benchmarking in the urban wastewater management sector

... other, while maintaining the integrity of the food canal The maxillae also contain the salivary canal On either side of the maxillae are the mandibular stylets These are the principal piercing ... and inserted into the scape, and by flexor and extensor muscles arising in the scape and inserted into the pedicel (Fig 1.8a) There are no muscles in the flagellum, and the nerve which traverses the ... styliform in species that suck the blood of vertebrates, but are generally lacking in other species, including the bloodsucking Cyclorrhapha Where they are present, they are the piercing organs; in...

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... result In France the industry acted through the destruction of hatching eggs, the lengthening of the empty period in the broiler sector, reductions in stocking density in the turkey sector and the ... decreases in consumption Our interviews with the poultry sector confirmed that the reporting of Avian Influenza in the mass media, and specifically linking the disease to human health, was the main ... stabilising the market during the crisis; as it was, they were effective in ensuring the stability of markets during the recovery phase The measures were also relevant to the TFEU objective of maintaining...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... possible, the information in the statement of the nonrecommendation can be added in the supporting text This way, the information is retained but not listed as a recommendation Furthermore, conditions ... collected the individual scores of the participants and determined the discrepancies in scoring We sent every appraiser an overview of his or her answers and the frequencies in the other participants’ ... (AGREE) instrument [29,30] The methodological quality of most of these clinical ESHRE guidelines was poor, while the quality of five of the guidelines was better The ESHRE guideline for the diagnosis...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... fashion, these systems maintain indexing information much like the Sprite LFS inode map and inodes for quickly locating and reading files They differ from Sprite LFS in that the write-once nature of the ... the disk during the simulation The distribution is computed by measuring the utilizations of all segments on the disk at the points during the simulation when segment cleaning was initiated The ... maintain the current location of each inode Given the identifying number for a file, the inode map must be indexed to determine the disk address of the inode The inode map is divided into blocks...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05

... transferring their customer's information, while they must pay to establish and maintain the channel The financial bottom line is simple: the more information they can pass through a single channel, the ... involves recording individual instruments and singers separately This is done to give the sound engineer greater flexibility in creating the final product The complex process of combining the individual ... received The operating range of a radar system is determined by two parameters: how much energy is in the initial pulse, and the noise level of the radio receiver Unfortunately, increasing the energy...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2012, 09:49

... Implementation 282 Chapter 16 Windowed-Sinc Filters 285 Strategy of the Windowed-Sinc 285 Designing the Filter 288 Examples of Windowed-Sinc Filters 292 Pushing it to the Limit 293 viii ... Extensive and detailed testing is essential where incorrect functioning could result in personal injury or damage to property The material in this book is intended solely as a teaching aid, and is not ... one-thousand in the next 15 years This tremendous power has changed the way science and engineering is done, and there is no better example of this than Digital Signal Processing In the early 1980s,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2012, 10:21

... about losing and winning À thereby stoking the resentment of other competitors À they find it safer keeping out of the running Performing symbolic rituals (e.g leading a prayer, toasting the bride ... development In summary, the differences in the potential endowment as well as life histories (the process of molding the individual propensity including learning as well as unlearning) translate into individual ... meaningful, intelligible way The organization of the bits (of information) in different patterns while articulating the logic inherent in them and considering them critically is a task separate from the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... for instance, the last theorem implies the falsity of the following statement: the greatest segment of the sphere is obtained with the plane orthogonal to the diameter passing at the point at the ... equal to the line drawn from the vertex of the segment to the circumference of the circle which is the base of the segment.5 Next to these, that, in every sphere, the cylinder having a The later ... curved lines, which are either wholly on the same side as the straight 12 joining their limits or have nothing on the other side.13 /2/ So14 I call “concave in the same direction” such a line,...

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Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:02

... process involved examining themes for commonality, classifying them for uniformity, and then reaching agreement on the final list of six key themes Once the themes were set and subordinate concepts ... addressed within the time allotted for the focus group meeting, the facilitator's role during the focus groups session was intentionally minimalized in order to enhance the authenticity of the observations ... offering a training program coordinated by a medical physician However, this is in its infancy and much needs to be worked out This does indicate a growing level of interest in this kind of training,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... allowing excellent results to be obtained painlessly, in a short time and without requiring the patients to suspend their routines activities For the operators, the main barriers to acquiring these ... lentigo) [Fig.1a] varying in size from 2x2mm to 10xl5mm The area comprising the lesion was cooled by applying ice for minutes immediately before and after the laser session The procedure was performed ... haemorrhage was observed either during treatment or during the healing period All the patients were followed up at 1, 4, and weeks from the procedure RESULTS At the 4-week follow-up the cases of keratosis,...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... benefit of prolonged peginterferon therapy in mitigating the progression of fibrotic liver disease [8] In this study, 391 of the 1045 patients enrolled into the initial “lead -in phase had biopsy ... temporary dose discontinuation in 3/20 (15%) Forns and colleagues used relatively high-dose interferon/ribavirin therapy in their cohort of 30 patients awaiting transplantation in Spain in an effort to ... erythropoietin, has allowed more aggressive dosing of interferon and ribavirin [13, 14] Finally, growing experience with antiviral therapy in this high-risk group has led to novel approaches and increasing...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 17:11

... is therefore possible that CKBM could induce cytokine release including TNF-α in these animals and inhibit tumor growth However, further study is needed to determine how they are induced and the ... compounds including lunasin and lectins that were shown to induce apoptosis in malignant cells [13] As CKBM contains these compounds, this would partially explain why it inhibits tumor growth in the ... through the induction of apoptosis and inhibition of proliferation of gastric cancer cells However, further clinical trials in humans are needed to examine the pharmacokinetics and the therapeutic...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:54

... Int J Med Sci 2009, 119 this case the patient had a panuveitis, which recovered only after a combination of medical treatment and surgery, with a final visual acuity of 40% in the affected ... affected eye [1] The only case of Lyme disease affected a 31 year-old farmer and his ocular manifestations are described in the specific section Figure 1: Geographical location of the province of Parma ... Mora P, Vecchi M, Barbera L, Toscani M, Orsoni JG Use of systemic cyclosporin A in a case of severe Toxocara uveitis J Infect 2006; 52:159-161 http://www.medsci.org ...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:11

... God! Why, I saw it in the paper this morning They were talking of it in the Courts! [He snatches the evening paper from his armchair, and runs it over anal reads] Here it is again "Body of a man ... skirting along the wall, as if craving its support, outside the radius of the light.] [Staring] Are you ill? [LARRY stands still again and heaves a deep sigh.] KEITH [Rising, with his back to the ... curtained door away out in the dim part of the room behind him is opened so softly that he does not wake LARRY DARRANT enters and stands half lost in the curtain over the door A thin figure, with a...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 14:13

... exception In too many instances, the analogy is an insult even to the four-legged creature Many people underestimate the intelligence of animals, whether those in the forest, in any body of water or in ... or in the air Perhaps they give their pets the credit they deserve in this regard, but they still may look down on them This has more to with the fact that Barney and Oscar are so close to the ... be in the sequel Of course, those slighted could go to the library and ask the librarian for a book about their species If you liked the book, tell others Don’t stop iii          there Become involved...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 09:10

... Terrorist-Threat Scenarios The number of international terrorist incidents has declined in the 1990s, but the potential threat posed by terrorists has increased The increased threat level, in the form of terrorist ... new Beginning in 48 A.D., a Jewish sect called the Zealots carried out terrorist campaigns to force insurrection against the Romans in Judea These campaigns included the use of assassins (sicarii, ... scale The Zealots’ justification for their killing of other Jews was that these killings demonstrated the consequences of the immorality of collaborating with the Roman invaders, and that the Romans...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:21

... setting Technique has to with the structuring of the story into the plot so that the writer can convey the theme and the manipulating of the language in order to express the ideas of the writer in ... from the beginning of the story in her decision where to go, in her introduction of the scenery along the journey While the father, the mother and the children enjoyed going to Florida, The grandmother ... was an obsession in the father whenever he heard the sound “oink, oink”, which reminded him of the “cops”, the police, their “demonstrations” in their training sessions for the coming war Additionally,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:01

... tests Chapter 3- The study is the main part of the thesis showing the context of the study and the detailed results obtained from collected tests and findings in response to the research questions ... responses in the low group) The range of discriminability is from to The greater the D index is, the better the discriminability is The item properties of a test can be shown visually in a table ... typical among other extreme ones in Test The explanations are based on the revision of the course book and the informal opinion exchanges with the teachers in the English section After initial analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:05