Insecticide use in urban areas results in the detection of these compounds in streams following stormwater runoff at concentrations likely to cause toxicity for stream invertebrates. In this 2013 study, stormwater runoff and streambed sediments were analyzed for 91 pesticides dissolved in water and 118 pesticides on sediment. Detections included 33 pesticides, including insecticides, fungicides...

industrial engineering and operations research at the University of California at Berkeley. He has taught at Stanford University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Dr. Oren has also served as consultant to a number of U.S. and foreign utilities. Pablo Spiller is visiting professor of business and public policy at the Haas School of Business of the University o...

National material stock (MS) accounts have been a neglected field of analysis in industrial ecology, possibly because of the difficulty in establishing such accounts. In this research, we propose a novel method to model national MS based on historical material flow data. This enables us to avoid the laborious data work involved with bottom-up accounts for stocks and to arrive at plausible level...

The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to explore the effects of industrial cluster on innovation capacity, and second, to study the impact of external resources on firms’ innovation capacity especially under Chinese regional economic policy. This is a critical subject that lacks sufficient analysis. Through years of investment and effort, several IT industrial clusters have developed in Chin...

As competitive pressures increase within the health care sectors of economies worldwide, and especially within the United States, the importance of achieving operational efficiencies to reduce costs and thence to increase profits while keeping and attracting customers steadily increases. Simulation, optimization, time studies, value stream mapping, and process improvement methodologies have lon...

1 Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 2 Results for Development Institute, Washington, D.C., United States of America, 3 Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, United States of America, 4 School of Chemistry, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 5 Structural Genomics Conso...

This paper provides benchmarks for the identification of best performance classifiers for the detection of operational states in industrial drilling operations. Multiple scenarios for the detection of the operational states are tested on a rig with various drilling wells. Drilling data are extremely challenging due to their non-linear and stochastic natures, notwithstanding the embedded noise i...

Prior to World War II the United States' South lagged far behind its northern counterparts in terms of industrialization and economic growth. In fact, in the 1940's Franklin Delano Roosevelt proclaimed the South "the nation's number one economic problem" (Cobb,1982). However, in 25 short years the region found itself in a dramatic spurt of economic growth that changed the region's image into th...