When presented with evidence that Crump et al.’s criteria are satisfied for the animals in some taxon, a sceptic could reasonably continue to suspend judgement about whether those sentient. This is because refer abilities which associated sentience humans, but it not clear necessary these abilities. The be strengthed by requiring of contrast performance between cases information carried felt an...

Human activities have begun to transform northern peatlands into global sources of dissolved organic carbon (DOC). In Estonia, there are 10,091 km of peatlands, constituting 22.3% of the country’s total area. The increasing number of drought days during the last 50 years, which constitutes a threat of an increased flux of dissolved carbon, has also been observed in Estonia. The aim of the curre...

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A simplified sewer nework modelling approach based on the hybrid linear systems framework is discussed. It involives both continuous and discrete variables to include a novel approximation of the overflow and flow over weirs phenomena. The model is validated against data provided by a simulator based on a physical model and is shown to be easily adapted to an optimal/predictive control setting ...

Targeting public spending on difficult-to-observe characteristics often relies on self selection, which may be sensitive to the mechanism used for allocation. This paper directly compares two incentive compatible allocation mechanisms for tree cultivation subsidies in Malawi: a sealed bid, uniform price procurement auction and a take it or leave it price offer. At the contract price, the price ...

An increase in seawater that experiences high tides can cause tidal flooding. Tidal flooding the Semarang area requires quick and precise handling, so an emergency dam is needed to deal with overflow or This study discusses Knock-Down weir as a practical weir. also aims test shear stability of model against wall roughness based on variations soil types, namely: masonry, gravel, sand, clay. The ...

Accurate measurement of stream flow is an important component of environmental water quality monitoring. Flow rates in small streams can be conveniently monitored using weirs. The objective of this study was to design, install, and calibrate a series of permanent compound weirs for use in monitoring flow and water quality in a first order riparian wetland stream that exhibited great variability...

Abstract We determine the distributions of some random variables related to a simple model an epidemic with contact tracing and cluster isolation. This enables us apply general limit theorems for super-critical Crump–Mode–Jagers branching processes. Notably, we compute explicitly asymptotic proportion isolated clusters given size amongst all clusters, conditionally on survival epidemic. Somewha...