Land use for animal production influences the earth system in a variety of ways, including local-scale modification to biodiversity, soils, and nutrient cycling; regional changes in albedo and hydrology; and global-scale changes in greenhouse gas and aerosol concentrations. Pasture is furthermore the single most extensive form of land cover, currently comprising about 22-26% of the earth's ice-...

The use of column-like elements for improving both the settlement performance and bearing capacity foundations constructed over soft soils is well understood large groups columns supporting an infinitely wide load, such as embankments slabs. However, little still lightly loaded, low-rise structures supported by pad on a finite number stone columns, particularly when crust layer present at top s...

The Water Framework Directive of the European Union requires member states to achieve good ecological status of all water bodies. A harmonized pan-European assessment of water resources availability and quality, as affected by various management options, is necessary for a successful implementation of European environmental legislation. In this context, we developed a methodology to predict sur...

Over the last ten to fifteen years considerable information has been developed concerning the performance of improved ground within liquefiable soil deposits subjected to earthquakes. This information comes from physical modeling in the laboratory using centrifuge and shaking table apparatus, numerical modeling using a variety of computer codes, and field case histories. The results from physic...

Thermal signatures of buried land mines depend on a complex combination of environmental conditions, soil properties, and properties and burial depth of the land mine. Due to the complex nature of the problem most modeling and experimental efforts to understand thermal signatures of land mines have focused on the effects of one or a few variables. Of these variables, the effect of wind speed ha...

Background & Aims: Trichotillomania (TTM) is an unknown disorder and resistant to treatment. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate the new metacognitive-cognitive-behavioral model for trichotillomania. Methods: The present study was a description and correlation study. In this study, 635 participants (304 male and 331 female) were selected. The participants completed the Massach...

We report development of a novel parameter for quantifying the amount of humic and fulvic acids per unit surface area in a particular soil. This quantity, the "humic coverage index" (HCI), provides a measurement of the relative spatial extents and/or thicknesses of the humic/fulvic overlayers in different soils, and, therefore, can be used in modeling various soils' behavior in sequestration pr...

11 [1] In this study, we investigate the significance of using an 12 improved error modeling strategy to characterize the spatio13 temporal characteristics of uncertainty in simulation of soil 14 moisture fields from an off-line land surface model forced 15 with satellite rainfall data. We coupled a Two-Dimensional 16 Satellite Rainfall Error Model (SREM2D) with the Common 17 Land Model to prop...

In environmental soil-landscape modeling (ESLM), the selection of predictive variables is commonly contingent on the researchers’ domain expertise on soileenvironment processes. This variable selection strategy may suffer bias or even fail in regions where the process knowledge is insufficient. To overcome this problem, this study demonstrates a holistic ESLM framework which consists of five co...

expansive soils show swelling and shrinkage behavior when subjected to cyclic wetting and drying. the variation in water content influence the volume change in this kind of soil. these volume changes can cause ground movement which may result in damage to the buildings and structures. to study the behavior, a number of successive wetting-drying cycles were conducted on a statically compacted ex...