The fire consumed... a treasure!

Estimating biomass consumed from fire using MODIS FRE

[1] Biomass burning is an important global phenomenon impacting atmospheric composition. Application of satellite based measures of fire radiative energy (FRE) has been shown to be effective for estimating biomass consumed, which can then be used to estimate gas and aerosol emissions. However, application of FRE has been limited in both temporal and spatial scale. In this paper we offer a metho...

The Treasure Chest

This is a selected list of the packages posted to CTAN from January 2004 through December 2004, with descriptive text pulled from the announcement or researched and edited for brevity. Please inform us of any errors. This installment, like the last, lists entries alphabetically within CTAN directories, rather than by date. We’ve also omitted some packages which had only minor updates, again for...

Soil properties in fire-consumed log burnout openings in a Missouri oak savanna

Downed logs are known to increase species diversity in many forest ecosystems by increasing resource and structural complexity and by altering fire behavior in fire-prone ecosystems. In a frequently burned oak savanna in central Missouri, combustion of downed logs formed patches that have remained free of herbaceous vegetation for more than 3 years. To assess the influence of ‘‘log burnouts’’ o...

The Treasure Called Antibiotics

Annals of Ibadan Postgraduate Medicine. Vol. 14 No. 2, December 2016 56 Prior to the beginning of the 20th Century, infectious diseases accounted for high morbidity and mortality worldwide. The average life expectancy at birth was 47 years (46 and 48 years for men and women respectively) even in the industrialized world. Infectious diseases such as smallpox, cholera, diphtheria, pneumonia, typh...

Predicting Duff and Woody Fuel Consumed by Prescribed Fire in the Northern Rocky Mountains