Search results for "Unity"

Microbial Community Response on Wastewater Discharge in Boreal Lake Sediments

2017

Despite high performance, municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) still discharge significant amounts of organic material and nitrogen and even microbes into the receiving water bodies, altering physico-chemical conditions and microbial functions. In this study, we examined how nitrified wastewater affects the microbiology of boreal lake sediments. Microbial community compositions were assessed with next generation sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene, and a more detailed view on nitrogen transformation processes was gained with qPCR targeting on functional genes (nirS, nirK, nosZI, nosZII, amoAarchaea, and amoAbacteria). In both of the two studied lake sites, the microbial community compo…

Enhanced nitrogen removal of low carbon wastewater in denitrification bioreactors by utilizing industrial waste toward circular economy

2020

Aquaculture needs practical solutions for nutrient removal to achieve sustainable fish production. Passive denitrifying bioreactors may provide an ecological, low-cost and low-maintenance approach for wastewater nitrogen removal. However, innovative organic materials are needed to enhance nitrate removal from the low carbon effluents in intensive recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). In this study, we tested three additional carbon sources, including biochar, dried Sphagnum sp. moss and industrial potato residues, to enhance the performance of woodchip bioreactors treating the low carbon RAS wastewater. We assessed nitrate (NO3−) removal and microbial community composition during a one-y…

Nitrogen removal by microbial processes in aquatic systems

2012

Analysis of needs from the Human Scale Development Theory: the case of two vulnerable neighbourhoods of Valencian Region (Spain)

2019

Este artículo deriva del trabajo que, en el marco del Máster de Cooperación Internacional al Desarrollo de la Universitat de València (España), fue realizado en el año 2018 por Glòria Maria Caravantes López de Lerma y dirigido por el Dr. Albert Mora Castro, del Departamento de Sociología y Antropología de la citada Universidad.

Missions interculturals: una experiència de desenvolupament comunitari a les comarques de Castelló

2014

Les Missions Interculturals és un projecte de participació comunitària en educació, cultura i desenvolupament local que té com a objectius contribuir a la consecució d'una societat inclusiva i fomentar el desenvolupament local. El present article és una descripció del procés viscut durant la primera edició del projecte, el qual ha tingut lloc en les poblacions de Vilanova d'Alcolea i Sant Mateu (Castelló, Espanya). Exposem, en primer lloc, els conceptes teòrics que han guiat tot el procés: l'educació inclusiva, la democràcia radical, l'aprenentatge cooperatiu, la interculturalitat i el nomadisme cultural. A continuació es descriuen les successives fases del projecte: diagnòstic local, sensi…

Las agencias de calificación y la deuda pública en la Comunidad Valenciana

2020

Resumen El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar la influencia que han tenido los mayores niveles de endeudamiento público sobre los ratings emitidos por las agencias de calificación para la Comunidad Valenciana. La acumulación de déficits junto con el estallido de la burbuja inmobiliaria terminó por afectar de manera negativa a la contabilidad pública. Asimismo, los recursos transferidos a través del sistema de financiación tampoco ayudaron a revertir la insuficiencia de ingresos para la administración valenciana. Las restricciones presupuestarias fueron reflejadas de inmediato por las agencias de calificación a través de una reducción en sus ratings, generando dificultades para obten…

Cetacean Morbillivirus: Current Knowledge and Future Directions

2014

We review the molecular and epidemiological characteristics of cetacean morbillivirus (CeMV) and the diagnosis and pathogenesis of associated disease, with six different strains detected in cetaceans worldwide. CeMV has caused epidemics with high mortality in odontocetes in Europe, the USAand Australia. It represents a distinct species within the Morbillivirusgenus. Although most CeMV strains are phylogenetically closely related, recent data indicate that morbilliviruses recovered from Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus), from Western Australia, and a Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis), from Brazil, are divergent. The signaling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM) cell rec…

La fracture numérique 2.0 au travail

2014

National audience; Peut-on voir l’arrivée des TIC dans les organisations comme un vecteur de progrès social ? Nous définirons ici la notion d’intégration comme la capacité pour un individu à obtenir une forme de reconnaissance sociale par le biais de l’accès et de la pratique d’une activité salariée. En ce qui concerne le travail et l’emploi, les TIC peuvent-elles, malgré ce contexte peu propice, être perçues comme des vecteurs d’intégration ? Afin de proposer une réponse, bien entendu partielle, à cette interrogation, nous nous pencherons sur la nature de l’environnement numérique aujourd’hui et sur sa capacité à générer de l’emploi et donc des perspectives d’intégration. Nous envisagerons…

Face mask use in the Community for Reducing the Spread of COVID-19: a systematic review

2021

ABSTRACTBackgroundEvidence is needed on the effectiveness of wearing face masks in the community to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission.MethodsSystematic review and meta-analysis to investigate the efficacy and effectiveness of face mask use in a community setting and to predict the effectiveness of wearing a mask. We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, SCISEARCH, The Cochrane Library and pre-prints from inception to 22 April 2020 without restriction by language. We rated the certainty of evidence according to Cochrane and GRADE approach.FindingsOur search identified 35 studies, including 3 randomised controlled trials (RCTs) (4017 patients), 10 comparative studies (18984 patients), 13 predictive models,…

A Dataset of Annotated Omnidirectional Videos for Distancing Applications

2021

Omnidirectional (or 360°) cameras are acquisition devices that, in the next few years, could have a big impact on video surveillance applications, research, and industry, as they can record a spherical view of a whole environment from every perspective. This paper presents two new contributions to the research community: the CVIP360 dataset, an annotated dataset of 360° videos for distancing applications, and a new method to estimate the distances of objects in a scene from a single 360° image. The CVIP360 dataset includes 16 videos acquired outdoors and indoors, annotated by adding information about the pedestrians in the scene (bounding boxes) and the distances to the camera of some point…