National Society of Professional Engineers

A Modular Desert Archipelago Architecture for Integrated Solar-Driven Water Production, Thermal Management, Agriculture, and Resource Recovery: A Concept Paper

This concept paper proposes a modular, distributed desert architecture for integrated freshwater production, thermal management, agriculture, and resource recovery. The system is organized as an artificial functional archipelago of physically separated units rather than a single...

A Modular Desert Archipelago Architecture for Integrated Solar-Driven Water Production, Thermal Management, Agriculture, and Resource Recovery: A Concept Paper

This concept paper proposes a modular, distributed desert architecture for integrated freshwater production, thermal management, agriculture, and resource recovery. The system is organized as an artificial functional archipelago of physically separated units rather than a single...

Impact of imidacloprid on honey bee hypopharyngeal glands at two levels: measurement reliability and laboratory versus field conditions

The use of neonicotinoids has undoubtedly behavioral and physiological effects on bees. This work aimed to ring test the digital measurement of honey bees’ hypopharyngeal glands (HPGs), validate the method against the subjectivity of the assessors, and assess differences in the i...

Artificial Desert Archipelago Theory (ADAT)

Artificial Desert Archipelago Theory (ADAT) proposes a conceptual environmental and geoengineering framework for addressing water scarcity, desertification, and increasing thermal stress in arid and hyper-arid regions. The central concept is to investigate whether strategically d...