Robert J. Luxmoore a,∗, William W. Hargrove a, M. Lynn Tharp a, Wilfred M. Post a, Michael W. Berry b, Karen S. Minser b, Wendell P. Cropper, Jr. c, Dale W. Johnson d, Boris Zeide e, Ralph L. Amateis f, Harold E. Burkhart f, V. Clark Baldwin, Jr. g and Kelly D. Peterson g a Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PO Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6038, USA b Department of Computer Science, 107 Ayres Hall...

The potential impacts resulting from climate change will cause significant global problems, particularly in underdeveloped nations where the effects are felt most. Techniques for harvesting water such as small dams provide an alternative supply of and adaptive solutions to deal with scarcity context future change. However, it is difficult determine how rainwater (dams) may be impacted by since ...

Abstract Antibiotic resistance of pathogens is a serious issue that affects health. The airborne particle molecules such as (PM 2.5 , PM 10 ) spread by dust storms can increase the antibiotic in bacterial community. In this study air samples were collected and air-borne bacteria cultured on specific growth media portable sampler device (SAS). Sixty plates used through atmospheric which included...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The objectives are to compare and contrast the head and neck trauma experience in Iraq and Afghanistan and to identify trauma lessons learned that are applicable to civilian practice. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective review of one head and neck surgeon's operative experience in Iraq and Afghanistan was performed using operative logs and medical records. METHODS The surgeon...

W hy does California, a large and topographically complex state that spans fogdrenched redwood groves to desert sand dunes, have 30 species of snakes, whereas roughly twice that number occur in five square miles of lowland Costa Rican rainforest? Almost 400 species of birds, a bit more than half as many as breed in the entire continental United States, occupy that same small Central American si...

[I] The desert dust aerosols strongly affect propagation of solar radiation through the atmosphere, reducing surface irradiance available for photochemistry and photosynthesis. This paper evaluates effects of desert dust on surface UV erythemal irradiance (UVER), as measured by a ground-based broadband UV radiometer and retrieved from the satellite Ozone Monitoring Instrument (aMI) at Granada (...

John Rawls rejects prejusticial conceptions of distributive desert on the grounds that such conceptions are immoral and impractical. Prejusticial understandings of desert claim that desert can be understood prior to and independently of justice in social institutions, and take legitimate desert claims to provide standards for evaluating social arrangements. Some philosophers have interpreted Ra...

I would like to thank the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and President Cryer for the opportunity to deliver the 2004 Fitts Lecture. When Dr. Cryer asked me to deliver this lecture, I actually wondered whether he had called the wrong number. Dr. Basil Pruitt described Dr. William P. Fitts in his 1992 Fitts Lecture as a ‘physician soldier in World War II, an author, a chairman, an...