Many people are overloaded by the amount of email they receive. Because of this, a considerable amount of time can be spent every day managing one’s inbox. Previous work has shown that people adopt different strategies for managing their inbox. However, there has been little work examining how the choice of email management strategy impacts the total time that one gives to email activities each...

This study investigates time spent in household management, an important ‘‘missing ingredient’’ in time use studies, using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS). These data indicate that adults spend an average of just over 1.5 h per week in this function. This figure likely underestimates total management time because (1) management is often done in small blocks, and hence, may be miss...

In an effort to improve wetland conditions on the highly regulated Upper Mississippi River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducted an experiment that involved using navigation dams to restore the stable, summer low water portion of the natural flow regime that would expose soil and permit establishment of moist-soil plant species. Plant response was measured and waterfowl surveys and behavi...

reliable estimates of river stream fl ow and fl ood zoning maps are needed for water resourcesmanagement such as fl ood mitigation, water supply, dam construction and irrigation. flood zoning needsaccurate data and is one of the non-structural fl ood management methods. this paper describes theapplication of hec-ras and gis model to determine fl oodplains maps for the part of sardabrud rivertha...