Nature-based solutions (NBS) have been broadly defined in coastal resilience as the restoration of natural environments or civil infrastructure with elements, examples ranging from marsh and new oyster beds to artificial reefs living shorelines. The multiplicity NBS types makes it difficult quantify model their effectiveness a whole flood reduction environmental co-benefits. Specific operate un...

As of summer 2014, the invasive emerald ash borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), has become established in 24 states in the United States of America and has killed tens of millions of ash trees since its introduction into Michigan in the 1990s. Considerable research has been conducted on many aspects of EAB life history, natural history, ecology, and management ...

Paris green or Schweinfurt's green is a cheniical compound of arsenic, copper and acetic acidIts chemical name is copper aceto-arsenite, its f?r" mula being 3 Cu H As 03 -jCu (C2 H3 Os)r It is therefore a double salt of copper arsenite and acetate. It is a microcrystalline powder 01 emerald green colour. It is practically insoluble in water. It is perfectly soluble in ammonia a11 concentrated a...

The cover scales on the wing of the Emerald-patched Cattleheart butterfly, Parides sesostris, contain gyroid-type biological photonic crystals that brightly reflect green light. A pigment, which absorbs maximally at approximately 395 nm, is immersed predominantly throughout the elaborate upper lamina. This pigment acts as a long-pass filter shaping the reflectance spectrum of the underlying pho...

Purpose – China is undergoing a radical change as the forces of industrialization and modernization transform its society. Money is taking on an increasingly important role, particularly among young Chinese, as the Western ideals of individualism and hedonism thrive. The goal of this research is to understand attitudes towards money in China and how these attitudes affect elements of consumer b...

This paper reports selected results from a survey of Queensland local governments, conducted in late 2009, that investigated their adoption of state-level disaster management policies and guidelines. The survey comprised an online questionnaire distributed to all Queensland local governments, augmented by focus groups held in the regional coastal and inland administrative centres of Cairns, Mac...

This article is an apologia for the design of inheritance in the Grace educational programming language: it explains how the design of Grace’s inheritance draws from inheritance mechanisms in predecessor languages, and defends that design as the best of the available alternatives. For simplicity, Grace objects are generated from object constructors, like those of Emerald, Lua, and Javascript; f...

In recent years, large amounts of pesticides are used to achieve record harvests (for example, DDT has been used in Mexico for more than 50 years) [1], [2]). DDT is forbidden in the U.S., Canada and Europe because causes cancer. To reduce the pesticide amount it is necessary to locate precisely the distribution of insects and caterpillars. This task is very important not only for crops but also...

Geographic automata systems composed of agent-based models (ABM) are capable of representing complex, spatio-temporal phenomena such as insect infestation. However, ABMs are often difficult to understand and explain thus imposing limits of their usefulness. This study proposes the integration of spatial network theory and a geospatial ABM to help provide a more complete depiction of ABM behavio...

Radial diffusion is one of the dominant physical mechanisms driving acceleration and loss electrons in outer radiation belt. Therefore, accurate estimation radial coefficients (DLL) crucial for detailed belt modeling. In recent years several semi-empirical (SE) models have been developed which predominantly rely on parameterizations Kp index. However, studies suggested that estimations derived ...