Decimal reduction values (D value) for 30 viruses were determined. The weighted D values of the viruses suspended in Eagle's minimum essential medium ranged from 0.39 to 0.53 Mrads. It was necessary to increase the radiation dose by a factor of >3 to inactivate virus suspended in Eagle's minimum essential medium as compared to the same virus suspended in distilled water. The destruction rate cu...

Suspended particle matter (SPM) includes phytoplankton and non-coloring Suspended particle matter. Its concentrations, size, distribution is very complex, and so it has not strict theory to describe the matter character. The method of using remote sensing technology to monitor water quality by obtaining the suspended particulate matter (SPM) concentration was studied in this paper, and the inve...

A field experiment was conducted to quantify settling velocities, aggregate states, and flocculation within a hopper dredge plume. Particular interest was in determining the abundance of dense, bed aggregates suspended from the consolidated bed during dredging. A suspended sediment plume from the hopper dredge Essayons was sampled for a period of 90 min after dredging. Settling velocities and s...

This study is an investigation into the roles of wildfire and changing agricultural practices in controlling the inter-decadal scale trends of suspended sediment production from semi-arid mountainous rivers. In the test case, a decreasing trend in suspended sediment concentrations was found in the lower Salinas River, California between 1967 and 2011. Event to decadal scale patterns in sediment...

OBJECTIVE We compared the adverse effects of two types of real ambient particles; i.e., total suspended particles from an electrostatic precipitator of a steel mill and fine air particles from an urban ambient particulate matter of 2.5 µm, on mucociliary clearance. METHOD Mucociliary function was quantified by mucociliary transport, ciliary beating frequency and the amount of acid and neutral...

Surveys of the Mersey estuary in north-west England were undertaken near the mouth of the estuary in the region known as the Mersey Narrows. Tidal fluxes of suspended and dissolved matter, particularly heavy metals, through the Mersey Narrows were investigated. This paper gives results of conducting four intensive cross-sectional surveys of the Narrows, during which currents, salinities, turbid...

The Town Creek watershed is located in the Southeastern Plains Ecoregion in Mississippi. Its total area covers 1,769 km and represents approximately 50% of the upper Tombigbee River basin area contributing to the Aberdeen Pool on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway. The sediment yield from the watershed attributes to the estimated 320,000 T yr of deposition in Aberdeen pool, where annual dredging ...

This paper proposes a new non-volatile semiconductor memory which features a suspended gate integrated with silicon nanocrystals dots as a floating gate and the MOSFET as a readout. Performing three-dimensional finite element simulations combined with an analytical plate-capacitor model, we clarify the pull-in/pull-out operation of the suspended gate. We also show the dependence of the hysteres...

Because of high costs or complex logistics, scientific populations cannot be measured entirely and must be sampled. Accepted scientific practice holds that sample selection be based on statistical principles to assure objectivity when estimating totals and variances. Probability sampling--obtaining samples with known probabilities--is the only method that assures these results. However, probabi...