A mathematical programming approach is developed for deriving estimates of the willingness-to-pay of water customers for improvements in water supply reliability. Reliability is represented as a probability distribution of different shortage levels, allowing the valuation of different profiles of water supply reliability. The approach is examined analytically and a two-stage linear programming ...

Abstract We examined the climatological features of strong winds associated with extratropical cyclones around Japan during 40 seasons between November and April from 1979/80 to 2018/19 using reanalysis data. Our assessments revealed that caused most (80%–90%). Notably, contribution explosively developing is larger (70%–80%). The are mainly related warm conveyor belt (WCB) cold (CCB) inside exp...

OBJECTIVES Many workers with one Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) claim make further claims. If the characteristics of the job, initial injury or worker were predictive of an early second claim, interventions at the time of return to work after the first claim might be effective in reducing the burden of work-related injury. This report explores the characteristic of those who make a second cl...

One of the major goals of the Sustainable Agriculture Farming initiatives at UC Davis is to provide information about the feasibility of adopting conservation tillage and cover cropping at the farm level. The project includes two tillage schemes: standard tillage (ST) and conservation tillage (CT), and three farming methods: conventional, organic, and winter legume cover crop. All three product...

In nature, living cells and organisms have evolved, over billions of years, an astonishing suite of mechanisms that are used to detect and respond to diverse, transient and long-term external stimuli (Khalil and Collins, 2010). Whole-cell bioreporters (WCBs; sometimes referred to colloquially as whole-cell biosensors) are characterized as cells (termed chassis) that have been deliberately modif...

In many grasslands, grazing by large native or introduced ungulates drives ecosystem structure and function. The behavior of these animals is important as it directs the spatial effects of grazing. To the degree that temperature drives spatial components of foraging, understanding how changes in climate alter grazing behavior will provide guidance for the conservation of ecosystem goods and ser...

Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to evaluate the effects of cropland and pastureland conservation practices on spatial and temporal trends in water quality at the watershed scale. In some projects, participants also investigated how social and economic factors influence implementation and maintenance of practices. The 13 projects were co...

We prove that the normal cohomology groups H w(M, K(H)) of a von Neumann algebra M with coefficients in the algebra of compact operators are zero if M is atomic of type Ifin. In addition, the completely bounded normal cohomology groups H wcb(B(H), K(H)) are shown to be 0 as well.