Pesticide-free agricultural strategies need new tools for disease prevention. Better than early detection of disease, conditions favorable to their appearance can be a progress. In the case fungal diseases, presence water on plant surface is necessary. order detect remotely this and at scale crop field, we propose low-cost solution based laser reflection. Here, experimental results in controlle...

We examined long-term (10 years) meadow plant community responses to (1) livestock grazing under riparian grazing utilization limits; (2) suspension of livestock grazing; and (3) meadow site wetness and precipitation on the Inyo National Forest, California. Observed trends in meadow plant species richness, diversity, and frequency of soil stabilizing species were not significantly different bet...

A new coating that allows formation of the correct protective patina on weathering steel structures located in regions of high chlorine and/or high time-of–wetness, has been developed. The coating controls the time-of-wetness at the steel surface, allowing correct wet/dry cycling required for protective patina formation. It also binds chloride ions, and prevents them from reaching the steel sur...

Humid tropical climate favours the existence of a corrosive atmosphere that causes deterioration of metals. This article describes an automated system for monitoring environmental values (temperature and relative humidity) in order to know the time of wetness (TOW), which is key factor in determining the atmospheric aggressiveness which are exposed the metals used, for example, in industrial fa...

BACKGROUND A number of college presidents have endorsed the Amethyst Initiative, a call to consider lowering the minimum legal drinking age (MLDA). Our objective is to forecast the effect of the Amethyst Initiative on college drinking. METHODS A system model of college drinking simulates MLDA changes through (i) a decrease in heavy episodic drinking (HED) because of the lower likelihood of st...

We present a method for the ensemble seasonal prediction of human St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) incidence and SLE virus transmission in Florida. We combine empirical relationships between modeled land surface wetness and the incidence of human clinical cases of SLE and modeled land surface wetness and the occurrence of SLE virus transmission throughout south Florida with a previously developed m...