abstract   background: the compounds which contain nitrogen entering the environment can cause some problems, such as eutrophication for water resources and potential risk for human health because of methemoglobinemia and cancer. biological techniques are effective in removing nitrate. the aim of this study was to remove nitrate from groundwater using denitrification. the main objectives of thi...

This user study reports on an ongoing pilot that aims at using machine translation on a large scale, for the translation of technical documentation for a globally acting automotive supplier. The pilot is conducted by a language service provider and a research institution. First results go beyond expectations.

Some of the issues arising from the development of this pilot course are discussed, together with the experiences of the project team in bringing it through to a successful pilot. These have included not only technical matters, but also managerial, pedagogic and classroom control issues that are often neglected. Only if all these are addressed can large-scale distance-learning activities be dev...

The Essentials of Baccalaureate Education for Professional Nursing Practice provides a framework for building the baccalaureate education for the twenty-first century. One of the exemplars included in the essentials toolkit includes student participation in an actual root cause analysis (RCA) or failure mode effects analysis. To align with this exemplar, faculty at the University of Michigan Sc...

With the increasing demands of data communication speed for different type of data transmission, many revolutions occur with time in wireless communication system. The use of MIMO for wireless data transmission has proven itself for enhancing the capacity of data transmission. The mobile network based on the cell structure also uses the MIMO techniques. Further research in the field of massive ...

To respond to the changing needs of the industry for non-traditional electrical measurements many national laboratories including the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Physikalisch Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), and the Swedish National Testing and Research Institute (SP) have develo...