The movement of fecal pathogens from land to surface and ground water are of great interest because of the public health implications. Non-structural best management practices that control the timing, volume, and placement of animal manures are commonly used to limit opportunities for fecal pathogens to enter water bodies. Increased infiltration capacity, water and waste diversions, and vegetat...

The Maltese Islands, situated in the central Mediterranean, occupy an area of only some 316 km. The climate is typically Mediterranean: the average annual rainfall is c.530mm of which some 85% falls during the period October to March; the mean monthly temperature range is 12-26°C, and the islands are very windy and sunny. Although small, the Maltese Islands have a considerable diversity of land...

The hydroacoustic segment of the International Monitoring System (IMS) currently being installed for use in verifying compliance with the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), will consist of six hydrophone stations and five supplemental T-phase stations. The ability to detect acoustic signals at T-phase stations relies on an understanding of the acoustic to seismic coupling mechanisms....

Thirty-two consecutive patients who initially had horizontal or downward-sloping ST segment depression confined to the precordial leads were studied. Patients were divided into two groups: group A included 21 patients with horizontal or downward-sloping ST depression with peaked positive T waves, and group B comprised 11 patients with peaked negative T waves and downward or horizontal ST depres...

The Passage mechanism introduced in this paper provides an easy and intuitive way to transport various types of digital objects by using also normal physical objects without any special identification tags. The current implementation of the Passage mechanism utilizes electronic scales and contact-free identification devices and thus allows for identification of arbitrary physical objects as wel...

Soil structure and its change are good indicators for soil quality environmental stability, land-use is known to be an important factor that affects structure. We investigated the seasonal temporal variability in evaluated erodibility under different land-management practices Mollisols region of Northeast China. considered five modes sloping land (5°), i.e., bare (BL), natural vegetation restor...

Soil erosion is one of the major processes degrading natural environment but also agricultural production areas. may lead to soil organic carbon (SOC) loss, especially from sloping terrain units. The use phytomelioration in environmental management, particularly long-term, permanent forest vegetation, widely recognized as a possible measure for protection and mitigation climate change through s...

The Garang watershed is one of the main rivers passing through Semarang City, Central Java. uptream mostly a buffer zone and catchment area for water soil resources conservation City surroundings. This research located in upstream watershed, with aim knowing level erosion or loss tolerance due to land use change.The model specific sheet which modeled RUSLE (Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation)...

Abstract Biodiesel production from soybean has been growing in the United States and although its amount is small by comparison with corn ethanol, addition to existing demands on land can have nonlinear effects use, due an upward sloping increasingly inelastic supply of land. It critical quantify these inform future policies that may expand soy biodiesel. Here we apply a multi-period, partial e...

Erosion and pollution in the Citarum River have reached a very worrying stage. To overcome this problem, government has launched Harum program. One of policies synergistic with program is application soil water conservation principles farming seasonal crops upper watershed (UCW). Historically, programs for developing pro-conservation area been carried out at least three decades but not effectiv...