Atmospheric water is a resource equivalent to ~10% of all fresh water in lakes on Earth. However, an efficient process for capturing and delivering water from air, especially at low humidity levels (down to 20%), has not been developed. We report the design and demonstration of a device based on a porous metal-organic framework {MOF-801, [Zr6O4(OH)4(fumarate)6]} that captures water from the atm...

We present an InSAR technique called Small Temporal Baseline Subset (STBAS) for monitoring absolute water levels time series using radar interferograms acquired successively over wetlands. We tested the STBAS technique with two-year long Radarsat-1 data acquired over the Water Conservation Area 1 (WCA1) in the Everglades wetlands, south Florida (USA). The fine beam SAR data were acquired succes...

The long-term vegetative and reproductive growth rates of a wheat crop (Triticum aestivum L.) were determined in three separate studies (24, 45, and 79 days) in response to a wide range of photosynthetic photon fluxes (PPF, 400-2080 micromoles per square meter per second; 22-150 moles per square meter per day; 16-20 hour photoperiod) in a near-optimum, controlled-environment. The CO2 concentra...

Measuring and charging heat consumption are not often worked out in the prevalent warm-water heating systems. The developed modern heat-meter device, which includes microcontroller, is self-calibrating and self-testing, it uses several correctional algorithms in order to increase accuracy after authentication. Consumption data and information about the work-state events are logged and stored by...

Achievement of the ambitious environmental sustainability targets requires improvement of energy efficiency practices in private households. We demonstrate how utility companies, having access to smart electricity meter data, can automatically extract household characteristics related to energy efficiency and adoption of renewable energy technologies (e.g., water/space heating type, age of hous...

Borexino is a large unsegmented calorimeter featuring 300 tons of liquid scintillator, contained in a 8.5 meter nylon vessel, viewed by 2200 PMTs. The main goal of Borexino is the study, in real time, of low energy solar neutrinos, and in particular, the monoenergetic neutrinos coming from Be, which is one of the missing links on the solar neutrino problem. The achievement of high radiopurity l...

in islamic civilization, rhetoric is the product of a great attempt to find out the secrets of quranic language; nevertheless, the achievements of such studies have been mechanically applied to persian which, compared to arabic, has a different linguistic system and literary conventions. this approach has brought about problems in defining literary terms, internal rhythm being one of them. this...

An electronic meter to measure surface seawater density is presented. It is based on the measurement of the difference in displacements of a surface level probe and a weighted float, which according to Archimedes' law depends on the density of the water. The displacements are simultaneously measured using a high-accuracy magnetostrictive sensor, to which a custom electronic board provides a wir...