Thermal Analysis of Building Roofs with Latent Heat Storage for Reduction in Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions: An Experimental and Numerical Research by Erdem Cuce, Saboor Shaik, Abin Roy, Chelliah Arumugam, Asif Afzal, Pinar Mert Cuce, Aritra Ghosh, Tabish Alam, Sharmas Vali Shaik

“…They also reported the greatest carbon mitigation of 300.55 kg of CO2/year and 281.58 kg of CO2/year with the faster payback periods. …”
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Comparison of sustainable life cycle assessment on building construction methods: IBS versus conventional by Nik Mazlan Nik Muhammad Akif, Ismail Sushilawati, Saryanto Hendi, Wan Nasaruddin Wan Anwar Faiz, Tukiat Ikhwan Shah Tisadi

“…Therefore, this study aims to evaluate the IBS building sustainability performance based on carbon emission values. A life cycle assessment (LCA) comparison between conventional methods and the IBS method will be conducted to see the carbon footprint percentage based on comparing these two methods. …”
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Future Arctic: how will increasing coastal erosion shape nearshore planktonic food webs? by Gabriel A. Juma, Cédric L. Meunier, Emily M. Herstoff, Anna M. Irrgang, Michael Fritz, Caroline Weber, Hugues Lantuit, Inga V. Kirstein, Maarten Boersma

“…Currently, warming accelerates the erosion of permafrost coasts and the associated discharge of sediment, carbon, and nutrients into the Arctic Ocean. However, the impacts of coastal erosion on planktonic food webs remain understudied. …”
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Research on Closed-Loop Supply Chain with Competing Retailers under Government Reward-Penalty Mechanism and Asymmetric Information by Xiao-qing Zhang, Xi-gang Yuan, Da-lin Zhang

“…Using dynamics game theory and principal-agent theory, three dynamic game models are built including (1) benchmark model without reward-penalty mechanism (RPM); (2) decentralized model with carbon emission RPM; (3) decentralized model with carbon emission RPM and recovery rate RPM. …”
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Smart In-Cabin Air Monitoring System using IoT Technologies by Falah Y H Ahmed, Jabar H. Yousif, Marwan Alshar’e, Maram El Sheikh, Ehsan Al-Ajmi, Mahmood Al-Bahri

“…Those scenarios are dangerous because of the effect of low oxygen, high carbon dioxide, and high temperature on humans. Oxygen deprivation and high carbon dioxide intake negatively affect the human brain. …”
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Fish protein fertilizer serves as a sustainable alternative, improving soil properties, bamboo growth and shoots yield in Lei bamboo forests by Jiancheng Zhao, Huijing Ni, Bo Wang, Zhenya Yang

“…Results showed that after replacing 45 kg of compound fertilizer with 10 kg and 20 kg, respectively, of fish protein fertilizer (1) bamboo shoot yield increased by 23.24% and 26.19%, respectively; (2) leaf and root growth were enhanced, thick root proportion increased, and topsoil root proportion decreased; (3) soil pH, contents of available phosphate, soil organic carbon, microbial biomass carbon and microbial biomass nitrogen, soil enzyme activity increased; (4) the contents of nitrogen (N) and phosphate (P) in leaves increased, while the N/P and K/P decreased. …”
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Degradation of High-Concentration Nitrate Nitrogen in Groundwater: A Laboratory Study by Manxi Liu, Lu Xia, Ruinan Liu, Zongjun Gao, Cong Han, Jianguo Feng, Jing Wang, Wanlong Qu, Tongju Xing

“…Both groups of experiments established four types of culture environments: anaerobic, anaerobic with an added carbon source (glucose), aerobic, and aerobic with an added carbon source (glucose). …”
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The Bonding Mechanism and Experimental Verification of Pilger Hot Rolling Clad Tube by Zonglin He, Zhibing Chu, Yuanhua Shuang, Yujun Gou

“…The numerical simulation and the experiment are carried out from the diffusion behavior of carbon atoms in the metallurgical bonding process. …”
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Ion-Replacement Strategy in Preparing Bi-Based MOF and Its Derived Bi/C Composite for Efficient Sodium Storage by Zhenpeng Zhu, Shuya Zhang, Kuan Shen, Fu Cao, Qinghong Kong, Junhao Zhang

“…Meanwhile, porous carbon sheets can increase the electrical conductivity and accelerate the electrochemical reaction kinetics.…”
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Parameters Controlling the Oxide Reduction during Sintering of Chromium Prealloyed Steel by Monika Hrubovčáková, Eva Dudrová, Eduard Hryha, Margita Kabátová, Jarmila Harvanová

“…In terms of strength properties, carbon content should not be higher than ~0.45%.…”
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End-of-Life Options for (Bio)degradable Polymers in the Circular Economy by Wanda Sikorska, Marta Musioł, Barbara Zawidlak-Węgrzyńska, Joanna Rydz

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Feature Engineering to Embed Process Knowledge: Analyzing the Energy Efficiency of Electric Arc Furnace Steelmaking by Quantum Zhuo, Mansour N. Al-Harbi, Petrus C. Pistorius

“…The importance of electric arc furnace (EAF) steelmaking is expected to increase worldwide as parts of the industry transition to lower carbon dioxide emissions. This work analyzed one year’s operational data from an EAF plant that uses a large proportion of direct-reduced iron (DRI) in the furnace feed. …”
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Characterization of Glasses in One Type of Alumina Rich Fly Ash by Chemical Digestion Methods: Implications for Alumina Extraction by Lijun Zhao, Hanshuang Xiao, Baodong Wang, Qi Sun

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Possible glendonite mineral pseudomorphs in the aftermath of the end-Permian extinction by Musaab Al-Sarmi, Rachel Wood

“…The pseudomorphs show δ13C values from − 0.14‰ to − 0.85‰ (mean − 0.43‰; n = 5) that are more positive than the associated micritic matrix, where values range from − 0.92‰ to − 2.39‰ (mean − 1.64‰; n = 7), indicating that oceanic dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) was the primary carbon source rather than either methane or organic matter. …”
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Morphological Evolution and Extinction of Eodiscids and Agnostoid Arthropods by Huarui Li, Tao Dai, Yanlong Chen, Chunling Xue, Luke C. Strotz

“…Subsequent reductions in agnostid morphospace occupation coincide not only with significant abiotic changes and associated extinction events, such as the Botoman–Toyonian Extinctions (BTEs), the Redlichiid–Olenellid Extinction Carbon Isotope Excursion (ROECE), the Drumian Carbon Isotope Excursion (DICE), and the Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion event (SPICE), but also with major evolutionary episodes, such as the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE). …”
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Methane Adsorption in Anthracite Coal under Different Pressures and Temperatures—A Study Combining Isothermal Adsorption and Molecular Simulation by Tieya Jing, Jian Zhang, Mingyu Zhu, Wentao Zhao, Juan Zhou, Yulong Yin

“…The results show that the carbon skeleton of coal sample is mainly composed by aromatic carbon (72%), followed by aliphatic carbon structure (14.2%). …”
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Effects of Hydrophobic Nanospaces on Structures of Lysozyme by Koki Takenaka, Tomonori Ohaba, Kazuo Takei, Kuniko Akama, Joaquin Silvestre-Albero, Hirofumi Kanoh

“…Carbon aerogel (CA) was used as the carbon material. …”
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Evaluation of Elemental and Chemical Compositions of Some Fuelwood Species for Energy Value by A. M. Dadile, O. A. Sotannde, B. D. Zira, M. Garba, I. Yakubu

“…Meanwhile, the addition of 5% and 10% bark reduces carbon content of wood by 1.25% and 2.74%, respectively. …”
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Electrochemically synthesized H2O2 at industrial-level current densities enabled by in situ fabricated few-layer boron nanosheets by Yuhan Wu, Yuying Zhao, Qixin Yuan, Hao Sun, Ao Wang, Kang Sun, Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse, Ziyun Wang, Jingjie Wu, Jianchun Jiang, Mengmeng Fan

“…Abstract Carbon nanomaterials show outstanding promise as electrocatalysts for hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) synthesis via the two-electron oxygen reduction reaction. …”
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Evaluation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoff and Synergy in the Alpine and Canyon Region of Southwest China Based on Multi-source Geographic Data by LIU Jing, XIANG Jiayi, ZHANG Donghai, LAN Mengyao, GUAN Yinghui

“…[Results] (1) From 2000 to 2020, carbon sequestration and water retention services in the alpine and canyon region of southwest China were steadily improved, with annual carbon sequestration increasing from 1 927 g/(m2·a) to 1985 g/(m2·a), and the WR index rising from 0.062 to 0.067. …”
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