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75 results

2021

Data analytics and pump control in a wastewater treatment plant

Hilary A. Johnson, Kevin P. Simon, & Alexander H. Slocum

Keywords

pump system efficiency, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), efficiency metrics, time-series analysis, control optimization, specific energy

Self-assembly of aramid amphiphiles into ultra-stable nanoribbons and aligned nanoribbon threads

Ty Christoff-Tempesta, Yukio Cho, Dae-Yoon Kim, Michela Geri, Guillaume Lamour, Andrew J. Lew, Xiaobing Zuo, William R. Lindemann, Julia H. Ortony

Keywords

aramid amphiphiles, molecular exchange, self-assembly, nanoribbons

Past and future trends of Egypt’s water consumption and its sources

Catherine A. Nikiel and Elfatih Eltahir

Keywords

water, farming, agriculture, irrigation

Engineering and characterization of gymnosperm sapwood toward enabling the design of water filtration devices

Krithika Ramchander, Megha Hegde, Anish Paul Antony, Luda Wang, Kendra Leith, Amy Smith, and Rohit Karnik

Keywords

water filtration, wood, natural materials, plant xylem, E. coli, MS-2 phage, rotavirus

Living materials with programmable functionalities grown from engineered microbial co-cultures

Charlie Gilbert, Tzu-Chieh Tang, Wolfgang Ott, Brandon A. Dorr, William M. Shaw, George L. Sun, Timothy K. Lu & Tom Ellis

Keywords

Biomaterials, Synthetic biology

2020

A heat and mass transport model of clay pot evaporative coolers for vegetable storage

Danyal Rehman, Ethan McGarrigle, Leon Glicksman. Eric Verploegen

Keywords

evaporative cooling, postharvest vegetable storage, transport modelling, global development

A continuum model of unstable infiltration in porous media endowed with an entropy function

Beljadid, Abdelaziz, Luis Cueto-Felgueroso, Ruben Juanes

Keywords

vadose zone, infiltration, gravity fingering, entropy, nonequilibrium thermodynamics

Managing risks in lower-income economy supply chains: evidence from agricultural firms in Senegal

Mark Brennan, Jonars Spielberg, Stephen Graves, Bish Sanyal

Keywords

supply chain, irrigation equipment, quality risks, contractual risks, risk-management strategies, downstream firms

Understanding the effect of intermittent water supply on drinking water quality

Sophia Wu

Keywords

Intermittent Water Supply (IWS), Continuous Water Supply (CWS), water quality, waterborne pathogens

A microneedle technology for sampling and sensing bacteria in the food supply chain

Doyoon Kim, Yunteng Cao, Dhanushkodi Mariappan, Michael S. Bono Jr., A. John Hart, Benedetto Marelli

Keywords

food safety, food quality monitoring, bacterial pathogens, microneedle, regenerated structural biopolymers

Acid-modulated synthesis of high surface area amine-functionalized MIL-101(Cr) nanoparticles for CO2 Separations

Gang Han , Katherine Mizrahi Rodriguez, Qihui Qian, Zachary P. Smith

Keywords

metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), amine-functionalized, acidic modulators

Anchored causal inference in the presence of measurement error

Basil Saeed, Anastasiya Belyaeva, Yuhao Wang, Caroline Uhler

Keywords

measurement error, causal relationships, single-cell RNA-seq data, causal inference