Emerging Infectious Diseases Vol. 7, No. 3 Supplement, June 2001 544 Waterborne Disease Outbreaks In the United States, 127 drinking water outbreaks, most of them associated with groundwater systems, were reported to CDC from 1990 through 1998. The number of outbreaks has declined over the last 20 years, probably as a result of actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), water ut...

C.P. Gallienne* **, D.V.P. Conway, J. Robinson, N. Naya, J.S. William, T. Lynch and S. Meunier *Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, Plymouth, PL1 3DH. Marine Biological Association,The Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL12PB. Seychelles Fishing Authority, PO Box 449, Fishing Port,Victoria, Mahe¤ , Seychelles. Public Utilities Corporation, Water and Sewage Division, Laboratory Section...

This paper report working principle and several case studies of an innovative radar technique able to operate as diagnostic and monitoring tool on large structures such as buildings, towers, bridges.. The most attractive feature of this technique is that operates without the need of accessing the structure to install sensors or optical targets. A number of applications in the field of Cultural ...

We study a continuous-time problem of optimal public good contribution under uncertainty for an economy with a finite number of agents. Each agent can allocate his wealth between private consumption and repeated but irreversible contributions to increase the stock of some public good. We study the corresponding social planner problem and the case of strategic interaction between the agents and ...

Computing utilities based on virtual machines (VMs) migrating among distributed computing resources are becoming increasingly practical and emerging as a viable infrastructure for outsourcing computer services. Here, we present a large scale distributed computing architecture named public public computing utility (PCU), where nondedicated public resources are augmented with privately owned dedi...

Cyberattacks in the energy sector are commonplace. Load-altering cyberattacks launched via manipulations of high-wattage appliances and assets particularly alarming, as they not continuously monitored by electric power utilities. Public Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCSs) among such assets. Even EVCSs utilities protected state-of-the-art defense mechanisms vulnerable to cyberattacks. Suc...

The recent development of surveillance systems due to the threat of many attack sources, (including terrorists, organized and ordinary crime) has forced the municipal and state authorities to provide a wide range of security measures. The appropriate sensors are installed alongside the city streets and other public utilities providing a huge amount of incoming data, which needs to be processed ...

This paper analyses the efficrency imphcations of property value maxtmizatron Commumties are open, so that utilities are parametric to housing producers and the local government. Each local government chooses its public good output to max. mire aggregate property value in the commumty, ignoring feedback effects on the composition of the housing stock. It is shown that this type of government be...