Comparative Analysis of the Transboundary Flathead and Elk River Basins

The Flathead Basin Commission is one of the last intact ecosystems in North America, with the full complement of carnivores that were in the Basin when Europeans arrived, and with vascular plant diversity exceeding that of the Serengeti. However, the headwaters of the transboundary Flathead is threatened with large scale mining and energy development projects that would forever change the pristine nature of this basin. In 2008, studies were undertaken to compare water quality, aquatic biodiversity and fisheries in the Flathead Basin against the adjacent Elk Basin, which is heavily impacted by five open pit coal mines. To date, the results of the studies have shown statistically significant values with respect to heavy metals, particularly selenium, nitrates and sulphates in the Elk River versus the Flathead River

What is Psychology's Role with New Neuroimmunology Findings?

In our graduate level, Doctoral training we are provided with a Biological Bases of Behavior course and sometimes an elective to take an advanced seminar in Neuroscience. With this training, we discover the impact of our biological functioning on behavior. Newest in this focus is the area of Neuroimmunology. The ways in which the body utilizes adaptive and cellular defenses against bacteria, viruses, prion and other toxins in one general facet of the field of Immunology. Recently in media sources, new hypotheses of the role of dysfunctional immune system functioning thus allowing a type of brain virus has been hypothesized with the disorder of Schizophreni

Speeding up the HMC: QCD with Clover-Improved Wilson Fermions

We apply a recent proposal to speed up the Hybrid-Monte-Carlo simulation of systems with dynamical fermions to two flavor QCD with clover-improvement. For our smallest quark masses we see a speed-up of more than a factor of two compared with the standard algorithm.Comment: 3 pages, lattice2002, algorithms, DESY Report-no correcte

Fluid and Acid-Base Balance in Cattle: A Guide for Supportive Fluid Therapy

This paper is intended for the bovine practitioner. Fluid and acid-base balance is a complex subject and application of basic principles can be difficult in the busy rural practice. However, while we recognize that the veterinarian\u27s primary role is to assist the animal in elimination of the primary disease, the reward of success will often be enhanced through use of supportive fluid therapy

Establishing Phone Number Reputation Using a Contact Center Platform

Spam telephone calls decrease customer confidence in unknown callers; consequently, businesses can experience low call pickup rates. Some challenges with accurate caller identification are that a call from a legitimate business can be marked as spam, and that the name of the business that appears on the display need not be the actual owner of the number. This disclosure describes techniques to determine the accuracy of the caller ID and additional description such as business name or spam status reflected on a callee’s mobile device. An outbound test call is initiated from a contact center platform to a test mobile device. The session screen of the incoming call displayed on the test device is recorded and sent to a database. The recorded session screen is validated against pre-recorded data. The validation establishes the accuracy of the displayed caller ID and determines if the call is tagged as spam, enabling the business to take corrective action as necessary