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  1. Article ; Online: Efficacy and safety of eplerenone in heart failure management.

    Zheng, Jin / Wang, Shuangao / Timóteo, Ana Teresa

    European journal of internal medicine

    2024  Volume 123, Page(s) 163–164

    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Eplerenone/therapeutic use ; Heart Failure/drug therapy ; Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists/therapeutic use ; Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists/adverse effects ; Spironolactone/therapeutic use ; Spironolactone/adverse effects ; Spironolactone/analogs & derivatives ; Treatment Outcome
    Chemical Substances Eplerenone (6995V82D0B) ; Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists ; Spironolactone (27O7W4T232)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-15
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Letter
    ZDB-ID 1038679-8
    ISSN 1879-0828 ; 0953-6205
    ISSN (online) 1879-0828
    ISSN 0953-6205
    DOI 10.1016/j.ejim.2024.02.006
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  2. Article ; Online: The rise and fall of plantation forestry in northern Mozambique

    Aires Afonso Mbanze / Wang Shuangao / John Mudekwe / Cremildo Ribas Dias / Almeida Sitoe

    Trees, Forests and People, Vol 10, Iss , Pp 100343- (2022)

    2022  

    Abstract: In the last two decades, Mozambique's plantation forestry has witnessed several twists, which were driven by domestic and global changes. However, empirical evidence on the governance issues that account for a bleak plantation forestry future in ... ...

    Abstract In the last two decades, Mozambique's plantation forestry has witnessed several twists, which were driven by domestic and global changes. However, empirical evidence on the governance issues that account for a bleak plantation forestry future in Mozambique are lacking. This paper explores the governance issues that militate for the rise and fall in plantation forestry in northern Mozambique. We conducted an online email, face-to-face or phone call interview with 20 forest experts deeply informed about a decade and a half of plantation development in northern Mozambique, using 2005 as the baseline year. We then proceed with an explorative case study of two operational companies in the Niassa province: The Florestas do Niassa (now, build it) and Green Resources. We found strong evidence of a decline in the forest sector in northern Mozambique, linked to the following governance issues: (i) lack of flexibility, clarity and delay on the part of Mozambican Government to issue the land title (DUAT's); (ii) Increase in forest fires, perpetrated by local communities who provided land for the plantations companies, but were dissatisfied with the unfair distribution of the benefits from afforestation projects; (iii) Poor infrastructures, especially road accessibility; (iv) lack of skilled labour as well as (v) political instability. Furthermore, the research illustrates how difficult it is to invest in forest plantations in Mozambique, despite its high potential and natural competitive advantages for the establishment of commercial plantations.
    Keywords Forest plantations ; Forestry governance ; Risk and uncertainty ; Land tenure ; Forest fires ; Forestry ; SD1-669.5 ; Plant ecology ; QK900-989
    Subject code 910
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Elsevier
    Document type Article ; Online
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  3. Article: Landscape Impacts on Ecosystem Service Values Using the Image Fusion Approach

    Wang, Shuangao / Padmanaban, Rajchandar / Shamsudeen, Mohamed / Campos, Felipe S. / Cabral, Pedro

    Land. 2022 July 29, v. 11, no. 8

    2022  

    Abstract: The landscape is a complex mosaic of physical and biological patches with infrastructures, cultivable lands, protected ecosystems, water bodies, and many other landforms. Varying land-use changes are vulnerable to the world and need the mitigation and ... ...

    Abstract The landscape is a complex mosaic of physical and biological patches with infrastructures, cultivable lands, protected ecosystems, water bodies, and many other landforms. Varying land-use changes are vulnerable to the world and need the mitigation and management of landforms to achieve sustainable development, which without proper oversight, may lead to habitat destruction, degradation, and fragmentation. In this study, we quantify the land-use and land-cover (LULC) changes using downscaled satellite imagery and assess their effects on ecosystem services (ES) and economic values in Ningxia Province, China. Various landscape metrics are derived to study the pattern and spatial configuration over 15 years (2005–2020), in which the landscapes are evolving. The impact of LULC change in various ES is analyzed using ecosystem service values (ESV) and validated with a sensitivity index. Finally, the level of urban sprawl (US) due to overpopulation is established using Renyi’s entropy. Using Landsat 8′s Operational Land Imager (OLI) datasets, we downscaled the MODIS data of 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020 to prepare the LULC map through a rotation forest algorithm. Results demonstrate that water bodies, woodlands, and built-up landscapes increased in their spatial distribution over time and that there was a decrease in farmlands. Results further suggest that the connectivity and uniformity of the landscape pattern improved in the later period due to several plans formulated by the government with a slight improvement in landscape diversity. Overall ESV get improved, while LULC classes such as farmland and water bodies have decreased and increased ESV, respectively, and a sensitivity analysis is used to test the reliability of ESV on LULC classes. The level of US is 0.91 in terms of Renyi’s entropy, which reveals the presence of a dispersion of settlements in urban fringes. The simulated US for 2025 shows urbanization is more severe over a prolonged time and finally the impacts of the US in ESV are analyzed. Using an interdisciplinary approach, several recommendations are formulated to maintain the ESV despite rapid LULC changes and to achieve sustainable development globally.
    Keywords Landsat ; agricultural land ; algorithms ; data collection ; ecosystem services ; ecosystems ; entropy ; forests ; habitat destruction ; land use ; land use and land cover maps ; landforms ; landscapes ; population growth ; remote sensing ; sustainable development ; urbanization ; China
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2022-0729
    Publishing place Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 2682955-1
    ISSN 2073-445X
    ISSN 2073-445X
    DOI 10.3390/land11081186
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  4. Article: Preparation of a novel photocatalytic catalyst PW9@ZnO/Ag and the photocatalytic degradation of butyl xanthate under visible light

    Xin, Ziming / Wang, Shuangao / He, Qianqian / Han, Xiaoyu / Fu, Zhongtian / Xu, Xinxin / Zhao, Xin

    Environmental research. 2022 Nov., v. 214

    2022  

    Abstract: Photocatalytic technology is attracting considerable attention for the advantages of low cost and environmentally friendly properties. In this study, a novel photocatalyst PW₉@ZnO/Ag (PZA) was synthesized hydrothermally and characterized by a variety of ... ...

    Abstract Photocatalytic technology is attracting considerable attention for the advantages of low cost and environmentally friendly properties. In this study, a novel photocatalyst PW₉@ZnO/Ag (PZA) was synthesized hydrothermally and characterized by a variety of means. The results indicated that ZnO and Ag NPs were successfully decorated and uniformly dispersed on PW₉ to form the composites. The prepared PZA was applied in the degradation of simulated butyl xanthate (BX) beneficiation wastewater both under the UV light and the xenon lamp, and a maximum degradation of 99.83% was obtained under the visible light with 10% ZnO loading, 1 g/L PZA, initial BX concentration of 20 mg/L, and pH 5.5. The PZA was recovered and reused for 5 times, and the degradation rates remained above 70%. Superoxide radical (·O₂⁻) was the main active species for the photocatalytic degradation of BX. The experimental results demonstrate that PZA is a promising photocatalyst, making it a prospective strategy to overcome current challengers in the use of xanthate degradation and beneficiation wastewater treatment under visible light.
    Keywords pH ; photocatalysis ; photocatalysts ; research ; superoxide anion ; ultraviolet radiation ; wastewater ; wastewater treatment ; xenon
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2022-11
    Publishing place Elsevier Inc.
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 205699-9
    ISSN 1096-0953 ; 0013-9351
    ISSN (online) 1096-0953
    ISSN 0013-9351
    DOI 10.1016/j.envres.2022.113776
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  5. Article ; Online: Preparation of a novel photocatalytic catalyst PW

    Xin, Ziming / Wang, Shuangao / He, Qianqian / Han, Xiaoyu / Fu, Zhongtian / Xu, Xinxin / Zhao, Xin

    Environmental research

    2022  Volume 214, Issue Pt 1, Page(s) 113776

    Abstract: Photocatalytic technology is attracting considerable attention for the advantages of low cost and environmentally friendly properties. In this study, a novel photocatalyst ... ...

    Abstract Photocatalytic technology is attracting considerable attention for the advantages of low cost and environmentally friendly properties. In this study, a novel photocatalyst PW
    MeSH term(s) Catalysis ; Light ; Silver ; Thiones ; Zinc Oxide
    Chemical Substances Thiones ; butylxanthate (110-50-9) ; Silver (3M4G523W1G) ; Zinc Oxide (SOI2LOH54Z)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-30
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 205699-9
    ISSN 1096-0953 ; 0013-9351
    ISSN (online) 1096-0953
    ISSN 0013-9351
    DOI 10.1016/j.envres.2022.113776
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  6. Article ; Online: Using Satellite Image Fusion to Evaluate the Impact of Land Use Changes on Ecosystem Services and Their Economic Values

    Wang Shuangao / Rajchandar Padmanaban / Aires A. Mbanze / João M. N. Silva / Mohamed Shamsudeen / Pedro Cabral / Felipe S. Campos

    Remote Sensing, Vol 13, Iss 5, p

    2021  Volume 851

    Abstract: Accelerated land use change is a current challenge for environmental management worldwide. Given the urgent need to incorporate economic and ecological goals in landscape planning, cost-effective conservation strategies are required. In this study, we ... ...

    Abstract Accelerated land use change is a current challenge for environmental management worldwide. Given the urgent need to incorporate economic and ecological goals in landscape planning, cost-effective conservation strategies are required. In this study, we validated the benefit of fusing imagery from multiple sensors to assess the impact of landscape changes on ecosystem services (ES) and their economic values in the Long County, Shaanxi Province, China. We applied several landscape metrics to assess the local spatial configuration over 15 years (2004–2019) from fused imageries. Using Landsat-7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+), Landsat-8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) and Indian Remote Sensing Satellite System Linear Imaging Self Scanning Sensor 3 (IRS LISS 3) imageries fused for 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019, we reclassified land use/land cover (LULC) changes, through the rotation forest (RF) machine-learning algorithm. We proposed an equivalent monetary metric for estimating the ES values, which also could be used in the whole China. Results showed that agriculture farmland and unused land decreased their spatial distribution over time, with an observed increase on woodland, grassland, water bodies and built-up area. Our findings suggested that the patterns of landscape uniformity and connectivity improved, while the distribution of landscape types stabilized, while the landscape diversity had a slight improvement. The overall ES values increased (4.34%) under a benefit transfer approach, mainly concerning woodland and grassland. A sensitivity analysis showed the selected economic value (EV) was relevant and suitable for the study area associated with our ES for LULC changes. We suggested that changes in landscape patterns affected the ESV trends, while the increases on some LULC classes slightly improved the landscape diversity. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we recommend that local authorities and environmental practitioners should balance the economic benefits and ecological gains in different landscapes to ...
    Keywords landscape patterns ; urban ecosystem services ; environmental monitoring ; remote sensing ; image fusion ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 710
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
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