The area selection process is using the value focused approach to define and identify the flood water spreading area characteristics, which is later on used for selection and evaluation of the identified potential areas. A criteria structure for design and evaluation of the area has been developed and applied. In the assessment process extensive number of indicators, derived through hydrologica...

The epizootiology of the microsporidium Amblyospora albifasciati was studied in natural populations of its definitive host, a multivoltine, neotropical, floodwater mosquito, Aedes albifasciatus, and its intermediate copepod host, Mesocyclops annulatus, in an ephemeral floodwater habitat during a 12-month period. A. albifasciati was enzootic in mosquitoes. Vertically (transovarially) transmitted...

BACKGROUND Salt marshes lie between many human communities and the coast and have been presumed to protect these communities from coastal hazards by providing important ecosystem services. However, previous characterizations of these ecosystem services have typically been based on a small number of historical studies, and the consistency and extent to which marshes provide these services has no...

For the update summaries task of the Text Analysis Conference 2008 we have implemented a novel summarization technique based on query expansion with encyclopedic knowledge and activation spreading in a large document graph. We have also experimented with sentence compression for building the summaries. The results are average – ranked 27 out of 58 for responsiveness in manual evaluation – but w...

We propose a framework for deterministic simulation of user behavior that allows to analyze the cost-gain-based performance on single result lists or whole search sessions. The ideal user representing optimal behavior (i.e., most gain with lowest effort) is contrasted with more “average” users that employ the spreading activation model from cognitive theory. On TREC Session Track data, the idea...

First posted June 13, 2023 For additional information, contact: Director, Nebraska Water Science CenterU.S. Geological Survey5231 South 19th Street Lincoln, NE 68512Contact Pubs Warehouse Offutt Air Force Base, south of Omaha, Nebraska, experienced major flooding during the March 2019 flood event because proximity base to confluence Missouri River and nearby tributaries, which exceeded stages. ...

Green manures are widely used in rice production and may influence methane efflux (CH4). Influence of application of Azolla (A. caroliniana Wild.), a widely used biofertilizer for rice (Oryza sativa L.), on CH4 efflux from a flooded alluvial soil planted to rice, and select soil and plant variables were investigated in a field experiment at Cuttack, India. Azolla was either incorporated as gree...

An eecient retrieval of a relatively small number of relevant cases from a huge case base is a crucial subtask of Case-Based Reasoning (CBR). In this article, we present Case Retrieval Nets, a memory model that has recently been developed for this task. The main idea is to apply a spreading activation process to the case memory structured as a Case Retrieval Net in order to retrieve cases being...