Dam safety assessments rely on the skill and experience of dam engineers but such expertise is not always easily transferred to new staff or conveyed in written reports. Many old dams have outlived their creators and puzzle those that see them for the first time. Eliane Alves Portela and Joao Bento explain how expert system technology can help avoid this DAM construction started over 2000 years...

An infinite dam with compound Poisson inputs and a statedependent release rate is considered. For this dam, we solve Kolmogorov’s backward differential equation to obtain the Laplace transforms of the first exit times in terms of a certain positive kernel. This allows us to provide an explicit expression for the Laplace transform of the wet period for a finite dam.

today water supply issue in large cities seems to be a big problem. this becomes more important with population growth and urbanization extension. to cope with this problem lots of irrigation and drainage projects have been implemented and operated that subsequently many socio- economic and cultural effects have been brought to the areas . the objective of the present study is to survey the soc...

introductiondue to shortage of fresh water resources, the quality of impounded water behind the dams becomemore important than how it was previously as a source of fresh water resource. thermal regime anddissolved oxygen concentration are factors that affect the quality of water reservoirs.many lakes show vertical stratification of their water masses, at least for some extended timeperiods. the...

BACKGROUND The Pak-Mun dam is a controversial hydro-power project on the Mun River in Northeast Thailand. The dam is sited in a habitat of the freshwater snail Neotricula aperta, which is the intermediate host for the parasitic blood-fluke Schistosoma mekongi causing Mekong schistosomiasis in humans in Cambodia and Laos. Few data are available which can be used to assess the effects of water re...

The fresh water reservoirs are one of the main power resources of Pakistan. These water reservoirs are in the form of Tarbela Dam, Mangla Dam, Bhasha Dam, Warsak Dam etc.[1]. To estimate the current power capability of the Dams, the statistical information about the water in the dam has to be clear. For the purpose of water management monthly or yearly survey of the dams required. One of the im...

Many Neisseriaceae do not exhibit Dam methyltransferase activity and, instead of the dam gene, possess drg (dam replacing gene) inserted in the leuS/dam locus. The drg locus in Neisseria gonorrhoeae FA1090 has a lower GC-pairs content (40.5%) compared to the whole genome of N. gonorrhoeae FA1090 (52%). The gonococcal drg gene encodes a DNA endonuclease Drg, with GmeATC specificity. Disruption o...

Dams have been a fundamental part of the U.S. national agenda over the past two hundred years. Recently, however, dam removal has emerged as a strategy for addressing aging, obsolete infrastructure and more than 1,100 dams have been removed since the 1970s. However, only 130 of these removals had any ecological or geomorphic assessments, and fewer than half of those included before- and after-r...