There is an increasing need for reliable information concerning the source of the suspended sediment transported by rivers.Such information is required both to design effective sediment and non-point pollution control strategies and to provide an improved understanding of erosion and suspended sediment transport within a watershed.In some situation
Prediction of scour caused by 2D horizontal jets using soft computing techniques
This paper presents application of five soft-computing techniques, artificial neural networks, support vector regression, gene expression programming, grouping method of data handling (GMDH) neural network and adaptive-network-based fuzzy inference system, to predict maximum scour hole depth downstream of a sluice gate.The input parameters affectin
Global and Mexican analytical review of the state of the art on Ecosystem and Environmental services: A geographical approach
The term Ecosystem Services (ES) was introduced in the Rio Declaration in 1992, within a strong international movement for sustainable natural resource management.Back then, the innovative principle concerned the environmental functions that maintain life support systems.To illustrate this further, pollination, oxygen production, temperature regula
Impaired cell viability and mitochondrial respiration by disperse textile dyes
In recent years, the use of synthetic textile dyes has increased.The effects of these chemicals or their metabolites on our skin and our immune system have not been well studied.However, skin irritants have been reported to break the dermal barrier to start a chain of reactions that dysregulate the immune system.In the last decades, the incidence o