The decommissioning of manmade structures in the marine environment causes large volumes greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to be released. Current GHG calculation methods for offshore oil and industry infrastructure leave sources unaccounted for. results presented here show that these consequential are underreported by 50%. Until now, no study has looked at cumulative impact decommissioning, but t...

The Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) systems use electromagnetic radiations of different polarizations in the microwave frequency to collect scattering information from targets on Earth. Nevertheless, as with any other electronic device, PolSAR are also not ideal and subjected distortions. most important these distortions polarimetric caused due channel imbalance, phase bias, cros...

The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) released drafts of new recommendations in June 2004, June 2006 and January 2007 and finally approved a new set of fundamental recommendations on the protection of humans and the environment from ionizing radiation at its meeting in Essen, Germany, 19-21 March 2007. In the process of the completion of the draft recommendations, the n...

Wetlands are essential habitats in the environment since they fulfill a variety of ecological functions and support rich biodiversity. One major characteristic of wetlands is their ability to act as chemical sinks. There have been biogeochemical models developed for wetlands in Europe and North America but these systems differ from those found in South Africa, where most wetlands are riverfed a...

polyhydroxyalkanoates (phas) are bioplastics derived from renewable resources such as vegetable oils, corn starch, or microbes. the polyhydroxybutyrate (phb) is a short-chain-length pha, and the most important bioplastic produced by certain microorganisms in the presence of excess carbon sources. in this study batch cultivation of alcaligenes eutrophus with the aim of increasing phb production ...

The "hub and spoke model" of semantic representation suggests that the multimodal features of objects are drawn together by an anterior temporal lobe (ATL) "hub", while modality-specific "spokes" capture perceptual/action features. However, relatively little is known about how these components are recruited through time to support object identification. We used magnetoencephalography to measure...