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Some mathematical models for wastewater treatment
No full textL’eau est une ressource naturelle indispensable à la vie. Au cours des 40 dernières années cette ressource a subi diverses dégradation et pollution dûes à l’accroissement de la population mondiale et au développement d’une grande quantité d’industries de production dont l’eau est l’élément essentiel. Après utilisation les eaux usées doivent être traitées avant de les injecter dans la nature. L’un des problèmes majeurs lié au traitement des eaux usées est le coût.L’objectif de la présente thèse est de proposer des modèles mathématiques permettant de prédire et d’optimiser le coût du traitement des eaux usées en utilisant divers moyens de traitement (bactéries, oxygène, algues) sous la fluctuation des ressources et des conditions de culture. Plus particulièrement, on a développé des modèles mathématiques déterministes basés sur des systèmes dynamiques et appliqué la théorie du contrôle optimal afin de réduire les coûts de traitement.Dans un premier temps on a proposé deux modèles de traitement des eaux usées en utilisant d’une part un seul type de bactéries, les aérobies thermophiles et d’autre part deux types de bactéries aérobies, les thermophiles et les mésophiles. Pour chacun de ces modèles on a traité un problème de contrôle optimal. Dans un second temps, dans le but de réduire les coûts liés à l’injection d’oxygène, nous avons proposé un autre modèle de traitement des eaux usées en utilisant les algues. Ce modèle est une extension d’un modèle issu de la littérature.Dans notre extension on a tenu compte de l’interaction symbiotique qui existe entre les algues et les bactéries. On a étudié d’une part la dynamique du modèle étendu et d’autre part on a traité un problème de contrôle optimal qui consiste à minimiser la concentration de polluants, à réduire le flux d’entrée de nutriments et de polluants tout en minimisant les coûts qui y sont liés.Water is a natural resource essential for life. Over the last 40 years, this resource has suffered various forms of degradation and pollution due to the increase of the world population and the development of many production industries, for which water is the essential element. After use, wastewater must be treated before being injected in the nature. One of the major problems associated with wastewater treatment is the cost. The aim of this thesis is to propose mathematical models to predict and optimize the cost of wastewater treatment using various treatment type (bacteria, oxygen, algae) under fluctuating resource and cultivation conditions. More specifically, we developed deterministic mathematical models based on dynamic systems and applied optimal control theory to reduce treatment costs. Firstly, two wastewater treatment models have been proposed, using a single type of bacteria, thermophilic aerobics, on the one hand, and two types of aerobic bacteria, thermophilic and mesophilic, on the other hand. For each model, an optimal control problem has been addressed. Secondly, to reduce the cost of oxygen injection, we proposed another wastewater treatment model using algae. Our extension takes into account the symbiotic interaction between algae and bacteria. The dynamics of the extended model have been studied and an optimal control problem has been addressed. This consists in minimizing the concentration of pollutants, reducing the inflow of nutrients and pollutants, and minimizing the associated costs
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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