In-brief analysis February 20, 2025
Residential energy expenditures for homes heating with natural gas and propane for the current winter (November through March) have grown, and now we expect...
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Environmental Factor – September 2020: Precise geometry enables specialized protein to turn genes on
Though DNA is typically portrayed as a double helix, its long strands spend much of their time coiled, condensed, and crammed into a tight little package called chromatin. Now, a new study by researchers...
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5 Minutes
Guest Idea: Clean Air, Naturally: Top Air Purifiers Straight from Nature
Most people spend more time indoors than they realize, whether working from home or going about their daily routine. Unfortunately, indoor air can often be more polluted than the air outside. The good news...
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Robust Regression and Redundant Measurement Noise Estimation Adaptive Filtering for Localization in Urban Environments
3.4.1. SOMD Noise Estimation A reasonable model of random noise is the key factor in achieving a good performance of the Kalman filter. Suppose that Z k 1 and Z k 2 are the...
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Republicans once embraced ‘green banks.’ Trump is trying to raid them.
Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, announced last week that he had uncovered evidence of a massive fraud perpetrated by the Biden administration. In a video posted to social media, the...
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Environmental Factor – September 2020: Diverse bacteria in house dust linked to fewer allergies in adults
A greater variety of microbes in house dust was associated with lower risk of allergic diseases in U.S. farmers and their spouses, according to a new study by NIEHS researchers. The findings, published June...
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7 Unexpected Things You Can Compost
Composting is the best way to get rid of your kitchen scraps without sending them to the landfill. And if you’ve been composting for a while, you may have already started experimenting with composting...
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22 Minutes
A Unified Winkler Model for Vertical and Lateral Dynamic Analysis of Tapered Piles in Layered Soils in the Frequency Domain
1. Introduction Tapered piles, characterized by a cross-section that decreases in diameter from top to bottom along a linear variation with depth, represent an innovative cylindrical foundation type widely applied in railway, highway, or...
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Why Community-Centred Approach is Key to Scale up Renewables-Based Adaptation Efforts in Agriculture
At least a billion people living in rural areas worldwide rely on agriculture: a livelihood that is critically vulnerable to the effects of changing weather patterns and rising temperatures caused by climate change. Many...
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Droughts are getting worse. Is fog-farming a fix?
The city of Alto Hospicio, in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is one of the driest places on Earth. And yet its population of 140,000 continues to balloon, putting mounting pressure on nearby aquifers that haven’t...
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