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Biology
Damion C. Ciotti, Jared Mckee, Karen L. Pope, G. Mathias Kondolf, Michael M. Pollock
Summary: Process-based restoration of fluvial systems aims to restore ecosystems by freeing natural processes, but there is currently a lack of design criteria to evaluate whether projects are likely to achieve restoration objectives.
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Geography, Physical
Patrick Padovan, Jaclyn Cockburn, Paul Villard
Summary: This study assessed the performance and adjustment processes of six form-based channel enhancement projects in a heavily urbanized area. The findings show that most of the enhanced reaches continue to undergo adjustment 15 years after construction, indicating that urban streams change at a faster rate than streams in non-urban areas.
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Ecology
Ron Pierce, Dave Rosgen, Darcie Geenen, Brandon Rosgen
Summary: This study examines the effectiveness of restoring two streams in central Idaho to benefit livestock ranching and wild trout populations. The restoration includes raising the streambeds, connecting to historical floodplains, and using natural channel design methods. The study shows that the restoration significantly improved groundwater levels, instream flows, spawning substrates, and fish populations.
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Geography, Physical
Andrew W. Tranmer, Diego Caamano, Stephen R. Clayton, Abolfazl Nazari Giglou, Peter Goodwin, John M. Buffington, Daniele Tonina
Summary: A restoration project on an alluvial wet-meadow system found that sizing the channel to the effective discharge (Q(e)) can lead to rapid dynamic equilibrium, while excessively wide channels may take nearly 300 years to reach equilibrium.
Review
Ecology
Hsin-Yen Yen, Huei-Ling Chiu, Hao-Yun Huang
Summary: Physical activity in green and blue spaces provides benefits for physical and mental health across all age groups; interventions in these spaces have shown significant positive effects on physical and mental health, but not on overall quality of life; meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials also indicates that the average age of the experimental group has a significant impact on mental health.
LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Josie Mielhausen, Jaclyn M. H. Cockburn, Paul V. Villard, Andre-Marcel Baril
Summary: This research evaluates the suitability of modified vortex rock weirs (VRWs) in a small-scale watercourse in Southern Ontario, Canada. The results show that VRWs provide suitable passage for small-bodied fish species, particularly during low water level conditions. Appropriate design considerations, such as VRW gradient, width, keystone size, and pool length, contribute to achieving 100% fish passage under all water level conditions.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Amir Golpira, Abul B. M. Baki, Haitham Ghamry, Christos Katopodis, Jonah Withers, David Minkoff
Summary: This study investigates the effects of boulder placement on habitat hydraulic complexity in streams, finding that higher boulder concentrations can increase habitat complexity. By adding boulders to a reach, the modified recirculation metric significantly improved. Based on available data, boulder placement can provide suitable habitats for riverine fish species.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
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Ecology
Bartlomiej Wyzga, Maciej Liro, Pawel Mikus, Artur Radecki-Pawlik, Jozef Jelenski, Joanna Zawiejska, Karol Plesinski
Summary: Lowering a high check dam in the Polish Carpathians resulted in sediment flushing downstream, which was efficiently trapped by block ramps. This led to bed material deposition, increased bed elevation, reduced flow capacity, and improved hydromorphological quality of the stream in most cross-sections.
ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING
(2021)
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Critical Care Medicine
Abigael Cohen, Lisa Hoogendam, Max Reijman, Ruud W. Selles, Steven E. R. Hovius, Joost W. Colaris
Summary: This study aimed to report the change in patient-reported outcomes from preoperative to postoperative in scaphoid nonunion patients. The results showed significant improvements in physical functioning and pain postoperatively. Most patients were satisfied with the treatment result.
INJURY-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE CARE OF THE INJURED
(2021)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Johannes Pfeiffer, Robert F. H. Fischer
Summary: This letter evaluates the performance of shift-register based scrambling and block-wise scrambling strategies in a Gaussian wiretap channel scenario. The results show that shift-register based scrambling leads to unequal protection of communicated message bits, while block-wise scrambling enables equal protection. An optimized scrambling matrix design achieves the best error-rate performance.
IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS
(2022)
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Environmental Sciences
Desneiges Murray, Bethany T. Neilson, Janice Brahney
Summary: Beaver ponds have the potential to attenuate heavy metal pollution, but their impact on dissolved nutrients and total phosphorus depends on the age and character of the pond. Biogeochemical processes in a beaver pond are optimized at intermediate levels of nutrient supply and residence time.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Chris Spray, Andrew Black, David Bradley, Chris Bromley, Fiona Caithness, Jennifer Dodd, James Hunt, Alan MacDonald, Roberto Martinez Romero, Tommy McDermott, Hamish Moir, Lorraine Quinn, Helen Reid, Hamish Robertson
Summary: This paper reviews and evaluates the monitoring strategy of the Eddleston Water project in Scotland, exploring a comprehensive assessment of restoration success. The study finds the importance of conducting a scoping study and capturing a full range of environmental variables, and suggests lessons to inform other river rehabilitation monitoring programs.
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Environmental Sciences
Jose F. Martin Duque, Maria Tejedor, Cristina Martin Moreno, Jose M. Nicolau, Miguel A. Sanz Santos, Ramon Sanchez Donoso, Jose M. Gomez Diaz
Summary: The geomorphic-based restoration of clay quarries in Tortosa, Catalonia, funded by the European Union's LIFE programme, utilized the GeoFluv-Natural Regrade approach. Despite constraints such as the inability to setback regrade pre-existing highwalls, the project succeeded in improving landscape functionality and integration without reducing mineral production or changing operations. Monitoring revealed localized erosion from poorly planned road runoff discharge and sporadic tunnel erosion, while sediment movement at the designed drainage network mirrored local fluvial dynamics.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MINING RECLAMATION AND ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
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Zoology
Carlos A. Flores, Medardo Arreortua, Edna Gonzalez-Bernal
Summary: Although amphibian consumption by humans has been reported globally, this practice is not well studied despite its direct implications to the decline of amphibian populations. The consumption of Duellmanohyla ignicolor tadpoles by the Chinantec people in Mexico is documented and analyzed in this study, highlighting the vulnerability of the species due to their behavior and habitat preferences.
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Clinical Neurology
Amrita Mohan, Zhaonan Sun, Soumya Ghosh, Ying Li, Swati Sathe, Jianying Hu, Cristina Sampaio
Summary: A study developed and validated a model of Huntington's disease progression using machine-learning methods, identifying nine disease states and revealing transition probabilities ranging from 5% to 27%. The findings can improve trial design and participant selection.
MOVEMENT DISORDERS
(2022)