—Studies suggest that the southern United States is an area of primary concern with regards to the spread of nonnative invasive plant species. Recent data show that species such as Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) and Nepalese browntop (Microstegium vimineum) are invading forests and displacing native species throughout the southern United States. Monitoring on large spatial scales is a...

Nearly 8 million dry tons (7 256 000 t) of municipal sewage sludge are produced each year in the USA by the more than 15 000 publicly owned treatment plants and the tonnage is increasing. Municipalities are faced with increasing cost of incineration, decreasing land for and increasing costs of landfills, and environmental concerns over ocean dumping. Under the circumstances, the attractiveness ...

The next generation Internet needs to support multiple diverse application contexts. In this paper, we present Internet 3.0, a diversified, multi-tier architecture for the next generation Internet. Unlike the current Internet, Internet 3.0 defines a new set of primitives that allows diverse applications to compose and optimize their specific contexts over resources belonging to multiple ownersh...

Studies suggest that the southern United States is an area of primary concern with regards to the spread of nonnative invasive plant species. Recent data show that species such as Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica) and Nepalese browntop (Microstegium vimineum) are invading forests and displacing native species throughout the southern United States. Monitoring on large spatial scales is am...

Vehicle emissions have become a significant source of air pollution in urban cities, especially China. Mobile sources account for 45% local fine particle the Chinese capital Beijing. The Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) area, one China’s most representative clusters, is suffering from severe pollution. With rapid growth vehicle ownership past two decades, China also undergone great changes under var...

Abstract Background Advances in fire modeling help quantify and map various components characterizations of wildfire risk furthermore evaluate the ability fuel treatments to mitigate risk. However, a need remains for guidance designing landscape-scale with protection objectives, resource management response mind. It is also important consider how human factors related tolerance may affect oppor...

The work outlines the Italian legal framework of agricultural land succession and acquisition by persons. issue inter-generational turnover in agriculture is a fundamental political agenda European Union particularly relevant Italy, where farms are predominantly family-owned. For this reason, intra-family preferred mechanism to transfer farm management future generations, it carried out mainly ...

today, a way of gaining constant and dynamic development is reforming of the ownerships structure, from governmental ownership to privatization ownership. so this policy in many countries, especially in developing countries, as a strategic policy has been used. compilation and performing principle 44, s policies of iran islamic republic law constitution which parliament has confirmed. one of th...

NED-2 is a Windows-based system designed to improve project-level planning and decision making by providing useful and scientifically sound information to natural resource managers. Resources currently addressed include visual quality, ecology, forest health, timber, water, and wildlife. NED-2 expands on previous versions of NED applications by integrating treatment prescriptions, growth simula...

We used data from regional forest inventories and research programs, coupled with mapped climatic and topographic information, to explore relationships and develop multiple linear regression (MLR) and regression tree models for total and deciduous shrub cover in the Oregon coastal province. Results from both types of models indicate that forest structure variables were most important for explai...