Zhenhua Zhang 3 Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering 4 The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260 5 Email: [email protected] 6 7 Ming Ni 8 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering 9 The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260 10 Email: [email protected] 11 12 Qing He 13 Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering 14 Departm...

background: research project risks are uncertain contingent events or situations that, if transpire, will have positive or negative effects on objectives of a project. the management of health and safety at work (mhsw) regulations 1999 require all employers and the self-employed persons to assess the risks from their work on anyone who may be affected by their activities. risk assessment is the...

Objective Status epilepticus (SE) is a neurological emergency requiring rapid termination of seizures. New treatment choices are needed for benzodiazepine-refractory SE or established SE (ESE). Previous studies have demonstrated that the potassium-channel opener flupirtine terminates seizures in neonatal animals. However, its effectiveness in adult ESE has not been tested. We tested whether flu...

Nowadays, the assessment of environmental performance has received considerable attention by environmental strategy advocators and decision makers. In recent years, increased emission of CO2 into the air, water pollution, and global warming are universal problems all over the world. Therefore, development of firms with less CO2 emission is an important issue of attention in every area of produc...

An approach to the problem of automated assembly planning and control using artificial potential functions is described. A simple class of tasks, 2D sphere assemblies, is examined. A constructive theory for the planning and control of this class of tasks is presented. Computer simulations demonstrate that the approach may provide surprisingly good performance. Comments Copyright 1991 IEEE. Repr...

Waste management is a complex and detailed process that involves evaluation of certain important factors, such as a geological, geotechnical, hydrological, hydrogeological, climate, urban management, environmental, along with social, cultural, and psychological parameters. Unfortunately, in Iran, there is minimal evaluation of initial parameters and in some cases even don’t exist. The purpose o...

Emilia den Boer Mgr Inz, MSc, Dr Inz Assistant Professor, Wroclaw University of Technology, Institute of Environment Protection Engineering, Wroclaw, Poland Ian Williams PhD, PGCE, CChem, MRSC, MCIWM, FHEA Professor, Centre for Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Tony Curran MRes, PhD, LCGI Research Fellow, Centre for En...

The paper presents the concept of "Environmental Life-Cycle Engineering" as a preventative and systems based approach to environmental improvements in industrial society. The concept is motivated by present major changes in strategies for industrial environmental performance. It is also motivated by long-term needs in terms of environmental efficiency and multidisciplinar optimisation. This lea...