Hydraulic Modeling of Oued El Jawaher Using HEC-RAS Model for Flood Protection

Flooding has a wide range of impacts on societies and natural environments. In this sense, the city of Fez suffers from these problems reflected by the overflow of Oued El Jawaher during the rainy periods. This situation led the authors to compare between the current situation and the situation developed by the thresholds of Oued El Jawaher. HEC-RAS hydraulic model consists of 31 cross-sections, which will be used in the course of this study. The simulations will concern the current state and the developed state for flows of different frequencies. The result of the simulations confirms that the capacity of the proposed hydraulic structures is insufficient to transit and should be considered. To conclude, the development of the channel by thresholds, which serves for the creation of water plan, magnifies the risk of an overflow of the banks of the canal by the water line along with the longitudinal profile.

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Importance of water objects for the sustainable development of megalopolises

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202126504013 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 265 ◽

pp. 04013

Author(s):

Antonina Suzdaleva ◽

Anna Hirsch ◽

Catherine Mayasova ◽

Anastasia Prokopova

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Urban Population ◽

Water Bodies ◽

Survey Analysis ◽

Social Significance ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Current State ◽

Wide Range ◽

Comprehensive Survey ◽

The City

The expansion of megacities leads to the isolation of a large part of their population from the environment. The lack of contact with nature contributes to the development of ecological frustrations and deprivations, unconscious sense of discomfort, which is the cause of the development of a wide range of dangerous diseases, reduction of the birth rate and degradation of the urban population. A solution to this problem can be the organization of a network of recreation places for the urban population (resorts, created on the basis of the preserved elements of the hydrographic network). Positive perception of water objects by human consciousness is one of the main means of ecological relaxation, removal of psychological stress from constant stay in anthropogenic environment. At the same time, resorts should meet the needs of all main social groups. They should include both ecological relaxation zones and places of active recreation . Particular attention is paid to the organization of environmental education activities. Private cases of recreational use of the city’s water bodies are also possible, such as attracting cave explorers to study the underground rivers. In general, resorts based on urban water bodies should become a public space, covering the entire inhabited territory of the metropolis. The system of assessing the social significance of Moscow’s water bodies is developed on the basis of their comprehensive survey. Analysis of their current state takes into account general patterns of historical development of hydrographic networks of the city, and the requirements of the population to the appearance of public spaces created on water bodies of the city and to assess their social significance.

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The aqueduct of the Roman town Salona – Croatia

Water Science & Technology Water Supply ◽

10.2166/ws.2016.193 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 929-939

Author(s):

K. Marasović ◽

J. Margeta ◽

S. Perojević ◽

M. Katić ◽

D. Bojanić

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

19Th Century ◽

Cross Sections ◽

Supply And Demand ◽

Longitudinal Profile ◽

Intensive Exploitation ◽

Usual Manner ◽

Roman Province ◽

The City ◽

Local Materials

This paper presents a study of the Aqueduct of Salona, capital of the Roman province Dalmatia, built in the 1st century bc. The aqueduct once transported water from the Jadro River spring, situated approximately 3 km east of the city. Even though it was built for a city of 15 ha in size, two centuries later it succeeded in managing the supply and demand of water for a city of 73 ha. In the 7th century Salona was destroyed by the Avars and Slavs, and consequently, the aqueduct ceased to function. Due to intensive exploitation of marlstone and uncontrolled 20th century urbanization, some of the aqueduct's sections have been destroyed. Research on Salona and its aqueduct started as early as the mid-19th century, however, the aqueduct and its route have never been systematically explored until 2014–2015. This paper provides the results and findings of the latest research including the following: the route of the aqueduct, its longitudinal profile, capacity and typical cross-sections, and the method of construction in different terrain conditions. The channel was built in the usual manner in accordance with the practice of Roman builders, using local materials.

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Death in the City

10.1525/california/9780520290310.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kathryn A. Sloan

Keyword(s):

Scientific Inquiry ◽

The United States ◽

Violent Death ◽

Special Relationship ◽

Intimate Friend ◽

Counter Narrative ◽

Wide Range ◽

European Heritage ◽

The City ◽

The Temple

Popular culture has long conflated Mexico with the macabre. Some persuasive intellectuals argue that Mexicans have a special relationship with death, formed in the crucible of their hybrid Aztec-European heritage. Death is their intimate friend; death is mocked and accepted with irony and fatalistic abandon. The commonplace nature of death desensitizes Mexicans to suffering. Death, simply put, defines Mexico. There must have been historical actors who looked away from human misery, but to essentialize a diverse group of people as possessing a unique death cult delights those who want to see the exotic in Mexico or distinguish that society from its peers. Examining tragic and untimely death—namely self-annihilation—reveals a counter narrative. What could be more chilling than suicide, especially the violent death of the young? What desperation or madness pushed the victim to raise the gun to the temple or slip the noose around the neck? A close examination of a wide range of twentieth-century historical documents proves that Mexicans did not accept death with a cavalier chuckle nor develop a unique death cult, for that matter. Quite the reverse, Mexicans behaved just as their contemporaries did in Austria, France, England, and the United States. They devoted scientific inquiry to the malady and mourned the loss of each life to suicide.

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Museum Preserves in the Sphere of “Cultural Tourism”: Through the Example of the Cultural Preserves of Tatarstan

Journal of Educational and Social Research ◽

10.2478/jesr-2019-0070 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 193-198

Author(s):

Lyudmila S. Timofeeva ◽

Albina R. Akhmetova ◽

Liliya R. Galimzyanova ◽

Roman R. Nizaev ◽

Svetlana E. Nikitina

Keyword(s):

19Th Century ◽

Art Museum ◽

Medium Size ◽

Business Elite ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Subject ◽

Tourist Center ◽

Regional Authorities ◽

The 19Th Century ◽

The City

Abstract The article studies the existence experience of historical cities as centers of tourism development as in the case of Elabuga. The city of Elabuga is among the historical cities of Russia. The major role in the development of the city as a tourist center is played by the Elabuga State Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve. The object of the research in the article is Elabuga as a medium-size historical city. The subject of the research is the activity of the museum-reserve which contributes to the preservation and development of the historical look of Elabuga and increases its attractiveness to tourists. The tourism attractiveness of Elabuga is obtained primarily through the presence of the perfectly preserved historical center of the city with the blocks of integral buildings of the 19th century. The Elabuga State Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve, which emerged in 1989, is currently an object of historical and cultural heritage of federal importance. Museum-reserves with their significant territories and rich historical, cultural and natural heritage have unique resources for the implementation of large partnership projects. Such projects are not only aimed at attracting a wide range of tourists, but also stimulate interest in the reserve from the business elite, municipal and regional authorities. The most famous example is the Spasskaya Fair which revived in 2008 in Elabuga. It was held in the city since the second half of the 19th century, and was widely known throughout Russia. The process of the revival and successful development of the fair can be viewed as the creation of a special tourist event contributing to the formation of new and currently important tourism products.

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Young Scholars Conference “Slavic World: Commonality and Diversity”. 21–22 May 2019. Session “Linguistics”

Slavic World in the Third Millennium ◽

10.31168/2412-6446.2019.14.1-2.21 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (1-2) ◽

pp. 295-297

Author(s):

Sergej A. Borisov

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Middle Ages ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

International Context ◽

Slavic Languages ◽

Russian Academy Of Sciences ◽

Current State ◽

Wide Range ◽

History Of ◽

Academy Of Sciences

For more than twenty years, the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences celebrates the Day of Slavic Writing and Culture with a traditional scholarly conference.”. Since 2014, it has been held in the young scholars’ format. In 2019, participants from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Togliatti, Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, and Rostov-on-Don, as well as Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Romania continued this tradition. A wide range of problems related to the history of the Slavic peoples from the Middle Ages to the present time in the national, regional and international context were discussed again. Participants talked about the typology of Slavic languages and dialects, linguo-geography, socio- and ethnolinguistics, analyzed formation, development, current state, and prospects of Slavic literatures, etc.

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The European Green Capital Award—Is It a Dream or Reality for Belgrade (Serbia)?

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13116182 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (11) ◽

pp. 6182

Author(s):

Marijana Pantić ◽

Saša Milijić

Keyword(s):

Urban Transformation ◽

The Other ◽

Transmission Of Knowledge ◽

Current State ◽

Transitional Countries ◽

Great Hope ◽

Environmentally Responsible ◽

Potential Benefits ◽

The City ◽

Insight Into

An agreement of cooperation and transmission of knowledge regarding the nomination for the European Green Capital Award (EGCA) was signed between the mayors of Belgrade and Ljubljana (EGCA 2016 winner) in September 2018. The candidacy of Belgrade was finally realized in October 2019. Great hope was placed in this endeavour because internationally recognized awards, such as the EGCA, represent enormous capital for both the city and the state. The EGCA requires serious preparation and significant fulfilment of preconditions. Many economically strong and environmentally responsible cities competed for the award, but did not win. On the other hand, the capital of Serbia does not appear to be an obvious winning candidate, especially as it is differentiated from the previous winners by being a non-EU city and by the fact that it is still undergoing an intense urban transformation, characteristic of transitional countries. Therefore, the main aim of this article is to present a review of the current state of Belgrade’s environmental qualities and its comparison with the EGCA criteria and with Grenoble as one of the winning competitors. The article gives a full overview of the EGCA requirements with certain details on required indicators, gives relevant insight into the procedure, which could be of use for any future candidacy, and discusses potential benefits for winners, losers and repeat candidacies.

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Vector boson fusion at multi-TeV muon colliders

Journal of High Energy Physics ◽

10.1007/jhep09(2020)080 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2020 (9) ◽

Author(s):

Antonio Costantini ◽

Federico De Lillo ◽

Fabio Maltoni ◽

Luca Mantani ◽

Olivier Mattelaer ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cross Sections ◽

Vector Boson ◽

High Energy ◽

New Physics ◽

Vector Boson Fusion ◽

Weak Boson ◽

Wide Range ◽

Lepton Colliders ◽

Muon Colliders ◽

New Phenomena

Abstract High-energy lepton colliders with a centre-of-mass energy in the multi-TeV range are currently considered among the most challenging and far-reaching future accelerator projects. Studies performed so far have mostly focused on the reach for new phenomena in lepton-antilepton annihilation channels. In this work we observe that starting from collider energies of a few TeV, electroweak (EW) vector boson fusion/scattering (VBF) at lepton colliders becomes the dominant production mode for all Standard Model processes relevant to studying the EW sector. In many cases we find that this also holds for new physics. We quantify the size and the growth of VBF cross sections with collider energy for a number of SM and new physics processes. By considering luminosity scenarios achievable at a muon collider, we conclude that such a machine would effectively be a “high-luminosity weak boson collider,” and subsequently offer a wide range of opportunities to precisely measure EW and Higgs couplings as well as discover new particles.

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β-Lactoglobulin Adsorption Layers at the Water/Air Surface: 5. Adsorption Isotherm and Equation of State Revisited, Impact of pH

Colloids and Interfaces ◽

10.3390/colloids5010014 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 14

Author(s):

Georgi G. Gochev ◽

Volodymyr I. Kovalchuk ◽

Eugene V. Aksenenko ◽

Valentin B. Fainerman ◽

Reinhard Miller

Keyword(s):

Theoretical Description ◽

Fluid Interfaces ◽

Interfacial Behavior ◽

Current State ◽

Air Interface ◽

Direct Measurements ◽

Wide Range ◽

Dilational Viscoelasticity ◽

Parameter Values ◽

Β Lactoglobulin

The theoretical description of the adsorption of proteins at liquid/fluid interfaces suffers from the inapplicability of classical formalisms, which soundly calls for the development of more complicated adsorption models. A Frumkin-type thermodynamic 2-d solution model that accounts for nonidealities of interface enthalpy and entropy was proposed about two decades ago and has been continuously developed in the course of comparisons with experimental data. In a previous paper we investigated the adsorption of the globular protein β-lactoglobulin at the water/air interface and used such a model to analyze the experimental isotherms of the surface pressure, Π(c), and the frequency-, f-, dependent surface dilational viscoelasticity modulus, E(c)f, in a wide range of protein concentrations, c, and at pH 7. However, the best fit between theory and experiment proposed in that paper appeared incompatible with new data on the surface excess, Γ, obtained from direct measurements with neutron reflectometry. Therefore, in this work, the same model is simultaneously applied to a larger set of experimental dependences, e.g., Π(c), Γ(c), E(Π)f, etc., with E-values measured strictly in the linear viscoelasticity regime. Despite this ambitious complication, a best global fit was elaborated using a single set of parameter values, which well describes all experimental dependencies, thus corroborating the validity of the chosen thermodynamic model. Furthermore, we applied the model in the same manner to experimental results obtained at pH 3 and pH 5 in order to explain the well-pronounced effect of pH on the interfacial behavior of β-lactoglobulin. The results revealed that the propensity of β-lactoglobulin globules to unfold upon adsorption and stretch at the interface decreases in the order pH 3 > pH 7 > pH 5, i.e., with decreasing protein net charge. Finally, we discuss advantages and limitations in the current state of the model.

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Status of Phenological Research Using Sentinel-2 Data: A Review

Remote Sensing ◽

10.3390/rs12172760 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (17) ◽

pp. 2760

Author(s):

Gourav Misra ◽

Fiona Cawkwell ◽

Astrid Wingler

Keyword(s):

Vegetation Index ◽

Temporal Frequency ◽

Short Wave ◽

Current State ◽

Red Edge ◽

Natural Grasslands ◽

Wide Range ◽

Normalised Difference Vegetation Index ◽

Satellite Sensors ◽

Sentinel 2

Remote sensing of plant phenology as an indicator of climate change and for mapping land cover has received significant scientific interest in the past two decades. The advancing of spring events, the lengthening of the growing season, the shifting of tree lines, the decreasing sensitivity to warming and the uniformity of spring across elevations are a few of the important indicators of trends in phenology. The Sentinel-2 satellite sensors launched in June 2015 (A) and March 2017 (B), with their high temporal frequency and spatial resolution for improved land mapping missions, have contributed significantly to knowledge on vegetation over the last three years. However, despite the additional red-edge and short wave infra-red (SWIR) bands available on the Sentinel-2 multispectral instruments, with improved vegetation species detection capabilities, there has been very little research on their efficacy to track vegetation cover and its phenology. For example, out of approximately every four papers that analyse normalised difference vegetation index (NDVI) or enhanced vegetation index (EVI) derived from Sentinel-2 imagery, only one mentions either SWIR or the red-edge bands. Despite the short duration that the Sentinel-2 platforms have been operational, they have proved their potential in a wide range of phenological studies of crops, forests, natural grasslands, and other vegetated areas, and in particular through fusion of the data with those from other sensors, e.g., Sentinel-1, Landsat and MODIS. This review paper discusses the current state of vegetation phenology studies based on the first five years of Sentinel-2, their advantages, limitations, and the scope for future developments.

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Antioxidant Activity in Bee Products: A Review

Antioxidants ◽

10.3390/antiox10010071 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 71

Author(s):

Marianna Martinello ◽

Franco Mutinelli

Keyword(s):

Analytical Methods ◽

Nutritional Value ◽

Royal Jelly ◽

Antioxidant Activities ◽

Natural Antioxidants ◽

Bioactive Substances ◽

Current State ◽

Wide Range ◽

Ancient Times ◽

Antioxidant Characteristics

Bee products have been used since ancient times both for their nutritional value and for a broad spectrum of therapeutic purposes. They are deemed to be a potential source of natural antioxidants that can counteract the effects of oxidative stress underlying the pathogenesis of many diseases. In view of the growing interest in using bioactive substances from natural sources to promote health and reduce the risk of developing certain illnesses, this review aims to update the current state of knowledge on the antioxidant capacity of bee products such as honey, pollen, propolis, beeswax, royal jelly and bee venom, and on the analytical methods used. The complex, variable composition of these products and the multitude of analytical methods used to study their antioxidant activities are responsible for the wide range of results reported by a plethora of available studies. This suggests the need to establish standardized methods to more efficiently evaluate the intrinsic antioxidant characteristics of these products and make the data obtained more comparable.

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