Uncontrolled excess moisture in buildings is a common problem that can lead to changes in fungal communities. In buildings, moisture parameters can be classified by location and include assessments of moisture in the air, at a surface, or within a material. These parameters are not equivalent in dynamic indoor environments, which makes moisture-induced fungal growth in buildings a complex occur...

WAGMAN, JACK (U.S. Army Biological Laboratories, Frederick, Md.) AND EDWARD J. WENECK. Preservation of bacteria by circulating-gas freeze drying. Appl. Microbiol. 11:244-248. 1963.-Water-washed Serratia marcescens and Escherichia coli were freeze dried in a circulating-gas system at atmospheric pressure. This convective procedure resulted in a substantially higher survival of organisms than cou...

[1] We used a simulated data set of hydro-climatological variables to examine for 20th century trends in soil moisture, runoff, and drought characteristics over the conterminous United States (U.S.). An increasing trend is apparent in both model soil moisture and runoff over much of the U.S., with a few decreasing trends in parts of the Southwest. The trend patterns were qualitatively similar t...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine types and levels of airborne fungal spores in air-conditioned homes built after 1980 without obvious moisture problems during the 2004 summer (rainy season) in central Florida, USA. METHODS Eighteen single-family homes were selected based on protocol questionnaire and cursory inspection, which revealed no obvious moisture or visible fungal grow...

Recommended Citation Sampath, Anand. "Comprehensive evaluation of four warm asphalt mixture regarding viscosity, tensile strength, moisture sensitivity, dynamic modulus and flow number. ii I dedicate this thesis to my parents, without whom I would not be where I am today iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Plant communities are coupled with abiotic factors, as species diversity and community composition both respond to and influence climate and soil characteristics. Interactions between vegetation and abiotic factors depend on plant functional types (PFT) as different growth forms will have differential responses to and effects on site characteristics. However, despite the importance of different...

Forest fragmentation affects the heterogeneity of accumulated fuels by increasing the diversity of forest types and by increasing forest edges. This heterogeneity has implications in how we manage fuels, fire, and forests. Understanding the relative importance of fragmentation on woody biomass within a single climatic regime, and along climatic gradients, will improve our ability to manage fore...

As an essential climate variable, soil moisture (SM) exerts indispensable influence on numerous disciplines. However, various degrees of data gaps exist in current microwave SM products. Therefore, this article proposed a spatiotemporal attention-based residual deep network (STARN) to reconstruct the daily from Climate Change Initiative program European Space Agency (ESA CCI) over Qinghai–Tibet...