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ication as a significant issue (Bartsch, 1971; Beeton and Edmondson, 1972; Hutch-inson, 1973; Likens 1972). Eutrophication, or the aging of an aquatic ecosystemthrough filling in with inorganic and organic sediments, is a natural phenomenon(actually a form of ecological succession[r]

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1675Restoration EcologyINTRODUCTIONRestoration ecology is a subdiscipline of ecological engineering that has been grow-ing out of the need and desire to add ecological value to ecosystems that have beendegraded by human impacts. Projects range in size from less than one h[r]

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataKangas, Patrick C.Ecological engineering: principles and practice / Patrick Kangas.p. cm.Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN 1-56670-599-1 (alk. paper)1. Ecological engineering[r]

Carpenter, S.R., N. F. Caraco, D. L. Correll, R. W. Howarth, A. N. Sharpley, and V. H. Smith.1998. Nonpoint pollution of surface waters with phosphorus and nitrogen. Issues inEcology 3. Ecological Society of American, Washington, DC.Carpenter, S. R., J. F. Kitchell, and J[r]

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between Buddhism and conservation in Thailand, and they suggest that recentexamples of environmental degradation may be the result of a decline in faith causedby westernization of the culture. More general reviews are given by Callicott andAmes (1989) and Sponsel and Nata[r]

knowledge of pure sciencesFlorman, 1976Introduction 11The critical work of engineering is to design, build, and operate useful things.Although different people are usually involved with each phase of this sequence,there is a constant feedback to the design activity (Figure 1.4A). Thus,[r]

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Design is the most-impacting part of the entire project. The conceptual design lays out the entireengineering challenge and sets the course for the analysis and the final detailed design. The con-ceptual design is sometimes referred to as type-selection or, in the case of seismic retrofi[r]

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Group 1: Simple terms which are agential nouns made by a root plus suffix er/orThe group consists of terms which are agential nouns structured with a root + suffix –er/or. The following table presents some examples of the group:English terms (root+suffix er/or)Vietnamese equivalentsAbrader Máy thí n[r]

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Different training algorithms can be used to adjust the weights of an ANN. It is commonto supervised training algorithms to follow the same steps as the error backpropagationprocedure, differing only in the weight adjusting step (Haykin, 1999). As an example,while the classical backpropagation has o[r]

Further reading•BELL_C25.QXD 1/30/05 4:27 PM Page 328Further reading 329Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an AccidentalRevolutionary, O’Reilly, rev. edn, 2001.Primarily focusing on the life and moral crusade of Stallman, this text also describes thede[r]

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