... In Japan, there are many heavy storm events and storm runoff events which bring increases in pollutant loads during flooding-stages in large river catchments As the traverse water mixing inthe ... transverse points across the Yodo River during the period from late April tolate November in 2003-2005 The observations were also conducted during five flooding events in 2005 The total pollutant ... with the change of flow during one ofthe five flooding events The data reflected the differences in traveling time of river water from their main pollutant sources and the lack of uniformity of...
... 116oE It is bounded tothe northwest by the province of West Kalimantan, tothe northeast by East Kalimantan, tothe southeast by South Kalimantan, and tothe southwest by the Java Sea (Fig 1) ... province has 11 large rivers, including the Kahayan River, and at least 33 small rivers These rivers are used by local people for many purposes, including drinking water supply, washing, bathing, ... source of water pollution The primary pollution ofthe river associated with gold mining is mercury using inthe gold extraction process However, the impacts of mercury on river environments in the...
... living inthe urban areas, children inthe rural area are familiar with the water in rivers and canals Their daily lives are linked with the rice fields and flood plains Some of them learn to ... (over 160,000) inthe high inundated areas are not attending their schools The beginning and the end ofthe rainy season arethe best time for mosquito reproduction resulting in mosquito-based diseases ... data showing high percentage of child deaths inthe total the losses of life inthe flood seasons inthe MD Save the Children (2003) reported that the vast majority ofthe drowning deaths in recent...
... of rainfall At the end ofthe rainy season, due tothe combination of floodwater draining from the upstream areas, the overland flood water entering from Cambodia across the Vietnam border, the ... forest inthe Upper and the Lower U Minh areas were burned, accounting for approximately 57% (17% inthe Lower U Minh and 40% inthe Upper U Minh) ofthe total Melaleuca forest area Inthe U Minh ... border, the inland high rainfall and the effects of high tide from the sea, yearly between 1.2 and 1.9 million hectares of land are inundated, mainly the Northern parts ofthe MD known as the LongXuyen...
... Sediments are rich in nutrients for agriculture cultivation but they are one ofthe drinking water treatment problems also The sediment load ofthe river isnot so high if compared with Red river inthe ... rain water is too short inthe dry season and its storages are rather inoculated the mosquito pathogens or insect ovum Otherwise, when falling from the air and flowing on the house roofs, arris-gutters ... season Inthe months ofthe wet season, from May to October, the river discharges 2/3 the total annual flow The rest amount of river flow is distributed in months, from November to May, ofthe dry...
... on sequences of kinds of terms occurring in typical kinds of interactions These routines thus can be characterized in broad terms including the kinds of terms typically occurring in given situations, ... manual script including reading and writing are called literacy skills The ones which are related to articulator organs are called the oral skills consisting of listening and speaking Ofthe four ... Question How you find the speaking topics presented in 60 class, based on “English 10”? A Interesting B All right C Boring D Too boring Table 1: Students’ assessment of speaking topics inthe text -...
... of 5.81m covering an area of 388.4km2 and accounting for 7.69% area ofthe entire territory of Thua Thien - Hue Province By the year 2030, flooded depth of almost 6m will result in flooding area ... season inthe Huong River basin due to a series of effect of sea level rise, water reduction and increasing demand of water users is expected to be more serious inthe future Salinity profile ... impacts are presented here Impacts on agriculture Most ofthe current rice paddies would have a high risk of flooding during wet season Additionally, salinity intrusion is another threat during the...
... Awash in weapons, sprawling, and often ringed by unmapped shantytowns, such settings are proving increasingly attractive to insurgents, who are able to live and operate free from the scrutiny ofthe ... honed inthe 1980s during the struggle against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, are now being employed elsewhere as part of a global drive to make America bleed profusely tothe point of bankruptcy.”2 ... insurgents—British colonists who rebelled against the abuses and neglect of British rule At the end ofthe 19th century, the United States fought Filipino insurgents in its newly won territory During the...
... concentrations in industrial, industrialurban, and industrial-suburban areas and discussed the importance of industrial and vehicular emissions in shaping the spatial variation of VOCs The measurements ... at the coast oftheSouthChina Sea (21∼23◦ N) and experiences a typical sub-tropical climate The GZ site is located inthe downtown area ofthe city We collected canister samples at the roof of ... Guangzhou The solid line is the regression line ofthe dots, and (b) the area within the dashed lines is the 95% confidence interval The major source of benzene is vehicular emissions, whereas toluene...
... seal to prohibit ions arriving from the periplasm from escaping tothe cytoplasm In order to gain insight into the interaction ofthe stator arginine with the binding site, we modeled a stretch of ... binding pocket ofthe I tartaricus c-ring Harmonic restraints were placed on the backbone atoms ofthe c-ring, with the intention that only the residues ofthe a subunit and the side chains ofthe ... dependent on the presence ofthe conserved arginine inthe stator These results are supported by energy-minimization calculations ofthe interaction between the stator arginine and the c-ring, and...
... practices inthe upper part ofthe basin Description ofthe Study Area The Assabet River Basin (fig 1) encompasses an area of 177 mi2 within the Merrimack River Basin in eastern Massachusetts The study ... quality inthe Assabet River, especially during low-flow months (late summer) and in headwater areas Streamflow depletion also contributes to loss of aquatic habitat in tributaries tothe river In ... to 45 percent of total wastewater flows Applying these rates to 1997–2001 flows, and estimating infiltration for small areas of sewers inthe study area in Concord and Clinton, infiltration to...
... and Bac Ninh provinces [4]. 3. Conclusions On the basis of frequency distribution, the main characteristics of quantitative distribution of chemical components of groundwater inthe Red River Delta are indicated as following: ... layers characterized by a fine grain size and coarse grain size [4, 5]. Fine sediments composed mainly of sand inthe lower part and weathered clay inthe upper part of Vinh Phuc Formation ... to determine the value of mean and standard deviation at percentiles of 50% and 85%. The software SPSS for Window and Microsoft Excel are useful tools for calculating ...
... 18,000-20,000 yr BP [9] The fall in sea level led tothe lowering ofthe base level ofthe river, resulting in an incised valley The MR1 core was within this incised valley system Following the last glacial ... showing that the marine area occupied the delta except for some upland inthe northern part ofthe island inthe MRD [9] A marine transgression succession, incised-valley fill sediments including ... characterized by tidal laminae and layers with abundant mollusca, both of which are reliable indicators of an estuarine environment In comparison with the BT2 core, the estuarine marine facies and the...
... clay of lagoonal facies inthe central part passing into silty clay of flood plain, oxbow, coastal swamp and peat facies inthe direction from the plain tothe modern coastline. The ... and marine facies (formed inthe final stage of each cycle). Based on this point of view, the Quaternary sediments inthe Red River Delta can be divided into the following hydrogeological ... Holocene aquiclude varies from 6 m to 11.5 m. However, due tothe action of old river systems, in some places there is no trace ofthe fine grain sediments, but there remain only the coarse grained sediments of river bed facies, which are ...
... shifted to other line ministries While there are other constraining factors on increasing domestic resources for health in addition to infusions of overseas development assistance tothe sector (such ... that is increasingly crowded in terms of actors and issues, have increased the challenge of maintaining the profile of SRH in sectoral and national planning processes, while at the same time the ... country office capacity to expand into new areas, and to gain new skills in working with the UN OneHealth costing tool (12), abbreviated expenditure tracking methodologies, and monitoring and...
... president ofthe National Academy of Engineering The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions ... threatened under the ESA in 1997 Factors contributing tothe decline in abundance ofthe endangered suckers and threatened coho inthe Klamath River Basin are diverse and, in some cases, incompletely ... with the USBR After the listing of suckers in 1988 and coho in 1997, the USBR was required to assess the potential impairment of these fishes inthe Klamath River Basin by operations ofthe Klamath...
... Activism intheNew Ukraine Zoia was the director of Lotus, an NGO organized to support persons with spinal cord injuries inthe city of Kyiv As the single mother of a son, Sasha, who injured his spine ... appears to be leading in a meandering and contradictory fashion tothe trimming back of social welfare systems and an ongoing politics of differentiation Examining emerging social programs and welfare ... many critiques of these models, is that they flatten out the experiences ofthe people who inhabit this sphere NGO activists areoften reduced to either modern-day Robin Hoods sacrificing themselves...
... frequency of rain During the rainy season, the rice grain can develop cracks during thelate maturity stage due to rewetting At the same time, during dry season it is likely that the grains over-dry ... lesser proportion of cracked grains There was a general trend of increase inthe percentage of cracked rice corresponding to delayed harvesting day in relation tothe time of grain maturity (day 0) ... after grain maturity The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the effects of harvesting time of several rice varieties on the level of rice cracking and head rice yield in different seasons...
... between the interior and exterior layers ofthe rice kernels The tempering step is therefore necessary to allow moisture to diffuse from the interior tothe exterior, prior to further drying 28 ... kernels, to determine head rice yield as defined by the ratio ofthe mass of unbroken kernel tothe total mass of paddy used The head rice is composed of grains which maintain 75% of their original ... of kernel integrity with respect to hardness and stiffness during tempering, were identified in this study These findings assisted in improving our understanding ofthe role of tempering 34 In...
... 3.1 In this section, we obtain the application inthe algebraic Riccati equation of our results including 3.1 Some of our results and 3.1 cannot contain each other Theorem 3.1 If 1/p and K is the ... for the solution oftheARE 6–12 In addition, from 2, , we know that an interpretation of tr K is that tr K /n is the average value ofthe optimal cost J ∗ as x0 varies over the surface of a ... symmetric 7, 8, 11, 12 However, it is important and difficult to get an estimate ofthe trace bounds when any matrix inthe product is nonsymmetric in theory and practice There are some results in...