The mining industry generates vast quantities of mine tailings on an annual basis.However, due to their limited economic value, a significant portion of these tailings are deposited close to mining sites, often underwater.The principal environmental apprehensions associated with mine tailings revolve around their elevated levels of heavy metals and

A market conformity tool, based on technological meat quality parameters, was developed within the Q-PorkChains project, to be included in a global sustainability evaluation of pig farming systems.The specific objective of the market conformity tool was to define a scoring system based on the suitability of meat to elaborate the main pork products,

Since its first discovery in 2017, evaporation-induced electricity has attracted extensive attention and shown significant advantages in green energy conversion.While the streaming potential-related electrokinetic effect has been intensively explored and widely recognized as the underlying mechanism, the role of coupling between water molecules and

Neoliberalism has in the past three decades had a tremendous impact on both thought and practice throughout most of the world, and has dominated international development since the early 1980s.Although neoliberalism presents itself as modern and progressive, it is argued that the underlying ideologies and power agendas have their origins in the pol

The local mechanical environment at a fracture is known to influence biological factors such as callus formation, immune cell recruitment and susceptibility to infection.Infection models incorporating a fracture are therefore required to evaluate prevention and treatment of infection after osteosynthesis.The aim of this study was to create humane,