6 The highlands and mountains of Iceland (defined here as areas located above 400 m a.s.l) are one of the largest remaining wilderness areas in Europe. The present study was aimed to provide the first comprehensive and up-to-date data on non-native plant species from these areas. The study was aimed to answer the following questions: (1) How many non-native vascular plant species inhabit highla...

van Heerwaarden et al. (2011) provide evidence of approximately 20% introgression of mexicana to maize varieties growing at over 1500 m. Below this altitude, only 1% such introgression is observed. Given the phylogenetic proximity of mexicana to parviglumis, these altitudespecific differences in admixture are more than sufficient to explain the close affinity of highland maize to teosinte; i.e....

Fractal scaling behavior of long-term records of daily runoff time series in 31 sub-watersheds covering a wide range of size were examined using the shifted box-counting method and Hurst rescaled range (R/S) analysis. These subwatersheds were associated with four agricultural watersheds of different climate and topography. The results showed that the records of daily runoff rate exhibited scale...

Surface water samples of baseflow were collected from 20 headwater sub-watersheds which were classified into three types of watersheds (natural, urban and agricultural) in the flood, dry and transition seasons during three consecutive years (2010-2012) within a coastal watershed of Southeast China. Integrating spatial statistics with multivariate statistical techniques, river water quality vari...

This paper examines the effects of urbanization on the flood hazard in semi-arid/arid southern California using traditional hydrograph, frequency-magnitude and statistical analysis augmented with GIS-based variable parameterizations and visualizations. It was found that the peak flood discharges were significantly increased in urban watersheds in conjunction with increasing mean baseflow in the...

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Line Associated Bloodstream Infections And Nosocomial Bacteremia Mark Shelly, MD; Linda Greene, RN, MPS, CIC; Lynne Brown, RN, MBA, CIC; Sherry Romig, RN; Ann Marie Pettis, RN, BSN, CIC; Infectious Disease, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rocheseter, NY; Infectious Disease, Highland Hospital, Rochester, NY; Infection Prevention, Highland Hospital, Rochester, NY; Infection Prevention, Un...

There has been a steady shift towards modeling and model-based approaches as primary methods of assessing watershed response to hydrologic inputs and land management, and of quantifying watershed-wide best management practice (BMP) effectiveness. Watershed models often require some degree of calibration and validation to achieve adequate watershed and therefore BMP representation. This is, howe...

This study focuses on the differential hydrologic response of individual watersheds to climate warming within the Sierra Nevada mountain region of California. We describe climate warming models for 15 west-slope Sierra Nevada watersheds in California under unimpaired conditions using WEAP21, a weekly one-dimensional rainfall-runoff model. Incremental climate warming alternatives increase air te...