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ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR ANALYSIS AND FORECAST OF AIR POLLUTION (APPLICATION TO SANTIAGO DE CHILE) Marcelo Arenas 1 , Leopoldo Bertossi 1 , Loreto Bravo 1 , Laura Gallardo 2 , Achim Sydow 3 1 Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Casilla 306, Santiago 22, Chile, e-mail: bertossi@ing.puc.cl 2 Comisión Nacional del Medio Ambiente, Obispo Donoso 6, Santiago 22, Chile, e-mail: lgallardo@conama.cl 3 GMD FIRST, Kekuléstr. 7, D-12489 Berlin, Germany, e-mail: sydow@first.gmd.de KEY WORDS Environmental science, Dynamic models, Model integration, Decision support systems, Forecasting ABSTRACT In Santiago de Chile and other cities in Chile, air pollution is a dramatic problem. An Environmental Information System (EIS) based on air quality models is extremely valuable in order to support users in governmental administrations and industry with forecasting and operative decision-making as well as short to long-term regional planning. Using a model-based EIS for air pollution it is possible (i) to study complex source/receptor relationships, (ii) to optimize air pollution abatement strategies either locally or in a larger region, and (iii) to forecast the air quality for urban and industrial regions. The paper presents issues of a joint project of Universidad Catolica de Chile and GMD FIRST which objectives are the exchange of know how in the fields of EIS design and the use of air quality models, the installation of a model-based EIS for air pollution for Santiago de Chile including the acquisition of necessary input data, the study of the particularities of the Santiago region and the demonstration of the functionality of the EIS in terms of analysis and forecast of air pollution. such as the coastal-lows (Rutllant and Garreaud, 1995). In spring and summer, the relatively larger insolation determines an increase in the depth of the mixed layer counteracting the accumulation of pollutants. Nonetheless, actinic fluxes are also increased during spring and summer accelerating the occurrence of a great deal of photo chemical reactions. Chilean environmental authorities have through the years established monitoring networks for assessing the air quality of Santiago. Especial attention has been paid to health effects. The concentrations of pollutants in Santiago frequently exceed Chilean and international air quality standards. Therefore, an attainment plan has been established (CONAMA-RM, 1997). This plan considers a number of long-term measures intended to prevent and curb the air pollution problems of Santiago and surrounding areas. In addition, a number of short-term measures are put INTRODUCTION The city of Santiago (33.5ºS, 70.8ºW) is located in a basin bounded by the high Andes (4500 m altitude on average) in the central part of Chile. To the east, a lower parallel mountain range to the west (1500 m altitude on average), and two east-to-west mountain chains to the north and south of the basin respectively. Nearly one third of the population of Chile (i.e., about five million people) lives in the metropolitan area of Santiago. Thus private and public transportation, domestic and industrial energy consumption and other activities are brought together and large emissions of pollutants take place (see Table 1). The Công ty Luật Minh Gia www.luatminhgia.com.vn THE GOVERNMENT Decree No 86/2015/ND-CP dated October 2, 2015 of the Government on mechanism for collection and management of tuition fees applicable to educational institution in the national education system and policies on tuition fee exemption and reduction and financial support from academic year 2015-2016 to 2020 - 2021 Pursuant to the Law on Government organization dated December 25, 2001; Pursuant to the Law on Education dated June 14, 2005; Law on amendments to the Law on Education dated November 25, 2009; Pursuant to the Law on Higher Education dated June 18, 2012; Pursuant to the Law on vocational education dated November 27, 2014; Pursuant to the Law on Medical examination and treatment dated November 23, 2009; Pursuant to the Ordinance on People with meritorious services to the Resolution dated June 29, 2005; the Ordinance on amendments to the Ordinance on People with meritorious services to the Resolution dated July 16, 2012; At the request of the Minister of Education and Training and the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs, The Government promulgates a Decree on mechanism for collection and management of tuition fees applicable to educational institutions in the national education system and policies on tuition fee exemption and reduction and financial support from the academic year 2015 – 2016 to 2020 – 2021, Chapter I GENERAL PROVISIONS Article Scope of adjustment The Decree deals with mechanism for collection and management of tuition fees applicable to educational institutions in the national education system and policies on tuition fee exemption and reduction and financial support from the academic year 2015 – 2016 to 2020 – 2021 Article Subject of application LUẬT SƯ TƯ VẤN PHÁP LUẬT 24/7: 1900 6169 Công ty Luật Minh Gia www.luatminhgia.com.vn Children studying in pre-schools, students and postgraduate students studying in educational institutions in the national education system prescribed in the Law on Education, the Law on higher education, and Law on vocational education Educational institutions in the national education system prescribed in the Law on Education, the Law on higher education, and Law on vocational education Chapter II TUITION FEES Article Rules for determining tuition fees For public preschool education and compulsory education: tuition fees must be suitable for economic conditions of every administrative division, actual affordability of the people, and growth of annual consumer price index For public higher education and vocational education: educational institutions that exercise financial autonomy in terms of recurrent expenditures and investment as prescribed by the Government shall determine their tuition fees according to economic and technical norms or cost norms issued by competent authority and duration in which the training costs are fully covered Public educational institutions that not exercise financial autonomy in terms of recurrent expenditures and investment (hereinafter referred to as financial autonomy) as prescribed by the Government shall determine tuition fees according to the State’s grant and learners’ contribution according to the decline in State’s subsidies Every public educational institution providing high-quality program is entitled to collect an amount of tuition fees sufficient to cover training costs Every non-public educational institution is entitled to decide their tuition fees The preschool education and compulsory education institutions shall announce their tuition fees in every academic year, higher education and vocational education institutions shall announce their tuition fees in every academic year and the entire course During the implementation of this Decree, the Ministry of Education and Training shall cooperate with the authorities in adjustments to tuition fee brackets applicable to higher education institutions and vocational institutions according to the principles of accurate and sufficient determination of training costs as prescribed in Decree No 16/2015/ND-CP dated February 14, 2015 of the Government on autonomy mechanism of public service agencies LUẬT SƯ TƯ VẤN PHÁP LUẬT 24/7: 1900 6169 Công ty Luật Minh Gia www.luatminhgia.com.vn Article Tuition fee brackets of preschool education and compulsory education institutions Tuition schedule of mass education programs in public preschool education and compulsory education institutions in the academic year 2015 – 2016: Unit: VND 1,000/month/student Region Academic year 2015 - 2016 Urban area From 60 to 300 Rural area From 30 to 120 Mountainous area From to 60 From 2016 – 2017 onwards, the tuition fees shall be adjusted according to annual average growth of consumer price index announced by the Ministry of Planning and Investment Pursuant to Clause and Clause of this Article, People’s Councils of provinces shall prescribe annual specific tuition fees suitable for the conditions of their provinces High-quality ...BioMed Central Page 1 of 7 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Open Access Research EQ-5D visual analog scale and utility index values in individuals with diabetes and at risk for diabetes: Findings from the Study to Help Improve Early evaluation and management of risk factors Leading to Diabetes (SHIELD) Susan Grandy 1 and Kathleen M Fox* 2 Address: 1 Health Economics and Outcomes Research, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Wilmington, DE, USA and 2 Strategic Healthcare Solutions, LLC, Monkton, MD, USA Email: Susan Grandy - susan.grandy@astrazeneca.com; Kathleen M Fox* - kathyfox@comcast.net * Corresponding author Abstract Background: The EQ-5D was used to compare burden experienced by respondents with diabetes and those at risk for diabetes. Methods: A survey including the EQ-5D was mailed to individuals with self-reported diabetes, as well as those without diabetes but with the following risk factors (RFs): (1) abdominal obesity, (2) body mass index ≥ 28 kg/m 2 , (3) dyslipidemia, (4) hypertension, and (5) cardiovascular disease. Non-diabetes respondents were combined into 0–2 RFs and 3–5 RFs. Mean EQ-5D scores were compared across groups using analysis of variance. Multivariable linear regression modeling identified factors affecting respondents' EQ-5D scores. Results: Complete responses were available from >75% of each cohort. Mean EQ-5D index scores were significantly lower for respondents with type 2 diabetes and 3–5 RFs (0.778 and 0.792, respectively) than for those with 0–2 RFs (0.870, p < 0.001 for each); score for respondents with type 2 diabetes was also significantly lower than for those with 3–5 RFs (p < 0.001). Similar patterns were seen for visual analog scale (VAS). For both VAS and index scores, after adjusting for other characteristics, respondents reported decreasing EQ-5D scores as status moved from low to high risk (-6.49 for VAS score and -0.045 for index score) to a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes (-9.75 for VAS score and -0.054 for index score; p < 0.001 vs. 0–2 RFs for all). Conclusion: High-risk and type 2 diabetes groups had similar EQ-5D scores, and both were substantially lower than in low-risk respondents. Introduction It has been estimated that diabetes mellitus affects approximately 21 million people in the U.S. [1]. Compli- cations from diabetes include blindness, kidney disease, nerve damage, arterial disease, abnormal cholesterol lev- els, hypertension, heart disease, and stroke. Heart disease and stroke account for 65% of deaths in patients with dia- betes, with a death rate 2–4 times higher than in adults without diabetes [2]. Diabetes is the fifth leading cause of mortality in the U.S., and is associated with increasing Published: 27 February 2008 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:18 doi:10.1186/1477-7525-6-18 Received: 14 August 2007 Accepted: 27 February 2008 This article is available from: http://www.hqlo.com/content/6/1/18 © 2008 Grandy and Fox; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. Hindawi Publishing Corporation EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Pr ocessing Volume 2011, Article ID 283020, 5 pages doi:10.1155/2011/283020 Research Ar ticle Improvement on EVESPA for Beamforming and Direction of Arrival Estimation Emmanuel Racine and Dominic Grenier Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Laval University 1065, Avenue de la M´edecine, Qu´ebec (QC), Canada G1V 0A6 Correspondence should be addressed to Emmanuel Racine, emmanuel.racine.2@ulaval.ca Received 9 September 2010; Revised 18 January 2011; Accepted 22 February 2011 Academic Editor: Laurence Mailaender Copyright © 2011 E. Racine and D. Grenier. This is an open a ccess article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper presents an alternative estimation procedure of the generalized steering matrix of the sources in EVESPA, suitable for both beamforming and direction of arrival estimation. It is shown how the estimation of such a matrix can be restricted to that of its corresponding coefficient matrix in the signal subspace, providing both performance enhancement and computational complexity reduction. Performance comparison through numerical s imulations is presented to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed procedure. 1. Introduction The EVESPA algorithm was introduced by G ¨ onen et al. in [1] as an adapted version of VESPA to handle the case of coherent signals. Using fourth-order cumulants, this algorithm properly generates an unbiased estimation of the generalized steering matrix (GSM) B of the sources from which an analysis of the signal parameters can be performed for each coherent group in an independent fashion. The same estimation procedure is also undertaken in [2]asa means of computing the weights of an optimal beamformer capable of maximizing the signal-to-interference plus noise ratio (SINR) in a coherent environment. EVESPA has also been considered in [3] under a slight variation for t he problem of direction of arrival (D OA) estimation in mobile communications, and in [4] where it was adapted for a two- dimensional scenario. Steps 1 to 7 in [2]describetheEVESPA algorithm where the M × G matrix B is considered in its whole.However,sincethelatterliesinthesignalsubspace, only the search of its corresponding G × G coefficient matrix proves sufficient. In this paper, we present a new estimation procedure of B based on this principle which is shown to bring significant performance enhancement both in terms of computational complexity and quality estimation. Throughout the paper, “ ∗ and “† are, respectively, used as the conjugate and Hermitian transpose operators, and nonscalar quantities such as vectors and matrices are labeled in bold. 2. Background Theory In this section we recall the main guidelines of the EVESPA algorithm [1, 2], as it will be assumed that the reader has a sufficient knowledge on the matter. The signal model used in this paper is the same as that used by the original authors, namely, x k = Bu k + n k , (1) where x k , B, u k ,andn k are, respectively, the M × 1vectorof the received signals, the M × G generalized steering matrix of the sources, the G × 1 elementar y sources vector, and the M × 1 additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) vector, which is assumed symmetric. Elements u g (t k ), g ∈{1, 2, , G}, of u k are modeled as uncorrelated zero-mean THE GOVERNMENT SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence - Freedom – Happiness - No.: 04/2017/ND-CP Hanoi, January 16, 2017 DECREE PROVISION AND MANAGEMENT OF GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE Pursuant to the Law on organization of the Government dated June 19, 2015; Pursuant to the Law on state budget dated December 16, 2002; Pursuant to the Law on investment dated November 26, 2014; Pursuant to the Law on public investment dated June 18, 2014; Pursuant to the Law on credit institutions dated June 16, 2010; Pursuant to the Law on management of public debts dated June 17, 2009; At the request of Minister of Finance, the Government promulgates a Decree on provision and management of government guarantee Chapter I GENERAL PROVISIONS Article Scope of regulation This Decree deals with regulations on appraisal, approval and provision of government guarantee; the management of government guarantee; responsibilities and obligations of agencies, organizations and individuals regarding the provision and management of government guarantee for domestic and foreign loans, domestic and international bond issues The provision and management of government guarantee for domestic bond issues by the bank for social policies shall comply with the competent agency’s annual plan elaborated in a separate document Article Regulated entities This Decree shall apply to: The obligor The guarantor The obligee Agencies, organizations and individuals involved in course of provision and management of government guarantee Article Interpretation of terms In this document, these terms, in addition to terms interpreted in the Law on management of public debts, shall be construed as below: Government's dedicated credit programs refer to loan programs provided by credit institutions to national important projects upon the approval given by competent agencies Recipient of procedural dossiers refers to an overseas Vietnamese representative mission or an institution authorized to receive and certify the receipt of procedural dossiers related to government guarantee and forward all those dossiers to the Ministry of Finance The government guarantee limit includes guarantee limits for domestic and foreign loans or bonds issued The government guarantee limit of a year is the ceiling of estimated net borrowing of loans or bond issues guaranteed by the Government in that year (the difference between the amount of loans to be granted in year and the amount of principals repaid in that year) approved by the Prime Minister Syndicated loan refers to a loan offered by two or more financial or credits institutions A syndicated loan offered by a syndicate of domestic and foreign financial or credit institutions shall be considered as a foreign loan if the total amount of money lent by foreign institutions is accounted for 51% of that loan or more In this case, regulations on provision and management of government guarantee for government-guaranteed foreign loans shall be applied Serving Bank refers to the bank where the obligor opens a Project Account and performs obligations related to the withdrawal of funds, repayment and collateral of the project with using THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE - SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness - No 271/2016/TT-BTC Hanoi, November 14, 2016 CIRCULAR ON AMOUNTS, COLLECTION AND PAYMENT OF ASSESSMENT FEES FOR ISSUANCE OF CERTIFICATES OF PRACTICE REGISTRATION, CERTIFICATES OF ELIGIBILITY FOR PROVIDING ACCOUNTING AND AUDITING SERVICES Pursuant to the Law on fees and charges dated November 25, 2015; Pursuant to the Law on State budget dated June 25, 2015; Pursuant to the Law on Independent audit dated March 29, 2011; Pursuant to the Law on accounting dated November 25, 2015; Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No 120/2016/ND-CP dated August 23, 2016 on guidelines for the Law on fees and charges; Pursuant to the Government’s Decree No 17/2012/ND-CP dated March 13, 2012 on guidelines for the Law on Independent audit; Pursuant to the Government's Decree No 215/2013/ND-CP dated December 23, 2013 defining the functions, tasks, entitlements and organizational structure of the Ministry of Finance; At the request of the Director of the Tax Policy Department, The Minister of Finance promulgates a Circular on amounts, collection and payment of assessment fees for issuance of certificates of registration for accounting and auditing practice, certificates of eligibility for providing accounting and auditing services Article Scope and regulated entities This Circular deals with amounts, collection and payment of assessment fees for issuance of certificates of practice registration, certificates of eligibility for providing accounting and auditing services This Circular applies to: payers, collecting authorities and other entities in connection with collection and payment of fees Article Collecting authorities and payers Any organization that applies for assessment of issuance of a certificate of eligibility for providing accounting and auditing services or any person that applies for assessment of issuance of a certificate of registration for accounting and auditing practice must pay a given amount of assessment fee as prescribed in this Circular 2 The Ministry of Finance shall collect and pay assessment fees as prescribed in this Circular Article Amount Assessment for issuance of certificate of eligibility for providing accounting and auditing services: VND 4,000,000 per assessment for initial issuance; VND 2,000,000 per assessment for amendments or reissuance Assessment of issuance of certificate of registration for accounting and auditing practice: VND 1,200,000 per assessment for initial issuance; VND 800.000 per assessment for amendments or reissuance Any torn, damaged, or lost certificate being reissued shall be exempt from fees Article Statement and payment The collecting authority shall make monthly and annual statements and pay fees as prescribed in Clause Article 19 ... subsidies on tuition fees for public educational institutions and subsidies on tuition fees incurred by entities eligible for tuition fee exemption in the non-public educational institutions because of. .. reduction, financial support and mechanism for collection and use of tuition fees applicable to educational institutions in the national education system from 2010 – 2011 to 2014 – 2015 and Decree. .. 13 Collection of tuition fees Tuition fees are collected monthly; on term or annually with the consent of the learners With respect to preschool education institutions, continuing education institutions