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Green Communication Technology, IOT, VR, AR in Smart Environment
Published in Asis Kumar Tripathy, Chiranji Lal Chowdhary, Mahasweta Sarkar, Sanjaya Kumar Panda, Cognitive Computing Using Green Technologies, 2021
Riyazveer Singh, Sahil Sharma, Vijay Kumar
A combined transport scheme would require a permit in the form of a smart card, which can be encumbered with cash and is swiped at any point of admission into a conveyance organization using Near Arena Message (NAM) expertise— communicating data from the card to the interpreting appliance and back. Reimbursement is subtracted from the card for the journeys completed. A separate parking cove is a meter that senses a car parked through a label on the number plates as soon as the car arrives at the bay and starts scheming the charges for the parking. Drivers catalog e-toll accounts with road agencies and are delivered with radio-frequency identifier (RFID)-enabled e-toll cards [55] attached to the cars. As the car determinations under an e-toll gate, the driver’s particulars and the details of the distance they have traveled are read by the card reader on the e-toll entrance and transmitted to a server at the road’s agency.
Invited lecture: A real time early warning and modelling system for red tides in Hong Kong
Published in Zhao-Yin Wang, Shi-Xiong Hu, Stochastic Hydraulics 2000, 2020
J.H.W. Lee, K.T.M. Wong, Y. Huang, A.W. Jayawardena
The field monitoring station is located in an inner cove at the southern end of Kat O Bay, a pristine tidal inlet in the remote northeastern waters of Hong Kong (Fig. 1a). As there is practically very little polluting discharges (Kat O Island is relatively uninhabited) into surrounding waters, the water quality of the bay is generally very good. Nevertheless, every year red tides in Hong Kong are frequently first detected in Kat O. This field monitoring station is also located close to the O Pui Tong marine fish culture zone at the northern end of the bay, and a fisheries research station of the Hong Kong Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD). A used 6 m x 9 m fishfarm raft was purchased and refurbished into a secure platform from which the water quality, meteorological and hydrographical measurements can be conveniently made. The raft is located about 100 m offshore; the average depth at the site is around 7 m; tides are semi-diurnal and mixed, with a mean tidal range of 1.7 m and typical current velocities of less than 0.1 m/s. Fig. 1a) and Fig. 1b) show respectively an aerial view of Kat O Bay and an observed red tide patch close to the field station.
Pleuronectes Americanus) Living Near a Paper Mill in the Humber Arm, Newfoundland
Published in Mark R. Servos, Kelly R. Munkittrick, John H. Carey, Glen J. Van Der Kraak, and PAPER MILL EFFLUENTS, 2020
R.A. Khan, D.E. Barker, K. Ryan, B. Murphy, R.G. Hooper
Differences in the parasite fauna between flounder caught at Birchy Cove and Summerside were minimal as only the prevalence and abundance of the cestode B. claviceps were significantly different. Previous studies have reported different densities of some parasites such as metacercariae of C. lingua and the gastrointestinal acanthocephalan E. gadi captured near and some distance from another pulp mill in Newfoundland (Khan et al. 1992; Barker et al. 1994). Barker (1993) noted that although the abundance of the two parasites was low in spring and higher in late summer, infestation of C. lingua was greater and E. gadi less in fish taken in the vicinity of the mill. It was suggested that changes in host physiology affected susceptibility to the ectoparasite and reduced feeding or ingestion of pulp mill waste culminated in voiding of the enteric parasites. Since several studies have reported a connection between exposure to pollutants and parasitic levels (Khan and Thulin 1991), it is likely that migration of flounder across the inlet from sulfite-laden sediment at Birchy Cove to the sandy bottom at Summerside might have transpired. Samples taken at sites more distant from the mill might clarify this aspect of the present study.
Strain localisation and transcurrent reactivation in the granulite facies Kalinjala Shear Zone at Port Neill, South Australia
Published in Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2022
C. J. L. Wilson, J. R. Stewart, P. G. Betts
At Tumby Bay and Lipson Cove (Figure 6), the outcropping Donington Suite comprises poly-deformed, locally mylonitic megacrystic K-feldspar granite and augen gneisses with localised ultramylonite. These megacrystic granite gneisses are similar to the those recognised at Point Bolingbroke and at Wanna (Wilson et al., 2020). They are characterised by large (10–20 mm) tectonically aligned, tabular (aspect ratios of ∼2:1) K-feldspar megacrysts (up to 25%) set in a fine-grained groundmass of quartz (30%), plagioclase, biotite and accessory hornblende and garnet. Biotite content varies from 5 to 10% and plagioclase comprises around 10% of the rock. Early generations of variably oriented pegmatite and aplite dykes are cross-cut by a gneissic foliation. The sequence is also cross-cut by highly deformed mafic dykes (<20 m wide), which have localised the Kimban-aged deformation and are now predominantly composed of amphibole with concentrations of biotite (Figure 7).
Groundwater contribution keeps trophic status low in Sylvan Lake, Alberta, Canada
Published in Canadian Water Resources Journal / Revue canadienne des ressources hydriques, 2018
Jennette Baker, Stephen E. Grasby, M. Cathryn Ryan
Water well records were augmented with drilling and coring of two research wells to understand the extent, lithology and hydrogeologic characteristics of the channel sandstone along the north side of Sylvan Lake. The research wells were each installed close to a set of existing AEP nested monitoring wells, one at Sunbreaker Cove (Sunbreaker Cove Research Well) and the other at Jarvis Bay (Jarvis Bay Research Well) (Figure 1). At each location, core was recovered starting from the top of the weathered bedrock to the shale below the bottom of the sandstone aquifer (~61 m at Jarvis Bay, ~46 m at Sunbreaker Cove). The wells were completed with a 25.4-cm diameter steel casing and 15.24-cm diameter polyvinyl chloride (PVC) liner. The liner was screened for 6.1 m in the middle of the sandstone aquifer.
Assessing the impact of urbanization on flood risk and severity for the Pawtuxet watershed, Rhode Island
Published in Lake and Reservoir Management, 2018
Anthony Campbell, Soni M. Pradhanang, Soroush Kouhi Anbaran, Joshua Sargent, Zachary Palmer, Michael Audette
The study site is the Pawtuxet River watershed, a sub-basin of the Narragansett Bay Watershed, which includes the Scituate Reservoir, Flat River Reservoir, and the Pawtuxet River. There are approximately 31 dams in the Pawtuxet River Watershed including the Flat River Reservoir dam and the Gainer Memorial dam on the Scituate reservoir. Many of the river's dams were initially installed by industrial mills and are not currently used nor maintained (MacMillan et al. 2012). USGS gauges 01116500, on the Pawtuxet River in Cranston, Rhode Island (41°45′03″N, 71°26′44″W), and 01116000, on the south branch of the Pawtuxet (41°41′24″N, 71°33′59″W), were used to calibrate our model (Fig. 1). USGS gauge 01116500 is located on the Pawtuxet River before it discharges into Narragansett Bay at Pawtuxet Cove. Urban development in the study area is focused around Narraganset Bay. The management issues in the watershed are limiting pollutants and nutrient inputs into Narragansett Bay, maintaining drinking water quality and quantity, and limiting flood risk for the cities of Cranston and Warwick, Rhode Island.