The water balance and phosphorus inputs of surface waters of the Weiße Elster catchment, Germany, have been quantified using the models GROWA/MEPhos and SWAT. A comparison of the model results shows small differences in the mean long-term total runoff for the entire study area. All relevant pathways of phosphorus transport were considered in MEPhos with phosphorus inputs resulting to about 65% ...

This paper describes SWAT, a Secure Wireless Agent Testbed. Our goal is to create an integrated environment to study information assurance for mobile agent systems on ad hoc wireless networks. The present SWAT consists of dozens of mobile hosts, both PDAs and laptops, and hundreds of both static and mobile software agents. In deploying the testbed, we have developed novel mechanisms for integra...

This supplemental material section contains detailed information on the input data assumptions for the SWAT modeling as well as the model calibration and validation results. The data sources listed in Supplemental Table 1 were used to build the SWAT TMDL modeling system for the Raccoon River watershed, most of which are accessible in the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) on-line digit...

Climate change has amplified the severity of droughts with potentially adverse impacts on agriculture in western Canada. This study assessed meteorological and agricultural drought Southern Saskatchewan River Basin (SSRB) using an array indices, including Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), Precipitation-Evapotranspiration (SPEI), Self-Calibrated Palmer Drought Severity (scPDSI), Soil Moist...

Background NICOLA-RT is using minor edits to invitation letters to assess their impact on potential participants’ decisions about joining a prospective study. Even small improvements in recruitment could produce important savings in cost and time. The elements in NICOLA-RT have been registered as SWAT (Study Within A Trial) 3, 4 and 5. These SWAT examine different approaches to recruitment and ...

BACKGROUND Two types of adipose tissues, white (WAT) and brown (BAT) are found in mammals. Increasingly novel strategies are being proposed for the treatment of obesity and its associated complications by altering amount and/or activity of BAT using mouse models. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPLE FINDINGS The present study was designed to: (a) investigate the differential expression of genes in LACA mice...

Exposure to highly toxic pesticides could potentially cause cancer and disrupt the development of vital systems. Monitoring activities were performed to assess the level of contamination; however, these were costly, laborious, and short-term leading to insufficient monitoring data. However, the performance of the existing Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT model) can be restricted by its two-...

Continued technology scaling is resulting in systems with billions of devices. Consequently, these devices are are prone to failures from various sources resulting in a growing reliability threat. As this reliability problem is expected to affect the broad computing market, traditional solutions involving high redundancy, or piecemeal solutions targeting specific failure modes will no longer be...

BACKGROUND Alternative macrophages (M2) express the cluster differentiation (CD) 206 (MCR1) at high levels. Decreased M2 in adipose tissue is known to be associated with obesity and inflammation-related metabolic disturbances. Here we aimed to investigate MCR1 relative to CD68 (total macrophages) gene expression in association with adipogenic and mitochondrial genes, which were measured in huma...

The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) was used to simulate five glacierized river basins that are global in coverage and vary in climate. The river basins included the Narayani (Nepal), Vakhsh (Central Asia), Rhone (Switzerland), Mendoza (Central Andes, Argentina), and Central Dry Andes (Chile), with a total area of 85,000 km2. A modified SWAT snow algorithm was applied in order to consider...