Nitrate can carry over in many medium and fine textured Wisconsin soils especially when growing season rainfall is below normal and yields are lowered by moisture stress. Most areas of Wisconsin received below normal precipitation during the 2003 growing season, and nitrate carryover could be an important factor affecting nitrogen needs in 2004. Taking carryover nitrate into consideration may b...

][1] Between 2003 and 2008, the global-average surface temperature of the Earth varied by 0.6 C. We analyze here the response of tropospheric water vapor to these variations. Height-resolved measurements of specific humidity (q) and relative humidity (RH) are obtained from NASA’s satelliteborne Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS). Over most of the troposphere, q increased with increasing global...

creased to about 100 species as more fieldwork was conducted (Brown et al. 2001). A similar situation exists in the reptile groups. On a week's fieldwork in a western Mindanao tropical rain forest, our group collected a new species of arboreal skink. To a lesser degree, the mammals are in a similar situation as the amphibians and the reptiles. Biodiversity research at the population or communit...

This report summarizes written and oral contributions from many interested scientists, including 46 participants (Appendix 1) at a workshop executive summary 1 mapping the ocean floor 3 the need for bathymetry from space 3 sensing bathymetry from space 4 new science 6 ocean circulation, mixing, and climate 6 beyond plate tectonics 10 forecasting tsunamis 14 other applications of improved bathym...

In this paper, I test the dividend clientele hypothesis (DCH) by examining the impact of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (the 2003 tax act) on household portfolio dividend yields. The DCH predicts that the 2003 tax act, which reduced the tax-disadvantage of dividends differentially across the income distribution, would cause high income households to shift their portfo...

In traditional digital signature schemes, certificates signed by a trusted party are required to ensure the authenticity of the public key. In Asiacrypt 2003, the concept of certificateless signature scheme was introduced. In the new paradigm, the necessity of certificates has been successfully removed. The security model for certificateless cryptography was also introduced in the same paper. H...

A lthough Canadian guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma have been published over the last 15 years, 1–4 there has been little focus on issues relevant to asthma in the young child or on prevention strategies for asthma. Since the last update in 2001, 4 important issues and new studies focusing on asthma in early life have highlighted the need to incorporate the new information ...