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introduced species, and land development. The second indicator section contains analyses of air pollution data including
nitrate and sulfate wet deposition data and ozone data. The third indicator section contains analyses of tree health data
including tree mortality, crown condition, and damage. The final data section is a multivariate analysis, providing an integrated
presentation of the data used in the report. Two appendices contain details about the analyses methods and summary data
tables.
NTIS
Environmental Surveys; Forest Management; Forests; Health
20060002370 Lawrence Livermore National Lab., Livermore, CA, USA, Colorado Univ., Boulder, CO USA
TKE Budgets and Dissipation Rates in Disturbed Stable Boundary Layers
Lundquist, J. K.; Piper, M.; Kosovic, B.; January 2005; 20 pp.; In English
Report No.(s): DE2005-15014648; UCRL-PROC-206026; No Copyright; Avail.: National Technical Information Service
(NTIS)
No abstract available
Boundary Layers; Wind (Meteorology)
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LIFE SCIENCES (GENERAL)
Includes general research topics related to plant and animal biology (non-human); ecology; microbiology; and also the origin,
development, structure, and maintenance of animals and plants in space and related environmental conditions. For specific topics in life
sciences see categories 52 through 55.
20060000077 TNO Environment, Energy and Process Innovation, Netherlands
Successful Nutrition and Health Interventions to Obtain and Maintain an Optimal Availability of Soldiers
Bakker-Zierikzee, A. M.; van Dusseldorp, M.; June 2005; 36 pp.; In Dutch; Original contains color illustrations
Contract(s)/Grant(s): A04/KL/185; TNO Proj. 010.30723/O1.01
Report No.(s): TD 2004-0385; Copyright; Avail.: Other Sources
An important goal of the Ministry of Defence is to obtain and maintain an optimal availability of soldiers. Factors like
lifestyle, nutrition and physical fitness may affect health and thereby availability of the army personnel. Several countries have
tried to optimize availability of the soldiers by performing nutrition and health interventions. In this article we reviewed the
literature on two successful intervention strategies namely: providing individual advice to decrease cardiovascular risk factors
and reducing running distance during training to prevent training related injuries. Individual dietary advice was successful in
improving cardiovascular risk factors. Advice on lifestyle and nutrition decreased cholesterol level with 4 to 9% and decreased
the number of everweight soldiers with 8%. These results support the continuation of programmes like Weightco@ch.
Changing training programs by decreasing running distance with 40 to 100% and increasing marching distance, lowered the
number of injuries by 14 to 54%. Using ankle braces, special shoes or insoles might have additional positive effect on injury
rates. The interventions consisted of relative simple changes that most likely will have both short-term and long-term positive
effects on the availability of army personnel.
Author
Nutrition; Public Health; Cardiovascular System; Military Personnel
20060001589 Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA, USA
Pattern Spectrum of Images and Morphological Shape-Size Complexity
Maragos, Petros; IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP ‘87); Volume 1; 1987,
pp. 7.9.1 - 7.9.4; In English; See also 20060001583
Contract(s)/Grant(s): NSF CDR-85-00108; Copyright; Avail.: Other Sources
By using morphological opening and closing set operations, a pattern spectrum of binary images can be developed, which
measures the image content relative to patterns of arbitrary shape and size. In this paper, the pattern spectrum of discrete
images is further generalized, is directly related to the skeleton (medial axis) transform, is used to derive a shape-size
complexity measure of the image and its immediate background, and all these concepts are extended to graytone images. The
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