The complexity of interactions among microorganisms and of microorganisms with their environment and with other organisms is becoming increasingly understood by microbial ecology researchers, helped by the development of ...

Cities worldwide face multiple social and ecological challenges, such as climate change and its impacts. Adapting and transforming our urban environments is urgent to improve their resilience to uncertain scenarios. These ...

Fuel cells are electrochemical energy conversion devices that convert fuel and oxidant electrochemically into electrical energy, water and heat. Compared to traditional electricity generation technologies that use combustion ...

Fuel cells are electrochemical energy conversion devices that convert fuel and oxidant electrochemically into electrical energy, water and heat. Compared to traditional electricity generation technologies that use combustion ...

I focus my attention on what I consider are among the most significant obstacles and threats to substantive democratization and regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean, which are the growing socio-ecological ...

According to assumptions of the Gibsonian Ecological Philosophy (GIBSON, 1976), organisms directly capture information from the environment to carry out their actions. Such information corresponds to affordances, which are ...

The use of the slow sand filtration, better known as ecological filter was tested to removal of anti-inflammatory compounds from water, (i.e. Diclofenac, Naproxen and Ibuprofen). The treatment system consisted of pre-filtration ...

Alpaca play a primary role in the Andean peasant economy. Major constraints to productivity include lack of knowledge of relations between reproduction and nutrition and of the potential of alpaca outside their normal ...