Accurate estimates of infiltration and groundwater recharge are critical for many hydrologic, agricultural and environmental applications. Anticipated climate change in many regions of the world, especially in tropical ...

The adhesion to electric vehicle has becoming unstoppable. It is therefore up to each country to adapt and invest in adequate infrastructure, such as charging stations, which is the essential item to accelerate the spread ...

Human pressure on the water resources provided by natural isolated wetlands has intensified in Brazil due to an increase in agricultural land equipped with irrigation. However, the amount of water stored in these areas and ...

There are numerous models of rechargeable batteries in the current literature. Some of them are complicated electrochemical approaches; others, are given by simple analogies. However, simple models with electrochemical ...

The Quetrupillan Volcanic Complex (QVC) is a stratovolcano placed in the center of a NW-SE volcanic chain, between Villarrica volcano and Lanin volcano, in the Central Southern Volcanic Zone of the Andes. Its youngest ...

Water is vital to life, essential to the development of humanity in health, social and economic levels, having strategic importance to the productive sectors and thus playing a key role in generating wealth and ecosystem ...

Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are used as flame retardants in several products, although they can act as neurotoxic, hepatotoxic and endocrine disruptors in organisms. In Brazil, their levels in aquatic sediments ...