Annual report for the town of New Castle fiscal year 2005-2006.

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire

Spatial land-use inventory, modeling, and projection/Denver metropolitan area, with inputs from existing maps, airphotos, and LANDSAT imagery

A landscape model was constructed with 34 land-use, physiographic, socioeconomic, and transportation maps. A simple Markov land-use trend model was constructed from observed rates of change and nonchange from photointerpreted 1963 and 1970 airphotos. Seven multivariate land-use projection models predicting 1970 spatial land-use changes achieved accuracies from 42 to 57 percent. A final modeling strategy was designed, which combines both Markov trend and multivariate spatial projection processes. Landsat-1 image preprocessing included geometric rectification/resampling, spectral-band, and band/insolation ratioing operations. A new, systematic grid-sampled point training-set approach proved to be useful when tested on the four orginal MSS bands, ten image bands and ratios, and all 48 image and map variables (less land use). Ten variable accuracy was raised over 15 percentage points from 38.4 to 53.9 percent, with the use of the 31 ancillary variables. A land-use classification map was produced with an optimal ten-channel subset of four image bands and six ancillary map variables. Point-by-point verification of 331,776 points against a 1972/1973 U.S. Geological Survey (UGSG) land-use map prepared with airphotos and the same classification scheme showed average first-, second-, and third-order accuracies of 76.3, 58.4, and 33.0 percent, respectively

Effects of Prescribed Fire on Soil Biogeochemistry in a Mixed Grass Prairie

Limited information exists regarding the effects of prescribed fire on soil biogeochemistry in the mixed grasslands of North America. This study investigated the effects of prescribed grassland fire on soil biogeochemistry over two growing seasons in the mixed grass prairies of Southern Saskatchewan. Spring burning was conducted in continuously grazed native and tame pastures. Soils were sampled (0-10 cm) 2, 3, 4 and 15, 16, 17 months after fire in burned and adjacent control plots. Investigation of soil biogeochemical changes include the analysis of soil total carbon (C), nitrogen (N), microbial biomass C (MBC), microbial biomass N (MBN), C stock, pH, electrical conductivity (EC) and characterization of the microbial community through phospholipid fatty acid biomarker extraction. Results indicate that the mixed grasslands in southern Saskatchewan are largely resistant and resilient to the effects of disturbance by fire. Slight changes in the microbial community structure were observed in both pastures; burning increased the homogeneity in microbial community composition. Attributed to a post fire nutrient flush, the tame forage pasture had an increase in soil fungi 2-4 months following fire and an increase in the ratio of Gram-negative bacteria to Gram-positive bacteria throughout the duration of the study. Temporal effects on soil biogeochemistry were stronger than fire effects. Pastures responded differently over time, likely due to differences in vegetation composition and abundance as well as land use history. This research shows that the use of prescribed fire is compatible with soil conservation principles, as negative effects on soil biogeochemistry were not observed. Reducing barriers to the use of prescribed fire in grassland management is important for the preservation and productivity of remnant grassland parcels, and the ecosystem services grasslands provide

1996 Laboratory directed research and development annual report

This report summarizes progress from the Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) program during fiscal year 1996. In addition to a programmatic and financial overview, the report includes progress reports from 259 individual R&D projects in seventeen categories. The general areas of research include: engineered processes and materials; computational and information sciences; microelectronics and photonics; engineering sciences; pulsed power; advanced manufacturing technologies; biomedical engineering; energy and environmental science and technology; advanced information technologies; counterproliferation; advanced transportation; national security technology; electronics technologies; idea exploration and exploitation; production; and science at the interfaces - engineering with atoms

Forest Fire Risk Prediction

Globally, fire regimes are being altered by changing climatic conditions and land use changes. This has the potential to drive species extinctions and cause ecosystem state changes, with a range of consequences for ecosystem services. Accurate prediction of the risk of forest fires over short timescales (weeks or months) is required for land managers to target suppression resources in order to protect people, property, and infrastructure, as well as fire-sensitive ecosystems. Over longer timescales, prediction of changes in forest fire regimes is required to model the effect of wildfires on the terrestrial carbon cycle and subsequent feedbacks into the climate system.This was the motivation to publish this book, which is focused on quantifying and modelling the risk factors of forest fires. More specifically, the chapters in this book address four topics: (i) the use of fire danger metrics and other approaches to understand variation in wildfire activity; (ii) understanding changes in the flammability of live fuel; (iii) modeling dead fuel moisture content; and (iv) estimations of emission factors.The book will be of broad relevance to scientists and managers working with fire in different forest ecosystems globally

2023- The Twenty-seventh Annual Symposium of Student Scholars

The full program book from the Twenty-seventh Annual Symposium of Student Scholars, held on April 18-21, 2023. Includes abstracts from the presentations and posters.https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/sssprograms/1027/thumbnail.jp

Reliability Abstracts and Technical Reviews 1966

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PHH Mortgage v. Nickerson Clerk\u27s Record Dckt. 42163

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Актуальные вопросы морфологии Материалы Международной научной конференции посв. 70-летию Государственного медицинского и фармацевтического университета им. Николая Тестемицану, Кишинэу, 15-16 октября 2015 года

Culegerea cuprinde articole ştiinţifice recenzate pe probleme actuale ale anatomiei, histologiei şi ale embriologiei omului şi animalelor, precum şi materiale referitoare la organizarea procesului didactic şi la diferite forme de instruire şi de control la catedrele de profil morfologic din Moldova, Belarus, Ucraina, Rusia, Gruzia, Israel, România, Kîrgîzstan. Materialele sunt destinate specialiştilor în morfologie şi alte domenii ale medicinii