Municipal engineering is an important infrastructure that supports normal production and life of the city. With the development of urbanization, its characteristics of comprehensiveness and complexity emerge increasingly and its importance requires each public work to have a high standard of quality. In this paper, we studied the evaluation problems for quality evaluation of municipal engineeri...

This article examines the evolving policy context of municipal open-space acquisition in New Jersey. The authors hypothesize that voters’ interest in open-space protection is sensitive to changes in state policy and that municipal acquisition may have exclusionary effects. The authors examine local acquisition practices using three different approaches: voting behavior, municipal acquisition, a...

Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) are found on fly ash and in flue gas of municipal waste incinerators. Municipal waste incinerators seem to be the most important source for PCDDs and PCDFs emitted into the air during the last decades. PCDD/F formation takes place in the cooler zones (250 °C-450 °C) of a municipal waste incinerator, at the elect...

A pilot-scale study was undertaken to evaluate alternatives to the solid waste management of a Central American municipal market located in Estelí, Nicaragua. The municipal solid waste from the local market is the second largest contributor to the municipal solid waste (MSW) stream. Waste from the market without any previous sorting or treatment is open dumped. The options evaluated in this stu...

Issuing local government bonds will become a main financing manner and channel of municipal infrastructure in China while its major problem is volumes and credit risk control. Based on the KMV model, the credit risk model for municipal bonds is constructed in this paper and further study the patterns its probability distribution to improve prediction accuracy. After determining the forecast sta...

Resident in gynecology and obstetrics, Hospital Municipal Maternidade-Escola Dr. Mário de Moraes Altenfelder Silva, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. MD. Attending physician in gynecology and obstetrics, Hospital Municipal Maternidade-Escola Dr. Mário de Moraes Altenfelder Silva, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. MD, PhD. Associate full professor and coordinator of the Discipline of Surgical Technique,...