In this paper, nature-based solutions (NBS) include: (1) natural flood management (NFM) interventions with a primary function of risk reduction but additional multiple benefits for water quality improvements through the mitigation diffuse pollution; and (2) ponds improvement. This study assesses ability these NBS to trap pollutants in run-off within two small (3.4 km2) agricultural catchments (...

Abstract The neutron count rate fluctuation reaches six orders of magnitude between the ohmic plasma scenario and high power auxiliary heating on an experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST). measurement result flux monitoring (NFM) is a significant feedback parameter related to acquisition radiation protection-related information rapid fluctuations in emission induced by magnetohydr...

Abstract Purpose to improve the antibacterial action of a two-step total-etch dental adhesive by using titanium dioxide-doped phosphate glass microspheres (GMs) without affecting its penetration ability. Materials and methods Five 10 wt% APTES silanized [surface treated with 3-Aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES)] non-silanized GMs have been used as filler Adper™ Single Bond 2 Refill. The morphol...

Climate change has seen increased pressures put on the existing ageing flood mitigation infrastructure. As a result, over recent decades there been shift from traditional hard-engineered approaches to flooding more sustainable methods that utilise nature-based processes in order slow flow, store water and increase infiltration. Doing so resulted range of different nomenclature for such techniqu...

Land use changes, landscape modifications and changing climate have resulted in local to regional flood risk increases recent decades. As an alternative traditional engineering approaches, there has been a movement towards catchment-based management, subset of which is natural management (NFM). NFM aims enhance resilience through the slowing storing runoff flow, based on restoration augmentatio...

Neurofilaments possess side arms that comprise the carboxy-terminal domains of neurofilament middle and heavy chains (NFM and NFH); that of NFH is heavily phosphorylated in axons. Here, we demonstrate that phosphorylation of NFH side arms is a mechanism for regulating transport of neurofilaments through axons. Mutants in which known NFH phosphorylation sites were mutated to preclude phosphoryla...

Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is the major natural process of nitrogen (N) input to ecosystems. To understand how plant invasion and N enrichment affect BNF, we compared soil N-fixation rates and N-fixing microbes (NFM) of an invasive Spartina alterniflora community and a native Phragmites australis community in the Yangtze River estuary, with and without N addition. Our results indicated ...

Humidity indicators based on composite polyamide 66/cobalt chloride (PA66/CoCl2) nanofibrous membranes (NFMs) were successfully fabricated by electrospinning. A series of NFMs with various weight percentage of CoCl2 to PA66 were prepared, and their humidity sensitivity based on color changing and quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) were studied. Due to the color change property of cobalt chloride...