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Risk Assessment Module Of The Iwa/Cost Simulation Benchmark: Validation And Extension Proposal., Jordi Dalmau, Ignasi Rodríguez-Roda, Jean-Philippe Steyer, Joaquim Comas

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The IWA/COST simulation benchmark platform has been widely used to evaluate and compare different activated sludge control strategies. The IWA/COST simulation benchmark provides performance indices like the effluent water quality, operating costs and controller performance (Copp, 2002), all of them quantitative. However, these indices do not take into account the biomass separation related problems which at present cannot be quantitatively modelled. A qualitative Risk Assessment Module adaptable to any simulation benchmark platform has been developed for the activated sludge systems. As a consequence, and in order to improve the quantitative performance indices, lately the anaerobic digestion model number 1 (ADM1) …

Uncertainty Analysis Associated With Rainfall Spatial Distribution In An Experimental Semiarid Watershed, Northeastern Brazil, Lúcio Flávio Ferreira Moreira, A. M. Righetto, V. M. De A. Medeiros

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

In this paper the main goal was to analyze the effect of spatial variability of rainfall on runoff in an experimental monitored watershed (2.108 km2) located on a semiarid region (Seridó Potiguar), Rio Grande do Norte-Brazil. To accomplish this, a rainfall-runoff-sediment hydrologic model was used. The study area was divided into 143 elements (planes and channels). Rainfall spatial distribution, estimated using the inverse of distance method, was used as input to calculate rainfall spatial variability index for three observed storm events and different combinations of recording gauge arrangements. This index was considered in this study as an indicator used to …

Moira-Plus: A Decision Support System For The Management Of Complex Fresh Water Ecosystems Contaminated By Radionuclides And Heavy Metals, Luigi Monte, Lars Håkanson, D. Hofman, John Brittain, Eduardo Gallego, Antonio Jimenez, Giacomo Angeli

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The accidental release of radioactive substances into the environment leads to the necessity of applying suitable countermeasures for the restoration of the polluted environment. However, despite their obvious benefits, such interventions may result in detrimental effects of economic, ecological and social nature that must be carefully evaluated. MOIRA–PLUS is a PC-based user-friendly, Computerised Decision Support System (CDSS) that helps decision makers to choose optimal countermeasure strategies for different kinds of aquatic ecosystems and contamination scenarios. CDSS MOIRA-PLUS is based on: a) Validated models to evaluate the behaviour of radionuclides in contaminated water bodies and biota and to assess the effect …

Modeling Soil-Water Dynamics For Diverse Environmental Needs, Pierre Martin, Rabi H. Mohtar, Pascal Clouvel, Erik Braudeau

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Accurate representation of the top soil matrix with special attention to the scales present is important to the dynamics of water flow and fate of pollution at field, farm and watershed scales. It is also important from an agronomic stand point since agriculture still constitutes the main source of pollution at a time when many agronomic models still use empirical notions of soil hydraulic properties. The soil dynamics literature describes soil hydraulic properties independently from the soil-water medium hydro-structural dynamics. This leads to an empirical approach to represent and estimate soil hydro-structural properties such as shrinkage, water potential, field capacity, …

Data Mining Approaches To Explaining Aerosol Formation, Saara Hyvonen, Heikki Junninen, Lauri Laakso, Miikka Dal Maso, Tiia Gronholm, Boris Bonn, Petri Keronen, Pasi Aalto, Veijo Hiltunen, Toivo Pohja, Samuli Launiainen, Pertti Hari, Heikki Mannila, H.C. Hansoon, M. Kulmala

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Atmospheric aerosol particle formation is frequently observed in various environments. Yet, despite numerous studies, processes behind these so called nucleation events remain unclear. In this work we describe the use of data mining techniques to detect factors influencing particle formation. These techniques are applied to a dataset of eight years of 80 variables collected at the boreal forest station (SMEAR II) in Southern Finland, including air pollutant, weather, gas and particle measurements. In a previous study classification methods have been used together with feature selection in order to understand what causes nucleation. Each day was classified as an event day, …

Risk Assessment Module Of The Iwa/Cost Simulation Benchmark: Validation And Extension Proposal., Jordi Dalmau, Ignasi Rodríguez-Roda, Jean-Philippe Steyer, Joaquim Comas

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The IWA/COST simulation benchmark platform has been widely used to evaluate and compare different activated sludge control strategies. The IWA/COST simulation benchmark provides performance indices like the effluent water quality, operating costs and controller performance (Copp, 2002), all of them quantitative. However, these indices do not take into account the biomass separation related problems which at present cannot be quantitatively modelled. A qualitative Risk Assessment Module adaptable to any simulation benchmark platform has been developed for the activated sludge systems. As a consequence, and in order to improve the quantitative performance indices, lately the anaerobic digestion model number 1 (ADM1) …

Decision Support System For The Assessment And Evaluation Of Ecological Impacts On Aquatic Ecosystems: Objectives And Framework, Paola Agostini, Elena Semenzin, A. Critto, Christian Micheletti, Paulo Nunes, Andrea Ghermandi, Stefania Gottardo, S. Giove, Dick De Zwart, Werner Brack, Antonio Marcomini

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), establishing stringent quality objectives for European basins in the next years, prompts for the development of new tools to evaluate and improve the ecological status over European rivers. The present paper will provide an overview of the main activities carried out in the DECIS subproject within MODELKEY, an European research project, funded by the European Commission, aimed to contribute to the assessment, understanding and prediction of the impacts of environmental toxicants on biodiversity in aquatic ecosystems. The main aim of DECIS is to develop a Decision Support System (DSS) that includes all project deliverables …

Integrated Modeling: Examining The Fate And Transport Of Contaminants In Canadian Lakes And Rivers., William Booty, David Lam, Craig Mccrimmon

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

With the ever increasing introduction of chemicals to the environment (approx. 4000 new chemicals are registered each day), scientists and program managers are faced with an apparently endless and overwhelming task of examining the possible ecological risks of these new chemicals as well as the existing chemicals in aquatic ecosystems. It is also well recognized that no single model will be capable of dealing with all of the different types of chemicals and the environments that these chemicals are released into. It is therefore necessary to be able to integrate a spectrum of best practice models into a system that …

Lake Erie Hypoxia Simulations With Elcom-Caedym, Luis F. León, Ralph E. H. Smith, Jose R. Romero, Robert E. Hecky

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

This paper presents the simulation of the dissolved oxygen (DO) dynamics in the central basin of Lake Erie using a three-dimensional hydrodynamic model (ELCOM) coupled with an aquatic ecological model (CAEDYM). The objective was to simulate the recurrent hypoxic conditions that occur in the shallow hypolimnion of the central basin of the lake after the onset of stratification. In early spring, oxygen concentrations are relatively high, but by late summer, large areas in the central basin of Lake Erie are effectively hypoxic (andlt;2 mg l-1). This numerical modeling study successfully reproduced horizontal variability and vertical decay of dissolved oxygen during …

Survival Of White Marlin (Tetrapturus Albidus) Released From Commercial Pelagic Longline Gear In The Western North Atlantic, David W. Kerstetter, John E. Graves

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

To estimate postrelease survival of white marlin (Tetrapturus albidus) caught incidentally in regular commercial pelagic longline fishing operations targeting swordfish and tunas, short-duration popup satellite archival tags (PSATs) were deployed on captured animals for periods of 5-43 days. Twenty (71.4%) of 28 tags transmitted data at the preprogrammed time, including one tag that separated from the fish shortly after release and was omitted from subsequent analyses. Transmitted data from 17 of 19 tags were consistent with survival of those animals for the duration of the tag deployment. Postrelease survival estimates ranged from 63.0% (assuming all nontransmitting tags were …

Evaluation Of Serum Immunoglobulins Among Individuals Living Near Six Superfund Sites, Dhelia M. Williamson, Mary C. White, Charles Poole, David Kleinbaum, Robert Vogt, Kari North

United States Public Health Resources

Residents living in communities near Superfund sites have expressed concern that releases from these facilities affect their health, including adverse effects on their immune systems. We used data from six cross-sectional studies to evaluate whether people who live near several Superfund sites are more likely to have individual immunoglobulin test results (IgA, IgG, and IgM) below or above the reference range than those who live in comparison areas with no Superfund site. Study participants consisted of target-area residents who lived close to a Superfund site and comparison area residents who were not located near any Superfund or hazardous waste sites. …

The Role Of Higher Education In America: A Spa Or A Smörgåsbord?, Amany Saleh, Marcia Lamkin, David Cox

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

American higher education has a long and rich tradition of seeking higher moral and civic purposes in its endeavors. . . [C]ampuses have been the sites of debate on the critical issues of the day and faculty have sought to provide students with tools for rigorous analysis, critical reflection . . . . Now more than ever, higher education is challenged to educate the leaders of tomorrow and to connect those future leaders with the world of today. (Hollander 1999, v).

A Relational Database Approach For Frequent Subgraph Mining, Subhesh Kumar Pradhan

Computer Science and Engineering Theses - Archive

Data mining aims at discovering interesting and previously unknown patterns from data sets. Further more, graph-based data mining represents a collection of techniques for mining the relational aspects of data represented as a graph. Complex relationships in data can be represented using graphs and hence graph mining is appropriate for analyzing data that is rich in structural relationships. Database mining of graphs, on the other hand, aims at directly mining graphs stored in a database using SQL queries. Several SQL-based mining algorithms have been developed successfully and their efficiency and scalability have been established. One of them is HDB-Subdue which …

The Constitutional Rights Of Non-Custodial Parents, David D. Meyer

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Competent Persons' Constitutional Right To Refuse Medical Treatment In The U.S. And Japan: Application To Japanese Law, Naoki Kanaboshi

Penn State International Law Review (1982 - 2011)

No abstract provided.

A Genetic Algorithms Approach To Non-Coding Rna Gene Searches, Jennifer A. Smith

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

A genetic algorithm is proposed as an alternative to the traditional linear programming method for scoring covariance models in non-coding RNA (ncRNA) gene searches. The standard method is guaranteed to find the best score, but it is too slow for general use. The observation that most of the search space investigated by the linear programming method does not even remotely resemble any observed sequence in real sequence data can be used to motivate the use of genetic algorithms (GAs) to quickly reject regions of the search space. A search space with many local minima makes gradient decent an unattractive alternative. …

Wooster Magazine: Summer 2006, Karol Crosbie

Wooster Magazine: 2001-2010

This edition of the Wooster Magazine was published in the summer of 2006. Sally Whitman's 13 year journey on completing her bachelors degree is featured on page three. Students will no longer be registering for classes in person, but rather online through the Scotweb system. Twenty student's IS abstracts are featured from page eight to thirteen. English professor, Daniel Bourne is featured along with a few of the poems he has written. Professor Anne Nurse's sociology class, Criminology and Deviance, is highlighted for the fact that half of the class is made up of inmates from the Indian River Juvenile …

Jefferson Review - Summer 2006

Jefferson Review

Contents

• 2 - Dean’s Column
• 4 - School of Nursing Debuts
• 6 - Honoring Rear Admiral Marsha J. Evans
• 7 - Spotlight on Faculty: Dr. Roseann Schaaf
• 9 - Career Development Center Announces New Online Career System

• DEPARTMENTAL NEWS
• 10 - Bioscience Technologies
• 10 - CARAH
• 12 - Nursing
• 15 - Occupational Therapy
• 16 - Physical Therapy
• 18 - Radiologic Sciences

• 19 - Class Notes
• 23 - In Memoriam
• 24 - New Online Directory Keeps Alumni in Touch

Focus On The Future Of Clinical Care, Brian G. Harrison, Robert L. Barchi

Thomas Jefferson University Administrative Documents and Reports

2006 Annual report of Thomas Jefferson University

Monthly Accomplishments For Turnbull National Refuge, July 2006, Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge

Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge Reports

A monthly report of accomplishments at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge written by Project Leader Nancy Curry.

The Irrational Legacy Of Romer V. Evans: A Decade Of Judicial Review Reveals The Need For Heightened Scrutiny Of Legislation That Denies Equal Protection To Members Of The Gay Community, Kate Girard

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

Trans-Literacy Within Eighth Amendment Jurisprudence: De/Fusing Gender And Sex, Nikko Harada

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

Symposium Transcript, Sandra Coliver, Rhonda Copelon, Joel Filártiga, Dolly Filártiga, Felice Gaer, John Huerta, Sidney Rosdeitcher, Ralph Steinhardt, Peter Weiss, Robert White

City University of New York Law Review

Editor’s Note: On June 30, 1980, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals decided Filártiga v. Peña-Irala , a groundbreaking case that used the Alien Tort Claims Act to achieve justice for victims of international human rights violations. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the Second Circuit Filártiga decision was celebrated on November 2, 2005 by the International Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), and the New York City Law Review with “The Making of Filártiga v. Peña: Alien Tort Claims Act After Twenty-Five Years” at the Association of …

A Brief Critique Of The Emaciated State And Its Reliance On Non-Governmental Organizations To Provide Social Services, Dana Neacsu

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Movement Patterns Used By The Elderly When Getting Out Of Bed, Julie Mount, Leslie Kresge, Gabrielle Klaus, Lynn Mann, Caitlin Palomba

Department of Physical Therapy Faculty Papers

Background and Purpose. Getting out of bed is difficult for 27.6% of people over 65. The purpose of this study is to describe movement patterns used by older adults for rising from bed.

Subjects. 42 healthy subjects between the ages of 65 and 90.

Methods. Subjects were videotaped performing 5 trials of getting out of bed. Movement patterns were categorized for each body part.

Results. A number of movement patterns occurred that were not reported in younger people. The most frequent movement patterns used were: “roll off” (38.3%) for the trunk, “double push” (34.7%) for the far arm, “multi-push” (36.0%) …

Vehicle Routing Problem Using Genetic Algorithm / Shamini Nagaratnam, Nagaratnam Shamini

Student Works (2000-2009)

This dissertation studies and explores the potential of using Genetic Algorithms to find the shortest path in Vehicle Routing Problem. Routes for vehicles with known location from source to destination are designed where the total distance or time traveled is minimized. Although genetic algorithms have been used to solve the Vehicle Routing Problem this research aims to create different a way of chromosome representation and introduction of overlapping rate to determine the number of chromosome sent for crossover and mutation. Fixed length chromosomes and their genes have been used for encoding this problem. The proposed method uses proportional selection with …

Jefferson Medical College Annual Report, 2006, Thomas J. Nasca

Jefferson Medical College Administrative Documents and Reports

No abstract provided.

Universities And Other Institutions Of Higher Learning

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Fall 2006 Nova Southeastern University Farquhar College Of Arts And Sciences Student Catalog, Nova Southeastern University

Undergraduate Programs Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Medical Education Digest, Vol. 8 No. 4 (July/August 2006), Nova Southeastern University

Medical Education Digest

No abstract provided.