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The Runoff Reduction Method, Joseph Battiata, Kelly Collins, David Hirschman, Greg Hoffmann

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

The Runoff Reduction Method (RRM) provides an innovative approach to crediting the total performance of stormwater best management practices (BMPs). Total BMP performance refers to the pollutant removal and runoff volume reduction capabilities. The RRM tracks the implementation of stormwater BMPs, including Low Impact Development (LID) strategies such as permeable pavement, rainwater harvesting, downspout disconnection, soil amendments, etc., and credits the appropriate runoff volume reduction, pollutant concentration reduction, or both towards compliance with stormwater quality and quantity requirements. By providing a mechanism to credit the volume reduction associated with these LID strategies the RRM also documents an allowable reduction of …

Wetlands And Ponds For Stormwater Treatment In Subtropical Australia: Their Effectiveness In Enhancing Biodiversity And Improving Water Quality?, Margaret Greenway

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Stormwater best management practice is aimed at reducing potential downstream impacts on aquatic ecosystem health. Sediment basins, wetlands and ponds are commonly used in subtropical Australia for water-quality improvement; they also have the potential to enhance aquatic biodiversity in urbanised catchments. Two retrofit field sites in Brisbane, Australia were monitored for water quality and ecosystem health. The Golden Pond "wetland system" treatment train consisted of a sediment basin and two wetlands. The Bridgewater Creek "pond system", consisted of a sediment basin and five ponds. Suspended solids were reduced during wet weather, but increased during dry weather due to resuspension by …

Best Management Practices For Stormwater Management In The Desert Southwest, Mahesh R. Gautam, Kumud Acharya, Mark Stone

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Despite several decades of experience with stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs) in the United States, the application of such approaches in the Desert Southwest region has not received adequate attention. One reason for this shortcoming could be the general perception of the insignificance of BMPs in a region with little annual precipitation. However, the Desert Southwest still experiences relatively high rainfall intensity and runoff from rainfall. Sparse vegetation, steep topography, complex soils, unique geology, and rapid land development all contribute increase runoff response. Since the Desert Southwest hosts a large and rapidly growing population, stormwater BMPs are important for protecting …

Application Of The Analytic Hierarchy Process For Selecting And Modeling Stormwater Best Management Practices, Kevin D. Young, Tamim Younos, Randel L. Dymond, David F. Kibler, David H. Lee

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Engineers are increasingly expected to consider several influential criteria when selecting a single best management practice (BMP) for stormwater management. These criteria include site physical characteristics; local, state, and federal pollution control ordinances; stakeholder input, and BMP implementation and long-term maintenance costs. This paper discusses the development of a software-aided approach based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) as a decision-making tool for selecting stormwater management BMPs. Supported with input from a geographic information system, the AHP can provide an objective, mathematically-based alternative to the existing, often subjective BMP selection approaches. In this study, the developed AHP decision support software …

Watershed Retrofit And Management Evaluation For Urban Stormwater Management Systems In North Carolina, Kathy M. Debusk, William F. Hunt, Upton Hatch, Olha Sydorovych

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

In response to water quality concerns in the Jordan Lake Reservoir and state and federal mandates, several cities in North Carolina are being required for the first time to reduce nutrient loads in stormwater from previously developed lands; that is, install retrofits. It is anticipated that similar requirements will become necessary for other urban areas in North Carolina. The goal of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of alternative approaches to stormwater management for existing developments within North Carolina cities. Geographic coverage of the study included a portion of the New Hope Creek watershed, located within the City of …

Survey Says: Implications Of A Public Perception Survey On Stormwater Education Programming, Katie Giacalone, Catherine Mobley, Calvin Sawyer, James Witte, Gene Eidson

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Effective watershed and stormwater education and public involvement programs strive to increase awareness of watersheds and landscape connectivity and also encourage behavior changes that may be contributing to water quality and quantity problems within a targeted basin. According to new guidance from the US Environmental Protection Agency on stormwater permit improvement, regulators are looking for programs to utilize targeted issues relevant to a community to guide the development of a comprehensive outreach program. In an effort to collect information on public perception, knowledge, behaviors and willingness to get involved in improved stormwater management, a telephone survey was implemented. This manuscript …

Stormwater Management For A Record Rainstorm At Chicago, Stanley A. Changnon

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

A record setting 24-hour rainstorm hit Chicago in September 2008. It created an opportunity to assess its impacts and to compare the storm water management with that used in other recent rainstorms. Flooding impacted all forms of transportation and thousands of homes and businesses, 10,000 homes had to be evacuated. One lesson learned is that this storm's magnitude was enhanced by urban and lake influences on the atmosphere that extended over the large suburban areas west of the city. This helped intensify the rainfall over a large area. A second lesson learned is when 6-hour and 24-hour rainfall amounts exceed …

Misty Green Gay

African American Funeral Programs

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Integrated Freestanding Single-Crystal Silicon Nanowires: Conductivity And Surface Treatment, Chung-Hoon Lee, Clark Ritz, Minghuang Huang, Michael Ziwisky, Robert Blise, Max Lagally

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Integrated freestanding single-crystal silicon nanowires with typical dimension of 100 nm × 100 nm × 5 µm are fabricated by conventional 1:1 optical lithography and wet chemical silicon etching. The fabrication procedure can lead to wafer-scale integration of silicon nanowires in arrays. The measured electrical transport characteristics of the silicon nanowires covered with/without SiO₂ support a model of Fermi level pinning near the conduction band. The I–V curves of the nanowires reveal a current carrier polarity reversal depending on Si–SiO₂ and Si–H bonds on the nanowire surfaces

Haunting Witnesses: Diasporic Consciousness In African American And Caribbean Writing, Brandi Bingham Kellett

Open Access Dissertations

This project examines the ways in which several texts written in the late twentieth century by African American and Caribbean writers appropriate history and witness trauma. I read the representational practices of Toni Morrison, Ernest Gaines, Paule Marshall, and Fred D'Aguiar as they offer distinct approaches to history and the resulting effects such reconstituted, discovered, or, in some cases, imagined histories can have on the affirmation of the self as a subject. I draw my theoretical framework from the spaces of intersection between diaspora and postcolonial theories, enabling me to explore the values of the African diaspora cross-culturally as manifested …

Khatas Presented, Office Of Public Affairs

Press Releases

Governors State University professor Dr. Jon Carlson recently returned from India and a meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama with some very special gifts. He presented Khatas to GSU President Elaine P. Maimon, Provost Terry Allison, and Dean of the College of Education Deborah Bordelon.

Khatas are Tibetan scarves that have been blessed by the Dalai Lama. They symbolize purity, goodwill, auspiciousness, and compassion. Once blessed by the Dalai Lama, they become cherished talismans.

[2010-12-21] Meeting Of The Presidential Evaluation Committee Minutes, Virginia Commonwealth University. Board Of Visitors

VCU Board of Visitors Minutes

Official minutes of the VCU Board of Visitors and its Executive Committee.

Moodys-Real Commercial Property Price Indices, December 2010 (Moody's Special Report), Moody's Investor Service

Documents

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Self-Insurance And The Potential Effects Of Health Reform On The Small-Group Market, Kathryn Linehan

National Health Policy Forum

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) as amended by the Health Care Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 makes landmark changes to health insurance markets. Individual and small-group insurance plans and markets will see the biggest changes, but PPACA also affects large employer and self-insured plans by imposing rules for benefit design and health plan practices. Over half of workers—most often those in very large firms—are covered by self-insured health plans in which employers (or employee groups) bear all or some of the risk of providing insurance coverage to a defined population of workers and their dependents. As PPACA …

Jacqueline Robinson V. County Of Allegheny

2010 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Ada County V. City Of Garden City Complaint Dckt. 40084

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

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Formalizing A Conceptual Framework Of Work Domain Knowledge, Min Zhu

Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)

Background: The failure rate of health information systems is high, partially due to fragmented, incomplete, or incorrect identification and description of specific and critical domain requirements. In order to systematically transform the requirements of work into real information system, an explicit conceptual framework is essential to summarize the work requirements and guide system design. Recently, Butler, Zhang, and colleagues proposed a conceptual framework called Work Domain Ontology (WDO) to formally represent users’ work. This WDO approach has been successfully demonstrated in a real world design project on aircraft scheduling. However, as a top level conceptual framework, this WDO has not …

December 21, 2010 Minutes, Illinois Wesleyan University

Minutes

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Web Site Helps Northeast Homeowners Make A Plan To Save Energy, Beth Potier

Media Relations

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Aluminum And Solid Alkali Peroxide Galvanic Cell, Robert Frederick Benson, Andres M. Cardenas-Valencia, Lawrence C. Langebrake

USF Patents

The present invention provides a galvanic cell having an aluminum anode and a cathode compartment design suitable for carrying out the aqueous electrochemical reaction between solid aluminum metal and aqueous peroxide ions. The galvanic cell is activated when water, aqueous hydroxide solution, or an aqueous salt solution is added to the cell. This reaction releases a significant amount of electrochemical energy from a small size (mass or volume) cell. This cell reaction and design leads to an improvement in energy released over state-of-the-art aluminum/hydrogen peroxide galvanic cells.

Combined Fiber-Optic Absorption And Emission Measurement Apparatus, Nicholas Djeu

USF Patents

Disclosed is a spectroscopic system having a fiber-optic probe for simultaneous IR and Raman measurement. The probe includes a single strand of optical fiber, such as sapphire which is suitable for IR absorption measurements as far as 4 μm and Raman excitation at wavelengths as short as 300 nm. The probe is immersed in the sample and functions in the evanescent wave mode for both IR absorption and Raman scattering measurements. The sensing system makes possible the synergistic, and simultaneous, analysis of both IR and Raman data in an integrated device.

Systems And Methods For Adaptive Interference Cancellation, Guifang Li

UCF Patents

In one embodiment a communications system includes an RF receiver that receives a desired signal and the interference signal, a first phase modulator that receives the desired signal and the interference signal from the RF receiver and generates a resulting optical signal, a second phase modulator that generates a modulated optical signal relative to an inverse interference signal and transmits the modulated optical signal to the first phase modulator, and a detector that receives the resulting optical signal from the first phase modulator and detects the desired signal, wherein the resulting optical signal comprises a modulated optical signal generated by …

Transflective Liquid Crystal Display Using Separate Transmissive And Reflective Liquid Crystal Cells And Materials With Single Cell Gap, Shin-Tson Wu, Qi Hong, Yung-Hsun Wu

UCF Patents

A transflective liquid crystal display (TLCD) using separate transmissive (T) and reflective (R) cells in which two liquid crystal materials with different birefringence changes are used. The birefringence change of the R region is half of the birefringence change of the T region. In this case, a single cell gap is possible and identical transmittance and reflectance for R and T is obtained. It is applicable to various reflective LC modes, and the fabrication methods are simple.

Excitation Band-Gap Tuning Of Dopant Based Quantum Dots With Core-Inner Shell-Outer Shell Div, Swadeshmukul Santra, Soumitra Kar

UCF Patents

A composition and method for fabricating and tuning a dopant based core-shell semiconductor having a quantum dot core with an excitation band-gap are provided. A quantum dot core composed of an alloy of cadmium sulfide (CdS) and zinc sulfide (ZnS) as semi-conductor materials include a dopant of manganese (Mn) added to the core and an outer shell of zine sulfide (ZnS). The dopant based core/shell quantum dot semiconductor of the present invention allows the fine tuning of an excitation band-gap, covering a wide range (from 2.4 eV to ~4 eV). When doped with Mn, these alloy Qdots emit bright yellow/orange …

Pengembangan Budaya Organisasi Di Lembaga Peradilan, Janedjri M. Gaffar

BISNIS & BIROKRASI: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi dan Organisasi

This research concerns with organizational culture in a judiciary institution, with a case study at the Secretariat General and Clerk’s Office of the Indonesian Constitutional Court. The purpose of this research is to learn about the organizational culture growing in the institution, identify the appropriate culture and formulate choices of possible development. This research used qualitative approach. The data were collected through the method of observation, survey, and focus group discussion. The result of this research shows that in the dimension of external adaptation tasks, the culture developed in the Secretariat General and Clerk’s Office of the Indonesian Constitutional Court …

Rekonstruksi Konsepsi Supply-Side Tax Policy, Haula Rosdiana

BISNIS & BIROKRASI: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi dan Organisasi

Supply-side tax policy is generally identified with tax cut and other forms of tax incentives. Nevertheless, there are many other forms of tax policy that give larger space for private sectors to increase their productivity. It is this enlarged meaning and essence of supply-side tax policy that need to be reconstructed to hinder the policy from being trapped into tax incentive polemic. By understanding its philosophy, the concept of supply-side tax policy can be reconstructed through regulations and deregulations. Government should develop regulations on specific transactions unambiguously in order to minimize tax dispute. Simultaneously, cost of taxation for government and …

Greece Fourth Extension Of The Support Measures For The Credit Institutions In Greece, Joaquin Almunia

Documents

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W Riccardi Letter To Gary Cohen Re Use Of Lamont Quotes, Walter Ricciardi

Documents

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Cuomo V Ernst & Young, Andrew M. Cuomo, United States: Courts: Supreme Courts: New York State

Documents

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Freddie Mac Spreadsheet On Goal And Sub-Goal Qualifying Rates For Consolidated Abs Alt-A And Subprime, Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)

Documents

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