This manual is intended to provide guidance to aid dischargers in characterizing the type of toxicants that are causing chronic toxicity in industrial and municipal effluents. In a regulatory context, a toxicity identification evaluation (TIE) may be required as part of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit or as an enforcement action. TIES may also be conducted by ...

The speed of most parallel-aligned liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCoS) spatial light modulators (SLMs) is limited to the video rate of their drivers, which is a limitation for high-speed applications. However, the LCoS SLM presented here has a driver allowing a frequency range of up to 1011 Hz. Using the static phase modulation characterization and the static lookup table (LUT), the phase modulati...

Most programs exhibit significant repetition of behaviour, and detecting program phases is an increasingly important aspect of dynamic, adaptive program optimizations. Phase-based optimization can also reduce profiling overhead, save simulation time, and help in program understanding. Using a novel state space characterization, we give an an overview of state-of-the-art phase detection and pred...

Many methods exist for the analysis and for the characterization of the phase transformations of the rapidly solidified alloys, which are also described in the literature [1 3]. frequently used methods are the scanning electron microscopy (sEM), transmission electron microscopy For the characterization of the phase transformations in the alloys during the heat treatment the various methods of t...

Crystalline tantalum thin films of about 500nm thickness were deposited on AISI 316L stainless steel substrate using magnetron sputtering. To investigate the nano-mechanical properties of tantalum films, deposition was performed at two temperatures (25°C and 200°C) on TaNx intermediate layer with different N2/Ar flow rate ratio from 0 to 30%. Nano-indentation was performed to obtain the mechani...

Covariant phase difference observables are determined in two different ways, by a direct computation and by a group theoretical method. A characterization of phase difference observables which can be expressed as difference of two phase observables is given. Classical limit of such phase difference observables are determined and the Pegg-Barnett phase difference distribution is obtained from th...