Comparative evaluation of ozonation and stripping methods to treat contaminated groundwater by trichloroethylene. Assessment of effects on the other matrix components

An attempt was made to test if Lourinia armata (Claus, 1866)—as it is currently diagnosed—represents a species complex. Detailed examination and comparisons of several specimens collected from different localities suggest that L. armata indeed represents a complex of four closely related morphospecies that can be differentiated from one another by only detailed observations. One of the four species is identified as Lourinia aff. armata and the other three species are described as new to science and named as Lourinia wellsi sp. nov., L. gocmeni sp. nov., and L. aldabraensis sp. nov. Detailed review of previous species records indicates that the genus Lourinia Wilson, 1924 is distributed worldwide. Ceyloniella nicobarica Sewell, 1940, originally described from Nicobar Island and previously considered a junior subjective synonym of L. armata is reinstated as Lourinia nicobarica (Sewell, 1940) comb. nov. on the basis of the unique paddle-shaped caudal ramus seta V. It is postulated that almost all of these records are unreliable in terms of representing true Lourinia aff. armata described herein. On the other hand, the comparative evaluation of the illustrations and descriptions in the published literature indicates the presence of several new species waiting to be discovered in the genus Lourinia. It has been determined that, according to updated modern keys, the recent inclusion of the monotypic genus Archeolourinia Corgosinho & Schizas, 2013 in the Louriniidae is not justified since Archeolourinia shermani Corgosinho & Schizas, 2013 does not belong to this family but should be assigned to the Canthocamptidae. On the other hand, it has been argued that the exact phylogenetic position of the Louriniidae still remains problematic since none of the diagnostic characters supports the monophyly of the family within the Oligoarthra. It has also been argued that the close relationship between Louriniidae and Canthocamptidae is supported since both families share the homologous sexual dimorphism (apophysis) on P3 endopod. The most important characteristic that can possibly be used to define Louriniidae is the reduction of maxilliped.

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IDENTIFIKASI REMBESAN LIMBAH CAIR DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN METODE GEOLISTRIK RESISTIVITAS KONFIGURASI WENNER-SCHLUMBERGER STUDI KASUS TPA SUMOMPO, MANADO

JURNAL ILMIAH SAINS ◽

10.35799/jis.15.2.2015.10396 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 167 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Friska Datunsolang ◽

Gerald Tamuntuan ◽

As'ari As'ari

Keyword(s):

Resistivity Measurement ◽

Measurement Data ◽

Liquid Waste ◽

The Other ◽

Contaminated Groundwater ◽

Low Resistivity ◽

Porous Region ◽

Geoelectric Resistivity

IDENTIFIKASI REMBESAN LIMBAH CAIR DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN METODE GEOLISTRIK RESISTIVITAS KONFIGURASI WENNER-SCHLUMBERGER STUDI KASUS TPA SUMOMPO, MANADO ABSTRAK Limbah cair atau lindi yang merupakan hasil degradasi sampah terutama pada lokasi tempat pengelolaan akhir (TPA) dapat meresap ke dalam tanah hingga mencemari sumber air tanah. Karena prosesnya yang terjadi dibawah permukaan maka penyebaran limbah cair relatif sulit untuk dideteksi. Pada penelitian ini telah dilakukan pengukuran geolistrik resistivitas untuk mengidentifikasi adanya rembesan serta penyebaran limbah cair disekitar TPA. Penelitian dilaksanakan disekitar TPA Sumompo, Manado dengan menggunakan konfigurasi Wenner-Schlumberger pada lima lintasan yang masing-masing berjarak 50 m. Data pengukuran selanjutnya diinversi dengan menggunakan software Res2dinv hingga memunculkan profil resistivitas 2D. Hasil analisis menunjukan adanya zona-zona resistivitas rendah yang diperkirakan sebagai daerah porous tersaturasi fluida. Pada lintasan 1, zona tersebut diinterpretasikan sebagai daerah rembesan dan akumulasi lindi, sementara pada lintasan-lintasan yang lain diperkirakan sebagai zona air tanah yang berpotensi tercemar lindi. Kata kunci: Geolistrik,Lindi, TPA Sumompo IDENTIFICATION LIQUID OF WASTE BY USING GEOELECTRIC RESISTIVITY WENNER-SCHLUMBERGER CONFIGURATION THE LANDFILL STUDIES IN SUMOMPO,MANADO ABSTRACT Liquid waste or leachate which is the result of degradation of litter, especially in location where the final manegement of (TPA) can seep into the soil to contaminate groundwater sources. Because the process is going on under the surface of the liquid waste then spread relatively difficult to detect. This research has been conducted geoelectric resistivity measurement to identify the presence of wastewater seepage and spread around the landfill. Research conducted around the landfill Sumompo, Manado using Wenner-Schlumberger configuration on five tracks, each of which is 50 meters away. The next measurement data using software RES2DINV inverted to bring up the 2D profile. The result of the analysis showed the presence of low resistivity zones were estimated as the fluid saturated porous region. On track 1, the zone is interpreted as the accumulation of leachate seepage and region, while at the other trajectories estimated as zona of potentially contaminated groundwater leachete. Keywords: Geoelectric, Leachate, TPA Sumompo

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Análisis comparativo de los moluscos en la reserva de la biosfera Los Petenes y lagunas costeras del sureste de México

Bulletin of Marine and Coastal Research ◽

10.25268/bimc.invemar.2018.47.1.736 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 47 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Alicia González-Solis ◽

Daniel Torruco ◽

Ángel D. Torruco-González

Keyword(s):

Comparative Evaluation ◽

Environmental Changes ◽

Sediment Cores ◽

Biosphere Reserve ◽

Study Data ◽

The Other ◽

Water Bodies ◽

Terminos Lagoon ◽

Multiple Uses ◽

Trophic Chains

The phylum Mollusca is widely distributed in all types of environments. The species it contains are important for their multiple uses as food (as part of several trophic chains), as vectors of other groups of organisms, for the extraction of substances, and as sentinels ofnatural and induced environmental changes. In this work, a comparative evaluation of the malacological biodiversity associated with different habitats in the Los Petenes Biosphere Reserve in Campeche and in eight coastal water bodies in southeastern Mexico was performed.To obtain data comparable to those that were used in a previous study, data from the Los Petenes mollusks were obtained by collection of sediment cores 10 cm in diameter at a depth of 15 cm at 20 sites in different habitats every four months during 2014. For the other lagoons,records were obtained from various published sources. For Los Petenes, a total of 175 species and 12,850 individuals were recorded. The species Rissoella caribaea was the most common and the most abundant. Comparative evaluation of each of the habitats that coexist in this ecosystem did not show significant changes in abundance. Similarly, faunal associations exhibited a sea-land gradient, and although thedifferences in biomass were significant, species richness did not show the same pattern among habitats. The Los Petenes system as a whole exhibited some of the greatest biodiversity among the water bodies analyzed, and the Terminos lagoon showed the highest biodiversity (169and 175 species, respectively). In contrast, the Sabancuy estuary featured fauna records with a richness of 43 species; in the Tupilco-Ostión lagoon, only 62 species were recorded, and in the rest of the lagoons, the numbers of species were even lower.

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Regret in Decision Making

Current Directions in Psychological Science ◽

10.1111/1467-8721.00203 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 212-216 ◽

Cited By ~ 278

Author(s):

Terry Connolly ◽

Marcel Zeelenberg

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Comparative Evaluation ◽

The Other ◽

Research Issues ◽

New Approach ◽

Self Blame ◽

Psychology And Economics ◽

Core Components ◽

Decision Research

Decision research has only recently started to take seriously the role of emotions in choices and decisions. Regret is the emotion that has received the most attention. In this article, we sample a number of the initial regret studies from psychology and economics, and trace some of the complexities and contradictions to which they led. We then sketch a new theory, decision justification theory (DJT), which synthesizes several apparently conflicting findings. DJT postulates two core components of decision–related regret, one associated with the (comparative) evaluation of the outcome, the other with the feeling of self–blame for having made a poor choice. We reinterpret several existing studies in DJT terms. We then report some new studies that directly tested (and support) DJT, and propose a number of research issues that follow from this new approach to regret.

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Comparative Evaluation of Yarn Hairiness by Different Methods

Textile Research Journal ◽

10.1177/004051758805800808 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 58 (8) ◽

pp. 477-479 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

G. Viswanathan ◽

V. G. Munshi ◽

A. V. Ukidve ◽

K. Chandran

Keyword(s):

Comparative Evaluation ◽

Statistical Distribution ◽

The Other ◽

Hair Length ◽

Cotton Yarns ◽

Yarn Hairiness

Using a rapid yarn hairiness tester, the Shirley yarn hairiness meter, this work has confirmed that for cotton yarns, the statistical distribution of the number of protruding ends of different lengths is exponential. The study indicates that, compared to the other hair length settings available on the hairiness meter, the recommended 3 mm hair length is suitable and advantageous. Further there is a high correlation between the Shirley hairiness meter and two other hairiness indices, the modified Jedryka and the Digital fibrograph, considered in this work.

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Comparative evaluation on IMES and the other positioning systems for navigation performance in a ship

Electronics and Communications in Japan ◽

10.1002/ecj.12198 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 102 (8) ◽

pp. 36-47 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hiromune Namie ◽

Nobuaki Kubo ◽

Osamu Suzuki ◽

Chie Kojima ◽

Yasuhiko Aiko

Keyword(s):

Comparative Evaluation ◽

The Other ◽

Positioning Systems

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Comparative evaluation of RNA-Seq library preparation methods for strand-specificity and low input

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-019-49889-1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dimitra Sarantopoulou ◽

Soon Yew Tang ◽

Emanuela Ricciotti ◽

Nicholas F. Lahens ◽

Damien Lekkas ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Comparative Evaluation ◽

Differential Expression Analysis ◽

Functional Results ◽

Starting Material ◽

The Other ◽

Library Preparation ◽

Rna Seq ◽

Experimental Conditions ◽

Preparation Methods ◽

Low Input

Abstract Library preparation is a key step in sequencing. For RNA sequencing there are advantages to both strand specificity and working with minute starting material, yet until recently there was no kit available enabling both. The Illumina TruSeq stranded mRNA Sample Preparation kit (TruSeq) requires abundant starting material while the Takara Bio SMART-Seq v4 Ultra Low Input RNA kit (V4) sacrifices strand specificity. The SMARTer Stranded Total RNA-Seq Kit v2 - Pico Input Mammalian (Pico) by Takara Bio claims to overcome these limitations. Comparative evaluation of these kits is important for selecting the appropriate protocol. We compared the three kits in a realistic differential expression analysis. We prepared and sequenced samples from two experimental conditions of biological interest with each of the three kits. We report differences between the kits at the level of differential gene expression; for example, the Pico kit results in 55% fewer differentially expressed genes than TruSeq. Nevertheless, the agreement of the observed enriched pathways suggests that comparable functional results can be obtained. In summary we conclude that the Pico kit sufficiently reproduces the results of the other kits at the level of pathway analysis while providing a combination of options that is not available in the other kits.

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Evaluating the predictions of three syntactic frameworks for mixed determiner–noun constructions

Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory ◽

10.1515/cllt-2015-0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Eva Duran Eppler ◽

Adrian Luescher ◽

Margaret Deuchar

Keyword(s):

Comparative Evaluation ◽

Code Switching ◽

The Other ◽

Frame Model ◽

Significant Difference ◽

The Matrix ◽

Language Membership

AbstractThis paper presents a comparative evaluation of three linguistic frameworks, the Minimalist Programme (MP), Word Grammar (WG) and the Matrix Language Frame Model (MLF), regarding their predictions of possible combinations in a corpus of 187 German–English code-switched (CS) determiner–noun constructions. The comparison revealed a significant difference in the accuracy of the predictions between the MP and WG, but not between the other frameworks. We draw attention to the fact that while WG and MP deal with the processes of feature agreement between determiner and noun, the MLF is concerned with a broader notion of agreement in language membership. We suggest that advances in our understanding of grammaticality in code-switching will be achieved by combining the insights of all three frameworks instead of considering them in isolation.

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War and Its Normative Justification: An Example and Some Reflections

The Review of Politics ◽

10.1017/s0034670500024244 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 36 (4) ◽

pp. 492-503 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Richard Shelly Hartigan

Keyword(s):

Comparative Evaluation ◽

The Other ◽

Clear Cut ◽

Value Priorities ◽

Violent Action ◽

Normative Criteria ◽

Normative Justification

Since the time that man first began recording his excursions into mortal combat with his fellow man, he has evidenced an acute need to justify destruction and killing. This justification has usually taken the form of condensing the reasons for the struggle to a few simple issues which again usually has served to reduce the contention to a straightforward and clear-cut duality between friend and enemy, the enemy being of course wrong, evil or obstructive, while the nonenemy was on the side of right or possessed a destiny which must be fulfilled even at the expense of an otherwise harmless and indifferent adversary. What justified violent action against another group was, therefore, a comparative evaluation in terms of value priorities or normative criteria which would lead to the conclusion that violent action ought to be taken against the other party. The criteria employed can normally be seen to be of two kinds: we might call them internal and external.

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