We conducted a “living laboratory” study using holistic transdisciplinary approach to demonstrate how new scientific tools and policy instruments could be mobilized achieve wetland restoration goals. Our living laboratory was situated on the prairie pothole landscape in province of Alberta, Canada, where policies require replacement lost habitat. created map ditch-drained wetlands measure their...

We give conditions ensuring that the Julia set and the escaping set of an entire function of completely regular growth have positive Lebesgue measure. The essential hypotheses are that the indicator is positive except perhaps at isolated points and that most zeros are located in neighborhoods of finitely many rays. We apply the result to solutions of linear differential equations.

The application of currently available sophisticated algorithms of citation analysis allows for the incorporation of the "quality" of citations in the evaluation of scientific journals. We sought to compare the newly introduced SCImago journal rank (SJR) indicator with the journal impact factor (IF). We retrieved relevant information from the official Web sites hosting the above indices and the...

BACKGROUND Global value of scientific papers published in national journals of the Brazilian Speech-language and Hearing Science analyzed through the Impact Factor (IF). PURPOSE To analyze part of the Brazilian Speech-Language and Hearing Science through its scientific journals: characterization of the impact indicator--in this case the Impact Factor (IF). Seven national Speech-language and H...

DEAR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF THE American Science Community: As I write this from my troubled home state of Kansas, the State Board of Education is debating once again whether to de-emphasize the theory of evolution. Those in the majority on the Board have stated that they are considering changing the very definition of science to allow for science classes to discuss the merits of intelligent d...

Soil detachment is known as an important process in soil erosion and its quantification is necessary to establish a basic understanding of erosion. This study was carried out to find the best flow erosivity indicator(s) for predicting detachment rate at low slopes. For this purpose, 12 experiments including 6 flow discharges (75, 100, 125, 150, 175 and 200 ml/s) and 2 slope gradients (1.5 and 2...