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Concordance To The Decameron (Bazzica-Camino) , Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Cheggio-Cominci) , Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Doveva-Entri) , Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Fu-Giucava), Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Ognuno-Parola), Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Ferri-Frutto), Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Che-Cheggia), Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Mostrava-Ognuna), Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Piacevi-Portatori), Michael Papio

Concordance to the Decameron

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The 22nd Annual International Conference On Soils, Sediments And Water

Annual Conference on Soils, Sediments and Water: Abstracts

Conference at a Glance

Monday, October 16, 2006

Workshop #1: 8:30am - 5:00pm

Workshop #2: 9:00am - 5:00pm

Workshop #3: 10:00am - 5:00pm

Workshops #4, 5 & 6: 1:00pm - 5:00pm

Workshop #10: 2:00 - 5:00pm

Workshop #1: Evaluating Monitored Natural Attenuation of MTBE and TBA

Workshop #2: Getting to Closure at LNAPL Sites

Workshop #3: In-Situ Chemical Oxidation Workshop

Workshop #4: The Role of Anaerobic Biodegradation Processes in Passive and Enhanced Monitored Natural Attenuation Programs

Workshop #5: The 2006 MCP Audit- A Case Study Approach

Workshop #6: Integrating the Remediation Strategy into the Lifecycle of a Contaminated Sediments Project …

Icts And Political Accountability: An Assessment Of The Impact Of Digitization In Government On Political Accountability In Connecticut, Massachusetts And New York State, Albert Meijer

National Center for Digital Government

This report presents a first analysis of the results of empirical research into the impact of digitization on political accountability in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York State. The report focuses on presenting the empirical findings and these data still require further analysis.

Shifting Currents In Media Awareness, Chris Boulton, Erica Scharrer

Communication Graduate Student Publication Series

This longitudinal qualitative research study examines how a group of parents and teachers sought to raise awareness in their community about harmful media effects. Initially condemning the influx of new digital media technologies such as violent video games, the group eventually shifted tactics in an effort to go beyond ‘preaching to the choir’ and bring other parents into the fold. Their experience suggests that we might reconsider media literacy as a form of social work.

Concordance To The Decameron (A - Z, Complete Lexicon)

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Ab-Allora)

Concordance to the Decameron

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Concordance To The Decameron (Allori-Andata)

Concordance to the Decameron

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Characterization Of Manganese Oxide Coated Filter Media, Joseph Goodwill

Environmental & Water Resources Engineering Masters Projects

Abstract Several methods for removal of soluble maugauese from drinking water exist. One of these options involves adsorption of the maugauese onto Mn oxide coated filter media. Dissolved maugauese (Mn(H)) is adsorbed to sites on the Mn oxide coating aud then oxidized by free chlorine, thus regenerating the media sites for further Mn adsorption. This method has been successfully used by numerous water treatment plauts, decreasing Mn levels to below treatment goals. A disadvautage to this method is the use of chlorine prior to filtration, which cau lead to increased levels of disinfection by-products as compared to post-filter chlorination. Nine …

Impact Of Chloramines On Disinfection By-Products In Selected Surface Water Supplies, Allan P. Briggs

Environmental & Water Resources Engineering Masters Projects

Aquarion Water Company (AWC) of Connecticut owns and operates the Warner, Stamford and Dean's Mill drinking water treatment plants among several other facilities. Bench-scale experiments were conducted to evaluate the impact of secondary disinfection with chloramines on disinfectant by-products (DBP) for these three supplies. The goal was to determine if a significant decrease in DBP formation could be achieved. The final Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection By-Products (DDBP) Rule has prompted A WC to investigate strategies that can help decrease DBP formation in their finished and distributed water. The Stage 2 DDPB Rule regulates two classes of DBPs, the four …

The Relationship Between Pre-Filter Chlorine Addition And Enhanced Disinfection Byproduct Formation, Melissa Brown

Environmental & Water Resources Engineering Masters Projects

In this work, the issue of how pre-filter chlorination of drinking water causes an increase in disinfection byproduct (DBP) formation is examined. Chlorination and granular media filtration are two widely used practices in drinking water treatment. It is also common to apply chlorine ahead of the filters. However, this has been shown to elevate disinfection byproducts (DBP) levels. Experiments were performed at full- and bench-scale using filter influent and effluent from working filters and several anthracite/sand filter columns operated in parallel. The filter influent for the bench-scale experiments was clarified water from the Warner Water Treatment Plant operated by the …

Performance Evaluation Of Appropriate In-Home Drinking Water Treatment Options For Developing Countries, Bree Carlson

Environmental & Water Resources Engineering Masters Projects

Globally, over one billion people do not have access to safe drinking water. The majority of these people live in developing nations, where large-scale drinking water treatment projects may not provide a viable solution because of a lack of skilled laborers, consistent and reliable electricity, materials, sufficient economic capital, and/or fuel sources. Appropriate non-conventional drinking water treatment technologies may provide a solution to these problems, particularly if such technologies are composed of materials readily accessible to the population. Three treatment technologies whose materials are easily acquired throughout the developed and developing world are sari filtration, solar disinfection, and citrus fruit …

Application Of Microbial Source Tracking To Separate Microbial Sources To A Tributary Of The Wachusett Reservoir, Michael N. Tache

Environmental & Water Resources Engineering Masters Projects

Surface waters used as sources of drinking water can be at risk for pathogen contamination from non-point source pollution. Non-point source pollution is a problem because it can be difficult to detect and quantify. Source water protection is a tool to protect public health by maintaining and improving source water quality. The Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule (LT2ESWTR), which aims to improve the control of Cryptosporidium, recognizes watershed protection programs as part of both Cryptosporidium and virus removal requirements. Microbial source tracking (MST) is a tool that is currently being developed to aid in source water protection. …

Statistical Models And Analysis Techniques For Learning In Relational Data, Jennifer Neville

Computer Science Department Faculty Publication Series

Many data sets routinely captured by organizations are relational in nature— from marketing and sales transactions, to scientific observations and medical records. Relational data record characteristics of heterogeneous objects and persistent relationships among those objects (e.g., citation graphs, the World Wide Web, genomic structures). These data offer unique opportunities to improve model accuracy, and thereby decision-making, if machine learning techniques can effectively exploit the relational information. This work focuses on how to learn accurate statistical models of complex, relational data sets and develops two novel probabilistic models to represent, learn, and reason about statistical dependencies in these data. Relational dependency …

The Renormalization Of The Energy-Momentum Tensor For An Effective Initial State, Hael Collins, R. Holman

Physics Department Faculty Publication Series

An effective description of an initial state is a method for representing the signatures of new physics in the short-distance structure of a quantum state. The expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor for a field in such a state contains new divergences that arise when summing over this new structure. These divergences occur only at the initial time at which the state is defined and therefore can be cancelled by including a set of purely geometric counterterms that also are confined to this initial surface. We describe this gravitational renormalization of the divergences in the energy-momentum tensor for a free …

A Framework To Predict The Quality Of Answers With Nontextual, University Of Massachusetts Amherst

Computer Science Department Faculty Publication Series

New types of document collections are being developed by various web services. The service providers keep track of non-textual features such as click counts. In this paper, we present a framework to use non-textual features to pre- dict the quality of documents. We also show our quality measure can be successfully incorporated into the language modeling-based retrieval model. We test our approach on a collection of question and answer pairs gathered from a community based question answering service where people ask and answer questions. Experimental results using our quality measure show a signi¯cant improvement over our baseline.

The Suitability Of Coliphage As An Indicator Of Potential Fecal Contamination In Groundwater Systems, Keith G. Dewar

Environmental & Water Resources Engineering Masters Projects

Over the years aquifers have been considered a clean source of drinking water as the soil acts as a natural filter. It.has been realized that groundwater used as a source of drinking water can be subject to fecal contamination through a number of various sources. With almost half of the United States national domestic water supply originatng from groundwater, a system of monitoring for contamination should be implemented to ensure public health and safety. Monitoring water to assess its microbial safety has long relied on the detection of indicator microorganisms, total and fecal coliforms in particular. Coliform bacteria has exhibited …

Umass Amherst Friends Of The Library Newsletter - Spring/Summer 2006 (No. 31), Jay Schafer

Library News for the Friends of the UMass Amherst Libraries

Message from Jay:

When I saw the cover of this newsletter in draft, my initial reaction was that champagne is not an image traditionally associated with research libraries. Where are the books? Where are the computers? Where are the smiling faces of our generous Friends? Then I rattled my chains of “Librarian Past” and realized that as “Librarian Future” champagne is the perfect symbol to celebrate the recent successes of the UMass Amherst Libraries. And success is the word that captures the events of the past several months. In a very short time, the Learning Commons has transformed the image, …

The Office/Industrial Land Dilemma: A Study Of The Blackstone River Corridor In Massachusetts, John Mullin, Zenia Kotval

Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Faculty Publication Series

Local planners have often neglected their industrial resources and are therefore jeopardizing their economic base. There is clearly a mismatch between land zoned for industry and that which is suitable for development. Older areas are constrained by issues of compatibility, access, and environmental and flood plain issues. Greenfield sites are constrained by physical site characteristics, such as wetlands and slope, transportation networks, development pressures from other land uses and public perceptions and concerns surrounding industrial uses. Through this case study, this article analyzes the key factors that are influencing industrial land use decisions and provides recommendations that may be of …

The Music Of Form, Peter Elbow

English Department Faculty Publication Series

The concept itself of "organization" tends to be biased towards a picture of how objects are organized in space--and neglects the story of how events are organized in time. I’ll explore five ways to organize written language that harness or bind time. In effect, I'm exploring form as a source of energy.

Bibliometric Impact Measures Leveraging Topic Analysis, Gideon S. Mann

Computer Science Department Faculty Publication Series

Measurements of the impact and history of research literature provide a useful complement to scientific digital library collections. Bibliometric indicators have been extensively studied, mostly in the context of journals. However, journal-based metrics poorly capture topical distinctions in fast-moving fields, and are increasingly problematic with the rise of open-access publishing. Recent developments in latent topic models have produced promising results for automatic sub-field discovery. The fine-grained, faceted topics produced by such models provide a clearer view of the topical divisions of a body of research literature and the interactions between those divisions. We demonstrate the usefulness of topic models in …

A Hierarchical, Hmmbased Accuracy For A Digital Library Of Books, Shaolei Feng

Computer Science Department Faculty Publication Series

A number of projects are creating searchable digital libraries of printed books. These include the Million Book Project, the Google Book project and similar efforts from Yahoo and Microsoft. Content-based on line book retrieval usually requires first converting printed text into machine readable (e.g. ASCII) text using an optical character recognition (OCR) engine and then doing full text search on the results. Many of these books are old and there are a variety of processing steps that are required to create an end to end system. Changing any step (including the scanning process) can affect OCR performance and hence a …

Nsf Draft Strategic Plan For Data, Data Analysis, And Visualization, Christopher L. Greer

Digital Quadrangle Series

Chris Greer, the inaugural keynote speaker for the annual Digital Quadrangle series, spoke about the issues raised in the National Science Board report and the response of the National Science Foundation to these issues, NSF's cyberinfrastructure vision for 21st century discovery.