... eradication in India because they touch the lives of so many people In 1947, 80% of 300 million people in India were in farming; today, 70% of India’s population of billion still remain in farming In other ... wheat and rice in India Wheat production in India now occupies the second position inthe world (shown in experimental plots in Figure 1.3) However, the demand for wheat in India will increase by ... in India has increased steadily since the 1960s and achieved the level of 232 Kg/person/yr in 2000 Using 1980 as a baseline (1980 = 100 index), the relative index of agricultural production in...
... the year of 2030 In 1991, the first industrial zone was appeared in Vietnam, and industrial zones continue developing, became 65 industrial zones in 2000 and 223 industrial zones in 2009 Moreover, ... from urban and industrial areas is being estimated to be 2,556,000 m3 in 2020 - Urban inundation in rainy season In Vietnam, urban inundation is seriously in rain season, represent in Ha Noi City ... population in 1990 was only 19% of the total population, while the ratio has increased up to 29.6% in 2009, and, is being estimated to be 45% inthe year of 2020 Socio-economic development, intensive industrialization...
... understand the language being used In this approach, engineers of the domain (the authors in this case) who have mastery of expert systems technology were to become the knowledge engineers, have the ... base using new findings as reported in literature or new experience from domain expertise; Adding further functional capabilities; and Adding photographs as bitmap images showing the preliminary ... where vi is the value (or utility) of the i alternative relative to the other alternatives, Sij is the standardized value of xij (the performance measure for the ith alternative againstthe jth criterion),...
... tested form [10, 11] The basic input information for setting up the basin model in HECHMS is the digital terrain model (DTM) of the area of study Inthe course of the study two main sources of data ... lines in 10 m intervals Inthe areas of the catchment were laser scan data was missing or the data was inconsistent the contour lines of the topographic maps were digitized 2.4 Basin model The ... basin model is the processing the terrain data The resulting data sets are used as spatial database for the study The basin delineation was further processed and refined by determination of watershed...
... Consequently, the provisions in Article of the Protocol furnish significant contributions for broadening and strengthening the international law of marine pollution, as applied inthe Southern Ocean Pollution ... respect to international agreements, in addition to the LOS Convention, the principal conventions forming the foundation for marine pollution law inthe Antarctic ocean are the 1973 International ... law-making processes as international law generally Thus, the legal framework governing marine pollutioninthe Southern Ocean is undergirded by the sources of international law, including primarily...
... Protection in Areas of the Far North and Marine Areas Adjacent to the Northern Coast of the USSR22 (Environmental Edict) in its Article specified: Inthe marine areas adjacent to the northern coast of the ... within the inland waters, territorial sea or EEZ adjoining the USSR northern coast and that it includes seaways suitable for guiding vessels in ice Due to the vagueness concerning leading in Article ... and pollutioninthe Northern Sea Route 231 For Russia, ships must satisfy special crewing and training requirements for navigating in ice.56 For the USA, requirements as to manning, training,...
... are inundated, mainly the Northern parts of the MD known as the Long Xuyen Quadrangle and the Plain of Reeds Along the 600 kmcoast, the sea tide strongly influences the water quality due to the ... salinity during the dry season from December to May Saline intrusion is one of the principal limiting factors in crop production, especially for rice, as crops are intolerant of salinity inthe ... annual rainfall inthe MD varies from 1,400 - 2,200 mm About 90% of total rain water falls from May to October At the end of the rainy season, due to the combination of floodwater draining from the...
... being polluted by people who live in rural areas who use it for washing and other daily activities That’s why a lot of diseases concerning the intestine, skin and other cancers keep occurring The ... issue including basic survey of arsenic contamination in underground water in some regions, studies on arsenic removal technology A broad survey of arsenic pollutioninthe 12 provinces of the ... treatment of their wastewater In accordance with industrial parks (IPs) and export processing zones (EPZs) inthe Southern Key Economic Zone (SKEZ) discharge over 137,000 m³ of wastewater containing nearly...
... problems inthe Northern and Central China than inthe South This is also the case for pollutants in rural drinking water, except for bacterial contamination The main reason for the heavier pollution ... fallen more in recent years.12 Using provincial data for the period 1993-2002, Shen (2006) finds that the factors determining SO2 emissions include the share of manufacturing industry inthe economy, ... identify the main options for addressing the country’s environmental problems We find that there has been uneven progress in solving China’s environmental problems This may be due in part to the different...
... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine ... to bring their expertise to the table In this workshop, the Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine discussed the role of industry inenvironmental ... impact on the economic bottom line and theenvironmental bottom line for the industry, said Cue The pharmaceutical industry is exploring the possibilities to make existing commercial manufacturing...
... T i t l e of Thesis r A Investigation i n t o Attitudes n Towards Water Pollution i n the Shuswap Lake Area of B r i t i s h Columbia Examining C omrnittee : Chairman: E J Hickin T d ' ~ i ... 71 residents 29.0pinions concerning t h e s e r i o u s n e s s of water p o l l u ti0ninB.C 73 30.0pinion concerning Shuswap Lake water q u a l i t y 73 31.0pinion concerning f u t u r e Shuswap ... o determine how much t h e l o c a l decision-makers knew concerning t h e awareness l e v e l s o f t h e v o t i n g p u b l i c regarding water pollutionThe f o l l o w i n g hypotheses were...
... the relative risk) • the frequency of the health outcome (i.e the incidence or prevalence) • the level of exposure The relative risk refers to the increase in risk for a specified change inthe ... a change in life expectancy, i.e a gain or loss in life years The QALY approach allows information relating to the health state of the individual at risk to be included by weighting the life ... distribution with a peak inthe range 0.1–2.5 µm and a second peak inthe range 2.5– 50 µm Health Costs of Air Pollutioninthe Greater Sydney Metropolitan Region In discussing general findings of epidemiological...
... distributed inthe posterior hindbrain and anterior spinal cord in which the signal was restricted to the dorsal spinal cord and gradually diminished along the length of the spinal cord (Fig 5B,F) The ... of the amino acid sequence of the zebrafish CRABPIa with its mammalian and pufferfish orthologs showed that there is a proline insertion inthe amino acid sequence immediately following the initiator ... 6A) The crabp1a-specific primers generated RTPCR products of the expected size only from RNA of the brain, but not from any other tissues examined including the liver, ovary, skin, intestine,...
... the UK in 2010 DM Parkin S19 12 Cancers in 2010 attributable to ionising radiation exposure inthe UK DM Parkin and SC Darby Tobacco-attributable cancer burden inthe UK in 2010 DM Parkin S14 ... attributable to infection inthe UK in 2010 DM Parkin S77 S6 10 Cancers attributable to exposure to hormones inthe UK in 2010 DM Parkin S73 The fraction of cancer attributable to lifestyle and environmental ... environmental factors inthe UK in 2010: Introduction DM Parkin S42 S70 S2 Cancers attributable to inadequate physical exercise inthe UK in 2010 DM Parkin S66 Foreword: The fraction of cancer...
... in excess of 40 ppbv inthe period January to December 2006 The arrows indicate the mean surface winds thermally so that in summer its lifetime is short On the other hand, PAN builds up in winter, ... violated The mean wind vectors near the surface indicate that the Gulf is downwind of air pollution sources inthe Mediterranean region and the Middle East Figure 6b presents the regional mixing ratios ... Usually in summer thein uence of STE becomes negligible (Fig 11) However, this is not the case inthe Gulf region Surprisingly, during summer the daily mean ozone mixing ratios in Bahrain are...
... by inaccurate positioning of the interacting groups The contact area of the distamycin amidinium end was investigated by evaluating the hydrogen positions and interaction energy terms for the interactions ... binding on the DNA conformation is the widening of the minor groove as illustrated in Fig The width of the groove is measured by taking the shortest H5¢–H4¢ distances between the two DNA chains ... propeller twisting of the GC base pair, the cytosine base (its O2 atom) not involved inthe calculation helps to lead the guanine amino-group hydrogen atoms away from the drug A search inthe Cambridge...
... during the past years is summarized in Table A.Yuwono and P Schulze Lammers “Odor Pollutioninthe Environment and the Detection Instrumentation” Agricultural Engineering International: the ... or odor mixtures in water must also be taken into account, since the sampling technique inthe field involves a cooling step where a part of odor compounds will be dissolved inthe condensate water ... contaminant as a substance that • Waste Management act in British Columbia Province “interferes or is capable of interfering with the normal conduct of business” Includes odor in its definition...
... Regulating Industrial Water Pollutioninthe United States Winston Harrington∗ The Clean Water Act The principal instrument governing efforts to improve and maintain water quality inthe nation’s ... Regulating Industrial Water Pollutioninthe United States Winston Harrington Abstract The performance of the industrial point-source water pollution abatement program inthe U.S Clean ... POTW The industrial standards are the focus of this investigation, and we describe them in more detail inthe next section The Clean Water Act was amended in 1977 and again in 1987 to extend the...
... of China, 1990A; EPA of China, 1990B), the concentration and distribution area of the Cu, Zn, As and Pb inthe waters along the bay have remained roughly the same, indicating that the water pollution ... river mouth pollution to the eutrophication of Bohai Bay Of the four sea areas in China, the Bohai Sea, the South China Sea, the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, the Bohai Sea has the smallest ... flowing into the bay is one of the main sources for the increasing eutrophication and the increasing occurrence of red tide events inthe bay (4) A similar distribution concentration for most of the...