1Research plant pathologist, USDA ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, Parlier, CA 93648; 2formerly Research soil scientist, USDA ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center, currently Extension specialist, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, CA 95616; and 3formerly Agricultural engineer, USDA ARS San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center...

Christopher A. Nicolai, James S. Sedinger, David H. Ward, and W. Sean Boyd Program in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology, University of Nevada Reno, 1000 Valley Road, Reno, NV 89512, USA, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science, University of Nevada Reno, 1000 Valley Road, Reno, NV 89512, USA, United States Geological Survey, Alaska Science Center, 4210 University Dr...

corporate governance (cg) is an important effort to ensure accountability and responsibility and is a set of principles, which should be incorporated into every part of the organization. this study focused on the state of corporate governance (cg) in two categories of the banking industries: conventional banks and islamic banks. as conventional banks and islamic banks differ a great deal in the...

research agenda for health systems performance in circumpolar regions Susan Chatwood, Jessica Bytautas, Anthea Darychuk, Peter Bjerregaard, Adalsteinn Brown, Donald Cole, Howard Hu, Micheal Jong, Malcolm King, Siv Kvernmo and Jeremy Veillard Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Institute for Circumpolar Health Research, Yellowknife, Canada; Institute of He...

This paper presents the Golem Group/University of California at Los Angeles entry to the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge competition. We describe the main design principles behind the development of Golem 2, the race vehicle. The subsystems devoted to obstacle detection, avoidance, and state estimation are discussed in more detail. An overview of vehicle performance in the field is provided, includi...

The climatology of high wind events in the Owens Valley, California, a deep valley located just east of the southern Sierra Nevada, is described using data from six automated weather stations distributed along the valley axis in combination with the North American Regional Reanalysis dataset. Potential mechanisms for the development of strong winds in the valley are examined. Contrary to the co...

In this paper we review several existing tools for fault injection and dependability benchmarking in grids. We emphasis on the FAIL-FCI fault-injection software that has been developed in INRIA Grand Large, and a benchmark tool called QUAKE that has been developed in the University of Coimbra. We present the state-of-the-art and we explain the importance of these tools for dependability assessm...

university websites play an important role in disseminating educational and research information to universities. they are a vital port for accessing the universities' scientific information for researchers, faculty members, and students. the goal of this study was to compare evaluation methods such as web assessment index (wai), web quality evaluation method (webqem), and webometrics for evalu...

X iv :a st ro -p h/ 03 05 19 7v 2 1 1 Ju l 2 00 3 A Model-Independent Determination of the Expansion and Acceleration Rates of the Universe as a Function of Redshift and Constraints on Dark Energy Ruth A. Daly Department of Physics, Berks-Lehigh Valley College, Pennsylvania State University, Reading, PA, 19610 and S. G. Djorgovski Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Inst...

The quasi-steady-state limit of the diurnal valley wind system is investigated over idealized three-dimensional topography. Although this limit is rarely attained in reality due to ever-changing forcings, the investigation of this limit can provide valuable insight, in particular on the mass and heat fluxes associated with the along-valley wind. We derive a scaling relation for the quasi-steady...