Navigation on inland waterways, such as rivers, canals, fairways via reservoirs and lakes is performed under conditions of a minimum the keel clearance, hydrodynamic interaction between ship's hull underwater limits fairway, impact irregular currents. Piloting ship difficult navigational requires navigator to monitor continuously ship’s motion, assess quickly situation develop optimal decision ...

The 3 billion genetic instructions that form a blueprint for human life have now been cataloged, but the meaning of most of those instructions remains unknown. Therefore, the practical significance of deciphering the book of human life remains murky except in one area: many new pharmaceutical drugs will soon be possible. Unfortunately, this is a mixed blessing. A raft of new drugs may benefit t...

Pathogen contamination of waterways is a serious concern in dairy farming areas where livestock waste is applied to agricultural fields. As an alternative, a biodrying composting system dries collected livestock waste, reduces the strong odors, and has been proposed as a means of reducing, and even eliminating pathogens present in the waste. Therefore, the survival of pathogens in a biodrying c...

watershed scale irnpact. Our objective was to estimate the watershed scale impact of grass buEers by comparing sediment and agichemical losses from two adjacent 14 1 165 hectare watersheds, one with conservation buffers and one without. Rainfall derived m o f f events frorn 2002-2003 were monitored for water runoff, TSS, phosphorous and atrazine loss. A conservation-watershed included 0.8 Ism o...

Sustainable approaches to water management require broad community acceptance of changes in policy, practice and technology, which in turn, requires an engaged community. A critical first step in building an engaged community is to identify community knowledge about water management, an issue rarely examined in research. To address this, we surveyed a representative sample of Australian adults ...

An association between human illness and exposure to Pfiesteria was first observed among laboratory personnel working with the microorganism. In 1997, in the setting of Pfiesteria activity on the Pocomoke River in Maryland, difficulties with learning and memory were epidemiologically associated with high-level exposure to waterways in which the organism was known to be present. In the Maryland ...

Systemic insecticides are applied to plants using a wide variety of methods, ranging from foliar sprays to seed treatments and soil drenches. Neonicotinoids and fipronil are among the most widely used pesticides in the world. Their popularity is largely due to their high toxicity to invertebrates, the ease and flexibility with which they can be applied, their long persistence, and their systemi...