A reference wetland network for assessment and monitoring of Montana's herbaceous wetlands /

The main objective of this paper is to measure the level of household resilience to cyclone and storm surges in the coastal area of Bangladesh. We draw on four general disaster frameworks in terms of addressing household-level resilience to cyclones and storm surges. We use a composite indicator approach organized around four components: (1) household infrastructure (HI); (2) household economic capacity (HEC); (3) household self-organization and learning (HSoL), and; (4) social safety nets (SSN). Drawing on a household survey (N = 1188) in nine coastal union parishads in coastal Bangladesh purposively selected as among the most vulnerable places in the world, we use principal components analysis applied to a standardized form of the survey data that identifies key household resilience features. These household index scores can be used for the assessment and monitoring of household capacities, training, and other efforts to improve household cyclone resilience. Our innovative methodological approach allows us to (a) identify patterns and reveal the underlying factors that accurately describe the variation in the data; (b) reduce a large number of variables to a much smaller number of core dimensions of household resilience, and (c) to detect spatial variations in resilience among communities. Aggregated to the community level, our new index reveals significant differences in community cyclone resilience in different areas of the coastal region. In this way, we can show that shoreline and island communities, in particular, have significant deficits in terms of household resilience, which seem to be mutually reinforcing one another and making for lower resilience.

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FOXP1 syndrome: a review of the literature and practice parameters for medical assessment and monitoring

Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders ◽

10.1186/s11689-021-09358-1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Reymundo Lozano ◽

Catherine Gbekie ◽

Paige M. Siper ◽

Shubhika Srivastava ◽

Jeffrey M. Saland ◽

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Keyword(s):

Neurodevelopmental Disorder ◽

Autism Spectrum ◽

Medical Assessment ◽

Forkhead Box ◽

Organ Systems ◽

Practice Parameters ◽

Assessment And Monitoring ◽

Multidisciplinary Group ◽

The Brain

AbstractFOXP1 syndrome is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by mutations or deletions that disrupt the forkhead box protein 1 (FOXP1) gene, which encodes a transcription factor important for the early development of many organ systems, including the brain. Numerous clinical studies have elucidated the role of FOXP1 in neurodevelopment and have characterized a phenotype. FOXP1 syndrome is associated with intellectual disability, language deficits, autism spectrum disorder, hypotonia, and congenital anomalies, including mild dysmorphic features, and brain, cardiac, and urogenital abnormalities. Here, we present a review of human studies summarizing the clinical features of individuals with FOXP1 syndrome and enlist a multidisciplinary group of clinicians (pediatrics, genetics, psychiatry, neurology, cardiology, endocrinology, nephrology, and psychology) to provide recommendations for the assessment of FOXP1 syndrome.

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Lean Maturity Assessment in ETO Scenario

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app11093833 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (9) ◽

pp. 3833

Author(s):

Mariastella Chiera ◽

Francesco Lupi ◽

Andrea Rossi ◽

Michele Lanzetta

Keyword(s):

Lean Manufacturing ◽

Mathematical Formulation ◽

Assessment Model ◽

Assessment Framework ◽

Lean Product Development ◽

Lean Assessment ◽

Assessment And Monitoring ◽

Mission Management ◽

Engineer To Order ◽

Manufacturing Organization

The obligatory path towards a lean manufacturing organization requires assessment and monitoring. However, a lean assessment framework is not yet available for the engineer to order (ETO) scenario. This work explored ten lean ETO maturity principles—identified from the literature—that take insight from three formally defined sets (Toyota Way, lean construction, and lean product development principles). A practical assessment model was proposed based on the evaluation of ten lean ETO objective criteria (four with mathematical formulation) and was validated on a real industrial case. A problem-solving tool, including a new lean tool, called the Problem Focus Matrix (PFM), was also presented; this tool was aimed toward development of an integrated framework that would include the organization mission, management, and continuous improvement.

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A Framework for Identifying Reference Wetland Conditions in Highly Altered Landscapes

Wetlands ◽

10.1007/s13157-021-01439-0 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Marinus L. Otte ◽

Wei-Ta Fang ◽

Ming Jiang

Keyword(s):

Reference Wetland

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Remote Sensing for Cultural Heritage Assessment and Monitoring: The Case Study of Alba Iulia

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13031406 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 1406 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Cristian Moise ◽

Iulia Dana Negula ◽

Cristina Elena Mihalache ◽

Andi Mihai Lazar ◽

Andreea Luminita Dedulescu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Remote Sensing ◽

Cultural Heritage ◽

Heritage Management ◽

Time Interval ◽

Urban Landscapes ◽

Persistent Scatterer Interferometry ◽

Heritage Site ◽

Depth Analysis ◽

Assessment And Monitoring ◽

Historical Past

In recent times, satellite-based remote sensing has a growing role in archaeology and inherently in the cultural heritage management process. This paper demonstrates the potential and usefulness of satellite imagery for the documentation, mapping, monitoring, and in-depth analysis of cultural heritage and the archaeological sites located in urban landscapes. The study focuses on the assessment and monitoring of Alba Iulia, which is one of the Romanian cities with the richest historical past. Multitemporal analysis was performed to identify the land use/land cover changes that might contribute to an increased cultural heritage vulnerability to natural disasters. A special emphasis was dedicated to the assessment of the built-up area growth and consequently of the urbanization trend over a large time interval (30 years). Next, the urbanization and urban area expansion impact was further analyzed by concentrating on the urban heat island within Alba Iulia city and Alba Iulia Fortress (located in the center of the city). As temperature change represents a key element of climate change, the temperature trend within the same temporal framework and its impact on cultural heritage were determined. In the end, with regard to the cultural heritage condition assessment, the research was complemented with an assessment of the urban ground and individual building stability, using persistent scatterer interferometry. The results contribute to the detailed depiction of the cultural heritage site in such a manner that the site is monitored over an extensive timeframe, its current state of conservation is accurately determined, and the future trends can be identified. In conclusion, the present study offers reliable results regarding the main factors that might endanger the cultural heritage site as a basis for future preservation measures.

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Low altitude spatial assessment and monitoring of intertidal seagrass meadows beyond the visible spectrum using a remotely piloted aircraft system

Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science ◽

10.1016/j.ecss.2021.107299 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 255 ◽

pp. 107299

Author(s):

Subhash Chand ◽

Barbara Bollard

Keyword(s):

Visible Spectrum ◽

Spatial Assessment ◽

Seagrass Meadows ◽

Remotely Piloted Aircraft ◽

Assessment And Monitoring ◽

Remotely Piloted Aircraft System ◽

Low Altitude ◽

Intertidal Seagrass ◽

Aircraft System

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Microbial drivers of methane emissions from unrestored industrial salt ponds

The ISME Journal ◽

10.1038/s41396-021-01067-w ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Jinglie Zhou ◽

Susanna M. Theroux ◽

Clifton P. Bueno de Mesquita ◽

Wyatt H. Hartman ◽

Ye Tian ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Microbial Communities ◽

Methane Flux ◽

Methane Emissions ◽

Metagenomic Data ◽

Rrna Gene ◽

Salt Ponds ◽

Salt Pond ◽

Reference Wetlands ◽

Reference Wetland ◽

The Impact

AbstractWetlands are important carbon (C) sinks, yet many have been destroyed and converted to other uses over the past few centuries, including industrial salt making. A renewed focus on wetland ecosystem services (e.g., flood control, and habitat) has resulted in numerous restoration efforts whose effect on microbial communities is largely unexplored. We investigated the impact of restoration on microbial community composition, metabolic functional potential, and methane flux by analyzing sediment cores from two unrestored former industrial salt ponds, a restored former industrial salt pond, and a reference wetland. We observed elevated methane emissions from unrestored salt ponds compared to the restored and reference wetlands, which was positively correlated with salinity and sulfate across all samples. 16S rRNA gene amplicon and shotgun metagenomic data revealed that the restored salt pond harbored communities more phylogenetically and functionally similar to the reference wetland than to unrestored ponds. Archaeal methanogenesis genes were positively correlated with methane flux, as were genes encoding enzymes for bacterial methylphosphonate degradation, suggesting methane is generated both from bacterial methylphosphonate degradation and archaeal methanogenesis in these sites. These observations demonstrate that restoration effectively converted industrial salt pond microbial communities back to compositions more similar to reference wetlands and lowered salinities, sulfate concentrations, and methane emissions.

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Damage assessment and monitoring of composite ship joints

Composite Structures ◽

10.1016/j.compstruct.2004.09.017 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 67 (2) ◽

pp. 205-216 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

I. Herszberg ◽

H.C.H. Li ◽

F. Dharmawan ◽

A.P. Mouritz ◽

M. Nguyen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Damage Assessment ◽

Assessment And Monitoring ◽

Composite Ship

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Old and new challenges in using species diversity for assessing biodiversity

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ◽

10.1098/rstb.2011.0065 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 366 (1576) ◽

pp. 2426-2437 ◽

Cited By ~ 100

Author(s):

Alessandro Chiarucci ◽

Giovanni Bacaro ◽

Samuel M. Scheiner

Keyword(s):

Species Diversity ◽

Quantitative Measurement ◽

Phylogenetic Distance ◽

Existing Problems ◽

Species Abundances ◽

Species Lists ◽

Assessment And Monitoring ◽

New Challenges ◽

Patterns And Processes ◽

Conservation And Management

Although the maintenance of diversity of living systems is critical for ecosystem functioning, the accelerating pace of global change is threatening its preservation. Standardized methods for biodiversity assessment and monitoring are needed. Species diversity is one of the most widely adopted metrics for assessing patterns and processes of biodiversity, at both ecological and biogeographic scales. However, those perspectives differ because of the types of data that can be feasibly collected, resulting in differences in the questions that can be addressed. Despite a theoretical consensus on diversity metrics, standardized methods for its measurement are lacking, especially at the scales needed to monitor biodiversity for conservation and management purposes. We review the conceptual framework for species diversity, examine common metrics, and explore their use for biodiversity conservation and management. Key differences in diversity measures at ecological and biogeographic scales are the completeness of species lists and the ability to include information on species abundances. We analyse the major pitfalls and problems with quantitative measurement of species diversity, look at the use of weighting measures by phylogenetic distance, discuss potential solutions and propose a research agenda to solve the major existing problems.

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Non-destructive technologies for sustainable assessment and monitoring of railway infrastructure: a focus on GPR and InSAR methods

Environmental Earth Sciences ◽

10.1007/s12665-021-10068-z ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 80 (24) ◽

Author(s):

Chiara Ferrante ◽

Luca Bianchini Ciampoli ◽

Andrea Benedetto ◽

Amir M. Alani ◽

Fabio Tosti

Keyword(s):

Railway Infrastructure ◽

Assessment And Monitoring ◽

Non Destructive

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