This paper presents an operational synthesis of major oil spill response methods (mechanical, chemical, etc.) and the corresponding oil response equipment for sea context (booms, skimmers, etc.). We focus on important features of oil spill response, in order to formulate a decision-based database, capable of supporting the development of a complete oil spill response operation. Moreover, we cla...

We use age distributions of sea otters (Enhydra lutris) found dead on beaches of western Prince William Sound, Alaska, between 1976 and 1998 in conjunction with time-varying demographic models to test for lingering effects from the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Our results show that sea otters in this area had decreased survival rates in the years following the spill and that the effects of the ...

BACKGROUND Intra-operative tumor spill increases the risk of local recurrence of Wilms tumor, and adversely impacts relapse-free (RFS) and overall survival (OS) rates. METHODS Surgical checklists, operative notes, institutional pathology reports, central pathology review and flow sheets of 602 patients registered between August 1986 and September 1994 on National Wilms Tumor Study-4 as random...

The factors that affect cleanup cost are complex and interrelated. Each spill involves a unique set of circumstances that determine cleanup cost. Estimating a universal per-unit cleanup cost is essentially meaningless without taking into consideration factors such as location and oil type, which can profoundly influence costs. This paper examines the host of factors that impact cleanup cost in ...

l The goal of this work is to calibrate a real-time hydrodynamic model for spill tracking in the St. Clair River and to provide decision makers with information for response planning and in the event of a spill. In order to provide experimental validation data, three dye releases were carried out to simulate movement of a potential contaminant in the river. Measurements of dye concentration wer...

The amount of spill code generated by a compiler backend has crucial effects on program performance. Instruction scheduling before register allocation may cause live range overlaps that lead to suboptimal spill code. Even when a local scheduler tries to minimize register usage, its results can leave room for improvement regarding overall spill costs. We present Register Reuse Scheduling (RRS), ...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill impacted Louisiana's coastal estuaries physically, chemically, and biologically. To better understand the ecological consequences of this oil spill on Louisiana estuaries, we compared the abundance and size of two Gulf shrimp species (Farfantepeneus aztecus and Litopeneus setiferus) in heavily affected and relatively unaffected estuaries, before and after the oil...

The tanker Nakhodka oil spill in the Sea of Japan was happened on January 2 1997 and this accident caused serious environmental damages. After the accident, discussions and collaborations involving citizens and government have been started to make significant steps to protect natural environment of river banks, mountains and hills in the vicinity of human residents and these activities seem to ...

because of environmental sensitivity of the caspian sea, any subsea oil spills and blowouts can inflict destructive impacts on marine environment and cause catastrophic damage in the area. employing mathematical simulation is one of the easiest and most effective prediction tools for understanding the oil spill behavior under various environmental forces. in this regard, mike3d simulation packa...

Spill, used to assist the downstream passage of juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), and steelhead (O. mykiss) at eight dams in the Columbia/Snake River hydrosystem may delay the upstream passage of the adults. To evaluate the potential effects of spill on adult passage we evaluated the historical relationship between the day-to-day variations of spill and upstream fish passage a...