Classic aggregation operators in group decision making such as the OWA, IOWA, C-IOWA, P-IOWA and I-IOWA have shown to be successful tools in order to provide flexibility in the aggregation of preferences. However, these operators do not take advantage of information related to the interaction between experts. Experts involved in a group decision making problem may have developed opinions about ...

The submerged, floating, and emergent vascular flora of Lake East Okoboji, Dickenson County, Iowa, was surveyed by the senior author in the summer of 1961, with collections made at 21 stations. Emergent species and one hybrid, and 7 submerged or floating species were found. A comparison is made with a 1915 survey in which a very rich flora of about 18 emergents and 26 submerged or floating spec...

Agricultural tillage practices are important human-induced activities that can alter carbon emissions from agricultural soils and have the potential to significantly contribute to reductions in greenhouse gas emission (Lal et al, 1998). This research investigates the expected costs of sequestering carbon in agricultural soils under different subsidy and market-based policies. Using the detailed...

Jian Huang1,5,∗, Jin Liu, Shuangge Ma, Cun-Hui Zhang and Yong Zhou Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A. Center of Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School,Singapore Department of Biostatistics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. Department of Statistics and Biostatistics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, U.S.A....

K. Maxwell-Meier, R. Weber, C. Song, D. Orsini, and Y. Ma School of Earth and Atmospheric Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA G. R. Carmichael Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA D. G. Streets Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA Received 18 December 2003; revised 25 June 2004; accepted 15 Jul...

Degradation and sorption of imidacloprid in dissimilar surface and subsurface soils Jennifer C. Anhalt a , Thomas B. Moorman b & William C. Koskinen c a Department of Microbiology , Iowa State University , Ames, Iowa, USA b United States Department of Agriculture , Agricultural Research Service, National Soil Tilth Laboratory , Ames, Iowa, USA c United States Department of Agriculture , Agricul...

Beverly A. Rothermel, Kambeez Berenji, Paul Tannous, William Kutschke, Asim Dey, Bridgid Nolan, Ki-Dong Yoo, Elaine Demetroulis, Michael Gimbel, Barry Cabuay, Mohsen Karimi, and Joseph A. Hill Donald W. Reynolds Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center and Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, and Department of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center...

1327. Factors associated with optimizing empiric antibiotic therapy in six hospitals Daniel Morgan, MD, MS; Nikolay Braykov, BSE; Marin Schweizer, PhD; Daniel Z. Uslan, MD, MS; Theodoros Kelesidis, MD, PhD; Scott a. Weisenberg, MD, MSc, DTM&H; Birgir Johannsson, MD; Heather Young, MD; Joseph Cantey, MD; Eli Perencevich, MD, MS, FIDSA, FSHEA; Edward Septimus, MD, FIDSA, FSHEA; Ramanan Laxminaray...

Frank Abboud of Iowa Frank Abboud is so intertwined with Iowa, that in American academic medicine, when one thinks of Iowa, one thinks of Frank Abboud, and vice versa. What is it about this place that many consider, if at all, only when shuttling at 32,000 feet between the paragons of academia on our coasts? It is quite fitting that this Iowan receives the Kober Medal in this particular year, 2...

The 1992 public information campaign, Safe Farm, made farm safety messages available to a diverse and independent target audience of 104,000 full-time and parttime Iowa farm operators and their families. The print portion of the campaign reached 5.03 million Iowa newspaper subscribers. A series of public service announcements received at least 180 h of air time on more than 100 Iowa radio stati...