In order to determine hydrocarbon contamination of drinking water in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata and to identify its source, we sampled water and subaqueous surface sediments from Lake Pertusillo, a fresh-water, highly dynamic, artificial reservoir located entirely within the largest oil field in Italy (Val d'Agri, Basilicata). Monitoring by the Basilicata Agency for Environmental...

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INTRODUCTION Physician specialists are under-represented in communities in northern Ontario, even in larger communities of approximately 100 000 population. The positive association between postgraduate training in northern or rural areas and eventual practice in these locations has been well documented in the literature, but only for family medicine/general practice. Few, if any, studies have ...

Hongfeng Wang*, Shengxiang Yang, W.H. Ip and Dingwei Wang College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China; State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industries, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110004, China; Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK; College of Mathematic...

Low-sensitivity H ∞ filter design for linear delta operator systems with sampling time jitter Xiang-Gui Guo a b & Guang-Hong Yang a c a College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110819, China b School of Electrical Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Xiqing, Tianjin, 300384, China c State Key Laboratory of Integrated Automation for P...

The Hydroptilidae constitute the most diverse and widespread family of Trichoptera in the world. About 90 species of microcaddisflies have been recorded from Brazil, but the northeastern region is one of the least-sampled. In this work we describe a new species of Metrichia from Pernambuco State. Furthermore, we present the first records of Flintiella andreae Angrisano 1995 and Oxyethira bettya...

Dashun Wang1; 2, Yu-Ru Lin3; 4, and James P. Bagrow5; 6 1Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA 2Center for Cancer Systems Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA 3College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA 4Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA 5Engineeri...

PING HE, CHUN-GUO JING, TAO FAN, AND CHANG-ZHONG CHEN School of Information Science & Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, 110819, People’s Republic of China; School of Automation and Electronic Information, Sichuan University of Science & Engineering, Zigong, Sichuan, 643000, People’s Republic of China; Artificial Intelligence Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Un...