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Dear network,
I’m interested in how local governments can connect low-income residents with employment and skills development possibly through partnerships with private sector, NGOs, or training programs.
Please share any useful cases or ideas. Much appreciated!
To what extent is the Administrative and Political leadership impacts on organizational performance in municipalities of South Africa?
Hello everyone,
I’m currently researching practical strategies for supporting neighborhood economies in low-income areas (particularly in sub-Saharan Africa). I’d be grateful for your insights, case studies, or any key references you might share on the following questions:
- Home-Based Businesses: Which policies or incentives can help local authorities encourage and regulate home-based businesses, while minimizing problems like noise or obstructions?
- Increasing Density: What are effective approaches to increasing residential densities (e.g., backyard units) in low-income neighborhoods? How do planners ensure issues like daylight, fire safety, and building regulations are properly addressed?
- Revenue Collection: Which methods (incentives, awareness campaigns, or otherwise) are most successful in helping local authorities sustainably collect property rates and taxes from low-income communities?
- Employment Opportunities: How can local authorities foster partnerships with private sector, NGOs, or training institutes to expand employment and skills-development opportunities for residents?
- Public-Space Trade: What bylaws, design strategies, or policy instruments help integrate small-scale formal or informal trade in public spaces without causing major conflicts or safety concerns?
- Temporary Markets: What examples exist of well-organized, short-term markets (e.g., in streets or public parks)? How are these typically financed, regulated, and managed, and what common challenges arise?
I appreciate any real-world examples, academic papers, or personal experiences you can offer. Thank you very much in advance for your help!
Best regards,
Malakia Naholo
1. Academic Experiences of Junior High Students in Learning Chemistry.
2. Impact Assessment of Project LAWA at BINHI in the Pilot Implementation in 3 Municipalities in Davao de Oro, Philippines
In many countries, surveys are carried out with certain frequency that measure the population's perception regarding a certain issue. In Mexico, for example, they are widely used to measure indices of perception of violence in states and municipalities and with this the most and least unsafe are defined. Can these types of tools be considered sufficient for the design of accurate indicators and, above all, for the generation of public policies and institutional programs?
I just want to ask if there is a possibility to receive a DOI for the document Catalogo de Plantas de Chía (Plants of Chía) – Field guide. This element is the final product of a research and summary of the plants available in my hometown. It was performed with help of the municipal office and local community.
I am trying to use the Censo Ejidal 2001 and 2007 to know the distribution of land by sex in Oaxaca. I have already worked with the data and I have an important number of municipalities (42) without any information about their ejidatarios or comuneros in both years. I have checked that these municipalities do have ejidos and communities by using other sources…So if anyone have information about it, it would be really helpful.
Is this fake or true?
- “Shanghai International Multisearch Co., Ltd., a company founded in 2001 and authorized by the Shanghai Municipal Government. We specialize in providing services and funding options for high-level international talents and experts.”
I would like to discuss or identify some ways so that I can know the importance of the performance of municipal employees on municipal decisions so that I can take them into account in my work and research in the future.
Researcher actively in the environmental engineering and sciences field for municipal and industrial wastewater treatment using technology through Constructed wetland for low cost and sustainable implications in developing countries.
For the investigation of the start-up of an alternating anaerobic-anoxic reactor, I would like compute the potential biomass decay for aerobic organisms (specifically autotrophic ammonia oxidizers (AOB, AOA)) in my inoculum. For this purpose, I am going to apply specific decay rates of AOB and AOA, but I am lacking knowledge about the autotrophic cell mass in my inoculum.
Can anybody provide average values or a ranges of the share of autotrophs in the MLVSS of typical conventional activated sludge systems?
Thank You already for advice!
I am checking if there any systematic differences in physical activity among different income group and education level for my masters’ thesis. The physical activity has been assessed through questionnaire in a municipality and taken three different dimensions (intensity, duration and frequency). I wonder if there is any way to integrate all three dimensions to make one new variable which could provide more reliable value for physical activity. If not possible and I have to select only one measure which one could be more reliable.
Dear researchers,
Has anyone done anything about calculating the solubility of chemically oxygen demand in the stabilized sludge of municipal sewage?
Thank you for responds
For several years now, the procedure of granting a vote of confidence to the municipal executive by the legislative has been in force in Poland. It takes place annually and is not related to the budget implementation report but to the general state of the municipality. Are you aware of similar solutions in local governments of other countries?
I am using a multi-stage sampling technique for my study in Kathmandu district, Nepal, which consists of 1 metropolitan city and 10 Municipality. I have randomly selected Kathmandu metropolitan city (KMC) (due to budget and logistic constraints). KMC further consists of 32 wards of which I have selected one Ward (No.16) randomly (resource constraints).
My sample size is around 437, calculated using Taro Yamane formula. However, I do not have the list of households in Ward #16. In such a situation, which sampling technique will be appropriate.
If cluster sampling is to be used, how should the clusters be made as the clusters would not be homogeneous?
Dear Dr Goodarzi, I am Dr Siavoshnia Faculty member of IAU, Central Tehran Branch, on reviewing your paper entitled "Effect of polypropylene fiber and nano-zeolite on stabilized soft soil under wet-dry cycles", to determine the optimum curing time using Electric Conductivity, EC you referred to reference "EPA, 1983. Process Design Manual: Land Application of Municipal Sludge. Municipal Environmental Research Lab. EPA-625/1-83-016 .On referring to this reference I could not find any page related to conducting the EC testing. May I have your mobile No. for further discussion. My mobile No. is: 09126157646.
With Thanks,
Yours faithfully,
Mehdi Siavoshnia
Ph.D, Earthquake Engineering-Soil Dynamics,
Assistant Professor,
Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch
Email: meh.siavoshnia@iauctb.ac.ir
What is the procedure used to prepare a simulated municipal wastewater in three concentration in which TP, TN, COD, turbidity, Nitrate and nitrite are added?
Several terms are used in academia for the services provided by Government institutions and departments in urban and rural areas at national, provincial/state or local/district levels.
These terms include public services, civil services, urban services, local services, and municipal services. Is there any overlap among services or clearly divided?
cuanto incide labuea gestion municial en el desarrollo urbano de los pueblos
Greetings fellow researchers. In an attempt to start a project in collaboration with the Municipality of Lokri (Atalanti), we are seeking data (raw or analysed) for any taxa or habitat types, in the area. Your aid will be appreciated and of course cited. Thank you for your help!
Has anyone ever seen high TKN (~500 mg/l) and low Ammonia-N (~1 mg/l) in a municipal wastewater treatment plant solids stream? If so, why does this occur and what might this mean? Do you have any reference papers that you can point me to?
For reference, the influent TKN is ~60 mg/l and ammonia-N is 45 mg/l. The treatment process includes a headworks, primary settling, SBRS, digesters, and dewatering.
To identify the relationship between Municipal waste management and its effect on the Economic growth of Bharatpur Metropolitan City.
If, due to the current energy crisis, the local government lifts anti-smog restrictions, reauthorizes the burning of brown coal and waste in stoves, and thereby contributes to the deterioration of air quality, are they acting anti-socially towards the residents of the municipality?
In the context of the ignorance realized in recent years towards the beginning of the climate crisis, towards the progressive process of global warming, the negligence committed in previous years in the development of renewable energy sources and the energy crisis that is currently developing, in the country where I operate the local government is lifting anti-smog restrictions and worsening air quality is it acting anti-socially towards the residents of the municipality. These actions are in complete contradiction with the issue of achieving the goals of sustainable development, with the strategy of a pro-environmental and pro-climate economy, with the principles of green transformation of the economy, with the principles of social responsibility of the activities of public institutions, with the ethics of the standards of a public institution acting for the benefit of citizens and residents of the municipality, with the implementation of pro-social functions of public institutions, etc. In such a situation, in which local governments acting in concert with the central authorities of the state ignore the pro-social goals and principles for which they were established and for which they function, they knowingly contribute to the deterioration of the local climate and environment, deterioration of air quality and deterioration of health. In such a situation, are the next local elections and the possibility of changing the authorities only during these elections a sufficient instrument for expressing one's opinion, one's dissatisfaction with the municipal, socio-economic, environmental, climate, cultural, etc. policies pursued by local authorities? Can the activities of non-governmental organizations, associations and other organizations established from the bottom up by citizens, through which citizens point out the shortcomings and errors committed by local authorities in the framework of the municipal, socio-economic, environmental, climate, cultural policies carried out, be of great help in this regard? A particularly important problem that fosters the development of this kind of anti-social activity of local municipal authorities is, among other things, political connections with the central authorities, which implement analogous socio-economic policies with ignoring climate issues, environmental issues, sustainable development, the need to efficiently and urgently carry out a green transformation of the economy. A fundamental issue in the context of the above-described problem may be the question of political independence of local self-government authorities vis-à-vis the apparatus of the central government of the state in order to maintain high standards of care for the local community, real opportunities for pro-social activities, listening to the needs of the local community of municipal residents and the implementation of pro-social functions by local self-government authorities.
In the context of the issues outlined above, I address the following question to the esteemed community of researchers and scientists:
If, due to the current energy crisis, local authorities lift anti-smog restrictions, once again allow the burning of brown coal and waste in stoves, and thus contribute to the deterioration of air quality, are they acting anti-socially towards the residents of the municipality?
What is your opinion on this topic?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
Warm regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz

How do local government units in your country inspire citizens to save electricity and/or heat, conserve water sparingly, segregate waste, and other pro-environmental daily practices and actions?
How do local government units, including municipalities, as part of their pro-environmental and pro-climate policies, inspire citizens to save electricity and/or heat, conserve water sparingly, segregate waste and other pro-environmental, everyday practices and actions?
There have been many different crises since the beginning of the 21st century, and there is little indication that this would change in the years to come. The dotcom crisis at the turn of the 20th/XXI century, the global financial crisis of 2007-2009, the global recession of the 2020 economy triggered by interventionist measures carried out during the 1st wave of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic, the overly lenient monetary policy carried out during the pandemic, the strong rise in inflation and the risk of stagflation in 2020, the currently developing energy crisis, the currently developing food crisis in some poorer countries, the already ongoing climate crisis that will intensify in the coming decades. As the levels of various risks increase, the scales and frequency of various crises increase, more and more public institutions, government agencies, NGOs but also local government units are taking various anti-crisis measures. Currently, the currently developing crises in many countries are: the economic downturn caused by high inflation; the energy crisis caused by high fuel and energy prices and low levels of energy self-sufficiency and underdevelopment of renewable energy sources; the climate crisis (and in some countries also the food crisis), the consequences of which include severe heat and droughts causing a decline in the production of agricultural crops, increased energy consumption and other negative effects. The climate crisis is likely to develop for many more years. In some countries, due to the low level of energy self-sufficiency, the low level of development of renewable and carbon-free energy sources, the scale of the currently developing energy crisis is greater and in the future, the negative effects of the climate crisis may also be more severe for nature and humans. Accordingly, local government units are also inspiring citizens to use water sparingly, save energy, segregate waste and other pro-environmental daily practices and actions. However, there are big differences in this regard when comparing environmental and pro-environmental policies and realistically carried out pro-environmental activities and green projects by individual local government units.
In view of the above, I address the following research question to the esteemed community of researchers and scientists:
How do local government units, including municipalities, within the framework of their pro-environmental and pro-climate policies, inspire citizens to save electricity and/or heat, conserve water, segregate waste and other pro-environmental daily practices and actions?
Please answer,
I invite everyone to join the discussion,
Thank you very much,
The following articles are related to the above issues in some respects:
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT AS A KEY ELEMENT OF THE PRO-ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE ECONOMY TOWARDS GREEN ECONOMY AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY
HUMAN SECURITY AS AN ELEMENT OF THE CONCEPT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LAW
POLAND'S 2022 ENERGY CRISIS AS A RESULT OF THE WAR IN UKRAINE AND YEARS OF NEGLECT TO CARRY OUT A GREEN TRANSFORMATION OF THE ENERGY SECTOR
Energy Saving Practices in the IT Area as a Factor of Sustainable Development of the Organisation: A Case Study of Poland
Increase in the Internetisation of economic processes, economic, pandemic and climate crises, as well as cybersecurity as key challenges and philosophical paradigms for the development of 21st century civilisation
The Key Security Problems Related to the Pro-Environmental Economic Transformation and the Implementation of the Principles of Sustainable Development into the Economy
I invite you to scientific cooperation,
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz

Before leaving home we check the weather, so we can decide what to wear. When it comes to water, the information seems to be too encrypted, too hidden.
So, I have been knocking on doors asking if it is possible to find out how much water a municipality/city consumes. Guess what... there is no way to know, so far.
What next? any recommendation?
Serveral types of services are provided by municipalities across the globe. I woud like to learn what types of services are provided in the developing and developed world by the municipalitis. I would also appreciate if anyone help me by recommending literature on this issue.
Hello,
I am planning to make synthetic wastewater for the simulation of municipal wastewater. I would like to know what are the best ingredients to use?
Thank you
is there any standard questionnaire for economic stability?
Hi there, I seem to face problems in startup of a MBBR reactor in a municipal WWTP in Greece. I find it difficult to get biofilm grow to biocarriers. I ma using Hell-X from STOHR biocarriers. Althoug it's been around two (2) months from day -1 I can't get biofilm attached on the carriers ... I have to mention that we couldn't seed with activated sludge from another WWTP and are trying to grow biomass through some recirculation of sludge form secondary clarifier..
Hello! I'm looking for papers/journals/researches that can be used as reference for my thesis regarding coastal erosion studies. Thanks in advance!
what kind of factors has to be followed while working with agricultural and municipal wastes for synthesizing biofuel and can nanoparticles be used for the better improvement of CI engines of vehicles when does the nanoparticles has to be used in the process(in which step)
I have annual data for the last 10 years on municipal revenues and expenditures for all Brazilian municipalities. My idea would be, for example, to show that there is no significant correlation between the increase in the collection of a certain tax and the increase in spending on education.
- Do I need to make a linear regression model even if I have no interest in predicting the future value of one of the variables?
- Would a simple dot plot containing the data for all these years be enough to prove it? (in which the axes would have the two variables analyzed).
- Can I include the values for all years on the same chart and deflate them so that there are no distortions due to rising prices? (there would be no distortions in the correlation itself, but in the position of the points)
Thanks in advance!
I'm doing research study among the fire Brigade, police personals, and municipal Corporation workers.
What word I can use to describe the above population..
I m studying vegetation dynamics of urban areas through geospatial data, where in I need to get the city boundary/municipal boundary in a ditrict. It would be a great help if any expert in similar field can answer my query.
"Value education refers first of all to the individual process of forming, developing and acquiring values or value attitudes (...). In contrast to 'value mediation' and 'value education', value education emphasizes the active confrontation of the individual with the environment and its diverse, sometimes contradictory value offers, which usually takes place through the experience of values and their reflection." (cf. Mandl, Kopp, Hense und Niedermeier (2014, p.8, translated by the author)
The idea of the active value formation process suggests that self-activity of students is a central feature of both processes: the formation of values and the subsequent action.
The goals of value formation are value-oriented personality development, the confrontation with and recognition of basic values of democratic coexistence, and the successful handling of value diversity.
I see both aspects in Service Learning and in art education.
The focus of value formation is the examination of aesthetic objects and forms and relies on the self-activity and self-determination of the subject in a lifelong, never-ending process of reflection.
I see the difference in the orientation of the service learning project for the community and municipality and in the concrete implementation situation according to the need, whereby the main focus of aesthetic-artistic education aims at the experience of the individual person and implements and reflects his own perception of the world in his own practical implementation. Of course, there are intersections and commonalities, which art education through participatory and social project work shapes and reflects the common perception of the world and social processes.....
For this, I rely on the following variables in context/citations:
- Emotions:
Hans Joas' concept of "self-transcendence" reference, in which value formation is theoretically conceptualized as a deeply emotional and extraordinary experience (cf. Joas 1999).
The success of value formation depends on cognitive and affective-emotional aspects. (cf. Schubarth and Tegeler, 2016, 264).
Value development is only possible via emotional irritation, touching, shaking, and stabilization, experiencing and coping with dissonance in an emotional sense, i.e., doubts, contradictions, or confusion, in real-life challenges. Thus, they can only be interiorized, i.e., internalized, in a self-organized way via conscious and unconscious emotions. (Sauter, 2019)
- Body:
Argued from emotion and thus to bodily reaction, this aspect seems important to me.
Tension between, on the one hand, justified "questioning" and, on the other hand, the danger of uprooting traditions, culture and, above all, bodily experienceability, which Fuchs (2000) and Schmitz (2007) emphasize. (Rockenschaub, 51)
I would like to ask for opinions on the topic of value education, gladly also from a historical perspective, as well as on my remarks in the argumentation to consider value education as an aesthetic process.
Ours is a freshwater and treated/untreated municipal wastewater application, and we need sensitivity to at least 0.5 mg/L.
For handling municipal sewage in the lab, e.g., transfer from container to tubes, do we need BSL 1 or BSL 2?
Does working with activated sludge samples require a biological hood (BSL 2)?
There is a remarkable rise in the size of affluent middle class in developing countries like India. This means consumption and the resulting plastic waste generation are also increasing at a high pace. Unfortunately, more often than not, I see that the municipality infrastructure for waste collection and disposal has not kept up with the pace. I am wondering if there are already applied practical solutions for waste treatment at homes which do not have to rely on government infrastructure, for eg: small incinerators for homes. I am curious to hear other perspectives on this.
I want to know the estimated cost for ceramic membrane plant for municipal water and sea water. And also the comparison cost analysis for ceramic and polymeric membrane technology for water treatment.
Running a membrane bio reactor treating municipal wastewater, the sludge is sticky?
All the parameters are within normal ranges
pH, DO, alkalinity, OLR
I am looking for guidelines or details design
Dear colleagues
Me and my team are writing a research proposal on the title discussion and we're looking for research partners to enrich our team group.
The proposal is being develop by a research group at the Environment Engineering Faculty of the National University of Engineering in Lima, Perú.
The goals of this project are:
(i) Calculate the GHGs mitigated in the recycling chain:
o In the collection, storage, transportation and final disposal of municipal waste.
o In the collection, storage, transportation, commercialization and recovery of municipal inorganic waste.
o In the collection, storage, transportation and valorization of municipal organic waste.
(ii) Propose a methodology for the quantification of GHG mitigated in the recycling chain in local governments.
We're looking for partners that can give us advice on the research methodology as well as in the data processing and analyzing.
Deadlines are due very soon, on November 20th.
Please don't hesitate to message me if you would like more details.
We are working on climate action at the local level and we wonder if you can share papers of methodologies in order to measure the progress of local climate action.
Many thanks
Dear all,
Are there publications/guidelines about methodologies for identifying critical areas based on stormwater quality? I am especially interested in methods based on GIS analysis and water quality sampling. By sampling I mean quite practical approaches that municipalities can utilize while trying to map critical areas for stormwater quality management, and with city-scale focus. I assume that a city-scale project has to start with a GIS analysis of critical areas and then, as a second phase, continue with a water quality sampling campaing(s) of selected sites.
Hello dear researchers, I wonder if you can help me, I need articles about the Accrual Acounting in the local communities/municipalities. Thanks in advance.
Greetings to one and all! I am conducting a precipitation survey in a municipality in Pernambuco, Brazil. But there is no data from July/2007 to 12/31/2008. Does anyone have a solution? I anticipate that the border municipalities in the state of PE also do not have the data for this period.
Thanks!
I need some information about the number of municipal wastewater treatment plants in the world and their current treatment methods and the future of municipal wastewater treatment systems in the world.
I would be grateful if one of the researchers could help me in this regard.
Different thermal technologies, such as "gasification", "pyrolysis", "incineration", "bio gas" etc are available. The composition of municipal is not uniform every where. Similarly, there is change in solid waste generation rate (quantity) also. Therefor, when there is change in composition and quantity, the energy contents will also change. Therefore, there is a need to identify suitable technology for sustainable solid waste management and make the energy recovery economical.
So what type technology is suitable for what composition with what generation rate?
Starting my dissertation proposal and I find myself all over the show.. I need advice and mentorship. Anyone willing to read and provide an honest opinion?
What is the total count of date palm trees in the streets of KSA? (Only the trees under the authority of the public sector)
What are the current industries based on date palm trees in the KSA?
How does the KSA deal with palm trees’ waste?
How does the KSA deal with the dates of the palm trees in the streets?
Where does the KSA rank internationally in terms of environmental ranking?
What is the value of palm trees pruning and cleaning contracts?
Are the aforementioned contracts separate from municipality waste management contracts?
I am interested in obtaining the efficiency scores of the public education system across the country's municipalities. I have 60 municipalities with various inputs and outputs over a period of 5 years. I am able to obtain the efficiency scores of them on a yearly basis - 300, but I am interested in obtaining the overall efficiency score of each municipality over the years, what is the simplest method to complete this task (Preferably in r software)? Thank you!
We are doing a rapid review of how municipalities are supporting (or not) those experiencing homelessness during the pandemic. Is there any good pre-print articles related to municipal responses to date?
Dear,
I treated municipal wastewater using two coagulants, one natural and another chemical (Alum). The initial copper traces in wastewater was about 41.9 µg/L. After coagulation and for most studied concentrations, copper concentration increased up to 67.0 µg/L. However, the coagulant has removed efficiently turbidity (from 118 NTU to less than 2 NTU. In addition, for the natural coagulant, copper content decreased in all cases up to 38.2 µg/L that's all.
My question again, how this can be explained?
Many thanks in advance
RO reject water (major ions) from a freshwater source. RO reject from a corn ethanol plant or midwest municipal drinking water plant, for example. With references please.
While in India, data on total quantity of wastewater generation is available, I couldn't find any document (paper/report) reporting the total quantity of sludge (including municipal and industrial) generation in India. Also there is apparent lack of data on sludge generation from individual Industrial wastewater treatment plants. Can anyone kindly help me with some document (preferably recently published) reporting these data?
Thanks in advance.
Prasenjit
In Vietnam HCMC there are 60 tons of city trash are getting dump in Ben Tranh open landfill every day, after many years the area around it is filled full of CO2 will be harmful to our human body
Dear researchers, for my Master's thesis I am looking for data on average annual temperatures and humidity in municipalities of the North Region of Brazil for the period of 2004-2013. Is these data available somewhere?
Hi, does anyone have advice on the efficacy of SARS-Cov-2 disinfection protocols in wastewater treatment plant water? We are undertaking a project on nitrogen biogeochemistry in municipal sewage treatment plants. We need to adopt a disinfection protocol that is proven and effective specifically for the SARS-CoV-2 virus in a wastewater matrix, and also non-reactive with respect to nitrogen chemistry.
Thanks,
- Owen Sherwood
To increase the effectiveness of the activity of control and accounting bodies, it is necessary to build a model for assessing the effectiveness of the bodies of external municipal financial control, on the basis of which it will be possible to determine ways to improve the control and expert analysis of the control and accounting bodies of municipalities
A majority fraction of plastic wastes originates from Metro areas and coastal cities. The generation of waste is one of the central concerns in urban agglomerations as only 600 urban areas with just 20 % of the world population generate 60 % of the GWP . These megatrends pose urgent challenges in cities as the cost of inaction is high.
I am currently an masterstudent at the University of Portsmouth in UK. Studying Crisis and Disaster Management. I have decided to write my master thesis project on preparedness and social resilience among the municipalities on the west coast of Norway. So far I have found the book of Boin. ( Designing resilience ) and FEMA documents on the whole community approach and Norris ( Community resilience as a Metaphor) I am trying to find more literature on resilience for Scandinavia and Norway from past researchers or new in English. Most of the literature I have found is much of areas with earlier disaster areas. If not I am interested in researching on home preparedness, and preparedness in municipalities in Norway. Hope someone can help me out with my research.
To reduce roughly 200 mg COD/ L and 20 mg NH4/L for small scale wastewater treatment (100-150m2 a day), is it possible to only use a small aerobic tank (HRT <4 hours), a clarifier and ozone tank to treat them?
Other parameters (including NO3) should not be a problem
Much appreciated :)
There are some criticism about the 'fake' participation among local community just to satisfy the government or donor's agenda to show that there are names and meeting have been organized prior to the final drafting of any municipal budgeting plan. I am trying to crack out this situation by showing the difference between a 'genuine' and 'fake' participation in the process.
Dear Colleges,
I am head of the research group on Molecular Studies and Experimental Therapy, based in the Department of Genetics, Federal University of Pernambuco, located in the Northeast region of Brazil. My group, until 2019, had as main focus the cancers related to HPV. However, with the COVID-19 pandemic, we were requested, by the municipal and state governments, to participate in facing this disease.
In this sense, we redirected our line of research to work with SARS-CoV-2. We intend to use our skills to develop studies of COVID-19 and vaccine strategies. However, we face the difficulty that this virus needs level 3 laboratory safety. We only have a level 3 Lab, and it is overloaded.
In an attempt to find a way out of this difficulty, I thought of producing Pseudotyped Vesicular Stomatitis Virus for Analysis SARS-CoV-2.
In this way, I would like to know if any colleague could kindly send me the plasmids necessary for this development accompanied by the protocols, if possible.
I await a response from the community in the hope that this contribution will be possible.
Regards,
Dr. Antonio Carlos de Freitas
I am working in small modular nuclear implementation in Europe, initially. We believe that this should be a social enterprise and your work may well enable the 3 legs of the sustainability to be brought to a common currency of economic (already undercut all other sources), social (harder to prove but acid test is municipal and private pension investment on a massive scale), environmental (high temperature gas dry cooled triso fuelled reactors are vastly superior environmentally to PWRs and are also distinctive in being inherently safe provable in real life as opposed to probabilistically safe which was needed only because the consequence of test proving safety is too severe for LWR physics). We envisage 50 MWe units distributed close to domestic and industrial sites with heat, hydrogen and power demands, so your mapping work wold form a strong basis for site selection. I have done similar work for renewables site selection in Scotland.
Hey!
I have three different data sets:
1.costs (reported by the municipality): DV=continous,
2. the satisfaction (how satisfied the population is with GPs in the municipality): DV=1-8 (likert scale),
3. the capacity (municipality level): DV=continous.
All three data sets have similar background variables of the municipalities; like the number of inhabitants (population), centrality index and what region the municipality is in. I do not have any municipality identifier (do not know what each municipality answered since anonymous data), and therefore I cannot merge the data sets. I will have to do three separate regressions for each of the data set.
I want to investigate what characterizes the different municipalities that have additional costs to the regular GP scheme. Is the municipalities that have the highest costs to the Regular GP scheme also the ones that are less satisfied, and the one with less capacity etc?
Do you have any recommendations or ideas on what regression to use and what statistical tests?
I am now conducting a research on municipal waste management especially on waste-to-energy. I would like to discuss about the typical business model of WtE in the world.
1. What are major revenue streams? Tipping fee only, or tipping fee + electricity; typically how is the percentage?
2. Is the electricity production from WtE committed on contractual basis (PPA)?
3. etc.
i need to know the sources that deliver pathogens including, bacteria viruses, fungi and parasite to the municipal waste water
I want to know the design guidelines and parameters to be considered for Moving Media Bio-Reactor (MMBR) to treat the Municipal Wastewater.
Hey!
I need some help with my analytical method in my thesis. I am doing a master thesis where I look at what characteristics municipalities that have additional costs to the Regular GP scheme have. Does the municipalities have high costs, are the inhabitants less satisfied and do the municipalities have less capacity?
I have three different data sets with the 1.costs, 2. the satisfaction and 3. the capacity, where all three data sets have background variables of the municipalities; like the number of inhabitants, centrality index and what region the municipality is in. Therefore, I do not have any municipality identifier and I cannot merge the data sets. I will have to do three separate regressions for each of the data set.
I want to investigate what characterizes the different municipalities that have additional costs to the regular GP scheme and if they are more satisfied or not, or if they have more capacity or not. Are the ones with less centrality and more costs the most satisfied for example? Is the municipalities that have the highest costs to the Regular GP scheme also the ones that are less satisfied, and the one with less capacity, is it correlated?
Do you have any recommendations or ideas on how I can do my analytical method?
the definations and diferences between the 2 laws
I have studied about ADM1 that is about utilising municipal waste using anaerobic digestion. Dark fermentation is actually a subset of anaerobic digestion but i am interested in the generation of only bio hydrogen and its conversion to electricity from food waste. Is there any software that could be use to test the feasibility of this so that additional plant can be added to the present food industries to generate renewable energy from waste
I am currently working on the spatial analysis of household crimes in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa. I urgently require literature that discusses socio-spatial transformation of neighbourhoods and or townships (Point, Carto Manor, Umlazi, Isipingo, Durban North, Westville, Bellair, Berea, Mayville, Umbillo, Kwamashu, Umbumbulu, Inanda, Umsundunzi and Umpumalanga, Amazimtoti, Pinetown, Sydenham, Mayville etc) in this Municipality since the end of the Apartheid regime.
Hello,
Has anyone ever modelled fats/lipids that exists in municipal organic waste in ASPEN.
I know this varies a lot depending on the source.
Is there a chemical formula and specific properties that on average will be close to reality? I have used oleic acid as a component for the lipids but not sure if this is the right thing to do.
Thanks
i am currently doing my thesis about Green municipal bonds. i read some research where they found a green premium or a discount whether is the primary or secondary municipal market.
what are the implication for investors when a green bond is sold for a premium in the Primary or secondary market ?
thank you for your kind help
In Nepal, we have urban municipalities and rural residence. In recent years, government has drastically increased number of urban municipalities which were otherwise were village development committees (VDC). Now, I am doing a survey where one of the socio-demographic variable is residence (urban or rural). I wanted to ensure to capture it correctly. DHS do collect urban and rural residence information but it was not explained how they differentiate it?
I want to investigate correlation between two financial indices that vary with time, one is S&P 500 stock index and the other is U.S. green municipal bond index. I do not want to use complicated functions, I want it as simple and effective as possible.
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During the treatment of municipal wastewater, what should be the appropriate carriers filling ratio in the MBBR?
Also how make more stable attached bio film on carriers.
In international context several solutions can be found for housing affordability, e.g. social and municipal housing; maximizing the rental fees by regulation (Berlin, München and Hamburg); state support for tenants or for the landlords.
I want to apply mixed method in this thesis so may I have detail idea about it.
We are collecting sludge from municipal waste, and my aim is to extract the reducing sugars from sludge for further processing. I tried with it, but without success. Is there any simple protocol to extract the sugars.
Thank you in advance.
System dynamics (SD) is promoted as tool for understanding the nonlinear behaviour of complex systems as function of time using stocks, flows, internal feedback loops, table functions and time delays. It has been applied to many braches of engineered systems such as refurbishment of an installation, decommissioning of nuclear power station, management of hazardous waste, municipal waste management, construction waste management just to name a few.
My question is: Has SD something to offer for improvement of our environment?
Some researchers at Cornell have developed stacked rapid sand filtration technology for use in the developing world. As I understand it, it is useful for doing what traditional rapid sand filtration does, but you can use it in small to medium size municipalities in the developing world where the electrical power required for backwashing is not as available and/or reliable.
We are trying to see how well this technology might work to improve water quality from a nearby river in a rural jungle region of Honduras. It is just an attempt. It may work terribly. I just thought I would see if anyone had any helpful opinions or advice about SRSF and/or its use in various contexts.
Local governments are receiving a strong demand from the UN to implement SDG, but still they have few and unsufficient resources to fulfill that agenda. Could paradiplomacy help to do that?
An information about hazards modelling in West Sumatera, especially in Agam Municipality and about tsunami
Dear Researchers.
Be it be a small celebration or a large festival, one needs to plan and ensure that natural resources is not affected viz. Water Air Soil Greens Etc.
Climate change effects are smothered
GHGs are reduced,
Every celebration should make sure that efforts are afforded in upgrading the elements and pass the message to the communities.
Festival Heads to ensure the above done at all times .
For eg.. municipal sewage waste can be hygienically co composted with other bio mass and used as manure Etc. Offerings to diety should not be wasted.
Follow concept of Smart Campus Eco conduct in festivals as given in attachment..
Well wishes.
Prof Ajit Seshadri. INDIA.
The Monterotondo Municipality has described it in an official technical report, citing the original reference. No news in the italian seismic catalogues. Have you got any useful information?
I'm applying a linear Correlated Random Effect model (Wooldridge, 2018, J. Econometrics) to an unbalanced panel of electoral data from Italian municipalities. I found Bell & Jones (2015, political science research and methods) publication while looking for interpretative issues of CRE coefficients (FE-equivalent coefficients for time-variant variables & time-average coefficients). I think your paper is very clear and I would like to know your opinion about the CRE framework applied to unbalanced panel data.
Do you suggest me to apply your RE formulation (within-between, equation 12 in your paper) rather than the CRE approach (Mundlak-like) also in the unbalanced panel case?
When interpreting Mundlak-like coefficients for the mean variables (at the municipal level), how can I practically explain the contextual effects (i.e., as you noticed, the difference between within and between effects)? Can you suggest me some paper that clears this point?
Thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge.
Best,
Lisa Sella
Dear colleagues! I would like to evaluate how polarized is the socio-economic space of a region with regard to certain statistical datasets (e.g. household income, quality of housing, toxic emissions etc.) for all the municipalities of that region. Also it would be useful to find out how did polarization change through years and what are the estimates of its future level (degree). What indices do I best use in that case?
Integrated municipal waste management, especially remote surveillance and monitoring For effective Waste management
Just wanted to throw this question out there, if anyone know about any country, municipality or other entity that has adopted water quality standard for hygiene use (in contrast to potable water, or drinking water quality standard)?
Currently researching on organic waste management related data and best practices?
The unbridled consumption of contemporary society has led to the need to rethink the relationship between man and the environment. In this context, the demand for environmental management has arisen due to the growing concern of environmentalists and the need for organizations to respect the environmental agreements established nationally and internationally.
I am keen to learn about different rating models which are used officially to categorize public libraries in different countries. In Iran, the Public Libraries Foundation and Municipality of Tehran have their own rating systems in which the public libraries are classified as grade 1, grade 2 to grade 5.
Industries are earning, and it is easy to justify recovery of operational cost for an industrial waste water treatment plant. Municipal wastewater water treatment receive a bulk of wastewater from a big population, scattered over a wast area. In developing word it is difficult to run municipal wastewater treatment plant. They construct such treatment plant, but due to lack of funds, such treatment plant are abundant and not working. In such situations what you suggest, from where to arrange and manage finance for continuous operation?
The operational cost include labours' salary, Laboratory, and electricity charges.