Environmentally friendly soap

For this project, according to the lab manual1, research was needed to be done for a local environmental group. The environmental group needed help developing safe soap and detergent options to use on birds involved in an oil spill accident. The group was mainly interested in an alternative soap to one made from lard. A … Read more

Evaluation of performance for yield and yield components of upland rice under rain fed condition

Short Title: Evaluation of rice genotypes to rain fed condition Abstract BACKGROUND: Rice (Oryza sativa) belongs to family gramineae. Rice is an annual grass morphologically and one of the most important crops in the world. Rice is new crop to Ethiopia. There are very few varieties with low narrow adaptability. OBJECTIVE: Hence, evaluation of yield … Read more

Influence of Tamarix on soil chemical, biological, physical properties and nutrient availability

The influence of Tamarix on soil chemical, biological, physical properties and nutrient availability is largely unknown. In South Africa, Tamarix usneoides is indigenous specie and it is unclear on how and when the alien Tamarix ramosissima and Tamarix chinensis species were introduced (Marlin et al., 2017).  Weiersbye et al., (2006) reported that the native T. … Read more

Estimate internal exposure dose in individuals resulting from contact with contaminated water.

The next step in the Health Impact Assessment is to assess the exposure, which is calculated as the so called average daily dose (ADD) for non-cancer risk or threshold chemicals, or the so called lifetime average daily dose (LADD) for cancer risk or non-threshold chemicals (WHO ECEH 2004). Chemicals causing toxic effects are often classified … Read more

Measuring the world’s changing climate

Introduction Many diverse techniques are used to measure the worlds changing climate, and some do so more efficiently than others. In the run-up to the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference (commonly known as the Copenhagen Summit), the study of past climate change came under severe attack as there were numerous issues with current measuring … Read more

Characteristics of biodiversity in the Redlands

Expert Opinion (Literature Review) Redland city, located in South-East Queensland borders Brisbane City and Logan as shown in Fig.2. Made up primarily of the North Stradbroke Islands and Moreton Bay Islands, it covers a developed area of 53,700 hectares including both urban and rural areas. 17.73% of that is classified by the Redland City Council … Read more

Annotated Bibliography Assignment – Desert ecosystem

Resource 1: Literature Review Abella, SR. 2008. A systematic review of wild burro grazing effects on Mojave Desert vegetation, USA. Environmental Management 41(6): 809-819. doi: 10.1007/s00267-008-9105-7 Many ecologists believe that wild burros cause harm to plant communities and ecosystems through grazing on desert forage plants. This can be seen as one of the major controversial … Read more

Ability of carbofuran to induce hepatonephrotoxic side effects  in catfish

Carbofuran is a highly toxic carbamate insecticide due to its low environmental persistence which can reach the aquatic system threatening aquatic organisms especially fish. The present study was designed to evaluate the half lethal concentration (LC50)/96h of carbofuran in catfish clarias gariepinus and to investigate the ability of  carbofuran to induce hepatonephrotoxic side effects  in … Read more

Design Basis for the Condensate Stabilization Train for Liquid Natural Gas

This document is to introduce the initial design for the Condensate Stabilization Train for the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) trains 3 & 4.  The system already operates with a Condensate Stabilization Train for LNG trains 1 & 2, this design is an expansion on the system. The main objective is to produce a condensate stabilizer, … Read more

Culm characteristics

1.5 CULM 1.5.1. Morphology The culm is balanced of a chain of nodes and deposit nodes (Fig. 1.24). It is fenced in within the sheath once heading, and a low chance of the culm what is coming to one below the panicle becomes like a clay pigeon trailing heading. The everything zip code of nodes … Read more

The Process of Evolving the Planet and the Species that Have Fallen Victim

ROUGH DRAFT: Research Paper/Cause and Effect Argument David Quammen once said: “After all, humans are the ultimate weed species.” With those eight words, many have been outraged to be apart of such inconsiderate generations of human beings. The significance of this topic is more than just an environmentalist perspective being told, it is also to … Read more

Stem cells in plants

Introduction: In recent years, the concept of stem cells has become widely acclaimed due to the potential use of these cells as a biomedical tool to rebuild and repair organisms. Stem cells are innately undifferentiated cells of multicellular organisms, with the potential to develop into many different cell types, particularly during the growth and regeneration … Read more

United States foreign policy, homeland security and environmental issues

Many of the international issues that we face in the United States relates to foreign policy. The United States foreign policy is its interactions with foreign nations and its standards of interaction with foreign nations. United States foreign policy is a topic of much debate both domestically and abroad. In the United States, foreign policy … Read more

Literary review – brownfield sites (US)

Literary Review The United States Environmental Protection Agency defines a brownfield as, “a property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant,” (USEPA, 2012). These sites often occur in previously industrialized areas where harmful substances were being handled and utilized … Read more

Sustainable transport (focus on Japan)

Sustainable transport refers to any means of transportation that has a low effect on the surroundings that is inclusive of non-motorized. In essence, sustainable transport includes car sharing, green vehicles and constructing or defending urban transport systems that are fuel efficient and promote healthy lifestyles and are space saving . Thus,  Japan’s sustainable transport since … Read more