The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers elevated Zoar Levee and Diversion Dam to a Dam Safety Action Class I (urgent and compelling) ranking due to seepage concerns. An accelerated program is in progress to address project deficiencies which include seepage through the levee’s glacial outwash foundation, through a fractured rock knoll beneath the levee, and through the dam’s fractured rock abutments a...

This descriptive qualitative study explores lecturers’ perspectives on Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT) in New Zealand Tertiary Education Institutions (TEIs) during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Through in-depth semi-structured interviews with five purposively selected lecturers from four TEIs, this article investigates challenges and opportunities experienced teaching pandemic. While findings s...

BACKGROUND Asthma education and action plans (AP) have been recognized as important components in the optimal management of asthma. Studies have differed on the importance of a peak flow-based self-management plans in reducing health care costs and use due to asthma exacerbation. OBJECTIVE To analyze the cost-effectiveness of peak flow-based action plans in reducing costs associated with ER v...

The United Nations Environmental Program Governing Council has regulated mercury as a global pollutant since 2001 and has been preparing the mercury convention, which will have a strongly binding force through Global Mercury Assessment, Global Mercury Partnership Activities, and establishment of the Open-Ended Working Group on Mercury. The European Union maintains an inclusive strategy on risks...

Improved industrial energy efficiency is a cornerstone in climate change mitigation. Research results suggest that there is still major untapped potential for improved industrial energy efficiency. The major model used to explain the discrepancy between optimal level of energy efficiency and the current level is the barrier model, e.g., different barriers to energy efficiency inhibit adoption o...

KEY FEATURES: Multidisciplinary team-based approach to addressing patients’ medical, behavioral, and social needs. At the heart of the Intensive Outpatient Care Program (IOCP) is the care coordinator, who links patients to primary, specialty, and ancillary services; provides tools for effective self-management; guides participants through development of a shared action plan; and provides connec...

sonnel in 6 Connecticut communities were trained in an asthma-management program entitled “Easy Breathing,” which was based on NAEPP guidelines. Quality parameters encompassed enrollment census, relevant use of anti-inflammatory medications, and provision of a written action plan. Utilization of medical services was confirmed for Medicaid-covered children and compared by using relative rates an...

CSG Action Plan: Availability of survey data: Moderate Need for wild population recovery: Low Potential for sustainable management: Moderate 2009 IUCN Red List: LR/cd (Least Risk, conservationdependent; reported to have undergone substantial recovery in several parts of its range. Recent surveys suggest that species remains widespread, locally abundant and extinction is unlikely; IUCN 2009) (la...

forest management as one of the important source of production is crucial and critical. in taking over the forest resources as one of the most important of natural resources in the world, it is essential to consider local stakeholders to implement forest action plan for forest co-management. therefore, this study aims at achieving to proper management of forests based on evaluating the stakehol...