Low-quality (i.e., impaired) water sources are commonly used to irrigate warm-season turfgrass landscapes as a result of limited supplies potable sources. Currently, there is great need define the impacts impaired on consumption, growth, and quality. The objectives this study were characterize actual evaporation (ET ), clipping production, quality three hybrid bermudagrass varieties [‘TifTuf’, ...

Preparing our hospitals and other healthcare facilities for disasters is a national security priority. Disasters occur nearly every day in the United States, and the frequency is increasing. This includes such diverse events as storms, droughts, wildfires, floods, earthquakes, chemical and industrial accidents, burns, mass shootings and bombings, and epidemics. All sickened or injured people re...

This paper deals with the analysis of the non-stationary behavior of scatterers in polarimetric SAR imaging . A method based on continuous wavelet and incoherent polarimetric decompositions is proposed to extract the polarimetric timefrequency signatures of scatterers. These signatures characterize scatterers according to their polarimetric /or energetic behavior versus the emitted frequency an...

Australia is facing serious challenges in the management of water in various urban and regional locations. Two popular responses to these challenges are increasing supply through alternative water sources such as recycled and desalinated water. However, significant gaps exist in our knowledge of community attitudes to these alternative sources of water, particularly for potable use. This paper ...

Minimizing water supply costs has always been the goal of companies. However, it is not an easy task to minimize and meet customers’ pressure needs in a system with multiple sources different unit discharge. In this paper, we develop search method that incorporates concepts local steepest descent. First, establish discharge each source as variable start searching neighborhood for feasible initi...

fereidon nourgholipour1*, mohammad passandideh1 and emam gholi nourgholipour 2   [1] - soil and water research institute, tehran, iran   2- university of tehran, college of abureihan, tehran, iran         received: 21 december 2009 accepted: 25 february 201 1     * corresponding author: e-mail: [email protected]       abstract     expansion and economical importance of yield reduction due to iro...

PURPOSE To investigate beam quality correction, KQQ0 (r) and phantom scatter correction, Kphan (r) for lithium formate dosimeter as a function of distance r along the transverse axis of the high-energy brachytherapy sources 60Co, 137Cs, 192Ir and 169Yb using the Monte Carlo-based EGSnrc code system. MATERIALS AND METHODS The brachytherapy sources investigated in this study are BEBIG High Dose...