USDA-ARS, Agricultural Systems Research Unit, 2150 Centre Ave., Bldg. D, Suite 200, Fort Collins, CO 80526, USA Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, C127 Plant Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State...

A project proposal is the first step to us to get funding from anywhere. You need to write a proposal to your advisor, your university, your company, your city, state, governmental agencies (USGS, USDA, NSF, NASA, NOAA, DoEd, DOE, ....) for any funding opportunity. A proposal for a small amount of fund is usually 5 pages; for a standard and multi-year proposal to governmental agencies, it is us...

The development of high-resolution nonhydrostatic models and the rapid increase of computer power are making the explicit prediction of thunderstorms a reality (Droegemeier 1990; Lilly 1990; Droegemeier 1997; Xue et al. 2003, X03 hereafter). Data assimilation plays an important role in providing an accurate initial condition for the model forecast. The operational US WSR88D Doppler radar networ...

There is great interest in developing pricing models for congestion relief. However, most of the work in the literature uses static transportation models for analysis. The benefits of accounting for traffic dynamics under congestion pricing are unclear. This research performs a systematic comparison of static traffic assignment with the VISTA model, a simulation-based dynamic traffic assignment...

Aims/background—To discover a more reliable method of performing delayed suture adjustment as a basis to investigate whether delayed adjustment actually provides more stable results. In order to prevent the formation of postoperative adhesions and delay the time of adjustment, an animal study was performed to determine the combined eVect of physical barriers, Viscoat and Interceed, and a pharma...

A large outbreak of adenovirus type 4-associated acute respiratory disease (ARD) occurred at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in 1997. A laboratory-based ARD surveillance program was initiated at Fort Gordon, Georgia, where advanced individual training was heavily populated with Fort Jackson soldiers. Adenovirus type 4 was isolated from 50% of 147 trainees hospitalized with ARD. Most (88%) introdu...

10,000 words on a single picture, and a similar Japanese proverb devalues this to only 100 words. In most languages the current consensus seems to be that a picture is worth 1000 words. Whatever the true worth in words a good picture is capable of conveying (sometimes quite complex) meaning clearly and without the need for language. Show a picture of an elephant to speakers of two different lan...