Understanding spatial and temporal variations in river water quality and quantitatively evaluating the trend of changes are important in order to study and efficiently manage water resources. In this study, an analysis of Water Pollution Index (WPI), Daniel Trend Test, Cluster Analysis and Discriminant Analysis are applied as an integrated approach to quantitatively explore the spatial and temp...

In this paper, we analyse some of the issues associated with posthumanist rejection Humanism. First, discuss possibilities and challenges that New Materialism Ontological Turn have brought into archaeology in terms understanding past ontologies decolonizing archaeological thought. Then, focusing on concept agency, reflect how its use by authors risks turning it an empty signifier, which can eth...

two glasshouse and field experiments were conducted to assess the effects of root system, water uptake, water use efficiency and early vigor on yield and drought tolerance of bread wheat in two successive farming seasons (2009-11). the experiments were conducted as randomized complete block design and two-year results analyzed as combined design. considerable genetic variation was observed amon...

"Freethinkers," including both atheists and secular humanists, have always been a minority in American society--and not a very popular one. There are still laws in several states preventing non-theists from holding office. Just as evangelical Protestants up until one hundred years ago held a largely optimistic view of the future and the end times (known as postmillennialism), secular humanists ...

Daniel Lewis explores the importance of humanistic values to modern physicians This journal article is available in Momentum: http://repository.upenn.edu/momentum/vol1/iss2/6