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Bokulich, Nicholas A., and David A. Mills. "Facility-Specific “House” Microbiome Drives Microbial Landscapes of Artisan Cheesemaking Plants." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 79, no. 17 (2013): 5214–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.00934-13.
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ABSTRACTCheese fermentations involve the growth of complex microbial consortia, which often originate in the processing environment and drive the development of regional product qualities. However, the microbial milieus of cheesemaking facilities are largely unexplored and the true nature of the fermentation-facility relationship remains nebulous. Thus, a high-throughput sequencing approach was employed to investigate the microbial ecosystems of two artisanal cheesemaking plants, with the goal of elucidating how the processing environment influences microbial community assemblages. Results demonstrate that fermentation-associated microbes dominated most surfaces, primarilyDebaryomycesandLactococcus, indicating that establishment of these organisms on processing surfaces may play an important role in microbial transfer, beneficially directing the course of sequential fermentations. Environmental organisms detected in processing environments dominated the surface microbiota of washed-rind cheeses maturing in both facilities, demonstrating the importance of the processing environment for populating cheese microbial communities, even in inoculated cheeses. Spatial diversification within both facilities reflects the functional adaptations of microbial communities inhabiting different surfaces and the existence of facility-specific “house” microbiota, which may play a role in shaping site-specific product characteristics.
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Mbareche, Veillette, Pilote, Létourneau, and Duchaine. "Bioaerosols Play a Major Role in the Nasopharyngeal Microbiota Content in Agricultural Environment." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 8 (2019): 1375. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16081375.
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Background: Bioaerosols are a major concern for public health and sampling for exposure assessment purposes is challenging. The nasopharyngeal region could be a potent carrier of long-term bioaerosol exposure agents. This study aimed to evaluate the correlation between nasopharyngeal bacterial flora of swine workers and the swine barns bioaerosol biodiversity. Methods: Air samples from eight swine barns as well as nasopharyngeal swabs from pig workers (n = 25) and from a non-exposed control group (n = 29) were sequenced using 16S rRNA gene high-throughput sequencing. Wastewater treatment plants were used as the industrial, low-dust, non-agricultural environment control to validate the microbial link between the bioaerosol content (air) and the nasopharynxes of workers. Results: A multivariate analysis showed air samples and nasopharyngeal flora of pig workers cluster together, compared to the non-exposed control group. The significance was confirmed with the PERMANOVA statistical test (p-value of 0.0001). Unlike the farm environment, nasopharynx samples from wastewater workers did not cluster with air samples from wastewater treatment plants. The difference in the microbial community of nasopharynx of swine workers and a control group suggest that swine workers are carriers of germs found in bioaerosols. Conclusion: Nasopharynx sampling and microbiota could be used as a proxy of air sampling for exposure assessment studies or for the determination of exposure markers in highly contaminated agricultural environments.
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Gubb, Curtis, Tijana Blanusa, Alistair Griffiths, and Christian Pfrang. "Can plants be considered a building service?" Building Services Engineering Research and Technology 41, no. 3 (2020): 374–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0143624419899519.
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Plants are utilised in many forms within indoor environments, from simple houseplants to complex and species-rich green walls. Plants offer multi-faceted services indoors including pollutant removal and reductions in building energy consumption. This review firstly identifies – by critical assessment of the literature – pollutants which are currently measured at harmful concentrations indoors – classifying them as ‘2019’s priority pollutants’ and providing thorough health assessments of each. Secondly, the authors present which indoor plants have been shown to effectively remove ‘2019’s priority pollutants’ and direct future research onto any that have not been investigated. Thirdly, the authors consolidate the current research presenting why plants should be considered a building service. Practical application: Plants are commonly used inside indoor environments. However, the benefits they bring are often overstated. This review paper looks to consolidate the current academic research on the various services plants can provide indoors including pollutant removal and relative humidity regulation. The authors hope that the paper can be used to inform and educate building service engineers and alike on the current state of play concerning indoor plants.
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Chen, Zhenbang, N. Jean Flickinger, and A. Raymond Miller. "Jasmonic Acid and Environments Increase Steroidal Glycoalkaloid Biosynthesis in Solanum chacoense." HortScience 33, no. 3 (1998): 456b—456. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/hortsci.33.3.456b.
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Steroidal glycoalkaloids in Solanum chacoense have been found to deter feeding by herbivores, especially to Colorado potato beetle. The steroidal glycoalkaloids of S. chacoense include solanine (chaconine), leptinines, and leptines, which yield solanidine, leptinidine, and acetylleptinidine, respectively, upon acid hydrolysis. To understand the regulation of their biosynthesis, tissue culture plants were grown on MS media containing jasmonic acid, methyl jasmonate, or arachidonic acid at different levels. After 1 month in culture, 100 μM jasmonic acid stimulated solanidine, leptinidine, and acetylleptinidine accumulation 3- to 10-fold compared to control. Methyl jasmonate at 100 μM also induced solanidine accumulation, but not leptinidine and acetylleptinidine. Arachidonic acid had no effect on solanidine, leptinidine, and acetylletptinidine levels. Furthermore, leptinidine and acetylleptinidine levels increased 5-fold and 100-fold, respectively, after plants were transferred from culture in vitro to soil; meanwhile, solanidine level decreased slightly. Solanidine, leptinidine and acetylleptinidine from plants in vitro showed no changes during the same period. Our results indicated that jasmonic acid and environmental factors play important roles in the biosynthesis of steroidal glycoalkaloids in S. chacoense.
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Pugnaire, Francisco I., Gianalberto Losapio, and Christian Schöb. "Species interactions involving cushion plants in high-elevation environments under a changing climate." Ecosistemas 30, no. 1 (2021): 2186. http://dx.doi.org/10.7818/ecos.2186.
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The effects of global warming are stronger in high-elevation environments than elsewhere. Here, we review recent advances in alpine plant ecology with a focus on dry mountain ranges, mainly in Mediterranean-type climate, with a global change perspective. Raising temperatures and changes in precipitation influence both plant growth and reproduction, and therefore the spatial distribution of species. Research in high-elevation systems evidenced that plant–plant interactions involving cushion plants play a crucial role in the assembly of plant communities, influencing species richness, genetic and phylogenetic diversity, and species persistence. By buffering environmental extremes and ameliorating biophysical conditions, cushion plant species acting as ecosystem engineers are fundamental in the response of alpine ecosystems to global warming, mitigating negative impacts on different plant species with narrow niche and small distribution range.
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Sáenz, Valeri, Carlos Alvarez-Moreno, Patrice Le Pape, Silvia Restrepo, Josep Guarro, and Adriana Marcela Celis Ramírez. "A One Health Perspective to Recognize Fusarium as Important in Clinical Practice." Journal of Fungi 6, no. 4 (2020): 235. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jof6040235.
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Any strategy that proposes solutions to health-related problems recognizes that people, animals, and the environment are interconnected. Fusarium is an example of this interaction because it is capable of infecting plants, animals, and humans. This review provides information on various aspects of these relations and proposes how to approach fusariosis with a One Health methodology (a multidisciplinary, and multisectoral approach that can address urgent, ongoing, or potential health threats to humans, animals, and the environment). Here, we give a framework to understand infection pathogenesis, through the epidemiological triad, and explain how the broad utilization of fungicides in agriculture may play a role in the treatment of human fusariosis. We assess how plumbing systems and hospital environments might play a role as a reservoir for animal and human infections. We explain the role of antifungal resistance mechanisms in both humans and agriculture. Our review emphasizes the importance of developing interdisciplinary research studies where aquatic animals, plants, and human disease interactions can be explored through coordination and collaborative actions.
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Kaevska, M., S. Lvoncik, I. Slana, P. Kulich, and P. Kralik. "Microscopy, Culture, and Quantitative Real-Time PCR Examination Confirm Internalization of Mycobacteria in Plants." Applied and Environmental Microbiology 80, no. 13 (2014): 3888–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/aem.00496-14.
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ABSTRACTThe environment is a reservoir of nontuberculous mycobacteria and is considered a source of infection for animals and humans. Mycobacteria can persist in different types of environments for a relatively long time. We have studied their possible internalization into plant tissue through intact, as well as damaged, root systems of different types of plants grownin vitroand under field conditions. The substrate into which plants were seeded was previously contaminated with different strains ofMycobacterium avium(108to 1010cells/g of soil) and feces from animals with paratuberculosis. We detectedM. aviumsubsp.avium,hominissuis, andparatuberculosisin the stems and leaves of the plants by both culture and real-time quantitative PCR. The presence of mycobacteria in the plant tissues was confirmed by microscopy. The concentration of mycobacteria found inside plant tissue was several orders of magnitude lower (up to 104cells/g of tissue) than the initial concentration of mycobacteria present in the culture medium or substrate. These findings led us to the hypothesis that plants may play a role in the spread and transmission of mycobacteria to other organisms in the environment.
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Aona, Lidyanne Yuriko Saleme, Grênivel Mota da Costa, Maria do Carmo E. do Amaral, Aparecida Donisete de Faria, Edson Ferreira Duarte, and Volker Bittrich. "Aquatic and marsh plants from the Recôncavo basin of Bahia state, Brazil: checklist and life forms." Check List 11, no. 6 (2015): 1806. http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/11.6.1806.
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Aquatic and marsh plants are those that have the capacity to withstand a continuous or periodic submersion in water, at least of their roots. Such plants are thus able to occupy environments that are at least periodically waterlogged. The knowledge about this plant group is still rather incomplete for various parts of Brazil including the Northeast. The present study was conducted in Bahia state, through collections in 20 municipalities within the Recôncavo basin between 2009 and 2015. All species were classified across six life forms. We report 316 species in 206 genera and 71 families, including 11 fern species, with helophytes and emergent being the commonest ones. Collection efforts in aquatic environments in the Recôncavo region added nine families of angiosperms to those already reported in previous studies of such plants in Northeastern Brazil. The region presents a wide variety of aquatic and marsh plants and the respective habitats play an important role in the conservation/maintenance of biodiversity and especially of water bodies in Eastern Bahia.
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Shokoohi, Reza, Abdollah Dargahi, Razieh Khamutian, and Yaser Vaziri. "Evaluation of the Efficiency of Wastewater Treatment Plants in the Removal of Common Antibiotics from Municipal Wastewater in Hamadan, Iran." Avicenna Journal of Environmental Health Engineering 4, no. 1 (2017): 10921. http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/ajehe.10921.
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The presence of antibiotics in the environment, especially aquatic environments, is a major health and environmental concern.Wastewater treatment plants play an important role in the treatment of municipal and industrial wastewater and removal of contaminants.The aim of this study was to determine the concentration of prevalent antibiotics in municipal wastewater of Hamadan,Iran and to evaluate the removal efficiency of wastewater treatment plants. During 3 months (April, May, and June 2016), a total of 12 composite influent and effluent samples were collected from the wastewater treatment plants. Solid-phase extraction (SPE) was used for preparing the samples, which were then analyzed using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with UV detection.Based on the analysis of 6 antibiotics, three antibiotics, including amoxicillin, imipenem, and cefixime, were detected, and their concentrations were measured at 1.6, 10.7, and 5.8 ug/L, respectively. The removal efficiency of these antibiotics in wastewater treatment plants was 55.66%, 34.01%, and 24.33%, respectively. Due to the presence of examined antibiotics in the effluent and influent wastewater treatment plants, they might cause direct and indirect effects on human health and environment if proper measures are not taken by the authorities. Since the removal of these antibiotics from wastewater treatment plants is relatively poor, it is suggested to use advanced wastewater treatment plants to reduce antibiotics in effluent wastewater and decrease the adverse effects of these micropollutants.
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Oliveira, Ana Paula Jejesky de, and Amanda Toledo Lourenço. "Morphological variation of Allagoptera arenaria (Gomes) Kuntze, 1891 (Arecaceae) in continental and insular environment." Brazilian Journal of Biological Sciences 6, no. 14 (2019): 515–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.21472/bjbs.061404.
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Various evolutionary and ecological aspects in isolated environments, such as islands, associated with speciation events, play a role in biological diversification. In this sense, the morphological characteristics of Allagoptera arenaria (Gomes) Kuntze, 1891 (Arecaceae) species on mainland and island were evaluated to detect possible differences that reflect adaptive responses to the island environment. This study provides the first demonstration on the relationship of morphological differences of A. arenaria species. Height, perimeter, and total number of fruits and flowers from each plant were used for nonparametric analysis using the Mann-Whitney U test. The plants of the island did not show evident patterns in the different morphological characteristics of the plants of the continent. It is believed that the species may not be a good representative of adaptive evidence for islands.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Plants for play environments"
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Gorczyca, Mark Patrick. "Reconnecting with nature : the child needing to be wild." Virtual Press, 2000. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1191708.
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This creative project recognized that contemporary cultural trends have increased "disconnect" between individuals and their appreciation and practical knowledge of "nature." It addressed the defunct relationship humans often have with nature and focused primarily on how this disconnection effects the lives of children. Research was undertaken to summarize possible reasons for this disconnection and to discover possible corrections to this perceived problem. This research initiative coupled with personal ideation resulted in a design experiment that integrated environmental education with a play environment for elementary school children. Theoretically, this design experiment was implemented on a site-specific level at Storer Elementary School in Muncie, Indiana.<br>Department of Landscape Architecture
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Masri, Hassan Mohamed. "Optimizing sample plans to improve microbiological safety in a food processing plant." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/23194.
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Salmonella and Cronobacter sakazakii are two leading causes of foodborne illness associated with low-moisture foods, including infant formula. Both causative organisms can persist in food manufacturing processing environments and contaminate finished product if programs are not in place to limit their introduction and control their spread. An environmental sampling and monitoring program is an important tool that food manufacturers use to determine the effectiveness of their sanitation practices and pathogen control efforts. Guidance for initiating an environmental sampling plan and evaluating the plan is lacking.<br />The objective of this study was to develop microbiological environmental sampling plans based on the answers to a series of questions related to product hazards, processing risks and controls, and knowledge of appropriate microbiological sampling and testing protocols. Furthermore, these initial sampling plans were related to the volume of product and size of the processing facility. An interactive spreadsheet tool for designing sampling monitoring plans for an infant formula process was developed using Microsoft Excel.<br />Additionally, the tool can be used to record qualitative and quantitative sample test results, and to alert the user how the upcoming sampling plan will be changed, if necessary, based on monthly test summaries. The sampling tool provides a simple method for selecting an appropriate environmental sampling plan (samples per zone per month) and provides a rationale and guidance for creating and modifying these plans. Effective sampling plans and trend analysis of sample test results support the food processors decisions for implementing controls to enhance food safety.<br>Master of Science in Life Sciences
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Banker, Sarah M. "Play." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1587604102106562.
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Rau, Andreas. "Interactive Play Environments : Digitally Augmenting the Built Environment to Mediate Play." Thesis, KTH, Medieteknik och interaktionsdesign, MID, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-173935.
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This master’s thesis expands the field of research in interactive playgrounds by examining the role of the built environment that is augmented with digital technology for richer interaction possibilities in such playgrounds. Based on a literature study, this thesis distinguishes interactive play environments from interactive playgrounds, since these often do not reflect the impact of the environment on play very well. The research question being raised is then as follows: “How do children use the digitally augmented built environment in their play?” The thesis describes the process of designing and prototyping an interactive play environment that features communication and a tube to throw objects through as play concepts. Six different prototypes shape the interactive environment in close interplay with landscape and existing built environment. The prototyped environment is then evaluated in a 4-day study at a Swedish school with approximately 240 children during their recess times. This study uses observation as the predominant data gathering method. The gathered data are analyzed based on content analysis. As an answer to the research question, this thesis describes the play that happens in an interactive play environment and draws conclusions on the influence of such an environment on play. The results of the study indicate, that the digitally augmented built environment has an impact on play in stimulating certain new play patterns. It shows its potential mainly as a mediator between the children and the environment, thus stimulating children to explore their environment through play and discover dormant values of the environment. Although we found that the digitally augmented built environment influences play, this study can not confirm that the digital components embedded in the built environment actually improve the play. However, the increasing presence of digital technology in society in general makes it inevitable to think about how this presence should be reflected in children’s playgrounds in the future and this work can give some directions for that.
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Snyders, Timothy. "Child's play : facilitating child development through play and interaction with plants." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13378.
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Includes bibliographical references.<br>The representation of planting has been under- theorised in landscape architecture and has become a simple technical accompaniment to design rather than a vital part of the design process. Generally, planting design is left to the end of the project when it fills a previously generated plan geometry as opposed to being used as an opportunity to exploit plants’ characteristics and thus assist the initial design process. The conventional representation of a planting plan comprises of circles on a page that depict the plants position and future diameter, but disregards other characteristics, such as growth and seasonal change. This mode of representation prioritises architectural characteristics rather than the visual qualities of the plants. Furthermore, since plants are the only element within a landscape design that changes naturally over time, methods need to be developed that accommodate and exploit this change. To do so, these changes need to be represented for use in the design process. I will be using the Amazing Cape planting design in the Biodiversity Garden in Green Point Park, to explore alternative graphic methods that could have been used to represent the growth and end result of the planting design and palette. This is in contrast to the more conventional, technical manner of representation. A graphic review and analysis of the planting design and palette will be undertaken, with the “re-presentation” of a range of different contemporary planting plan representation techniques by leading plant design authors and landscape designers. Evaluating the representation of the future growth and seasonal change in the planting plan and palette. Ultimately producing graphics that best represents the growth and seasonal change of the Amazing Cape planting design.
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Diep, Olsson Emelie, and Siri Lindersköld. "Establishment of play in Million program environments." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21754.
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Utgångspunkten för denna kandidatuppsats är att den byggda miljön påverkar våra liv och vårt handlingsutrymme. Den byggda miljön kan möjliggöra eller begränsa olika typer av aktiviteter. Leken är en av de mest grundläggande aktiviteterna i vår sociala utveckling och är en del av den sociala interaktionen med andra människor. Leken förknippas ofta med barn, men leken förkommer och är viktig för alla ålderskategorier.Syftet med studien är att ta reda på hur den byggda miljön kan skapa möjligheter för leken att etableras. Vi undersöker om man kan planera och styra leken och vad leken kan tillföra i ett miljonprogramsområde.Många av de miljonprogramsområden som byggdes i Sverige under 1960- och 70-talet är ofta problemtyngda och den byggda miljön lider av ett eftersatt underhåll. Området Gårdsten i Göteborg är ett område som genomgått ombyggnadsprojekt med inriktning på hållbarhetsfrågor, med de sociala frågorna i huvudfokus. Vi har genomfört en fallstudie av området och genom analys utvärderat hur den byggda miljön skapar förutsättningar för lek.<br>The basis for this candidate essay is that the built environment affects our lives and our freedom of action. The built environment can facilitate or limit different types of activities. Play is one of the most basic things in our social development and is part of the social interaction with other people. The play is often associated with children, but the play is as important for all age groups.The purpose of this study is to investigate how the built environment can support the opportunity for play to establish itself in one place. We investigate to what extent you can plan and control the play and what play can supply to a Million Programme area.Many of the Million Programme areas that were built in Sweden during the 1960s and 70s are often problematic and the built environment suffers from deferred maintenance. The area Gårdsten in Gothenburg is an area that has undergone renovation projects with a focus on sustainability issues, with social issues in the main focus. We have conducted a case study of the area and through analysis evaluated how the built environment can create conditions for play.
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Yiu, Chi-wai Albert, and 姚志偉. "The children's museum: a stimulating environment of play, wonder and learning." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1997. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31983728.
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Rowhani, Shirin. "An investigation of the role of informal play environments for quality outdoor play." Thesis, University of the West of England, Bristol, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.557144.
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The role of the outdoor play settings in children's play has long been of interest to the field of planning and design of the built-environment. While a vast body of research has been dedicated to understanding the nature and implications of the design of formal play spaces, such as playgrounds and play centres, very little is known about the characteristics of informal play spaces such as streets that are conducive to quality play. The aim of this study is to develop an evidence-based understanding of the effects of informal play spaces on quality outdoor play. Quality play is determined by the frequency, duration and intensity of play, as well the opportunities available for social interaction and independent mobility. This study proposes a conceptual framework that provides a structure to examine the interaction between three spheres (the built environment characteristics, societal issues, and economic conditions) believed to be critical to help transform the quality of child outdoor play. In this study, recent technology based on accelerometers and tracking devices, together with questionnaire surveys, friendship network mapping exercises, and the built- environment audit, have allowed an accurate, comprehensive and revealing picture of the relationship between the built-environment characteristics and quality of outdoor play. The finding of this study suggests that informal outdoor play spaces support a range of spontaneous, freely chosen, child initiated play activities. The finding reveals that playing in informal spaces, which are not necessarily allocated or designed for play, tends to be associated with longer and more frequent playtime in outdoors, higher levels of physical activity, more interaction between children and extended independent mobility compared with playing in formal spaces. The investigation determined that connectivity of the street networks for pedestrian, natural on-site supervision, and parents' perceptions of neighbourhood safety are positively associated to children's levels of physical activity. Children play more in watched spaces and their levels of sociability are higher in these spaces. The results reflect that the accompaniment of children by adults adversely affects the duration and frequency of their outdoor play.
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Mansor, Evi. "Designing tabletop environments for preschool children's fantasy play." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/designing-tabletop-environments-for-preschool-childrens-fantasy-play(4afb9c05-fda2-460b-96bc-6d950cf06957).html.
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Fantasy play is when children explore and travel through time and space, to interpret experiences into stories and to act them out. Children love this kind of play and it is really important for developing skills which will be used later in life. Today, computers are increasingly present in children's lives, and the development of technology over recent decades has changed the way children play. This thesis explores the possibility of young children (aged 3-4) enacting their fantasy play in a virtual environment. Three different games were designed and implemented on a Mitsubishi DiamondTouch (DT) multi-touch interactive tabletop. Three evaluation studies were conducted and the performance of the children's fantasy play was examined. In each study, children were recruited from a local preschool class. The first study was designed to compare fantasy play in physical and virtual settings. Children from the preschool class in a state primary school were invited to play with both a real tree house and its virtual implementation on a Mitsubishi DiamondTouch (DT) multi-touch interactive tabletop. Overall, the children played quietly and alone. The results evinced several problems in the interaction with the tabletop as children struggled to drag the objects displayed on the table surface. Therefore, the study did not provide conclusive evidence of a distinction in fantasy in physical and virtual environments. The second study was concentrated on testing solutions for the interaction difficulties evinced in the first study. A new application named The Magic House was developed and implemented on a Mitsubishi DT multi-touch interactive tabletop and tested twice with the preschool children. The results showed that most of the interaction problems from Study 1 were eliminated; evidence of more fantasy play was captured, and children played more confidently in the second evaluation session. The third study was designed to investigate and to compare children's fantasy play in physical and virtual settings. A new physical setting and the virtual implementation on the Mitsubishi DT multi-touch interactive tabletop of materials named The Farm were designed and examined with a group of preschool children. The results revealed that high occurrence of fantasy play was observed in the virtual setting and several similarities and dissimilarities between the two settings was also highlighted. Overall, this thesis produced knowledge on how the application on the multi-touch interactive tabletop environment was designed and evaluated with preschool children. The thesis results demonstrate that appropriate interaction design of virtual environments could stimulate preschool children's fantasy play and the tabletop can be operated by children as young as three. This thesis also specified requirements for designing and facilitating tabletop environments for preschool children's fantasy play.
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Valerio, Wendy H. "Toddler Vocal Music Syntax Acquisition in Music Play and General Play Environments. Cultural Connections." Bärenreiter Verlag, 2012. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A72053.
Full textBooks on the topic "Plants for play environments"
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Plants for play: A plant selection guide for children's outdoor environments. MIG Communications, 1993.
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Berg, Rice Valerie J., ed. Ergonomics for children: Designing products and places for toddlers to teens. CRC, 2008.
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation. Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs. Environmental standard review plan. Division of Regulatory Improvement Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 2000.
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(Ireland), National Children's Office. Ready, steady, play!: A national play policy. Stationery Office, 2004.
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L, Frost Joe, Sunderlin Sylvia, and Association for Childhood Education International., eds. When children play: Proceedings of the International Conference on Play and Play Environments. Association for Childhood Education International, 1985.
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Martin, Maudsley, Play England (Project), and National Children's Bureau, eds. Play, naturally: A review of children's natural play. Published for Play England by National Children's Bureau, 2007.
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U.S. National Park Service. Dinosaur National Monument: Invasive plant plan & environmental assessment. The Service, 2005.
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Clarke, Christopher. "Virtual Worlds: Spaces for Education or Places for Play?" In Social Media Tools and Platforms in Learning Environments. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20392-3_10.
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Montero-Castaño, Ana, and Anna Traveset. "Pollination interactions promoting plant invasions." In Plant invasions: the role of biotic interactions. CABI, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789242171.0067.
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Abstract Most plant species rely on, or benefit from, animal pollination. Therefore, pollination interactions are expected to play a key role in the reproduction and invasion success of non-native plants in their new areas. Understanding this role will allow us to better predict certain plant invasions. Also, it will allow us to explore the potential of invasion management measures based on disrupting or avoiding pollination interactions. In this chapter we review the available information on reproductive systems and their degree of dependence on animal-mediated pollination of non-native plant species. We review the characteristics of resident pollinators feeding on non-native plants and the different environmental setups that allow or impede non-native plants to reproduce in their new areas. Finally, we explore the scarce literature on invasion management measures based on disrupting pollination interactions and discuss their potentiality. Evidence so far shows that animal pollination does not usually act as an effective barrier to invasion. Most introduced plants are able to receive suitable pollination service from resident pollinators, while others are able to minimize their reliance on pollinators through different mechanisms (e.g. selfing or asexual reproduction). The environmental settings where the introduction occurs (for instance, the presence of neighbours with similar or dissimilar flower morphologies), can play an important role on the success or failure of non-native plants overcoming reproductive barriers. Although it seems that most introduced plants do not face pollination barriers, we consider that, for certain species, the disruption or avoidance of pollination interactions as control or prevention measures deserve further exploration.
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Brown, Patrick H., and Hening Hu. "Does boron play only a structural role in the growing tissues of higher plants?" In Plant Nutrition for Sustainable Food Production and Environment. Springer Netherlands, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0047-9_6.
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le Roux, Johannes J. "Molecular ecology of plant-microbial interactions during invasions: progress and challenges." In Plant invasions: the role of biotic interactions. CABI, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789242171.0340.
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Abstract Microbes are omnipresent, yet their interactions with invasive plants remain understudied. This is surprising, given the importance of microbes in plant community ecology and their influence on plant performance in new environments. Recent advances in molecular genetic approaches have opened the door to studying this unseen majority in great detail and to understand how they fit into ecological interaction networks. Molecular approaches allow rapid assessments of microbial diversity at reasonable cost while providing both taxonomic and evolutionary information. Here I discuss how these approaches have contributed to a better understanding of plant-microbial interactions in the context of biological invasions. By drawing insights from various case studies, I illustrate how next-generation sequencing (DNA barcoding) has revolutionized the way we understand such interactions. Tight-knit and coevolved mutualist (e.g. mycorrhizal) and antagonist (e.g. pathogen) interactions appear particularly promising to understand the structure and function of invasive plant-microbial interaction networks, the impacts of invasive plants on native networks and the vulnerability of native networks to infiltration by non-native species. I also discuss novel ways in which molecular data can aid the study of invasive plant-microbial interactions, such as incorporating phylogenetic data into network analyses to better understand the role of evolutionary history in network dynamics and how such dynamics respond to plant invasions. DNA barcoding of microbes also presents unique challenges to the study of network ecology, such as uncertainty in the legitimacy and efficiency of interactions. Future research should incorporate overall plant-associated microbial communities (microbiomes) into interaction networks to better understand the role microbes play during plant invasions.
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Galan, Juanjo. "Natural Environment Plan." In Sectoral Plans and Pilot Projects for Sustainable Development. Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05360-4_3.
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Cummins, Elizabeth, and Zahra Zamani. "Play Environments and Affordances." In How to Grow a Playspace. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315695198-6.
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Cummins, Elizabeth, and Zahra Zamani. "Play Environments and Affordances." In How to Grow a Playspace. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315695198-ch4.
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Pinzari, Flavia, and Beata Gutarowska. "Extreme Colonizers and Rapid Profiteers: The Challenging World of Microorganisms That Attack Paper and Parchment." In Microorganisms in the Deterioration and Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69411-1_4.
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AbstractMicroorganisms form the backbone of life on Earth. Over billions of years, they have colonized and shaped every possible niche on the planet. Microbes have modelled both the land and the sea, and have created favourable conditions for multicellular organisms to thrive in. Our understanding of how microbial diversity is distributed across natural environments and how microbes affect ecosystems is constantly evolving as public databases are set up and new techniques based on massive sequencing are developed. The microbiome found in a particular anthropogenic environment is generally much less complex than those found in natural ones: there is less competition and the main actors are often linked to survival mechanisms regulated by a few limiting factors. Despite this simplicity, it is very difficult to link cause and effect when seeking to identify the role of individual organisms. In the case of biodeterioration of paper and parchment, even when analysing the individual components of a simple phenomenon, it is not always easy to understand the mechanisms at play. Works of art are unique objects and the elements that determine the arrival and establishment of one or more microorganisms and the direction that the biodeterioration process takes are always different. In some cases, however, there are common denominators and predictable mechanisms. The variables that come into play are examined below.
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Sandquist, Darren R. "Plants in Desert Environments." In Ecology and the Environment. Springer New York, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7612-2_3-1.
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Germino, Matthew J. "Plants in Alpine Environments." In Ecology and the Environment. Springer New York, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7612-2_12-4.
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Ai, Zhibin, Xuedong Chen, Zhichao Fan, and Rongrong Li. "Failure Analysis Cases of Stress Corrosion Cracking in Complex Media Environments." In ASME 2014 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2014-28687.
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The phenomenon of stress corrosion cracking extensively exists in equipments and pipelines of process plants due to aggravated tendency of raw materials to poor quality, especially in complex media environment, the factors causing stress corrosion cracking are very complex, sometimes a certain medium plays a dominating role, sometimes several kinds of media act together, and sometimes the actions of some media change to each other in different periods. In this paper, the laws of competition, promotion or suppression among multiple mechanisms upon stress corrosion cracking due to multiple causes are described through failure analysis of stress corrosion cracking accident cases such as cracking of inner wall cladding of cyclone separator for coal chemical plant, explosion of gasification furnace for coal chemical plant, etc., and analysis and judgment methods of their dominating mechanisms, influential laws of secondary mechanisms and preventive measures are proposed.
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Colombo, Simone, Davide Manca, Sara Brambilla, Roberto Totaro, and Remo Galvagni. "Towards the Automatic Measurement of Human Performance in Virtual Environments for Industrial Safety." In ASME 2011 World Conference on Innovative Virtual Reality. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/winvr2011-5564.
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Human errors during operations, probably more clearly referred to as human or action failures, play an important role in causing industrial accidents. The assessment of human performance, through the identification and measurement of human failures, is a complicated, but essential, task to accomplish in real process plants. Virtual Reality (VR) provides a suitable mean to identify human failures, measure human performance and train field operators to risky situations. Nevertheless, not all the aspects relevant to Human Factors (HF) can be easily identified, assessed and reproduced in Virtual Environments (VE). Indeed, VR seems to be better suited to measure cognitive capabilities, such as Command, Control, and Communication capabilities (commonly referred to as C3 capabilities), rather than anthropometric ones like physical coordination, precision in manipulating and ability to reach. Actually, this is certainly not due to the intrinsic nature of VR but, rather, to its current state of development. Industrial environments, if properly recreated in VR, can allow anticipating people behavior, thus enabling to identify whether critical actions have been identified and to measure human performance. Further, by changing in real-time those experiment parameters, such as weather conditions (e.g., wind speed, direction, intensity) and process variables (e.g., pressure, flow rate, heat duties), the strength of environmental stressors, singularly or in a combined fashion, on cognitive capabilities such as recognition, anticipation, prioritization, and planning, can be suitably measured and assessed. The consequences of actions performed by operators can even be experienced instantly, thus allowing for an incisive and persistent training effect. The manuscript presents an integrated approach to step towards the use of VR to (a) verify whether the identified human failure types are all of those that might occur in reality, (b) identify additional human failure types that might affect plant safety, (c) measure the influence of environmental stressors on human performance. Further, the approach presents a way to collect automatically HF data to be used and manipulated for giving rise to Human Performance Indexes (HPI). Eventually, HPI can then be of real help in supporting decision-making processes for industrial safety.
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Popovici, Ana, and Nicolae Bujoreanu. "Activitatea enzimelor antioxidante la păr în funcție de acțiunea SBA Reglalg și a microelementelor." In International Scientific Symposium "Plant Protection – Achievements and Prospects". Institute of Genetics, Physiology and Plant Protection, Republic of Moldova, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.53040/9789975347204.72.
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According to the data obtained from the research we find that the natural growth regulator Reglalg and Reglalg in combination with trace elements have had a beneficial effect in regulating the activity of enzymes peroxidase and polyphenol oxidase which play an important role in vital processes of resistance and increased plant productivity.The redox processes in the leaves of the tardive Noiabriscaia and Socrovisce pear varieties depended on the metabolic processes in the development of plants in ontogenesis, the stages of plant development, the action of their living conditions, the amount of oxidative substances that formed in plant cells under the action of high temperatures, give the particularities of varieties as well as the action of SBA Reglalg and microelements used to treat trees.Thus, with the modification of peroxidase and polyphenol oxidase activity during phenophases, we find their participation in metabolic processes that correlate with the function of resistance and adaptation of plants to unfavorable environmental conditions and consequently crop formation and fruit quality.
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Chen, Qian, Xuefeng Sun, and Zhihong Shangguan. "A Utility Model of Environmental Radiation Online Monitoring System of Nuclear Power Plants." In 2013 21st International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone21-16842.
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Most of the existing nuclear power plants locate in coastal mountainous region. In the traditional way, radio communication is used between the environmental radiation monitoring stations and monitoring center. As the terrain and thunderstorms have great impact on radio, the signal is easily disturbed or intercepted. At the same time, the technologies and functions of the conventional system is no able to fully meet the requirements of the environmental monitoring of nuclear power plant in new situation. A utility model of environmental radiation online monitoring system of nuclear power plants is put forward to solve the former problems. The system includes a monitoring center with capability of data processing and multiple monitoring stations with capability of environmental radiation online monitoring. Each of stations has radiation detectors as the monitoring center consists of a main server and a backup server. The communications between the monitoring center and Stations include wire communication and wireless communication. Wire communication mentioned above consists of public telephone network and telephone lines between the network and monitoring stations. The wireless communication mentioned above consists of public telecommunication service network and virtual private network (VPN) which is able to transfer data confidentially. Through the network, monitoring center uses two servers to provide wire and wireless data reception service. Monitoring stations choose one of the normal channels to transfer environmental radiation monitoring data. Based on the status of communication, data will be shared and synchronized automatically between the main server and backup server. On the basic of the architecture of equipment and network, some software systems are designed and developed. The main subsystems of the software systems are the data acquisition workstation software systems and the central station software system. These two kinds of subsystems play different role in system. Some new computer technology (such as Microsoft .Net, Geographic Information System) is used in these software systems to provide better functions which include data storage, data management, data show, statistics and analysis to enhance efficiency and reliability. In the practical application of some NPPs in China, the utility model solves the former problems of environmental radiation online monitoring effectively and makes the system more dependable. It can be transplanted and popularized in other coastal nuclear power plants.
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Welch, Michael, and Heidi Anttila. "Distributed Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Power Plants: Despatchable, Reliable, Affordable, Low Carbon Electricity." In ASME 2018 Power Conference collocated with the ASME 2018 12th International Conference on Energy Sustainability and the ASME 2018 Nuclear Forum. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/power2018-7192.
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Renewable energy has a significant role to play in helping the world achieve the greenhouse gas emission reduction necessary to achieve the pathway to a 2°C increase in global temperature. Electricity generation from wind and solar resources can contribute immensely to the decarbonization of power generation, but these resources are intermittent. High penetration of intermittent renewable power generation can cause grid stability and control issues for network operators, with fast response fossil fuel power plant necessary to provide security of supply and maintain grid stability. Increasingly natural gas-fueled distributed power generation is being installed to provide the necessary grid support. However, hybrid power plants comprised of a fossil fuel power generating system, a renewable power generation system and energy storage can provide both the low CO2 electricity required to meet environmental constraints, and the despatchability and stability required by grid operators. Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Power Plants (ISCCs), comprising a Concentrated Solar Power plant and a natural gas fired combined cycle plant, have the potential to simultaneously reduce fossil fuel consumption, provide secure, highly predictable electricity generation, and reduce the cost of integrating renewable energy into a power system. While a number of ISCCs have been built at a larger scale (above 150MW power output), the concept has rarely been adopted for smaller scale distributed power applications. In addition, the traditional ISCC concept uses a steam bottoming cycle, which consumes water, and often locations where distributed ISCC could be utilized suffer from a scarcity of fresh water. This paper evaluates whether replacing the steam bottoming cycle with an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) alternative can provide a simpler, lower cost distributed ISCC solution that can be utilized on smaller and island grid systems, or mini- and micro-grids, to provide an affordable, water-free, low carbon power generation system.
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Adibfar, Akbar, and Maryam Refan. "The Air Cooled Condenser for Dry Countries." In ASME 2006 Power Conference. ASMEDC, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/power2006-88033.
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A reliable and economic power production in thermal power plants depends highly upon the optimum selection of site equipment and their best possible arrangement. One of the most significant systems which play a crucial role in power production is the Cooling System. Playing the most pivotal role in back pressure of steam turbine, this system directly affects the power plant efficiency. This study analyzes the techno-economic aspect of Cooling System — with the special focus on ACC (Air Cooled Condenser) — due to the following advantages: Since ACC does not need water as the cooling medium, (not requiring medium fluid), it is been preferred over other cooling systems in dry regions. In addition to resolving the problem of water shortage in power plants, where there are environmental or geographical limitations, ACC is the best solution. The studies show that in the peak demand times, ACC has a much greater potential in higher power production in comparison to other dry cooling systems and thus can encourage the financer to consider ACC as an optimum alternative.
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Si, Jun, Zhenrong Yan, and Jianjun Chen. "Failure Analysis of Spiral Water Wall Tube Cracking in Ultra-Supercritical Power Plant Boiler." In ASME 2016 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2016-63260.
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The efficiency of conventional boiler/steam turbine fossil power plants has strong relationship to the steam temperature and pressure. At present, steam temperatures of the most efficient fossil power plants are now in the 600°C range. Higher-strength materials are needed for upper water wall tube of boilers with steam pressure above 24 MPa. A high-strength 2.5%Cr steel recently approved by ASME code as T23 is the preferred candidate material for this application. Due to its superior properties, T23 steel is typically not post-weld heat treated. However, after several years running there are a lot of incident reports for T23 tubes especially the breakage of weldment in the ultra-supercritical power plant. This is cause for concern for T23 tubes weldment used under high temperature environments. Previous studies showed that the residual stress may play an important role to the performance of spiral water wall tube. In this paper, the distribution of residual stress in T23 tube weldment has been investigated in detail. Inner wall cracks were found at the butt-jointed seam region of spiral water wall tubes by radiographic testing after one year’s operation. Failure analysis of the spiral water wall tube cracking was conducted by chemical composition analysis, mechanical testing and finite element analysis in this paper. It was found that localized residual stress after the weld process caused concentrated stress, which is the primary reason for failure. Our studies illustrate the necessity of post weld heat treatment for the T23 tubes used under high temperature.
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Langaker, John T., Christopher Hamker, and Ralph Wyndrum. "Challenges in Designing and Building a 700 MW All-Air-Cooled Steam Electric Power Plant." In ASME 2011 Power Conference collocated with JSME ICOPE 2011. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/power2011-55251.
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Large natural gas fired combined cycle electric power plants, while being an increasingly efficient and cost effective technology, are traditionally large consumers of water resources, while also discharging cooling tower blowdown at a similar rate. Water use is mostly attributed to the heat rejection needs of the gas turbine generator, the steam turbine generator, and the steam cycle condenser. Cooling with air, i.e. dry cooling, instead of water can virtually eliminate the environmental impact associated with water usage. Commissioned in the fall of 2010 with this in mind, the Halton Hills Generating Station located in the Greater Toronto West Area, Ontario, Canada, is a nominally-rated 700 Megawatt combined cycle electric generating station that is 100 percent cooled using various air-cooled heat exchangers. The resulting water consumption and wastewater discharge of this power plant is significantly less than comparably sized electric generating plants that derive cooling from wet methods (i.e, evaporative cooling towers). To incorporate dry cooling into such a power plant, it is necessary to consider several factors that play important roles both during plant design as well as construction and commissioning of the plant equipment, including the dry cooling systems. From the beginning a power plant general arrangement and space must account for dry cooling’s increase plot area requirements; constraints therein may render air cooling an impossible solution. Second, air cooling dictates specific parameters of major and auxiliary equipment operation that must be understood and coordinated upon purchase of such equipment. Until recently traditional wet cooling has driven standard designs, which now, in light of dry cooling’s increase in use, must be re-evaluated in full prior to purchase. Lastly, the construction and commissioning of air-cooling plant equipment is a significant effort which demands good planning and execution.
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Han, Fengxiang, Safwan Shiyab, Yi Su, David L. Monts, Charles A. Waggoner, and Frank B. Matta. "Bioavailability and Stability of Mercury Sulfide in Armuchee (USA) Soil." In The 11th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2007-7122.
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Because of the adverse effects of elemental mercury and mercury compounds upon human health, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is engaged in an on-going effort to monitor and remediate mercury-contaminated DOE sites. In order to more cost effectively implement those extensive remediation efforts, it is necessary to obtain an improved understanding of the role that mercury and mercury compounds play in the ecosystem. We have conducted pilot scale experiments to study the bioavailability of mercury sulfide in an Armuchee (eastern US) soil. The effects of plants and incubation time on chemical stability and bioavailability of HgS under simulated conditions of the ecosystem have been examined, as has the dynamics of the dissolution of mercury sulfide by various extractants. The results show that mercury sulfide in contaminated Armuchee soil was still to some extent bioavailable to plants. After planting, soil mercury sulfide is more easily dissolved by both 4 M and 12 M nitric acid than pure mercury sulfide reagent. Dissolution kinetics of soil mercury sulfide and pure chemical reagent by nitric acid are different. Mercury release by EDTA from HgS-contaminated soil increased with time of reaction and soil mercury level. Chelating chemicals increase the solubility and bioavailability of mercury in HgS-contaminated soil.
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Welch, Michael, and Rajan Patel. "Can Propane Displace Diesel as a Fuel for Power Generation?" In ASME 2017 Power Conference Joint With ICOPE-17 collocated with the ASME 2017 11th International Conference on Energy Sustainability, the ASME 2017 15th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology, and the ASME 2017 Nuclear Forum. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/power-icope2017-3078.
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Access to electricity is a key necessity in today’s World for economic growth and improvements in quality of life. However, the global challenge is addressing the so-called Energy Trilemma: how to provide secure, affordable electricity while minimizing the impact of power generation on the environment. The rapid growth in power generation from intermittent renewable sources, such as wind and photovoltaics, to address the environmental aspect has created additional challenges to meet the security of supply and affordable electricity aspects of this trilemma. Fossil fuels play a major role in supporting intermittent renewable power generation, rapidly providing the security of supply needed and ensuring grid stability. Globally diesel or other fuel oils are frequently used as the primary fuel or back-up fuel for fossil-fueled power generation plants at all scales, from a few kiloWatts to hundreds of MegaWatts, and helps provide millions of people with secure electricity supplies. But diesel is a high polluting fuel, emitting high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) per unit of fuel input compared to natural gas, as well as high levels of combustion contaminants that are potentially hazardous to the local environment and human health. Additionally, diesel can be a high cost fuel in many countries, with imports consuming significant portions of sometimes scarce foreign currency reserves. Most observers consider that natural gas is the ‘fuel of choice’ for fossil power generation due to its reduced CO2 emissions compared to coal and diesel. However, access to gas supplies cannot be guaranteed even with the increased availability of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). Additionally where natural gas is available, operators may opt for an interruptible gas supply contract which offers a lower tariff than a firm gas supply contract, therefore there is a need for a back-up fuel to ensure continuous power supplies. While traditionally diesel or Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) has been used as fuel where gas is not available or as a back-up fuel, propane offers a cleaner and potentially lower cost alternative. This paper compares the potential economic, operational and environmental benefits of using propane as a fuel for gas turbine-based power plants or cogeneration plants.
Reports on the topic "Plants for play environments"
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Bauer, L. R., M. S. Tullis, R. P. Paulick, and L. L. Roush. Mound Plant Environmental Monitoring Plan. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/10196595.
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Author, Not Given. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Environmental Monitoring Plan. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/925580.
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Author, Not Given. Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Environmental Monitoring Plan (Rev. 4). Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/991037.
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Gaddi, Matteo, and Nadia Garbellini. Automotive Global Value Chains in Europe. Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36687/inetwp160.
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In this paper we examine the main transformations that are affecting European automotive industry and which challenges, in particular due to the transition to new forms of propulsion, the industry is going to face. The automotive industry is central to the European economy and the nature of the Global Value Chains are rapidly shifting. While individual countries have developed economic plans to address this, a broader EU wide plan is critically important to addressing the employment and environmental effects of these shifts.
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Mercer, D., P. Baker, J. Cockman, et al. Operational environmental monitoring plan for the waste isolation pilot plant. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/5917384.
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Hanley, Thomas A., and Jeffrey C. Barnard. Variation in nutritional quality of plants for deer in relation to sunny versus shady environments. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/pnw-rp-602.
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O'Brien, J., T. J. Kim, and S. Reynolds. Environmental Standard Review Plan for the review of license renewal applications for nuclear power plants. Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.2172/6267208.
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Avis, William. Role of Faith and Belief in Environmental Engagement and Action in MENA Region. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/k4d.2021.086.
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This helpdesk report provides a critical review of the literature on the role of faith and religious values in environmental engagement and action. Contemporary studies have examined the relationship between religion and climate change including the ongoing “greening” process of religions. The review focuses on the responses of the Islamic faith in the MENA region to climate-related issues. MENA is considered one of the region’s most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The rapid review drawing from empirical findings notes that religious organizations have great potential in the protection of the environment. Religious organizations possess resources and infrastructure to positively impact the conversation on climate change. While the review acknowledges the important role that religion plays in environmental engagement, there is still no unified perception of climate change among members of the Islamic faith. There are those who believe that there are other more urgent issues such as radicalism, terrorism, democracy, and human rights. The review notes that the shared challenge of climate change can provide a mechanism to bring together faiths to discuss, share teachings, and agree on common action.
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Wright, Kirsten. Collecting Plant Phenology Data In Imperiled Oregon White Oak Ecosystems: Analysis and Recommendations for Metro. Portland State University, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/mem.64.
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Highly imperiled Oregon white oak ecosystems are a regional conservation priority of numerous organizations, including Oregon Metro, a regional government serving over one million people in the Portland area. Previously dominant systems in the Pacific Northwest, upland prairie and oak woodlands are now experiencing significant threat, with only 2% remaining in the Willamette Valley in small fragments (Hulse et al. 2002). These fragments are of high conservation value because of the rich biodiversity they support, including rare and endemic species, such as Delphinium leucophaeum (Oregon Department of Agriculture, 2020). Since 2010, Metro scientists and volunteers have collected phenology data on approximately 140 species of forbs and graminoids in regional oak prairie and woodlands. Phenology is the study of life-stage events in plants and animals, such as budbreak and senescence in flowering plants, and widely acknowledged as a sensitive indicator of environmental change (Parmesan 2007). Indeed, shifts in plant phenology have been observed over the last few decades as a result of climate change (Parmesan 2006). In oak systems, these changes have profound implications for plant community composition and diversity, as well as trophic interactions and general ecosystem function (Willis 2008). While the original intent of Metro’s phenology data-collection was to track long-term phenology trends, limitations in data collection methods have made such analysis difficult. Rather, these data are currently used to inform seasonal management decisions on Metro properties, such as when to collect seed for propagation and when to spray herbicide to control invasive species. Metro is now interested in fine-tuning their data-collection methods to better capture long-term phenology trends to guide future conservation strategies. Addressing the regional and global conservation issues of our time will require unprecedented collaboration. Phenology data collected on Metro properties is not only an important asset for Metro’s conservation plan, but holds potential to support broader research on a larger scale. As a leader in urban conservation, Metro is poised to make a meaningful scientific contribution by sharing phenology data with regional and national organizations. Data-sharing will benefit the common goal of conservation and create avenues for collaboration with other scientists and conservation practitioners (Rosemartin 2013). In order to support Metro’s ongoing conservation efforts in Oregon white oak systems, I have implemented a three-part master’s project. Part one of the project examines Metro’s previously collected phenology data, providing descriptive statistics and assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the methods by which the data were collected. Part two makes recommendations for improving future phenology data-collection methods, and includes recommendations for datasharing with regional and national organizations. Part three is a collection of scientific vouchers documenting key plant species in varying phases of phenology for Metro’s teaching herbarium. The purpose of these vouchers is to provide a visual tool for Metro staff and volunteers who rely on plant identification to carry out aspects of their job in plant conservation. Each component of this project addresses specific aspects of Metro’s conservation program, from day-to-day management concerns to long-term scientific inquiry.
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Warner, Benjamin, and Rachel Schattman. Farming the floodplain: overcoming tradeoffs to achieve good river governance in New England. USDA Northeast Climate Hub, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2017.6949553.ch.
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The goal of this case is for students to learn through the development of a sustainable river governance plan for Massachusetts focused on balancing needs and perspectives on local agriculture, flood resilience, and healthy ecosystems in the context of climate change. This will be challenging. Ideally, a river governance plan developed by the students would support local agriculture, increase flood resilience, and promote environmental stewardship. A role-playing exercise is included in this case that involves representatives of several stakeholders groups (personas assumed by a subset of students); these include a farmer, a fisher/recreationalist, a state river manager, an environmentalist, and a resident. The students will learn about the goals of a stakeholder to discuss with the others, negotiate with them, find ways to resolve conflicts and finally to create a governance plan.