The Asian tiger mosquito, Aedes albopictus, was first detected in North America twenty five years ago. It utilizes water-holding container habitats as immature development sites, and has rapidly spread throughout the eastern United States. Aedes albopictus has occasionally been detected in the western United States, but until recently no established populations of A. albopictus were reported. T...

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This paper analyzes the potential market power of western states in setting coal severance taxes and the emphasis placed by these states on the development of their coal resources vs. obtaining tax revenues. Three market structures are analyzed. One involves a western regional cartel, setting taxes collectively. The other cases are noncooperative tax equilibria with Montana and Wyoming competin...

The timing of snowmelt runoff (SMR) for 84 rivers in the western United States is examined to understand the character of SMR variability and the climate processes that may be driving changes in SMR timing. Results indicate that the timing of SMR for many rivers in the western United States has shifted to earlier in the snowmelt season. This shift occurred as a step change during the mid-1980s ...

Figure 2. Higher Pi signal corresponded to lower oxygen utilization (lower absolute change) for control group, whereas the diabetes group, with more oxygen utilization, had smaller Pi signal change. 7125 Characterization of Metabolic Response to Ischemia in Skeletal Muscle of Non-obese Early Stage Type 2 Diabetic Rats by in vivo 31P MRS and BOLD MRI Yuchi Liu, Xunbai Mei, Nicola Lai, and Xin Yu...

J. Su, H. H. Kitzler, M. Zeineh, C. Harper-Little, A. Leung, M. Kremenchutzky, S. C. Deoni, and B. K. Rutt Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, Department of Neuroradiology, Technische Universitaet Dresden, Dresden, Germany, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Med...

a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Isostatic and dynamic models of Earth's surface topography can provide important insights into the driving processes of tectonic deformation. We analyze these two estimates for the tectonically-active western United States using refined structural models derived from EarthScope USArray. For the crust, use of recent Moho depth measurements and crustal densit...

H. annosum was first discovered as a root pathogen of pine in western United States by E. P. Meinecke in 1909. Other early researchers reported it as a root and butt decay of nonresinous conifers in the west. Olson demonstrated its pathogenicity to western conifers and Wagener and Cave described its occurrence and role in the eastside pine forests. In the last 20 years pathologists have become ...