The Capitao Pocinho river basin at the northeastern Para constitutes one important area of orange production in Brazil, with use herbicides and fertilizers management practice. This research analyzed diffusion nitrate ions classified occurrence most ions. To collect samples, 16 monitoring wells were dug citrus plantation village. Water samples collected during wet dry seasons 2009. Even though ...

Service science strives to bring together many disciplines (including computer science, cognitive science, economics, organizational behavior, human resources management, marketing, operations research, and others) in an attempt to study service systems in the following ways: understanding what service systems are and how they evolve; studying how to invest in order to improve management practi...

Is psychology headed in the right direction? In this essay, I share my views on the answer to this question. I begin by describing how recent advances in technology, heightened levels of interdisciplinary collaboration, a renewed emphasis on considering the broader implications of basic psychological research, and field-wide efforts to encourage optimal research practices have combined to tilt ...

How can we live well? To answer this question, psychology must acknowledge and integrate its descriptive and prescriptive components. One of psychology's strengths has been its willingness to embrace different purposes, perspectives, and approaches, and this recommendation is in the spirit of the field's history. At present, psychology knows more about people's problems and how to solve them th...

This Publisher's Report describes the collaboration between a university library system's scholarly communication and publishing office and a federally funded research team, the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Telerehabilitation. This novel interdisciplinary collaboration engages librarians, information technologists, publishing professionals, clinicians, policy experts, an...

This review of the recent Handbook of the psychology of science is a cross review for the American Journal of Psychology, as in the current issue of the Journal, the editors of the handbook, Gregory Feist and Michael Gorman, review my own book, Investigating the psychological world: Scientific method in the behavioral sciences. The editors of this important handbook are leaders in the emerging ...

In a naming task conducted with bi-alphabetic readers of Serbo-Croatian. it was shown that letter strings that can be assigned both a Roman and a Cyrillic alphabet reading incur longer latencies than the unique alphabet transcription of the same word. and that the magnitude of the difference depended on the number of ambiguous characters in the ambiguous letter string. While this wi thin-word p...