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Novel Techniques For Enhancing Sensitivity In Static Headspace, Nicholas Snow, G.P Bullock Jun 2015

Novel Techniques For Enhancing Sensitivity In Static Headspace, Nicholas Snow, G.P Bullock

Nicholas A Snow

No abstract provided.


Simultaneous Determination Of Pramoxine Hcl And Benzalkonium Chloride In Wound Care Solutions By Hplc, Panagiotis Tavlarakis, Jonine Greyling, Nicholas Snow Jun 2015

Simultaneous Determination Of Pramoxine Hcl And Benzalkonium Chloride In Wound Care Solutions By Hplc, Panagiotis Tavlarakis, Jonine Greyling, Nicholas Snow

Nicholas A Snow

No abstract provided.


Essential Elements Of Sustainable Fire Management In The Wildland-Urban Interface, Christopher Dicus Aug 2010

Essential Elements Of Sustainable Fire Management In The Wildland-Urban Interface, Christopher Dicus

Christopher Dicus

Fire and fuels management in the wildland-urban interface is a multifaceted aggregation of biophysical and sociopolitical components. To best insure sustainable communities in the wildland-urban interface, stakeholders from a diversity of disciplines and worldviews must collaborate to develop a management plan for a given area that minimizes fire risk while simultaneously maximizing the benefits that distinct vegetation types and structures provide. This paper discusses critical elements that must be considered in order to maintain sustainable communities in the wildland-urban interface. These factors include fuels treatments, suppression forces, enforceable infrastructure and construction standards, and community education, each of which will vary …


Restoration Of Mixed Conifer Communities Using Prescribed Fire In Bryce Canyon National Park, Michael J. Jenkins, Christopher Dicus, Joel E. Godfrey Jun 2010

Restoration Of Mixed Conifer Communities Using Prescribed Fire In Bryce Canyon National Park, Michael J. Jenkins, Christopher Dicus, Joel E. Godfrey

Christopher Dicus

A fire history conducted in the mixed conifer community types of Bryce Canyon National Park found the mean fire-return interval has lengthened from 7.5 to 45 years since 1900. Dendroecology, species, diameter, and age-class analysis showed a change in stand composition in favor of white fir (Abies concolor) and Douglas-fir (Psuedotsuga menziesii) and a 200% increase in fuel accumulation. Recommendations for prescribed burning and mechanical reduction of fuels were incorporated into the Bryce Canyon management plan.


Basking Behavior Of Emydid Turtles (Chysemys Picta Marginata, Graptemys Geographica, And Trachemys Scripta Elegans) In An Urban Landscape, W. Peterman, Travis Ryan Jun 2010

Basking Behavior Of Emydid Turtles (Chysemys Picta Marginata, Graptemys Geographica, And Trachemys Scripta Elegans) In An Urban Landscape, W. Peterman, Travis Ryan

Travis J. Ryan

Basking is common in emydid turtles and is generally accepted to be in thermoregulatory behavior. In 2004, we quantified and described the basking behavior of turtles in the Central Canal of Indianapolis. This canal system runs through an urban landscape that is dominated by fragmented woodlots, residential areas. and commercial areas. We observed that basking turtles exhibited variable basking behavior. with spatial and temporal shins in basking behavior from east-facing banks in the morning to west-facing banks in the afternoon. Turtles in the Central Canal are subject to frequent disturbance, which altered basking behavior. Many turtles forewent aerial basking on …


A Tutorial On The Basic Physics Of Climate Change, David W. Hafemeister, Peter V. Schwartz May 2010

A Tutorial On The Basic Physics Of Climate Change, David W. Hafemeister, Peter V. Schwartz

Peter V. Schwartz

In this paper, we have used several basic atmospheric–physics models to show that additional carbon dioxide will warm the surface of Earth. We also show that observed solar variations cannot account for observed global temperature increase.


Understanding Space Weather Customers In Gps-Reliant Industries, Jennifer Meehan, G. Fisher, W. Murtagh Dec 2009

Understanding Space Weather Customers In Gps-Reliant Industries, Jennifer Meehan, G. Fisher, W. Murtagh

Jennifer (Jinni) Meehan

No abstract provided.


Forward Modeling Synsedimentary Deformation Associated With A Prograding Steep-Sloped Carbonate Margin, Phillip G. Resor Dec 2009

Forward Modeling Synsedimentary Deformation Associated With A Prograding Steep-Sloped Carbonate Margin, Phillip G. Resor

Phillip G Resor

Differential compaction associated with prograding and aggrading steep-rimmed carbonate margins leads to penecontemporaneous and post- depositional modifications of stratal geometries and tensile and shear stress concentrations that result in brittle deformation. In an effort to investigate controls on these deformation processes, we employ a step-wise gravity loaded elastic model that captures pre-failure displacement and stress field patterns for a depositional geometry based on the Permian Capitan depositional system, Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas and New Mexico, USA. We consider four model geometries with varying progradation to aggradation (P/A) ratio, from strongly prograding (P/A=10) to strongly aggrading (P/A=0.1). The strongly prograding case …