The advent of increasingly stringent and wider ranging European Union legislation relating to water and the environment has required regulators to assess compliance risk and to respond by formulating appropriate pollution control measures. To support this process the UK Water Industry has completed a national Chemicals Investigation Programme (CIP), to monitor over 160 wastewater treatment work...

In 2006, ISMP (US) reported that prefilled saline syringes were being used for reconstitution or dilution of medications, with the medication being withdrawn from the vial back into the syringe. 1 ISMP alerted practitioners to the increased risk of medication error if syringes used in this way were not appropriately relabelled. This problem can be of particular concern if a high-alert medicatio...

Dilution can best be defined as the proportion of waste tonnage to the total weight of ore and waste in each block. Predicting the internal dilution based on geological boundaries of waste and ore in each block can help engineers to develop more reliable long-term planning designs in mining activities. This paper presents a method to calculate the geological internal dilution in each block and ...

Until now, limited observational data have suggested that the juxtaposition of trees with respect to place where a GPS position fix is collected may affect static horizontal position accuracy of that determined position. Our goal was to assess GPS accuracy with respect to the spatial arrangement of nearby trees, and determine whether correlations existed or whether trends were evident. Therefor...

In this work we compare two different random dilutions on a mean field ferromagnet: the first model is built on a Bernoulli-diluted graph while the second lives on a Poisson-diluted one. While it is known that the two models have, in the thermodynamic limit, the same free energy, we investigate on the structural constraints that the two models must fulfill. We rigorously derive for each model t...