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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…
Christopher Potter, Shuang Li, Cyrus Hiatt
Negative trends in the monthly MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) time-series were found to be widespread in natural (non-cropland) ecosystems of the eastern United Statesfrom 2000 to 2010. Four sub-regions w…
Jan Adamowski
The engineering profession has responded to the issue of sustainable development in two main ways. It has responded through public policy statements that acknowledge the magnitude of the problem in addition to pledging to steer engineering towards a more sust…
Chikako Asada, Keita Doi, Chizuru Sasaki, Yoshitoshi Nakamura
To utilize starch and protein contained in microalgae as carbon and nitrogen sources for ethanol production, an extraction method, i.e. ultrasonic treatment using a homogenizer, and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) of extracted microalgae…
Mahtab Jafarzade, Suhaiza Mohamad, Gires Usup, Asmat Ahmad
This study was undertaken to determine heavy metal resistance and antibiotic susceptibility of three non-pathogenic red pigmented bacteria namely WPRA3, SM11-3j and SC-G18, isolated from marine environments of Malaysia. The bacteria isolates were identified b…
Guohua Shi
Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is an important urban gas source in China. Before supplied to customers by pipeline supply systems, LPG is stored in tanks in LPG vaporization stations. Designers usually decide the number and the size of storage tanks by their e…
Xianwei Hu, Menglan Duan, Peilin Liu
In terms of reel-lay installation in deep water, studies on the pipeline during the process of tensioning have been completed based on theories of risk and reliability analysis and Ergonomics. Qualitative risk results, including minimum cut sets, structural i…
Jürg Fuhrer, Karsten Jasper
With climate change, water may become limited for intensive agriculture even in regions presently considered “water-rich”. Information about the potential water requirement and its temporal and spatial variability can help to develop future water management p…
Nirobol Laowklom, Rungtrakarn Chantanaphan, Pairoh Pinphanichakarn
Inulinase is an enzyme catalyzing the hydrolysis of inulin, a plant reserve polysaccharide, into fructoses and fructooligosaccharides which are widely used as food additives. Here we report inulinase from a newly isolated Streptomyces as in the past decade th…
C. Ian Johnston, Rebecca Singleterry, Cedric Reid, Darrell Sparks, Ashli Brown, Brian Baldwin, Stephanie Hill Ward, W. Paul Williams
A lab-scale ethanol fermentation was investigated to determine where aflatoxin concentrated during each phase of production. Four corn samples with high levels of aflatoxin (ranging from 7750 – 17,208 parts per billion) and their replicates were compared with…
Moisés Tejocote-Pérez, Patricia Balderas-Hernández, Carlos Barrera-Díaz, Gabriela Roa-Morales, Victor Bárcena
A strain of Chytriomyces hyalinus fungus was applied as a pretreatment on industrial wastewater pollutant using electrocoagulations column of aluminum electrodes in a continuous system. The parameters considered in this experiment include pH, conductivity, co…
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