The production of animal feed increasingly relies on the global acquisition of feed material, increasing the risk of chemical and microbiological contaminants being transferred into food-producing animals. Animal feed contamination provides a comprehensive overview of recent res…
This dissertation consists of three essays that use applied econometric analysis and other analytical methods from various economic fields, including regional and urban economics, natural resource economics, housing economics, and sports economics. In all three essays, I use hou…
Metal processing has played a key role in the history of the Quad Cities and more broadly, the upper Midwest. In addition to economic prosperity, the legacy of those activities has included sources of soil and water pollution that are often not immediately apparent. One example …
Worldwide, hundreds of thousands of healthcare acquired infections (HAIs) are reported each year. HAIs are infections that occur whilst in hospital or as a result of hospital admittance, contamination of hospitals is a source of, and allows dissemination of HAIs. In healthcare s…
This third volume in the "Formation Testing" series further develops new methods and processes that are being developed in the oil and gas industry. In the 1990s through 2000s, the author co-developed Halliburton's commercially successful GeoTapTM real-time LWD/MWD method for fo…
This third volume in the "Formation Testing" series further develops new methods and processes that are being developed in the oil and gas industry. In the 1990s through 2000s, the author co-developed Halliburton's commercially successful GeoTapTM real-time LWD/MWD method for fo…
Bioremediation
by Fingerman, Milton, Nagabhushanam, Rachakonda
fromRecent advances in marine biotechnology
Bioremediation is a technology that utilizes the metabolic potential of microorganisms to clean up contaminated environments. In this volume, international scientists present the results of recent research in marine bioremediation. A sampling of topics includes the bioremediatio…
EPA Environmental engineering sourcebook
Public concern over groundwater quality has grown significantly in recent years and has focused increasingly on agriculture as a source of groundwater quality problems. Increasing evidence of nitrate contamination of groundwater beyond the maximum contaminant level has intensifi…
This study is based on the hypothesis that shortage of dissolved oxygen at and below the water table and extraction of groundwater by irrigation wells at a rate greater than the aquifer recharge rate are the main causes of arsenic release in the groundwater of Bangladesh. The ma…