Seismic Safety Review of Gravity Dam Based on Finite Element Method by Guanchao Xu, Bowen Guo, Zhuolun Meng, Jiwei Zhao

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Rapid Built-up of PM10 in the Ambient Air of the Leeward Side Resulting from Strong Pressure Gradient Force Associated with Density Current by Wei-Kuo Soong, Chung-Hsuang Hung

“…In addition, strong winds blew river dusts in the middle of Taiwan under a stable atmosphere and stimulated density current, transporting PM10 to southern Taiwan. …”
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Assessment of the Performance of Membranes Type Koch in Hartha Power Plant by Ala'a Abdulrazaq Jassim

“…This unit has a capacity of 100 m3/h withdraws water from Shat Al-Arab River as a raw water having total dissolved solid (TDS) >3000 ppm, and consists of two stages with total recovery and salt rejection of about 60% and 95%, respectively. …”
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Dynamics of the Typhoon Haitang Related High Ozone Episode over Hong Kong by Xiaolin Wei, Ka-se Lam, Chunyan Cao, Hui Li, Jiajia He

“…It has been previously established that photochemical smog occurring in the Pearl River Delta Region (PRD) was associated with stagnant meteorological conditions. …”
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Genome-wide association study and candidate gene identification for the cold tolerance at the seedling stage of rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) by Guangyu Wu, Yanda Zhou, Jingyi Zhang, Mengjie Gong, Lixi Jiang, Yang Zhu

“…Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) is an important overwintering oilseed crop and suffers from severe cold stress during the seedling stage, due to the increasingly delayed sowing in the Yangtze river basin. However, the genetic basis underlying cold tolerance in rapeseed seedlings is not well understood. …”
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Flora i fauna rezerwatu przyrody Jezioro Kiełpińskie i sąsiednich starorzeczy w strefie podmiejskiej Warszawy by Jerzy Romanowski, Paweł Boniecki, Anita Kaliszewicz, Marek Kloss, Izabella Olejniczka

“…The study area is located in the Vistula River valley near Warsaw in central Poland. The results document the richness of flora and fauna species in the J. …”
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ANTHROPOGENIC LOAD ON WATER BODIES IN THE UPPER OB BASIN IN DIFFERENT WATER CONTENT PERIODS: THE DYNAMICS AND THE FORECAST by Natalya V. Stoyashcheva

“…Rivers of industrially loaded regions show the lowest dilution ratio. …”

The biting midge Forcipomyia paludis (Macfie, 1936) (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Sweden by Damjan Vinko, Dejan Kulijer, Magnus Billqvist, Andreas Martens

“…In Slovenia, the species is known to occur in the Gorenjska, Goriška Brda, Vipava River Valley, Coastal-Karst region, Central Slovenia, Kočevska region and Bela krajina, while in Bosnia and Herzegovina it is known only from south Herzegovina (Ljubuški, Čapljina, Mostar and Stolac areas). …”
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Ecotoxicological evaluation in aquaculture in state park Serra do Mar-SP, Nucleo Itariru by Bruno Galvão de Campos, Denis Moledo de Souza Abessa, Mauro Cornacchioni Lopes, Newton José Rodrigues da Silva

“…Eleven water samples were collected, considering nurseries, water harvesting, river downstream and egg’s incubator. Acute toxicity was assessed using tests with Daphnia similis, following ABNT NBR 12713/2005 protocol, and the results were analyzed by Student’s t’test. …”
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Organic matter content in riparian areas of soil composed of woody vegetation and grass and its effects on pesticide adsorption by Terencio Rebello de Rebello, Fernando Rodrigo Bortolozo, Lucilia Maria Parron

“…Abstract Purpose Riparian zones are identified as mitigation areas of agricultural pollutants to river ecosystems. However, the mitigation mechanisms of these pollutants remain unclear mainly on the effects of different types of riparian vegetation and its organic matter content in the pollutants removal process. …”
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Statistical Damage Constitutive Model for Cemented Sand considering the Residual Strength and Initial Compaction Phase by Cai Tan, Ming-dao Yuan, Yong-sheng Shi, Bing-sheng Zhou, Hao Li

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HEC-RAS Model of Kahramanmaras Domuz (Bogaz) Stream Interception Channel by Burcu Ercan, Ayşe Ece Yağcı, Mehmet Ünsal

“…One of the disasters, flood formation may be human or nature-originated. When a river forms flood, it causes severe damage to agricultural land, infrastructure facilities, people's social and economic life, settlements in the environment. …”
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Residential Landscapes Sponsored by Companhia União Fabril (CUF) in Barreiro (1945-1972). Promotion of Multi-Family Working-Class Housing in Post-WWII Portugal by Ana Vaz Milheiro, João Cardim

“…The starting point of the research is the strategies followed by Companhia União Fabril (CUF) — a major Portuguese chemical company — between 1945 and 1972 in Barreiro, a town on the southern bank of the Tagus River, where the company had been gradually establishing its main factory grounds since the beginning of the twentieth century. …”
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Effectiveness of innovative circular technologies for sustainable rural freshwater supply in Tanzania by Christopher S. Awinia

“…The present study was conducted in two villages situated in the Ruvu–Wami River Basin upstream catchment area in the Kilosa district. …”
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Application of Regional Climatic Models to Assess the Performance Evaluation of Changes on Flood Frequency in Woybo Catchment, Ethiopia by Tigistu Yisihak Ukumo, Tarun Kumar Lohani, Muluneh Legesse Edamo, Matusal Arja Alaro, Mesfin Amaru Ayele, Habtamu Bogale Borko

“…Climate change increases the possibility in varying rainfall and temperature that needs a detail study to estimate flood frequency under changing climate for the Woybo catchment in the Omo River basin of Ethiopia. The impact on flood frequency was evaluated using multiple climate models under RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 emission scenarios for 2020s, 2050s, and 2080s compared to 1976–2005. …”
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Stress Dependency of Creep Response for Glass/Epoxy Composite at Nonlinear and Linear Viscoelastic Behavior by N. Nosrati, A. Zabett, S. Sahebian

“…Failure morphologies of epoxy sample fractured at room temperature are included scarp, cusp, and river line; however, close to the glass transition temperature, more expansive mirror zones appeared. …”
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Practical Approach to Predicting the K0 Behavior of In Situ Sandy Gravel by Ming-Jie Jiang, Jun-Gao Zhu, En-yue Ji, Ying-qi Wei, Zhi-zhou Geng

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Citizen science for monitoring rainfall in Vietnam by Tran Huan N., Duwal Sudeep, Prajapati Rajaram, Davids Jeffrey C., Nguyen Dung T., Miegel Konrad

“…This study examines the CS approach to monitor rainfall in the Bui River Basin in Vietnam using low-cost rain gauges constructed from soda bottles, concrete, and rulers. …”
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Spatiotemporal Distribution and Population Structure of Monokalliapseudes schubarti (Tanaidacea: Kalliapseudidae) in an Estuary in Southern Brazil by Felipe Freitas-Júnior, Martin Lindsey Christoffersen, Joafrâncio Pereira de Araújo, Joaquim Olinto Branco

“…Saco da Fazenda is located in the estuary of the Itajaí-Açú River, state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. It is exposed to strong anthropic impact and receives intensive flows of domestic wastewater, solid residues, and drainage activities. …”
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Experimental Study on Deformation Monitoring of Large Landslide in Reservoir Area of Hydropower Station Based on GB-InSAR by Yanhui Guo, Zhiquan Yang, Yi Yang, Zhijun Kong, Caikun Gao, Weiming Tian

“…In this study, a new ground-based interferometric synthetic aperture radar system LKR-05-KU-S100 was used to carry out field monitoring tests on Lagu landslide and Xiaozhaju landslide of Dahuaqiao hydropower station and No. 1 landslide on the left bank of Xiaowan hydropower station on the Lancang river. The results show that, during the monitoring period, Lagu landslide of Dahuaqiao hydropower station and No. 1 landslide on the left bank of Xiaowan hydropower station are basically stable, and the deformation trend of Xiaozhaju landslide is obvious so it should undergo continuous monitoring. …”
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