scholarly journals Anaerobic Digestion Creating Renewable Energy-The Ultimate Closed Loop System

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2S2) ◽  
pp. 197-199
Keyword(s):  
Waste Water ◽  
United States ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Anaerobic Digestion ◽  
Closed Loop ◽  
The United States ◽  
Power Source ◽  
Closed Loop System ◽  
The Press ◽  
Sustainable Power

This paper clarifies the significance of Anaerobic Digestion (AD) process. Sustainable power source from anaerobic assimilation gets little evaluation in the press when contrasted with other standard inexhaustible power age advances. It has not been so well known a sustainable power source when contrasted with hydropower sustainable power source or wind sustainable power source in the course of the most recent couple of years. Be that as it may, Renewable vitality from anaerobic processing is boosted the innovation will turn out to be increasingly mainstream in the coming years. Sustainable power source from anaerobic assimilation is amassed in America and Europe and eminently famous in India. Each 1 ton of sustenance waste discarded unnecessarily is in charge of 4.5 huge amounts of CO2 proportionate emanations. Advertisement gives a neighbourhood reasonable secure vitality source free of worldwide financial vitality changes and accessibility, where income is kept in the nearby economy as opposed to going to oil rich nations and multinationals. Sustainable power source from anaerobic processing is created by the consuming of methane. Sustainable power source from anaerobic assimilation is created in storehouses where specific microbes are added to natural waste. Sewage, vegetation, excrement, slaughterhouse waste and waste water would all be able to be separated in an anaerobic assimilation storehouse. At times, specific silage yields are developed for decay. The microbes are added to the waste and the disintegration happens without oxygen. The methane delivered during decay is scorched nearby, driving turbines and making inexhaustible power. Anaerobic processing isn't especially reasonable for little scale local sustainable power creation, to a great extent because of the space prerequisites for the storehouses and the sheer measure of waste required to delivering methane. Notwithstanding, sustainable power source from anaerobic assimilation can be delivered on a huge business scale, a training regular in the United States, taking waste from a wide area.

scholarly journals Study Design and Data Analysis of Artificial Pancreas Device Systems with Closed-Loop Glucose-Sensing Insulin Delivery

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Sravya B. Shankara ◽  
Yujia Liu ◽  
Qingfeng Zheng ◽  
Jing Guo ◽  
Guixia Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Study Design ◽  
Closed Loop ◽  
Artificial Pancreas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Closed Loop System ◽  
Premarket Approval

Objective. The objective of this article is to provide a high-profile review and discussion on the study design and statistical analysis of pivotal clinical trials conducted to demonstrate the safety and effectiveness of closed-loop investigational artificial pancreas device systems (APDSs) in premarket approval applications. Methods. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance on the content of investigational device exemption and premarket approval applications for APDSs is reviewed with special emphasis on study design and statistical analysis of the pivotal clinical trials. The two pivotal studies for the MiniMed 670G hybrid closed-loop system by Medtronic in their premarket approval application are summarized and discussed. Results. The United States FDA established detailed recommendations on the study design and statistical analysis of pivotal clinical trials for the industry that seek market investigational APDSs and for FDA scientific reviewers that regulate the device applications. The recommendations cover specifics regarding patient population, clinical endpoints, and strategies for data analysis. However, the two pivotal studies that demonstrated the effectiveness of the FDA-approved MiniMed 670G hybrid closed-loop system were not typical randomized controlled trials as per FDA recommendations. Conclusion. The development and regulation of investigational APDSs require careful and sophisticated clinical study designs and data analysis in premarket approval applications. The regulatory evaluation process of the APDSs is rather complicated since the devices consist of multiple components that collaboratively function to mimic human pancreases.

Off to a bad start: John Adams’s tussle over titles

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
James C Alexander
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Vice President ◽  
The United States ◽  
John Adams ◽  
The Press ◽  
First Session

From the first days, of the first session, of the first Congress of the United States, the Senate was consumed by an issue that would do immense and lasting political harm to the sitting vice president, John Adams. The issue was a seemingly unimportant one: titles. Adams had strong opinions on what constituted a proper title for important officers of government and, either because he was unconcerned or unaware of the damage it would cause, placed himself in the middle of the brewing dispute. Adams hoped the president would be referred to as, “His highness, the President of the United States of America, and Protector of the Rights of the Same.” The suggestion enraged many, amused some, and was supported by few. He lost the fight over titles and made fast enemies with several of the Senators he was constitutionally obligated to preside over. Adams was savaged in the press, derided in the Senate and denounced by one of his oldest and closest friends. Not simply an isolated incident of political tone-deafness, this event set the stage for the campaign against Adams as a monarchist and provided further proof of his being woefully out of touch.

Sludge Disposal to Sea: North American Viewpoint

1982 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-125
Author(s):  
W F Garber
Keyword(s):  
Waste Water ◽  
United States ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
Specific Problem ◽  
Waste Water Treatment ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Case Histories ◽  
Sludge Disposal ◽  
Environmentally Responsible

A review of sludge disposal to sea in North America involves sociological and political as well as technical, scientific or engineering considerations. The review of the interrelationships between these differing types of interests has appeared to be most intense in the United States. Not because of a lesser concern in Canada and Mexico; but because of factors such as the location of most major population centers along the sea coasts, the resulting possibility of environmental problems from waste discharges and the intensity and influence of the environmental movement. From the standpoint of a city or other agency attempting to dispose of solids residual from waste-water treatment in a manner which is both environmentally responsible and economically reasonable, the laws and regulations arising out of the complex of interest cited above pose almost impossible problems. Basic decisions are made by the courts and agency administrators and apply nationwide rather than allowing evaluation of each specific problem. Furthermore, laws applying to air, land and water (sea) pollution conflict so that environmentally responsible solutions become difficult to impossible. Case histories with an outline of the controlling legislation, development of standards and measure of the actual dimensions of such discharge is presented.

Quantifying the challenge of reaching a 100% renewable energy power system for the United States

Joule ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley J. Cole ◽  
Danny Greer ◽  
Paul Denholm ◽  
A. Will Frazier ◽  
Scott Machen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Power System ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Renewable Energy Federalism in Germany and the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Johannes Saurer ◽  
Jonas Monast
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
The Us ◽  
Legal Structures ◽  
Cooperative Federalism ◽  
Energy Expansion

Abstract The Federal Republic of Germany and the United States (US) have adopted different models for energy federalism. Germany allocates more authority to the federal government and the US relies on a decentralized cooperative federalism model that preserves key roles for state actors. This article explores and compares the relevance of federal legal structures for renewable energy expansion in both countries. It sets out the constitutional, statutory, and factual foundations in both Germany and the US, and explores the legal and empirical dimensions of renewable energy expansion at the federal and state levels. The article concludes by drawing several comparative lessons about the significance of federal structures for energy transition processes.

1. Text of United States Note to the Far Eastern Commission on a Japanese Peace Treaty, Released to the Press, November 24, 1950.

1951 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 242-243
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Peace Treaty ◽  
General Statement ◽  
The Press ◽  
States Government ◽  
Far Eastern

There is given below a brief general statement of the type of treaty envisioned by the United States Government as proper to end the state of war with Japan. It is stressed that this statement is only suggestive and tentative, and does not commit the United States Government to the detailed content or wording of any future draft. It is expected that after there has been an opportunity to study this outline, there will be a series of informal discussions designed to elaborate on it and make clear any points which may be obscure at first glance.

scholarly journals The United States can keep the grid stable at low cost with 100% clean, renewable energy in all sectors despite inaccurate claims

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (26) ◽  
pp. E5021-E5023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Z. Jacobson ◽  
Mark A. Delucchi ◽  
Mary A. Cameron ◽  
Bethany A. Frew
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
The United States

Teachers as First Responders

2021 ◽  
pp. 81-89
Author(s):  
Judith Gouwens
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
First Responders ◽  
The United States ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Toxic Stress ◽  
The Press ◽  
The World

While there is much in the press about refugee and migrant children’s movements around the world and their status in the countries where they ultimately (or even temporarily) settle, how these children experience schooling and education is critical in mitigating the effects of the trauma they experience in their home countries, in the process of leaving their home communities or countries, in traveling to their new communities and countries and getting settled in those new communities and countries. This paper presents the stories of three teachers who work with migrant children in the United States Midwest. Interviews with these teachers show that they actively work to mitigate the trauma the migrant children have experienced by creating classrooms that welcome the children and their families, help them to have a sense of belonging in their schools and communities, and help the children develop feelings of confidence and competence, critical to overcoming toxic stress.

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