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Sara M. Marcelino, Pedro Dinis Gaspar, Arminda do Paço, Tânia M. Lima, Ana Monteiro, José Carlos Franco, Erika S. Santos, Rebeca Campos and Carlos M. Lopes
Agriculture intensification has driven the loss of biodiversity at a global level. The implementation of strategies to conserve and promote biodiversity in agricultural areas can be favoured by adequate assessment methods that foster the awareness of dec...
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Omayra Luzmila Mori-Sánchez, Lia Ramos-Fernández, Willy Eduardo Lluén-Chero, Edwin Pino-Vargas and Lisveth Flores del Pino
The Lurín River is one of the main sources of water for the city of Lima. However, the discharge of domestic wastewater, the presence of dumps, and long periods of drought cause the deterioration of the water resource. In this study, DO, BOD5, E. coli, T...
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Jaciele O. Dantas, Sócrates C. H. Cavalcanti, Ana Paula A. Araújo, Arie F. Blank, Jefferson E. Silva, Marcelo C. Picanço, Eraldo Lima, Valfran S. Andrade, Thaysnara B. Brito and Leandro Bacci
Ants belonging to the genus Solenopsis are highly significant invasive pests worldwide. The control of these insects has historically relied on the use of synthetic insecticides, which, unfortunately, has led to a range of ecological repercussions. In li...
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Raimundo P. Farias, Ricardo S. Gomez, Elisiane S. Lima, Wilton P. Silva, Ivonete B. Santos, Maria J. Figueredo, Genival S. Almeida, Fagno D. Rolim, Vital A. B. Oliveira, Guilherme L. Oliveira Neto and Antonio G. B. Lima
Fresh bananas are fruits with high moisture content after harvest and are submitted to a drying process to minimize waste and increase shelf life. This work aims to experimentally study the convective drying of bananas in an oven with hot-air recirculati...
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Mayara S. Siverio Lima, Alexander Buttgereit, Cesar Queiroz, Viktors Haritonovs and Florian Gschösser
This paper applies the Road Network Evaluation Tools (RONET) model to assess the economic impacts of urban pavement maintenance and rehabilitation in the city of Munster, Germany. The city?s road network includes main roads, main access roads, residentia...
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Filipe Arruda, José S. Rosa, Ana Rodrigues, Luísa Oliveira, Ana Lima, José G. Barroso and Elisabete Lima
This study mainly deals with the effect of hydrodistillation (HD) and water-steam distillation (WSD) methods on the color, yield, and chemical profile of the essential oil (EO) from Cryptomeria japonica fresh leaves from São Miguel Island (Azores Archipe...
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Fernando A. N. Silva, João M. P. Q. Delgado, António C. Azevedo, António G. B. Lima and Castorina S. Vieira
This work aims to study the influence of using construction and demolition waste in the replacement of coarse and fine aggregate to produce recycled aggregate concrete (RAC). A moderate compressive strength concrete made with usual fine and coarse aggreg...
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Fernando A. N. Silva, João M. P. Q. Delgado, Rosely S. Cavalcanti, António C. Azevedo, Ana S. Guimarães and Antonio G. B. Lima
The work presents the results of an experimental campaign carried out on concrete elements in order to investigate the potential of using artificial neural networks (ANNs) to estimate the compressive strength based on relevant parameters, such as the wat...
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Inês M. Gonçalves, César Rocha, Reinaldo R. Souza, Gonçalo Coutinho, Jose E. Pereira, Ana S. Moita, António L. N. Moreira, Rui Lima and João M. Miranda
In this study, a numerical approach was carried out to analyze the effects of different geometries of microchannel heat sinks on the forced convective heat transfer in single-phase flow. The simulations were performed using the commercially available sof...
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Nancy Alvan Romero, Francesca Cigna and Deodato Tapete
The coastline environment and urban areas of Peru overlooking the Pacific Ocean are among the most affected by El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, and its cascading hazards such as floods, landslides and avalanches. In this work, the complete arc...
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