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American Chemical Society2015

Impact of agricultural-based biofuel production on greenhouse gas emission from land-use change: Key modelling choices

Edgard Gnansounou, Luis Alberto Panichelli

Recent regulations on biofuels require reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions related to feedstock-speciﬁc biofuels. However, the inclusion of GHG emissions from land-use change (LUC) into law and policy remains a subject of active discussio ...

2015

Impact of agricultural-based biofuel production on greenhouse gas emissions from land-use change: Key modelling choices

Edgard Gnansounou, Luis Alberto Panichelli

Recent regulations on biofuels require reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions related to feedstock-specific biofuels. However, the inclusion of GHG emissions from land-use change (LUC) into law and policy remains a subject of active discussi ...

Elsevier2015

Effectiveness of a personalized ventilation system in reducing personal exposure against directly released simulated cough droplets

Dusan Licina

The inhalation intake fraction was used as an indicator to compare effects of desktop personalized ventilation and mixing ventilation on personal exposure to directly released simulated cough droplets. A cough machine was used to simulate cough release fro ...

2015

Sensitivity of air quality to potential future climate change and emissions in the United States and major cities

Athanasios Nenes, Pengfei Liu

Simulated present and future air quality is compared for the years 2006-2010 and 2048-2052 over the contiguous United States (CONUS) using the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. Regionally downscaled present and future climate results are deve ...

Elsevier Ltd2014

Lake surface temperatures in a changing climate: a global sensitivity analysis

Alfred Johny Wüest, Martin Schmid, Stefan Hunziker

We estimate the effects of climatic changes, as predicted by six climate models, on lake surface temperatures on a global scale, using the lake surface equilibrium temperature as a proxy. We evaluate interactions between different forcing variables, the se ...

Springer Verlag2014

Land management trumps the effects of climate change and elevated CO2 on grassland functioning

Pierre Rémi Mariotte, Aurélie Thébault

Grasslands cover similar to 30% of the Earth's terrestrial surface and provide many ecosystem services. Many grasslands are heavily managed to maximize these services for human benefit, but the outcome of management is anticipated to be increasingly inf ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Feeding structure influence on performance of two UWB antennas near a human arm

Anja Skrivervik, Mohsen Koohestani

This paper reports a study of the feeding structure influence on impedance matching and system fidelity factor of two loaded UWB antennas when placed near a human arm. To this aim, two identical dielectric loaded versions of the same UWB antenna designs wi ...

2014

Experimental response of Salix cuttings to different flow regimes due to human activities

Alexandre Buttler, Paolo Perona, Pascal Turberg, Constant Signarbieux, Lorenzo Gorla

Hydropower production and other human activities change the natural flow regime of rivers, in turn impacting the riparian environment. The main challenge in order to define eco-sustainable flows is to quantify the effects in terms of geomorphology and ecos ...

2014

Seasonality in cholera dynamics : A rainfall-driven model explains the wide range of patterns of an infectious disease in endemic areas

Theo Baracchini

An explanation for the spatial variability of seasonal cholera patterns has remained an unresolved problem in tropical medicine. No simple and uniﬁed theory based on local climate variables has been formulated, leaving our understanding of seasonal variati ...

2014

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