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The invention discloses a method for treating radioactive wastewater. The method for treating the radioactive wastewater comprises the steps of firstly carrying out reverse osmosis treatment on the radioactive wastewater, then enabling the radioactive wastewater to enter a continuous electrodeionization unit to be treated, and further removing radionuclide so as to enable treated wastewater to reach discharge requirements; and respectively filling different mixed ion exchange resin in a plain water chamber and a thick water chamber in a continuous electrodeionization membrane stack of the continuous electrodeionization unit, wherein mixed ion exchange resin filled in the plain water chamber comprises, by volume ratio, 30%-60% of strong-acid cation exchange resin, 40%-60% of strong-base anion exchange resin, and 0%-30% of weak-base anion exchange resin, mixed ion exchange resin filled in the thick water chamber comprises, by volume ratio, 20%-50% of strong-acid cation exchange resin, and the balance strong-base anion exchange resin. A weak dissociation polymer portion is used for improving selectivity of continuous electrodeionization membrane stack to trace amount radionuclide, radionuclide with extremely concentration can be effectively removed, and the method for treating the radioactive wastewater ensures that the final discharged water satisfies the discharge requirements.

The present invention is directed to an improved system and method for auctioning services, which overcomes some of the drawbacks in the prior art systems and methods. In accordance with one aspect of the present invention, buyers request and specify at the start of the auction the number of lowest bids the buyers would like to see. By requesting to see more bids, the buyers would have greater opportunity to evaluate service providers based on factors other than price, thereby encouraging less price competition among providers. By requesting to see fewer bids, the buyers would have less opportunity to evaluate service providers based on factors other than price, thereby encouraging fierce price competition. The number of bids requested by the Buyer is made known to the bidders. The net effect is that the buyers can control the price / quality tradeoff at the onset of the auction process, and encourage the bidders to provide their lowest bids when pricing is important. This lets the buyers make their final decision based on factors in addition to price, at the lowest price possible.In another aspect of the present invention, a rating system is employed to rate the buyer's transaction history, with respect to their frequency of following through with the bids for jobs that they submitted for auction. This rating system deters those buyers that casually shop for pricing with little chance of following through with the auction. Buyers who frequently submit jobs without executing them will get a low rating. A low rating discourages service providers from bidding, thereby decreasing the competitiveness of an auction and increasing the cost of obtaining the service. Consequently, buyers will be reluctant or discouraged to submit for auctioning jobs that have a low chance of occurring, because it affects their rating. The buyer follow-through ratings give the bidders a better sense of the buyers' commitment prior to deciding on allocating resources to participate in bidding at the auction.In one embodiment of the present invention, the system and method for auctioning services are implemented over an information exchange network. In a more specific embodiment of the present invention, the information exchange network is the Internet. This facilitates bringing together the many service providers in a centralized auction market using standardized, electronic bid forms to communicate prices publicly, and service providers have a chance to adjust their prices in real time.For purpose of illustrating the inventive concept, the present invention is described using the example of document services, and more particularly printing services.

The process provides a biofilm including and not limited to cellulose produced by bacteria that can be used as a bio-resin and as a surface application for myceliated and non-myceliated biomaterials.In one embodiment, the process comprises the steps of obtaining an agricultural substrate; and cohabitating a selected bacteria with a selected fungus in the agricultural substrate for a period of time to allow the bacteria to grow alongside the fungus and to excrete a biofilm from the bacteria into the substrate to provide bio-resin like strengthening compounds to the agricultural substrate.

Apparatus, program products, and methods for managing access to shared resources by multiple processes in a multithreaded computer by means of a set of atomic operations that track the order in which requests to use a shared resource are received and the completion of such requests after they are received order of processing. The scheduling of a request is effectively deferred until the processing of all unscheduled requests received earlier than the most recently completed request has completed. In many instances, processing of requests can be performed non-atomically, thereby alleviating contention on shared resources. Additionally, multiple requests can be scheduled in batches, reducing the overhead associated with individual scheduling operations.