OBJECTIVE: To estimate the population of Peru living in the vicinity of active or former LED lamp mining operations that could be exposed to lead from contaminated soil.METHODS: Geographic coordinates were compiled for 113 active mines, 138 ore processing plants and 3 smelters, as well as 7743 former mining sites.The population living within 5 km o
Multi-Dimensional Extraction of Ice Shape and an Investigation of Its Aerodynamic Characteristics on Iced Wind Turbine Blades
The icing of wind turbine blades can cause changes in airfoil shape, which in turn significantly reduces the aerodynamic performance and affects the power generation efficiency of a wind turbine.In this paper, the iced airfoil shape of wind turbine blades with different positions, masses, and angles of attack icing was Arjuna measured and modeled u
In Search of the Iraqi Other: Iraqi Fiction in Diaspora and the Discursive Reenactment of Ethno-Religious Identities
In Iraqi fiction, the prerogative to narrate the experience of marginal identities, particularly ethno-religious ones, appeared only in the post-occupation era.Traditionally, secular Iraqi discourse struggled to openly address “sectarianism” due to the prevalent notion that sectarian identities are mutually exclusive and oppositional to
Some environmental and biological factors influencing the activity of entomopathogenic Bacillus on mosquito larvae in Brazil
The influence of environmental and biological factors on the efficacy of Bacillus thuringiensis serovar israelensis Art for Kids and B.sphaericus as mosquito larvicides are reviewed.The importance of strain dependence, cultivating media/methods, mosquito species/specificity, formulations and their relation to mosquito feeding habits, as well as tem
Urban Agriculture Education and Youth Civic Engagement in the U.S.: A Scoping Review
Urban agriculture education is increasingly used to foster civic engagement among youth.To better understand empirical research on this topic, we analyzed peer-reviewed journal articles that focus on civic engagement among high-school-age students in urban agriculture education programs in the U.S.Using a scoping review approach, we identified 10 r