... restoring, and incorporating trees, meadows, wetlands, and other forms of soil and vegetation can also reduce stormwater management costs For example, a study performed by the Urban Forest Coalition ... space and master planning efforts | Rooftops to Rivers II n D evelop and enforce a strong retention standard for stormwater n Cities should identify appropriate retention standards for new ... growth and imperiling critical habitat, green space, and biodiversity.14 As our population shifts to a more urbanized setting, our landscape shifts as well Grassland, prairie, and forestland are...
... and papers prepared for the June 2003 convening, and highlights the points of discussion among conference participants about research options andstrategiesfor action Developing Strategiesfor ... certain interests Toys and products with brand logos Food companies increasingly market branded toys and products to preschoolers and young children to promote brand awareness and preference The ... Jell-O and McDonald’s partner with Mattel to promote their products and build brand loyalty among young girls and particular ethnic communities From: Story, M Food and Beverage Advertising and Marketing...
... processing model that uses the control information for ordering and pruning the search graph However, if the control information is neglected or if all solutions are demanded and sought by backtracking, ... ordered pair is part of the control information for every subterm Therefore it can be omitted Thus for any automatic counting scheme some constant shuffling and reshuffling of the conjunct ... Reder [1983] 5For an introduction to connectionist nets see Rumelhart, Hinton, and McCleUand [1986] For an overview of different connectionist models see Feldman and Ballard [1982] and Kemke [1988]...
... communication and education that is crucial for successful preparedness forand response to seasonal and pandemic influenza CDC will lead efforts to improve clinician and public awareness and acceptance ... Provided, That Centers for Disease Controland Prevention and State grant recipients may transfer up to ten percent of funds appropriated for Centers for Disease Controland Prevention HIV/AIDS, ... LANGUAGE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROLAND PREVENTION Immunization and Respiratory Diseases For carrying out titles II, III, VII, XVII, and XXI, and section 2821 of the PHS Act, titles II and IV of the...
... vectors defined for are needed without the hierarchy The former rewhere gO and gO ′ Opinion extraction, gP and gP are feature vectors quires (2 + + 4) + (2 × + × + × 4) = 46 ′ defined for Polarity ... Inference for Linguistic Annotation Pipelines In EMNLP M Hu and B Liu 2004 Mining and Summarizing Customer Reviews In KDD S Kim and E Hovy 2004 Determining the sentiment of opinions In COLING S Kim and ... feature and sion boundaries Therefore, we try to obtain weight vectors allows similar labels to share the expression-level attributes (E XP -P OLARITY and same subcomponents of feature and weight...
... implications for prevention and treatment, and to the identification of candidates for innovative prevention strategies The practical application of such knowledge could, for example, take the form of: ... applications in healthcare, formulating appropriate public policies and guidelines, assessing genomics information and applications, and assuring that genomic applications and information meet the needs ... care for asthma patients, reduced burdens fortheir families, or methods for prevention? Does genomic information pose risks? Community: What are the implications of asthma in communities and...
... Sum rules for Jacobi matrices andtheir applications to spectral theory By Rowan Killip and Barry Simon* Abstract We discuss the proof of and systematic application of Case’s sum rules for Jacobi ... and, in particular, we will prove Nevai’s conjecture (Theorem 2) and several results showing that control of the eigenvalues can have strong consequences for J and µJ , specifically Theorems and ... and Case’s [7] papers, and in Section 4, a second proof implementing tool (2) above Section discusses the Szeg˝ and quasi-Szeg˝ integrals as entropies and the o o associated semicontinuity, and...
... innovative with their regulations and environmental policies, looking for existing and alternative avenues to encourage adoption of new stormwater and CSO controlstrategies These efforts are often ... areas and buffer zones are often designated around urban streams and rivers to provide treatment and management of overland flow before it reaches the waterway Stormwater volume controland pollutant ... capturing and retaining rainfall, infiltrating runoff, and trapping and absorbing pollutants For example, the Village Homes community in Davis, California, uses a system of vegetated swales and meandering...
... rendered Love’s plans for the canal uneconomic, and Love’s dream for the canal was never realized The abandoned canal filled with rainwater and was used as a swimming hole andfor winter ice skating ... Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) in 1980 to deal with abandoned sites and provide the funds and regulations to perform cleanups CERCLA, or Superfund, has been through numerous revisions, and its ... management and pollution in all media, and while regulations are now complex, they provide for control, management, and abatement of pollution from recognized sources to water, land and air Two...
... Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland In order to carry out their ... prevention and emergency response policies at the source, the regulated substances handled, and the worstcase release scenarios and alternative release scenarios, including administrative controls and ... real risk reduction and performance improvement when information maintenance and management is required For more active decision-making processes, the described framework for environmental decision...
... from landfilling of waste, during the whole life cycle of the landfill In principle, each landfill shall be classified in one of the following classes: Landfill for hazardous waste Landfill for ... magnitude, characteristics, and evolution of the packaging and packaging waste flows (including information on the toxicity or danger of packaging materials and components used fortheir manufacture) ... biomass, and water 2.2 Council Directive on Landfill of Waste The aim of the Directive on landfill of waste is, by way of stringent operational and technical requirements on the waste and landfills,...
... agricultural lands, forests, and areas of historical and geological value, and resulted in the dislocation of communities and loss of wildlife (6) Dam failure can cause catastrophic floods and thousands ... between 15% and 25% The biggest users of process heat are the steel, petroleum, chemicals, and paper and pulp industries (9) Potential for improvements does exist In general, sensors and controls, ... solar heating and cooling function with few or no mechanical devices; primarily they involve designing the form of landscape and building in relation to each other and to sun, earth, and air movement...
... capillary pressure as the driving force for condensing and evaporating the working fluid, thus eliminating the necessity for pump and compressor in the power cycle The understanding of heat pipe operation ... suggested practice for pollution controland waste minimization In order to prevent corrosion, begin with the analysis of the appropriate combination of materials and fluids For the operating ... pollution controland waste minimization Heat transfer equipment is subjected to fouling and corrosion, which are among the major hurdles for the operation Fouling increases heat transfer resistance and...
... 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 ... bacteria andtheir associated pathways have also been 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 ... contaminant for heterotrophic microorganisms There are three categories of nutrients based on the quantity and essential need for them by the microorganism: macro, micro, and trace nutrients (89,90) For...
... Schulz, T Blunk, and A Gopfercih, Carrier for Drug Formulations and Artificial Living Tissues Pharm Z., vol 144, no 45, pp 3661–3668, 1999 159 P Biely and L Kremnicky, Yeasts andTheir Enzyme Systems ... Cooper and F C Alley, Air Pollution Control: A Design Approach, 2nd ed Boston: Waveland Press, 1994 123 M S McGrath, J Nieuwland, and C van Lith, Case Study: Biofiltration of Styrene and Butylacetate ... Pollution Control In H S Sohal and A K Srivastava (eds.), Environment and Biotechnology, pp 163–170 New Dehli: Ashish Publishing, 1994 10 B J D’Arcy, R B Todd, and A W Wither, Industrial Effluent Control...
... permeate Nanofiltration (NF) and RO have been used for removal of ammonium and nitrate ions from synthetic and actual mine effluents (5) In mine and mill water, ammonium and nitrate ions are generated ... porous, and 0.45 µm in average pore diameter was used as a support for the liquid membrane Low-pressure reverse osmosis (RO) was used by Ujang and Anderson (14) for separation of mono- and divalent ... sampling, with reservoirs for the reagent, waste, and calibration/standard solution, along with the micromump and necessary fluidic network on a cable platform (Figure 2) The sample and reagent are thus...
... Health and safety advantages and disadvantages for implementing the proposed option Select the best option for each solvent waste stream and implement Track performance of the implemented option and ... facilities where outstanding performance levels were reached prior to 1992, the percentage-reduction targets for Goals 1(b) and (c) and 2(a) and (b) may not be fully achievable, or the effort to achieve ... to form a foundation for decision making At this point, a number of paths forward are possible The zero level and level one maps are useful for many purposes, including education, training, and...
... conservation of mass and energy Mass and energy balances are the goal of a life cycle inventory and perform a useful check on the completeness and validity of the data The selection of inputs and outputs ... use of valuable resource materials and reduced waste treatment and disposal costs Estimating the costs and benefits of some options is straightforward, while for others it is more complex If a ... operations and activities involved in providing a product or service This includes, for example, resource extraction, manufacturing and assembly, energy supplies and transportation for all operations,...
... generation and accumulation, and (d) time These terms andtheir components must be consistent in analysis of, for example, technology comparisons in remediation or waste management methods for treatment ... balances and individual component balances for overall matrix solutions Energy balances are handled in a similar fashion, incorporating thermodynamic properties and allowing for both open and closed ... costs and to meet or exceed federal and state regulations on environmental discharges and emissions Over the years, significant work has been done by various government offices, universities, and...
... disciplines related to advanced and nuclear materials research, development, and applications; experimental science and engineering; and theory, modeling, analysis, and computation As a fully functional ... dose, relating food intake to soil intake, and solving for COPC- and receptor-specific ESLs, models such as Eq (3) for omnivores were used to compute ESLs for nonradionuclides: ESLij = NOAELij Ii ... (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), and the Southwestern willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii extimus) were performed using a custom FORTRAN model, ECORSK.5, and the geographic information system (GIS) (17–19)...