Preservation and effective management of highly dynamic coastal features located in areas under development pressures requires in-depth understanding of their evolution. Modern geospatial technologies such as lidar, real time kinematic GPS, and three-dimensional GIS provide tools for efficient acquisition of high resolution data, geospatial analysis, feature extraction, and quantification of ch...

BACKGROUND During blood feeding, sand flies inject Leishmania parasites in the presence of saliva. The types and functions of cells present at the first host-parasite contact are critical to the outcome on infection and sand fly saliva has been shown to play an important role in this setting. Herein, we investigated the in vivo chemotactic effects of Lutzomyia intermedia saliva, the vector of L...

To examine colloid transport in geochemically heterogeneous porous media at a scale comparable to field experiments, we monitored the migration of silica-coated zirconia colloids in a two-dimensional layered porous media containing sand coated to three different extents by ferric oxyhydroxides. Transport of the colloids was measured over 1.65 m and 95 days. Colloid transport was modeled by an a...

The vertical migration of N. carpocapsae infective juveniles applied to the soil surface or introduced 14 cm below the soil surface was studied in four different soil types (pure silica sand, coarse sandy loam, silty clay loam, and clay). The percentage of juveniles able to migrate and infect wax moth pupae placed in the soil decreased as the percentage of clay and silt increased. Most nematode...

Climatic changes and neotectonic movements in the north-western plains of India have led to the migration and abandonment of drainage systems to form a large number of palaeochannels. Palaeochannels present in the study area were extracted from final geomorphological map. These were delineated from satellite image by considering combination of various factors. These channels show a discontinuou...

introduction dominant process in arid and semi-arid region is dynamic of wind that carries the sand and caused damage to several facilities and human settlements. there are many human settlements with low population and mostly small and scattered in different parts of foothills of dasht-e lut (lut desert), especially in mountainous margins of alluvial fans. residential and cultivation area of t...

Our paper focuses on studying the development and implementation of a comprehensive environmental safety assessment mitigation strategy for countries origin destination migration. Environmental migration represents one key threats to security regions is linked their sustainable (or lack thereof). Moreover, it also connected many important social, economic as well demographic outcomes. Global wa...

The effects of four soil types, soil porosity, particle size, and organic matter were tested on survival and migration of Xiphinema americanum. Survival and migration were significantly greater in silt loam than in clay loam and silty clay soils. Nematode numbers were significantly greater in softs planted with soybeans than in fallow softs. Nematode survival was greatest at the higher of two p...

Bacterial migration is important in understanding many practical problems ranging from disease pathogenesis to the bioremediation of hazardous waste in the environment. Our laboratory has been successful in quantifying bacterial migration in fluid media through experiment and the use of population balance equations and cellular level simulations that incorporate parameters based on a fundamenta...

There is much interest in vehicle mounted array GPR systems for landmine detection and work is being carried out on various national, because high speed array GPR systems can sweep a large area in a relatively short time to improve performance and efficiency. We developed the vehicle mounted stepped-frequency (SF) CMP antenna array GPR system. The system has three pairs of Vivaldi antennas that...