Midwest by converting upland and wetland habitats to crops and pastures, simultaneously changing hydrologic conditions and water quality, and threatening the region’s biodiversity (Table 1). Where corn is the dominant crop (in Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana, in particular), extensive networks of perforated pipes and drainage ditches were installed to drain wetlands. As a result, surface and ground...

Commonly used craniofacial reference planes such as Frankfort Horizontal (FH) and sella-nasion have shortcomings, including their variable interindividual orientation when related to true horizontal (HOR). Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the potential usefulness of a range of craniofacial reference planes to HOR, including those which have not been investigated previously: the ...

Velocity heterogeneity is characteristic of wetland systems and results in some influent water remaining in the wetland for less than the expected residence time on the basis of volume and flow rate. This phenomenon, known as short-circuiting, alters the distribution of the chemical and biological transformations that occur within the wetland. Field observations in a 1.5-km2 constructed treatme...

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This extension note describes the basic ecological features of wetland ecosystems. It is a foundational document that provides important concepts and background information to be applied in future extension notes on wetland management. Major topics and concepts covered in this document are: • definition of a wetland ecosystem and comparison of characteristics with other related ecosystems, • re...

In this dissertation Lambda Calculus reduction is studied as a means of improving the support for declarative computing. We consider systems having reduction semantics; i.e., systems in which computations consist of equivalence-preserving transformations between expressions. The approach becomes possible by reducing expressions beyond weak normal form, allowing expression-level output values, a...

Hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR) is an important semi‐cell in the renewable energy conversion technology such as fuel cells. However, due to slow rate, development of highly active catalysts remains a major challenge alkaline Based on fundamental understanding sluggish kinetics toward mechanism electrolytes, noble and non‐noble metal their regulation strategies including geometry, composition,...