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Kiss, A.A. (author), Muthia, Rahma (author), Pazmiño-Mayorga, Isabel (author), Harmsen, G.J. (author), Jobson, Megan (author), Gao, Xin (author)Reactive distillation (RD) is a process intensification technique that offers major advantages over conventional technologies by enabling the integration of reaction and separation into a single apparatus. This integration introduces and exploits complex interaction between mass transfer, chemical reaction and hydrodynamics within an RD...review 2024
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Amory, Charles (author), Buizert, Christo (author), Buzzard, Sammie (author), Case, Elizabeth (author), Clerx, Nicole (author), Culberg, Riley (author), Lhermitte, S.L.M. (author), de Roda Husman, S. (author), Wouters, B. (author)Most of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are covered with firn — the transitional material between snow and glacial ice. Firn is vital for understanding ice-sheet mass balance and hydrology, and palaeoclimate. In this Review, we synthesize knowledge of firn, including its formation, observation, modelling and relevance to ice sheets....review 2024
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Gao, Q. (author), Schweidtmann, A.M. (author)The transformation toward renewable energy and feedstock supply in the chemical industry requires new conceptual process design approaches. Recently, deep reinforcement learning (RL), a subclass of machine learning, has shown the potential to solve complex decision-making problems and aid sustainable process design. However, its suitability...review 2024
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Possenti, Luca (author), de Nooijer, Lennart (author), de Jong, Christ (author), Lam, Frans Peter (author), Beelen, Simon (author), Bosschers, Johan (author), van Terwisga, T.J.C. (author), Stigter, Marinus (author), Reichart, Gert Jan (author)Since the industrial revolution the ocean has become noisier. The global increase in shipping is one of the main contributors to this. In some regions, shipping contributed to an increase in ambient noise of several decibels, especially at low frequencies (10 to 100 Hz). Such an increase can have a substantial negative impact on fish,...review 2024
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Mohammadi, R. (author), Assaad, Maher (author), Imran, Ahmed (author), Fotouhi, M. (author)Polymer composite laminates have established themselves as essential materials across a wide type of industrial fields because of their specific mechanical properties such as high strength and low weight. Among the main issues they face is susceptibility to delamination damage. This comprehensive review paper investigates various damage...review 2024
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Burström, Gustav (author), Amini, Misha (author), El-Hajj, Victor Gabriel (author), Arfan, Arooj (author), Gharios, Maria (author), Buwaider, Ali (author), Losch, M.S. (author), Manni, Francesca (author), Edström, Erik (author), Terander, Adrian Elmi (author)Background: In brain tumor surgery, maximal tumor resection is typically desired. This is complicated by infiltrative tumor cells which cannot be visually distinguished from healthy brain tissue. Optical methods are an emerging field that can potentially revolutionize brain tumor surgery through intraoperative differentiation between healthy...review 2024
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Gupta, A. (author), Mora, Simone (author), Preisler, Yakir (author), Duarte, Fábio (author), Venkatesha Prasad, Ranga Rao (author), Ratti, Carlo (author)Urban greenery supports cities in achieving Sustainable Development Goals, but it is increasingly affected by multiple stressors impacting its health. Owing to the high costs of greenery inspection and monitoring, local governments often lack adequate data to effectively manage their urban greenery and prevent damage. In this Review, we present...review 2024
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Volger, R. (author), Puiman, L. (author), Haringa, C. (author)The growing global population and heightened concern for climate change leads to increased interest in utilizing microbial fermentations to replace polluting production processes for e.g., plastics, fuels, and animal proteins. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a valuable tool for accelerating the scale-up and optimization of large-scale...review 2024
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Shan, M. (author), Geng, Xiumei (author), Imaz, Inhar (author), Broto-Ribas, Anna (author), Ortín-Rubio, Borja (author), Maspoch, Daniel (author), Ansaloni, Luca (author), Peters, Thijs A. (author), Tena, Alberto (author), Boerrigter, Marcel E. (author), Vermaas, D.A. (author)Membrane technology has attracted great industrial interest in carbon capture and separation owing to the merits of energy-efficiency, environmental friendliness and low capital investment. Conventional polymeric membranes for CO<sub>2</sub> separation suffer from the trade-off between permeability and selectivity. Introducing porous fillers...review 2024
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Rossen, W.R. (author), Farajzadeh, R. (author), Hirasaki, G. J. (author), Amirmoshiri, M. (author)Foam is a promising means to assist in the permanent, safe subsurface sequestration of CO<sub>2</sub>, whether in aquifers or as part of an enhanced-oil-recovery (EOR) process. Here we review the advantages demonstrated for foam that would assist CO<sub>2</sub> sequestration, in particular sweep efficiency and residual trapping, and the...review 2024
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Atasoy, M. (author), Ordóñez, Avelino Álvarez (author), Cenian, Adam (author), Djukić-Vuković, Aleksandra (author), Lund, Peter A. (author), Ozogul, Fatih (author), Trček, Janja (author), Ziv, Carmit (author), De Biase, Daniela (author)Awareness is growing that human health cannot be considered in isolation but is inextricably woven with the health of the environment in which we live. It is, however, under-recognized that the sustainability of human activities strongly relies on preserving the equilibrium of the microbial communities living in/on/around us. Microbial metabolic...review 2024
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Atasoy, M. (author), Scott Jr, William T. (author), Regueira, Alberte (author), Mauricio-Iglesias, Miguel (author), Schaap, Peter J. (author), Smidt, Hauke (author)In recent years, there has been growing interest in harnessing anaerobic digestion technology for resource recovery from waste streams. This approach has evolved beyond its traditional role in energy generation to encompass the production of valuable carboxylic acids, especially volatile fatty acids (VFAs) like acetic acid, propionic acid,...review 2024
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Grataloup, Albin (author), Jonas, Stefan (author), Meyer, A. (author)Federated learning has recently emerged as a privacy-preserving distributed machine learning approach. Federated learning enables collaborative training of multiple clients and entire fleets without sharing the involved training datasets. By preserving data privacy, federated learning has the potential to overcome the lack of data sharing in...review 2024
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Tišma, M. (author), Kaljević, Jovana (author), Gruber, Stephan (author), Le, Tung B.K. (author), Dekker, C. (author)Bacterial cells require DNA segregation machinery to properly distribute a genome to both daughter cells upon division. The most common system involved in chromosome and plasmid segregation in bacteria is the ParABS system. A core protein of this system - partition protein B (ParB) - regulates chromosome organization and chromosome...review 2024
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Tubiana, Luca (author), Alexander, Gareth P. (author), Barbensi, Agnese (author), Buck, Dorothy (author), Cartwright, Julyan H.E. (author), Chwastyk, Mateusz (author), Cieplak, Marek (author), Coluzza, Ivan (author), Japaridze, A. (author)The last years have witnessed remarkable advances in our understanding of the emergence and consequences of topological constraints in biological and soft matter. Examples are abundant in relation to (bio)polymeric systems and range from the characterization of knots in single polymers and proteins to that of whole chromosomes and polymer melts....review 2024
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van den Bergh, Jeroen (author), van Beers, Cees (author), King, Lewis C. (author)While many climate activist groups enthusiastically advocate for the removal of fossil-fuel subsidies, we argue that this overstates both the climate effectiveness and political feasibility of such a strategy. Through synthesizing information from various global studies, we show that subsidies contribute to a relatively small portion of climate...review 2024
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Makrodimitris, S. (author), Pronk, I.B. (author), Abdelaal, T.R.M. (author), Reinders, M.J.T. (author)Multi-omic analyses are necessary to understand the complex biological processes taking place at the tissue and cell level, but also to make reliable predictions about, for example, disease outcome. Several linear methods exist that create a joint embedding using paired information per sample, but recently there has been a rise in the...review 2024
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Cui, C. (author), Qi, Meng (author), Zhang, Xiaodong (author), Sun, Jinsheng (author), Li, Q. (author), Kiss, A.A. (author), Wong, David Shan-Hill (author), Masuku, Cornelius M. (author), Lee, Moonyong (author)Distillation remains the leading and most frequently adopted technique for the separation and purification of condensable mixtures in numerous industries. However, the inherently poor thermal efficiency of distillation requires a large amount of thermal energy, making it the chief factor in total process energy usage and a significant emitter of...review 2024
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Lorist, E. (author), Nieraeth, Zoe (author)In this survey, we discuss the definition of a (quasi-)Banach function space. We advertise the original definition by Zaanen and Luxemburg, which does not have various issues introduced by other, subsequent definitions. Moreover, we prove versions of well-known basic properties of Banach function spaces in the setting of quasi-Banach function...review 2024
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Zhang, F. (author), Miao, Xuefei (author), van Dijk, N.H. (author), Brück, E.H. (author), Ren, Yang (author)Solid-state caloric effects as intrinsic thermal responses to different physical external stimuli (magnetic-, uniaxial stress-, pressure-, and electric-fields) can achieve a higher energy efficiency compared with traditional gas compression techniques. Among these effects, magnetocaloric energy conversion is regarded as the best available...review 2024