Academic Articles & Research Papers

Editorial: Nature-based solutions for urban water management

Hydrogeochemical Characterization and Appraisal of Groundwater Quality in Yisr River Catchment, Blue Nile River Basin, Ethiopia, by Using the GIS, WQI, and Statistical Techniques

Groundwater is a primary drinking, agricultural, domestic, and nondomestic water source in Ethiopia’s Yisr River watershed of the Blue Nile River basin. There has been no systematic investigation of the hydrogeochemical properties of ground...

Assessment of sediment yield and accumulation in reservoir: The case of Gibe One Reservoir, Southwestern Ethiopia

Soil erosion and sediment buildup are the factors that speed up the decline in capacity and function of reservoirs, agricultural products, and water resources. In order to simulate sediment and runoff and map high sediment-yielding sub-basi...

Adaptive Tracking Control of Anchoring Unit for Pipeline Intelligent Plugging Robot Based on Improved Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient

A pipeline intelligent plugging robot (PIPR) is an important tool in subsea pipeline maintenance and emergency repair. Precise position-tracking control is crucial for the in-pipe plugging operation of a PIPR. The anchoring module is the ke...

Operation strategies of n-DAMO and Anammox process based on microbial interactions for high rate nitrogen removal from landfill leachate

Nitrate/nitrite-dependent anaerobic methane oxidation (n-DAMO) coupling to Anaerobic ammonium oxidation (Anammox) provides an opportunity for simultaneous nitrogen removal and methane emissions mitigation from wastewater. However, to achiev...

L’écriture picaresque d’Eduardo Mendoza dans El misterio de la cripta embrujada

Dans son roman El misterio de la cripta embrujada, Eduardo Mendoza exploite les mécanismes de l’écriture policière tout en se livrant à un véritable travail de réécriture du genre. L’énigme, les démarches de l’enquêteur, les poursuites, la ...

The Recessed Arched Mihrab Design: An Identity Marker in the Formation of Art in the Zand Era

Each King in their respective reigns attempted to shape visual culture according to their intellectual and ideological foundations. In some periods, these changes were explicit and evident, while in others, they were implicit and gradual. T...

Understanding the Attitudes of Communities to the Social, Economic, and Cultural Importance of Working Donkeys in Rural, Peri-urban, and Urban Areas of Ethiopia

Working donkeys (Equus africanus asinus) are vital to the development and support of people's livelihoods in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas of Ethiopia. However, despite their critical role in providing transport, food security, and inc...

Differential Remodelling of Endometrial Extracellular Matrix in the Non-Pregnant Uterus of <i>Lagostomus maximus</i> as a Potential Mechanism Underlying Embryonic Death

During development, the remodelling of fibrillar components of the uterine extracellular matrix (ECM), mediated by the matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) and their tissue inhibitors (TIMPs), plays an essential role in embryonic survival. Prev...

Le rayon de déforestation autour de la ville de Lubumbashi (Haut-Katanga, R.D. Congo): synthèse

The Deforestation Radius Around Lubumbashi City (Upper Katanga, DR Congo): Synthesis. The Miombo woodland is a type of vegetation widely distributed in Zambezian Africa where it provides timber and non-timber forest products to millions of ...

Bioecological Study on the Sand Flies (Diptera: Psychodidae, Phlebotominae) in Sari County, North of Iran

Background: Phlebotomine sand flies are vectors of Leishmania species, the causative agents of leishmaniasis in the world. Present study aimed to evaluate the bioecological aspects of sand flies in different ecotopes in Sari County, north o...

Inconsistent Patterns of Soil Fauna Biodiversity and Soil Physicochemical Characteristic Along an Urbanization Gradient

Urbanization has induced substantial changes in soil physicochemical characteristic, which plays an important role in regulating soil fauna biodiversity in forests and grasslands. However, less is known about the urbanization effect on soil...

A method for preparing remolded samples of silty clay interbedded with silty sand

Interbedded soil is a special soil and is often encountered in littoral facies and river floodplain formations. Furthermore, the interbedded soil of cohesive soil and sandy soil is especially unique in its overall mechanical behavior due to...

An Examination of the Multiphase Darcy Model of Fluid Displacement in Porous Media Examen du modèle polyphasique de Darcy de déplacement de fluides en milieu poreux

The multiphase Darcy model used to represent two-phase immiscible displacement flow within porous media is critically examined, and the principle assumptions and limitations discussed. We identify some of the main problems which require bet...

Green Innovation and Firm Performance: Market and Managerial Drivers

The modern business environment depends on green innovation to achieve sustainable growth through environmentally friendly products that boost both operational effectiveness and market competencies. Research explains how external environmen...

Leveraging AI to optimize vaccines supply chain and logistics in Africa: opportunities and challenges

Examining the current situation of the vaccine supply chain in Africa, the article highlights the importance of AI technologies while outlining the prospects and problems in vaccine supply chain management in Africa. Despite the significanc...

Implications of climate change on freshwater ecosystems and their biodiversity

Global warming is a phenomenon whereby the planet's exposure to the sun's radiation worsens from the high emission of gasses believed to trap heat within the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the leading greenhouse gas majorly responsible...

Why bisexuality is queer

The essay starts with the author’s Positioning, a feminist practice of disclosing her own intellectual and political perspectives – since knowledge is situated, never neutral. In section 1. Coming to terms with bisexuality naming practices,...

Analisa keberadaan lembaga kesejahteraan sosial anak (LKSA) di Kabupaten Sidoarjo

Di Indonesia, diperkirakan jumlah anak terlantar sekitar 3,5 juta jiwa. Ini pun terbatas pada kelompok anak-anak yang yatim piatu dimana dari jumlah itu hanya sedikit di antara mereka yang terjangkau pelayanan sosial. Di Kabupaten Sidoarjo ...

UNCLAIMED “DEMANDED PROFESSION” IN THE CAREERS OF LAW GRADUATES

The system of legal education has been developing to a greater extent under requirements of the market, going out of professionals’ control. In the condition of uncontrolled growth the processes ofde ter ior ation of quality, under utilizat...