Using Basin Area Stream Survey (BASS) data from the United States Forest Service, we evaluated how timber harvesting influenced patterns of variation in physical stream features and regional fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages. Data were collected for three years (1990-1992) from six hydrologically variable streams in the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas, USA that were paired by management regim...

A field experiment established in 1980 was conducted to evaluate the effects of open drainage ditch applied for water removal on bacterial and fungal communities of cold waterlogged paddy soils in 2011. In this experiment, traditional plate counting and temperature gradient gel electrophoresis were employed to characterize the abundance and diversity of soil bacterial and fungal communities. Fo...

This paper summarises work that has been carried out to date on the MedLINK funded research project ‘SuPort’. The project is concerned with the development of an innovative urine drainage system which is designed to treat patients who have dysfunctional bladder problems. A key part of the system is a long-term indwelling device which is required to provide permanent access to the bladder for au...

This paper reports the progress as well as the improvement in the methods being used in the development of drainage maps of fine detail from aerial photographs of the several counties of Indiana. This drainage mapping, which is about 25 percent complete, is a part of the current highway research program at Purdue University; it is conducted by the State Highway Commission of Indiana and the Joi...

OBJECTIVE To study the effect of subglottic secretions drainage on the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in patients receiving mechanical ventilation. DESIGN A randomized clinical trial. SETTING A 12-bed general ICU. PATIENTS One hundred fifty patients with an expected duration of mechanical ventilation > 72 h were enrolled in the study. INTERVENTION Patients were rando...