Delphi [1] is often used to combine and refine the opinions of a heterogeneous group of experts in order to establish a judgment based on a merging of the information collectively available to the experts. However, in this process it is possible to submerge differences of opinion and thus suppress the existence of uncertainty. In many situations it might be advisable to run separate Delphis usi...

Overview As an escape from the day-to-day drudgery of our “real” world, video games allow us to leave reality and explore new fictional worlds. These worlds are more enjoyable when they developed various digital materials presented as official story, which is called “lore.” Lore invites player submerge into background stories worlds, including but not limited those in games. Video-game lore oft...

Produksi air lindi akibat tumpukan sampah akan mencemari lingkungan dan tanah di bawahnya apabila tidak diolah dengan baik. Air memiliki banyak padatan tersuspensi sehingga memerlukan koagulan sebagai pengikat antar partikel padatan. Penelitian ini merancang unit sedimentasi primer mempertimbangkan kecepatan pengendapan ketika diberi koagulan. Berdasarkan hasil pengujian jar test diperoleh dosi...

Abstract. Domestic wastewater effluents are one of the main sources environmental contaminants such as nutrients. Wastewater has been treated with biological processes for over a century to remove contaminants. Conventional treatment plants continue struggle meet Malaysian discharge limits. Stringent regulation enforced by governing authorities makes it obligatory comply guidelines fulfill ammo...

Air-breathing animals diving to forage can optimize time underwater by diving with just enough oxygen for the projected performance underwater. By so doing they surface with minimal body oxygen levels, which leads to maximal rates of oxygen uptake. We examined whether imperial cormorants Phalacrocorax atriceps adhere to this by examining dive:pause ratios in birds diving for extended, continuou...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In the present study, isolation of Streptomyces associated with marine sponges and its bioactive potential against fish and shellfish pathogens were assessed. The Streptomyces sp. were isolated from the marine sponges namely Callyspongia diffusa, Mycale mytilorum, Tedania anhelans and Dysidea fragilis collected from Vizhinjam port, situated in the South-West coast of I...

Julio Cammarota is an assistant professor and Augustine Romero is a graduate student in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology and the Mexican-American Studies and Research Center at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. Latina/o students often experience coursework that is remedial and unchallenging––benign at best, a dumbing-down at worst (Solórzano & Yosso, 2001). This potentia...

tinued to use the most familiar term, 'Torula histolytica,' although realizing that this name may be inappropriate." This seems sensible to the reviewer. Let us hope the literature will 'be spared the adversity of "Debaryomycosis." With a readable style the authors present extensive information, original observations, and sound comment. The monograph is a valuable contribution to knowledge of t...

Conditions at the surface of the young (Hadean and early Archean) Earth were suitable for the emergence and evolution of life. After an initial hot period, surface temperatures in the late Hadean may have been clement beneath an atmosphere containing greenhouse gases over an ocean-dominated planetary surface. The first crust was mafic and it internally melted repeatedly to produce the felsic ro...

A hallmark of the dive response, bradycardia, promotes the conservation of onboard oxygen stores and enables marine mammals to submerge for prolonged periods. A paradox exists when marine mammals are foraging underwater because activity should promote an elevation in heart rate (f(H)) to support increased metabolic demands. To assess the effect of the interaction between the diving response and...