... Lower layer of weir (cm) (cm) (cm) Akadama sand (5) Pit sand (40) Pit sand (45) Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol.3, No.2, 2005 water and Overflow water were measured by a flow ... content in pit sand The initial nitrogen content of Akadama sand in Tank A was higher than that of pit sand of Tank B The nitrogen content in both Tanks increased with time In both Tank A and B, the ... and gross pollutant load balance are shown in Tables and 6, respectively From the results of soil content survey before and after the simulation term, the contents of pollutants at cm-depth and...
... Environment Section one, focuses on the sustainabilityand economy of feedstock production Chapters and discuss the sustainabilityand biodiversity of land use for biofuel crops Chapter gives ... by the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies – Italy 11 12 Biofuels - Economy, Environment andSustainability storing and cycling nutrients and other elements within the biosphere; ... time (duration of occupation and trans‐ formation process) and the quality of land before, during and after the land use Occupation process refers to the use of a land for a certain purpose, assuming...
... Lifestyles andSustainability 325 tion and consumption are becoming progressively more fashion sensitive, dependent on aesthetics and well designed products and services In such lands of plenty, ... distinguishable and clear Designers such as Peter Behrens in Germany and Raymond Loewy in the United States were hailed in the press and contracted by companies and brands such as AEG, Greyhound and Lucky ... Dobers and L Strannegård and serve as a foundation for future knowledge (Borgerson and Schroeder, 2002) Information, sensibility and attitudes gleaned from images influence thinking and understanding...
... to the TDL (Krieger and Sch¨ fer, 1994) and ALE (Cara penter and Penn, 1996) systems, and has earlier antecedents in work that applied lexical rules by subsumption (Krieger and Nerbone, 1991) ... trigger (φ1 ) trigger (φ2 ), and • trigger (φ1 ∨φ2 ) = trigger (φ1 ) trigger (φ2 ), where and are respectively unification and generalization in the type semi-lattice In this and the next two subsections, ... 1991) The ConTroll constraint solver (Goetz and Meurers, 1997) attempted to handle complex antecedents, but used a classical interpretation of implication and no deductive phrase-structure backbone,...
... should be the land of our pilgrimage Should we cross the Pyrenees and traverse Spain, visiting Madrid and the Escurial en route to Seville, and thence through Andalusia and Granada, and home by ... dishonestly and detrimentally to the highest interests of humanity [x]I am thankful to feel that the matter has now been brought before the Parliaments of England and Italy, and even France, and has ... whose sombre and silver tinted foliage, and wonderfully gnarled and twisted trunks, give quite a foreign tone to the landscape Also the orange trees, with their green and golden fruit and enchantingly...
... water and sanitation is derived from the right to an adequate standard of living and inextricably related to the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, and the ... significant demand on water resources at the same time as pressures from other demands, such as agriculture and industry, are increasing and climate change modulates resource availability and demand patterns ... Equity, safety andsustainability | 25 | Equity and water | Social disparities The gap between the richest and poorest in the use of drinking water sources differs significantly by region and country...
... rigorous peer review to ensure high standards for research quality and objectivity Supporting Air and Space Expeditionary Forces Capabilities andSustainability of Air and Space Expeditionary Forces ... Management Program of RAND Project AIR FORCE and was jointly sponsored by the Commander, Air Combat Command (ACC/CC) and the United States Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff of Installations and Logistics ... Examples of ECS are the manpower and equipment for storage and distribution of fuel, fire protection, and so forth 4 Capabilities andSustainability of Air and Space Expeditionary Forces the...
... innovation and progress in our scientific understanding of cause and effect has provided a broad range of diagnostic and analytical tools that make regulatory monitoring and enforcement cheaper and ... "western" standards) and effluent controls This includes both surface and groundwater - A process for tasking specific agencies with implementation so that accountability is firmly established and inter-agency ... substrates and at inappropriate sampling frequencies, and produce data that are often quite unreliable; the data are not assessed or evaluated, and are not sufficiently connected to realistic and meaningful...
... wires and batteries and capacitors and resistors could all be combined and recom bined to create brand new circuits that performed all manner of fascinating and interbined to create brand new ... conceive of and treat individual identity, personal privacy, and data ownership, and how you understand potential impacts on customer’s reputaand data ownership, and how you understand potential ... database technologies and new data storage and processing techniques and tools such as Hadoop clusters, Bloom filters, and R data analysis tools Big data is data too big to be handled and analyzed by...
... both renewable and nonrenewable, and water and land use), global warming, ozone depletion, and release of persistent toxic substances • Regional criteria: Acidification and landfill demand • Local ... (cleaning and auxiliary heating) Recovery and handling of internal process scrap Preparation and forming of cores and molds Batching, metal treatment, and casting operations Finishing and packaging ... are being standardized with respect to methods and data Simplification and standardization will lead to more reliable, timely, and cost-effective LCIs An operational guide for ISO standards is...
... transportation, and marketing Massive research and development programs were initiated to make available clean and efficient coal utilization and more easily handled materials as gaseous and liquid ... Sunggyu Lee Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, USA Efficiency andSustainability in the Energy and Chemical Industries: Scientific Principles and Case Studies, Second Edition Krishnan ... Hui, Xianguo Li, David P Wilkinson, and Jiujun Zhang SECOND EDITION EFFICIENCY andSUSTAINABILITY in the ENERGY and CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES Scientific Principles and Case Studies Krishnan Sankaranarayanan...
... Conventional engineered surfaces have random roughness, and the randomness is the factor which makes it extremely difficult to overcome friction and wear On the other hand, many biological functional ... leaves and petals provide an example of surfaces with high CA and high and low CA hystereses Bhushan and Her [4] studied two kinds of superhydrophobic rose petals: (1) Rosa Hybrid Tea, cv Bairage and ... Arguments and Physical Mechanisms Edward Bormashenko and Gene Whyman 127 Wear-Resistant and Oleophobic Biomimetic Composite Materials Vahid Hejazi and Michael...
... created by the sand and other biodegradable contaminants; and therefore it is much more efficient at purifying water than rapid sand filtration Rapid sand filtration is simply a slow sand filter without ... intra-granular space and to some physico-chemical interactions between the sand and the contaminants It cannot purify water nearly to the degree slow sand filtration and riverbank filtration can, and for ... sand in order to cultivate and sustain the Schmutzdecke There are no mechanical components, and no electricity is required to operate Gravity is the external force, and the natural bacteria and...
... both of the convention and of their right to know On the other hand, communities such as those on Sakhalin Island and in Tunka and Berezovka discussed in chapters 3, 5, and of this volume are ... reindeer husbandry and to the effective exploitation of wild animal resources Landowners and lessees could also prevent them from hunting and grazing their herds on the newly privatized lands Where ... justice, sustainable development, just sustainability, and human security, and what shape, focus, and trajectory resultant activism and public policy and planning are taking, or might take, within the...
... Lassoie, and Erick C.M Fernandes Biodiversity in Agroecosystems Wanda Williams Collins and Calvin O Qualset Interactions Between Agroecosystems and Rural Communities Cornelia Flora Landscape ... between human health and well-being issues and agroecosystem ecological sustainability, and draws on both management theory and practice, as well as participatory action research and ecologically-based ... computational technologies, land use trends and impacts analyses, and socio-economic aspects of environmental and natural resource conservation and management Dr Gitau received her B.S and M.S degrees in...
... Checkland and Scholes (1990) Relationships among various institutions and interest groups were explored and depicted in rich pictures (Checkland, 1979a) In addition, root definitions (Checkland, ... economic, and social factors gives rise to emergent properties that are key to the health andsustainability of smallholder farms Last, the principle stated by Izac and Swift (1994) that to assess sustainability ... infrastructure, and natural resource endowment Data on climatic and ecological zonation were derived from the Farm Management Handbook (Jaetzold and Schmidt, 1983) Kiambu District Development Plans and reports...
... climate, agriculture, and pests and diseases Triangulate resource inventories, problem identification, and social maps Farming system and land use Sources and amount of incomes, types and amount of expenditure ... sustainability, and (5) monitor progress, assess health and sustainability, and evaluate the status of the agroecosystem This chapter describes how PAR was used to develop a suite of health andsustainability ... inventory Land-use patterns Problem identification Major events and their impacts Problem identification and coping strategies Resource availability and distribution over time and space Disease and...