This work reports the occurrence and distribution of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in soil, sediment, suspended particle matter (SPM), streamwater and macrophytes, along the Río Negro basin, Argentinean Patagonia. The clear predominance of OCPs among all matrices indicates the impact of agriculture on the watershed....

Four cases of young cadets who developed severe heat stroke while on a cross country run in Doon Valley are reported. Physical exertion alone caused the episode in a homeothermic environment. One patient continued to have left facial nerve palsy.

Venture capital is broadly acknowledged as being an important constituent of a mature habitat for high-technology entrepreneurship as practiced in Silicon Valley (Lee et al. 2000). Each chapter in this book has examined the significance of venture capital in the economies of the regions under discussion and its particular place in the regional habitats for innovation that have appeared. As with...

The Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment submits these comments on the Draft California Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool (“OEHHA Tool”). The Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment (“CRPE”) is a grassroots, community-based organization based in Delano, California. We provide legal advocacy for and organize in Central Valley communities most impacted by environmental pollut...

An ASIC implementation of capacitive fingerprint sensor is described for user authentication on small, thin, and portable equipment. New charge sharing sensing circuit minimizes the influence of internal parasitic capacitances and enlarges the voltage difference between a ridge and valley. A voltage comparator can easily discriminate a ridge and valley. Our method results in about 180% improvem...

This paper deals with a new single ended primary inductance converter (SEPIC) for power factor correction (PFC). The proposed converter is used in combination with SEPIC and a valley fill circuit. The valley fill circuit improves the efficiency of the SEPIC by reducing the harmonics in the supply mains. The power factor is also enhanced compared to the conventional PFC converters. It uses the s...

more than 1.5 million people live in the kathmandu valley. the valley is facing an extreme shortage of water supply. at the same time the demand is escalating rapidly. to address this issue of scarcity of water, the government of nepal has proposed a project of inter- basin transfer of water from melamchi river located 40 km north-east of the kathmandu valley. the project will cover two distric...

[1] Valley networks, regional drainage patterns suggesting liquid water stability at the surface, are confined to early in the history of Mars (the Noachian/Hesperian boundary and before), prior to a major climate transition to the hyperarid cold conditions of the Amazonian. Several later fluvial valley systems have been documented in specific Hesperian and Early Amazonian environments, and are...