Combined air and water pollution control system

A bioaquatic air pollution control system for controlling both water and atmospheric pollution is disclosed. The pollution control system includes an exhaust for directing polluted gases out of a furnace and a fluid circulating system which circulates fluid, such as waste water, from a source, past the furnace where the fluid flow entrains the pollutants from the furnace. The combined fluid and pollutants are then directed through a rock/plant/microbial filtering system. A suction pump pumps the treated waste water from the filter system past the exhaust to again entrain more pollutants from the furnace where they are combined with the fluid (waste water) and directed to the filter system

Miss America Kissed Caleb: Stories

The mountain is a lonely place. Welcome to Sourwood, a small Kentucky town inhabited by men and women unique and yet eerily familiar. Among its joyful and tragic citizens we meet the crafty, spirited Caleb and his curious younger brother; Pearl, a suspected witch, and her sheltered daughter, Thanie; superstitious Eli; and the doomed orphan Girty. In Sourwood, the mountain is both a keeper of secrets and an imposing, isolating presence, shaping the lives of all who live in its shadow. Strong in both the voice and sensibilities of Appalachia, the stories in Miss America Kissed Caleb are at turns heartbreaking and hilarious. In the title story, young Caleb turns over his hard-earned dime to the war effort when he receives a coaxing kiss from Miss America, who sweeps into Sourwood by train, “pretty as a night moth.” Caleb and his brother share in the thrills and uncertainties of growing up, making an accidental visit to a brothel in “Fourth of July” and taming a “high society” pooch in “The Jimson Dog.” These stories invoke a place and a time that have long passed—a way of living nearly extinct—yet the beauty of the language and the truth revealed in the characters’ everyday lives continue to resonate with modern readers. Billy C. Clark is the award-winning author of thirteen books and countless short stories and poems. His stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories and numerous other anthologies. Clark grew up poor in Cattlettsburg in the northeastern corner of Kentucky in the 1940s, and these stories reflect that environment unfailingly. —Appalachian Heritage Memorable characters and a strong sense of the natural beauty surrounding Sourwood help explain why this place is obviously dear to the author\u27s heart. —Booklist A loving and poignant study of life in both the past and present. —Bourbon (Paris, KY) Times Miss America Kissed Caleb is Billy C. Clark at his best with touches of O. Henry and James Still stirred in, and that’s the highest compliment I can pay for a writer of short fiction. Clark’s characters are growing up, noticing girls, changing from tadpoles to bullfrogs. Funny, bittersweet, bitter, even rowdy, and sometimes sentimental, the stories in this new collection are rife with the details of 1940s rural life and rich in characters who reflect their place and their time. Masterful as always, a storyteller who has perfected his craft, Billy C. Clark has done it again. —Garry Barker, author of Notes From a Native Son Here in the new millennium is a writer whose original language, the language of frontier storytellers, is completely unspoiled...this language is pure American poetry. —Gurney Norman, author of Kinfolks and Divine Right\u27s Trip Clark is a master storyteller; his tales have the staying power of myth. . . . His tales are timeless in the way they entertain us and in the messages they bring us. —Journal of Appalachian Studies With his typical mastery, Billy C. Clark shows the reader an interesting array of characters in this small Kentucky town in the 1940s. —Kentucky Monthly Clark is not a writer who leans on the all-too-familiar Appalachian stereotypes. His characters would still be fully rounded people, torn by the struggle between kindness and meanness, anywhere they lived. —Lexington Herald-Leader Clark recreates in loving and authoritative detail the unwritten history of a rural mountain community. A first-rate collection of stories and sketches. —Richard Taylor, former Kentucky Poet Laureate Clark is a master of the Southern tale. . . . Readers of all types, from all places, and of all ages can find something of value as Clark’s prose pierces the differences that divide people as it touches readers’ hearts. —Union County (KY) Advocatehttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_north_america/1048/thumbnail.jp

Kedudukan Badan Penyelesaian Sengketa Konsumen (Bpsk) Sebagai Lembaga Penyelesaian Perkara Pelaku USAha Dan Konsumen

Tujuan dilakukannya penelitian ini adalah utnuk mengetahui bagaimana substansi hukum pembentukan serta tugas dan wewenang Badan Penyelesaian Sengketa Konsumen dan bagaimana keberadaan Badan Penyelesaian Sengketa Konsumen sebagai lembaga penyelesaian perkara kecil dan seder­hana atau lembaga Small Claim Court. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode penelitian kualitatif deskriptif dan dapat disimpulkan, bahwa: 1. Badan Penyelesaian Sengketa Konsumen tidak hanya bertugas menyelesaikan sengketa di luar pengadilan, tetapi meliputi kegiatan berupa pemberian konsultasi, pengawasan terhadap pencantuman klausul baku, dan sebagai tempat pengaduan dari konsumen tentang adanya pelanggaran ketentuan perlindungan konsumen serta berbagai tugas dan kewenangan lainnya yang terkait dengan pemeriksaan pelaku USAha yang diduga melanggar Undang-Undang No. 8 Tahun 1999. 2. Badan Penyelesaian Sengketa Konsumen adalah untuk menangani penyelesaian sengketa antara konsumen dan pelaku USAha/ produsen yang pada umumnya meliputi jumlah nilai yang kecil, seperti halnya lembaga small claim court atau small claim tribunal di negara-negara yang menganut common law system, tetapi dalam pelaksanaannya tidak ada batasan nilai pengajuan gugatan, sehingga dimungkinkan gugatan konsumen meliputi jumlah nilai yang kecil sampai nilai yang besar

An automated method for comparing motion artifacts in cine four-dimensional computed tomography images.

The aim of this study is to develop an automated method to objectively compare motion artifacts in two four-dimensional computed tomography (4D CT) image sets, and identify the one that would appear to human observers with fewer or smaller artifacts. Our proposed method is based on the difference of the normalized correlation coefficients between edge slices at couch transitions, which we hypothesize may be a suitable metric to identify motion artifacts. We evaluated our method using ten pairs of 4D CT image sets that showed subtle differences in artifacts between images in a pair, which were identifiable by human observers. One set of 4D CT images was sorted using breathing traces in which our clinically implemented 4D CT sorting software miscalculated the respiratory phase, which expectedly led to artifacts in the images. The other set of images consisted of the same images; however, these were sorted using the same breathing traces but with corrected phases. Next we calculated the normalized correlation coefficients between edge slices at all couch transitions for all respiratory phases in both image sets to evaluate for motion artifacts. For nine image set pairs, our method identified the 4D CT sets sorted using the breathing traces with the corrected respiratory phase to result in images with fewer or smaller artifacts, whereas for one image pair, no difference was noted. Two observers independently assessed the accuracy of our method. Both observers identified 9 image sets that were sorted using the breathing traces with corrected respiratory phase as having fewer or smaller artifacts. In summary, using the 4D CT data of ten pairs of 4D CT image sets, we have demonstrated proof of principle that our method is able to replicate the results of two human observers in identifying the image set with fewer or smaller artifacts

Heuristic Coloring Algorithm for the Composite Graph Coloring Problem

A composite graph is a finite undirected graph in which a positive integer known as a chromaticity is associated with each vertex of the graph. The composite graph coloring problem (CGCP) is the problem of finding the chromatic number of a composite graph, i.e., the minimum number of colors (positive integers) required to assign a sequence of consecutive colors to each vertex of the graph in a manner such that adjacent vertices are not assigned sequences with colors in common and the sequence assigned to a vertex has the number of colors indicated by the chromaticity of the vertex. The CGCP problem is an NP-complete problem that has applications to scheduling and resource allocation problems in which the tasks to be scheduled are of unequal durations. The pigeonhole principle gives rise to a problem reduction technique for the CGCP and a vertex ordering used in the vertex-sequentia1-with-interchange (VSI) algorithm. LFPHI. An upper bound on the chromatic number of a composite graph is obtained from the definition of a color-sequential coloring algorithm for the CGCP. The performances of twelve heuristic coloring algorithms are compared on a variety of random composite graphs. Three VSI algorithms (LF1I, LFPHI, and LFCDI) performed superior to the other algorithms on graphs having the lower numbers of vertices and low edge densities while two color-sequential algorithms (RLF1 and RLFD1) were superior on graphs having the higher numbers of vertices and high edge densities