As an air pollutant is transported from a source to a potential receptor the pollutant disperses into the surrounding air so that it arrives at a much lower concentration than it was on leaving the source. Strict environmental regulations worldwide resulted in an ever growing concern about the validity and reliability of air quality dispersion models. The present work is a try to evaluate the a...

In this paper the present "state\ of air quality modeling (as viewed by the authors) is presented. The focus of the paper will be on the "current\ state-of-aaairs. Due to limitation of space (and the focus of this Dagstuhl Seminar) the discussion will focus on only a few aspects of air quality modeling: i.e., chemical integration, sensitivity analisys and computational framework.

While there are extensive theoretical studies on firms’ responses to environmental regulations and enforcement, there are few empirical analyses of firms’ expenditures on pollution abatement in responding to different regulations and enforcement strategies. This paper presents an empirical analysis of pollution abatement efforts of Chinese industrial firms under a combination of pollution charg...

A discussion of several exotic models and how well they are able to describe the data, with particular emphasis on atmospheric neutrinos.

In order to explain the differences in obesity rates among women in the United States by education, we model a social process in which body weight norms are determined endogenously in relation to the weight distribution of the peer group. The model features biologically grounded variation in metabolism, and enables us to describe a complete distribution of weights in equilibrium. We assume that...

A new preparative procedure for bovine milk xanthine oxidase avoids exposure of the enzyme to proteases. The enzyme so obtained exhibited a molecular weight of about 300,000 as did chicken liver xanthine dehydrogenase. The former readily yielded species with a molecular weight of 150,000 in guanidine and in acid but could not be resolved into smaller subunits. Aldehyde oxidase of rabbit liver e...

In this paper, a newly proposed analytical scheme by the authors namely the improved di erential transform method is employed to provide an explicit series solution to the Thomas Fermi equation. The solution procedure is very straightforward, requiring merely elementary operations together with di erentiation, and ends up in a recursive formula involving the Adomian polynomials to a ord the unk...

In a recent paper, Peláez and Ynduráin evaluate some of the low energy observables of ππ scattering and obtain flat disagreement with our earlier results. The authors work with unsubtracted dispersion relations, so that their results are very sensitive to the poorly known high energy behaviour of the scattering amplitude. Indeed, their calculations mainly illustrate the fact that the most impor...

In this study, a temperature-dependent of the dispersion coefficients is calculated from equation state.The Lennard-Jones LJ (12-6-3) effective pair potential function and simple thermodynamic argumentwith the input PVT data of liquid metals are used to calculate the dispersion coefficients. The dispersioncoefficients ( , , ) 3 6 12 C C C are found to be a linear function of 1/T1+α , where T is...

Polymer nanocomposites have attracted great interest over many years, because of the enhanced properties exhibited by such systems. However, it is only recently that the electrical characteristics of this class of material have begun to be studied in detail. Whenever fillers are added to a host polymer matrix, dispersion is of critical importance since, while a well dispersed nanophase may be b...