This thesis presents an approach to develop innovative methods for decontamination and surface protection applicable to naval nuclear ships and potentially, personnel, replacing antiquated techniques. To accomplish this ...

The success of civil engineering construction in cold regions often depends on the assessment of the potential for frost heave. Over the past two decades two models have been presented to the engineering community to i ...

Evaluation and sensitivity analysis of a soil-water--- atmosphere-plant simulation model, SWATRE, developed by Feddes et al (1978) in The Netherlands was conducted. The evaluation was performed with the observed data ...

Remote sensing is the most practical way to acquire large amounts of land cover data for monitoring and understanding environmental change, so it is important to be able to map land cover from imagery. Maps defining la ...

School districts across the nation are engaged in an ongoing attempt to bring about change. Educational researchers strive to initiate change in the classroom with students as well as the teachers of these students. T ...

The methods to educate students with disabilities in physical education contexts vary greatly due to their unique characteristics and special needs, requiring different teaching methods on an individual basis. In order t ...

Members of the family Chlamydiae cause a wide range of diseases. Chlamydia trachomatis and C. pneumoniae are most commonly associated with human disease. C. psittaci and C. pecorum are largely animal pathogens, althoug ...

Sediment yield increases following timber harvest and road construction were predicted for four Pacific Northwest experimental watersheds. Sediment yields were predicted using a handbook developed by the U.S. Forest S ...

The planning of harvests and management activities for forested lands has traditionally been done with either binary search or linear programming. Since both these techniques have some advantages over the other, they hav ...

Schools are increasingly expected to prevent and decrease violence, substance use, and other problem behaviors linked to academics and prepare students to be contributing members of society. One approach with proven suc ...