The effectiveness of hydrocarbon bioremediation strategies approaches is depending on various issues such as type and volume of pollution, nutrient accessibility in the target ecosystem, time, biodiversity of microorganisms, pollutant bioavailability and many others. In the present research, laboratory studies were carried out on the bioremediation of coastal sediment samples ...

This paper concerns the transmission of two independent Gaussian sources over a two-user decentralized interference channel, assuming that the transmitters are unaware of the instantaneous CSIs. The availability of the channel state information at receivers (CSIR) is considered in two scenarios of perfect and imperfect CSIR. In the imperfect CSIR case, we consider a more practical assumption of...

The expected utility (EU) hypothesis was originally formulated to be used with specified or “objective” probabilities. Objectively expected utility is the subject of Chapter 5. Not all uncertainty, however, can be described by a specified or objective probability distribution. The pioneering work of Frank Ramsey (1926) and Bruno de Finetti (1937, 1949) demonstrated how, under certain assumption...

It is well known that the efficiency of noiseless coding may be improved by coding extensions of the source; for large extensions the efficiency is arbitrarily close to unity. This paper shows that the efficiency is not always improved just by coding the next extension. In some cases the code of a larger extension is markedly less efficient than its predecessor, although always within the theor...

Catalytic efficiencies of proteinase K and mesentericopeptidase were determined using series of peptide-4-nitroanilide substrates and compared with those of subtilisin DY, savinase and esperase. For each enzyme the subsites S1-S4 were characterized. The data for the enzyme specificities were related to our high resolution X-ray models of the five enzymes and their complexes with peptides. The c...

Synopsis: Some trucking companies have begun to look outside their operations for additional efficiencies by “cooperating with competitors,” i .e. with other carriers. This has been referred to as Collaborative Transportation Management. We present simple examples where a firm (i .e. a trucking company or an organization that has its own private fleet ) can enhance its transportation efficienci...

Agility Logistics is a leading global provider of integrated logistics to businesses and government organizations. The company’s services include freight and shipping via land, air, and sea, as well as specialty services such as warehouse management, chemicals management, and logistics for trade shows and events. Founded in 1979 in the Middle East, the company has recently pursued an aggressive...