Container-based sanitation (CBS) is a safely managed sanitation service designed for regions with limited sanitation and water infrastructure (WHO/UNICEF, 2018). CBS services replace unsafe sanitation practices in low- and middle-income regions and thus avoid greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from uncontrolled degradation of excreta in the environment (Harroff et al., 2019). CBS provides waterless toilets with sealable containers that separate ...

Managing a modern computing platform’s power and clock infrastructure is an increasingly complex task. Failure to manage it correctly can result in grave consequences, up to the destruction of vital components. The increasing complexity, coupled with a desire for remote monitoring and management, has led to the task of managing power moving away from hard-wired solutions or simple hardware controllers, and on to baseboard management ...

In the first part of this thesis, we give an interpretation of the gauge-fixed partition function of a quantum field theory known as abelian BF theory in terms of certain regularized determinants. We proceed to formulate a partial statement concerning gauge fixing independence of the partition function and show how this result applies to the analytic torsion and the value at zero of the Ruelle zeta function. In the second part, we show ...

During the exploration of geothermal energy, fluids are often injected into the high temperature host rocks in the upper lithosphere for efficient heat or electricity production. It is known that large-scale injection activity will perturb the subsurface stress field, resulting in nucleation and propagation of fractures or reactivation of the existing faults. These mechanisms damage the rock and are accompanied by both static (aseismic) ...