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Valentina Gallina, Silvia Torresan, Alex Zabeo, Jonathan Rizzi, Sandro Carniel, Mauro Sclavo, Lisa Pizzol, Antonio Marcomini and Andrea Critto
Coastal erosion is an issue of major concern for coastal managers and is expected to increase in magnitude and severity due to global climate change. This paper analyzes the potential consequences of climate change on coastal erosion (e.g., impacts on be...
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Sen Deng, Weiqiang Zhao, Tianbao Huang, Ming Xia and Zhengwei Wang
Kaplan turbines are generally used in working conditions with a high flow and low head. These are a type of axial-flow hydro turbine that can adjust the opening of the guide vanes and blades simultaneously in order to achieve higher efficiency under a wi...
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Krishna Ghimire, Isabel McIntyre and Melanie Caffe
The increase in intensity and frequency of drought due to global climate change has increased the urgency of developing crop cultivars suitable for dry environments. Drought tolerance is a complex trait that involves numerous physiological, biochemical, ...
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Chenxi Zhang, Zhongfa Zhou, Changli Zhu, Quan Chen, Qing Feng, Meng Zhu, Fang Tang, Xiaopiao Wu, Yan Zou, Fuxianmei Zhang, Jiajia Zheng and Ting Yu
Exploring the evolution of livelihood patterns of farm households relocated for poverty alleviation in three prefectures of Guizhou Province, China, can provide a theoretical basis and practical value for achieving sustainable livelihoods of relocated fa...
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Anna Karkani, Niki Evelpidou, Giannis Saitis, Konstantinos Tsanakas, Hara Drinia, Emmanuel Vassilakis, Efthimios Karymbalis and Dimitrios-Vasileios Batzakis
Geomorphological and sedimentological indicators are often used to reconstruct not only coastal evolution, but also relative sea level changes. In this work, we studied the coastal sediments of Psatha bay (Alkyonides Gulf, Greece) and beachrock outcrops ...
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Giuseppe Mastronuzzi, Francesco De Giosa, Gianluca Quarta, Mauro Pallara, Giovanni Scardino, Giovanni Scicchitano, Cosmo Peluso, Carmine Antropoli, Claudio Caporale and Maurizio Demarte
Beach rocks are located along many coasts of the Mediterranean basin. The early diagenesis environment and the mean sea level along the shoreline make these landforms useful in the reconstruction of relative sea-level changes and, in particular, as SLIPs...
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Daniel Locci-Lopez and Juan M. Lorenzo
Shear-wave seismic reflection velocity-versus-depth models can complement our understanding of seepage pore pressure variations beneath earthen levees at locations between geotechnical sites. The seasonal variations of water level in the Mississippi Rive...
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Julia Stachurska, Iwona Sadura, Magdalena Rys, Michal Dziurka and Anna Janeczko
The aim of the current work was to characterize disturbances in the hormonal balance and changes in the accumulation of the protective heat shock proteins (HSP) as a result of deacclimation in a few cultivars of oilseed rape. Samples for both analyses we...
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Katarzyna Kocur-Bera and Szymon Czyza
Green energy production has become a common and recognized method of electricity generation. Giving up reliance on non-renewable energy sources is an important trend in the economies of many countries. The paper presents an analysis of the impact of indi...
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Jiada Li, Courtenay Strong, Jun Wang and Steven Burian
Assessing the resilience of urban drainage systems requires the consideration of future disturbances that will disrupt the system?s performance and trigger urban flooding failures. However, most existing resilience assessments of urban drainage systems r...
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