Contribution of Phytoplankton to River Organic Pollution in a Basin with Scarce Water Resources

Water Resources Assessment in a River Basin Using AVSWAT Model

Aavudai Anandhi is working as an assistant professor for research in the Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, United States, since October 2011. Earlier she worked as a research associate (December 2008–August 2011) in Hunter College, CUNY University, New York, United States, studying the impacts of climate change in New York City water supply. For about eleven months, sh...

River water quality modelling for river basin and water resources management with a focus on the Saale River, Germany

This thesis focuses on computer modelling issues such as i) uncertainty, including uncertainty in parameters, data input and model structure, ii) model complexity and how it affects uncertainty, iii) scale, as it pertains to scaling calibrated and validated models up or down to different spatial and temporal resolutions, and iv) transferability of a model to a site of the same scale. The discus...

Managing Scarce Water Resources – China

The Economics of Managing Scarce Water Resources

Recent events, news articles in the popular press, and research outside the field of economics have raised alarming questions about the sufficiency of global freshwater supplies and the potentially devastating impacts of current and future water shortages. For example, the 2008 Beijing Olympics drew attention to the problems of pollution and water shortages in China, where massive infrastructur...

Translating with Scarce Resources

Current corpus-based machine translation techniques do not work very well when given scarce linguistic resources. To examine the gap between human and machine translators, we created an experiment in which human beings were asked to translate an unknown language into English on the sole basis of a very small bilingual text. Participants performed quite well, and debriefings revealed a number of...