Executive Summary The EPA Region VII R-EMAP project seeks to determine the condition of fisheries resources in the states of Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska. Preliminary evidence from fish tissue studies has suggested that fisheries resources in these states have been adversely impacted by chemical pollutants. The Region VII R-EMAP study consequently focuses on the following questions: 1) What i...

[1] The relative impact of a large upstream dam versus in‐reach groundwater pumping on stream temperatures was analyzed for humid, semiarid, and arid conditions with long dry seasons to represent typical climate regions where large dams are present, such as the western United States or eastern Australia. Stream temperatures were simulated using the CE‐QUAL‐W2water quality model over a 110 kmmod...

-The effects of deferred rotation, time control (Savory Grazing Method), season-long, and livestock exclusion on streambank stability and trout habitat condition in a southwestern Montana riparian zone has been monitored since 1986. Although livestock exclusion appeared to improve channel conditions in 1986, there was no significant difference among any of the treatments thereafter. The decline...

A set of GIS tools has been developed (Road Sediment Analysis Model, RSAM) to analyze and quantify the impacts of forest roads on forested watersheds. RSAM is organized into three modules. In the first module sediment production for each road segment is calculated from slope, length, road surface condition and road side drain vegetation. A GPS gathered road condition inventory provides surface ...

In this article we study local and global well-posedness of the Lagrangian Averaged Euler equations. We show local well-posedness in TriebelLizorkin spaces and further prove a Beale-Kato-Majda type necessary and sufficient condition for global existence involving the stream function. We also establish new sufficient conditions for global existence in terms of mixed Lebesgue norms of the general...

A 23 year old man with a congenital myelodysplastic disorder and fibrosing lung disease received treatment with prednisolone. After nine months his condition deteriorated and Mycobacterium kansasii was isolated from blood cultures and lymph node biopsy specimens. He responded to antituberculous treatment. M kansasii has not previously been isolated from the blood stream of HIV negative patients.

Urethral duplication is a rare congenital anomaly. Although a number of theories have been proposed to describe the embryology of the condition, the actual mechanism of the disorder is still unclear. We report here a case of urethral duplication in a 11-year-old boy complaining of a double stream, and review the current literature on this rare entity.