The present investigation examined the current water demand characteristics and the future water demand of Cache Valley, Utah for the time period of 1990-2010. The demand attributable to agriculture and seven nonagricultural economics sectors was determined and forecasts were performed based on those demand values. Linear regression, extrapolation, and alternative futures forecasting methods were applied and the various results compared against each other. Three different scenarios were calculated for residential demand to represent different sources and composition of demand information. It was determined that consideration of water demand data excluding Logan City provided the best statistical description of water demand. A discussion of the probable changes in the three water demand components, agriculture, industrial and residential, addressed issue of conservation and change of use patterns which would impact on the need for future development of new water supplies to meet the forecast demand for Cache Valley, Utah.

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 1980. / MICROFICHE COPY AVAILABLE IN ARCHIVES AND ENGINEERING. / Bibliography: leaves 88-89. / by Sergio Rodolfo Jara Díaz. / M.S.

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(社会健康医学) / 甲第21032号 / 社医博第86号 / 新制||社医||10(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院医学研究科社会健康医学系専攻 / (主査)教授 古川 壽亮, 教授 川上 浩司, 教授 黒田 知宏 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Public Health / Kyoto University / DFAM

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Weeks Bay, AL is a governmentally protected reserve near Mobile Bay, AL, while Old Tampa Bay, FL is an urbanized estuary, located along the western coast of Florida. Estuary health is important to local economies and the health of local marine life, with an emphasis on low levels of eutrophication. Sediment oxygen demand (SOD) is usually measured to qualify the environmental health of estuaries, but SOD is timeconsuming and expensive. Average acid volatile monosulfides (AVS) concentrations were found to accurately predict SOD variances. The Degree of Pyritization (DOP) is a measure of long-term sediment oxidation conditions, which indicates normal estuary state. Despite the urban land use practices of these two bays, the DOP of each bay is similar.

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Sweden has since a few years back suffered from a bottleneck in the power transmission lines stemming from a lack of “space” on the grid that transports the power that is generated in the northern parts to the middle and southern parts of the country. A long-term solution would be to increase the grid's capacity by building more transmission lines, however in the meantime, a short-term solution would be to increase our power flexibility. Meaning that the energy consumption gets moved from hours of high demand to hours with low demand and by shutting off equipment. This is called power flexibility and has been researched more in recent times in projects like this. This project will mainly focus on demand-side flexibility which is about how the consumers use their electrical power. In collaboration with Uppsala Arenor och Fastigheter, power usage in one of the company’s properties will be made more flexible. This is achieved by mapping how much power each part of the property utilizes and estimating how much power the electrical equipment in that area consumes. Then determining if that piece of equipment can be either rescheduled to avoid hours of high-powerdemand in Uppsala or turned off without causing major consequences to the property. From this it will be decided if it can be added as a flexibility resource and after that the total power flexibility of the facility will be tallied. Lastly, suggestions on how to implement the power flexibility resources and recommendations for further improvements in future projects will be made. The results of the project were that the selected property Studenternas had an average power usage of 185kW during the day and of that 38% could be utilized as a power flexibility resource. The total power flexibility was therefore 71.2 kW which comes from the laundry rooms and the arena lighting while the other places in the facility contributed with a neglectable amount.

The purpose of this dissertation is to explore relationships between authentic leadership style, global social power, job demand, job control, and workplace bullying of nurse managers in acute care settings across the United States. Over 30 years of workplace bullying research exists. Consequences are linked to intent to leave, turnover, and harmful emotional and physical effects. Published studies identifying nurse managers as targets of workplace bullying and work environment factors that contribute to nurse managers being recipients of workplace bullying either, downward from their leaders, horizontally from their nurse manager peers, and upwards from their clinical nurses were not identified. A descriptive, cross-sectional design using an online survey was utilized. Descriptive, inferential, and multivariate analyses were used to identify relationships and the likelihood of workplace bullying occurring. Thirty-five percent (n = 80) of nurse managers reported being a target of workplace bullying. Managers sustained occasional (56%, n = 45) and severe (44%, n = 35) levels of workplace bullying, 65% (n = 43) identified their executive nurse leader as the predominate perpetrator. Authentic leadership, job demand, job control correlated significantly (p = < .01) with workplace bullying and job demand demonstrated the strongest likelihood (OR = 3.9) for predicting workplace bullying. Nurse Managers are four times more likely to be a recipient of workplace bullying when their job responsibilities are classified as demanding. This study expanded the science and demonstrated that nurse managers, the backbone of organizations, are recipients of workplace bullying emanating predominately from executive nurse leaders, but also from clinical nurses and their nurse manager peers. Given the harmful consequences of workplace bullying, as 'guardians' of and 'advocates' for their teams, executive nursing leaders, have an ethical and operational responsibility to ensure nurse managers are able to practice in a safe environment.