scholarly journals Long-Term Management Policies of Reservoirs: Possible Re-Use of Dredged Sediments for Coastal Nourishment

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annamaria De Vincenzo ◽  
Carmine Covelli ◽  
Antonio Molino ◽  
Marilena Pannone ◽  
Margherita Ciccaglione ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Beach Sand ◽  
Coastal Protection ◽  
Quantitative Characterization ◽  
Reservoir Sediment ◽  
Reservoir Sediments ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Term Management

This paper proposes a methodological approach to the re-use of reservoir sediments for coastal nourishment. The proposed approach represents a point of convergence between water and sediment management, coastal protection from erosion and the re-use of sediments dredged from reservoirs. In particular, this study indicates a general protocol of actions and a reference legislative scenario for the use of sediment from reservoirs for beach nourishment as an alternative to sediment from sea caves or land caves. Quantitative characterization of reservoir sediments and their qualitative characterization are the fundamental steps to define the compatibility between reservoir sediment and beach sand. The study was applied to a real case of Southern Italy known as the Guardialfiera Reservoir.

scholarly journals Topophilia, Placemaking, and Boundary Work

2022 ◽  
Vol 6 (GROUP) ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Janghee Cho ◽  
Samuel Beck ◽  
Stephen Voida
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Humanistic Geography ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
Long Term Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed the nature of work by shifting most in-person work to a predominantly remote modality as a way to limit the spread of the coronavirus. In the process, the shift to working-from-home rapidly forced the large-scale adoption of groupware technologies. Although prior empirical research examined the experience of working-from-home within small-scale groups and for targeted kinds of work, the pandemic provides HCI and CSCW researchers with an unprecedented opportunity to understand the psycho-social impacts of a universally mandated work-from-home experience rather than an autonomously chosen one. Drawing on boundary theory and a methodological approach grounded in humanistic geography, we conducted a qualitative analysis of Reddit data drawn from two work-from-home-related subreddits between March 2020 and January 2021. In this paper, we present a characterization of the challenges and solutions discussed within these online communities for adapting work to a hybrid or fully remote modality, managing reconfigured work-life boundaries, and reconstructing the home's sense of place to serve multiple, sometimes conflicting roles. We discuss how these findings suggest an emergent interplay among adapted work practice, reimagined physical (and virtual) spaces, and the establishment and continual re-negotiation of boundaries as a means for anticipating the long-term impact of COVID on future conceptualizations of productivity and work.

scholarly journals Quantitative characterization of mineralized silk film remodeling during long-term osteoblast–osteoclast co-culture

Biomaterials ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (12) ◽  
pp. 3794-3802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca S. Hayden ◽  
Kyle P. Quinn ◽  
Carlo A. Alonzo ◽  
Irene Georgakoudi ◽  
David L. Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Characterization ◽  
Silk Film

scholarly journals Two models based on local microscopic relaxations to explain long-term basic creep of concrete

2018 ◽  
Vol 474 (2220) ◽  
pp. 20180477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthieu Vandamme
Keyword(s):  
Creep Strain ◽  
Basic Creep ◽  
Creep Process ◽  
Physical Origin ◽  
Quantitative Characterization ◽  
Disjoining Pressures ◽  
Work Hardening Model ◽  
Kinetics Of

In this study, we propose an exhaustion model and an adapted work-hardening model to explain the long-term basic creep of concrete. In both models, the macroscopic creep strain originates from local microscopic relaxations. The two models differ in how the activation energies of those relaxations are distributed and evolve during the creep process. With those models, at least up to a few dozen MPa, the applied stress must not modify the rate at which those relaxations occur, but only enables the manifestation of each local microscopic relaxation into an infinitesimal increment of basic creep strain. The two models capture equally well several phenomenological features of the basic creep of concrete. They also make it possible to explain why the indentation technique enables the quantitative characterization of the long-term kinetics of logarithmic creep of cement-based materials orders of magnitude faster than by macroscopic testing. The models hint at a physical origin for the relaxations that is related to disjoining pressures.

Long-term kinetics study and quantitative characterization of the antioxidant capacities of humic and humic-like substances

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 1355-1364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga I. Klein ◽  
Natalia A. Kulikova ◽  
Ivan S. Filimonov ◽  
Olga V. Koroleva ◽  
Andrey I. Konstantinov
Keyword(s):  
Kinetics Study ◽  
Quantitative Characterization ◽  
Antioxidant Capacities

Quantitative Characterization of the Surface Evolution for LiNi0.5Co0.2Mn0.3O2/Graphite Cell during Long-Term Cycling

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (14) ◽  
pp. 12445-12452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiyuan Zheng ◽  
Qunting Qu ◽  
Guobin Zhu ◽  
Gao Liu ◽  
Vincent S. Battaglia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Characterization ◽  
Surface Evolution ◽  
Graphite Cell

Management Policies for Invasive Alien Species: Addressing the Impacts Rather than the Species

BioScience ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo García-Díaz ◽  
Phillip Cassey ◽  
Grant Norbury ◽  
Xavier Lambin ◽  
Lía Montti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alien Species ◽  
Invasive Alien Species ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Implementation Gap ◽  
Major Shortcoming ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Term Management

Abstract Effective long-term management is needed to address the impacts of invasive alien species (IAS) that cannot be eradicated. We describe the fundamental characteristics of long-term management policies for IAS, diagnose a major shortcoming, and outline how to produce effective IAS management. Key international and transnational management policies conflate addressing IAS impacts with controlling IAS populations. This serious purpose–implementation gap can preclude the development of broader portfolios of interventions to tackle IAS impacts. We posit that IAS management strategies should directly address impacts via impact-based interventions, and we propose six criteria to inform the choice of these interventions. We review examples of interventions focused on tackling IAS impacts, including IAS control, which reveal the range of interventions available and their varying effectiveness in counteracting IAS impacts. As the impacts caused by IAS increase globally, stakeholders need to have access to a broader and more effective set of tools to respond.

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