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... practised and the notion of hidden, and enervating, geographies of scale The inability of some local activist groups to make headway against city, state, and federal jurisdictions and the dismissal of ... spaces and activities In other words, it is the constitution and transformation of public space – and hence public and private spheres, and planning at both local and regional scales – that is of ... little consideration of the political and cultural implications of how these environments produce space and scale The contrivance of scale and the seemingly natural delineation of regions are particularly...

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... solution of one of the above systems, under some additional conditions, is also a solution of some other systems of quasi-optimization problems, quasi-equilibrium problems, quasivariational problems ... This completes the proof of the corollary Systems of Quasivariational Inclusion Problems 439 To conclude the paper, we give a corollary of Theorem 3.6 on saddle point problems of vector functions ... completes the proof of the corollary Similarly, we can also obtain several results for systems of the other quasiequilibrium and quasi-optimization problems Corollary 3.16 Let D, K, C, S, T and Fi ,...

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... actual 452 27 CONTROL OF THE CHASSIS AND ‘BY WIRE’ SYSTEMS FIGURE 27. 9 Working of an anti-lock system (ABS) (a) Time history of the speed of the vehicle and of the peripheral velocity of the wheel ... approximations (full line) and using the approximation of Eq (27. 2) 442 27 CONTROL OF THE CHASSIS AND ‘BY WIRE’ SYSTEMS FIGURE 27. 4 (a): Root locus of the vehicle-driver system with a delay of 0.3 s (b): ... kNms/rad 474 27 CONTROL OF THE CHASSIS AND ‘BY WIRE’ SYSTEMS FIGURE 27. 16 Time history of the roll angle (a) and of the load shift on both axles (b) for the three cases of a passive vehicle and a vehicle...

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... Treatment Systems Aquatic system utilize lagoons and ponds, and wetlands The lagoons and ponds depend on microbial life, and lower plants and animals, while wetlands support the growth of rooted ... plants Both pond systems and wetlands are discussed below Pond Systems Within the aquatic systems, pond systems are the most widely accepted ones Basically pond systems can be of three types based ... Wetlands can be of two types: natural wetlands and constructed wetlands Both natural and constructed wetlands have been used for wastewater treatment, although the use of natural wetlands is generally...

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... analysis of accumulation of miR172 in wild-type RNA gel blot analysis of accumulation of miR172 in wild-type plants A, Accumulation of miR172 in vegetative tissues 2L-S and 2L-R: shoot and root of ... leaves of wild-type and of accumulation of miR172 RNA gel4blot detection miR172 transgenic plants in mature RNA gel blot detection of accumulation of miR172 in mature leaves of wild-type and miR172 ... Arabidopsis, both loss -of- function ap2 mutants and miR172 over-expression plants have carpels in place of perianth organs (sepals and petals) due to the absence of AP2 and ectopic expression of AGAMOUS (AG),...

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... focuses on the -1- input and output of negotiation, and leaves the negotiation process as a black box There is a lack of understanding of what happens in the negotiation process and how negotiation ... personality), and structural factors of negotiation (e.g., the amount of conflict between the negotiators, the nature of negotiation problems) In this section, the literature of negotiation and NSS ... trade-offs can be recognized (Kelly, 1966; Erickson et al., 1974) B Negative framing of the negotiation Establishment of interaction rules and Evaluation of potential losses instead of use of pre-negotiation...

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... measurement of damage, and thus the risk, requires an understanding of the physical processes of transportation and of the distribution and deposition of pollutants, including their chemical and biological ... environmental mass transfer and energy flow In subsequent chapters, this book summarizes and systematizes current understanding of abiotic and biotic transformations of organic and inorganic pollutants ... Uncertainty and Barriers 6.2 Types of Constructed Wetlands 6.2.1 Horizontal Flow Systems 6.2.2 Vertical Flow Systems 6.3 Microbial and Plant Communities of a Wetland 6.3.1 Bacteria and Fungi 6.3.2...

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... environmental professionals This chapter will discuss the basis and parameters for the development of procedures and determination of partitioning, transport, and fate of various types of contaminants ... simultaneously In most soils, and under most conditions, organic chemicals are sorbed on both organic and inorganic constituents The relative importance of organic vs inorganic constituent depends ... amount, distribution, and properties of those constituents and the properties of the organic chemical As the polarity, number of functional groups, and ionic nature of the organic chemical increases,...

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... Department of Energy (DOE) document) A large body of empirical evidence and scientific and engineering studies in recent years has been developed to support understanding of natural attenuation of these ... NO3 and SO42– ) in addition to the DO in the recharge water and also dissolved organic carbon (electron donor) Infiltration therefore provides fluxes of water, inorganic species, and possibly organic ... calculated for several fuel and chlorinated solventrelated chemicals as a function of the fraction of organic carbon content of the soil The value of R can vary over two orders of magnitude at a site,...

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... application of ERD should be exible enough to allow for modication of both frequency of delivery and mass of organic carbon delivered to prevent the build-up of organic carbon and creation of conditions ... and destroy a variety of chlorinated compounds; at some sites, the persistence of these compounds, is not a consequence of the absence of organisms but rather of the absence of the full set of ... survival or enhance the activity of the added organism Thus, the goal of this approach is to achieve prolonged survival and growth of the added organisms and degradation of the target contaminants...

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... understanding of mechanisms of uptake, transport, and accumulation of contaminants; 2) improve collection and genetic evaluation of hyperaccumulating plants; and 3) obtain a better understanding of ... function of degree of hydrophobicity and amount of sorbent hydrophobic phase (i.e., soil organic matter) Sorption of the compound by soil organic matter is reversible The activities of these ... with organic and inorganic charged surfaces in the soil in a variety of reversible reactions The extent and nature of the associations with charged surfaces depends on characteristics of the organic...

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... growth and death of roots and creation of decaying plant litter, and wetland animals dig, burrow, scrape, and otherwise cause bioturbation of wetland sediments on an almost continuous basis Some of ... accumulations of organic carbon and reduced elements such as iron and sulfur typical of natural wetland soils Many of the changes that occur during wetland development and succession are the result of biological ... treatment systems; 3) submerged macrophyte-based wastewater treatment systems; and 4) multistage systems consisting of a combination of the above-mentioned concepts and other kinds of low-technology systems...

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... consumption of nitrates and sulfates Subsequent phases involve the formation of organic acids and methane gas During maturation phase, the final state of landfill stabilization, available organic carbon and ... radioactive, and hazardous waste The problem in the U.S., however, is that hundreds of thousands of landfills were operated and then decommissioned prior to the requirements of current regulations Many of ... within the footprint of the landfill 7.2 THE ROLE OF CAPS IN THE CONTAINMENT OF WASTES Because of the expense and risk associated with treating or removing large volumes of landfill wastes, remediation...

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... Winterwerp Chapter 13 Coagulation Theory and Models of Oceanic Plankton Aggregation George A Jackson III Engineered Systems Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 189 191 211 237 249 271 ... and natural systems, microbial ecology, water quality, filamentous microorganisms and bulking problems, biofouling and microbial-based tools for studying, and monitoring biological treatment systems ... University, School of Geography and Earth Sciences and at the State University of New York, College at Buffalo, Department of Geography and Planning He holds undergraduate and M.Sc degrees in...

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... ecosystems that incorporate both inorganic and organic cohesive particles Certainly the freshwater systems, consisting primarily of rivers and lakes (although other systems such as urban sewer systems ... of what environmental science generally considers as dissolved, colloidal, and particulate materials as defined by size and organic and inorganic components All of the components to the left of ... “aggregates”), and (d) decaying organic matter (e.g., from plants) This chapter focuses primarily on the first classification of flocs While these categories of flocs are known because of our understanding of...

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... floc, compact and compactorganic particles from both ambient and resuspended sediment in mid- and post-spawn of 2000 Note the separation of flocs and compact particles into the arms of the distribution ... stream and decay in the late summer low flows The flux of organic matter to the stream is immense and abrupt15,16 as these salmon spawn in only the lower km of the channel and die in a period of about ... role of organic matter and microbial activity in the generation of composite particles this highly productive stream was seen as a good venue to evaluate the effect of both the supply of organic...

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... process, the length of time allowed for mixing is on the order of several tens of minutes, so the later processes of restructuring and compaction are probably not significant In natural systems particular ... perimeter and area In addition, an ellipse was fitted to each aggregate, by matching moment of inertia and area of the original aggregate This step resulted in the definition of major and minor ... procedures and evaluate the accuracy and reproducibility of the imaging results 5.3.2 MATERIALS AND GENERAL PROCEDURES Three sets of experiments were designed to provide data for analysis of particles...

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... extracellular biofilm matrix The importance of EPS in flocs and biofilm systems is fundamentally twofold: (i) they represent a major structural component of flocs and (ii) they are responsible for ... 125 systems suitable for application in the study of flocs and biofilms Specific techniques include those for detection and quantification of cellular and polymeric compounds in biofilms.9,16 ,27 In ... were however, effects of the fluor, the matrix, and the lectin on the apparent specificity of lectin binding and limitations on the interpretation of the nature of binding site of the lectin Recent...

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... better understanding of the flocculation mechanisms and the role of bulk properties of the system that are responsible for the flocculation of sediment in freshwater systems 8.7 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ... laminar and turbulent fluid shear, inertia, and differential settling, and subsequently, a certain amount of such collisions result in the formation of flocs because of the electrochemical and bacterial ... particles of bin j ( j < i), the newly formed particles will fit into bins i and i + The proportion of particles going to bins i and i + is calculated by considering the mass of the particles before and...

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