactors Alistar I. Miller, John L...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420053913

Development, modelling and optimization of process parameters on the tensile strength of aluminum, reinforced with pumice and carbonated coal hybrid composites for brake disc application

Tanimu Kogi Ibrahim, Danjuma Saleh Yawas, Julius Thaddaeus, Bashar Danasabe et al. • Scientific Reports (2024)

Abstract This study focuses on optimizing double stir casting process parameters to enhance the tensile strength of hybrid composites comprising aluminum alloy, brown pumice, and coal ash, intended for brake disc applications. Analytical te...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-67476-x

The Prehistoric Indian Ayurvedic Rice Shashtika Is an Extant Early Domesticate With a Distinct Selection History

Mariet Jose, R. Dinesh Raj, M. R. Vinitha, Remya Madhu et al. • Frontiers in Plant Science (2018)

Fully domesticated rice is considered to have emerged in India at approximately 2000 B.C., although its origin in India remains a contentious issue. The fast-growing 60-days rice strain described in the Vedic literature (1900–500 B.C.) and ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2018.01203

Role of hypothetical protein PA1-LRP in antibacterial activity of endolysin from a new Pantoea phage PA1

Ye Tian, Xinyan Xu, Munazza Ijaz, Ying Shen et al. • Frontiers in Microbiology (2024)

IntroductionPantoea ananatis has emerged as a significant plant pathogen affecting various crops worldwide, causing substantial economic losses. Bacteriophages and their endolysins offer promising alternatives for controlling bacterial infe...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1463192

Challenges of the growing African cement market – environmental issues, regulative framework, and quality infrastructure requirements

Schmidt Wolfram, Ngassam Inès L. Tchetgnia, Breitschaft Gerhard, Virchow Stephen • MATEC Web of Conferences (2018)

The African cement, concrete and construction business is growing at rapid pace. The cement sales are expected to grow rapidly until 2050. The number of newly built cement plants increases dramatically and in addition more cements are being...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1051/matecconf/201714901014

Edible insect biodiversity and anthropo-entomophagy practices in Kalehe and Idjwi territories, D.R. Congo

Jackson Ishara, Marcellin C. Cokola, Ariel Buzera, Mercy Mmari et al. • Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2023)

Abstract Background Located in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (South-Kivu), Kalehe and Idjwi are two relatively unexplored territories with little to no research on edible insects even though anthropo-entomophagy practice is wides...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13002-022-00575-z

Climate Change and Crop Yields in Iran and Other OIC Countries

Seyed Hossein Mirjalili, Mahdis Motaghian Fard • International Journal of Business and Development Studies (2019)

Climate change is the main phenomenon that directly affects the world environment, and changes in the environment affect economic sectors differently. The most important impacts of climate change would be on enhancing the average global tem...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22111/ijbds.2019.4840

Use of Point-of-care Ultrasound for Placement of a Gastric Tamponade Balloon

Patrick Minges, Martina Diaz McDermott, Jazmyn Shaw • Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine (2025)

Case Presentation: A 30-year-old female with a history of alcoholic cirrhosis and esophageal varices presented with massive hematemesis. A gastric balloon tamponade device was subsequently placed to temporize variceal hemorrhage, and point-...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5811/cpcem.24999

Jianghan plain, the locale of China’s Great Flood four thousand years ago

Li-Xin Guo, Meng-Long Hsieh, Olga Gorodetskaya, Zi-Hao Fan et al. • Terrestrial, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (2023)

Abstract The Yellow River Plain (YRP), being regarded as the cradle of Chinese civilization, is traditionally thought to be the locale of the Great Flood, a hazardous flood (or floods) tamed by Yu who started China’s first “dynasty”, Xia, i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1007/s44195-023-00044-4

Underground Gas Storage Process Optimisation with Respect to Reservoir Parameters and Production Equipment

Vladislav Brkić, Ivan Zelenika, Petar Mijić, Igor Medved • Energies (2021)

The storage of natural gas in geological structures such as depleted fields, aquifers and salt caverns plays an important role in a gas supply system as it balances the fluctuation of gas demand and price. Hydraulic loss due to fluid flow t...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/en14144324