In recent years, preservation and purgation of rivers is considered by national and international organizations that have responsible of quality control and preservation of water resources. Because of providing public health, it is most important and vital in regions that cities that rivers feed drink waters and large industrial factories located near these rivers (Li et al., 1998; Pourabadei &...

Title: Modeling Sediment-Controlled TMDLs for the Branched and Braided Networks of Waterways in Louisiana: Model Development and Application to the Amite River Basin Project Number: 2005LA31B Start Date: 3/1/2005 End Date: 2/28/2006 Funding Source: 104B Congressional District: 6 Research Category: Engineering Focus Category: Models, Solute Transport, Water Quality Descriptors: None Principal In...

1 Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, National Research Council, Chalk River, Ontario K0J 1P0, Canada 2 Department of Physical Chemistry of Drugs, Comenius University, 832 32 Bratislava, Slovakia 3 Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA 4 University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada 5 Department of Physics, Brock University, 500 Glenridge Avenue, S...

J. Y. Zheng, S. S. Yin, D. W. Kang, W. W. Che, and L. J. Zhong School of Environmental Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, University Town, Guangzhou 510006, China Pearl River Delta Atmospheric Environmental Research Joint Laboratory, Guangzhou 510006, China Computer Science Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA Guangdong Provincial Environmental Monitori...

1 College of Life and Environment Science, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China 2 Coastal Ecosystems Research Station of Yangtze River Estuary, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China 3 Centre for Watershed Ecology, Institute of Life Science, Nanchang University, Nanchan...

I. INTRODUCTION We humans tend to worry first about our own happiness, then about our families, then about our communities. In times of great stress, such as war or natural disaster, we may focus temporarily on our country but we rarely think about Earth as a whole or the human species as a whole. This narrow perspective, perhaps best exemplified by the American consumer, has led to the environ...

Technological innovation capability (TIC) is defined as a comprehensive set of characteristics of a firm that facilities and supports its technological innovation strategies. An audit to evaluate the TICs of a firm may trigger improvement in its future practices. Such an audit can be used by the firm for self assessment or third-party independent assessment to identify problems of its capabilit...

Coastal Ecosystems Research Station of the Yangtze River Estuary, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, The Institute of Biodiversity Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China, Research Institute for the Changing Global Environment, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma,...

The female and male of Dasybasis (Agelanius) cortesi, new species, is described and illustrated from specimens collected in the National Reserve of Río Clarillo, Cordillera Province, Central Chile. Its relationships to other Dasybasis species are discussed.