Innovative Stormwater Treatment Technologies: Best Management Practices Manual

Urban stormwater carries a number of pathogens, nutrients, heavy metals, sediment, and other contaminants as surface runoff flows over land. The increase in impervious or paved surfaces associated with development in urban areas reduces the natural infiltration of precipitation into the ground. With impervious cover, precipitation collects and carries contaminants before draining into nearby surface waters. Stormwater runoff from paved surfaces in developed areas can degrade downstream waters with both contaminants and increased volumes of water. This publication aims to make information on innovative stormwater treatment technologies more available to New Hampshire’s urban planners, developers, and communities. Traditional runoff management techniques such as detention basins and infiltration swales may be preferable, but are not always practical for treating urban stormwater. Lack of space for natural solutions is often a problem in existing developed areas, making innovative treatment technologies an attractive alternative. Mostly designed for subsurface installation, urban “retrofits” use less space than conventional methods to treat stormwater. This manual provides information on the innovative stormwater “retrofit” technologies currently available for use in developed areas in New Hampshire

Innovative technologies for industrial wastes

This article is intended to provide several case studies of successful waste management of a few selected industries in their attempts to become “environmental-conscious” firms. In particular, this article examines the innovative waste-reduction and waste reuse processes undertaken by certain firms in the following industries - asphalt cement and concrete, ferrous metals, Portland cement and concrete, and some other that on the face of it somewhat isolated innovative technologies. For each case, the driver, the waste management technology or processes involved, as well as the associated economic benefits of the adjustments was highlighted. It is hoped that the findings of this article will provide the motivation or continue to motivate engineers and scientists to further explore processes that will help towards better management of industrial wastes

Innovative learning technologies

У робочій навчальній програмі подано мету, зміст та завдання вивчення дисципліни "Інноваційні технології навчання"В рабочей учебной программе представлены цели, содержание и задачи изучения дисциплины "Инновационные технологии обучения"The work curriculum presents the purpose, content and tasks of studying the discipline "Innovative Learning Technologies

Innovative learning technologies

У робочій навчальній програмі подано мету, зміст та завдання вивчення дисципліни "Інноваційні технології навчання"В рабочей учебной программе представлены цели, содержание и задачи изучения дисциплины "Инновационные технологии обучения"The work curriculum presents the purpose, content and tasks of studying the discipline "Innovative Learning Technologies

Low-cost resin infusion mould tooling for carbon fibre composites manufacture

This article describes the research to date carried out under the BAE Systems/Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)-funded programme ‘Flapless Aerial Vehicle Integrated Interdisciplinary Research’ (FLAVIIR), aimed at developing innovative technologies for the low-cost manufacture of next-generation Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. The aim of the researchers in FLAVIIR was to develop low-cost innovative tooling technologies to enable the affordable manufacture of complex composite aerospace structures. The advances in tooling technology were achieved through the application of rapid prototyping, tooling and manufacture technologies to provide rapidly configured and reconfigurable tool concepts, for low-cost resin infusion moulding. This article introduces three tooling innovations: reconfigurable tooling concept, variable cavity tooling, and porous cavity tooling

Innovative public governance through cloud computing: Information privacy, business models and performance measurement challenges

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify and analyze challenges and to discuss proposed solutions for innovative public governance through cloud computing. Innovative technologies, such as federation of services and cloud computing, can greatly contribute to the provision of e-government services, through scaleable and flexible systems. Furthermore, they can facilitate in reducing costs and overcoming public information segmentation. Nonetheless, when public agencies use these technologies, they encounter several associated organizational and technical changes, as well as significant challenges. Design/methodology/approach: We followed a multidisciplinary perspective (social, behavioral, business and technical) and conducted a conceptual analysis for analyzing the associated challenges. We conducted focus group interviews in two countries for evaluating the performance models that resulted from the conceptual analysis. Findings: This study identifies and analyzes several challenges that may emerge while adopting innovative technologies for public governance and e-government services. Furthermore, it presents suggested solutions deriving from the experience of designing a related platform for public governance, including issues of privacy requirements, proposed business models and key performance indicators for public services on cloud computing. Research limitations/implications: The challenges and solutions discussed are based on the experience gained by designing one platform. However, we rely on issues and challenges collected from four countries. Practical implications: The identification of challenges for innovative design of e-government services through a central portal in Europe and using service federation is expected to inform practitioners in different roles about significant changes across multiple levels that are implied and may accelerate the challenges' resolution. Originality/value: This is the first study that discusses from multiple perspectives and through empirical investigation the challenges to realize public governance through innovative technologies. The results emerge from an actual portal that will function at a European level. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Harvesting systems for steep terrain in the Italian Alps: state of the art and future prospects

Steep slope forest operations in Central Europe and in particular in the Alps are strongly related to the adoption of the cable-based harvesting system, even if innovative ground-based harvesting system, even if innovative ground-based harvesting systems have been proposed in the last years. In this context, the present works aim to acquire a thorough knowledge of yarding technologies used by the logging companies of the central Italian Alps, to evaluate their professionality in steep slope forest operations, and to predict the potential diffusion of innovative steep slope harvesting systems in the area. The results show a large number of logging companies (106) working with cable-based systems and in particular with four different standing skyline yarding technologies. The analysis of professionality in using cable cranes shows big differences between the companies. In particular, it identifies a consistent group of companies with a highly mechanized machinery fleet and high skills and experience in steep slope forest operations. These enterprises evidence a still limited potential diffusion of the innovative ground-based harvesting systems in the area, even if it is theoretically possible according to the GIS analysis of morphology and forest road networ

Innovative technologies in accounting

У статті досліджено наявність зворотних зв'язків у інформаційній системі бухгалтерського обліку, доведена необхідність створення гнучких активно – адаптивних облікових систем з використанням інновацій. Доведено, що різні види інновацій тісно взаємозв’язані і висувають специфічні вимоги до інноваційного механізму. Для обліку, як інформаційної системи підприємства, найбільш оптимальним є підхід до визначення інновацій, який враховує науково-технічний, технологічний, економічний, організаційний, інформаційний, управлінський та процесний аспекти. Інформаційна система бухгалтерського обліку є підсистемою системи більш високого рівня. Інновації у обліку доцільно розглядати як процес, який приводить до появи новизни і результати якого генерують споживчі цінності, споживаються на ринку, забезпечують стійке зростання фінансового результату. Становлення інноваційної економіки інформаційного суспільства неможливо без адекватного розвитку бухгалтерського обліку за різними аспектами, що потребує певних інновацій This article explores the presence of feedback information in the accounting system, proven need for a flexible active - adaptive accounting systems using innovation. It is proved that different types of innovation are closely interrelated and put forward specific requirements for innovation mechanism. To account for how information system, the optimal approach is to determine the innovation that takes into account scientific, technical, technological, economic, organizational, informational, managerial and process aspects. Information System accounting system is a subsystem of a higher level. Innovations in accounting should be considered as a process that leads to the appearance of novelty and the results of which generate consumer values are consumed in the market, providing a steady growth of financial results. The formation of an innovative economy information society is impossible without adequate development of accounting for the different aspects that also require some innovation