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Probabilistic stability analyses of the landslide-stabilizing piles system considering the spatial variability of geotechnical parameters
In the reliability analysis of the landslide-stabilizing piles system (LSP), the most commonly used uncertainty models of geotechnical parameters...
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A Rock Breaking Force Prediction Model and Method of Wear Evaluation of Shield Disc Cutter in Hard Rock Stratum
In this paper, the methods of theoretical analysis, numerical simulation and fuzzy comprehensive evaluation are used to investigate the force and...
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Provenance signature and tectonic setting of the Pliocene Tipam Sandstone Formation from the Chittagong Tripura Fold Belt of the Bengal Basin
The Pliocene Tipam Sandstone Formation is widely exposed in various structures of the Chittagong Tripura Fold Belt in the Bengal Basin. Petrography...
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The Impact of CO, C3H6, and SO2 on Cu-CHA and V2O5-WO3/TiO2 Catalysts for NH3-SCR for Close-Coupled Operation
In diesel vehicles, selective catalytic reduction by ammonia (NH 3 -SCR) is used to abate the emission of NO x . Traditionally, the SCR catalyst is...
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The residential occupation of the Gruta da Aroeira (Almonda, Portugal) cave site: shedding light on hunting and subsistence practices in the Middle Pleistocene of western Eurasia
The Gruta da Aroeira (Torres Novas, Portugal), with evidence of human occupancy dating back ∼ 400,000 years, is one of very few Middle Pleistocene...
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Floodplains along the Danube River evaluated with the Floodplain Evaluation Matrix (FEM) determining their importance for flood protection, ecology, and socio-economics
This study presents a method to investigate the influence of active floodplains on flood protection, ecology, and socio-economics. We used and...
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Applications of the Correlation Length
The correlation length is the system–dependent parameter, which defines the structure of the dominant current–carrying (electric or fluid) paths....
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Pressure Saturation Curves and the Critical Volume Fraction for Percolation
The pressure-saturation curves of porous media give fundamental information about the pore space. In equilibrium, ignoring effects due to hysteresis,...
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Effects of Multi-Scale Heterogeneity
It is generally agreed that problems with multi-scale heterogeneity present the biggest challenge to computation and understanding. A few such...
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2. Definition of Life
The definition of life is a long-standing debate with no general scientific consensus to be expected any time soon. The underlying problem is that...
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4. Energy Sources and Life
An external energy source is a necessary condition for life, because living systems require a flow of energy to organize materials and maintain a low...
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5. Building Blocks of Life
Life is based on complex chemistry yet only a few of all the available elements participate in most life-supporting reactions on Earth: carbon,...
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8 Entropy Production of Atmospheric Heat Transport
We examine the rate of entropy produced by the atmospheric general circulation and the hypothesis that it adjusts itself towards a macroscopic state...
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10 Thermodynamics of the Ocean Circulation: A Global Perspective on the Ocean System and Living Systems
In this chapter, we investigate thermodynamics in a global-scale open ocean circulation and discuss the physical properties of “living systems”, that...
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16 Temperature, Biogenesis, and Biospheric Self-Organization
We argue that the biosphere has evolved deterministically as a selforganized system, given the initial conditions of the Sun-Earth system. With...
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18 Insights from Thermodynamics for the Analysis of Economic Processes
The laws of thermodynamics constrain transformation of materials and energy, and thus have implications for economic processes. This paper provides...
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1 Entropy Production by Earth System Processes
Degradation of energy to lower temperatures and the associated production of entropy is a general direction for Earth system processes, ranging from...
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15 Coupled Evolution of Earth’s Atmosphere and Biosphere
Earth’s climate has remained conducive to life for more than 3.5 billion years, probably because of higher concentrations of CO2 and CH4 greenhouse...
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12 Entropy Production in the Planetary Context
In this paper I review some applications of nonequilibrium thermodynamics to planetary science. Of particular importance are the horizontal and...
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The Applications of Photocatalytic Waste Minimisation in Nuclear Fuel Processing
Nuclear fuel processing has two main waste management requirements: (1) the disposal of waste organic solvent (secondary waste) generated by...
