Assessment of Impacts of Wastewater Discharge in River Rwizi in Mbarara City. by Niwenyesiga, Dison

“…Sample analysis was mainly limited to; the 5-day Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD5), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), turbidity, color, Ph, and E. coli because of their relevance as indicators of surface water pollution. …”
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Du tourisme de masse au tourisme durable ? by Claire Weishar

“…Ever more informed about the consequences of mass tourism and sensitized to Sustainable Development, consumer-tourists are gradually formulating the demand for more sustainable tourism.…”
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Cognitive Performance in Hot-Humid Environments of Non-Air-Conditioned Buildings: A Subjective Evaluation by Hui Zhu, Yichao Wang, Da Yuan, Kun Gao, Quanna Liao, Masanari Ukai, Fan Zhang, Songtao Hu

“…The results showed that five items of NASA-TLX, namely mental demand, physical demand, temporal demand, effort, and frustration, were negatively related to air temperature (<i>p</i> < 0.05), and they were also observed to have quasi-inverted-U relationships with exposure time. …”
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Using benthos a bioindicator to assess the efficiency constructed wetland community wastewater treatment system by K. Seethong, K. Chunkao, N. Dampin, W. Wararam

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The increasing population and urban growth have led to a higher demand for water in various sectors, resulting in a significant amount of wastewater. …”
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Investigating the Influence of Surface Runoff and Human Activities on the Seasonal Characterization of Physicochemical Properties of the upper segment of Qua Iboe River Water, Nige... by U. E. Jonah, I. I. Akpan, E. S. Umoh

“…The mean values of Dissolved Oxygen, Nitrate and Biochemical Oxygen Demand in wet season exceeded the standard limits while Turbidity, Phosphate and Total Suspended Solids in both seasons exceeded the standard limits. …”
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Contraceptive care post-Dobbs: A qualitative study of clinic staff perspectives by Alicia VandeVusse, Jennifer Mueller, Octavia Mulhern, Sidney Cech

“…We found that publicly supported family planning clinics have experienced some limited impacts on contraceptive care and contraceptive demand due to the Dobbs decision and resultant abortion bans. …”
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Power-Aware Routing and Network Design with Bundled Links: Solutions and Analysis by Rosario G. Garroppo, Stefano Giordano, Gianfranco Nencioni, Maria Grazia Scutellà

“…The solutions of the PARND-BL model have been analyzed by taking into account different aspects associated with the actual applicability in real network scenarios: (i) the time for obtaining the solution, (ii) the deployed network topology and the resulting topology provided by the solution, (iii) the power behavior of the network elements, (iv) the traffic load, (v) the QoS requirement, and (vi) the number of paths to route each traffic demand. Among the most interesting and novel results, our analysis shows that the strategy of minimizing the number of powered-on network elements through the traffic consolidation does not always produce power savings, and the solution of this kind of problems, in some cases, can lead to spliting a single traffic demand into a high number of paths.…”
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Strategies for Workplace EV Charging Management by Natascia Andrenacci, Antonino Genovese, Giancarlo Giuli

“…Compared to FIFO charging, the implemented strategies allow for a reduction in the maximum charging power between 30 and 40%, a charging demand satisfaction rate of 99%, and a minimum SOC amount of 83%.…”
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A Segmented Signal Progression Model for the Modern Streetcar System by Baojie Wang, Wei Wang, Xiaojian Hu, Xiaowei Li

“…The new method is presented with the following features: (1) the control concept is based on the assumption of only one streetcar line operating along an arterial under a constant headway and no bandwidth demand for streetcar system signal progression; (2) the control unit is defined as a coordinated intersection group associated with several streetcar stations, and the control joints must be streetcar stations; (3) the objective function is built to ensure the two-way streetcar arrival times distributing within the available time of streetcar phase; (4) the available time of streetcar phase is determined by timing schemes, intersection structures, track locations, streetcar speeds, and vehicular accelerations; (5) the streetcar running speed is constant separately whether it is in upstream or downstream route; (6) the streetcar dwell time is preset according to historical data distribution or charging demand. …”
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Analysis of Optimal Load Management Using a Stand-Alone Hybrid AC/DC Microgrid System by Vasantharaj Subramanian, Indragandhi Vairavasundaram, Belqasem Aljafari

“…Typically, diesel or other fossil fuel-based related applications meet electricity demand. Nonetheless, as the cost of fossil fuels rises, as do their harmful emissions, there is a sudden transition toward stand-alone hybrid renewable energy systems (HRESs). …”
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A Short Turning Strategy for Train Scheduling Optimization in an Urban Rail Transit Line: The Case of Beijing Subway Line 4 by Miao Zhang, Yihui Wang, Shuai Su, Tao Tang, Bin Ning

“…In urban rail transit systems, train scheduling plays an important role in improving the transport capacity to alleviate the urban traffic pressure of huge passenger demand and reducing the operation costs for operators. …”
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Nonlinear Behavior Study of Reinforced Concrete Coupling Beams Subjected to the Effect of Wind Loading by Sarah Bashour, Bassam Hwaija, Fadwa Issa

“…As for the parametric study, it was concluded that with axial restraint, the beam behavior was dominated by shear, and a slight increase of strength was observed. At ductility demand of 1.8θy, the beam performed well with no significant damage and minor residual rotations.…”
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A Hybrid Forecasting Model Based on Bivariate Division and a Backpropagation Artificial Neural Network Optimized by Chaos Particle Swarm Optimization for Day-Ahead Electricity Pric... by Zhilong Wang, Feng Liu, Jie Wu, Jianzhou Wang

“…The former method creatively transforms the electricity demand and price to be a new variable, named DV, which is calculated using the division principle, to forecast the day-ahead electricity by multiplying the forecasted values of the DVs and forecasted values of the demand. …”
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Development of a robust multi-objective model for green capacitated location-routing under crisis conditions with time value of money by Shima Roosta, Seyed Milad Mirnajafi Zadeh, Hamid Bazargan Harandi

“…Purpose: Location-Routing Problem (LRP) is a strategic supply chain design problem aimed at meeting customer demands. LRPs involve selecting one or more depot sites from a set of potential locations and determining the best routes to connect them to demand points. …”
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A Comparative Thermal Performance Assessment of Various Solar Collectors for Domestic Water Heating by Ali Raza Kalair, Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian, Muhammad Shoaib Saleem, Naeem Abas, Shoaib Rauf, Alex Stojcevski

“…Growing population, depleting fossil fuels, economic expansions, and energy intensive life style demand are resulting in higher energy prices. We use energy as of heat and electricity, which can directly be obtained from sun using thermal collectors and solar cells. …”
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A Reinforcement Learning Based Traffic Control Strategy in a Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram Region by Lingyu Zheng, Bing Wu

“…The evaluation results showed that, at different demand levels, the proposed MARL strategy outperforms the other three traffic control strategies in terms of average intersection queue length and average intersection waiting time to a different extent. …”
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Warped matrix-variate Gaussian processes with structured kernels for multi-step-ahead driving behaviour prediction by Seiya Takano, Tomohiko Jimbo

“…The increased integration of renewable energy, which is known to fluctuate owing to weather conditions, has necessitated power supply-demand adjustments using virtual power plants (VPPs) that utilize vehicle batteries. …”
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Deep Learning-Assisted Short-Term Power Load Forecasting Using Deep Convolutional LSTM and Stacked GRU by Fath U Min Ullah, Amin Ullah, Noman Khan, Mi Young Lee, Seungmin Rho, Sung Wook Baik

“…Over the decades, a rapid upsurge in electricity demand has been observed due to overpopulation and technological growth. …”
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Estimating Bus Loads and OD Flows Using Location-Stamped Farebox and Wi-Fi Signal Data by Yuxiong Ji, Jizhou Zhao, Zhiming Zhang, Yuchuan Du

“…The proposed method is evaluated empirically on an operational bus route and the results demonstrate that it provides good and detailed transit route-level passenger demand information by combining farebox and Wi-Fi signal data.…”
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Energy management of smart buildings during crises and digital twins as an optimisation tool for sustainable urban environment by Konstantinos Chatzikonstantinidis, Nicholas Afxentiou, Effrosyni Giama, Paris A. Fokaides, Agis M. Papadopoulos

“…These models are crucial for anticipating energy demand fluctuations, especially during unforeseen events such as the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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