The Potential of Water Saving and Water Capturing Innovations: A Case Study of Albuquerque Single Family Homes

The need for innovative water saving and water capturing strategies in Albuquerque single family homes (SFH) is evident by the citys vulnerability to drought, climate change and population growth. The intrinsic value of modern innovations is that they offer the potential to produce the largest, most cost effective and environmentally sound alternative source of water required to meet current and future demand. Moreover, recognizing the intimate relationship between water use and the energy consumed in conveyance, treatment, end uses and waste treatment, allows policy makers to meet water and energy use reduction goals simultaneously, as well as enhance water and energy security opportunity for current and future populations. Three innovations were examined to demonstrate the potential water, energy and monetary savings possible for the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Department and its single family home customers. The usage of these three innovations was projected to 2030 and their associated benefits discussed with regard to their potential for generating future opportunity. Two in-home innovations, the dual-flush toilet and the Shower Water Conservation System (SWCS), the latter an innovation designed by the author of this report, Andrew Funk, as well as one exterior innovation, rain water harvesting, were analyzed for their potential alternative source water production, and energy and monetary savings. Using water saving and water capturing innovations in Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Department single family homes offers access to a significant volume of least cost alternative source water. These types of innovations empower the water utility and its customers to use water and energy resources more efficiently, save money and further decrease Albuquerque\u27s reliance on groundwater, better equipping the City to manage future drought, climate change and population growth

Critical reflection of the advanced rehabilitation of an elite rugby league player sustaining a posterior Bankart lesion

The following is a critical description and discussion of the successful assessment and rehabilitation of a right shoulder posterior Bankart repair in an elite rugby league player. The rehabilitation follows accelerated, goal based guidelines, widely adopted in current sports practice but not well documented in the literature [Funk and Snow, 2007] and [Park et al., 2004]). The study serves to be the first critical discussion of such a regime

Prevalence of Yersinia enterocolitica across phases of swine production

The objective of this study was to describe the prevalence of Yersinia enterocolitica (YE) in different swine production phases. In this cross-sectional study, individual pigs on eight farrow-to-finish farms were sampled for YE by collection of both feces and oral-pharyngeal swab

Effect of cleaning and subtherapeutic chlortetracycline on Salmonella

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of stringent cleaning and subtherapeutic chlortetracycline (CTC) on Salmonella enterica (SE) prevalence in market age swine

Abbreviated identification scheme for Eschericia coli in swine feces

Antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of Escherichia coli (EC) are often used to monitor the effect of antimicrobial use regimens on the antimicrobial resistance (AR) reservoir in animal species. Epidemiological studies of AR may involve the identification of thousands of bacterial isolates, so complete biochemical identification of EC can be prohibitively expensive and time consuming. In this study an abbreviated biochemical scheme using colony phenotype and the indole test results in a sensitivity and specificity of 91.7% and 100% respectively for identification of EC as compared to a commercial biochemical identification kit. This abbreviated scheme results in over US$500 savings per 100 candidate EC isolates identified. These savings have significant benefits to the economics of conducting epidemiologic investigations of AR

Quantifying tetracycline resistance

This study’s goal was to evaluate the impact of sub-therapeutic feeding of chlortetracycline (CTC) on the fecal concentration of tet(C), a gene that confers tetracycline resistance via an efflux mechanism. We developed a real-time quantitative PCR assay to measure the quantity of tet(C) in whole fecal DNA samples. The vast proportion of variability in tet(C) (91%) was associated with differences in concentration between the individual pigs, and there was no significant difference in the copy number of tet(C)/mg of feces between the treatment and control pigs (p\u3e0.05, linear regression, SPSS 11.0.5)

Effect of chlortetracycline on Salmonella and the fecal flora of swine

The goals of this study were to determine the impact of sub-therapeutic chlortetracycline in market swine diets on 1) the prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella enterica 2) antimicrobial resistance of the aerobic Gram negative fecal flora. There was no significant difference in the prevalence or antimicrobial resistance of S. enterica isolates. For the gram-negative fecal flora, there was a statistically significant difference (p\u3c0.05) between treatment groups for the frequency of antimicrobial resistance in the gram negative flora with pigs receiving chlortetracycline having a greater frequency of isolates resistant tetracycline, gentamicin, and ceftriaxone, and a lesser proportion of isolates resistant to ampicillin

The Potential of Water Saving and Water Capturing Innovations in Albuquerque Single Family Homes

The need for innovative water saving and water capturing strategies in Albuquerque single family homes (SFH) is evident by the city’s vulnerability to drought, climate change and population growth. The intrinsic value of modern innovations is that they offer the potential to produce the largest, most cost effective and environmentally sound alternative source of water required to meet future demand. Moreover, recognizing the intimate relationship between water use and the energy consumed in conveyance, treatment, end uses and waste treatment, allows policy makers to meet water and energy use reduction goals simultaneously

Dimensional reduction of gradient-like stochastic systems with multiplicative noise via Fokker-Planck diffusion maps

Dimensional reduction techniques have long been used to visualize the structure and geometry of high dimensional data. However, most widely used techniques are difficult to interpret due to nonlinearities and opaque optimization processes. Here we present a specific graph based construction for dimensionally reducing continuous stochastic systems with multiplicative noise moving under the influence of a potential. To achieve this, we present a specific graph construction which generates the Fokker-Planck equation of the stochastic system in the continuum limit. The eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the normalized graph Laplacian are used as a basis for the dimensional reduction and yield a low dimensional representation of the dynamics which can be used for downstream analysis such as spectral clustering. We focus on the use case of single cell RNA sequencing data and show how current diffusion map implementations popular in the single cell literature fit into this framework