... EPA defines hazardous waste, specifies treatment standards that must be met prior to disposal, and specifies standards for construction and operation of hazardous waste disposal sites For DOE MLLW, ... wastes and treating them (as necessary) for shipment to disposal facilities are subjects of intense current efforts at DOE sites However, the inventory of transuranic and mixed wastes is extensive, ... hundreds of thousands of waste drums and other containers at a total cost of billions of dollars Thus, there are sufficient time and strong incentives—safety, cost, and efficiency for research toward...
... gases (NMOG) standard of 0.035 g/mile means most vehicles will have to meet ULEV standards diesel emissions sooner As federal Tier emissions standards are phased in, federal and California standards ... for the three groups of truck classifications: Classes and trucks (pickups, vans, SUVs), Classes to trucks (mediumduty trucks, such as delivery vans), and Classes and trucks (large, heavy-duty, ... Class to vehicles, and by 5,000 lbs for Class and vehicles The goal of the program for advanced materials for propulsion systems is to develop materials to meet the needs of fuel systems, exhaust-gas...
... systems This allows the agencies to continue using their existing systems but requires twice as much spectrum because each system occupies separate channels Shared channels: Agencies set aside ... ATF, DEA, and FBI have their own legacy systems, the USMS primarily uses the FBI LMR system sites However, the consolidation of USMS systems with FBI systems is not complete and continues to lack ... radios As Exhibit shows, the existing LMR equipment is outdated and suffers from significant functionality issues A detailed discussion of the status of these components' LMRs follows 19 For purposes...
... investors will suddenly shift their capital elsewhere.58 Some economists view China s purchases of U .S securities as a type of subsidy that is transferred from Chinese savers to U .S consumers in ... China s rapid accumulation of FX reserves.9 For a discussion of the implications of a possible global sell-off of U .S securities, see CRS Report RL34319, Foreign Ownership of U .S Financial Assets: ... Congressional Research Service 12 China s Holdings of U .S Securities: Implications for the U .S Economy Indicators of the Size of China s Ownership of U .S Public Debt China s ownership of U .S Treasury...
... private assistance through local authorities A government system provides “Cash Benefits for Closely Related Persons” through the special assistance system for a maximum 60 days in case of serious illness ... comparison nations The information relevant to these issues comes primarily from two types of data sources: indicator analyses from international reports and intensive and detailed policy analyses of ... Neo-liberalism as a justifying discourse Coburn [84,85] considers how neo-liberalism— through its emphasis on the market as the arbiter of societal values and resource allocations—serves to support these...
... assessing authors (A.M and M .S. ) Reliability for the radiographic examinations was high, with an intra-assessor, intra-class correlation coefficient of 0.99 andof 0.98 between assessors, respectively ... the design of the study and performed the statistical analysis PS participated in the study and analyses of the study Page of JS participated in the study and analyses of the study All authors read ... objective of this study was to assemble a non-selected group of patients with as few exclusion criteria as possible andto avoid the exclusion of a number of patients because they wished to undergo...
... evidence exists to support the State of Minnesota s disclosures with respect to the year 2000 Auditing the state s year 2000 compliance efforts was not an objective of this audit As a result, we ... Human Services agreed with the report s findings and recommendations and is taking corrective actions to resolve the issues Department of Human Services Table of Contents Page Management Letter Status ... Departmentof Human Services Fiscal Year 1998 (in thousands) Federal Program Name Medicaid Cluster: Medical Assistance State Survey & Certification of Providers Food Stamps Cluster: Food Stamps Food Stamps...
... Auditing Standards, as issued by the Comptroller General of the United States Those standards require that we obtain an understanding of management controls relevant to the audit The standards also ... resolve the issues STATE OF MINNESOTA OFFICE OF THE LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR JAMES R NOBLES, LEGISLATIVE AUDITOR Representative Dan McElroy, Chair Legislative Audit Commission Members of the Legislative ... The Departmentof Public Safety was established on July 1, 1970, pursuant to Minn Stat Chapter 299A According to its mission statement, the purpose of the Departmentof Public Safety is to “protect...
... Public Safety s Fiscal and Administrative Services Division is responsible for processing and monitoring purchasing for all of the departments divisions Each operating division is assigned accountants ... Departmentof Public Safety individuals who entered information into SEMA4 were responsible for verifying the accuracy of the transactions processed These issues are discussed in Findings and The Department ... conduct physical inventory counts in accordance with department policy Our testing of the departments fixed asset inventory records showed that assets disposed of were still on the records and some...
... distributed to all division and staff offices FINDING NUMBER FOUR: The Departmentof Public Safety needs to improve procedures over fixed assets Recommendations: Fixed asset inventory records should ... reviewed and updated for any assets that had been disposed ofandfor unrecorded items The department should complete physical inventories of fixed assets in accordance with departmental policy Response: ... consent cases The issue has been raised as to whether the defense of challenges to driver license revocations for non State Patrol related DWI arrests should appropriately be funded out of the Trunk...
... Faisal and Darus Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:109 http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/109 Mohammed, A, Darus, M: Starlikeness properties for ... by Gn,a belong to the class S If we substitute n = and M = n = in Theorem 2.4, we get the results of Corollaries 3.1 and 3.2, respectively Other work related to integral operators concerning on ... C and fi (z) ≤ M, ∀i and M ≥ Then, the family of functions f denoted by Gn,a belong to the class S Faisal and Darus Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:109 http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/109...
... step to already existing separation vectors SUBSPACE SELECTION Relative order of subspace selection and signal separation The use of more sensors than sources usually improves the separation result ... PCA-based approach performs better when exposed to noisy speech mixtures because the appropriate phase difference means it can utilize all pairs of sensors to suppress the noise This deepens the ... patents He is a member of the Conference Board of the IEEE SP Society and an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing He is also an Associate Editor of the EURASIP...
... by k s, as was the case before the bumping starts, by (2c3) applied to AC and our assumption on the positions of X and Y Now in the sliding phase, each of these k s either stays put, moves left, ... 1)- and k-strata for each k, and at some point in the k-stratum where the sequence of shrinks turns into a sequence of growths for each k This of itself is insufficient to determine the rightmost ... then s = s − But here the sth ands − 1st parts of µ must be equal, s so a priori r ≤ s − We also get µ ⊂ µ, so r = r Thus, r ≤ s − = s So the lemma holds in all cases The following lemma is similarly...
... the use of person-specific measures of H-index [3] and total citations Indeed, annually for the past three years, these data have been presented, using the Scopus data base http:// www.scopus.com, ... ratings based on journal-specific data that not properly integrate article-specific measures can be misleading when used to rate scientists For retrovirologists, Retrovirology has emphasized consistently ... scientist [4,5] The Prize aims to recognize "lagging" and "leading" benchmarks It rewards the past achievements of a scientist who is in his/her mid-career and who still has substantial lead-time to...
... underlying disease process Discussion The sampling of alveolar fluid from patients with acute respiratory failure allows the study of lung inflammatory response to various injuries As demonstrated ... produces sepsis-like systemic effects Intensive Care Med 1992, 18:6-10 19 Gattinoni L, Pelosi P, Suter PM, Pedoto A, Vercesi P, Lissoni A: Acute respiratory distress syndrome caused by pulmonary and ... The study of the composition and resolution of oedema fluid is of primary importance because it may lead to new insights into the pathogenesis of ALI/ARDS Sequential sampling of oedema fluid is...
... tunnel syndrome; SUS ϭ sulcus ulnaris syndrome 440 of paresthesias– dysesthesias on the fourteenth and nineteenth days Ten underwent electroneuromyography because of worsening of the symptoms Sulcus ... management after shoulder surgery.2,5 To date, most of the studies dealing with this topic have used Winnie s approach, with various degree of success (for anesthesia, from 80% to 87%; for postoperative ... experienced anesthesiologists, following a standardized technique, use of material, and drug application is associated with a high success rate of effective anesthesia and postoperative analgesia and a...
... most Class V wells inject nonhazardous fluids into or above a USDW and are on-site disposal systems, such as floor and sink drains which discharge to dry wells, septic systems, leach fields, and ... (tight) formations such as tight sands and carbonates, coal, and shale In unconventional gas reservoirs, the gas is often sourced from the reservoir rock itself (tight gas sandstone and carbonates ... citizens, government officials, water supply and use professionals, and other interested parties Each state has laws and regulations to ensure the wise use of its natural resources andto protect the...
... reports, company profiles, website, annual business reports, magazines, etc 1.54 SCOPE OF RESEARCH Research objectives: Research objectives of this thesis are problems related to Vietnam s automobile ... research focuses mainly on development activities of VAMA s members and refers to activities of some other automobile enterprises In addition, the research will have study on success of the automobile ... following approaches are undertaken: (i) SWOT anlysis where strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to Vietnamese automobile industry are analysed; and (ii) knowledge and approaches learnt...