A waste stabilization pond was suspected of causing fecal contamination to Holt Branch, a tributary of Juniper Creek, near Byron, Georgia. We used ribotyping, a genotypic (DNA-based) bacterial source tracking (BST) method, to match Enterococcus faecalis isolates from Holt Branch and the waste stabilization pond. Fecal enterococci in the effluent from the waste stabilization pond averaged 13,863...

Particulate matter is one of the major air pollutants closely related to human health. In order predict atmospheric particulate concentrations effectively and accurately, this paper utilized ARIMA model, Holt-Winters STL-Holt model STL-ARIMA carry out prediction experiments based on hourly PM2.5 PM10 concentration historical data in Guangzhou city. The results showed that four models were effec...

Article history: Received 10 January 2011 Available online 12 August 2011 Communicated by Derek Holt

Several years ago the distributions of the ridge-counts on all ten fingers were given for a small sample of unrelated persons (Holt, 1949). A more detailed analysis has recently been made of the digital counts of a population sample of 1650 persons, 825 males and 825 females, and the results are given here. Included in the sample are the 100 males and 100 females whose counts were used previous...

This study measures risk attitudes using two paid experiments: the Holt and Laury (2002) procedure and a variation of the game show Deal or No Deal. The participants also completed a series of personality questionnaires developed in the psychology literature including the risk domains of Weber, Blais, and Betz (2002). As in previous studies risk attitudes vary within subjects across elicitation...