e rc h re se ar ch ea rc h re se ar ch re se ar ch re se ar ch r rc h re se ar ch Best management practices for anthracnose on annual bluegrass turf 22 Green is Beautiful • Winter 2010 Anthracnose (caused by Colletotrichum cere-ale) is a destructive fungal disease of weakened turf that occurs throughout the U.S., Canada and Western Europe (15) and is particularly severe on annual bluegrass (Poa...

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The principles described in this white paper apply to many provider-payor business and professional relationships. The development of this document is necessitated by business practices by some payors, radiology benefits management companies (RBMs), and providers that are arguably creating excessively restrictive and burdensome obstacles to the delivery of patient care. The purpose of this pape...

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From the first awareness of agricultural sources of water pollution in the US in the 1960s, we finally see in the 1990s a commitment at the national level for agricultural non-point source (NPS) pollution control. This has been occasioned by a growing awareness that, with point sources of some pollutants largely controlled by waste-water treatment, greater attention must be paid to NPS pollutio...

M. Kudo Y. Araki H. Nomiyama S. Saito Y. Sohda Recent incidents involving the loss of personal information and identity theft have raised concerns worldwide over information privacy. In Japan, the Personal Information Protection Act went into effect in April 2005, requiring every enterprise to manage sensitive personal information on servers, workstations, and personal computers throughout the ...

Blackleg disease of canola in western Canada has been effectively managed for the past 20 years through a combination of resistant varieties, adequate crop rotation intervals and good agronomics. Increased canola production in western Canada, in large measure through more frequent cropping in the rotation, has increased the risk that resistance to blackleg in current varieties may be defeated. ...

Copyright © 2013 International Anesthesia Research Society CURRENT BEST PRACTICES IN PERIOPERATIVE PATIENT-CENTERED BLOOD MANAGEMENT Blood management has been defined by the Society for Advancement of Blood Management as “the timely application of evidence-based medical and surgical concepts designed to maintain hemoglobin concentration, optimize hemostasis and minimize blood loss in an effort ...

To protect the information assets of organizations, many different standards and guidelines have been proposed. Among them, International standard ISO 17799 is one of the most prominent international efforts on information security. This standard provides both an authoritative statement on information security and the procedures to be adopted by organizations to ensure information security. Sec...