There are an increasing number of small African traders operating business in China and developing the “China-Africa Supply Chain.” While this has contributed to the China-Africa relationship and the “globalization from below phenomenon,” there is surprising little research that has been...

The replacement of methane with carbon dioxide in natural gas hydrate-bearing sediments is considered a promising technology for simultaneously recovering natural gas and entrapping CO₂. During the CH₄-CO₂ replacement process, the variations of geophysical property of the hydrate reservoir need...

The main focus of this study was to evaluate the operational stability and changes in microbial interactions of aerobic granular sludge (AGS) systems at reduced C/N (16, 8 and 4). The results showed that decreasing the C/N ratio of the influent significantly reduced the removal efficiency of...

Riverine export into the ocean contributes greatly to global microplastic (MP) contamination, yet little is known about the dynamic variation of MP in the water columns of estuarine systems. To increase our understanding of this process, we sampled during four seasons at ebb and flood tides the...

Harmless disposal and reutilization of municipal solid attract growing interest due to the increasing waterworks sludge and limited landfill space. As a solid waste produced in the process of tap water treatment, waterworks sludge has been found to have excellent phosphorus adsorption capacity....

Emergency salvage operations shall be carried out for sunken ships that have caused many adverse effects on the marine ecological environment and the passage of ships in the sea areas. The marine emergency salvage scheme needs an intelligent auxiliary support method. Therefore, this paper...

In this paper the strategic transport policy assessment instrument HIGH-TOOL is presented. The model has been developed for the European Commission, allowing policy-makers to identify the most advantageous transport policies and to strategically evaluate the impacts of transport policies on...

This study uses advanced natural language processing methods to identify companies that are aligned with the UN SDGs based on the text in their sustainability disclosures. Using CSR reports of Russel 1000 companies between 2010-2019 we apply a logistic classifier, support vector machines (SVM)...

A deeper understanding of cloud computing is required to accelerate its adoption and leverage its cost, performance, reliability, and security. However, information about the combined effect of factors influencing cloud computing adoption using traditional statistical methods is limited. Based...