The lack of consistent, accurate information on evapotranspiration (ET) and consumptive use water by irrigated agriculture is one the most important data gaps for managers in western United States (U.S.) other arid agricultural regions globally. ability to easily access ET central improving budgets across West, advancing data-driven irrigation management strategies, expanding incentive-driven c...

In the early 1990s, cyberfeminism emerged as an area of knowledge to discuss connection between gender and technology. According UNESCO, women are underrepresented in field science, technology, engineering, mathematics less than a third worldwide work scientific research development. However, this number has grown reality is constantly changing. context, using business intelligence techniques, ...

The field of cognitive psychology has increasingly provided scientific insights to explore how humans are subject to unconscious sources of evidentiary bias, leading to errors that can affect judgement and decision-making. Increasingly these insights are being applied outside the realm of individual decision-making to the collective arena of policy-making as well. A recent editorial in this jou...

Critical cultural awareness as a component of intercultural competence (Byram, 1997, 2012) has received the extensive attention of scholars in the fields of language teaching, cultural studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, communication studies, etc. in the recent decades. However, no instrument has ever been developed to assess this construct among Iranian EFL teachers. To fill this gap, in...

The Ising model is widely regarded as the most studied model of spin-systems in statistical physics. The focus of this paper is its dynamic (stochastic) version, the Glauber dynamics, introduced in 1963 and by now the most popular means of sampling the Ising measure. Intensive study throughout the last three decades has yielded a rigorous understanding of the spectral-gap of the dynamics on Z e...

Dyspnea and elevated anion gap metabolic acidosis are common presenting problems in critically ill patients. In certain cases, however, the standard workup for these problems does not reveal an etiology, and other diagnoses must be considered. We describe a woman who presented with dyspnea and severe acidemia due to a profound metabolic acidosis, who was subsequently found to have toluene toxic...

Anion gap, anion gap corrected for serum albumin, and base deficit are often used as surrogates for measuring serum lactate. None of these surrogates is postulated to predict hyperlactatemia in the critically ill. We prospectively collected data from September 2004 through August 2005 for 1381 consecutive admissions. Patients with renal disease, ketoacidosis, or toxic ingestion were excluded. A...

Today’s cyber-attacks towards enterprise networks often un­ dermine and even fail the mission assurance of victim net­ works. Mission cyber resilience (or active cyber defense) is critical to prevent or minimize negative consequences to­ wards missions. Without effective mission impact assess­ ment, mission cyber resilience cannot be really achieved. However, there is an overlooked gap between ...