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Microalgae as Future Superfoods: Fostering Adoption through Practice-Based Design Research Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Maurizio Vrenna; Pier Paolo Peruccio; Xin Liu; Fang Zhong; Yuchi Sun
Consumers’ eating habits are gradually changing. In the next few decades, this shift will not be solely dictated by individuals’ decisions but by the need to feed an ever-increasing population in the face of global resources’ impoverishment. Novel superfoods rich in nutrients and produced with sustainable methods, including microalgae, maybe a solution. However, their unusual aspect, the palatability
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Does Financial Development Promote the Growth of Property Income of China’s Urban and Rural Residents? Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Xiaozhun Peng; Hongyou Lu; Jiaming Fu; Zhijuan Li
The property income growth of urban and rural residents is an important part of the continuous increase in the disposable income of these residents, which is also inseparable from the deepening development of the financial market. After sorting out the various sources of income that affect residents’ property in the existing research and controlling regional fixed effects, based on data from 31 provinces
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A Case Study of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicon var. Legend) Production and Water Productivity in Agrivoltaic Systems Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Hadi A. AL-agele; Kyle Proctor; Ganti Murthy; Chad Higgins
The challenge of meeting growing food and energy demand while also mitigating climate change drives the development and adoption of renewable technologies ad approaches. Agrivoltaic systems are an approach that allows for both agricultural and electrical production on the same land area. These systems have the potential to reduced water demand and increase the overall water productivity of certain
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Influencers in the Political Conversation on Twitter: Identifying Digital Authority with Big Data Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Andreu Casero-Ripollés
Interactivity is a defining characteristic of social media. Connections among users shape the network and have a direct impact on the political conversations that take place on digital platforms. In the hybrid media system, digital discussions can have an impact on both the agenda of mainstream media and the offline political life. In this context, determining who and how social influence is exercised
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Preserving the Integrity of Social Impact Investing: Towards a Distinctive Implementation Strategy Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Irene Bengo; Alice Borrello; Veronica Chiodo
Social impact investing (SII) is a strategy of asset allocation that aims to generate social and environmental impact alongside a financial return. Compared to other approaches of sustainable finance it holds an enormous potential of generating solutions to societal challenges. However, scholars have claimed that social impact often just employs logic upheld by the mainstream investment approach. Therefore
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Agile-Based Education for Teaching an Agile Requirements Engineering Methodology for Knowledge Management Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Meira Levy; Irit Hadar; Itzhak Aviv
The importance of the role that knowledge management (KM) plays in the success of knowledge-intensive organizations has long been acknowledged. However, requirements engineering (RE) methods for KM solutions still lack maturity, as do the educational programs in this domain. In this paper, an agile-based educational method for teaching RE for KM solutions, specifically an agile KM RE methodology (AKM-REM)
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Assessing the Impact of ESD: Methods, Challenges, Results Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Quentin Ssossé; Johanna Wagner; Carina Hopper
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD; also often called Education for Sustainability (EfS)) is a key lever of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, which emphasize the need for everyone to have the knowledge and skills to meet the challenges of creating a more sustainable world. However, while we can find examples of ESD across the globe, its potential to scale effectively and its
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Assessing Soil and Crop Characteristics at Sub-Field Level Using Unmanned Aerial System and Geospatial Analysis Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Antonis V. Papadopoulos; Dionissios P. Kalivas
Practicing agriculture is a multiparametric and for this reason demanding task. It involves the management of many factors and thorough strategic planning in a highly variable and uncertain environment. Crop production is a function of agricultural practices as applied in natural resources, such as soil and plants. When referring to conventional agriculture, variability in these resources is neglected
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Functional Diversity Can Predict Ecosystem Functions Better Than Dominant Species: The Case of Desert Plants in the Ebinur Lake Basin Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Zhufeng Hou; Guanghui Lv; Lamei Jiang
Studying the impact of biodiversity on ecosystem multifunctionality is helpful for clarifying the ecological mechanisms (such as niche complementary effects and selection) of ecosystems providing multiple services. Biodiversity has a significant impact on ecosystem versatility, but the relative importance of functional diversity and dominant species to ecosystem functions needs further evaluation.
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A Spatial Improved-kNN-Based Flood Inundation Risk Framework for Urban Tourism under Two Rainfall Scenarios Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Shuang Liu; Rui Liu; Nengzhi Tan
Urban tourism has been suffering socio-economic challenges from flood inundation risk (FIR) triggered by extraordinary rainfall under climate extremes. The evaluation of FIR is essential for mitigating economic losses, and even casualties. This study proposes an innovative spatial framework integrating improved k-nearest neighbor (kNN), remote sensing (RS), and geographic information system (GIS) to
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Bacterial Plant Biostimulants: A Sustainable Way towards Improving Growth, Productivity, and Health of Crops Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Basharat Hamid; Muzafar Zaman; Shabeena Farooq; Sabah Fatima; Riyazali Z. Sayyed; Zahoor Ahmad Baba; Tahir Ahmad Sheikh; Munagala S. Reddy; Hesham El Enshasy; Abdul Gafur; Ni Luh Suriani
This review presents a comprehensive and systematic study of the field of bacterial plant biostimulants and considers the fundamental and innovative principles underlying this technology. Plant biostimulants are an important tool for modern agriculture as part of an integrated crop management (ICM) system, helping make agriculture more sustainable and resilient. Plant biostimulants contain substance(s)
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Sustaining Medicinal Barks: Survival and Bark Regeneration of Amphipterygium adstringens (Anacardiaceae), a Tropical Tree Under Experimental Debarking Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Leonardo Beltrán-Rodríguez; Juan Ignacio Valdez-Hernández; Alfredo Saynes-Vásquez; José Blancas; José Antonio Sierra-Huelsz; Sol Cristians; Andrea Martínez-Ballesté; Angélica Romero-Manzanares; Mario Luna-Cavazos; Ma. Amparo Borja de la Rosa; Elizandro Pineda-Herrera; Belinda Maldonado-Almanza; Gregorio Ángeles-Pérez; Tamara Ticktin; Robert Bye
Commercial harvests can threaten tree species harvested for their bark. Amphipterygium adstringens is a dioecious tree, endemic to the tropical dry forests of Mexico, where it is intensively harvested for its medicinal bark. Limited information hinders developing sustainable management strategies for A. adstringens. We assessed bark regeneration for male and female trees, and evaluated the effect of
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Weather-Related Construction Delays in a Changing Climate: A Systematic State-of-the-Art Review Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Steven J. Schuldt; Mathew R. Nicholson; Yaquarri A. Adams; Justin D. Delorit
Adverse weather delays forty-five percent of construction projects worldwide, costing project owners and contractors billions of dollars in additional expenses and lost revenue each year. Additionally, changes in climate are expected to increase the frequency and intensity of weather conditions that cause these construction delays. Researchers have investigated the effect of weather on several aspects
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Offshore Wind Energy Resource Assessment across the Territory of Oman: A Spatial-Temporal Data Analysis Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Amer Al-Hinai; Yassine Charabi; Seyed H. Aghay Kaboli
Despite the long shoreline of Oman, the wind energy industry is still confined to onshore due to the lack of knowledge about offshore wind potential. A spatial-temporal wind data analysis is performed in this research to find the locations in Oman’s territorial seas with the highest potential for offshore wind energy. Thus, wind data are statistically analyzed for assessing wind characteristics. Statistical
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The Effects of Landscape Elements on the Breeding Sites of Bloodsucking Midge Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Kaowen Grace Chang; Hungju Chien
Forcipomyia taiwana, a bloodsucking midge that is one of the most irritating biting pests in Taiwan, has raised widespread public concern. However, we have little information about the extent to which landscape factors affect their potential habitats. As a result, landscape professionals do not have enough information to implement preventive strategies to control midges. The purpose of this study is
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Load Resistance Optimization of a Broadband Bistable Piezoelectric Energy Harvester for Primary Harmonic and Subharmonic Behaviors Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Sungryong Bae; Pilkee Kim
In this study, optimization of the external load resistance of a piezoelectric bistable energy harvester was performed for primary harmonic (period-1T) and subharmonic (period-3T) interwell motions. The analytical expression of the optimal load resistance was derived, based on the spectral analyses of the interwell motions, and evaluated. The analytical results are in excellent agreement with the numerical
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Human–River Encounter Sites: Looking for Harmony between Humans and Nature in Cities Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Aude Zingraff-Hamed; Mathieu Bonnefond; Sebastien Bonthoux; Nicolas Legay; Sabine Greulich; Amélie Robert; Vincent Rotgé; José Serrano; Yixin Cao; Raita Bala; Alvin Vazha; Rebecca E. Tharme; Karl M. Wantzen
Human welfare depends on the health of nature. Decades of ill-conceived management practices caused a decline in the quality of human life, as well as in biological and cultural diversity. Simultaneously, they increased social and ecological risks. For instance, mismanagement of urban rivers jeopardizes their ecological health and ability to provide ecosystem services. While demands for responsible
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Effect of Cover Crop Type and Application Rate on Soil Nitrogen Mineralization and Availability in Organic Rice Production Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Xiufen Li; Andrew Tan; Kun Chen; Yeming Pan; Terry Gentry; Fugen Dou
In drill-seeded, delay-flooded organic rice production, reliable predictions of N supply from cover crop (CC) residues to subsequent rice are still a challenge. An incubation was conducted to determine the effects of CC types (clover, ryegrass, clover and ryegrass mixtures, and fallow), residue application rates (0, 0.6, 1.2, 1.8, and 2.4%) and incubation time on soil CO2 evolution and N mineralization
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Performance Evaluation of Soft Computing for Modeling the Strength Properties of Waste Substitute Green Concrete Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Muhammad Izhar Shah; Muhammad Nasir Amin; Kaffayatullah Khan; Muhammad Sohaib Khan Niazi; Fahid Aslam; Rayed Alyousef; Muhammad Faisal Javed; Amir Mosavi
The waste disposal crisis and development of various types of concrete simulated by the construction industry has encouraged further research to safely utilize the wastes and develop accurate predictive models for estimation of concrete properties. In the present study, sugarcane bagasse ash (SCBA), a by-product from the agricultural industry, was processed and used in the production of green concrete
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Use of Meat Industry Waste in the Form of Meat-and-Bone Meal in Fertilising Maize (Zea mays L.) for Grain Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Arkadiusz Stępień; Katarzyna Wojtkowiak; Ewelina Kolankowska
The processing of meat industry waste into meat-and-bone meal (MBM) provides the opportunity to use it as fertiliser in the cultivation of agricultural crops. This study was conducted in the years 2014–2017 at the Experimental Station in Tomaszkowo, Poland to assess MBM effects on yield and quality of maize cultivated for grain. An example of the effective use of nutrients contained in MBM applied
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The Sustainability of Thailand’s Protected-Area System under Climate Change Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Nirunrut Pomoim; Robert J. Zomer; Alice C. Hughes; Richard T. Corlett
Protected areas are the backbone of biodiversity conservation but vulnerable to climate change. Thailand has a large and well-planned protected area system, covering most remaining natural vegetation. A statistically derived global environmental stratification (GEnS) was used to predict changes in bioclimatic conditions across the protected area system for 2050 and 2070, based on projections from three
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Environmental Issues as Drivers for Food Choice: Study from a Multinational Framework Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Raquel P. F. Guiné; Elena Bartkiene; Sofia G. Florença; Ilija Djekić; Maša Černelič Bizjak; Monica Tarcea; Marcela Leal; Vanessa Ferreira; Ivana Rumbak; Panagiotis Orfanos; Viktória Szűcs; Dace Klava; Małgorzata Korzeniowska; Kathy Isoldi; Paula Correia; Manuela Ferreira; Ana Paula Cardoso
This work intended to explore some motivations that influence people’s eating habits towards sustainability. This was an observational, cross-sectional study, carried out by questionnaire survey on a non-probabilistic sample of 10,067 participants from 13 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Romania and United States). Results
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Trade Facilitation and Non-Energy Exports of Trinidad and Tobago Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-06 Roger Hosein; Rebecca Gookool; George Saridakis
The economy of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) has traditionally depended on its energy sector as a key driver of economic activity. This sector, however, has been shown to be volatile and vulnerable to global economic shocks; this is no more evident than what has been observed during the coronavirus pandemic. Oil prices have, as a result declined significantly, and this has put the economy on a path of
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Is Trade Credit a Sustainable Resource for Medium-Sized Italian Green Companies? Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Maria Cristina Arcuri; Raoul Pisani
Medium-sized Enterprises (MEs) are a limited number of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) in EU-28 countries, but they contribute greatly to value added and employment. They are also key to pursuing sustainable local development in terms of green economic growth. Because trade credit is a crucial financial source for SMEs, this article investigates the importance of trade credit for Italian
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Effect of the Quasi-Petal Heat Transfer Tube on the Melting Process of the Nano-Enhanced Phase Change Substance in a Thermal Energy Storage Unit Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Mohammad Ghalambaz; Seyed Abdollah Mansouri Mehryan; Reza Kalantar Feeoj; Ahmad Hajjar; Obai Younis; Pouyan Talebizadehsardari; Wahiba Yaïci
The melting heat transfer of nano-enhanced phase change materials was addressed in a thermal energy storage unit. A heated U-shape tube was placed in a cylindrical shell. The cross-section of the tube is a petal-shape, which can have different amplitudes and wave numbers. The shell is filled with capric acid with a fusion temperature of 32 °C. The copper (Cu)/graphene oxide (GO) type nanoparticles
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Impact of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak on Society, Air Quality, and Economy in India: A Study of Three “P”s of Sustainability in India Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Sayanti Kar; Indrajit Ghosh; Sebanti Show; Arunabh Sen; Tanya Gupta; Poushali Chowdhury; Tamasha Chatterjee; Abhishek RoyChowdhury
The outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic forced affected countries to implement strict lockdown to contain the spread of this disease before the advent of the vaccine. This containment resulted in social and economic crisis globally. This study evaluated the impact of COVID-19 on three “P” s of sustainability (Planet, People, and Profit) in India. A comparative analysis was conducted by
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Omni-Chanel Network Design Towards Circular Economy Under Inventory Share Policies Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Damla İzmirli; Banu Y. Y. Ekren; Vikas Kumar; Siwarit Pongsakornrungsilp
In this paper, we study inventory share policies in an omni-channel supply network, to contribute to the circular economy (CE) concept. Lateral inventory share implementation provides flexibility and profitability in the supply chain by allowing inventory share between the same echelon locations in a network. Total holding costs and transportation costs can be reduced by lateral inventory share applications
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Numerical Modeling of Mine Hoist Disc Brake Temperature for Safer Operation Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Florin Dumitru Popescu; Sorin Mihai Radu; Andrei Andraș; Ildiko Brînaș
The sustainable exploitation of raw materials, with improved safety and increased productivity, is closely linked to the development of mechanical mining installations. Mine hoists are designed for the transport of material, equipment and personnel between the mine surface and the underground. The mine hoist braking system is of paramount importance in its safe operation. Thus, for both drum and disc
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Exposing Emerging Trends in Smart Sustainable City Research Using Deep Autoencoders-Based Fuzzy C-Means Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Anne Parlina; Kalamullah Ramli; Hendri Murfi
The literature discussing the concepts, technologies, and ICT-based urban innovation approaches of smart cities has been growing, along with initiatives from cities all over the world that are competing to improve their services and become smart and sustainable. However, current studies that provide a comprehensive understanding and reveal smart and sustainable city research trends and characteristics
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Cultural Consumption and Citizen Engagement—Strategies for Built Heritage Conservation and Sustainable Development. A Case Study of Indore City, India Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Soniya Billore
Cultural heritage is an invaluable asset of any city, region, or community and is an important component in the sustainable development of societies and economies. However, the role of cultural heritage has been understudied in terms of its social embeddedness and impact on social cohesion. This has led to a demand for more insights on how cultural heritage is conserved globally and more significantly
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Combining Adapted Physical Education with Individualized Education Programs: Building Korean Pre-Service Teachers’ Self-Efficacy for Inclusive Physical Education Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 YoungHwan Koh
This study investigated the effect of combining adapted physical education courses with individualized education program training on pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy towards inclusive physical education. Multilevel modeling of a survey completed by two hundred and twenty-seven students enrolled in physical education teacher education programs in Korea was analyzed using a quadratic growth curve
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Changing Effect of Urban Form on the Seasonal and Diurnal Variations of Surface Urban Heat Island Intensities (SUHIIs) in More Than 3000 Cities in China Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Lin Ma; Yueyao Wang; Ze Liang; Jiaqi Ding; Jiashu Shen; Feili Wei; Shuangcheng Li
Based on the indicators of more than 3000 cities in China, this study shows that the relationship between the urban form and surface urban heat island intensity (SUHII) demonstrates seasonal and diurnal variations, and also changes along urban development and elevation gradients. SUHIIs show seasonal and diurnal change patterns along urban development and elevation gradients, but there is no obvious
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Impact of the Slow Fish Movement Curriculum on Students’ Awareness of Marine Environment Conservation and Marine Resource Sustainability Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Ya-Yin Liao; Cheng-Chieh Chang
This study aims to measure the impact of the Slow Fish Movement (SFM) curriculum regarding the awareness of marine environment conservation (MEC) and marine resource sustainability (MRC). The SFM curriculum was designed for 1007 junior high school students in a seaside city. The UN SDG 14, Taiwan Seafood Guide and the Nine Principles of Consuming Seafood in Taiwan for Ocean Sustainability formed the
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Evaluation of Community Tourism Empowerment of Ancient Town Based on Analytic Hierarchy Process: A Case Study of Zhujiajiao, Shanghai Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Xinyue Zhou; Jing Wang; Song Zhang
The research on community empowerment in the protection and utilization of ancient towns has practical significance for the sustainable development of ancient towns. Combined with empirical research, questionnaire survey, this paper analyzes the residents’ awareness of empowerment in the community participation of tourism, taking Zhujiajiao ancient town as a case study. Firstly, the evaluation system
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Plant-Microbe Synergism in Floating Treatment Wetlands for the Enhanced Removal of Sodium Dodecyl Sulphate from Water Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Momina Yasin; Muhammad Tauseef; Zaniab Zafar; Moazur Rahman; Ejazul Islam; Samina Iqbal; Muhammad Afzal
Excessive use of detergents in wide industrial processes results in unwanted surfactant pollution. Among them, sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) has well-known history to be used in pharmaceutical and industrial applications. However, if discharged without treatment, it can cause toxic effects on living organisms especially to the aquatic life. Floating treatment wetlands (FTWs) could be a cost-effective
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The Effect of Variable-Length Fins and Different High Thermal Conductivity Nanoparticles in the Performance of the Energy Storage Unit Containing Bio-Based Phase Change Substance Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Mohammad Ghalambaz; Seyed Abdollah Mansouri Mehryan; Masoud Mozaffari; Obai Younis; Aritra Ghosh
Thermal Energy Storage (TES) is a key feature in the sizing of thermal systems and energy management. The Phase Change Material (PCM) can store a huge amount of heat in the form of latent heat. However, a good design of the TES unit is required to absorb thermal energy and charge quickly. In the present study, a combination of optimum fin design and nanoadditives are used to design a shell and tube
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Bio-Flocculation Property Analyses of Oleaginous Microalgae Auxenochlorella protothecoides UTEX 2341 Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Jinyu Li; Baozhen Li; Jinshui Yang
The bio-flocculation ability of UTEX 2341 was studied for the purpose of improving microalgae harvesting efficiency to cut the high cost of biofuel production. The algae cells of UTEX 2341 cultured under heterotrophic and municipal wastewater conditions were found to have better self-flocculation ability, with flocculation rates of 92% and 85% at 2 h, respectively. Moreover, the flocculation rates
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Expectations and Needs of Estonian Health Sector SMEs from Living Labs in an International Context Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Katri-Liis Lepik; Merle Krigul
Living labs bring experimentation out of otherwise closed R&D departments to real-life environments with the participation of users and stakeholders. Living labs have been established in all the Baltic Sea countries. They operate in many sectors, but the way services are structured varies widely. This study is focusing on the limited options of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from Baltic
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The Differentiate Effect of Self-Efficacy, Motivation, and Satisfaction on Pre-Service Teacher Students’ Learning Achievement in a Flipped Classroom: A Case of a Modern Educational Technology Course Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Li Zhao; Xiaohong Liu; Yu-Sheng Su
To analyze how variability changes over time can enhance the understanding of how learners’ self-efficacy, motivation, and satisfaction is controlled and why differences might exist among groups of individuals. Therefore, this study compared the effect of variability on pre-service teacher students in the flipped classroom approach with a course named modern educational technology (MET). In total,
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Investigation on the Emission and Diffusion of Hydrogen Sulfide during Landfill Operations: A Case Study in Shenzhen Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Haijie He; Tao Wu; Hui Xu; Yuhua Lu; Zhanhong Qiu; Xiaogang Wang; Pan Zhang
This study investigated the emission and diffusion of hydrogen sulfide (H2S), as one of the odorous gases generated from landfills, in a municipal solid waste landfill of a south Chinese city. To this end, the flux of the H2S emissions in the working area of the landfill and its diffusion in the surrounding area were measured. The diffusion of the H2S was simulated at different wind speeds, wind directions
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A Sustainable Approach towards the Retrofit of the Public Housing Building Stock: Energy-Architectural Experimental and Numerical Analysis Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Federica Rosso; Arianna Peduzzi; Lorenzo Diana; Stefano Cascone; Carlo Cecere
Nowadays, energy retrofit interventions on the existing building stock are of paramount importance towards energy consumption and emissions reductions in the construction sector. Such interventions are also crucial in the view of increasing cities resilience with respect to the intensification of frequent extreme weather events, such as cold spells and heatwaves. Indeed, a wide portion of our cities
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The Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage in European Circular City Plans: A Systematic Review Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Gillian Foster; Ruba Saleh
A new movement in urban environmental policy, the circular economy (CE), aims to change how Europeans consume and produce materials and energy. Cities are taking up the CE challenge. This research inquires whether the infant CE programs in European cities include cultural heritage and adaptive reuse of cultural heritage (ARCH) buildings. ARCH buildings exemplify the central principal of the CE, which
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Knowledge-Based Economy Capacity Building for Developing Countries: A Panel Analysis in Southern African Development Community Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Koketso Phale; Li Fanglin; Isaac Adjei Mensah; Akoto Yaw Omari-Sasu; Mohammed Musah
The Southern African Development Community is lagging behind in terms of knowledge economy relative to other regions worldwide. This dramatically reduces the chances of keeping up with their economically established counterparts in terms of sustainable development. This paper therefore, applies multivariate panel data analysis which is predicted on the Cobb–Douglas production function to analyze the
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Can Carbon Trading Policies Promote Regional Green Innovation Efficiency? Empirical Data from Pilot Regions in China Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Baoliu Liu; Zhenqing Sun; Huanhuan Li
Although the emission reduction and innovation effects of carbon emissions trading have attracted considerable interest among academics and policy makers, there is a lack of empirical research on how carbon trading pilots in China promote regional green innovation. Therefore, we measured the green innovation efficiency of 30 provinces and cities in mainland China from 2005 to 2018, using selected panel
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Fulfilling External Stakeholders’ Demands—Enhancement Workplace Safety Using Fuzzy MCDM Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Nikola Komatina; Marko Djapan; Igor Ristić; Aleksandar Aleksić
Sustainable development and project stakeholder management indicate a business practice where an organization strives to fulfil the demands of the important stakeholders for the project’s success. If one company relies on subassembly parts from its supplier, then it might be considered that it has high interest for enhancing the business continuity of the supplier. This issue has become more complex
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Development of a Spatial Model for Soil Quality Assessment under Arid and Semi-Arid Conditions Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Mohamed S. Shokr; Mostafa. A. Abdellatif; Ahmed A. El Baroudy; Abdelrazek Elnashar; Esmat F. Ali; Abdelaziz A. Belal; Wael. Attia; Mukhtar Ahmed; Ali A. Aldosari; Zoltan Szantoi; Mohamed E. M. Jalhoum; Ahmed M. S. Kheir
Food security has become a global concern for humanity with rapid population growth, requiring a sustainable assessment of natural resources. Soil is one of the most important sources that can help to bridge the food demand gap to achieve food security if well assessed and managed. The aim of this study was to determine the soil quality index (SQI) for El Fayoum depression in the Western Egyptian Desert
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An Empirical Test of Mobile Service Provider Promotions on Repurchase Intentions Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-07 Kwangchul Ji; Hong-Youl Ha
Little empirical evidence is obtained for the moderating outcomes of mobile promotions (M-promotions) during subsequent repurchasing events. This study examines how M-promotions indirectly influence repurchase intentions, and how the level of promotions moderates the relationship between repurchase intentions and their determinants. The findings show that three determinants (i.e., brand attitude, functional
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Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems in Spain: A Diagnosis Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Ignacio Andrés-Doménech; Jose Anta; Sara Perales-Momparler; Jorge Rodriguez-Hernandez
Sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) were almost unknown in Spain two decades ago; today, urban drainage in the country is transitioning towards a more sustainable and regenerative management in a global context where green policies are gaining prominence. This research establishes a diagnosis of SUDS in Spain and examines the extent to which the country is moving towards the new paradigm in three
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What Will Remain? Predicting the Representation in Protected Areas of Suitable Habitat for Endangered Tropical Avifauna in Borneo under a Combined Climate- and Land-Use Change Scenario Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Minerva Singh; Jessamine Badcock-Scruton; C. Matilda Collins
The responses of threatened tropical avian species to projected climate change and land-use change are important for evaluating the ability of the existing protected areas to provide habitat to these species under future scenarios in biodiversity hotspots. This study uses Maxent, a species distribution model that employs a maximum entropy machine learning approach to map the spatial distributions of
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A Study on the Practical Pressure-Driven Hydraulic Analysis Method Considering Actual Water Supply Characteristics of Water Distribution Network Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Dong Eil Chang; Do Guen Yoo; Joong Hoon Kim
For reliable pressure-driven analysis (PDA) results, it is necessary to reasonably determine an objective head-outflow relationship (HOR) and the required head for each node. So far, no methodology has been proposed to objectively determine two factors based on data of real block. In this study, the HOR was defined using the water supply method, residential environment, and water consumption data within
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The Incidence of Social Responsibility in the Adoption of Business Practices Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Felipe Arenas-Torres; Miguel Bustamante-Ubilla; Roberto Campos-Troncoso
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies are evidenced by adopting socially relevant business practices for people, communities, companies, and related institutions. Based on this conception, the present work determines the incidence of ethics and CSR on practices regarding diversity, environment, and community of Chilean companies. The method, applied to a sample of 3179 Chilean companies, was
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The Role of Port Authority in Port Governance and Port Community System Implementation Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Edvard Tijan; Marija Jović; Ana Panjako; Dražen Žgaljić
This paper researches the role of the port authorities in port governance, and the role of the port authorities in Port Community System implementation. The authors provide the theoretical frameworks of seaports, port authorities, port governance, and Port Community Systems. The literature review was carried out using the Web of Science database and additional relevant sources. The authors concluded
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Social Norms Based Eco-Feedback for Household Water Consumption Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Ukasha Ramli
Physical water scarcity is a growing threat to people’s lives around the world. Non-pecuniary interventions that encourage water conservation amongst households are an effective tool to promote sustainable consumption. In a randomised field experiment on 3461 UK households, a social norms based eco-feedback intervention was found to reduce water consumption by around 5.43 L a day or by 1.8% over 29
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Fish Farmers’ Perception of Ecosystem Services and Diversification of Carp Pond Aquaculture: A Case Study from Warmia and Mazury, Poland Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Konrad Turkowski
Ecosystem services, multifunctionality and diversity play a particular role in the management of carp pond aquaculture. These three concepts have been increasingly considered in sustainable aquaculture science and policymaking. However, the understanding and acceptance of sustainable aquaculture by fish farmers is a prerequisite for the successful implementation of such a targeted policy. Research
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Framework for Sustainable Recovery of Tourism in Protected Areas Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Hasita Bhammar; Wendy Li; Christel Maria Moller Molina; Valerie Hickey; Jo Pendry; Urvashi Narain
Tourism in protected areas was a fast-growing segment within the global travel and tourism industry prior to the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. As a development pathway, tourism generated foreign exchange for countries endowed with natural assets (protected areas, pristine landscapes, forests, oceans, wildlife), contributed to conservation revenues, and provided local development benefits
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Sustainability-Oriented Project Scheduling Based on Z-Fuzzy Numbers for Public Institutions Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Dorota Kuchta; Ewa Marchwicka; Jan Schneider
A new approach to sustainable project scheduling for public institutions is proposed. The approach is based on experts’ opinions on three aspects of sustainability of project activities (human resources consumption, material consumption and negative influence on local communities), expressed by means of Z-fuzzy numbers. A fuzzy bicriterial optimization model is proposed, whose objective is to obtain
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COVID-19 Inspired a STEM-Based Virtual Learning Model for Middle Schools—A Case Study of Qatar Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Azza Abouhashem; Rana Magdy Abdou; Jolly Bhadra; Nitha Siby; Zubair Ahmad; Noora Jabor Al-Thani
An unprecedented turn in educational pedagogies due to the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the students’ learning process worldwide. This article describes developing a STEM-based online course during the schools’ closure in the COVID-19 epidemic to combat the virtual science classroom’s limitations that could promise an active STEM learning environment. This learning model of the online
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Fiscal and Budgetary Policy Efforts towards Climate Change Mitigation in Romania Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Nicoleta Mihaela Florea; Georgeta-Madalina Meghisan-Toma; Silvia Puiu; Flaviu Meghisan; Marius Dalian Doran; Mariana Niculescu
To mitigate the negative effects of climate change on the environment, the Member States of the European Union implement fiscal measures and commit budgetary expenditures to ensure sustainable economic development. Romania, in line with the Union’s objectives, resorted to the application of a system of environmental taxes and provided in the budgetary policy government expenditures for environmental
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The Change of Sources of Growth and Sustainable Development in China: Based on the Extended EKC Explanation Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Huaide Wen; Jun Dai
This paper extends the “sources of growth” explanation for the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) proposed by Copeland and Taylor in a concise theoretical framework, that is, when the sources of growth are transformed from physical capital and labor to human capital and knowledge, the environmental pollution could at first rise and then fall with a sustainable growth in per capita income. Using the
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The Effect of Organizational Information Security Climate on Information Security Policy Compliance: The Mediating Effect of Social Bonding towards Healthcare Nurses Sustainability (IF 2.576) Pub Date : 2021-03-05 Ke Dong; Rao Faizan Ali; P. D. D. Dominic; Syed Emad Azhar Ali
The advancement of information communication technology in healthcare institutions has increased information security breaches. Scholars and industry practitioners have reported that most security breaches are due to negligence towards organizational information security policy compliance (ISPC) by healthcare employees such as nurses. There is, however, a lack of understanding of the factors that ensure
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