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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Environment Protection"”.
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An investigation of methods to reduce solvent emissions, for the printing of flexible packaging substrates
… based on solventbased ink systems. The Environment Protection Authority (E.P.A) has issued a Code of Practice, in 1990, that targets the Victorian flexographic and gravure industry, with guidelines that suggest an 80% reduction in solvent emissions by the year 2000. This thesis …
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Properties and environmental impact from mosaic sludge industry incorporated into fired clay bricks
… of this study is to focus on the properties and environmental impact of the mosaic sludge incorporated into fired clay bricks. The characteristics of raw materials obtained by using the XRay Fluorescence Spectrometer showed that the chemical composition of the raw materials of clay soil and …
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Towards a legal regime for limiting ship-source greenhouse gas emissions
… Maritime Organisation's (IMO) Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) in October 2006, the Committee noted that the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of marine fuel oil on climate change is a serious concern and even though shipping is considered an …
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A novel approach for route generation and real-time scheduling for public services
… to municipalities, which affect travel safety, environment protection, and health to residents. To provide acceptable quality services, route optimization is one of the key strategies that allow for enhancing efficiency, saving costs, and balancing workloads among operational teams. In order to …
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From Nonproliferation to Counterterrorism and Beyond: U.S. Foreign Policy, Global Governance and the Evolution of the Nuclear Security Regime
… programs, policies and norms associated with the protection of nuclear and radiological materials that sub-state groups might seek to acquire for use in a terrorist attack. The regime is unique in the security field in that it is an ad hoc, voluntary structure that more closely resembles regimes …
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Market-based approach for improving ship air emissions
… Maritime Organization and its Marine Environment Protection Committee and identified three major thought patterns in proposed systems for the maritime industry: (1) an emissions trading scheme for the shipping industry, (2) CO2 indexing, and (3) alternative approaches. The most …
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Probability based scheduling to optimize sewer maintenance
With municipal administrations and EPA (Environment Protection Agency) concentrating more on the issue of SSOs (Sanitary Sewer Overflows), sewer failures have been studied much in recent years. This thesis focuses on the blockages of sewer lines, which cause nearly half of the SSOs. A simulation …
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Governing Outer Space as a Global Commons: Examining ‘Tragedy’ in Orbital Medium
… between global governance deficits and the environmental tragedies within these domains aims to establish the conceptual foundation of this study. Based on this foundation, the research discusses legislative and regulatory dimensions of outer space governance and international responses to …
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Old canal new water architecture : rethinking water heritage tourism in rural environment
… its inherently multi-scale cultural, social and environmental aspects; and its potential to become a "living heritage" by incorporating local participation in a comprehensive development. This is nowhere clearer than in China, where rapid development in urban and rural area and large scale state …
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Sustainable Manufacturing - A study of the business context and eco-efficiency practices in Chinese microelectronics firms
… the manufacturing process. The significance of environmental protection and sustainable development directly cause more and more organizations and firms to take sustainable criteria into account in their manufacturing and management systems. China is a developing country, with the largest …
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Energy optimization for wireless sensor networks using hierarchical routing techniques
… as precision agriculture, ubiquitous healthcare, environment protection, smart cities and many other fields. While WSNs are aimed to constantly handle more intricate functions such as intelligent computation, automatic transmissions, and in-network processing, such capabilities are constrained by …
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Assessment of a new metric system to regulate NOₓ aircraft emissions at cruise
… Civil Aviation (ICAO) Committe on Aviation and Environment Protection (CAEP) to set standards aimed at constraining NOₓ emissions. While the current Landing and Takeoff (LTO) regulation is designed to control emissions levels in the vicinity of the airport, emissions above 3,000 ft are not …
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Treatment of Produced Water Using Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) Technique and Ionic Liquids
… also created due to daily uses. Consequently, environment protection will be a necessary duty for everyone. As produced water is a by-product from the oil production process, and constitutes a large portion of the extracted liquid from the oil well, treatment of the produced water is necessary …
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Delineation of a coal combustion residue landfill and underlying karst subsurface in Southwest Missouri using ERT and MASW surveys
… (CCR) in landfills was addressed by the U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) CCR rule published in 2015. The new rule affects new and existing U.S. based CCR landfills in terms of implementing safeguard systems for safe disposal and contamination control. Electrical resistivity tomography …
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The creation of the European Environment Agency and its impact on national administrations in Germany, France and Britain
… thesis analyses the Europeanization of national environmental agencies by assessing the impact of the European Environment Agency (EEA) and its main environmental information and observation network, the Eionet, on three of its member countries, namely Germany, France and Britain.The EEA began …
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Sources of arsenic and lead in drinking water of Eastport, Perry, and Pleasant Point, Maine
… Lead concentrations were found to be below the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) action level of 15ppb throughout the municipal system, and less than 1% of PWD samples exceeded the action level for lead in the standing samples. Overall, including houses with wells, 2% of houses exceeded the …
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Assessing the impacts of drought on groundwater resources in Scotland using the Eden catchment in northeast Fife as a case study
… play a crucial role in the economic and environmental development of Scotland’s well-being with it contributing the second greatest source of water supplies to the country after surface water. This research focuses on the impacts of drought caused by climate change on these resources at …
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Towards an effective enforcement of environmental criminal law : re-thinking sanctions for air pollution criminals in Iraq
… of the current legal framework of Iraqi air environment protection by identifying the many challenges confronting this framework and the obstacles which impede appropriate enforcement measures. One of the main issues is the overlap in Iraqi environmental laws which present judges with …
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Surfactant assisted phase transfer of water-insoluble quantum dots
… challenges for human beings in areas such as environment protection, renewable energy, and disease detection and treatment. At the same time, this new technology could also pose unknown potential risk to the environment. While commercialization of nanotechnology is growing rapidly across a …
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Bloom and Doom
… history, the project contrasts the natural environment with a polluted, urban landscape. The paper also discusses future expansions aiming to enhance interactivity and deepening the narrative on human environmental impact.
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