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Towards Greener Recycling: Direct Repair of Cathode Materials in Spent Lithium-Ion Batteries
Authors: Zhou Jiahui , Zhou Xia , Yu Wenhao , Shang Zhen , Xu Shengming 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThe explosive growth and widespread applications of lithium-ion batteries in energy storage, transportation and portable devices have raised significant concerns about the availability of raw materials. The quantity of spent lithium-ion batteries increases as more and more electronic devices depend on them, increasing the risk of environmental pollution. Recycling valuable metals in these used batteries is an efficient strategy to solve the shortage of raw materials and reduce environmental pollution risks. Pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy and direct repair have been extensively studied to achieve these goals. The latter is considered an ideal recycling method (for lithium-ion cathode materials) due to its low cost, energy consumption, short duration and environmental friendliness, and it is nondestructive towards the cathode material itself. However, the direct repair is still in its earlier development stages, and a series of challenges must be tackled to succeed in commerce. This work summarizes the process, its effect and the mechanism of different direct repair methods. Moreover, the energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, costs and benefits of different methods will be discussed from economic and environmental perspectives. Feasible strategies are also proposed to address existing challenges, providing an insightful overview of the direct reparation of spent lithium-ion cathode materials.
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Improving the efficiency of isolated-footing resting on loose sand soil using grout diaphragm walls: an experimental and numerical study
Authors: Hakeem Beshoy Maher 
Published: April 2024

AbstractIn light of rising loads from several sources, including additional stories, eccentric loads, and increased live loads, foundations often face increased demands. To address this, horizontal reinforcements are now commonly positioned beneath footings to enhance the bearing capacity of the loose-dense sand subgrade. By grouting on both sides of the footing, not only can vertical settlement be minimized, but also the soil movement in the horizontal direction under the chosen loaded footing can be reduced. The objective of this study is to conduct extensive experimental work on twenty-one (21) soil models to assess the efficiency of a circular footing resting on granular soil injected with grout diaphragm walls. Specifically, this study investigated the bearing capacity of granular soil in relation to the breadth (b) and length (L) of grouted walls. The results showed that, installing grouted wall injection on both sides of the existing footing is an excellent method to improve the bearing capacity of the subgrade layer. To check the validity of the chosen computational processes, both PLAXIS (3D) software and a 2D Finite Element Program GeoStudio 2018 were used. The findings indicate a direct correlation with the experimental observations in that the reinforcement has a considerable effect on the bearing capacity of a circular-footing resting on granular soil.
Circular Economy Strategies in Densification and Refurbishment of Residential Buildings – State of Application and Future Directions
Authors: de Souza Rocha Fernanda Andreia , Reitberger Roland , Staudt Johannes , Lang Werner 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThe fast population and economic growth put tremendous pressure on the planet’s resources. In this context, the building sector is recognized as one of the most significant contributors to greenhouse gas emissions and the use of raw materials. The Circular Economy (CE) is expected to contribute to a reduction of waste landfills, extraction of raw materials, and greenhouse gas emissions. This study aims to understand to what degree and how CE strategies can be applied to the refurbishment and densification of residential buildings. Using a qualitative approach, this study examines the application of CE strategies in the building sector through five semi-structured expert interviews. The literature identifies five CE principles for buildings: building in layers, designing-out waste, designing for adaptability and flexibility, designing for disassembly, and selecting materials. From the interviews, designing-out waste was the most common approach for refurbishment and densification of residential buildings. Nevertheless, the implementation of CE strategies within the building sector is still limited and challenging due to various barriers and little encouragement. More stimuli from governments through regulations and guidelines, increased collaboration between stakeholders, and technological advancements are expected to reduce the obstacles to implementing CE strategies in refurbishment and densification.
Rosmarinus officinalis Linn.: unveiling its multifaceted nature in nutrition, diverse applications, and advanced extraction methods
Authors: Meziane Hanae , Zraibi Linda , Albusayr Reem , Bitari Abdelhamid , Oussaid Abdelouhad , Hammouti Belkheir , Touzani Rachid 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis Linn. or Salvia rosmarinus Spenn.) is an aromatic herb renowned for its culinary, medicinal, and industrial significance. This review offers a multifaceted exploration of rosemary, delving into its nutritional composition, traditional culinary applications, and historical uses in traditional medicine. The review extends to cosmetic and pharmaceutical applications, elucidating rosemary’s role as a natural preservative and its integration into cosmeceutical and pharmaceutical formulations. Extraction methods, both classical and contemporary, are critically examined, with an emphasis on recent sustainable approaches and their impact on bioactive compounds. This work concludes with a forward-looking perspective, discussing innovative extraction techniques, advanced technologies, and the potential commercial viability of rosemary-related industries. This comprehensive review serves as a valuable resource, offering insights into the diverse dimensions of rosemary, from traditional applications to cutting-edge advancements in extraction science.
Advanced floodplain mapping: HEC-RAS and ArcGIS pro application on Swat River
Authors: Ullah Muhammad Ihsan , Qureshi Komal Sahab , Rauf Ateeq ur , Shah Liaqat Ali 
Published: April 2024

AbstractFloods stand out as one of the most devastating environmental threats worldwide resulting in the tragic loss of human lives and significant damage to our essential infrastructure. This study focuses on creating floodplain maps for the two important reaches of Swat River in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan, namely, Kalam–Khwazakhela and Khwazakhela–Chakdara reaches. The Advanced Land Observing Satellite Phased Array Type L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (ALOS PALSAR) 12.5 m Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data has been used for this purpose. Furthermore, the sensitivity of the flood model was assessed for the Flood 2022 event, considering simulated flood depth, extent, and velocity in relation to various terrains derived from the 12.5-m ALOS PALSAR data. To estimate extreme flows for different return periods (2, 5, 10, 25, 50, and 100 years), the Log Normal (LN), Log Pearson III (LP3), and Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distributions were employed for the frequency analysis. The GEV distribution turned out to be the best fit for modeling the Swat River for both the Chakdara and Khwazakhela gauge stations. To predict flood levels for the peak floods identified through frequency analysis and for the specific return periods the Hydrologic Engineering Center's River Analysis System (HEC-RAS) 2D simulations were performed. Subsequently the outcomes of this model were used to create floodplain maps using Geographic Information System Professional (ArcGIS Pro) software customized for various return periods. The analysis revealed a linear increase in flood inundation area with longer return periods. The floodplain maps developed hold significant importance for the governing authorities of the Swat region. These maps serve as essential tools for implementing proactive measures against potential infrastructure damage, thereby protecting against economic losses and enhancing public safety. This research effectively combines hydrological modeling and geospatial technology offering practical solutions for managing flood risks. It serves as a valuable guide for making well-informed decisions and promoting sustainable development in flood-prone areas.
Imag(in)e nature: imaging energetic footprint of urban environments through multispectral data acquisition
Authors: Balzar Mark , Balzar Zeynep Aksöz , Asan Galo Moncayo 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThe Vibrant Fields project endeavors to construct novel representational tectonics of urbanization, aiming to comprehend the materiality of forms and the genesis of multispectral relations within complex information systems governing the interplay of atmospheric and embodied energy cycles in the biosphere. This project asserts that any perceivable condition of nature arises from dynamic processes that transcend human sensory perception.Inspired by theoretical biology, the project models the urban environment as a systemic entity characterized by modularity, representing the biosphere's dynamic interplay of chemical and physical elements engaged in information exchange within ecological systems, influenced by technology, geography, and atmospheric conditions.Vibrant Fields utilizes layers of observation systems to translate the complex biosphere into dimensionally reduced data streams. It introduces complementary devices, bridging the gap between global and local data to better understand microclimatic phenomena.The project observes the simultaneous realities and temporalities of urban field information within its ecological context. It investigates the architecture, technology, flora, and fauna of cities in relation to their geographic, geological, and ecological conditions, analyzing multiple temporal historical and geological scales.
Economic Diplomacy and Home State Responsibility for Human Rights Abuses Involving Extractive Industries Abroad: The Case of Canada
Authors: Szablowski David 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThe debate over home state responsibility for human rights has focused on how home states might use accountability mechanisms to promote respect for human rights among their businesses abroad. However, a set of activists and researchers have opened a new front on the question of home state responsibility by focusing on the activities of Canadian diplomats providing advice and consular services to extractive firms abroad. This work documents how home states can be directly implicated in business and human rights controversies and how home state diplomats can put human rights defenders at increased risk. This paper outlines the growing body of research on the hidden influence of Canadian economic diplomacy in human rights controversies, suggesting a troubling disregard for corporate social responsibility and human rights concerns in these contexts, and making the case for robust accountability mechanisms to influence the conduct of both corporate actors and diplomatic officials.
Fermenting knits: A material-driven exploration of knit-based bacterial cellulose biocomposite textile materials through fibre reassembly
Authors: De Lara Carolina 
Published: April 2024

Abstract
Environmental concerns surrounding textile production have increased the need and interest in developing material innovations and interdisciplinary approaches to offset this ecological impact. Bacterial cellulose is present in several industries, and its biologically produced form has shown potential use within fashion. Within the emerging field of biodesign, research surrounding bacterial cellulose textiles generally focuses on the initial sheeted growth, while alternative outputs and working methods remain scarce. Here, fibre reassembly is analysed by fully integrating broken down BC fibres with knitted structures. Material selection and working methods take a practice-led approach to experiment formulation in order to observe material behaviour as central to development. This project aims to create biocomposite textiles that enhance the properties of bacterial cellulose and expand its designable characteristics through low-tech working methods accessible from designerly backgrounds. The results are intended to inform further research in footwear design contexts, as basis to develop BC-based components. Experimentation shows BC fibres reassembled around the knitted structures, varying according to yarn choice and fermenting environment alteration. This demonstrates potential for material and methodology development while exploring co-design with living organisms. In the context of future applications, BC-based composite textiles can self-assemble at different growth stages, offering the possibility of material-driven approaches to spaces intersecting biology and design.
Deviating from the Norm? The Pregnant Body in Scandinavian Health Law
Authors: Ó Cathaoir Katharina 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThis article explores how the political ideal of data interacts with the legal entitlement of autonomy in the care of pregnant people guided by feminist theory and critical approaches to data. Using Scandinavian legislation and administrative practice, it analyses how the presence or absence of data, namely scientific evidence, interacts with pregnant people’s legal autonomy in healthcare. Data –particularly scientific evidence - is shown as something that is not neutral but open to interpretation and misappropriation. First, administrative complaints illustrate that not only a lack of scientific studies on pregnant people but also patriarchal attitudes have implications for care. Second, Scandinavian legislation authorizes the involuntary detention of pregnant drug users despite an absence of evidence supporting such drastic actions. Third, complaints bodies are found to frame injury to pregnant bodies as a natural consequence of birth, despite clear evidence as to the duties of healthcare professionals in preventing harm. A relational approach that sees the pregnant body and fetus as integrated though quintessentially unequal is needed. Evidence is not the only answer; an approach that recognizes the dignity of pregnant people must be central. This requires eliminating coercion, recognizing the pregnant patient as the decision maker in healthcare choices and prizing the birthing patient’s voice as a valuable data source.
Balancing Interests: Criminal Proceedings & Private Life Interference Under Martial Law in Ukraine
Authors: Babikov Oleksandr , Bozhyk Valerii , Bugera Olena I. , Kyrenko Serhii H. , Viunyk Maksym 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThe purpose of the Article is to analyze and compare certain aspects which define the limits of permissible interference with a person's private life in the legislation of Ukraine and other countries of the world in terms of ensuring the balance of interests of participants in criminal proceedings during covert measures to obtain information related to interference with a person’s private life. The Article uses general scientific and special research methods, in particular comparative legal, scientific categories, definitions and approaches, formal dogmatic (legal), dialectical. On the basis of the conducted research, generalized conclusions were made regarding general trends in the field of reforming the legal regulation of special measures for covertly obtaining information, and ways of their improvement. The forms and methods of departmental, judicial, and public control over the covert activities of law enforcement agencies have been determined separately, and the influence of terrorist threats and military actions on ensuring the balance of interests of participants in criminal proceedings has been investigated. According to the results of the research, ways of solving problematic issues of the regulation of criminal procedural legislation have been determined in order to ensure the balance of the interests of the participants in criminal proceedings during the organization, conduct, recording, storage, and use of the results of covert information-gathering activities. A comparative analysis of the ways of solving a number of legal regulation issues in the field of the use of informal forms of obtaining information, the determination of different approaches to the separation of departmental, judicial, and public control is being carried out for the first time and will provide a comprehensive and systematic approach to the improvement of legislation in the specified field in the conditions of martial law or during anti-terrorist activities.
Imagined Musical Geographies in a Global Age: Views from Jodhpur, Istanbul and Buenos Aires, c. 1870–1930
Authors: Olley Jacob 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThis collection of papers explores the intellectual history of music in global context during the period between around 1870 and 1930. Following an introduction that discusses the state of the field, each of the three papers presents a case study that explores the intersection between music and global history from diverse perspectives. The first paper discusses a Hindi music treatise published in 1896. By situating this work within multiple ‘significant geographies’, the paper highlights the limitations of ‘global’ approaches that neglect the more immediate musical, social and intellectual environments of their subjects. The second paper analyses the intersection between music and Islamic modernism in the late Ottoman Empire. It argues that a Eurocentric understanding of music history propagated by earlier reformists was succeeded at the end of the nineteenth century by an oppositional narrative that drew on the geopolitical imaginary of pan-Islamism. The final paper discusses the work of the Argentine composer Alberto Williams, particularly in relation to his views on race and national music. The paper demonstrates how contemporary scientific theories such as positivism and Social Darwinism contributed to a narrative of national musical development that created hierarchies of musical genres and excluded Argentine composers of African descent.
ON TRUSTS, HYPOCRISY AND CONSCIENCE
Authors: Samet Irit 
Published: April 2024

AbstractIn this paper, I suggest that taking seriously the way in which the trust is founded on a duty of conscience has far-reaching ramifications for the appropriate attitude towards new forms of trusts that are designed to allow people to enjoy the benefits of ownership without incurring the duties that come with it. The morally freighted concept of conscience that lies at the heart of trust law means that every claim against trustees invokes a demand that the trustee abide by the requirements of their conscience. The conditions on the right to blame others for a moral wrongdoing, and the relationship between blaming and suing in the context of trust law, lead to the conclusion that, in novel forms of trust that are geared towards the creation of a morally bankrupt “orphan property”, beneficiaries do not have moral standing to sue the trustee for a breach of trust.
Current state and prospects of teaching-learning processes in music teacher education in Spain: a literature review
Authors: Casanova Oscar , Jorquera-Jaramillo M. Cecilia , Serrano Rosa M. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractThe teaching-learning process, both in general and in the specialty of Music Education, has evolved and its explanatory models have become increasingly complex. In view of current challenges, it is relevant to analyse the elements that are considered necessary to train music teachers to become competent professionals. This study identifies characteristics found in specialised Spanish and international scientific literature on teaching-learning processes in music teacher education, referring to their current state as well as to desirable developments and future prospects. Although a certain overlap among emergent categories in Spain and those in other countries can be observed, we also found differences of degree, as well as interesting divergences.
Improvisation pedagogy: what can be learned from off-task sounds and the art of the musical heckle?
Authors: Walduck Jackie 
Published: April 2024

AbstractA tension between freedom and constraint is characteristic of improvisation practice and pedagogy, presenting challenges for teachers/workshop leaders. To create musical focus in ensemble improvisation, some sounds are encouraged, whilst others are edited out, ignored or marginalised. This article investigates improvised sounds as central or subaltern, asking how marginal sounds such as musical ‘heckles’ and off-task sounds can be accepted meaningfully into musical frameworks. I question what can be learned from subaltern sounds. How can power structures within the improvisation workshop be subverted by listening to sounds outside teacher-defined frames, and how can listening become inclusive without sessions descending into chaos?
The African Regional Greenhouse Gases Budget (2010–2019)
Authors: Ernst Yolandi , Archibald Sally , Balzter Heiko , Chevallier Frederic , Ciais Philippe , Fischer Carlos Gonzalez , Gaubert Benjamin , Higginbottom Thomas , Higgins Steven , Lawal Shakirudeen , Lacroix Fabrice , Lauerwald Ronny , Lourenco Mauro , Martens Carola , Mengistu Anteneh G. , Merbold Lutz , Mitchard Edward , Moyo Mthokozisi , Nguyen Hannah , O’Sullivan Michael , Rodríguez‐Veiga Pedro , Rosan Thais , Rosentreter Judith , Ryan Casey , Scheiter Simon , Sitch Stephen , Stevens Nicola , Tagesson Torbern , Tian Hanqin , Wang Mengjia , Woon Joel S. , Zheng Bo , Zhou Yong , Scholes Robert J. 
Published: April 2024

AbstractAs part of the REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes Phase 2 (RECCAP2) project, we developed a comprehensive African Greenhouse gases (GHG) budget covering 2000 to 2019 (RECCAP1 and RECCAP2 time periods), and assessed uncertainties and trends over time. We compared bottom‐up process‐based models, data‐driven remotely sensed products, and national GHG inventories with top‐down atmospheric inversions, accounting also for lateral fluxes. We incorporated emission estimates derived from novel methodologies for termites, herbivores, and fire, which are particularly important in Africa. We further constrained global woody biomass change products with high‐quality regional observations. During the RECCAP2 period, Africa's carbon sink capacity is decreasing, with net ecosystem exchange switching from a small sink of −0.61 ± 0.58 PgC yr−1 in RECCAP1 to a small source in RECCAP2 at 0.16 (−0.52/1.36) PgC yr−1. Net CO2 emissions estimated from bottom‐up approaches were 1.6 (−0.9/5.8) PgCO2 yr−1, net CH4 were 77 (56.4/93.9) TgCH4 yr−1 and net N2O were 2.9 (1.4/4.9) TgN2O yr−1. Top‐down atmospheric inversions showed similar trends. Land Use Change emissions increased, representing one of the largest contributions at 1.7 (0.8/2.7) PgCO2eq yr−1 to the African GHG budget and almost similar to emissions from fossil fuels at 1.74 (1.53/1.96) PgCO2eq yr−1, which also increased from RECCAP1. Additionally, wildfire emissions decreased, while fuelwood burning increased. For most component fluxes, uncertainty is large, highlighting the need for increased efforts to address Africa‐specific data gaps. However, for RECCAP2, we improved our overall understanding of many of the important components of the African GHG budget that will assist to inform climate policy and action.