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Natural Resources (NR) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in natural resources throughout the world. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and engineers (on all academic and professional levels) all over the world to promote, discuss and share various new issues…
Rafael Flores-Garza, Yareni M. Garcia-Moctezuma, Pedro Flores-Rodríguez, Jesús E. Michel-Morfín, Carmina Torreblanca-Ramírez
Acapulco, Mexico has a coastline of 62 km where large areas of rocky substrate inhabited by organisms such as the GASTROPODA Class can be found. Conidae (Fleming, 1822) Family is among the members of this Class, which has been poorly studied in the Mexican Pa…
Yuki Sakamoto, Hideki Yamamoto
The exothermic chemical reaction of CaCl 2 (calcium chloride) with NH 3 (ammonia) can be utilized as an energy storage system. Since this reaction is a typical gas-solid reaction, the reaction rate is controlled by the heat transfer rate. In order to improve…
Sjaak Conijn, Wim Corré, Hans Langeveld, Jacques Davies
The role of energy crops in reducing fossil energy use and greenhouse gas emission is much debated. To improve decision making on the use of crops for producing bioenergy, a tool (Energy Crop Simulation Model or E-CROP) has been developed to calculate 1) sust…
Giovanni Figliuolo, Domenico Cerbino
Ancient fruit trees, grape vines, traditional crop and garden cultivars have been inventoried in Pollino National Park by adopting a spatial sampling grid which covers 23 different municipalities ( ~ 1500 Km 2 ) and 190 surveyed sites. Each site is a circle w…
Ogbonna Chris Nkuzinna, Matthew Chukwudi Menkiti, Okechukwu Dominic Onukwuli, Gordian Onyebuchukwu Mbah, Bernard Ibezim Okolo, Melford Chuka Egbujor, Rabboni Mike Government
The inhibition of copper corrosion by acid extract of Gnetum africana was studied using weight loss method of monitoring corrosion rate. The inhibition of Gnetum africana on copper corrosion was optimized by application of 2 3 factorial design. While the inte…
Syafiq Shaharuddin, Ngai Weng Chan, Nor Azazi Zakaria, Aminuddin Ab Ghani, Chun Kiat Chang, Ranjan Roy
Tropical wetlands have numerous natural functions, one of which is the filtration of wastewater for water quality improvement. The aim of this paper is to investigate the performance of constructed wetlands in Universiti Sains Malaysia for water quality treat…
Essam H. Almasri
Transportation consumes for about 27% of total energy. Almost 100% of the energy used for propelling transport vehicles is derived from petroleum resources. In Gaza Strip and West Bank, transportation consumes about 60% of the total amount of imported fuel. T…
Pierre Failler, Haoran Pan, Andy Thorpe, Ruangrai Tokrisna
This research develops a hybrid input-output model to quantify the economy-wide impact of capture fisheries on the economy. The method regards capture fisheries to be the “carrier branches” producing “core inputs”, which can drive the other fisheries sectors…
Claudia G. León-Ramírez, José Alejandro Sánchez-Arreguín, José Ruiz-Herrera
Ustilago maydis is the causal agent of the disease known as corn smut or Huitlacohe; their natural hosts are maize ( Zea mays L.) and its putative ancestor teocintle ( Zea mays ssp. parviglumis and ssp. mexicana ). In México there is an evidence of its use as…
Juliane Andressa Chicatto, Vitória Arend Castamann, Cristiane Vieira Helm, Lorena Benathar Ballod Tavares
Issues such as fossil fuels and oil supplies have stimulated the search for renewable alternatives such as biofuels. Agricultural crop residues represent an abundant renewable resource for the future of bioethanol. For it to be a viable alternative, the secon…
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