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About: Instituto Superior Técnico is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Catalysis & Finite element method. The organization has 10085 authors who have published 30226 publications receiving 667524 citations. The organization is also known as: IST & Instituto Superior Tecnico.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a review of existing benefits and costs of different types of green roofs and green walls, including building scale benefits, urban scale benefits and life cycle costs, focusing on the identification of results variability and assessment of their average quantification.
Abstract: Greening the urban environment can be an important strategy to tackle the problems of urban densification and meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Green infrastructures, like green roofs and green walls, have multiple associated environmental, social and economic benefits that improve buildings performance and the urban environment. Yet, the implementation of green roofs and green walls is still limited, as these systems often have additional costs when compared to conventional solutions. Recent studies have been comparing these greening systems to other solutions, balancing the long-term benefits and costs. Also, there is significant research on green roofs and green walls benefits. Although, green roofs and green walls economic analyses don't include all benefits due to measuring difficulties. The associated uncertainty regarding the quantification of the benefit makes it difficult to compare the research outcomes. This paper aims to provide a research review of existing benefits and costs of different types of green roofs and green walls. These were divided between building scale benefits, urban scale benefits and life cycle costs, focusing on the identification of results variability and assessment of their average quantification. The analysis shows that in general, there are few data regarding intangible benefits, as the promotion of quality of life and well-being. Also, there are still few studies quantifying green walls benefits and costs. High variability in data is mostly related to the different characteristics of systems, buildings envelope, surrounding environment and local weather conditions.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effects of a large dam on hydrological droughts in the transboundary Tagus River, central Spain and Portugal, by comparing a monthly drought index calculated for the flow series upstream and downstream of the Alcantara reservoir.
Abstract: [1] This study examines the effects of a large dam on hydrological droughts in the transboundary Tagus River, central Spain and Portugal. The magnitude and duration of droughts are analyzed by comparing a monthly drought index calculated for the flow series upstream and downstream of the Alcantara reservoir. The dam was built in 1969, and the reservoir is the second largest in Europe (3,162 hm3). Water management in the area is complex because of large seasonal and interannual variability in the flow regime, which is characteristic of Mediterranean environments. This paper demonstrates that, as a result of exploitation of the Alcantara reservoir, (1) during periods of water scarcity, the releases in winter and spring are reduced dramatically and the magnitude and duration of summer low flow show a slight increase and (2) the nature of droughts along the Tagus river basin downstream of the dam has shown severe changes since construction of the dam. In fact, during the predam period (1943–1969), droughts were longer and more intense in the Spanish part of the basin than that in the Portuguese part. Since the construction of the Alcantara dam, however, the Portuguese part of the basin has experienced more severe droughts than did the upstream part in terms of both magnitude and duration.
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TL;DR: In this article, the main types of such homogeneous or supported catalysts are classified, and the critical analysis of the most efficient catalytic systems in different reactions is presented, including mild oxidation of alkanes, alkenes and ketones.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors carried out a careful analysis of all extant data and showed that they consistently indicate a much shorter distance (13 Mpc) than previously indicated (20 Mpc).
Abstract: The claimed detection of a diffuse galaxy lacking dark matter represents a possible challenge to our understanding of the properties of these galaxies and galaxy formation in general. The galaxy, already identified in photographic plates taken in the summer of 1976 at the UK 48-in Schmidt telescope, presents normal distance-independent properties (e.g. colour, velocity dispersion of its globular clusters). However, distance-dependent quantities are at odds with those of other similar galaxies, namely the luminosity function and sizes of its globular clusters, mass-to-light ratio and dark matter content. Here we carry out a careful analysis of all extant data and show that they consistently indicate a much shorter distance (13 Mpc) than previously indicated (20 Mpc). With this revised distance, the galaxy appears to be a rather ordinary low surface brightness galaxy (R_e=1.4+-0.1 kpc; M*=6.0+-3.6x10^7 Msun) with plenty of room for dark matter (the fraction of dark matter inside the half mass radius is >75% and M_halo/M*>20) corresponding to a minimum halo mass >10^9 Msun. At 13 Mpc, the luminosity and structural properties of the globular clusters around the object are the same as those found in other galaxies.
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TL;DR: In this article, a distributed and real-time anti-collision decision support formulation is proposed for collision avoidance in a multi-ship encounter scenario, where the initial decision on collision avoidance by course alteration or speed changing is made according to the encounter situation between own ship and target ships.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Joao Seixas | 153 | 1538 | 115070 |
A. Gomes | 150 | 1862 | 113951 |
Amartya Sen | 149 | 689 | 141907 |
António Amorim | 136 | 1477 | 96519 |
Joao Varela | 133 | 1411 | 92438 |
Pietro Faccioli | 132 | 1378 | 89795 |
João Carvalho | 126 | 1278 | 77017 |
Pedro Jorge | 124 | 776 | 68658 |
Pedro Silva | 124 | 961 | 74015 |
A. De Angelis | 118 | 534 | 54469 |
Hermine Katharina Wöhri | 116 | 629 | 55540 |
Helena Santos | 114 | 1058 | 54286 |
P. Conde Muiño | 109 | 558 | 56133 |
Joao Saraiva | 107 | 519 | 53340 |
J. N. Reddy | 106 | 926 | 66940 |