152 research outputs found
Marriage record of Puleo, Calogero and Puleo, Emilia
No full textMarriage license for Calogero Puleo and Emilia Puleo. John Grimaldi was the Notary Public
Marriage record of Puleo, Salvatore and Napoli, Rosalia
No full textMarriage license for Salvatore Puleo and Rosalia Napoli. John Grimaldi was the Notary Public
Marriage record of Puleo, Angelo and Catalinotto, Giuseppa
No full textMarriage license for Angelo Puleo and Giuseppa Catalinotto. John Grimaldi was the Notary Public
Catholic Comments Podcast.
No full textTheologian and author Mark Chimiel discusses his work “The Book of Mev” and the legacy of his late wife Mev Puleo
Water and Energy Saving in Urban Water Systems: The ALADIN Project
No full textAbstractThe ALADIN project was aimed at contributing to environmental and energy sustainability of the urban water system by means of a decision support tool able to allow an evaluation of the energy impact related to each different macro-sectors of urban water cycle highlighting the main energy flows and to assess the system energy balance and identify the possible energy-efficient solutions. Moreover the tool suggests the most efficient actions in reducing water losses. In the present paper the main features of the developed tool are presented
Art Lies
No full textJournal containing essays, commentaries, and exhibition information regarding Texas artwork and other contemporary art issues
Model Predictive Control of Salinity and Water Level in a Hypothetical Polder Ditch: Is it Possible to Use the Discretized Linearized Physical Equations for Optimization
No full textSurface water salinization in deltaic areas due to saline groundwater exfiltration is an important issue. Fresh water diverted from the rivers is used for flushing the canals and the ditches in coastal areas to remove the low quality saline surface water mixed with saline groundwater. Worldwide, deltaic areas are under stress due to climate change, sea level increase and decrease in fresh water availability. The current fresh water management strategies in polders to overcome the salinization problem solely depends on uncontrolled freshwater use. However, this operation will not be effective during a scarce freshwater availability scenario and has to be revised for efficient management possibilities. With the advances in real time measurement of salinity and water level measurements, using a Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme for the operation of a polder system is gaining popularity. MPC is a powerful control tool that can handle multiple objectives, consider the constraints and the uncertainties of the system. However, a MPC scheme requires a simple and reliable internal model that will be used to calculate the optimum control actions. The internal model should be robust, should reflect the system behaviour with enough detail and should not be computationally costly. In this paper, a MPC scheme is proposed using the discretized linearized De Saint Venant (SV) and Advection-Diffusion (AD) equations as the internal model of the controller. The proposed scheme will be able to control salinity and water level at any discretization point by manipulating the flushing and outflow discharges. This is an ongoing research with tests continuing on a realistic test case.Water Resource
Graph theory algorithms for real time control of a sewer network
No full textMany Dutch sewer networks are combined sewer systems, they carry both stormwater and foul water. They consist of multiple sub-networks, linked by pumps into a tree structure with the Waste Water Treatment Plant as its root. Within sub-networks sewage transport is by gravity driven flow. Usually the original design assumed local control. Later changes, additions and extensions sometimes reduced the effectiveness of the original design. In these cases central control can improve the performance of the system without costly new construction. We apply two algorithms from graph theory, one is based on stable flows in time, the other on quickest evacuation flows. Results on local control are included to provide a lower bound on performance. A linear programming problem based of a perfect forecast of the whole event provides an upper bound on performance.Water Resource
Insider Share-Pledging and Firm Investors
No full textCorporate insiders frequently borrow from lending institutions and pledge personal equity shares as collateral for the loan. Using manually collected pledge data for January 2007-December 2011, I examine how this phenomena affects firm investors and analyze agency conflicts between pledging managers and (a) outside shareholders, and (b) bondholders. Pledging potentially influences investor risk through changing managerial incentives and/or contingency risk from ill-timed margin calls. Findings suggest influential insiders extract private benefits of control at the expense of outside shareholders through pledging. Difference-in-differences regressions utilizing an exogenous shock to lending supply indicate pledging corresponds with a 9.9% relative increase in stock volatility – controlling for changes in fundamentals – and support a causal interpretation of the relation between pledging and equity risk. Despite apparently harming equity investors however, further analysis suggests pledging benefits bondholders, and corresponds with an economically and statistically significant reduction in yield spreads on corporate bonds. Robustness tests evidence reductions in risky financing when insiders pledge, corroborating the negative relation between pledging and cost of debt and consistent with mitigated agency conflicts between managers and bondholders.Business Administration/Financ
Art Lies
No full textJournal containing essays, commentaries, and exhibition information regarding Texas artwork and other contemporary art issues
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