Reclamation and reuse programs are an indispensable part of integrated water resource management, particularly in arid and semi arid regions. Yet, the feasibility of sustainable application not only is relied on design, operation and maintenance of wastewater treatment plants, but also could be influenced by the economical and environmental aspects of reuse demands. This study is aimed to illus...

The path-segment-protecting p-cycles (“flow p-cycles” for short) have capacity efficiency near that of the Shared Backup Path-Protection (SBPP) scheme currently favoured for optical networking. In this paper a significant extension to the method of p-cycle is introduced for network protection. The Flow p-cycle is use to protect path segments of adjacent workingflow, directly straddle the p-cycl...

water crisis resource management originates from limited resources has made it essential to study the prioritization of traditional and modern methods of sustainable water resource management. the objective of such studies is to provide a list of prioritized traditional and modern methods of sustainable water resource management. this research aims to study rainwater harvesting method and qanat...

Uninterrupted transmission in case of failure is a major concern in MPLS based networks, and path protection is an effective method for this. Existing approaches towards path protection include local and global path protection. However, they provide fixed solutions and cannot be adapted to QoS and resource constraints for various kinds of traffic. In this paper, we introduce a new approach, “se...

Because the HIV/AIDS epidemic in resource-poor countries is concentrated in the most productive age group, it affects all development sectors and threatens the protection and safeguarding of human rights. While access to safe water and sanitation is a human right, it is particularly important for people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS that these rights are respected, protected, and fulfilled....

changes in the 1980s. Droughts and water regulations required increased use of lowvolume irrigation, severe freezes promoted the use of fabric covers for cold protection, and governmental immigration reform necessitated re-evaluation of personnel resources. Production practices were required that used smaller quantities of fertilizer and pesticides. Additional restrictions limited the disposal ...

Our research is devoted to development of information infrastructure for e-service semiautomatic provision by using distributed data warehouses (DWs) of water protection domain. Development of software for semi-automatic service provision is based on artificial planner and structure of goals adapted for specialized needs of end users. Such e-service preparation mechanism can work under the unif...

and Agriculture (NIFA) and Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) to evaluate the effects of agricultural conservation practices on spatial patterns and trends in water quality at the watershed scale. In some projects, participants also investigated how social and economic factors influence implementation and maintenance of practices. The 13 projects were conducted from 2004 to 2011 as pa...

BACKGROUND Liao River basin in Jilin Province is the place of origin of the Dongliao River. This study gives a comprehensive analysis of the vegetation coverage in the region and provides a potential theoretical basis for ecological restoration. METHODS The seasonal variation of vegetation greenness and dynamics based on the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in major land cover ty...

New approaches should be considered as the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) moves rapidly to develop new beach monitoring guidelines by the end of 2012, as these guidelines serve as the basis by which states and territories with coasts along the oceans and Great Lakes can then develop and implement monitoring programs for recreational waters. We describe and illustrate one possible appr...