Understanding catchment controls on solute export is a prerequisite for water quality management. StorAge Selection (SAS) functions encapsulate essential information about functioning in terms of discharge selection preference and dynamics. However, they lack the spatial origin solutes when applied at scale, thereby limiting our understanding internal (subcatchment) functioning. Here, we parame...

Recent high-profile efforts have called for integrating ecosystem-service values into important societal decisions, but there are few demonstrations of this approach in practice. We quantified ecosystem-service values to help the largest private landowner in Hawaii, Kamehameha Schools, design a land-use development plan that balances multiple private and public values on its North Shore land ho...

In urban areas, private yards can make up large portions of the available “green space” which be used to provide resources for many species, including birds, and pollinators. If residents are persuaded or willing plant certain native plants, aggregate effect these plantings could hugely beneficial key pollinator species. The objectives this study uncover impediments adding different types polli...

Agricultural products have a main role in nonoil exports. Pistachio is one of the country's mostimportant export products. Thus, this study is aimed at evaluating and identifying pistachiomarketing in Rafsanjan which is carried out in 2011. This is applied study and its methodology iscorrelation. The statistical population was 120 agricultural extension experts of Rafsanjantownship were studied...

BACKGROUND Pears are exported in large quantities from South Africa, resulting in large revenues. Minimisation of quality losses once the fruit has reached the export destination is as important as following strict export and distribution protocols. Kafirin can form edible films. In this study an edible coating made from 20 g kg(-1) kafirin coating solution was applied as a postharvest treatmen...

Abstract—The paper is focused to the evaluation railway tracks in the Slovakia by using Multi-Criteria method. Evaluation of railway tracks has important impacts for the assessment of investment in technical equipment. Evaluation of railway tracks also has an important impact for the allocation of marshalling yards. Marshalling yards are in transport model as centers for the operation assigned ...

The Boston Schoolyard Initiative (BSI) is a policy effort to rebuild school yards in Boston through innovative citywide public-private partnerships. At the center of the initiative is a commitment to engage multiple stakeholders and utilize a bottom-up planning process to encourage meaningful change. Based on a case study of BSI, this article develops a framework to understand and analyze how d...

ater bodies fed by current or former industrial, agricultural, or mining areas frequently contain contaminated sediments, and throughout the U.S., miles of riverbeds and vast areas of harbors, lakes, and estuaries are affected (1, 2). Contaminants in sediments can have direct toxic effects on organisms and can accumulate in organisms consumed by humans. The presence of sediment contamination al...