Typically, best management practices (BMPs) are implemented to help sustainable stormwater management in urban areas. Over recent decades the selection of urban stormwater management measures for a site has been a challenge among urban planners where thecriterion based on flood volume no longer suffices for selecting urban drainage solutions. Therefore there is a need to consider a set of holis...

In 1991, Motorola became one of the first companies to establish a software center in Bangalore, India.. The plan, at the time, was to investigate whether or not it was possible to build an organization from the ground up to develop software using the processes and best practices being promoted by the Software Engineering Institute.. Within 2 years, that goal was realized when the Motorola Indi...

This paper provides an introduction to best practice in land administration systems. It draws on a number of key documents such as the Land Administration Guidelines produced for the United Nations (UN) Economic Commission for Europe (1996), the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) Statement on the Cadastre (1995), the UN-FIG Bogor Declaration on Cadastral Reform (1996), the FIG Cadastre...

Managers of service organizations seek to improve productivity without eroding service quality. We explore whether privately versus publicly disclosing relative performance feedback (RPF) about individual workers’ processing times can help achieve this goal. Using three years of patient encounter data from two emergency departments, one of which changed from privately to publicly disclosing RPF...

Title of Document: A DIAGNOSTIC DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM FOR SELECTING BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN URBAN/SUBURBAN WATERSHEDS Yan Wang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Directed By: Dr. Hubert J Montas, Fischell Department of Bio-Engineering Dr. Kaye L. Brubaker, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Best Management Practices (BMPs) have become the most effective way to mitigate the non-po...

This value chain series has stressed that the ultimate output of the radiology workflow is the effective communication of a patient report, and that is inextricably linked to optimizing each link in the imaging value chain. Only when performance throughout the totality of the value chain meets best practices can radiologists be assured that their services offer the maximal potential to effect b...

DNA-based capture-mark-recapture (CMR) techniques are commonly used to obtain population parameters of black bears (Ursus americanus) in rural and wildland landscapes; however, these techniques have not been implemented in urban clusters (i.e., 2,500 to 50,000 residents). Black bears can readily habituate to urban clusters, and wildlife managers need to monitor and manage these urban bear popul...

This study evaluated the bacterial distribution and the survivability of bacteria associated with different particle size ranges in the sump water and sediments within two structural Best Management Practices (BMPs), called Vortechs, installed at two different sites in Providence, Rhode Island. Ten rain storms were sampled in year 2004. Five pathogenic indicator bacteria, E. coli, enterococci, ...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have been proven a useful technology for perceiving information about the physical world and as a consequence has been used in many applications such as measurement of temperature, radiation, flow of liquids, etc. The nature of this kind of technology, and also their vulnerabilities to attacks make the security tools required for them to be considered in a special...

Homeless youth face multiple challenges to becoming independent, self-sufficient adults. They struggle to survive from day to day, doing what they can to secure food and temporary shelter. They endure the trauma of street life, often contending with mental health and sub stance use issues. They lack the education and work experience necessary to find employment. In addition to the issues that c...