Environmental decision-making using Bayesian networks: creating an environmental report card

An AHP-Delphi Multi-Criteria Decision Making Model with Application to Environmental Decision-Making

America’s Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade?

Background: Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the Plasmodium vivax dihydrofolate reductase (Pfdhfr) and dihydropteroate synthetase (Pvdhps) genes cause parasite resistance to the antifolate drug combination, sulphadoxine/ pyrimethamine (SP). Monitoring these SNPs provide insights into the level of drug pressure caused by SP use and presumably other antifolate drugs. In Sri Lanka, chloro...

Graphics and Environmental Decision Making

S trangely, the combination of geographic information systems (GIS) and visualization remains sufficiently unexplored to warrant a special issue of CC&A. Both fields can claim acceptance, a base of solid theory and practice, and delivery of technology as software products to practitioners. The fields seem to complement one another. yet they have developed in parallel, with little interchange or...

Forecasting for environmental decision making

Those making environmental decisions must not only characterize the present, they must also forecast the future. They must do so for at least two reasons. First, if a no-action alternative is pursued, they must consider whether current trends will be favorable or unfavorable in the future. Second, if an intervention is pursued instead,they must evaluate both its probable success given future tr...

Environmental health: the global report card, 1994.

The metabolism-induced binding of 14C-labelled misonidazole (MISO) to hypoxic V79 cells in multicell spheroids has been quantitated using autoradiography. Hypoxia was shown to be the major determinant of the rate of binding. Maximally hypoxic cells bound MISO several times more rapidly than necrotic material in the centre of the spheroids, and up to 50 times more rapidly than well oxygenated ce...