A local municipality has decided to build a sewage pit to receive residential sewage waste arriving by tank trucks. Daily accumulated waste are to be pumped to a nearby waste water treatment facility to be re-consumed for agricultural and construction projects. A discrete-event simulation model using Arena Software was constructed to assist in defining the capacity of the system in cubic meters...

Water vapour profiles by ground-based FTIR spectroscopy: study for an optimised retrieval and its validation M. Schneider, F. Hase, and T. Blumenstock IMK-ASF, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Universität Karlsruhe, Germany Received: 7 July 2005 – Accepted: 31 August 2005 – Published: 29 September 2005 Correspondence to: M. Schneider ([email protected]) © 2005 Author(s). This work is...

The Antarctic Slope Front (ASF) modulates ventilation of the abyssal ocean via the export of dense Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) and constrains shoreward transport of warm Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) toward marine-terminating glaciers. Along certain stretches of the continental shelf, particularly where AABW is exported, density surfaces connect the shelf waters to the middepth Circumpolar Dee...

Among the many factors that influence the health of the population, the environment, nutrition and any other have a significant importance. Recently there was noted stabilization of the main indicators, used for characterization of the sanitary-epidemiological situation in the country, and the measures taken by the Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare have played...

The hypothesis that drought intensity constrains the recovery of photosynthesis from drought was tested in the C(3) woody legume Prosopis velutina, and the mechanisms underlying this constraint examined. Hydraulic status and gas exchange were measured the day before a 39 mm precipitation pulse, and up to 7 d afterwards. The experiment was conducted under rainout shelters, established on contras...

Transfer from the breeding facility to a research facility is a stressful event for laboratory animals. Heat stress has been reported to constitute one of the major concerns during transport of animals. This study measured ambient and body temperature, corticosterone and glucose levels, body weight, behavior and water and food intake before, during and after transfer in Wistar rats. Decreased b...

BACKGROUND Stunting in early life has considerable human and economic costs. The purpose of the study was to identify factors associated with stunting among children aged 0-23 months in Indonesia to inform the design of appropriate policy and programme responses. METHODS Determinants of child stunting, including severe stunting, were examined in three districts in Indonesia using data from a ...