Biodiversity Science for Humanity

Edited by Michael Theophanides and Theophile Theophanides

ISBN: 978-960-6672-41-5, 300 pages

First published in 2010 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Preface		1
Biodiversity and Care of Science for Humanity Michael Theophanides and Theophile Theophanides		3
Part 1: Energy
1.	Impact of Shuweiaht Power Cogeneration Plant-UAE on Ambient Air Quality Muthanna Al-Omar and Entisar Al-Katheeri	9
2.	Some Remarks about Relationship of the Economic Process with Environment. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1906-1994) Vasile Dogaru, Marilen Pirtea and Alexandru Jivan	19
3.	Renewable Energy from Residual Biomass Gasification: Simulation of Multiphase Flow in a Novel Mobile Granular Bed Filter used to Condition the Hot Bio-Syngas Nicolas Abatzoglou and Martin Gagnon	31
4.	Relation among Characteristics of Bituminous Coal Thermally treated in Inert Atmosphere Zdenek Klika, Vaclav Roubicek, Lucie Krejcickova and Lucie Bartonova	51
5.	Atmospheric Removal of Satellite Imagery Type TM using Band Ratio Correction Hussain Muhyi Ali	57
6.	Introducing and Studying Dispersion of Bovidae Family Species in Wildlife Refuge of Moote Parvine Safiyan Boldaji and Behbahan Khuzestan	65
7.	Treatment of Landfill Leachate using Sequencing Anaerobic Baffled Reactor and Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor Tuba Yilmaz, Ahmet Aygun, Ali Berktay and Bilgehan Nas	75
Part 2: Pollution and Environment Protection
8.	Development and Validation of Statistically Predicted Terrestrial Gamma Radiation Dose Rates and Population Vulnerability Maps of Perak, Malaysia Ismail Bahari, Zalina Rahmat, Muhammad Samudi Yasir, Redzuwan Yahaya and Amran Abd Majid	87
9.	Role of Chemical and Biological Constituents of PM10 from Saharan Dust in the Exacerbation of Asthma in Puerto Rico Mario Ortiz-Martinez, Evasomary Rivera-Ramirez, Loyda Mendez-Torres and Braulio.D. Jimenez-Velez	101
10.	The Response of Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) and DOC Enzymes to reduced sulphate Deposition Caroline Morrison and Ian Grieve	119
11.	European Energy and Climate Change Scenarios Evaluated with the TIMES Model for the EU-NEEDS Project Markus Blesl, Carmelina Cosmi, Socrates Kypreos, Richard Loulou, Monica Salvia, Denise Van Regemorter and Vincenzo Cuomo	131
12.	Criminal Law and Environmental Protection: Some Comments on Administrative Accessibility to Environmental Criminal Law Erika Mendes de Carvalho	147
13.	Retrofit of Heat Exchanger Networks using Particle Swarm Optimisation Mauro A. S .S. Ravagnani, Aline P. Silva and Evaristo C. Biscaia Jr	155
14.	Assessment of Treatability and Sub-Products Recovery from Cork Processing Wastewater Ana Santos, Carla Vespeira, Paula Cantinho and Miguel Minhalma	163
15.	Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Controlling Near Ground Ozone in Beijing and its Surrounding Areas Xuxuan Xie, Zhang Shiqiu and Dan Wu	171
Part 3: Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Metal Extraction
16.	Barley Straw as a Low Cost Biosorbent Alternative for Cr(VI) Removal from Aqueous Solutions Turkan Altun, Erol Pehlivan and Serife Parlayici	187
17.	Isolation, Identification and Characterization of Heavy Metals- and Phenol-Resistant Bacteria from Contaminated Industrial Effluents Carlos Jesus Castillo-Zacarias, Martha Alicia Suarez-Herrera, Sergio Salvador Fernandez-Delgadillo, Monica Noel Sanchez-Gonzalez and Ulrico Javier Lopez-Chuken	201
18.	Usage of Commercially Available Two Anion-Exchange Resins for the Removal Of CR(Vi) from Aqueous Solutions Serpil Edebali and Erol Pehlivan	213
19.	Equilibrium Sorption of Pb(II), Cd(II) and Cu(II) into Soil of Port-au-Prince: Single-element System Studies Urbain Fifi, Thierry Winiarski and Evens Emmanuel	223
20.	Adaptation of the Endocrine Profile during Lead Poisoning in Male Reproduction Ming-Yie Liu	233
21.	Benthonic Biodiversity in Seaside Ecosystem of Albania Hysen Mankolli, Mirela Lika, Agim Asllani and Alma Imeri	241
Part 4: Education in Environmental Problems
22.	Maine Unused Medicine Mail Back Pilot Summary Stevan Gressitt, Len Kaye, Jennifer Crittenden, Susan Boehme, Matthew Mireles and Lorna Bullard	249
23.	Ecology Training Practises in Turkey: Tubitak Summer Science Camp (Çanakkale Sample) Arzu Bayindir, Feride Ercanand Abdullah Soykan	277
24.	Market versus Regulation in Ecologic and Ethical Behaviour (An Economic Analysis on Poor Countries’ Case) Alexandru Jivan, Ioan Talpos and Vasile Dogaru	287