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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!
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Es un tema relevante que procura desarrollar una interacción dialógica con la población a través de la participación activa y vinculante con el desarrollo. En algunos gobiernos locales de Perú en el ámbito rural se aplican estrategias participativas desde el enfoque intercultural, es decir desde la idiosincrasia. Es decir, bajo esos patrones de cooperación ancestral con adecuaciones contextuales, los gobiernos locales proporcionan materiales y apoyo técnico, mientras que la población se encarga de ejecutar las actividades manuales que exigen las obras solicitadas. En otra modalidad, se contrata a los mismos pobladores para la ejecución de las obras en su propia localidad. En ambos casos, estas dinámicas promueven la confianza y el sentido de pertenencia.
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To what extent is the Administrative and Political leadership impacts on organizational performance in municipalities of South Africa?
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Synergistic governance, streamlined decision-making, reduced conflict, enhanced accountability, improved resource allocation, and increased organizational efficiency.
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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:
  1. Home-Based Businesses: Which policies or incentives can help local authorities encourage and regulate home-based businesses, while minimizing problems like noise or obstructions?
  2. 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?
  3. 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?
  4. Employment Opportunities: How can local authorities foster partnerships with private sector, NGOs, or training institutes to expand employment and skills-development opportunities for residents?
  5. 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?
  6. 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
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Thank you Steftcho P. Dokov . Much appreciated.
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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
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The paper is your certificate. It's worth more than a piece of paper saying you published it!
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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?
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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.
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Please note that you wrote to the ResearchGate community, not to the RG team. However, you will find the answer in https://help.researchgate.net/hc/en-us/articles/14293044585745-ResearchGate-DOIs: RG assigns DOIs only to unpublished research. You will find another possibility to get a DOI in this discussion: https://www.researchgate.net/post/How_to_generate_an_DOI_for_publications/1
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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.
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Hello, it seems like a multifactorial situation to me, first, the complexity for the compilation. Here it is noted that the lack of use of technological tools limits this action. Second, many of these municipalities are those that have the greatest economic limitations and institutional capacity, highly lagging behind. Third, it could be the periodicity, since this type of census is carried out every 10 years, and even though the RAN has made efforts to improve the information, it has not been enough. Greetings
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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.
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This company was not found in the app often used to search for business information in China, it would be best to provide the name of the company in Chinese in order to correspond. I would say that the so-called government authorisation is not so much a big unique resource or right, but more of a way to gain access, a very low threshold. Anyway this company is not well known. At least I've never heard of.
Various organisations in China welcome the cooperation of internationally renowned professors and intellectual property, depending on where you want to shake hands and what resources you need from the other side. It is recommended to prioritise working with state-owned institutions, there are too many scammers in private companies. If you need further verification, you can reach me
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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.
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Success in enhancing employee performance in organizational decision-making at municipalities involves clear communication of goals, continuous training, and robust performance metrics. Engaging and motivating employees, fostering collaboration, and leveraging modern technology are crucial. Strong leadership and support are essential to create a culture of accountability and excellence, ensuring that employees are well-equipped and motivated to contribute effectively to municipal decision-making.
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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.
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Dear Researcher Dr MB ( of AMU )
Having been implementing Dewats type wwt plants from 5kl to 40-50kl per day capacity.
As usual it has 2 stage anaerobic septic tanks with varied filters 150mm to 15mm stone filters
Done in upfront mode, 1st and 2nd tanks have Lids made 300mm below gl.
Atop the tanks, rcc covers are done with grass growm on 1,5m by1,5m panels. Where Manholes are placed, would have easy dismantle covers Etc
3rd stage could have phto R done on float beds with duckweed or elephant grass sp.
This is cultivated and cropping done for fodder- feed Etc
On last stage could have extended aeration by way of fountains and spray if waters Etc.
With Best wishes
Ajit Seshadri
Sr Faculty HOD School of Maritime Studies Vels University Chennai India.
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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!
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Ввиду того, что время пребывания в аэротэнке около суток, а время удвоения биомассы автотрофов, например хлореллы четверо сутоко, автотрофов мало.
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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.
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Meena Pokhrel Could also get extracted via factor analyse
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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
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So thanks
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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?
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A vote of confidence every year? I think it is probably a good institution, but its side effect may be short-term behavior of municipal government. In other words, local government probably pursues short-term interests rather than long-term interests of the municipality.
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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?
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Sure, you can conduct using Area Sampling or Cluster Sampling:
Steps
1. Define the study Area - this is geographical boundaries of your study area.
2. Divide the Area into Clusters e.g city blocks, streets, neighborhoods, based on the size and nature of your study area.
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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
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Effect of polypropylene fiber and nano-zeolite on stabilized soft soil under wet-dry cycles
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Nano-zeolite was used in the present study as a substitute for a part of lime and then inclusion polypropylene fiber in stabilized soil matrix to develop the soil stabilization method with lime and to improve the efficiency of this technique. In so doing, specimens of soft soil with 5, 10 and 15% of modifier L (lime), LZ (lime-nano-zeolite) and LZF (lime-nano-zeolite-fiber) were prepared, and were subjected to 1–7 wet-dry cycles. Then, microstructure and macrostructure tests were performed on the specimens. The results of the analyses, indicated that the optimal replacement of lime with nano-zeolite would be 40%, and the optimal amount of polypropylene fibers inclusion would be 1% in the stabilized soil matrix. Major reduction in lime consumption would yield a 40% increase in compressive strength and a 21% improvement in durability. The results also showed that the specimen containing 15%LZF would have excellent durability against environmental conditions and very good performance in terms of unconfined compressive strength (UCS), tensile strength and weight loss. Before and after applying 7 wet-dry cycles, the UCS increased by 39% and 16%, respectively. The results of this study indicate that LZF modifier is a suitable option for lime-based stabilization in areas under wet-dry cycles.
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The presence of soft soil in the sub-grade causes damage or destruction due to high deformation, low strength, and sensitivity to the presence of water (Sun et al., 2020a; Wu et al., 2020; Ayeldeen and Kitazume, 2017). With a rise in the development of the transportation industry, sub-grade identification, proper design and implementation are especially important when it comes to road construction, as roads pass through different sub-grades and environmental conditions. Various solutions such as chemical stabilization, as one of the most appropriate and widely used approaches, have been proposed to improve such projects with soft soil sub-grade. Chemical stabilization with lime has been used to improve the structure of sub-bases, sub-grades, railways, highways and engineering properties in a desirable way (Kafodya and Okonta, 2018). The addition of lime to clay in the presence of water after cation exchange (replacement of ions with a higher capacity of the modifier with the cations of soil with a lower capacity) can sharply increase the pH (about 12.4), which dissolves the clay surfaces (release of SiO2 and Al2O3 in the medium). Then, as equations (1), (2), (3) show, the presence of free calcium ions (Ca2+) in the system causes the formation of cementitious compounds such as hydrated calcium silicate (CSH) gel and calcium aluminate hydrate (CAH) gel with pozzolanic reactions. This plays a significant role in improving soil geomechanical behavior (Akbari et al., 2020).Ca(OH)2 → Ca2+ + 2(OH)- (Ionization of calcium hydroxide; pH > 12.4)Ca2+ + 2(OH)- + SiO2 → 3CaO.2SiO2.3H2O (Production of CSH gel)Ca2+ + 2(OH)- + Al2O3 → 3CaO.Al2O3.3H2O (Production of CAH gel)However, chemical stabilization with lime has some disadvantages including brittle behavior, high cost, CO2 emissions and low durability (e.g. weakness against repeated wet-dry cycles) (Kafodya and Okonta, 2018; Alrubaye et al., 2016). In fact, durability is the capability of materials to withstand and maintain sufficient strength against weather conditions such as wet-dry cycles in the long run. During the wet and dry cycles, the strength of stabilized soil may decrease or it may fail due to the spread of fine cracks in the stabilized soil. (Hoai and Mukunoki, 2020; Consoli et al., 2017; Aldaood et al., 2014). Replacing a part of the lime with pozzolanic materials can improve volume instability in post-stabilization periods and increase durability (Abdullah et al., 2019; Goodarzi et al., 2015, 2016).Advances in technology introduced nanoparticles into various fields including stabilization. A nanoparticle ranges from 1 to 100 nm in size and has a large specific surface area (SSA), cation exchange capacity (CEC) and high reactivity (Kalhor et al., 2019; Behnood, 2018). Some researchers (Akbari et al., 2020; Choobbasti et al., 2019; Anggraini et al., 2016; Correia and Rasteiro, 2016; Majdi et al., 2016; Taha and Taha 2012) used a combination of nanoparticles (e.g. nano-zeolite, nano-Silica, nano-TiO2, nano-Al2O3, nano-CaCO3, nano-Clay) and cement (or lime) in soil stabilization, with effect of significantly improving the soil engineering properties (e.g. compressive and shear strength, density, etc.). However, among nanoparticles used for this purpose, zeolite has not been studied much despite the fact that it is produced in huge amounts around the globe (the US Geological Survey and Mineral Commodity Summaries, 2020, indicated that mines produced over 1,200,000 tons in 2019), Studies have shown that the lime-zeolite combination or nano-zeolite reduces porosity, increases strength and durability, and improves short-term and long-term reactions in the stabilized soil (since compared with zeolite, nano-zeolite has a higher CEC and SSA which can increase its contact surface with lime and thus may increase the pozzolanic activity) (Akbari et al., 2020; Goodarzian et al., 2020; Reddy et al., 2019; Mariri et al., 2019; MolaAbasi et al., 2019; Liguori et al., 2015).Akbari et al. (2020) evaluated the stabilized soil with a combination of lime and nano-zeolite at curing temperatures of 20 and 40 °C. The results of replacing 40% of lime with nano-zeolite indicated that the optimal percentage, would accelerate and increase the formation of cement gels. Also, increasing the curing temperature to 40 °C would significantly increase the absorbed energy. In another study, MolaAbasi et al. (2019) predicted the compressive and tensile strength of stabilized specimens with a combination of cement and zeolite based on the porosity and composition of the components. For this purpose, different amounts of cement were added to the sand and replaced with 0, 10, 30, 50, 70 and 90% of zeolite. The experimental results showed significant improvements in the strength with the 10–50% replacement of zeolite, but an optimal improvement was observed with the 30% replacement of zeolite. Liguori et al. (2015) investigated the effect of replacing zeolite and tuff with a portion of lime in the presence of fiber. After various experiments, they found that using zeolite would improve performance more than tuff because the addition of zeolite to lime could decrease the porosity after hardening and increase the production of CSH and CAH gels. The best performance was obtained by replacing 20% of lime with zeolite.The distribution of particle size, SSA, CEC, and the amount of SiO2 and Al2O3 are among the most important factors in the pozzolanic activity of a zeolite. In order to determine the optimal amount of nano-zeolite, and to evaluate the efficiency of this approach, the composition of nano-zeolite mixed with lime was used as a stabilizer in the present study. The stabilized soil with lime indicated brittle behavior and is subjected to tensile stresses for various reasons including traffic movement on pavement, soil shrinkage, temperature changes, as well as wetting and drying if placed in the pavement sub-grade (Reddy et al., 2019; Shekhawat et al., 2018; Liguori et al., 2015; Solanki and Zaman, 2014). These stresses can severely damage the stabilized soil, while stabilization with lime in areas under more repeated wet-dry cycles is not very efficient due to the leaching of the stabilizing material and volumetric changes in soil due to swelling and shrinkage (Shekhawat et al., 2018; Behnood, 2018; Solanki and Zaman, 2014). The addition of fibers is considered to be an appropriate solution for the created tensile stress, providing greater durability of the stabilized soils. The use of fibers significantly improves the geotechnical parameters by increasing tensile and shear strength, increasing ductility, and reducing mass loss and cracks (Hojjati and Sarkar, 2020; Sun et al., 2020b; Consoli et al., 2017; Behnood, 2018; Kafodya and Okonta, 2018).The use of polypropylene fibers for soil reinforcement has been confirmed by many researchers (Roshan et al., 2020; Boz and Sezer, 2018; Festugato et al., 2018; Wei et al., 2018; Kumar and Gupta, 2016; Anggraini et al., 2015; Chen et al., 2015; Correia et al., 2015; Hejazi et al., 2012; Tang et al., 2012) due to its efficiency, low-cost, availability, and resistance to environmental conditions. Therefore, polypropylene fibers were added to the stabilizer (lime-nano-zeolite) in the study to increase the durability of the stabilized soil and its usability in pavement and other transportation projects. The final modified soil was evaluated after applying a wet-dry cycle, which is one of the most destructive factors in the damages brought to highways and sidewalks (Kumar and Gupta, 2016; Aldaood et al., 2014; Solanki and Zaman, 2014). The present study further investigated the effects of wet-dry cycles on the durability, compressive strength and tensile strength of soft soils stabilized with lime-nano-zeolite after being reinforced with polypropylene fibers.
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Materials Kaolinite has commonly been used as a soft soil in previous studies (Saygili and Dayan, 2019; Ayeldeen and Kitazume, 2017; Alrubaye et al., 2016); therefore, the present study also used kaolinite (Zenoz kaolinite of Tabriz in northwestern Iran), the engineering specifications of which were determined according to ASTM methods (Goodarzi et al., 2016; ASTM, 2006) and geo-environment parameters based on EPA manual (EPA, 1983). The XRD pattern of natural soil showed that it was mainly composed of
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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?
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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?
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Level is determined by the source of funding for various projects
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cuanto incide labuea gestion municial en el desarrollo urbano de los pueblos
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Halo, buena semana,
In order to meet the challenges of significant changes in their economic base brought on by the removal of trade barriers and the globalization of the economy, municipal authorities must deal with a wide variety of issues related to financing urban development. These challenges are tackled throughout this paper. Furthermore, at a time when migrants make up a growing portion of the population in most countries, the devolution of administrative and financial responsibilities from central governments has forced municipal authorities to finance a growing percentage of their recurring and capital expenditures. To meet the needs for government services, increase economic competitiveness, diversify and increase the local profits base, and finance capital investments, municipalities had to do every one of them.
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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!
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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.
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It is possible to have high TKN and low ammonia-N in a municipal wastewater treatment plant solids stream. This may occur due to the presence of organic nitrogen compounds in the influent, such as proteins and amino acids, which are hydrolyzed and converted to TKN during the treatment process. However, the ammonia-N fraction may be low due to nitrification and denitrification processes that occur in the treatment process, which convert ammonia-N to nitrate and nitrogen gas, respectively.
One possible explanation for this phenomenon is that the SBRS (sequencing batch reactor system) in the treatment process is effectively removing the ammonia-N through nitrification and denitrification processes, while the organic nitrogen compounds remain in the solids stream as TKN. This can occur if the SBRS is designed and operated for efficient nitrification and denitrification, which would result in low levels of ammonia-N in the effluent.
Another possibility is that the digesters in the treatment process are converting a significant portion of the organic nitrogen compounds to TKN, while the ammonia-N is being removed through nitrification and denitrification processes. The specific microorganisms present in the digester, as well as the operating conditions (e.g., temperature, pH, retention time), can influence the extent and rate of conversion of organic nitrogen to TKN.
It is important to note that the presence of high TKN in the solids stream may have implications for the disposal and reuse of the biosolids, as TKN can contribute to nitrogen loading in receiving waters or soil if not properly managed.
I am sorry I do not have a specific reference paper to point you to, but you may be able to find more information by searching for studies or reports on the treatment of municipal wastewater with high TKN and low ammonia-N.
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To identify the relationship between Municipal waste management and its effect on the Economic growth of Bharatpur Metropolitan City.
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To get impact of economic growth of waste management, need society participation and society awarness. In indonesia, we have a program that we called "waste bank". In the waste bank, waste from households should be separated and collected such as : paper, plastic and other waste can be recycle.
The waste that collected from waste bank can be sold to waste collector and the revenue from that transaction can gived to the society.
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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
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In my view a local government or authority are elected, appointed or established for various purposes and hold various responsibilities. The term anti-social to describe an action of relaxing or removing restrictions on air quality doesn’t sit well with me to describe this. Someone smoking a cigarette amongst a group of non-smokers may be considered anti-social but the owner of a licensed establishment who has decided to remove no smoking condition for the patrons is not exactly being anti-social.
The question should really be whether the government is being negligent in its decision to lift restrictions, which were likely established to create a healthier environment.
When considering the focus of this issue relates to an energy crisis perhaps attention should be shifted towards finding alternative solutions than to simply consider reverting to options which possess obvious risks.
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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?
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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
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The Clean Cities Campaign is a European partnership of civil society organisations that aims to encourage cities to move to zero emission transport by 2030. The campaign promotes green transport solutions for more liveable and sustainable cities. To achieve these goals, it is essential to phase out high emission vehicles from cities as soon as possible.
Imo, such campaigns are an important tool to reach the goal of your query, dear Dariusz Prokopowicz
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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?
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Miejskie/Gminne przedsiębiorstwa Wodociągów i Kanalizacji.
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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.
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En Ecuador los servicios que prestan van relacionado a sus competencias como Gobiernos Autónomos DEscentrallizados. Los rige el COOTAD. Entre los servicios que cada uno ofrece son: aseo de calles, agua potable y alcantarillado, catastro, tránsito.
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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?
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Andrea Straub thank you for answering
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is there any standard questionnaire for economic stability?
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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..
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Biofilm formation can be inhibited by a number of things in waste water such as high levels of surfactants or natural products such as tannins. Do you have a water analysis?
Also, I have noticed that some types of biocarriers have very smooth surfaces. It is only after they become roughened with use that good adhesion of biofilm can occur.
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Hello! I'm looking for papers/journals/researches that can be used as reference for my thesis regarding coastal erosion studies. Thanks in advance!
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Coastal dunes are prominent features along the Lake or Sea shorelines. Numerous studies in recent years have reconstructed the geomorphic history of such dune systems. These studies have suggested linkages between past dune behaviour and climatic variability. You may check on how these dune systems change on shorter-temporal scales in the modern era and the potential drivers of that change. Using repeat photography, you may demonstrate how the coastal dunes of Lake or Seashore have changed since the 19th/20thcentury. You may collect photographs of these dunes, taken in the previous centuries, from archives and citizen scientists. Then this spring and summer you took 100 new photographs replicating the original images. The changes between coastal dune conditions in the original photographs and in the new photographs will show a general expansion/contraction of vegetation across formerly barren and active surfaces along the entire shoreline. You may analyze how anthropogenic factor/human development is playing a role in reshaping the coastal dune systems - the difference between historical and current dune conditions where repeat photography was conducted. You will demonstrate the expansion/contraction of vegetation – grasses, shrubs, and even trees. You present 20-30 photograph pairs of most representative trends, explore these changes, and discuss the likely causes, including the increase/decrease in precipitation in the Studied area in the past 50-100 years.
I hope this will assist you.
Velibor Spalevic
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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)
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Vermicomposting is very good for crushed agricultural wastes. Earthworms (Eisenia foetida) can be used for fast decomposing. Waste beds of one-meter height and one-meter width can be prepared (Length optional depending on space availability). Vermicompost is highly nutritious for plants of any type.
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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!
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Its worth clarifying what you mean by "no significant correlation between the increase in the collection of a certain tax and the increase in spending on education." You can set up an appropriate significance test and this tells you whether you have detected a relationship in your data set or not. However not finding a relationship doesn't mean there isn't one. The effect may be too small to detect with your data for example. One option might be an equivalence test where you specify the smallest effect size of interest.
A second issue is that the data points aren't likely to be independent over time so you'd need to account for this in your model. A third challenge is to find the right level of aggregation. If as Marcio Lins suggested the tax rate and spend varies at a local level then aggregating the data at a higher regional or national level may cause problems. In particular its possible that spend locally might be related to tax but this effect disappears or reverses when aggregated to a regional/national level (or vice versa).
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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..
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Probably, other, non-medical personnel, those who do not constitute the practice of medicine or practice of nursing. Furthermore, a clinical study involves research using human volunteers (participants) that is intended to add to medical knowledge. There are two main types of clinical studies: clinical trials (also called interventional studies) and observational studies.
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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.
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Bom dia!
Você pode delimitar o limite urbano de qualquer cidade do Brasil, com uso de geoprocessamento de duas maneiras:
1 - Delimitação através da obtenção dos limites da poligonal de uma determinada área urbana (cidade ou distrito), onde alguns gestores dos municípios brasileiros estabeleceram a poligonal do limite urbano através de uma legislação municipal (não são todos os municípios brasileiros que criaram este limite em Lei). Neste caso, você precisa localizar a Lei e, através das coordenadas, você pode digitalizar no SIG (Sistema de Informações Geográficas) a poligonal do limite urbano.
2 - A segunda forma é através dos dados obtidos de arquivos digitais em formato “SHAPEFILES” (SHP). Neste formato de arquivo (funciona em diferentes SIG’s), você precisa fazer o download não apenas do arquivo com extensão “SHP”, mas também das outras extensões que acompanha o “SHAPEFILES” (Normalmente 4 com extensões diferentes), pois funciona corretamente com todos os arquivos (extensões) juntos, em um mesmo local onde o SIG fará a leitura dos dados. Estes dados digitais (SHAPEFILES) você pode fazer o download (grátis) no site do IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística).
O IBGE fez a delimitação territorial do Brasil em diferentes maneiras, seja através de uma divisão política, com os Estados brasileiros, por região de influência, por município, cidade, setor censitário, etc. Para você delimitar o limite urbano com base nos dados digitais do IBGE você precisa fazer o download do “SHAPEFILE” dos “SETORES SENSITÁRIOS”. Correspondente ao seu ESTADO + MUNCÍPIO + SETOR SENSITÁRIO.
Cada um dos “SETORES SENSITÁRIOS” são definidos pelos IBGE com uma numeração (enorme), cujo código (números) corresponde ao ESTADO + MUNCÍPIO + SETOR SENSITÁRIO. Nesse caso você precisa identificar qual o número que corresponde ao código do município de interesse, onde tem a cidade que você precisa delimitar a poligonal do limite urbano e fazer o download dos arquivos “SHAPEFILE” para depois trabalhar no SIG.
No SIG, com os dados digitais (SHAPEFILE) do município de interesse, inseridos no sistema, você precisa selecionar todos os polígonos (ou na tabela) dos “SETORES SENSITÁRIOS” que correspondente ao número que contém um dos “DIGITOS”, que corresponde apenas aos polígonos da área urbana, da cidade sede (a área rural o digito é diferente). Logo em seguida, salvar dentro do SIG, um novo layer (tema), com um novo “SHAPEFILE”. Depois, neste novo “SHAPEFILE” você faz a operação no SIG de “DISSSOLVE” (este nome ou operação depende do SIG que você está trabalhando) os polígonos internos, deixando apenas a poligonal da ÁREA URBANA.
Segue uns links que vai ti ajudar:
Artigo: ANÁLISE SOBRE AS DEFINIÇÕES TERRITORIAIS DE CIDADE, MUNICÍPIO E METRÓPOLE NA DIVERSIDADE DO TERRITÓRIO BRASILEIRO: http://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/geo
Como UNIR feições tipo polígonos: https://youtu.be/PezVEZnNBlU
Espero ter ajudado.
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"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.
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As part of our academic work, we have provided articles on values ​​that you can read if needed.
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Ours is a freshwater and treated/untreated municipal wastewater application, and we need sensitivity to at least 0.5 mg/L.
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SHIMADZU TOC system for Pharmaceutical production.
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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)?
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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.
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Whereas, Composting is the simplest and easiest way to treat domestic waste.
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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.
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Running a membrane bio reactor treating municipal wastewater, the sludge is sticky?
All the parameters are within normal ranges
pH, DO, alkalinity, OLR
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During the course of drying, activated sludge passes through a highly cohesive, plastic-rubbery phase. This transition occurs at some intermediate moisture content range, which is referred to as the sticky phase of sludge
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I am looking for guidelines or details design
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Please kindly read the attached article as we are using the Agricultural and Food waste .Bio-technologies in food production obligated effectively through application in the reclamation of wasteland by the deployment of microorganisms and plants to degrade toxic compounds; genetic modification in food, non-food crops; weed and pest control methods; minimized the consumption of energy and water in production processes to result in improved value-added activities and thus enhanced productivity.
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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.
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Since you intend to go to the field, it mean you intend to use a survey questionnaire to elicit information from respondents. Such information should be collected and analysed subject to the hypothesis you stated earlier and what ever technique you adopt will lead to a findings and subsequent recommendations
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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
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Good day sir.
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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.
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One of my advisors once wrote:
I hope this may help in identifying key sampling sites.
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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.
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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!
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The simplest advice I would offer is not to do field research where there is no data, especially research that needs tangible and not societal samples.
It is better to either change the period and duration of the search or the field of research
The presence of incomplete information will cause a defect in the research paper
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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.
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I think the data may not be available for the entire world. However, its easy to get the data for some selected individual countries. As far as India is concerned, there are total of 224 Nos. of STPs based on CAS and only 7 Nos of STP are based on MBR technology. For India, the data on municipal STPs is available at "Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), Government of India. 2015. Control of urban pollution Series (CUPS): Inventorization of Sewage Treatment Plants. https://nrcd.nic.in/writereaddata/FileUpload/NewItem_210_Inventorization_of_Sewage-Treatment_Plant.pdf"
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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?
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I think pyrolysis is a suitable method to handle this kind of waste. It has several advantages over other thermochemical conversion processes. It requires small size equipment volume, investment scale cost is meager, and takes less space than other thermochemical conversion processes.
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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?
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Interesting
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other than composting.
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Compost from MSW can be used in the agricultural land as a fertilizer supplement. These papers may be beneficial for you.
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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?
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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!
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You can use the Malmquist TFP index which can be constructed from the effiency scores of each year.
If you know how to get by R the efficiency scors (by using for example the Benchmarking package) then you use the definiton of the Malmquist index and you will be able to say by how much the productivity has increased among years. And you can get the technichal and efficiency changes.
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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?
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Way too soon as yet
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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
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Thank you again guys for your assistance. I will come back to you if I get any problem.
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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.
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You have to determine the composition of the water used for reverse osmosis. It is the must for reverse osmosis design. You must also know what should be the final target composition of water treated by reverse osmosis. Knowing all this information where is the problem to calculate the composition RO reject water?
Good l.uck!!
Vit
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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
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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
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There are many advantages and disadvantages of open dump site / landfill. I believe when we talk of open dump is different from a landfill in a technical term. Open dump is not a managed waste dump site which have absence of a waste management system. A landfill here in the Philippines is classified as a Managed Solid Waste Management System. The advantage of an open dump site would likely before here is that scavengers are taking the locally known as "Kwarta sa Basura" or "Money in the Waste" they take care of the segregation of wastes which can be Recycled and Reuse. Biodegradable waste are segregated for composting which can also a source of income for scavengers. Although this practice now is no longer allowed as the scavengers were trained by Privately owned Landfill as laborers.
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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?
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Thank you for the links you sent. I have checked them beforehand and unfortunately the data there is on meteostations level. For me it is not perfect, but maybe somehow I can transfer it to the municipal level.
Best wishes,
Alex
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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
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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
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Journal of Bangladesh Institute of Planners ISSN 2075-9363 Vol. 2, December 2009, pp. 136-144,  Bangladesh Institute of Planners Strengthening Financial Capability of a Municipality: A Case Study of Dhaka City Corporation Rokshana Binta Samad
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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.
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At first, we should accept that "plastic" Is not bad! Why ❓ because, Technologies are developed to make our day to day lifestyle better, but the unethical and irresponsible use of any technology turns it against us. Can you think about "Laptop with Biodegradable Plastic! " Anyway.. The e-wastes are also the major concern. I just want to tell that Any technology should be used with some consciousness!
BTW, to reduce the plastic wastes - Public Awareness along with Government regulation is the only way.
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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.
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If you are interested in how people deal with disasters and crises our paper may give you some idea from an existential analytical aspect:
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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 :)
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Yes it's possible. For such a small amount of water; chlorine is better.
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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.
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Be very careful with fake conferences and journals.
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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
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Doesn’t SARS-CoV-2 need P4?
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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.
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Robert,
That is good news that people are more comfortable with SMRs. They should be, at least they should be with high temperature 'dry' moderated ones. Thee is a fundamental problem with the physics of wet moderated ones, except in submarines immersed in an infinite heat sink! Unfortunately a decision in USA took the market in the wet direction and only now is the dry route recognised as so much safer and inherently safe at a small scale. Fortunatelyt, UK and Canada knew this and in Uk we only have one wet reactor (Westinghouse Sizewell B) but we have one wet reactor under construction (Hinkley C = EPR) but it is unlikely ever to run.
The cost challenge is not as bleak as you mention. The main reason is that SMRs produce both electricity and low temperature heat in quantities that are saleable. A large reactor cannot do this and it adds 50%+ to the rate of economic return. Furthermore, the electricity is genertaed at the point of use so that the 20% transmission cost is avoided from the delivered price of electricity. Finally, the inherent safety means that most of the ACTIVE safety systems are absent so need neither capital nor maintenance costs.
I am optimistic but also realistic and anticipate that the first commercial ones will run in earnest by about 2029 with a huge upsurge in advanced economies by 2035 with developing world from 2035 where the demand growth really occurs.
Regards,
James
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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?
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Alva Nilsen - You can aggregate the datasets into one before testing your hypotheses. Here's an example.
Article Relating Patient Satisfaction to Nurses’ Job Satisfaction, J...
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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.
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My Research Group is working on the potential of waste to energy projects in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
There isn't any large waste to energy plant at commercial scale in Saudi Arabia as yet.
We have published many detailed/ interesting articles on the potential/feasibility of waste to energy, including a small pilot-scale pyrolysis plant experiments using plastic waste, biomass waste etc. We have also published on emerging concepts of waste-based biorefineries and circular economies.
All our articles can be downloaded in pdfs from my academia site with one click downloads
All the best.
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i need to know the sources that deliver pathogens including, bacteria viruses, fungi and parasite to the municipal waste water 
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Any contaminated resource which is present in the ecosystem.
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I want to know the design guidelines and parameters to be considered for Moving Media Bio-Reactor (MMBR) to treat the Municipal Wastewater.
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Dear Patil you might find more answers from this excellent presentation given by the inventor of the Process Prof. Halvard Oedegaard
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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?
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Hi Anna. I don't have any experience with this myself, but believe that you will find resources by searching on terms like <fuzzy matching to link datasets>. Perhaps others with direct experience will read this and offer assistance. If you indicate what software you have access to, they may be able to give more detailed help.
Cheers,
Bruce
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the definations and diferences between the 2 laws
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Local government has the power to makes laws for the whole or an part of the rules with respect to any of the matters in their territory. They also introduce laws in relation to the local government with "specific laws" in administration of an organization. Moreover, this authority have autonomy power of ensuring uniformity of law and policy in the local government.
Public International law links with guidelines and rules which is accepted accross the nation.
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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
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which software can be used for dark fermentation that can permit us to know the total amount of hydrogen produce?
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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.
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Thank you, Irena, for this useful information.
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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
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Would you model them as solids or as liquids?
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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
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Recent study(see the attached paper) shows that some group of investors are willing to forgo returns on green bonds as a way of supporting projects that contribute to maintaining/improving quality of the environment. In my view this may be the case in countries where the corporate sector has a reasonable understanding of today's environmental challenges. In economies where the awarness is low, green bonds may not be viewed differently.
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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?
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Sound interesting Sushma Rajbanshi im interested to see the final report, good luck.
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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.
tank you for your kind help
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Kearl Pearson's correlation coefficient with the test of significance of the observed correlation coefficient can be one option.
So, go for computing Kearl Pearson's correlation coefficient from the data and apply t test (or equivalently F test) for testing the significance of the observed correlation coefficient.
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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.
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In a greenfield MBBR design, you start with the calculation of the media requirement, and then proceed to size the tank. The volume of media required is a function of BOD and NH3 loading, the protected surface area of the media, and the surface area loading rate (SALR) for that specific media. SALR varies widely for different types of media (for example SALR for chip media is low, compared to SALR for a conventional, pinwheel type). You can fill up to 66% so if CAPEX is your main concern, you can design like that, but it's risky, because it doesn't leave much room for error or expansion. You should also consider multiple stages, rather than a single larger tank, and your % fill may be different from stage to stage.
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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.
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Supporting young people in home purchase by: guaranteeing credit and / or subsidizing interest .
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I want to apply mixed method in this thesis so may I have detail idea about it.
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You can use this stool for risk assessment I used before
Filed study with interviews and survey for stockholders is the best tool for assessment
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what subtitles can I put under this topic
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Thank you so much Rajesh, will take that into considerations.
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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.
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I agree with answer of @ Mariano Gutiérrez-Rojas. Ithink that there no reducing sugars in biosolids (I suppose that "biosolids" mean waste activated sludge).
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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?
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Dear professor Yasseri,
Yes indeed, system dynamics methodology is very useful to understanding and analysing the interactions between various components over time as well as providing feedback of each part of the system as it is the case for waste management.
I used this method for analysis of environmental sustainability of supply chain.
I hope some of my previous publications be useful as examples of application of system dynamics. Please consider the following references:
Golroudbary, S. R., El Wali, M., & Kraslawski, A. (2019). Environmental sustainability of phosphorus recycling from wastewater, manure and solid wastes. Science of The Total Environment, 672, 515-524.
Golroudbary, S. R., & Zahraee, S. M. (2015). System dynamics model for optimizing the recycling and collection of waste material in a closed-loop supply chain. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 53, 88-102.
Golroudbary, S. R., Calisaya-Azpilcueta, D., & Kraslawski, A. (2019). The Life Cycle of Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Critical Minerals Recycling: Case of Lithium-ion Batteries. Procedia CIRP, 80, 316-321.
El Wali, M., Golroudbary, S. R., & Kraslawski, A. (2018). Impact of recycling improvement on the life cycle of phosphorus. Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering.
Rahimpour Golroudbary, S., Krekhovetckii, N., El Wali, M., & Kraslawski, A. (2019). Environmental Sustainability of Niobium Recycling: The Case of the Automotive Industry. Recycling, 4(1), 5.
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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.
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It can be a good alternative, but never forgetting the qualitative control of the water resources that will be filtered and their respective uses.
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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?
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Good morning, your question motivates me a lot and that's why I answer immediately. In my opinion, the only way for local governments to promote the SDGs through cooperation is to achieve responsible autonomy in relation to the central government. It is imperative that local governments can negotiate directly with international or national organizations the cooperation they can receive. For that they need responsible autonomy, this can be achieved by establishing a responsible relationship between centralization and decentralization of the functions of central governments. Obviously, this depends a lot on the economic regime of each country, although this seems to be a logic that works well for all international relations. Local governments also need experts who are capable of adequately managing this cooperation, especially when it occurs through technologies that can have a significant impact on communities. It is necessary to know if there is sufficient capacity in the locality to assimilate this transfer of technology. In short, there are many aspects that influence this process.
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An information about hazards modelling in West Sumatera, especially in Agam Municipality and about tsunami
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I'm grateful for your kind information..
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Santika P
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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.
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I think many people are now understanding their responsibilities towards nature and are acting accordingly in favour of nature.
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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?
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I checked very quick the EMEC Catalogue (Gruenthal, G. & Wahlstroem, R., 2012), also available through:
and I do not see it either. Maybe you could get a new trace in one of the data sources from M. Stucchi e.g. DOM4.1.
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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
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Rapid composting
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@ Vishnuvardan, the attached file may provide you some information.
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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?
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Unfortunately there are a lot of issues with using an index approach (like Gini) to analysing fine-grained spatial data :
" Methodologically, the finer the spatial scale and the fewer the number of people living in an area, the more likely are chance results. Many traditional segregation indices assume that there are no stochastic variations and provide upwardly-biased estimates with apparent segregation when there is none (Carrington and Troske,1997). It is thus necessary to adopt inferential modelling to assess segregation net of stochastic variation as pioneered by Leckie et al. (2012). Segregation is characterised as an estimated variance around a mean. If all places have the same share of a subgroup the variance estimate will be zero; any apparent differences are merely due to chance. However, an estimated variance whose uncertainty intervals do not include zero indicates genuine segregation in the form of unevenness. Importantly they show that several well-known indices [INCLUDING THE GINI] are an increasing monotonic function of the variance. Consequently, the same conclusions will result whichever are used to compare different groups or groups over time. They also provide a method of transforming the variance and accompanying uncertainty into these indices if that helps comparison.
Mobility research finds that movers choose (or are forced to choose) a broad zone of a city and then decide at a micro scale where to locate within that zone (Johnston, Forrest et al. 2016). There can be multiple processes operating at multiple scales and a group can be concentrated in zones and within certain subareas within zones. Methodologically, the scale at which segregation analysis is conducted is critical and can determine the outcomes found. Previous research has resulted in the stylised fact that the most marked segregation is at the finest scale and declines at higher spatial scales. However, there has been much misunderstanding about analysis at multiple scales. Typically (e.g. Lee et al. 2008) the analysis moves through a sequence of ever-growing scales finding the maximum segregation at the finest scale. These analyses are problematic as the finest scale implicitly includes segregation at any relevant higher scale (Duncan et al., 1961) and the apparent decline is likely to be an artefact of the aggregation process whereby data are smoothed as they are combined into larger units.
Fortunately, the modelling approach can be extended to analyse multiple scales simultaneously where unevenness is characterised by the variance at one scale net of the variation at other scales (and net of stochastic variation). Several studies using this approach have found that segregation is greater at the macro scale, as for example for London (Johnston, Jones et al., 2016; Jones et al. 2015).
Processes of structured segregation are likely to produce not just unevenness of distribution but also clustering whereby similar groups are spatially concentrated in certain parts of the city and separated from dissimilar groups. Methodologically, however, most segregation analyses are inherently aspatial merely analysing the frequency distribution of minority rates and ignoring location. What is needed is an assessment of the degree of spatial dependence of the rates – the degree to which similar rates are adjacent to each other. The developing modelling approach in partitioning the variance at different levels implicitly models the dependency at each scale below the topmost one (Jones et al. 2015); larger variances indicate both greater differences between and equivalently greater similarity within areas (Bullen et al., 1997). But this crude approach has no explicit parameter for the degree of spatial dependence; the variance measures only unevenness and there is a need for a modelling approach that additionally assesses spatial clustering as well as aspatial unevenness. Initially, the modelling approach was applied to educational segregation which analyses data for preexisting higher-level level entities (at its simplest, children in schools). For residential segregation, this is not the case and the areas of interest must be defined, thereby confronting the MAUP There are two aspects to this: the scale problem is that results may depend on the number of units studied; while the zonation problem is that different results can be found for a constant number of geographical units but with differing spatial arrangements.
To date the model-based approach has taken a strictly hierarchical approach where the scales and zoning are taken as given and fixed. Thus, a model-based study of segregation in London (Johnston, Jones et al 2016) used census Output Areas at the finest scale which are exactly nested in Middle Layer Super Output Areas which are in turn nested in Boroughs. It may be that this specific mesh is determining the results so we need to research the MAUP to gauge potential sensitivity of results to different spatial architectures. This problem is closely bound up with spatial dependence for if the rates are truly without map pattern then differential aggregations and zonings are unlikely to determine the results (Wong 2009, 114). Views on MAUP range from an ‘essentially unpredictable’ intractable problem (Fotheringham and Wong, 1991,1025) to a ‘very powerful analytical device’ (Openshaw, 1984,7). Another striking feature is that much research simply concludes that results differ and gives little insight as to why. There are several reasons for this. Some studies use real data and then create zones from these – the million correlation coefficients of Openshaw and Taylor (1979) are based on re-grouping areal voting data for Iowa. It is then difficult to know what the ‘true’ relationship is and to isolate what is producing the results. Other studies use simulated data of known properties but are unrealistic in not considering different forms of spatial configuration in determining the results (Amrhein, 1995). A more pervasive problem is that studies have not been set in a general modelling framework (Wrigley, 1995) resulting in no goodness-of-fit measure for determining what is the ‘best’ zonal arrangement. Here we see the MAUP as an opportunity to vary scale and zonation to bring the patterns into focus and thereby gain insight to the underlying processes producing segregation. However, we lack a statistic to provide guidance when this focus has been achieved. This is especially difficult in real data as there may be multiple and unknown configurations where spatial processes are operating; working at a single scale may miss what is going on.
Three other issues are methodologically important for us. Firstly, in assessing change there is a need to incorporate statistical uncertainty. A decreasing population per unit area will result in smaller numbers which will emphasize stochastic variation upwardly biasing segregation estimates. Such analysis of change must be multiscalar as countervailing tendencies (polarization at one scale alongside dispersal at another) may cloud the picture of what is happening (Haggett, 1965). Secondly, ethnicity in the 21st city is not a binary variable, with multiple ethnicities characterising contemporary society. This diversity requires simultaneous modelling of multiple groups which results in smaller numbers as ethnicity is disaggregated, making a modelling approach particularly valuable. The third aspect is that there may be multiple influences on location decision-making so that residential segregation may be differently driven by ethnicity and class. It is vital to have a methodology for assessing which are the key influences on segregation and to do so for multiple groups at multiple scales. We have addressed all three in previous work (Johnston, Jones et al., 2016; Jones et al. 2017) and here we concentrate on spatializing the modelling approach to measure clustering while examining sensitivity to the MAUP for a single time cross-section for just two ethnic groups.
Our agenda should now be clear. A modelling approach is required that can handle and separate stochastic variation from ‘true’ pattern. It must work at multiple scales simultaneously distinguishing unevenness and spatial clustering. It should allow sensitivity analysis to assess which alternative spatial arrangements bring the patterns into focus at one scale net of others. This needs to be set in an inferential framework where the uncertainty of parameters is evaluated and where appropriate measures of goodness of fit allow the preferment of some spatial arrangement over others. The method of comparison must consider model complexity in coming to a parsimonious judgement on models with many potential parameters. The method must also be computationally feasible on realistically-sized data sets. "
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Integrated municipal waste management, especially remote surveillance and monitoring For effective Waste management
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There are a number of things you need to do to make things happen - smart measurement, infrastructure, software, laws. The first thing is the technological line, according to her she was chosen mechanization, electrification and finally - the information system. Is there a failure in technology the biggest errors give the information system.
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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)?
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Ah, by the way, if we consider, river/sea bath as hygiene activity, then there are different guidelines (standards) in many countries.
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Currently researching on organic waste management related data and best practices?
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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.
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Enabling national policies are necessary to advance climate action at the city level POLICY PERSPECTIVES Local governments have often been named as key actors in the transformation towards a more sustainable society. Many local decisions can directly affect the environment, such as local authorities’ regulation of transportation, building construction, spatial planning, and economic matters.
Cities have a unique ability to address global climate change challenges. Choices made in cities today about long-lived urban infrastructure will determine the extent and impact of climate change, our ability to achieve emission reductions and our capacity to adapt to changing circumstances. • Local action takes place in the context of broader national frameworks that can either empower or slow down city-level action; therefore, supportive national and regional policies and incentives are required to ensure city-level initiatives have sufficient resources and potential to effect meaningful change. • National policies often establish what cities can and cannot do in terms of climate policy action (e.g. access to financial resources). As such, national and regional governments should ensure that their policy frameworks are well-aligned and work to support city-level action. • National support is needed to help cities establish policy frameworks and minimum standards and to garner the required resources and technical information. By building environmental goals and incentives into national policies, governments can ensure that competition among cities results in a “race to the top”. • Identifying national policies that conflict with or prevent local climate action is an important way in which national governments can improve their alignment with local climate initiatives. • Investing in low-carbon, climate-resilient urban infrastructure has low incremental costs and provides multiple local benefits, e.g. sustainable urban transport projects can reduce traffic congestion and local air pollution as well as greenhouse gas emissions. • Public sector financing will not be sufficient; therefore, cities need to mobilise private capital to fill funding gaps for green urban infrastructure projects. Encouraging private sector investment requires national level policies that improve the enabling environment for private investments in green urban infrastructure and the risk-return profile of these investments . • Increasing urbanisation has significant implications for climate change; air quality; water availability and quality; land use; and waste management. Provided that the right policies are put in place, the current wave of rapid urbanisation offers an unprecedented opportunity to create sustainable, liveable and dynamic cities. • Cities are also particularly vulnerable to climate change – both because extreme weather events can be especially disruptive to complex urban systems and because so much of the world’s urban population live in low-lying coastal areas, particularly in Asia . Vulnerability to storm surges and rising sea levels is set to increase rapidly over the coming decades, as much urban growth is concentrated in Asia.
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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.
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Hi Perhaps these hints could be helpful for you:
There is a recently launched project in Europe, called «Library Ranking Europe“ (http://www.libraryranking.com/); in this article you will find further information: Paraschiv, Petra: Public Libraries In Europe: Top And Bottom:
In Germany there exists an award called „Bibliothek des Jahres“ (library of the year); this represents the only award dedicated to libraries in Germany:
With best regards
Anne-Katharina
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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.
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The consumers of water utility ( domestic, commercial and industrial consumers are supposed to pay wastewater treatment