This summary provides an overview of solid organ transplantation in the USA, produced as part of the 2003 OPTN/SRTR Annual Report. The Annual Report is prepared by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) in collaboration with the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) under contract with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). A wide range of activ...

James A. Warren,1 Tamás Pusztai,2 László Környei,2 and László Gránásy3 1Metallurgy Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA 2Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary 3Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology, Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, United Kingdom Received 2...

Recent evidence on the savings from private production of local public services has become increasingly ambiguous. Here we specify and estimate a model to explain municipal costs for solid waste collection. As we find no effect of the mode of production on costs, we put forward two hypotheses. First, progressive concentration and decreases in bidding competition may come to outweigh gains from ...

A model was developed to estimate total suspended solids (TSS) removal in the Stormceptor, an oil/sediment separator. The model was based on a commonly used continuous simulation model (USEPA SWMM) for hydrological processes. The suspended solids’ loading was estimated using build-up and wash-off equations. The solids were assumed to be distributed into five particle sizes for settling calculat...

The aim of our work is to specify and develop a geometric modeler, based on the formalism of iterated function systems with the following objectives: access to a new universe of original, various, aesthetic shapes, modeling of conventional shapes (smooth surfaces, solids) and unconventional shapes (rough surfaces, porous solids) by defining and controlling the relief (surface state) and lacunar...

Jorge Lobo-Checa,1,2,* Taichi Okuda,1,3 Matthias Hengsberger,1 Luc Patthey,2 Thomas Greber,1 Peter Blaha,4 and Jürg Osterwalder1 1Physik-Institut, Universität Zürich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057 Zürich, Switzerland 2Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland 3The Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa 277-8581, Japan 4Technical Un...

Detection of arsenic in groundwater using a surface plasmon resonance sensor Erica S. Forzani a, Kyle Foley a, Paul Westerhoff b,∗∗, Nongjian Tao a,∗ a Department of Electrical Engineering & Center for Solid State Electronics Research, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, United States b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, United S...

This summary offers a national overview of numerous aspects of solid organ transplantation in the United States, produced as part of the 2004 OPTN/SRTR Annual Report. The Annual Report is prepared by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) in collaboration with the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) under contract with the Health Resources and Services Administ...

The anaerobic decomposition of solid waste in a landfill produces methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and if recovered, a valuable energy commodity. Methane generation from U.S. landfills is usually estimated using the U.S. EPA's Landfill Gas Emissions Model (LandGEM). Default values for the two key parameters within LandGEM, the first-order decay rate (k) and the methane production potential (L0...

We have investigated the adsorption of 4He onto a quench-condensed H2 film by means of surface state electrons. Oscillations in the surface state electron conductivity clearly reveal the layerwise character of the adsorption. At temperatures below 2K we have observed an anomaly in the conductivity around the completion of the first monolayer. This new feature is interpreted as an indication of ...