The article ‘‘Implementation of National Fire Plan treatments in the wildland–urban interface in the western United States’’ (1) is misleading because it is based on wildland–urban interface (WUI) designations not used by federal agencies or their state and local partners. Moreover, by omitting any examination of the allotment of program monies to WUI and nonWUI areas, it misses a significant o...

BACKGROUND The necessity of aggressive pain management in the hospital setting is becoming increasingly evident. It has been shown to improve patient outcomes, and is now an avenue for Medicare to assess reimbursement. In this cohort analysis, we compared the March 2008 to the December 2012 Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Survey (HCAHPS) reports in order to determine if pain manage...

Background Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has been associated with more than 100 genetic loci. This parallels positively to the clinical diversity that is reflected by classification of SLE. Objectives We aimed investigate associations between disease manifestations SLE and risk gene variants relevant Danish subjects European ancestry. Methods included 427 patients ancestry similar previous...

cies in the range of 28% (electric energy generated/total energy available in the wood fuel used) (Timmons et al. 2007a). This low level of efficiency suggests a natural fit for colocating industrial operations requiring heat with biomass-fired electricity generating facilities. Bioenergy facilities have a long history in the Region. Wood residues from integrated sawmill operations have been us...

THIS is the second part of the Special Issue on Security and Dependability of Cloud Systems and Services, which we organized to solicit novel results in these important and closely related research areas. Indeed, security and dependability are increasingly important concerns for cloud systems and services, due to their spread in a large variety of application fields, including businessand missi...

-This paper presents an overview of the Forest Health Monitoring Program (FHM), a partnership among the USDA Forest Service, State Foresters, universities, and the USDI Bureau of Land Management. The purpose of FHM is to annually assess the condit ion of the nation’s forested ecosystems in a standardized way. There are four components of the program-Detection Monitoring, Evaluation Monitoring, ...

What proof do you have to back up that belief? The review appears in the issue of JASIST that you are reading, likely in an online format. The review is attributed to the two authors mentioned in the byline. Yet the possibility exists that this review was written by someone else—possibly for nefarious purposes—and somehow slipped into the publication process without the knowledge or consent of ...

Since 1952, U.S. timberland has decreased by about 20 million acres, with about one-quarter of the reduction in the South. Although some of the timberland has been converted to urban and developed uses, Larger amounts of land shifted uses between forest and agriculture because of changes in product markets and policy conditions. We summarize area trends for major land uses, examine recent polic...

introduction in geography science and the related fields, grouping and classification of factors for heavy homogenous and non homogenous families is necessary. as a whole in total studies especially those of urban and rural, for better understanding of existing features, their reasons and olataining suitable results and finally providing the best approaches, the grouping of inputs and statistic...