LK Wang, MHS Wang, NK Shammas, and MS Holtorff (2020). Independent physicochemical wastewater treatment system consisting of primary flotation clarification, secondary flotation clarification and tertiary treatment. In: “Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)” , Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, and Nazih K S…[Read more]

LK Wang, MHS Wang, NK Shammas, and MS Holtorff (2020). Independent physicochemical wastewater treatment system consisting of primary flotation clarification, secondary flotation clarification and tertiary treatment. In: “Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)” , Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, and Nazih K S…[Read more]

In his seminal study, Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation, Eyal Weizman argues how the Israeli occupation has forced a new imagined space to emerge, which is at once confining to the Palestinians and increases their sense of marginalization and loss. Changing the landscape through imposing architecture construction is a way to…[Read more]

This graduate reading seminar examines some of the historical literature on migration in a global perspective, focusing on the nineteenth century through the present. It focuses on theoretical approaches to the study of migration as well as on case studies, moving between longue-durée and comparative issues on the one hand and local effects of…[Read more]

Yuriy I. Pankivskyi (2000). COMBINED PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER UNDER COLD WEATHER CONDITIONS, ME Thesis, Lenox Institute of Water Technology, USA; May 2000, 67 p. In: “Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)” , Lawrence K Wang., Mu-Hao Sung Wang, and Nazih K. Shammas (ed…[Read more]

Yuriy I. Pankivskyi (2000). COMBINED PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER UNDER COLD WEATHER CONDITIONS, ME Thesis, Lenox Institute of Water Technology, USA; May 2000, 67 p. In: “Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)” , Lawrence K Wang., Mu-Hao Sung Wang, and Nazih K. Shammas (ed…[Read more]

English abstract: A 2005 note on exaptation, a concept coined by Stephen Jay Gould, and its relationship with a famous dictum by William Gibson according to which ‘the street finds its own uses for things’. These uses can be studied only retrospectively, not prospectively or intentionally, as they are the products of history and of the contingency…[Read more]

In Kant’s Critique of Judgment, his exploration of how something like life (organized matter) can appear to the faculties of a finite consciousness makes life as possible as it is impossible. A passing reference Kant makes to the idea that every organ of an organism can be seen as a parasite is taken as a lever to deconstruct his notion of…[Read more]

Environmental engineering education is enhanced by the internet with web pages full of information, instructions, photos, and videos of installations and equipment, and with means of communication that facilitate alerts to new developments. Students who have grown up with years of using the internet have different expectations and computer…[Read more]

Environmental engineering education is enhanced by the internet with web pages full of information, instructions, photos, and videos of installations and equipment, and with means of communication that facilitate alerts to new developments. Students who have grown up with years of using the internet have different expectations and computer…[Read more]

DEDICATION: This technical paper is published in memory of our senior author, Dr. Donald B. Aulenbach, who worked closely with Professors Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, Nazih K. Shammas, William A. Selke, Milos Krofta and Daniel Guss from 1981 to 2019 for developing a humanitarian engineering program at the Lenox Institute of Water…[Read more]

DEDICATION: This technical paper is published in memory of our senior author, Dr. Donald B. Aulenbach, who worked closely with Professors Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, Nazih K. Shammas, William A. Selke, Milos Krofta and Daniel Guss from 1981 to 2019 for developing a humanitarian engineering program at the Lenox Institute of Water…[Read more]

This paper interrogates the connection between entities that hover in the liminal state between life and death (such as vampires and spirits) and the manner in which these entities relate to Alaya Dawn Johnson’s conjurings of alternate political structures and hierarchies in her Spirit Binders series. Johnson’s alternate hierarchies are com…[Read more]

In 2016-2017, a 10-person team worked for 3 months with the goal of creating a multi-use, balanced corpus, similar to the Brown Corpus (BROWN Corpus search online). The speech section of the completed Nanhai Corpus—named for its sponsors, the Nanhai Nunnery of Taiwan—is a 289,497 word corpus of collected, transcribed, and word-split natural spe…[Read more]

بخشی از مطالعات ادبی بینارشته‌ای شامل بررسی ارتباط میان ادبیات و تصویر می‌شود. در این زمینه ارتباط میان ادبیات و سینما شناخته‌شده‌ترین حوزۀ پژوهشی است که تعداد چشمگیری اثر پژوهشی، اعم از رساله و مقاله، در این حوزه نگاشته شده‌ است. در همین زمینه می‌توان به ارتباط میان ادبیات و نقاشی اشاره کرد که در سال‌های اخیر شاهد تعداد انگشت‌شماری اثر تحقیق…[Read more]

Nazih Shammas, Lawrence K. Wang, Luiz Claudio de Queiroz Faria, and Marco Aurelio Chaves Ferro (2013), ABASTECIMENTO de AGUA e REMOCAO de RESIDUOS (Spanish). Water Supply and Wastewater Removal — Water and Wastewater Engineering. Third Edition. 751 pages, Livros Tecnicos e Cientificos Editora Ltda (LTC) Grupo Editorial Nacional (GEN),…[Read more]

Nazih Shammas, Lawrence K. Wang, Luiz Claudio de Queiroz Faria, and Marco Aurelio Chaves Ferro (2013), ABASTECIMENTO de AGUA e REMOCAO de RESIDUOS (Spanish). Water Supply and Wastewater Removal — Water and Wastewater Engineering. Third Edition. 751 pages, Livros Tecnicos e Cientificos Editora Ltda (LTC) Grupo Editorial Nacional (GEN),…[Read more]

Wang, Lawrence K, Hung, Yung-Tse, Lo, Howard H, Yapijakis, Constantine and Ribas, Alberto lbarz (2008). TRATAMIENTO de los RESIDUOS de la INDUSTRIA del PROCESADO de ALIMENTOS (Spanish). Waste Treatment in the Food Processing Industry. Editorial ACRIBIA, S. A.,, Apartado 466, 50080, Zaragoza, Espana. 398 pages. ISBN 978-84-200-1103-5…[Read more]