1. Urban greenspaces and nearby natural areas support similar levels of soil ecosystem servicesDavid J. Eldridge, Haiying Cui, Jingyi Ding, Miguel Berdugo, Tadeo Sáez-Sandino, Jorge Duran, Juan J. Gaitan, José L. Blanco-Pastor, Alexandra Rodríguez, César Plaza, Tine Grebenc, Tina Unuk Nahberger, 2024, original scientific article Abstract: Greenspaces are important for sustaining healthy urban environments and their human populations. Yet their capacity to support multiple ecosystem services simultaneously (multiservices) compared with nearby natural ecosystems remains virtually unknown. We conducted a global field survey in 56 urban areas to investigate the influence of urban greenspaces on 23 soil and plant attributes and compared them with nearby natural environments. We show that, in general, urban greenspaces and nearby natural areas support similar levels of soil multiservices, with only six of 23 attributes (available phosphorus, water holding capacity, water respiration, plant cover, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), and arachnid richness) significantly greater in greenspaces, and one (available ammonium) greater in natural areas. Further analyses showed that, although natural areas and urban greenspaces delivered a similar number of services at low (>25% threshold) and moderate (>50%) levels of functioning, natural systems supported significantly more functions at high (>75%) levels of functioning. Management practices (mowing) played an important role in explaining urban ecosystem services, but there were no effects of fertilisation or irrigation. Some services declined with increasing site size, for both greenspaces and natural areas. Our work highlights the fact that urban greenspaces are more similar to natural environments than previously reported and underscores the importance of managing urban greenspaces not only for their social and recreational values, but for supporting multiple ecosystem services on which soils and human well-being depends.
Keywords: soil, ecosystem services, urban forests
Published in DiRROS: 17.04.2024; Views: 91; Downloads: 50
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2. Numerical heat transfer model for swelling intumescent coatings during heatingAndrea Lucherini, Juan P. Hidalgo, Jose L. Torero, Cristian Maluk, 2023, original scientific article Abstract: This research study presents a heat transfer model aimed at estimating the thermal and physical response of intumescent coatings. The numerical model is inspired by the outcomes of an experimental study focused on analysing the insulating effectiveness of a commercial intumescent coating for a range of heating conditions and initial coating thickness. The model solves the one-dimensional heat conduction problem using the finite-difference Crank-Nicolson method, and it assumes that the effectiveness of intumescent coatings is mainly dependent on their ability to develop swelled porous char. The coating swelling is implemented in the model by adopting an approach based on expanding the mesh representing the physical domain in proximity to the substrate-coating interface. The model described herein offers researchers and engineers a tool to estimate the heat transfer of swelling intumescent coatings (i.e. in-depth thermal gradient). Outcomes of the analysis shown herein demonstrate that the heat conduction within intumescent coatings is governed by the physical coating swelling and the thermal conditions at the coating-substrate interface. The numerical model shows that its accuracy is highly influenced by the coating thickness ahead of the reaction zone. Consequently, the coating swelling rate plays a key role, while the thermo-physical properties of the intumescent coating have a secondary effect. According to its assumptions, the model defines a quasi-steady-state thermal problem: it is more accurate for conditions close to steady-state (e.g. high heat fluxes), but it loses accuracy for cases characterised by transient phenomena (e.g. phases prior to the onset of swelling and low heat fluxes).
Keywords: intumescent coatings, heat transfer, numerical model, swelling, fire safety
Published in DiRROS: 08.01.2024; Views: 180; Downloads: 34
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3. Enhancing circular business model implementation in pulp and paper industry (PPI) : a phase-based implementation guide to waste valorisation strategiesaAmaia Sopelana, Asier Oleaga, Juan José Cepriá, Karmen Fifer Bizjak, Helena Paiva, Francisco-Javier Rios-Davila, Adriana H. Martinez, Antonio Cañas, 2023, original scientific article Abstract: Innovation in the circular economy (CE) and the deployment of effective circular business models (CBM) have attracted significant attention in times of growing natural resource scarcity. Despite this widespread interest, significant challenges remain between theoretical innovations and effective CBM implementation in any industrial sector where companies pursue cost-saving opportunities through waste valorisation strategies. Since current methods mislead in terms of the real limitations to designing feasible novel products and services under a circular economy, this study proposes exploring determinants underpinning the organisational resilience of CBMs under a resource efficiency strategy through three case studies. As a result of a co-creation process, the implementation of a CBM framework was built upon empirical data and, thence, a phase-based implementation guide was laid out to assist companies in designing and implementing innovative CBM dealing with the complexity of innovative waste valorisation strategies between the PPI and construction sectors. Relevant findings on managerial and policy recommendations encountered along the demo stage are provided in this paper favouring an effective implementation of CE strategies: the role of technological and non-technological aspects within the CBM, the perspective of the ecosystem and its value proposition, and specific guidelines for the different phases of CBM life cycle.
Keywords: circular business models (CBMs), resource recovery, waste valorisation, strategic management, pulp and paper industry (PPI), construction sector
Published in DiRROS: 13.12.2023; Views: 194; Downloads: 92
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5. Izraženost ER in PR pri invazivnem karcinomu dojke : rezultati določanja na 15 029 zaporednih vzorcih z Onkološkega Inštituta v obdobju 2006 do 2021Primož Drev, Olga Blatnik, Jerca Blazina, Juan Antonio Contreras, Gorana Gašljević, Biljana Grčar-Kuzmanov, Andreja Klevišar Ivančič, Snežana Pavlović Djokić, Barbara Gazić, 2022, published professional conference contribution abstract Keywords: onkologija, rak dojke, patologija
Published in DiRROS: 14.02.2023; Views: 426; Downloads: 129
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6. Izraženost hormonskih receptorjev pri invazivnem karcinomu dojke : rezultati določanja na 15029 zaporednih vzorcih z Onkološkega Inštituta v obdobju od 2006 do 2021Barbara Gazić, Olga Blatnik, Jerca Blazina, Juan Antonio Contreras, Gorana Gašljević, Biljana Grčar-Kuzmanov, Andreja Klevišar Ivančič, Snežana Pavlović Djokić, Primož Drev, 2022, published professional conference contribution abstract Keywords: onkologija, rak dojke, patologija
Published in DiRROS: 14.02.2023; Views: 411; Downloads: 93
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7. HER2 pri invazivnem karcinomu dojke – rezultati določanja na 15 184 zaporednih vzorcih z Onkološkega Inštituta v obdobju 2006 do 2021Primož Drev, Olga Blatnik, Jerca Blazina, Juan Antonio Contreras, Gorana Gašljević, Biljana Grčar-Kuzmanov, Andreja Klevišar Ivančič, Snežana Pavlović Djokić, Barbara Gazić, 2022, published professional conference contribution abstract Keywords: onkologija, rak dojke, patologija
Published in DiRROS: 14.02.2023; Views: 373; Downloads: 98
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8. Imunski fenotipi v mikrookolju primarnega tumorja in jetrnih zasevkov pri bolnici s silovitim razsojem vnetnega, trojno negativnega raka dojke v jetra med neoadjuvantnim zdravljenjem s citostatiki in zaviralcem imunskih kontrolnih točkMarina Mencinger, Snežana Pavlović Djokić, Vida Stegel, Srdjan Novaković, Juan Antonio Contreras, Andreja Klevišar Ivančič, 2022, published professional conference contribution abstract Keywords: onkologija, rak dojke, kemoterapija
Published in DiRROS: 03.02.2023; Views: 397; Downloads: 103
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9. Analysis of the geological control on the spatial distribution of potentially toxic concentrations of As and F- in groundwater on a Pan-European scaleElena Giménez-Forcada, Juan Antonio Luque-Espinar, María Teresa López-Bahut, Juan Grima-Olmedo, Jorge Jiménez-Sánchez, Carlos Ontiveros-Beltranena, José Angel Díaz-Muñoz, Daniel Elster, Ferid Skopljak, Denitza D. Voutchkova, Birgitte Hansen, Klaus Hinsby, Jörg Schullehner, Eline Malcuit, Laurence Gourcy, Teodóra Szőcs, Nóra Gál, Daði Þorbjörnsson, Katie Tedd, Dāvis Borozdins, Henry Debattista, Nina Rman, 2022, original scientific article Abstract: The distribution of the high concentrations of arsenic (As) and fluoride (F-) in groundwater on a Pan-European scale could be explained by the geological European context (lithology and structural faults). To test this hypothesis, seventeen countries and eighteen geological survey organizations (GSOs) have participated in the dataset. The methodology has used the HydroGeoToxicity (HGT) and the Baseline Concentration (BLC) index. The results prove that most of the waters considered in this study are in good conditions for drinking water consumption, in terms of As and/or F- content. A low proportion of the analysed samples present HGT≥ 1 levels (4% and 7% for As and F-, respectively). The spatial distribution of the highest As and/or F- concentrations (via BLC values) has been analysed using GIS tools. The highest values are identified associated with fissured hard rock outcrops (crystalline rocks) or Cenozoic sedimentary zones, where basement fractures seems to have an obvious control on the distribution of maximum concentrations of these elements in groundwaters.
Keywords: trace elements, arsenic fluoride, groundwater, geo-hydrochemistry, spatial analysis
Published in DiRROS: 30.01.2023; Views: 991; Downloads: 221
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10. Diversity across major and candidate genes in European local pig breedsMaria Muñoz, Riccardo Bozzi, Fabián García, Yolanda Núñez, Claudia Geraci, Alessandro Crovetti, Juan M. García Casco, Estefania Alves, Martin Škrlep, Rui Charneca, Marjeta Čandek-Potokar, 2018, original scientific article Keywords: pig, pig breeds, mutations, causal mutations, candidate mutations, genetic structure, pig morphological traits, productive traits, meat quality, reproductive traits, disease resistance traits
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