Meredith Christie (enemysheet20)

By adding oxidants in batches, the degradation effect could reach nearly 100% within 30 min. The Fe-N-S-MPC were applied to the degradation of 1-naphthol in soil and showed high degradation performance. This work provided a new type of catalytic material by the high-value utilization of waste for the degradation of organic pollutants.Community participation is considered an effective measure to protect the eco-environment and to improve people's livelihoods in protected areas. However, it has not received enough attention at the practical level in most developing countries, and it is unclear how important it is in stimulating locals' pro-environmental behaviours to achieve eco-environmental protection goals. Thiomyristoyl chemical structure This study focuses on the relationship among community participation, perception changes in livelihood capitals and place attachment, which are related to residents' production, livelihoods, and pro-environmental behaviours. The study uses a convenience sampling method in the Nanling National Nature Reserve, China. Regression analysis results show that community participation is the most powerful predictor of pro-environmental behaviours. Furthermore, community participation moderates the relationship between place attachment and pro-environmental behaviours. In addition, perception changes in livelihood capitals positively affect pro-environmental behaviours in the high-level community participation group while having negative or positive results in the low-level community participation group. The findings, which emphasize the importance of community participation in conservation, provide a better understanding of the differences in pro-environmental behaviours between high and low community participation groups and will aid future development and conservation planning of these initiatives.This paper investigated the feasibility of using agricultural wastes and synthetic macromolecules as solid carbon sources and studied the effects of improvement of denitrification by the selected agricultural wastes. The carbon release capacity and denitrification performance of corncob (CC), peanut shell (PS), obsolescent rice (OR) and polycaprolactone (PCL), poly butylene succinate (PBS), polyvinyl alcohol sodium alginate (PVA-SA) were systematically analyzed. The results showed that for each carbon source, the first-order kinetic equation was basically followed during the carbon release process. PVA-SA, CC and PS had higher carbon release capacity with accumulative dissolved organic carbon (DOC) of 16.22-20.63 mg·g-1 and chemical oxygen demand (COD) of 100.86-134.10 mg·g-1. Correspondingly, they showed excellent denitrification performance with almost no residual NO3--N, and the denitrification process well followed the Monod equation. PCL, PBS and OR had lower carbon release capacity with accumulative DOC of 2.06-3.14 mg·g-1 and COD of 13.29-24.13 mg·g-1, respectively. Nevertheless, these materials can also improve the denitrification performance, with the residual NO3--N in the range of 6.02-6.36 mg·L-1, and the effluent DOC was in the range of 10-15 mg·L-1. Synthetic polymers are more suitable for nitrogen removal in groundwater treatment, while agricultural wastes are ideal carbon sources for secondary effluent treatment.Population ageing, climate change and urbanization have been occurring rapidly globally. Evidence-based healthy city development is required to improve living quality and mitigate the adverse impact of city living on both physical and mental health. We took a high-density city as an example to explore the association of built environment and suicide mortality and preferably to offer some implications for better future city development. Poisson generalized linear models with generalized estimation equations were employed to regress suicide mortality rate on four urban built environment variables (frontal area density (FAD), sky view factor (SVF), ground coverage ratio (GCR), an