Improved and up-to-date land use/land cover (LULC) datasets are needed for intensively cropped regions such as the U.S. Central Great Plains, in order to support a variety of science and policy applications focused on understanding the role and response of the agricultural sector to environmental change issues. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) holds considerable promise...

Global reanalysis dataset estimations of climate variables constitute an alternative for overcoming data scarcity associated with sparsely and unevenly distributed hydrometeorological networks often found in developing countries. However, datasets require detailed validation to determine their accuracy reliability. This paper evaluates the performance MERRA2 ERA5 regarding monthly rainfall prod...

In this paper, we introduce a new dynamic model for time series based on the Chen distribution, which is useful modeling asymmetric, positive, continuous, and time-dependent data. The proposed autoregressive moving average (CHARMA) combines flexibility of distribution with use covariates lagged terms to conditional median response. We CHARMA structure discuss maximum likelihood estimation, hypo...

The long term performance characteristics of the 2400 and 1260 series of StarrEdwards aortic prostheses were investigated by a follow up study of clinical outcome of 327 patients discharged from hospital with isolated aortic valve replacement. Follow up lasted for up to 10 years and was based on 1616 patient-years. The 2400 series cloth covered tracked valve was implanted in 182 patients from 1...