Soil erosion is a global challenge, seriously threatening soil and water resources andenvironmental qualities. One of the important factors to consider in the process of runoffgeneration and soil erosion is the physical and chemical properties of soils under differentland-uses. The aim of this study is to estimate soil erosion and runoff in rangeland, rain-fedand abandoned rain-fed agriculture ...

We read with interest and congratulate the authors for reporting largest retrospective study comparing endovascular open repair in treatment of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms.1Wang L.J. Locham S. Al-Nouri O. Eagleton M.J. Clouse W.D. Malas M.B. Endovascular aneurysm is superior to repair: propensity-matched analysis Vascular Quality Initiative.J Vasc Surg. 2020; 72: 498-507Abstract Full Te...

Managing the ever rapidly increasing image data is a very challenging task, which can be roughly divided into user side and computer side issues. Although fundamental problems on the computer side of the challenge, such as image content representation, similarity matching and intelligent retrieval have received extensive research effort, equally important and difficult issues on the user side, ...

We investigated the secretion of interleukin (IL)-13 into the airways in 10 mild allergic asthmatics by employing local allergen challenge, and compared the data both to IL-4 levels and eosinophil numbers obtained by bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). Appropriate allergen or saline were endoscopically instilled into different airway segments, which were lavaged 10 min and 18 h after allergen or sham...

many public policy programs fail to translate ambitious headlines to on-the-ground action. the reasons for this are many and varied, but for public administration and management scholars a large part of the gap between ambition and achievement is the challenge associated with the operation of the machinery of government itself, and how it relates to the other parties that it relies on to fulfil...