Abstract. Water resource management (WRM) practices, such as groundwater and surface water abstractions effluent discharges, may impact baseflow. Here the CAMELS-GB large-sample hydrology dataset is used to assess impacts of practices on Baseflow Index (BFI) using statistical models 429 catchments from Great Britain. Two complementary modelling schemes, multiple linear regression (LR) machine l...

The prediction of efficiency scores for winter road maintenance (WRM) is a challenging and serious issue in countries with cold climates. While effective efficient WRM key contributor to maximizing transportation safety minimizing costs environmental impacts, it has not yet been included intelligent methods. Therefore, this study aims design classification model that combines data envelopment a...

Plant cells employ the actin cytoskeleton to stably position organelles, as tracks for long distance transport, and to reorganize the cytoplasm in response to developmental and environmental cues. While diverse classes of actin binding proteins have been implicated in growth control, the mechanisms of cytoskeletal reorganization and the cellular functions of specific actin filament arrays are u...

In response to our article on the blue and green water footprint (WF) of bioenergy (1), others propose to multiply each blue WF component by a water-stress index and neglect green WFs, because impacts would be nil (2). They propose to redefine the WF from a volumetric measure to an index resulting from multiplying volumes by impact factors. Framing their argument within the logic of life-cycle ...

In this commentary, we discuss how our recent paper by Yang et al. contributes a new wrinkle to the already somewhat curious Wnt signaling pathway in C. elegans. We begin with a historical perspective on the Wnt pathway in the worm, followed by a summary of the key salient point from Yang et al., 2011, namely demonstration of mutually inhibitory binding of a β-catenin SYS-1 to the N-terminus an...

This study developed a series of strategies to reassess the service level winter road maintenance (WRM) operations on network in Perth County, Ontario, Canada. These include rearranging plow routes by sharing material storage yards and optimizing their numbers locations while considering operational legislative constraints such as total circuit time, operating speeds, number available trucks. A...

Water yield, water supply and quality, wildlife habitat, and ecosystem productivity and services are important societal concerns for natural resource management in the 21st century. Watershedscale ecohydrologic studies can provide needed context for addressing complex spatial and temporal dynamics of these functions and services. This study was conducted on the 5240 ha Turkey Creek watershed (W...