In a time of great difficulty in Iraq, during which most coverage of it in the world's media is dominated by security issues, it is easy not to realise that wherever possible, at least in the more secure areas, Iraqi people are trying to get on with their lives and work. For public health officials, this includes the formidable challenge of tobacco control which, due to the virtual absence of a...

Society & Culture[1] Society & Culture[1]Archaeology [2]Health [3]Denmark [4]Videnskab.dk [5] A water pipe from Pompeii had alarmingly high levels of toxic chemicals. Vomiting, diarrhoea, perhaps death. These could have been the consequences of drinking water from the ancient Roman town of Pompeii. A new study shows that water pipes from the city contained high levels of the poisonous metal ant...

in water distribution network are generally detected and located using conventional methods that is not able to give previously any idea about leak size. Current paper draw proposal plan to discriminate leaks according to its size, using a modular system in four blocs: 1) Signal preprocessing, 2) Representation using modified Mexican hat wavelet 3) Dimensionality reduction using random projecti...

Society & Culture[1] Society & Culture[1]Archaeology [2]Health [3]Denmark [4]Videnskab.dk [5] A water pipe from Pompeii had alarmingly high levels of toxic chemicals. Vomiting, diarrhoea, perhaps death. These could have been the consequences of drinking water from the ancient Roman town of Pompeii. A new study shows that water pipes from the city contained high levels of the poisonous metal ant...

Geographical Information System (GIS) is used to assist Sydney Water, a state owned water utility, in their decision-making process to reduce the number of chokes occurring within their jurisdiction. The use of GIS enables Sydney Water to obtain easier visual interpretation of otherwise complicated and detailed raw data. GIS in this sewer choke analysis is found to be useful as it allows the sp...

Robotics is one of the fastest growing engineering fields of today. Robots are designed to remove the human factor from labour intensive or dangerous work and also to act in inaccessible environment. The use of robots is more common today than ever before and it is no longer exclusively used by the heavy production industries. The inspection of pipes may be relevant for improving security and e...

This work proposes a method for prioritising critical water mains (CWMs) with high risk, in terms of both failure probability and consequence costs. The proposed method can improve the prioritisation of high-risk CWMs requiring condition assessment in the near future and will further optimise the operational maintenance of water utilities. Due to the improved prioritisation, water utilities can...