The effectiveness of UV and chlorination, used individually and sequentially, was investigated in killing pathogenic microorganisms and inhibiting the formation of disinfection by-products in two different municipal wastewaters for the source water of reclaimed water, which were from a microfilter (W1) and membrane bioreactor (W2) respectively. Heterotrophic plate count (HPC), total bacteria co...

1.1. Graphs. Graphs, or abstract collections of nodes and edges, form the main objects studied in the theory of complex networks. These models can be classified according to many different types of topological properties, but the underlying structures are quite simple. The general procedure for modeling with networks is to first identify the objects of interest (nodes), the crucial relations be...

Correspondência: Pedro José Negreiros de Andrade • Francisco Holanda, 992/1101 Dionisio Torres 60130-040 Fortaleza, CE Brasil E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Artigo recebido em 30/06/09; revisado recebido em 30/10/09; aceito em 15/12/09. Palavras-chave Angioplastia, terapêutica, stents farmacológicos, pacientes oligossintomáticos. Acaba de ser publicado no New England Journal of...

Cost-effective implementation of microalgae as a solar-to-chemical energy conversion platform requires extensive system optimization; computer modeling can bring this to bear. This work uses modified versions of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code (EFDC) in conjunction with the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers' water-quality code (CE-QUAL) to simulate...

Since the overall quality of Taiwanese university education has been decreasing in recent years, and universities are losing their competitive advantage while facing foreign countries’ education systems and the threat of closing, upgrading innovation performance and improving total quality performance (Inno-Qual performance) so as to enhance overall operational performance have become an urgent...

Echinococcosis (hydatid disease) is caused by the larvae of dog and fox tapeworms (cestodes) of the genusEchinococcus (family Taeniidae).This zoonosis is characterised by long term growth of metacestode (hydatid) cysts in humans and mammalian intermediate hosts. The two major species that infect humans are E granulosus and E multilocularis, which cause cystic echinococcosis (CE) and alveolar ec...

To reflect the extent of thermolesion of ganglion by testing the change of trigeminal somatosensory-evoked potential (TSEP) before and after ganglion radiofrequency thermocoagulation surgery (GRT), and evaluate long-term clinic effect by follow-up visiting of 1 year.Patients with idiopathic trigeminal neuralgia (TN) in the second division were enrolled between October 2014 and October 2015. The...

In this paper, we mainly study the convergence properties of stochastic gradient descent (SGD) as described in Needell et al. [2]. The function to be minimized with SGD is assumed to be strongly convex. Also, its gradients are assumed to be Lipschitz continuous. First, we discuss the superior bound on convergence (of standard SGD) obtained by Needell et al. [2] as opposed to the previous work o...