1Istituto Applicazioni Calcolo, CNR, Viale Manzoni, 30-00185 Rome, Italy 2Nvidia Corporation, 2701 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95050, U.S.A. 3SOFT, Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia, CNR, P.le A. Moro, 2-00185 Rome, Italy 4Department of Physics and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. 5Initiative in Innovative Computing, Har...

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A 31 year record of ∼44,000 nitrate analyses in ∼11,500 irrigation wells was utilized to depict the decadal expansion of groundwater nitrate contamination (N ≥ 10 mg/L) in the irrigated corn-growing areas of eastern and central Nebraska and analyze long-term nitrate concentration trends in 17 management areas (MAs) subject to N fertilizer and budgeting requirements. The 1.3 M contaminated hecta...

Indonesia is home to some of the most magnificent tropical forests in the world. In extent, they rank third behind Brazil and the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), and their biological richness is unique. The major forest types of Indonesia range from evergreen lowland dipterocarp forests in Sumatra and Kalimantan to seasonal monsoon forests and savanna grasslands in Nusa Tenggara ...

The protection forest system for Taipei City, the capital of Taiwan, was established in 1907. The social and natural environment had changed drastically in the past few decades, however, the maps and cadastral records of these forests were not updated accordingly. In this study, digital surveying techniques were used to survey the boundaries, sample plots, and land use of the protection forests...