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Water Use In Las Vegas, Gram Bazylinski
Water Use In Las Vegas, Gram Bazylinski
COLA 100: Feast and Famine In a Global World Poster Assignment
How Much Water Does Las Vegas Use?
Water Use Per Capita
The average household in Southern Nevada uses about 222 gallons of water per day. This has recently dropped from using 314 gallons of water per day. The southern Nevada Water Authority hopes that by the year 2035, water use will have dropped down to 199 gallons per day for each household.
The majority of Southern Nevada’s water goes to residential use, both indoor and outdoor. Because of this, restrictions have been placed on certain aspects of water use such as the amount of lawn a household can own. Aside …
Water Consumption In Southern Nevada, Paul Conyers
Water Consumption In Southern Nevada, Paul Conyers
COLA 100: Feast and Famine In a Global World Poster Assignment
With its massive hotels, casinos, restaurants, and dramatic architecture it can be easy to forget that Las Vegas resides in the middle of a desert receiving just 4.5 inches of rain per year. Its population has grown immensely to nearly 2 million as of 2012 and that is without including the more than 30 million tourists visiting every year. With this growth more and more water is needed to keep yards and golf courses green, to keep the fountains of Bellagio flowing, to support the habitats of Mandalay Bay and the Flamingo, and to allow Las Vegas to maintain its …
Tap Water Treatment And Testing, Matt Oswalt
Tap Water Treatment And Testing, Matt Oswalt
COLA 100: Feast and Famine In a Global World Poster Assignment
My research is focused on how the water we drink is cleaned and filtered and whether or not it is safe to drink the water from the tap.
Moving Forward: Preventing Water Shortage For Nevada, Sandra Blandon, Brianna Lyon
Moving Forward: Preventing Water Shortage For Nevada, Sandra Blandon, Brianna Lyon
COLA 100: Feast and Famine In a Global World Poster Assignment
Southern Nevada is located in the arid Mojave Desert, which averages about 4 inches of rain each year. Southern Nevada gets about 90% of its water supply from the Colorado River. Seven western states and Mexico share the river. This means that The Colorado River provides water to 25 million people.
Feast And Famine In A Global World Food: Compare And Contrast: Palms Bistro Buffet Vs. Bally's Steakhouse, Selina Abai
Feast And Famine In A Global World Food: Compare And Contrast: Palms Bistro Buffet Vs. Bally's Steakhouse, Selina Abai
COLA 100: Feast and Famine In a Global World Poster Assignment
The strip is known for its flashing lights, water show, Hotels & Casinos, and the restaurants and buffets. Within the city of Las Vegas there are 2,187 restaurants and over 300 buffets. The food chain in Las Vegas is rapidly growing with more industries and companies opening.
Life Cafe: Food Conservation And Health, Michelle Panko
Life Cafe: Food Conservation And Health, Michelle Panko
COLA 100: Feast and Famine In a Global World Poster Assignment
Challenges of Health and Conservation in Las Vegas
- Las Vegas is a very large and busy city, with locals operating on a very hectic agenda often times resulting with a need for instant gratification.
- Because of this, many food industries in Las Vegas tend to distribute unhealthy foods in large Quantities.
- According to the Springs preserve NV blog, Las wastes produces 9,000 tons of trash a day.
Buffering Pv Output During Cloud Transients With Energy Storage, Yacouba Moumouni
Buffering Pv Output During Cloud Transients With Energy Storage, Yacouba Moumouni
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
The Problem
• Photovoltaic output power can be affected by many factors including clouds passing overhead.
• Utilities in generally prefer a guaranteed power delivery level over some specified power delivery period.
• Power delivered during peak demand hours is generally more valued by utilities. For the Desert Southwest this is in the summertime afternoons. For the local area this will be defined as 1-5 pm for the three summer months.
• While battery power can be adapted to this problem, large batteries to be expensive.
Solar Cell Design Using Metamaterials, Yang Liu, Yitung Chen, Jichun Li
Solar Cell Design Using Metamaterials, Yang Liu, Yitung Chen, Jichun Li
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
Natural structure with simultaneous negative permittivity and permeability has not been discovered yet. However, using specially-designed metal embedded in dielectric bodies can achieve a kind of artificial negative index. This periodic structure which is smaller than the guided wavelength is known as a metamaterial. However, recent designs of metamaterials have some disadvantages when they are used in the application of solar cell. The perfect absorption is only within a narrow band, and for most of the solar spectrum, the absorption is no more than 10%. Here, a new kind of absorber for the solar spectrum has been designed and analyzed, …
Traffic Counter Mobile Application, Victor Molano
Traffic Counter Mobile Application, Victor Molano
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
INTRODUCTION
Manual Counters:
•The vehicles counts and characteristics at signalized intersections and others transportation facilities are usually made using manual counters. These manual counters are mechanical or digital boards in which the user can record the different observations from the field. The use of these devices is usually required when more sophisticated methods are not available, when expensive equipment is not justified and for scholastic practices.
Node Filtering And Face Routing For Sensor Network, Umang Amatya
Node Filtering And Face Routing For Sensor Network, Umang Amatya
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
Main Contributions
•Efficient Algorithms for identifying Redundant Sensor Nodes
•New Technique for Filtering Redundant Nodes in Sensor Network
•Reliable Algorithm for Message Routing - Forwarding
•User Friendly Prototype Implementation in Java
•Results of Experimental Investigation
Architecture For An Interactive Motion-Based Traffic Simulation Environment, Romesh Khaddar, Naveen Veeramisti, Alexander Paz, Pushkin Kachroo
Architecture For An Interactive Motion-Based Traffic Simulation Environment, Romesh Khaddar, Naveen Veeramisti, Alexander Paz, Pushkin Kachroo
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
In simple words, the objective of this research is to identify the effect of human behavior on traffic To enhance the traffic simulation modeling realism by involving actual human beings navigating the system along with simulated entities in an immersive environment
Real-Time Face Detection And Recognition, Parker Hill, Brendan Morris
Real-Time Face Detection And Recognition, Parker Hill, Brendan Morris
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
The face has become a popular biometric for identification due to the wide range of features and difficulty in manipulation of the metric. In order to work towards a robust facial recognition system, this work contains a foundation for using the face as a recognition metric. First, faces are detected from still images using a Viola-Jones object detection algorithm. Then, Eigenfaces is applied to the detected faces. The system was tested on face databases as well as real-time feed from a web camera.
Modeling Passive Solar Distillation In Las Vegas, Nv, Noe I. Santos
Modeling Passive Solar Distillation In Las Vegas, Nv, Noe I. Santos
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
Project Background
• Many rural areas on the planet do not have easy access to clean water!
• Water distillation basins are capable of distilling water by using incident solar radiation to evaporate polluted water.
• Current thermodynamic models used to predict behavior require instantaneous data; requires the use of expensive equipment.
• Distillation basins are dependent on multiple meteorological variables: insolation, temperature, wind speed, cloud cover.
• Non‐linear behavior is difficult to predict for long term operations.
Framework Developmant For Construction Safety Visialization, Kishor Shrestha
Framework Developmant For Construction Safety Visialization, Kishor Shrestha
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
Throughout the history of the construction industry, many fatalities and injuries have occurred in construction sites. One of the major causes of accidents is unsafe site conditions: basically, this is due to inadequate supervision. To improve upon the traditional supervision approach, this study proposes a 'Framework Development for Construction Safety Visualization' approach. In addition to this, a computer vision Edge Detection Algorithm was developed and tested to convert construction site still images into edges of the objects in the images. The framework development of this study uses computer vision, robot vision, image compression, pattern recognition, internet transmission, network communication, and …
Impact Of Sludge Treatment Processes On Estrogen Concentration In Wastewater Sludge, Erica Marti
Impact Of Sludge Treatment Processes On Estrogen Concentration In Wastewater Sludge, Erica Marti
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
Endocrine-disrupting compounds (EDCs), such as estrogen, are known to be present in the aquatic environment at concentrations that affect fish and other wildlife. For example, juvenile male fish exposed to estrogen will synthesize vitellogenin, which is a female-specific protein. Estrogen exposure is also linked to sex reversal, intersexuality, and inhibition of gonadal growth (Jobling et al., 1996).
Wastewater treatment plants are major contributors of EDCs into the environment. EDCs end up in wastewater as a result of natural excretion from the body or being washed off the skin. WWTPs are not designed to remove these substances. As a result, EDCs …
Adaptive Image Diffusion In Wavelet Domain, Kumar Mandava
Adaptive Image Diffusion In Wavelet Domain, Kumar Mandava
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
- Removing noise without sacrificing important structures
- Nonlinear strategies: Wavelet shrinkage and Nonlinear diffusion filtering based on features
- Clustering based wavelet diffusion
Comparative Study Of Various Data Collection Software Used For Seat-Belt Observation Surveys, Atul Sancheti, Puneet Lakhanpal, Sergio Contreras, Pushkin Kachroo, Masha Wilson
Comparative Study Of Various Data Collection Software Used For Seat-Belt Observation Surveys, Atul Sancheti, Puneet Lakhanpal, Sergio Contreras, Pushkin Kachroo, Masha Wilson
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
Every year, Click It or Ticket (CIOT) mobilization is held in U.S. which aims at increasing seat-belt usage awareness among the people. Data collection for assessing current seat-belt usage rates and campaign design for influencing mass audience are the two most important components of the mobilization. This paper presents a comparative study of various data collections software used for seat-belt observational surveys. The comparison is based on the speed and accuracy of the data collected from different software at the same locations and at the same time of the day.
College Of Engineering Graduate Celebration 2012 Announcement, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
College Of Engineering Graduate Celebration 2012 Announcement, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas
College of Engineering: Graduate Celebration Programs
The Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering Graduate Celebration is an event that recognizes the scholarly work of our engineering and computer science graduate students within the college. The target audience includes undergraduate students, graduate students, college faculty and staff, and the campus community as well as local and regional stakeholders. The objective of the event is to promote and publicize the research activities of the College of Engineering and to inform our stakeholders of our students’ achievements.
What Is Influencing Renewable Energy Infrastructure Deployment? A Multi-State Study Of U.S. Wind Generation Deployment Efforts, Laurence D. Helwig
What Is Influencing Renewable Energy Infrastructure Deployment? A Multi-State Study Of U.S. Wind Generation Deployment Efforts, Laurence D. Helwig
Graduate Research Symposium (GCUA) (2010 - 2017)
Recent research has determined what influences the adoption of state renewable energy policy instruments. At present, nearly all of the U.S. states have deployed or have begun to deploy infrastructure that derives energy from renewable resources. This multiple U.S. State study represents an effort to determine the factors that are influencing the wind renewable energy infrastructure deployment efforts in thirty-eight U.S. states that have widely varying wind power potential capacities, different capacities of wind generation infrastructure deployed and varying Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) policy goals. This study utilizes the internal determinants and regional diffusion theoretical models of government policy innovation …
The Unlv Xps Facility – Research Opportunities, Allen L. Johnson
The Unlv Xps Facility – Research Opportunities, Allen L. Johnson
NSTec UNLV Symposium
XPS Outline
•XPS – what is it?
•How is it done?
•What are its limitations?
•Future direction – radioactive samples
–Sample containment and transport
–Sputter controls
–Radiation limits
•Summary
Development Of Ion Beam Nuclear Transmutation Doping (Ibntd) For Novel Electronics In Extreme Conditions, Michael G. Pravica, Noel A. Guardala, Jack L. Price
Development Of Ion Beam Nuclear Transmutation Doping (Ibntd) For Novel Electronics In Extreme Conditions, Michael G. Pravica, Noel A. Guardala, Jack L. Price
NSTec UNLV Symposium
Development of IBNTD for electronics under extreme conditions.
•We hope to create novel wide bandgap devices using Ion Beam Nuclear Transmutation Doping (IBNTD). These devices may be used as rugged high power switches, and high current/low noise amplifiers. Diamond in itself represents a “Holy Grail” for electrical applications due to its very high thermal conductivity and excellent electrical characteristics.
•We also hope to develop devices that can convert the enormous energy from high-energy nuclear particles (α2+,β-,β+, γparticles) into useful electricity and thus harness the enormous energy still contained in “spent” nuclear fuel. Developing these direct energy conversion (DEC) devices would …
Overview Of Nstec Plasma Focus Tubes And Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling Capabilities, Tim Meehan
Overview Of Nstec Plasma Focus Tubes And Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling Capabilities, Tim Meehan
NSTec UNLV Symposium
•Brief Description of how DPFs work, in general what they are useful for.
•DPF devices that we have at NSTec
•Using MHD modeling software to optimize designs and predict performance
•Neutron Resonance Spectroscopy
Visualization Facility At Unlv Gis And Remote Core Lab, Haroon Stephen
Visualization Facility At Unlv Gis And Remote Core Lab, Haroon Stephen
NSTec UNLV Symposium
Outline
- About GIS/RS Lab
- Visualization Facility
- Research Areas
- Summary
Pmts And Radiation/Particle Detection Technologies, Brent Davis
Pmts And Radiation/Particle Detection Technologies, Brent Davis
NSTec UNLV Symposium
Describes technical standards for equipment in the field of Nuclear and Optical Physics.
National Center For Nuclear Security, Veraun Chipman, Amanda Klingensmith, Cathy Snelson
National Center For Nuclear Security, Veraun Chipman, Amanda Klingensmith, Cathy Snelson
NSTec UNLV Symposium
National Center for Nuclear Security (NCNS) Mission
•Chartered mission is to enhance the Nation’s verification and detection capabilities in support of nuclear arms control and nonproliferation through R&D activities at the NNSS
•Three focus areas
–Treaty Verification Technologies
–Nonproliferation Technologies
–Technical Nuclear Forensics
2011 Research Highlights, Yusheng Zhao
2011 Research Highlights, Yusheng Zhao
NSTec UNLV Symposium
Overview
•Center Mission and Cluster Tasks
•Recent Scientific Achievements
•Current & Future Developments
Unlv Center For Materials And Structures: Structural Response Due To Blast Loadingand Dynamic Material Characterization, Brendan O'Toole, Mohamed Trabia, Jagadeep Thota
Unlv Center For Materials And Structures: Structural Response Due To Blast Loadingand Dynamic Material Characterization, Brendan O'Toole, Mohamed Trabia, Jagadeep Thota
NSTec UNLV Symposium
Presentation Outline