Cancer mortality for the population census tracts of Escambia County, FL, which use asbestos-cement (AC) pipe for public potable water distribution, was compared with cancer mortality data collected from census tracts in the same county where other types of piping materials are used. An analysis of covariance was run to test for differences in standard mortality ratios for seven cancer sites am...

It is anticipated that guided ultrasonic wave (GUW) techniques will eventually see widespread application in the nuclear power industry as there are several near-term and future needs that could benefit from the availability of GUW technologies. Already, GUW techniques are receiving consideration for inspecting buried piping at nuclear power plants and future applications may include several Cl...

This paper provides a critical review of the demand for money estimation. In doing so, first we explain the main effective factors on the demand for money on the light of monetarists, which those are: transaction demand for money and opportunity cost of holding money. Then I have done a short report about the existing studies on the demand for money in the Iranian economy and have a special att...

A goods and services approach has been applied to determine the economic value of marine biodiversity in the UK. This paper presents the goods and services resulting from marine biodiversity in UK waters, detailing the habitats and species which provide them, and the likely impact of a decrease in biodiversity. Where possible a monetary value was assigned to each of the goods and services. Valu...

This paper builds on the flexibility of the level-set representation to model in a unified manner the expansion of a hollow in the ground under different physical phenomena. In particular, the dissolving action of a flow of water in a saturated soil, and that of a jet of particles of water in a non-saturated one, are represented in a common framework. In that manner, the complex geometrical evo...

The clarification on the collapse mechanism of a caisson breakwater has been an urgent task in order to reduce damages caused by next millennium tsunamis. In this study, piping destruction of a mound induced by seepage flow is taken into consideration solely. A stabilized ISPH method proposed by Asai (2012) is adopted with some modification associated with the extended Darcy law (Akbari 2013, 2...

Author: GAUDIN Michael Affiliation: DER Electricite De France Title: INVERSE IDENTIFICATION AND UPDATING IN VIBRATIONS OF PIPING SYSTEMS Text: This paper concerns the area of vibrations in piping systems of nuclear power plants. One need to represent as better as possible the dynamic behaviour of those systems with respect to the measurements performed on a real structure. In a software develop...