information systems for proactive environmental management

... Legislative and Regulatory Issues Toni K Ristau Information Systems for Proactive Environmental Management Steven P Frysinger European Policies for Waste Management Ingo F W Romey and Marc Obladen ... and production Energy efficiency Environmental assessment Environmental Decision Support System(s) Environmental Management Information System(s) Environmental Management System(s) Emergency Planning ... Drilling Contractors IEIS Integrated Environmental Information System(s) ISO 14001 International Standards Organization’s standard for environmental management systems Lb/mm BTU Pound per million...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 11:46

... field, environmental information systems can be described generally as either environmental management information systems (EMIS) or environmental decision support systems (EDSS) The former will ... Information Resources,” at http://esf.uvm.edu/labxl/Background%2 0Information/ campusp2links.html Copyright 2002 by Marcel Dekker, Inc All Rights Reserved 5 Information Systems for Proactive Environmental ... Guidelines for Environmental Auditing: Audit Procedures for Auditing Environmental Management Systems ISO 14012, Guidelines for Environmental Auditing: Qualification Criteria for Environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... supporting systems to anticipate the results of the integration effort 2.9 EMIS Summary This approach to integrating environmental management information systems into an integrated environmental information ... prediction 4.2 Information Systems Engineering Information systems engineering (meant here to include computer science and its kin) is also a multidisciplinary field Not surprisingly, information systems ... context Geographic information systems (GIS) are computer software systems which directly target the management, analysis, and display of spatial information, and which are therefore crucial in...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... Criteria for a minimum content of recycled material in packaging for appropriate types of packaging Criteria for recycling methods Criteria for composting methods compost produced Criteria for the ... databases shall provide in particular information on the magnitude, characteristics, and evolution of the packaging and packaging waste flows (including information on the toxicity or danger of ... Regarding an information system for users of packaging, Member States shall take measures to ensure that users of packaging, including in particular consumers, obtain the necessary information about:...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... The procedure for calculating values of k is especially relevant for the evaluation of this property in mixtures of contaminated media for which no information is normally available For this evaluation ... TABLE Technologies for Increasing a Building’s Energy Efficiency Area for improving energy efficiency Heating Cooling Technology Heat-circulation systems using natural convective forces Heat pumps ... drive without paying for insurance Uninsured motorists would be brought into the system, substantially lowering the cost of driving for insured motorists: in California for example, uninsured...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... applications The information has been grouped in terms of flow conditions and thermophysical properties involved Flow conditions are described through the Reynolds number (Re) for forced convection ... technology for increasing residual heat usage as heat pumps Heat pipes use capillary pressure as the driving force for condensing and evaporating the working fluid, thus eliminating the necessity for ... is the net force (per unit volume) acting on the control volume In most fluid systems, f is the sum of a stress term and a body-force term: f = −∇ ⋅ σ + b (45) The most important body force is...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... average velocity correction factor (2.0 for laminar flow and 1.07 for turbulent flow) ⋅ W = rate of work done by pumps or turbines (positive for pumps, negative for turbines) ⋅ F = frictional loss ... have been used for over 30 years as a secondary or tertiary treatment for municipal wastewater (116) Full-scale effectiveness has also be proven for some recalcitrant organics as well For instance, ... studied for PHA production [170] Since the bacterial source and pathway used for generating the PHA is known, it is easy to identify and employ the enzyme required for degrading the polymer (171) For...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... Biotechnology to Environmental Problems In G S Sayler (ed.), Environmental Biotechnology for Waste Treatment, vol 41, pp 147–157 New York: Plenum Press, 1991 14 F M Naqvi, Biological Techniques in Environmental ... mechanism Initially the microbes capable of immobilization were studied for their ability to transform the compound into a less toxic form (227) The first studies documented the ability of bacteria to ... Sayler (ed.), Environmental Biotechnology for Waste Treatment, vol 41, pp 127– 136, New York: Plenum Press, 1991 D J Hardman, M Huxley, A T Bull, H Slater, and R Bates, Generation of Environmentally...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... responsible for the results observed for the gold-equilibrated absorbents Klein et al (16) have investigated polymeric resins as adsorbents for industrial applications The motivation for investigation ... preconcentration, filtration, extraction) for addressing the needs of complex environmental samples Micromachining technology is being explored for further miniaturization and for facilitating these in-situ ... will form, in many cases, the foundation for all subsequent analysis The waste types must be comprehensive and include all wastes generated from operations The laboratory performs work for government...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... to form a unified environmental management system (EMS)? Figure presents a conceptual model of the environmental framework This framework also demonstrates the evolution of environmental management ... initiatives for minimization or prevention at these points were identified Data were prepared for each of the initiatives to form a foundation for decision making At this point, a number of paths forward ... SAB believes that environmental management efforts to date have typically worked on targeted pollutants from single sources, and resulted in improvements in environmental performance over very...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... cleaning performance To make a sound evaluation, the team should gather information on all the environmental aspects of the product or process being assessed This information would consider the environmental ... screened for feasibility In this environmental evaluation step, pollution prevention options are assessed for their advantages and disadvantages with regard to the environment Often the environmental ... particular pollution prevention effort Production-adjusted measures of pollution prevention account for changes resulting from pollution prevention efforts For production-adjusted pollution prevention...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... and end-of-life management, provides a stronger model for environmental management than does simple pollution prevention The information that an LCA provides allows for better-informed decision ... recognizing environmental costs associated with a product, process, system, or facility is an important goal for making good management decisions Attaining such goals as reducing environmental ... revenues, and improving future environmental performance requires paying attention to current and potential future environmental costs Whether or not a cost is environmental is not critical;...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... toxicological information, and GIS spatial information as depicted in Figure Using ECORSK.5, the risk assessor is able to scale home ranges (HRs) so that a rectangular HR simulates foraging patterns ... Measures of Environmental Performance and Ecosystem Condition Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999 R J Walter, Practical Compliance with the EPA Risk Management Program New York: Center for Chemical ... determined differently for each receptor The different approaches are required because of the different ways that toxicological experiments are performed for these organisms For plants, earthworms...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... criteria as above For the 98 subjects examined by DXA and BIS, there was information on medication use available for 87 subjects 14 (16%) used diuretics Distribution of BMI for both groups is ... skeletal muscle mass in our subjects The overestimations were larger for men than for women for both equations, and particularly for SMMJanssen This could be due to the fact that both muscle mass ... Gender: women ¼ 1, men ¼ For regression model summary and PRESS statistics, see Table Average differences for the equations compared to TBSMMDxA were 0.17 kg/À0.10 kg/0.22 kg for TBSMM50 kHz/BW/noBW...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... Federal Environmental Agency Final Report Berlin, Stuttgart; 2002 54 Schaub M: Future monitoring and research needs for forest ecosystems in a changing environment: an introduction iForest, 2009 ... angelegt und in mehreren Forschungsvorhaben fortgeschrieben wurde [28,29,49-53] In den genannten Forschungsberichten werden Schwierigkeiten beschrieben, die bei der Schröder et al Environmental Sciences ... (Zvonka Jeran, Department of Environmental Sciences, Institut Jozef Stefan; Primož Simonèiè Slovenian Forestry Institute), Finnland (Eero Kubin and Juha Piispanen, Finnish Forest Research Institute,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... study Appropriate weights were calculated for the second stage analyses, reflecting the information available for each sire A discussion of weights for two-stage analysis has been presented by ... different for each of the two traits, persistency and total milk yield The additive (ma) scores for a SNP with alleles A and B are given by -1 for genotype AA, for genotype AB and for genotype ... pedigree information Thus equation (11) was used for the final analysis, but ba was the vector of sizes only for the selected SNP and the matrix Ma contained the additive scores only for the selected...

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Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2012, 14:31

... TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT I NGUỒN GỐC HÌNH THÀNH TQM Quản lý chất lượng phận hệ thống quản lý, công cụ giúp nhà ... nghiệp, quốc gia đòi hỏi từ thực tiễn II.ĐỊNH NGHĨA VÀ MỤC TIÊU ĐỊNH NGHĨA TQM:_Total quality management_ Quản lí chất lượng toàn diện là Phương pháp quản lí của một tổ chức , định...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2012, 00:00

... correlation test for normally distributed variables Linear regression analysis was performed to determine the predictors of arousal index Firstly, linear regression analysis was performed with enter ... to Bilim Drug Company Ltd for the financial support for the LP-PLA2 and total antioxidant capacity assay kits Also, the authors acknowledge to sleep laboratory staff for their contributions to ... respectively Reference intervals suggested by the reagent manufacturer are 120-342 ng/ml for females and 131-376 ng/ml for males The assay is linear up to 500ng/ml without prior dilution Intra-assay and...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00

... independent t test for continuous variables and Chi-square test for categorical variables A binary logistic regression model was used to determine predictors and their odds ratios for hepatic steastosis ... To screen the predictors for both hepatic inflammation and fibrosis stages, multivariate logistic regression models with adjustment for age and gender were employed For all comparisons, two-tailed ... of fibrosis and grade of disease activity were determined according to the Guidelines for the assessment and management of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in the Asia-Pacific region (8) Microvesicular...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:48