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Mineral Soils Are an Important Intermediate Storage Pool of Black Carbon in Fennoscandian Boreal Forests

Approximately 40% of earth's carbon (C) stored in land vegetation and soil is within the boreal region. This large C pool is subjected to substantial removals and transformations during periodic wildfire. Fire-altered C, commonly known as pyrogenic carbon (PyC), plays a significant role in forest ecosystem functioning and composes a considerable fraction of C transport to limnic and oceanic sedime

Trophic strategies of intertidal foraminifera explored with single-cell microbiome metabarcoding and morphological methods : What is on the menu?

In mudflats, interactions and transfers of nutrients and secondary metabolites may drive ecosystems and biodiversity. Foraminifera have complex trophic strategies as they often rely on bacteria and eukaryotes or on potential symbionts for carbon and nitrogen resources. The capacity of these protists to use a wide range of adaptive mechanisms requires clarifying the relationships between them and t

Flame front visualization in highly turbulent jet flames using CH3 photofragmentation laser-induced fluorescence

Flame front visualization using methyl photofragmentation laser-induced fluorescence (CH3-PF-LIF) was demonstrated in turbulent premixed methane/air flames. A pump–probe method was used to detect CH3, where CH3 was first photolyzed to CH (X2П) fragments using a pump laser (212.8 nm), and the fragments were subsequently excited to CH in the C2Σ+ state by a probe laser at 314.4 nm. By detecting fluo

Characterization of fine particulate matter from indoor cooking with solid biomass fuels

Household burning of solid biomass fuels emits pollution particles that are a huge health risk factor, especially in low-income countries (LICs) such as those in Sub-Saharan Africa. In epidemiological studies, indoor exposure is often more challenging to assess than outdoor exposure. Laboratory studies of solid biomass fuels, performed under real-life conditions, are an important path toward impro

STRUCTURAL ASSESSMENT AND EXPECTED UTILITY GAIN

This paper contains an introduction, probabilistic formulation, and exemplification (1) of system state and utility actions, (2) system state and utility action value analysis and (3) a threshold formulation for a predicted information and action decision analysis. The approaches build upon structural condition assessment and provide a basis for the condition management by maximising the expected

INFLUENCE OF THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY MANAGEMENT ON THE LEVELIZED COST OF ENERGY OF OFFSHORE WIND : A PARAMETRIC SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS

The levelized cost of energy (LCoE) is an important measure to quantify the macro-economic efficiency of an offshore wind farm and to enable a quantitative comparison with other types of energy production. The costs of the structural integrity management - which is required to ensure an adequate lifetime reliability of the turbine support structures - are part of the operational expenditures of an

Evacuation modelling for bushfire : the WUI-NITY simulation platform

The number of people who live in bushfire-prone areas around the world is growing. In Australia, in the states of Victoria and New South Wales, over 1.5 million people live in areas rated as high to extreme bushfire risk in (SGS Economics and Planning 2019). As effects of climate change increase the size and severity of bushfires, and a greater number of people move into these at-risk areas, there

Fast and efficient minimal solvers for quadric based camera pose estimation

In this paper we address absolute camera pose estimation. An efficient (and standard) way to solve this problem, is to use sparse keypoint correspondences. In many cases point features are not available, or are unstable over time and viewing conditions. We propose a framework based on silhouettes of quadric surfaces, with special emphasis on cylinders. We provide mathematical analysis of the probl

Stellar feedback in M 83 as observed with MUSE : II. Analysis of the H II region population: Ionisation budget and pre-SN feedback

Context. Energy and momentum injected by young, massive stars into the surrounding gas play an important role in regulating further star formation and in determining the galaxy's global properties. Before supernovae begin to explode, stellar feedback consists of two main processes: Radiation pressure and photoionisation. Aims. We study pre-supernova feedback and constrain the leakage of Lyman cont

Trends in River Total Suspended Sediments Driven by Dams and Soil Erosion : A Comparison Between the Yangtze and Mekong Rivers

Global river systems are experiencing rapid changes in sediment transport under growing anthropogenic and climatic stresses. However, the response of sediment discharge to the coupled influence of anthropogenic and natural factors and the associated impacts on the fluvial geomorphology in the Yangtze and Mekong rivers are not comprehensively assessed. Here, we recalibrated a seamless retrieval alg

Quality of maternal and newborn care around the time of childbirth for migrant versus nonmigrant women during the COVID-19 pandemic : Results of the IMAgiNE EURO study in 11 countries of the WHO European region

OBJECTIVE: To describe the perception of quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) around the time of childbirth among migrant and nonmigrant women in Europe.METHODS: Women who gave birth at a health facility in 11 countries of the WHO European Region from March 2020 to July 2021 were invited to answer an online questionnaire including demographics and childbirth experience. Data were analyzed a

Rates of instrumental vaginal birth and cesarean and quality of maternal and newborn health care in private versus public facilities : Results of the IMAgiNE EURO study in 16 countries

OBJECTIVE: To explore the quality of maternal and newborn care (QMNC) during the COVID-19 pandemic by facility type among 16 European countries, comparing rates of instrumental vaginal birth and cesarean.METHODS: Women who gave birth in the WHO European Region from March 1, 2020, to February 7, 2022, answered a validated online questionnaire. Rates of instrumental birth, instrumental vaginal birth

Individual and country-level variables associated with the medicalization of birth : Multilevel analyses of IMAgiNE EURO data from 15 countries in the WHO European region

OBJECTIVE: To investigate potential associations between individual and country-level factors and medicalization of birth in 15 European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic.METHODS: Online anonymous survey of women who gave birth in 2020-2021. Multivariable multilevel logistic regression models estimating associations between indicators of medicalization (cesarean, instrumental vaginal birth [I

The Doll’s Marriage: An Ethnographic Encounter with Rural Children and Childhood

The pictorial representations of activities and social interactions provide the researcher with a sensory experience both during and after the fieldwork. I had interesting encounters with children and families during my ethnographic research on the social value of the child in rural Punjab (2019). Some of these encounters were also photographed. Attending a doll's marriage ceremony was one of thos

Higher resistance and resilience of bacterial growth to drought in grasslands with historically lower precipitation

Climate change is expected to alter precipitation regimes, resulting in longer periods of drought and heavier precipitation events. Even though the direct effect of water availability on soil microbial processes is well documented, the influence of precipitation legacy on microbial resistance and resilience to drought remains unclear. Using soils from a natural mean annual precipitation (MAP) grad