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1 Aviation and Global Climate Change
Mehri Hashemi Devin and Ali Akbar Sabziparvar
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2 Effects of Imidacloprid on the Biodiversity of Soil Microbes in Selected Soils of Malaysia
Nasrin Sabour Moghaddam, Mohamad Pauzi Zakaria, Dzolkhifli Omar, Kamaruzaman Sijam and Reza Khakvar
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3 Study of Hysteresis in Electrolysis and Photo-electrolysis
Sangeeta and Ashok N. Bhaskarwar
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4 Effect of Greywater Irrigation on Soil Characteristics
A. H. M. Faisal Anwar
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5 Water quality changes during aquifer storage and recovery: Quantification of water-sediment interactions and reactive transport modeling.
Carlos Descourvieres, Henning Prommer, Carolyn Oldham and Janek Greskowiak
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6 Treatment Effect On Coking Wastewater Using Three-phase Biological Fluid-bed With New Ultrastructure Biological Carriers
Na Li, Haibiao Liu and Junli Huang
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7 Developing and Expanding the Environmental Conflict Resolution Toolkit: Facilitation and Consensus Building for Better Environmental Outcomes
John Haydon and Jianbo Kuang
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8 Using variable fuzzy set theory and information entropy for air pollution risk assessment in Beijing, China
Liyun Yang and Songtao Wu
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9 Free Electricity source from trees
Ankita Vashishtha
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10 Particulate Matter emitted from a Pig Farm in Beijing: A Preliminary Study
Roxana Mendoza Huaitalla, Eva Gallmann and Liu Xuejun
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11 The removal of cadmium ions from aqueous solutions using silica support immobilized with 2-hydroxyacetophenone-3-thiosemicarbazone
Rajesh Kumar, Thomas N Abraham and S. K. Jain
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12 CORPORATE ECOLOGICAL FOOT PRINT (CEF) OF SRM UNIVERSITY TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY A Pilot Study
Nagarajan C, Sai Aditya P and R Jeyalakshmi
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13 Effects of wind blow and sand burial stress on seedling growth and photosynthetic properties of Caragana microphylla
Ha-Lin Zhao, Xue-Yong Zhao, Tong-Hui Zhang and Rui-lian Zhou
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14 Investigation of Iran Vulnerability Trend to Desertification with approach of climate change
Peyman Mahmoudi, Dostmohammad Kalim and Mohamad Reza Amirmoradi
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15 Effects of sheep grazing and precipitation patterns on sandy grassland vegetation in Inner Mongolia, China
Ha-Lin Zhao, Tong-Hui Zhang, Xue-Yong Zhao and Rui-Lian Zhou
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16 Impeller Submergence Depth on Power Consumption of Mixing Tank
Bimesh Kumar and Thiyam T Devi
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17 Agitated Pile Composting of Water Hyacinth
Ganesh Chandra Dhal, W. Roshan Singh and Ajay S. Kalamdhad
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18 Inter-relationships among water, governance, human development variables in developing countries: a database coherence analysis
Céline Dondeynaz, César Carmona-Moreno, Andrea Leone and Daoyi Chen
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19 Occurrence of Chlorinated Paraffins in Bavarian House Dust Samples
M. Coelhan, B. Hilger, H. Fromme and W. Völkel
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20 Wetlands management for Little Crake (Porzana parva) conservation in a “Natura 2000”site
A.N. Stermin, L.R. Pripon, A. David and I. Coroiu
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21 Effect of irrigation and fertilizer on sandy grassland productivity in Horqin Sandy Land, North China
Tonghui Zhang and Haling Zhao
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22 Study on adsorption of heavy metal ion in metallurgical wastewater by sepiolite
Xiuyan Zhou, Xiangxin Xue and Wenming Jiang
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23 Identifying Vulnerability Pattern in a Flood Prone Micro-Hotspot of Mumbai, India
Subhajyoti Samaddar, Roshni Chatterjee, Bijay Anand Misra and Hirokazu Tatano
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24 Dual Impact Of Climate Change Intensifying vulnerability
Achala Gupta
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25 Consequence Analysis for probable accidents of filter separators installed in Gas Pressure Reduction Stations
Mohammad Sadegh Yousefzadegan, Amir Masoud Masoudi, Yaser Kazemi Ashtiani, Masoud Kambarani and Seyed Iman Pishbin
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26 Environmental issues and its impacts associated with the textile processing units in Tiruppur, Tamilnadu.
Jayanth sarathi N, Karthik R, Logesh S, Srinivas Rao K and Vijayanand K
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27 Climatic Impacts of Green House Emissions A Case Study on the Public and Private Transportation Sectors of the Asia Pacific
Avinash Shankaranarayanan and Christine Amaldas
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28 Turbulence Modeling Around Piers of Shadervan Bridge in Karun River
Seyed Majid Mosaddad, Mehdi Delphi, Fereidoon Shirvani and M. Mahmoodian Shooshtari
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29 Land Evaluation for Extensive Recreation Using Spatial Multi Criteria Evaluation Method
Seyed Ali Jozi, Narges Zaredar and Sahar Rezaian
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30 Water Consumption Management using WEAP&Conceptual Models (Case study: Golestan Province – Iran)
Sahar Rezaian and Seyed Ali Jozi
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31 Evaluation of Microbial quality of the drinking water of Duhok province/Kurdistan region of Iraq
Hassan Amin Al-mezori and Karzan A. M. Hawrami
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32 Genotypic Frequency of Calpastatin Gene in Lori Sheep By PCR-RFLP Method
Shahram Nanekarani, Nematollah Asadi and Saber.Khederzadeh
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33 Utility of Cerium(IV)Phosphomolybdate as a cation exchanger and dye adsorbent
A.P Apsara and B.Beena
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34 Adsorption of two azo reactive dyes by tannery sludge activated carbon: effect of temperature and pH
Geethakarthi A. and Phanikumar B R.
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35 Improved Method of Desalination of Seawater with Electric Power Generation using Solar Energy
Mukund.N and Muthu Raman.V
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36 Remediation of Cr(VI) contaminated soil by Zero-Valent Iron Nanoparticles (nZVI) entrapped in Calcium Alginate Beads
Ritu Singh, Virendra Misra and R. P. Singh
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37 Prevalence of Geophagia and its possible implications to health – A study in rural South Africa
G George and E Ndip
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38 Perennial Trends of Wastewater Discharge and Pollutant Content in Rivers of Shanghai
Kang Jiancheng, Yan Guodong and Wang Guodong
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39 Academic public-private partnership: a solution for sustainable development
Adrian Macarie, Adrian Lesenciuc and Mircea Boşcoianu
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40 Selective Action of Chlorine Disinfection on Different Coliforms and Pathogens Present in Secondary Treated Effluent of STP.
Dinesh Kumar, Neha Tyagi and A.B.Gupta
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41 Implementation of Ambient Energy Harvesting from Air for ULP Devices as a Renewable Energy Source
B.R.Shashank, G.SharanKumaar, K.Kalaiarasi,A.Shalini and A.Raagavendra Prabu
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42 “Environmental Concerns through Web Communication”
Charu lata Singh and Kota Mallikarjun
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43 Somatic embryogenesis and plant regeneration in Crocus vernus
Iyyakkannu Sivanesan, Mi Young Lim, Eun Hae Jo and Byoung Ryong Jeong
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44 Impact of Global Warming on severity of Heat Stroke
Harishankar.N and J.Srinivasan
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45 Numerical simulation of a turbidity current flowing over a solid obstacle
Afshin Eghbalzadeh and Mitra Javan
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46 2D width-averaged numerical simulation of density current in a diverging channel
Mitra Javan and Afshin Eghbalzadeh
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47 Reusing of stone waste in various industrial activities
Elham Khalilzadeh Shirazi
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48 Indoor winter recreational site selection in arid and semi arid mountainous regions
Parvaneh Rezakhani and Narges Zaredar
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49 Future Sensors and Utilization of Sensors in Chemical Industries with Control of Environmental Hazards
K. Nirmal Kumar, R.Prabakaran, V.R. Sarma Dhulipala and P.Ranjith
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50 Compilation of a pattern for Environmental Auditing of Roads in Islamic republic of Iran
Mahmood Ameri and Fatemeh Zahed
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51 Preparing and developing the indexes of sustainable development of transportation in I.R. Iran
Mahmood Ameri and Fatemeh Zahed
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52 Analyzing the Microeconomic Determinants of Travel Frequency using the Com-Poisson Regression model
R. Sultan and N. Mamode Khan
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53 Assessing Indian Cities for Vulnerability to Climate Change
Ulka Kelkar, P. Balachandra and Anjula Gurtoo
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54 A Novel Method for the Preparation of Core-Shell Silica - 12- Tungstophosphoricacid Nanoparticles for t-Butylation of phenol
Rosilda Selvin, Hsiu-Ling Hsu and L. Selva Roselin
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55 Clean Electricity production by Solid Oxide Fuel Cell-Waste Heat Recovery Boiler arrangement in conjunction with a Gas Turbine --Clean Technology by Systems Integration
Arjun Mahalingam, Mayank Vaish and Shirish Agarwal
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56 Polymer Composites Sustainability: Environmental Perspective, Future Trends and Minimization of Health Risk
V.P. Sharma, V. Agarwal, S. Umar and A. K. Singh
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57 Street/Inland-water (intermodal) Optimisation Model: For Municipal Solid Waste Collection & Transportation
Fathi A. Rhoma, Mandar Jawale and Bernd Noche
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58 Evaluation of Sustainability index for Urban Water Management System
Reena Popawala and N C Shah
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59 Advanced Oxidation Processes for Treatment of Textile and Dye Wastewater: A Review
Shashank Singh Kalra, Satyam Mohan, Alok Sinha and Gurdeep Singh
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60 Climate Change: Developing Countries and the Principle of Equity
Deepika Sriram and Medha Vikram
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61 Green usage of fossil fuels with solid oxide fuel cell
H.Kazemi Esfeh and T.M.Salehi
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62 Modelling Hydrodynamics for Water Quality of the Dwarka Region (Gujarat)
Rohit Goyal
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63 Hydrodynamic Modelling for Salinity of Singapore Strait and Johor Strait using MIKE 3FM
Rohit Goyal and Prameet Rathod
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64 Characteristics of Stormwater Runoff in Different Land Use Areas
Priyantha Ranjan Sarukkalige
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65 Food security, genetically modified crops and environment
Rakesh Kumar Gupta
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