Validation of WEPS for soil and PM10 loss from agricultural fields within the Columbia Plateau of the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 743-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Feng ◽  
B. Sharratt
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Agricultural Fields ◽  
Columbia Plateau

Abrazando Nopales—Prickly Embrace: Undocumented Women’s Life Stories/Poetic Performance Narratives

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-180
Author(s):  
Miryam Espinosa-Dulanto
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Undocumented Immigrants ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
The United States ◽  
Census Bureau ◽  
Agricultural Fields ◽  
The South ◽  
The U.S

I chose poetic performance narratives to create a provocative piece offering a glimpse of the reality, tragedies, dreams, and hopes lived daily by more than 12 million people in the United States. These individuals are reported as unauthorized, undocumented immigrants by the U.S. Census Bureau. These specific stories were shared and collected ethnographically on the agricultural fields of the South East of the United States. My goal is to have “captured” readers to be seduced into the “uncomfortable” world of undocumented people and have the poems/performance narratives become not only representation of the events but, as Renato Rosaldo said, “the event itself.”

Evaluation of the APEX Model to Simulate Runoff Quality from Agricultural Fields in the Southern Region of the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (6) ◽  
pp. 1357-1364 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Ramirez-Avila ◽  
David E. Radcliffe ◽  
Deanna Osmond ◽  
Carl Bolster ◽  
Andrew Sharpley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Southern Region ◽  
Agricultural Fields ◽  
Apex Model ◽  
Runoff Quality

An Observation of Corn Tar Spot Dispersal from Agricultural Fields to an Isolated Urban Plot

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan M. Kleczewski ◽  
Norman D. Bowman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Latin America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Urban Site ◽  
Agricultural Fields ◽  
Rapid Progression ◽  
Tar Spot ◽  
Corn Residue ◽  
Published Research

Tar spot of corn is a fairly new disease to the United States, and since its introduction in 2015 it has spread to over 310 counties across nine states. Little is understood of the biology and epidemiology of the causative agent of tar spot of corn, Phyllachora maydis. Published research from Latin America indicates that spores can only travel a distance of 75 m; however, rapid progression and spread in the United States, in addition to widespread observations of top-down infection, indicate distal dispersal is likely more important. We observed an isolated plot of decorative corn in an urban setting, isolated from agricultural fields. We assessed nearby fields for crop, tar spot, cropping history, and distance from the urban site. Based on our observations, the propagules infecting the urban plot arrived from at least 560 m if from corn residue, and from at least 1,249 m if from active infections from nearby corn. Although this observation is not replicated, it does indicate that dispersal values from Latin America may not reflect the potential dispersion in Midwest topographies.

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

Silence of the Land: On the Historical Irrelevance of Territory to Congressional Districting and Political Representation in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Rehfeld
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Congressional District ◽  
Congressional Districts ◽  
Communities Of Interest

Every ten years, the United States “constructs” itself politically. On a decennial basis, U.S. Congressional districts are quite literally drawn, physically constructing political representation in the House of Representatives on the basis of where one lives. Why does the United States do it this way? What justifies domicile as the sole criteria of constituency construction? These are the questions raised in this article. Contrary to many contemporary understandings of representation at the founding, I argue that there were no principled reasons for using domicile as the method of organizing for political representation. Even in 1787, the Congressional district was expected to be far too large to map onto existing communities of interest. Instead, territory should be understood as forming a habit of mind for the founders, even while it was necessary to achieve other democratic aims of representative government.

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