INVESTIGATIONS ON THE STRESS EFFECTS OF PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS ON METAPENAEUS DOBSON (MIERS)

The present investigation has addressed the effects of PHC contaminated culture medium on the morphology, physiology and behaviour of shrimps. The shrimp Metapenaeus dobsoni is an important member of the crustacean animal community abounding the oil contaminated benthic regions of Cochin backwater system. Since it is known that true pollutants can disrupt the sustainability of ecosystems by its effect on species, populations and communities,a representative species was used for the study. The results discussed in this work is bound to help in understanding the ecotoxicant resistance that the animal may display under toxic conditions compared to dynamic steady-state systems in nature.

Bioremediation of petroleum sludge through Phytoremediation.Land farming and Microbial enhanced oil separation

The objective of this research is to study the feasibility of bioremediating the oily sludge from a refinery site. Three different methods of waste treatment were tried i.e. phytoremediation, land farming and microbial enhanced oil separation in laboratory scale treatment systems. A multiprocess approach by combination of phytoremediation, biostimulation and microbial enhanced oil separation is also presented. The methods of analysis, experimental procedure, and results are incorporated into five chapters of this thesis entitled "Bioremediation of petroleum sludge through phytoremediation, land farming and microbial enhanced oil separation.

Biochemical Effects of Petroleum Hydrocarbons on the Tropical Teleost Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters)

The present work is a base—|ine attempt to investigate and assess the toxicity of water-accommodated fractions (WAF) of Bombay High crude oil. The experimental animal selected for the present study is a euryhaline teleost, Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters), adapted to fresh water. The fish has been selected on account of its economic valve, abundant availability, experimental feasibility, ease of rearing and maintenance and also because it is one of the commonly cultured species in the South-East Asian countries.

Investigations on the stress effects of petroleum hydrocarbons on Metapenaeus dobsoni (Miers)

The present investigation has addressed the eflects of PHC contaminated culture medium on the morphology, physiology and behaviour of shrimps] The shrimp Metapenaeus dobsoni is an important member of the crustacean animal community abounding the oil contaminated benthic regions of Cochin backwater system. Since it is known that true pollutants can disrupt the sustainability of ecosystems by its eflect on species, populations and communities, a representative species was used for the study. The results discussed in this work is bound to help in understanding the ecotoxicant resistance that the animal may display under toxic conditions compared to aynamic steaay-state systems in nature

A New Model For Reliability Centered Maintenance In Petroleum Refineries

Refiners today operate their equipment for prolonged periods without shutdown. This is primarily due to the increased pressures of the market resulting in extended shutdown-to-shutdown intervals. This places extreme demands on the reliability of the plant equipment. The traditional methods of reliability assurance, like Preventive Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance and Condition Based Maintenance become inadequate in the face of such demands. The alternate approaches to reliability improvement, being adopted the world over are implementation of RCFA programs and Reliability Centered Maintenance. However refiners and process plants find it difficult to adopt this standardized methodology of RCM mainly due to the complexity and the large amount of analysis that needs to be done, resulting in a long drawn out implementation, requiring the services of a number of skilled people. These results in either an implementation restricted to only few equipment or alternately, one that is non-standard. The paper presents the current models in use, the core requirements of a standard RCM model, the alternatives to classical RCM, limitations in the existing model, classical RCM and available alternatives to RCM and will then go on to present an ‗Accelerated‘ approach to RCM implementation, that, while ensuring close conformance to the standard, does not place a large burden on the implementers

Of frog and snails : finger plays and action rhymes.

Para utilizar en los primeros años del desarrollo del habla como una forma muy simple de dramatización.. A menudo se emplea como ayuda terapéutica con el niño que sufre dificultades del habla. Útil como ayuda en el desarrollo integral de niños de tres a siete años ya que al verso acompaña simultáneamente la acción de ejercicios con los dedos, la motricidad gruesa y la coordinación del cuerpo.

The North face of Shakespeare : activities for teaching the plays.

Libro dirigido a profesores de literatura inglesa y arte dramático, tanto en educación secundaria como en la universidad, para la enseñanza de las obras del dramaturgo inglés William Shakespeare con métodos activos en clase y en talleres de teatro. Contiene alrededor de doscientas actividades para la enseñanza de los textos de Shakespeare, desde la formación de grupos de trabajo, juegos y ejercicios teatrales, a técnicas prácticas para la enseñanza del lenguaje, la narrativa y los personajes del autor, que ayudarán a los alumnos a leer, entender y trabajar con su obra.

Evaluación del desempeño del plan de ahorro de la compañía Andes Petroleum

El presente estudio está enfocado en evaluar el plan de ahorro de los empleados de la compañía Andes Petroleum Ecuador Ltd. como un beneficio de retención y capacidad de ahorro de los empleados mediante aportaciones mensuales personales y de la compañía.Se prevé analizar los resultados obtenidos por este plan de ahorros como un beneficio que apalanca la retención de personal en la compañía Andes Petroleum Ecuador Ltd. En vista de que siendo un beneficio adicional al salario de los empleados además otorga un premio por la permanencia de aquellos empleados que cumplan con un período de ahorro determinado. Para este estudio se realizará una investigación bibliográfica de autores que hayan abordado temas de incentivos y control de gestión1a sus ejecutivoscomo bonos, participación de acciones de la empresa, pago de impuestos, así como otro tipo de incentivos propuestos en las organizaciones con el objetivo de generar un apalancamiento positivo para la consecución de los objetivos estratégicos a mediano y largo plazo. Por otro lado se observarán las condiciones más utilizadas en la administración de fondos de inversión, lo que permitirá al lector conocer con mayor profundidad los diferentes instrumentos financieros con los que se puede diversificar un portafolio de inversión para lograr una mayor rentabilidad. Como conclusión la presente tesis busca conocer si un plan de ahorros de estas características ha logrado aumentar el compromiso y ha sido una herramienta eficaz de retención del personal y el grado de satisfacción que este pueda tener entre sus miembros en el espacio organizacional.

Counting Her Dresses and other plays

Counting Her Dresses and other plays, devised by Lib Taylor, is a short, mixed-media, promenade performance based on theatre writings by Gertrude Stein. Gertrude Stein was an American writer who lived in Paris for most of her adult life and was a significant figure in the development of early twentieth century modernism. She was an artists’ patron and one of the first collectors of paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne and others. She wrote novels, short stories, poetry and criticism, as well as a number of very short ‘plays’ and opera libretti. Even though her plays are very rarely performed they have been very influential in the development of avant-garde theatre. The performance juxtaposes a soundcape of voices, live performance, an ‘exhibition’ of paintings and mediated images projected onto and across the space to evoke Stein’s sense of theatre as a place of experience and emotion, not as a place of story and action. The performance comprises five theatre fragments which have been combined in a collage that alludes to the experimental art that Stein promoted.

Realism and politics in alienated space: Trevor Griffiths's plays of the 1970s in the television studio

The television studio play is often perceived as a somewhat compromised, problematic mode in which spatial and technological constraints inhibit the signifying and aesthetic capacity of dramatic texts. Leah Panos examines the function of the studio in the 1970s television dramas of socialist playwright Trevor Griffiths, and argues that the established verbal and visual conventions of the studio play, in its confined and ‘alienated’ space, connect with and reinforce various aspects of Griffiths's particular approach and agenda. As well as suggesting ways in which the idealist, theoretical focus of the intellectual New Left is reflexively replicated within the studio, Panos explores how the ‘intimate’ visual language of the television studio allows Griffiths to create a ‘humanized’ Marxist discourse through which he examines dialectically his dramatic characters' experiences, ideas, morality, and political objectives. Leah Panos recently completed her doctoral thesis, ‘Dramatizing New Left Contradictions: Television Texts of Ken Loach, Jim Allen, and Trevor Griffiths’, at the University of Reading and is now a Postdoctoral Researcher on the AHRC funded project, ‘Spaces of Television: Production, Site and Style’, which runs from July 2010 to March 2014.