Safe drinking water and sanitation are important determinants of human health and wellbeing and have recently been declared human rights by the international community. Increased access to both were included in the Millennium Development Goals under a single dedicated target for 2015. This target was reached in 2010 for water but sanitation will fall short; however, there is an important differ...

Recombination in single quantum well and multiquantum well InGaN/GaN structures is studied using time-resolved photoluminescence and pulsed photoluminescence measurements. Room-temperature measurements show a rapid lifetime ~0.06 ns! for a single quantum well structure, while an increasingly long decay lifetime is measured for multiquantum wells as more quantum wells are incorporated into the s...

Earthquake-induced crustal deformation and ground shaking can alter stream flow and water levels in wells through consolidation of surficial deposits, fracturing of solid rocks, aquifer deformation, and the clearing of fracture-filling material. Although local conditions affect the type and amplitude of response, a compilation of reported observations of hydrological response to earthquakes ind...

To the Editor of "The Ixdian Medical Gazette." Dear Sir,?I shall thank you if you will be so kind as to grant me space in your valuable paper for the insertion of the following : As one interested, I will be very glad if any of your readers would be so kind as to let me have their opinions as to the best and cheapest way to purify tank and well water, so as to make it drinkable and at the same ...

All five members of a family developed subacutely mental confusion and/or truncal ataxia. Symptoms and signs of polyneuropathy were seen later. The well water in the patients' home contained 400 ppm acrylamide. The present cases are unique in that they are cases of acrylamide poisoning induced by oral intake and percutaneous penetration, and that central nervous system symptoms were prominent.

1.1. Presentation of the problem. The water-waves problem for an ideal liquid consists of describing the motion of the free surface and the evolution of the velocity field of a layer of perfect, incompressible, irrotational fluid under the influence of gravity. In this paper, we restrict our attention to the case when the surface is a graph parameterized by a function ζ(t,X), where t denotes th...