Amid growing academic and policy interest in the influence of think tanks in public policy processes, this article demonstrates the extent of tobacco industry partnerships with think tanks in the USA, and analyzes how collaborating with a network of think tanks facilitated tobacco industry influence in public health policy. Through analysis of documents from tobacco companies and think tanks, w...

We characterized the physical/chemical conditions and the algal and bacterial assemblages in ballast water from 62 ballast tanks aboard 28 ships operated by the U.S. Military Sealift Command and the Maritime Administration, sampled at 9 ports on the U.S. West Coast and 4 ports on the U.S. East Coast. The ballast tank waters had been held for 2–176 days, and 90% of the tanks had undergone ballas...

A research study was conducted for estimating the water spread area of tanks in Cheyyar sub basin year 2022. Tanks are low-cost irrigation source and play a key role recharge ground water. Mapping regular monitoring plays an important resource planning. Sentinel-1A SAR data has high potential as it is unaffected by cloud cover, light or weather conditions. After processing obtained satellite us...

Mosquito breeding occurred in. both types of septic tanks, wz'th Type A septic tanks shounng heatner breeding, Seventy-two (55.4 percent) of the 130 Type A septic tanks inspected had Aedes albopictus breeding. Besides being a nuisance, mosquito breeding is a potential threat to public health, as Ae. albopictus is a vector of dengue fever. Prolific breeding by Ae. albopictus was encountered in. ...

The LAMPF accelerator consists of two 0.75-MeV injectors, one for H + and the other for H − , a separate low-energy beam transport (LEBT) line for each beam species, a 0.75 to 100-MeV drift-tube linac (DTL) operating at 201.25 MHz, a 100-MeV transition region (TR), and a 100 to 800-MeV side-coupled linac (SCL) operating at 805 MHz. Each LEBT line consists of a series of quadrupoles to transport...

Spatial data analysis, remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were used to study the ground water quality in the A’Seeb area of the Sultanate of Oman. Groundwater samples were collected from 335 wells distributed in A’Seeb in the northwestern part of the capital Muscat, Oman. The aim of this study was to identify the source of the water quality pollution, and characterize its e...

Domestic rainwater tanks have become commonplace in Australia's urban landscape, and have become the physical embodiment of the changing relations between householders, water, and water authorities. The aim of our research was to understand these changing relations by examining how domestic rainwater tanks are inscribed with meanings and assumptions and thus mediate a relationship between house...

Up to now solar heat has been stored mostly in well insulated water tanks. The volume of these tanks is as large as 3 m3 for relatively high solar fractions and up to 70 m3 for full solar coverage for a single-family house. Storage tanks of this size are expensive and space consuming. In new buildings, provisions can be made to accommodate large storage volumes but this type of system is not li...