development of watershed based assessment tools using monitoring data

... wavelengths of the visible spectrum [40] Figure 2.6: The wavelengths of the vision spectrum Human perception of color is a function of the response of three types of cones [34] Because of that, ... fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy December 2013 Approved by Jong-Jae Lee Major Advisor TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS i LIST OF TABLES ... CHAPTER AN EFFICIENT VISION -BASED 3-D MOTION MONITORING SYSTEM FOR CIVIL STRUCTURES 97 4.1 Introduction 97 4.2 Development of 3-D vision -based motion monitoring system ...

Ngày tải lên: 13/05/2016, 09:47

... Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology in Korea Science We thank the government for financial support References [1] B Mahar, C Laslau, R Yip, Y Sun, Development of carbon nanotube -based ... the same concentration of ozone and the same period of gas injection and degassing, the change of the sensor response was 11% This change was a little bit more than that of the first cycle At Y ... exposed to O3 because of the electron-withdrawing power of the O3 molecules The O3 adsorption depletes electrons from the CNTs resulting in an increase of the concentration of conducting holes,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 16:47

... knowledgebased economy in the province of Thua Thien Hue Group of solutions to development of human resources for industrialization and modernization associated with development of knowledge -based ... the development of the knowledge -based economy in view of scientific political economy, which mainly studies the state of development and the movement of human force structure in the Province of ... associated with the development of Knowledge -based economy in our country is the development of traditional industries as well as development of key industries in the way of shortcut towards...

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... one of the metrics has to be reverse-coded Step four: missing data Treatment of missing data may influence hospital performance assessment The selected approach to assigning values to missing data ... consider the use of noncompensatory aggregation methods, so that quality of care in one aspect cannot be traded off another, since negative consequences of poor quality of care in any area of healthcare ... Cite this article as: Profit et al.: Improving benchmarking by using an explicit framework for the development of composite indicators: an example using pediatric quality of care Implementation...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... infant feeding choices [18] This article describes the development of an integrated set of counselling tools, referred to as 'job aids', based on the updated international guidelines and related ... references for the development of high quality, colourful illustrations using a state of the art computer graphics technique This process allowed images to be easily altered based on feedback ... of status is a major challenge, the participation of partners and other relatives in counselling, although ideal, is seldom realized In the context of HIV, stigma and the fear of disclosure of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... one of the metrics has to be reverse-coded Step four: missing data Treatment of missing data may influence hospital performance assessment The selected approach to assigning values to missing data ... consider the use of noncompensatory aggregation methods, so that quality of care in one aspect cannot be traded off another, since negative consequences of poor quality of care in any area of healthcare ... Cite this article as: Profit et al.: Improving benchmarking by using an explicit framework for the development of composite indicators: an example using pediatric quality of care Implementation...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... validity of CPGs and which includes several criteria addressing the rigour of development of the CPG [14] However, in spite of the massive increase of interest in CPGs, and the availability of CPG development ... an evidence -based CPG development process All six of the handbooks require establishment of a multidisciplinary guideline development group, involvement of consumers, identification of clinical ... http://www.g-in.net, websites of known CPG development bodies, and the internet using Google We also asked members of the evidence -based health care email list "evidence-basedhealth@jiscmail.ac.uk"...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... Summary of ZnO nanoparticle properties Table 5-2 Characteristics of synthetic freshwater samples Table 5-3 Summary of one-way ANOVA of influence of water temperature on the behavior and fate of ZnO ... step of optimization Figure 3-3 Effects of variations of influential factors on extraction efficiency of Ag NPs (A) Effects of sample pH on zeta potential and extraction efficiency (B) Effect of ... DEVELOPMENT OF MICROEXTRACTION -BASED TECHNIQUES FOR QUANTIFICATION AND BEHAVIOR CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOPARTICLES IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS SEYED MOHAMMAD MAJEDI (M.Sc., AMIRKABIR UNIVERSITY OF...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:18

... most required VI TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Declaration Ⅲ Acknowledgement Ⅴ Table of contents Ⅶ Summary ⅩIII List of tables XV List of figures ⅩVII ⅩⅩVII List of schemes List of journal publications ... Bi2O3 are marked with * and those of BiOCl with  84 Figure 3.7 Change of weight percentage of BiOCl with the ratio of HCl: Bi2O3 84 XVIII Figure 3.8 SEM images of (a) BiOCl, (b) 76 % Bi2O3/BiOCl, ... of BiOI pH 350-3 209 Figure 6.16 UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectra of bismuth oxyiodides 211 Figure 6.17 Total and partical density of state of BiOI 211 Figure 6.18 Photocatalytic activity of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:16

... conditions of electroless plating bath of Pd x List of Figures LIST OF FIGURES CHAPTER LITERATURE REVIEW Figure 2.1 The equilibrium thermodynamic of high temperature WGS reaction of various steam ... holiday, they are still offering their vital support for me Millions of thanks, I express would only be a token of appreciation for them Thank you all i Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements ... production for CMR-WGS of core-shell catalyst xiv Nomenclature NOMENCLATURE °C Centigrade degree ∆Hi Heat of adsorption of reaction i (kJ/mol) ∆Si Entropy of adsorption of reaction i (kJ/mol.K)...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:22

... electrophoretic mobility of gold nanoparticles with different sizes [16] transport of proteins and selective separation of proteins of different charges [15] In this work, the mobilities of charged species ... subsequent sweep of ring potentials, the disk potential is held at other constant potentials such that the flux of O to the ring will be reduced (iR) The amount of shielding of the ring current ... concentrations of ferrocenes (Fig 2.3B), as expected for mass transfer limited behaviours The slope of the linear curve presents diffusion coefficient of the ferrocene Diffusion coefficients of FcMeOH...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:56

... platinum-coated layers of a micrometer-thick membrane This has the advantage of achieving high field strengths of about 30 kV m−1 suitable for electrokinetic transport of proteins using very small ... Journal of Physical Chemistry, 1992 96(5): p 2355-2359 29 Winkler, B.H and R.E Baltus, Journal of Membrane Science, 2003 226(1-2): p 75-84 30 Cheow, P.S., Development of nanoporous alumina -based ... positively charged since its isoelectric point of Lys was 11.0, which was higher than the solution pH of 5.5 At 76 -1.5 V, the receiver side of membrane was of opposite charge to the Lys protein, thus...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:56

... because of high pore density which offers high current flux, tunable pore sizes, rigid support structure, chemical and thermal stability, and ease of preparation using electrochemical anodization of ... membrane -based biosensor that 101 can be used to detect extremely low concentration of a virus protein and particle using a rapid sensing time of 30 The nanobiosensor response is first optimized using ... from Prof Ng in collaboration 4.2.2 Inactivation of virus Inactivation of virus was performed by the addition of binary ethyleneimine to the virus suspension to give a final concentration of 0.1...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:56

... base of ca 25 nm ring thickness is available for the electrodeposition of PB nanotubes Cross-section profile of the membrane electrode after 15 electrodeposition potential cycles reveals growth of ... SEM/EDX spectrum of PB in the nanochannels showing the presence of Fe and K; (E) surface view of PB nanotubes after dissolution of alumina template 149 5.4.2 Cyclic voltammetry of PB nanotubes ... hexacyanoferrous complex (Fe3++[FeII(CN)6]4-) or ferrous salt with hexacyanoferric complex (Fe2+ + [FeIII(CN)6]3-); while the nano structure PB was developed layer-by-layer using the diffusion-based...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:57

... range of applications, there are still a number of technicalities that have had prevented the wide-scale usage of CNTs One such problem is the challenge of 14 separation of CNTs While methods of ... construction of a {4,1} chiral CNTs Figure 2.1 Schematic of PECVD system used for synthesis of aligned multi-walled CNTs Figure 2.2 Photograph of the PECVD system Figure 2.3 Cross sectional SEM image of ... conditions Figure 3.7 Comparison of morphology of as-grown and post-LII CNTs Figure 3.8 SEM images of post-LII CNTs Figure 3.9 Optical image of LII and corresponding SEM image of post-LII crater formed...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:05

... Figure 5.12 Release profiles of BSA from SBA-15 having different amount of amine groups in PBS with an ionic strength of 0.25 M at pH 7.4 107 Figure 5.13 Release profiles of BSA from SBA-15 with ... application of SBA-15 in the delivery of the small molecule model drug of ibuprofen (IBU), with emphasis on the influence of the different functional methods on the adsorption and release of IBU Chapter ... intensified by development of solid-phase peptide synthesis and emergence of gene therapy The revival of established drugs and clinical success of innovative drugs may be dependent on the design of controlled...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2015, 19:46

... history of the development of membrane technology can be listed as in Table 2.2 In terms of the components of feed to be separated, the uses of membranes are classified as the separation of a mixture ... powder consisting of particles of a given size and sintering at 15 elevated temperatures This method allows microfiltration membranes with pore size of 0.1-10μm but porosity of only 10-20% to ... types of techniques are developed to reach DIPS: coagulation by absorption of nonsolvent from a vapor phase, evaporation of solvent, and immersion into a nonsolvent bath Often, a combination of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 11:42

... DEVELOPMENT OF CHITIN BASED MATERIALS FOR TISSUE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS CHOW KOK SUM (B.Sc Hons, NUS) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY ... cytotoxic assessment of deoxy-fluorinated chitin Among the conducting polymers, polypyrrole has been one of the most widely studied because of its good chemical and thermal stability, ease of preparation ... Page 39 CHAPTER TWO: FABRICATION OF CHITIN MATRIXES = density of initial material = density of swelled material Estimation of Gel Densities After the removal of solvent, the chitin gels were...

Ngày tải lên: 17/09/2015, 17:20

... respect to frame of bicycle 42 Figure 4.11: Effect of angle α on angle δ 43 Figure 4.12: Correlation of angle α to angle δ .43 Figure 4.13: Implementation of offset to correct ... polar moment of inertia around c.g and 𝐼𝑟 is the flywheel radial moment of inertia around c.g., 𝑚𝑏 is the mass of the bicycle, and 𝑚𝑓 is the mass of the flywheel 𝐼𝑏 is the bicycle moment of inertia ... Figure 2.8 : Bode Plot of the compensated-for system The effects of increasing the P-Gain was explored using CDA and Figure 2.9 shows the effect of increasing P-Gain from a value of 15 to 35 while...

Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2015, 17:14

... provides the business processes logic and data access ♦ In the data tier, the data server provides storage and management of business data The advantages of using multi-tier architecture are described ... Remoting is a combination of technologies enabling the intercommunication of computers of all platforms and languages and software applications of all languages One major advantage of NET Remoting framework ... Internet -based remote maintenance system y Build a prototype system to demonstrate the proof -of- concept and apply the generic system to the remote maintenance of a spindle motor tester used in data...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 15:53