Software Integration for Watershed Studies: Hydrologic Engineering Center's Watershed Analysis Tool (HEC-WAT)

Author(s):  
Christopher N. Dunn ◽  
Gary W. Brunner ◽  
Jeff Harris
2006 ◽  
Vol 53 (10) ◽  
pp. 29-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Preis ◽  
A. Tubaltzev ◽  
A. Ostfeld

This paper presents the methodology and application underlying the Kinneret Watershed Analysis Tool (KWAT), developed for flow and contaminant predictions for Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee) watershed located in northern Israel. Lake Kinneret watershed is about 2,730 km2 (2,070 in Israel, the rest in Lebanon), inhabited by about 200,000 people organized in 25 municipalities, and three cities (the Israeli part). The model aims to predict flow and contaminant transports within the watershed, down to its outlet – Lake Kinneret, the most important surface water resource in Israel. The model is comprised of two sections: quantity and quality. The objective of the quantity section is to tune the values of a vector of coefficients α that multiply the average rainfall time series intensity I(t) (the input) imposed on given sub-sets (i.e., cells) of the basin so as to calibrate their outlet flows Q(t); the quality section then uses these optimal flows Q(t) and the effective optimal rainfall intensities to adjust the values of a vector of coefficients β so as to calibrate the sub-watersheds outlet concentrations C(t). The model uses decision trees coupled with a genetic algorithm for optimally tuning the KWAT coefficients for each of the watershed cells, which taken together comprise the flow and contamination amounts measured at the watershed outlet.


Author(s):  
Melen McBride

Ethnogeriatrics is an evolving specialty in geriatric care that focuses on the health and aging issues in the context of culture for older adults from diverse ethnic backgrounds. This article is an introduction to ethnogeriatrics for healthcare professionals including speech-language pathologists (SLPs). This article focuses on significant factors that contributed to the development of ethnogeriatrics, definitions of some key concepts in ethnogeriatrics, introduces cohort analysis as a teaching and clinical tool, and presents applications for speech-language pathology with recommendations for use of cohort analysis in practice, teaching, and research activities.


2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-54
Author(s):  
Kerry Callahan Mandulak

Spectral moment analysis (SMA) is an acoustic analysis tool that shows promise for enhancing our understanding of normal and disordered speech production. It can augment auditory-perceptual analysis used to investigate differences across speakers and groups and can provide unique information regarding specific aspects of the speech signal. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the utility of SMA as a clinical measure for both clinical speech production assessment and research applications documenting speech outcome measurements. Although acoustic analysis has become more readily available and accessible, clinicians need training with, and exposure to, acoustic analysis methods in order to integrate them into traditional methods used to assess speech production.


2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-39
Author(s):  
Achmad Tjahjono ◽  
Siti Chaeriyah

The Company was founded with the goal of increasing the value of the company as well as to provide prosperity for the owners or shareholders. Good Corporate Governance and profitability is an effort to enhance company value. This study aims to determine the influence of good corporate governance to company value with profitability as intervening variable. The population of this research is manufacturing companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2010 - 2014. The sample is taken by using purposive sampling method. Under this method, as many as 123 companies were obtained. The analysis tool to test the hypothesis is path analysis with AMOS software version 21. Data analysis method is descriptive analysis, path analysis, and sobeltest. The results of this study indicate that managerial ownership, the audit committee and the profitability have positive impact toward the of the company value, institutional ownership has positive impact but not significant, non-executive director with negative effect tendency on the company value. The results of this study also showed that profitability cannot mediate the effect of good corporate governance mechanisms on company value. It can be suggested to replace the intervening variable with other variables such as quality of earnings instead of profitability since it is declined as an intervening variable. non-executive director and institutional ownership does not contribute any positive and significant effect on company value and profitability. The following research can use another proxy in the measurement process and consider other theories that could explain comprehensively.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-63
Author(s):  
Heru Heryanto ◽  
Nur Laela ◽  
Riana R Dewi

This study aims to determine the significance of the influence of competence, independence, professionalism, auditor experience, accountability, and auditor's knowledge of audit quality. This study uses a questionnaire with a population and sample, namely all auditors who work at the Public Accounting Office (KAP) in the Special Region of Yogyakarta and Surakarta. Sampling techniques using Convenience Sampling with a sample of 61 respondents. The data used in this study is a questionnaire using a Likert scale 1 to 5. The data analysis technique used in this study is multiple linear regression using the SPSSprogram for Windows. The analysis tool in this study using validity and reliability, the classical assumption (normality test, multicollinearity, heteroscedasticity test and autocorrelation test) while the data were analyzed using multiple linear regression test, t test, F test and the coefficient of determination (R2).Based on the results of the t-test analysis performed, it shows that there is a positive influence of competence, independence, professionalism, auditor experience, accountability, and auditor's knowledge of audit quality and simultaneously competency, independence, professionalism, auditor experience, accountability, and auditor knowledge variables affect quality audit


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