... focus on environmental effectsnot quantified herein, such as the use of water [30], generation of waste water, and toxic emissions [31]. Detailed assessments of the end -of- life fate of vehicles ... consider the effects of biofuels andother non-conventional energy inputs on life-cycle results.LCAs of biofuels are starting to be developed and willprovide the environmental assessments necessary ... doi:10.1088/1748-9326/4/2/024008 Environmental assessmentof passengertransportation should includeinfrastructure and supply chainsMikhail V Chester1and Arpad HorvathDepartment of Civil and Environmental...
... framework of the National Program of Ecotoxicology (PNETOX) under the jurisdiction of the French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development, sediments as key compartments for the assessmentof ... Low/Median (ERL/ERM) of Long et al. (1995) , the Threshold Effect Level/Probable Effect Level (TEL/PEL) of Macdonald et al. (1996), and the Ecotoxicological Assessment Criteria (EAC) of OSPAR (2000).3.3.2 ... sustainability of estuarine biodiversity is vital to the ecological and economic health of coastal regions. Environmental monitoring of coastal and estuarine areas is based mainly on the measurement of...
... type of pollutants. Effective accumu- lators of pollutants are mollusks, often applied as bioin- dicators of water pollution with heavy metals [55,56]. The properties of some populations of ... enable us to estimate the level ofenvironmental pollution [35-37]. A method of bioindicatory assessmentof forest health was developed in the 1980s. The effects of pollu- tion are determined ... are used more and more often to determine the level ofenvironmental pollution. Being components of ecosystems, they can provide valuable information on the degree ofenvironmental degradation...
... highly immunogenetic antigens. The severity of the disease might be related to the number of the larvae present in the eye and by the immune response of the host. Figure 1: Ocular toxocariasis ... presence of specific IgG in the serum (ELISA test, 90% specificity and 91% sensibility). Nevertheless the absence of specific antibodies in the serum does not exclude the diagnosis of ocular ... J. Med. Sci. 2009, 6 http://www.medsci.org 130The major causes of visual acuity loss are: - se-vere vitreitis (52.6% of the cases), - cystoid macular edema (47,4%) and - tractional retinal...
... administered because of its property to cross the blood-brain and blood-ocular barrier. Cau-tion should be made if administered to children, be-cause it may cause dental changes. Ciprofloxacin (1,5 ... disease at 500 mg/day for 3 to 5 days. Immunodeficient patients need a more prolonged course of treatment, usually up to 4 months. Ocular lesions are treated with antibiotics and with topical...
... generating a report. One of the common formats for interchange of formatted data is ’tab delimited’ where each line corresponds to a single record. The individual fields of the record are separated ... transitions from non-white space to white space characters. 4 Massachusetts Instituteof Technology Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 6.087: Practical Programming in ... information about citing these materials or our Terms of Use, visit: http://ocw.mit.edu/terms. Problem 3.4 ’wc’ is a unix utility that display the count of characters, words and lines present in a file....
... resort city of Da Lat§Construction of the map for good management ofenvironmental quality in tourist areas including the city of Da Lat:§Distribution map of the tourist areas city of Da Lat.§The ... map of environmentla air quality tourist areas city of Da Lat.§A map of the surface water environmental quality in tourist areas in Da Lat.§Subject to the four groups of measures to manage environmental ... the current state ofenvironmental quality of surface water in the resort city of Dalat in general are now seriously polluted. If in the future there is no solution, the risk of tourist areas...
... Approximation of f at x0Quadratic Approximation of f at x1Fast convergence of New-ton’s method w/ αk=1.Given xk, the method ob-tains xk+1as the minimum of a quadratic approxima-tion of f ... Approximation• Role of convergence analysis• Role of rate of convergence analysis• Using an existing package to solve a nonlinearprogramming problemOPTIMAL CONVERGENCE RATE• The value of αkthat ... Solution of systems of n nonlinear equationswith n unknowns− Model Construction – Curve Fitting− Neural Networks− Pattern ClassificationSTEEPEST DESCENT AND NEWTON’S METHODx0Slow convergence of...
... IN HANOIEXPERIENCE OF THE INSTITUTE OF ENERGY IN THE PREPARATION OF THE RENEWABLE MASTER PLANPresented by: Nguyen Duc Cuong Institute of EnergyHanoi, 3/2008 Institute of Energy1. Introduction9 ... (development of RE Master Plan) Institute of EnergyContents of Presentation1. Introduction2. Main Contents of RE Master Plan and Some Preliminary results 3. Experience Institute of EnergyAlternative ... first draft report has been prepared by Instituteof Energy Institute of EnergyTHANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! Institute of EnergyPresent status reviewShare of RE electricity in total power generation...
... of this issue: “A small number of flaws in software programs are responsible for the vast majority of successful Internet attacks…. A few software vulnerabilities account for the majority of ... wireless LAN testing) + Penetration Testing Often, several of these testing techniques are used together to gain more comprehensive assessmentof the overall network security posture. For ... None of these tests by themselves will provide a complete picture of the network or its security posture. Table 3.1 at the end of this section summarizes the strengths and weaknesses of each...
... and M iz umoto, Y. (2006)Estimation of Intake Level of Di (2-ethylhecyl) ph-thalate (DEHP) of Japanese pregnant woman basedon measurement of concentrations of three urinarymetabolites. Jpn. ... 860–8555,Japan,cDepartment of Prevention and Environmental Medicine, Faculty of Life Sciences, K umamoto University, 1–1–1 Honjo, Ku-mamoto 860–8556, Japan,dDepartment of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medi cal ... Establishment of an analysismethod for nonanal and decanal using 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine—HPLC and a survey of indoor air. Indoor Environ., 8, 1–8 (in Japanese).104)IPCS (1995) Environmental...
... 0.5–1% of the popu-lation and causes progressive joint destruction thatleads to the restriction of activities of daily living anddeterioration of quality of life. Although the patho-genesis of ... 0.5–1% of the population. RA causes progressive joint destructionthat leads to the restriction of activities of daily living and deterioration of quality of life. Although the pathogenesis of RA ... factors are responsible for 50–60% of the risk of devel-oping RA. Thus, environmental factors may explain the remaining risk of developing RA. A large variety ofenvironmental factors such as infectiousagents,...
... of the problem, the objectives of the study, thedefinition of the event and unit of observation, characterization of the system,sources of data, selection of controls, and characteristics of ... dynamics of fish and other wildlife species can be monitored toobtain measures of effects ofenvironmental pollution. It is necessary to havesome knowledge of the natural history of a species ... and application of animal sentinels for components of qualitative and quantitative risk assessment. As requested in the committee's task, some discussion of application of animalsentinel...