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Trends towards Effective Analysis of Fluorinated Compounds Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
(Hindawi, 2021-02-03)
Increased demand for monitoring and identification of novel and unknown fluorinated compounds (FCs) has demonstrated the need of sensitive fluorine-specific detectors for unknown FCs in both biological and environmental ...
Predicting land use/cover changes and its association to agricultural production on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2021-01-11)
Increasing demand for food production results in Land use and land cover (LULC) changes, which afflicts the provision of ecosystem services in high mountain areas. This work used time-series LULC and selected spatial metrics ...
Drivers, Impacts and Mitigation of Increased Sedimentation in the Hydropower Reservoirs of East Africa
(MDPI, 2021-06-16)
Hydropower reservoirs are essential for the climate-neutral development of East Africa.
Hydropower production, however, is threatened by human activities that lead to a decrease in water
storage capacity of reservoirs. ...
Building Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience through Soil Organic Carbon Restoration in Sub-Saharan Rural Communities: Challenges and Opportunities
(MDPI, 2021-10-02)
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is widely recognised as pivotal in soil function, exerting important controls on soil structure, moisture retention, nutrient cycling and biodiversity, which in turn underpins a range of provisioning, ...
Strength and Durability Properties of Concrete Containing Pumice and Scoria as Supplementary Cementitious Material
(Hindawi, 2021-05-24)
Concrete structures suffer serious deterioration under a corrosive environment. Consequently, the service life of these concrete
structures is decreased and deteriorates under combined attack of sulphate and chlorides. ...
Guanidinium tin halide perovskites: structural, electronic, and thermodynamic properties by quantum chemical study
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2021-04-17)
The orthorhombic phase of guanidinium tin halide perovskites C(NH2)3SnX3, X = Cl, Br, I has been studied by quantum chemical method. The lattice parameters are optimized to obtain the minimum energy using the density ...
Transformations to groundwater sustainability: from individuals and pumps to communities and aquifers
(Elsevier Ltd., 2021-05-11)
If the success of agricultural intensification continues to rely on the depletion of aquifers and exploitation of (female) labour, transformations to groundwater sustainability will be impossible to achieve. Hence, the ...
Betanidin isomerisation and decarboxylation, thermodynamic and charge transfer dye properties towards dye sensitised solar cells application
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021-01-25)
Along with attractiveness of natural dyes for solar technologies, the instability is a well‐known drawback of the dyes, which impedes their usage for dye sensitised solar cells (DSSCs) application. The planar isomer appeared ...
Enhancement of Biogas Potential for Slaughterhouse Waste by Co-digestion with Animal Wastes
(MAXWELL Scientific Publication Corp., 2021-05-25)
The aim of the current study was to investigate biogas production from the
slaughterhouse waste codigested with animal wastes. Slaughterhouses
generate organic wastes that are environmentally hazardous due to high
contents ...
Influence of land use change on nitrate sources and pollutant enrichment in surface and groundwater of a growing urban area in Tanzania
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2021-01-31)
In the present study, 3-year (1997, 2008 and 2017) satellite images as well as different hydro-chemical parameters, nitrogen and oxygen isotopic composition of nitrate were used to examine the impacts of land use and land ...