The feasibility and added value of an ecosystem services approach in retrospective environmental risk assessment were evaluated using a site-specific case study lowland UK river. studied water body failed to achieve good ecological status temporarily 2018, due part the exceedance quality standard (annual average EQS) for zinc. Potential service delivery was quantified locally prioritised servic...

It has recently been found that the evolution of preparation a strong earthquake (EQ), as it is monitored through fracture-induced electromagnetic emissions (EME) in MHz band, presents striking similarity with thermal system temperature drops, since distinct steps phenomenon spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) can be identified. Here, study EME band analogy to systems extended phase local fract...

We are grateful to Auffhammer and Vincent (1) for having pointed out that Eqs. 1 and 2 in Feng et al. (2) do not represent the model actually used to produce the estimates presented in Tables 1 and 2 of the latter paper (2). What we actually estimated was a model without time dummies. Thus, gt and ht should have been omitted from Eqs. 1 and 2. We regret this mistake. However, despite the omissi...

The aim of the present study was to verify, during a stressful sport competition, the associations between motivational antecedents and consequences of the coping process. Using a two-wave design, we tested a model that incorporates motivational orientations, coping dimensions, goal attainment, and affective states among athletes (N = 122). Path analyses using EQS revealed that selfdeterminatio...

i=1 hi(ai) (S1) cf. Eqs. (7) and (18). Note that, to lighten notations, we do not explicitly distinguish here between attractive and repulsive patterns. Attractive patterns simply correspond to real-valued patterns: ξ i (a) = ξ +,μ i (a). Repulsive patterns have purely imaginary components in the formula above: ξ i (a) = ı̂ ξ −,ν i (a), with ı̂ 2 = −1 and ξ i (a) real-valued. Our aim is to calcul...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2016.06.052 0021-9797/ 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Recently, Shao et al. published the paper entitled Rebuttal to the criticism on the paper ‘‘Application of Mn/MCM-41 as an adsorbent to remove Methyl Blue from aqueous solution” [1]. Authors mentioned ‘‘In Section 3.9, adsorption kinetics we have cited the incorrect Ref. [2]. We are so sorry for that...

The claim that B (1) y = 0 in Sec 4A of the above paper (hereafter as I) is incorrect. The calculation over there only establishes a particular solution (1) y = 0. It is necessary to add a solution to the homogeneous equations corresponding to Eqs. (1),h y = 0. (3) This homogeneous solution must be included so that B (1) y − 4πM (1) y contains no discontinuity at the vortex. Using M

Equiform geometry is considered an extension of other geometries. Furthermore, equiform frame a generalization the Frenet frame. In this study, we begin by defining term “equiform parameter (EQP)”, frame”, and formulas (EQF)” in regard to Minkowski three-space. Second, define spacelike normal curves (SPN) three-space present variety descriptions these with (EQS) or timelike (EQN) principal norm...

The objective of this study is to propose the axial load ratio which assure that strengths CFT beam-columns attain full plastic moment. subjected constant vertical and monotonic increasing moment are analyzed maximum obtained, taking gradient ratio, value stability index α, materials width-thickness steel tube as analytical parameter. After examining effects parameters on strength, required con...

Cβ(N) is a normalisation constant, w (z, z̄) is a weight function (see discussion below). For real matrices (β = 1) with no further symmetries, the reader is referred to much later papers by Lehmann and Sommers (1991), and also by Edelman (1997). Although Ginibre’s derivation of Eqs. (1) and (2) holds for random matrices with Gaussian distributed entries, that is for w(z, z̄) = w 0(z, z̄) = e , (3)