Water and soil losses from sloping farmlands potentially contribute to water eutrophication land degradation. However, few studies explored the combined effects of ridge direction width on surface runoff farmlands. Twenty-seven experimental plots (8 m long 4 wide) with nine treatments (three direction: cross ridge, longitudinal oblique ridge; three width: 40, 60, 80 cm) were adopted under natur...

Leading voices in the biological sciences have called for a transformation in graduate education leading to the PhD degree. One area commonly singled out for growth and innovation is cross-training in computational science. In 1998, the University of Tennessee (UT) founded an intercollegiate graduate program called the UT-ORNL Graduate School of Genome Science and Technology in partnership with...