by far, different models for determining the relationship between the flow rate  and amount of precipitation have been developed. many models are based on regression models with limited assumptions. one of the most common methods for estimating  sediment of rivers is sediment rating curve. for better estimation of the amount of sediment based of sediment curve  rating equation, it is possible t...

Three bacteria from a tobacco industry effluent and one from a sewage sample were isolated on a medium comprising of 1% tobacco powder as sole source of nutrients. Bacteria isolated from the industrial waste water were identified as Bacillus cereus, B. alvei and B. circulans. While, Lactobacillus sp. was isolated from the sewage sample. The bacteria were optimized for various growth conditions ...

Mussel seed, obtained from the intertidal zone and permanently immersed collector ropes, was cultivated on ropes suspended from three rafts located at three different sites within the Ria de Arousa (Galicia, NW Spain). Sites were characterized by different levels of phytoplankton availability. The source of seed stock had a marked influence upon subsequent mussel growth; seed originating from c...

Microalgae have the potential to utilize the nutrients in the wastewater for its growth and serve as a primary feedstock for the production of value added products. A feasibility study has been conducted to determine the capability of the microalgae (Chlorella sp) to grow in sewage without sterilization in a laboratory scale batch process under the continuous illumination of light. In the prese...

We present an extension of Logic Programming LP which in addition to ordi nary LP clauses also includes integrity constraints explicit representation of disjunction in the bodies of clauses and in goals and suspension of atoms as in concurrent logic languages The resulting framework aims to unify Constraint Logic Programming CLP Abductive Logic Programming ALP and Semantic Query Optimisation SQ...

A torsion pendulum without a torsion wire has been designed and realized, in order to measure very weak forces. The arm of this torsion pendulum ~5.40 g, 1.32310 kg m of inertia! is electrostatically suspended. Its 6 degrees of freedom are controlled thanks to electrostatic forces, and capacitive position sensing with a noise spectral density between 10 and 10 m/AHz. The torque noise spectral d...

An agar sediment test was developed to evaluate the suitability of organic waste streams from the food industry for recovering nutrients by the aquatic worm Lumbriculus variegatus (Lv). The effects of agar gel, sand, and food quantities in the sediment test on worm growth, reproduction, and water quality were studied. Agar gel addition ameliorated growth conditions by reducing food hydrolysis a...

Very small amounts of substances inhibiting the growth of amounts less than about 10-2 mgm. of well-dispersed and suspended tubercle bacilli can be readily and unknowingly introduced into Long's synthetic medium. This fact is of great importance when investigating probable growth factors for these bacilli. It is of equal importance in in vitro studies of the probable inhibiting or lethal effect...

modeling and wrench feasible workspace analysis of a spatial cable suspended robots is presented. a six-cable spatial cable robot is used the same as stewart robots. due to slow motion of the robot we suppose the motion as pseudostatic and kinetostatic modeling is performed. various workspaces are defined and the results of simulation are presented on the basis of various workspaces and applied...