FOREWORD Bioremediation and phytoremediation are innovative technologies that have the potential to alleviate numerous pesticide contamination problems. EPA's Technology Innovation Office (TIO) provided a grant through the National Network for Environmental Management Studies (NNEMS) to prepare a technology assessment report on the use of bioremediation and phytoremediation for the cleanup of p...

Typically, our courses include teaching lectures, tutorials/labs, and student evaluation in interim tests final exams. For which students supposed to learn practical application of software engineering principles, such a model not always yields satisfactory results: Passing an exam does guarantee that can transfer absorbed knowledge into their programming practice, or even use it effectively fo...

We present a study of a high spatial resolution raster acquired on-disk with the SUMER (Solar Ultraviolet Measurements of Emitted Radiation) grating spectrograph on SoHO (the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) in a polar Coronal Hole (CH) region. We analyse two EUV emission lines, representing the properties of solar plasma in the low transition region (TR), O  703.87 Å (maximum electron te...

Senate Economic Planning Office provides analysis and discussion on important socioeconomic issues as inputs to the work of Senators and Senate Officials. The SEPO Policy Brief is also available at www.senate.gov.ph. 1.1 The Cyber Education Project (CEP) envisions the use of state-of-the art technology to deliver educational services and resources to even the remotest and most underserved publi...

A very low success rate of PPP infrastructure projects between 2005 and 2015 has encouraged the Indonesian government to adopt BOT scheme as main strategy accelerate progress. Although National Government attempted amend presidential regulations three times in a row, only one out seven priority national water supply reached financial close started project. Using Ameyaw Chan’s theoretical framew...

Document analysis is responsible for an essential progress in office automation. This paper is part of an overview about the combined research efforts in document analysis at DFKI. Common to all document analysis projects is the global goal of providing a high level electronic representation of documents in terms of iconic, structural, textual, and semantic information. These symbolic document ...

The construction of expert problem-solving systems requires the development of techniques for using modular representations of knowledge without encountering combinatorial explosions in the solution effort. This report describes an approach to dealing with this problem based on making some knowledge which is usually implicitly part of an expert problem solver explicit, thus allowing this knowle...

Origins of sustainable communities lie in agendas set in a motion passed by the United Nations nearly forty years ago. As part of a sustainable development strategy and to tackle negative aspects of post industrial cities, in 2003, the UK government launched a Sustainable Communities Plan, accompanied by regional action plans, of which a major objective has been to implement regeneration projec...