USING LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT AT AN EARLY STAGE OF DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF ZERO DISCHARGE BRINE TREATMENT AND RECOVERY

Using life cycle assessment at an early stage of design and development of zero discharge brine treatment and recovery

It is critical that the development of new technologies to solve environmental problems do not shift the burdens (impacts) to other mediums.Therefore, to ensure the optimum environmental design of water treatment and recovery systems, it is pertinent to apply life cycle assessment (LCA) at an early stage of development.Using LCA at an early develop

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Widespread local chronic stressors in Caribbean coastal habitats.

Coastal ecosystems and the livelihoods they support are threatened by stressors acting at global and local scales.Here we used the data produced by the Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity program (CARICOMP), the longest, largest monitoring program in the wider Caribbean, to evidence local-scale (decreases in water quality) and global-scale (incre

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Comparative analysis of the structure and expression of the vasH regulatory gene of type VI secretion system in toxigenic and non-toxigenic Vibrio cholerae strains

Objective.The comparative analysis of the structure of the regulatory gene vasH of the type VI secretion system and its expression in toxigenic and non-toxigenic V.cholerae O1, biovar El Tor strains.Materials and methods.We used 35 strains isolated from patients and from the environmental samples in the territory of Russia and Ukraine between 1970

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Sexuality and partnership: Aspects of theological ethics in the field of marriage, unmarried and homosexual couples

The attitudes towards sexuality in Western society are undergoing dramatic change.One of the main problems sexual ethics has to deal with today is the question whether the church should acknowledge unmarried long-term relationships.The JACKETS debate about the acknowledgement of homosexuality as a form of human sexuality equal to heterosexuality is

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