Plants for Shoreline Erosion Control in Southern Areas of the United States

2013 ◽  
pp. 798-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. C. Young
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Erosion Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Shoreline Erosion

Investigation Into the Utilization of Peanut Fibers in Nonwovens

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Bieak ◽  
Brian R. George
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Thermal Insulation ◽  
Erosion Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Crops ◽  
Light Penetration ◽  
Nonwoven Fabrics ◽  
United States Today ◽  
Peanut Production

Peanuts are one of the leading food crops produced in the United States today. One of the problems of peanut production is disposal of the shells, or hulls, of the peanut, which are generally landfilled. The current research focused on obtaining fibers from the shells, characterizing them, and creating nonwoven fabrics containing these fibers, which were also characterized. The fibers obtained ranged in length from 0.6 cm to 6.3 cm, and were generally stiff. Wet laid nonwovens were produced and a variety of bonding methods such as needlepunching and latex bonding were performed. Latex bonding gave the best results, and the resulting fabrics were characterized in terms of strength, moisture, and light penetration, and thermal insulation capability. The fabrics had similar light and moisture penetration properties as some commercially available erosion control fabrics and thus may be suitable for this purpose. The fabrics also retained some heat, and may be suitable for insulation purpose.

scholarly journals Native woody plants of the United States : their erosion-control and wildlife values /

1938 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Richard Van Dersal ◽  
Furman Lloyd Mulford ◽  
C. w. Thornthwaite ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Woody Plants ◽  
Erosion Control ◽  
The United States

Shoreline erosion rates along the middle Atlantic coast of the United States

Geology ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Dolan ◽  
Bruce Hayden ◽  
Cary Rea ◽  
Jeffrey Heywood
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Atlantic Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
Shoreline Erosion ◽  
Erosion Rates ◽  
Middle Atlantic

scholarly journals DEVELOPMENT OF DESIGN CRITERIA FOR SEGMENTED BREAKWATERS

1986 ◽  
Vol 1 (20) ◽  
pp. 158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Pope ◽  
Julie L. Dean
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Erosion Control ◽  
The United States ◽  
Beach Erosion ◽  
Design Criteria

This paper will discuss experience and approaches to the use of segmented breakwaters for beach erosion control in the United States. Several prototype cases are examined and generalizations drawn concerning the resultant beach response. This experience is further evaluated in order to develop a preliminary approach for developing design criteria.

scholarly journals Native woody plants of the United States : their erosion-control and wildlife values /

1939 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Richard Van Dersal ◽  
Furman Lloyd Mulford ◽  
C. w. Thornthwaite
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Woody Plants ◽  
Erosion Control ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Native woody plants of the United States, their erosion-control and wildlife values.

1938 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Richard Van Dersal ◽  
Furman Lloyd Mulford ◽  
Charles Warren Thornthwaite ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Woody Plants ◽  
Erosion Control ◽  
The United States

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

Silence of the Land: On the Historical Irrelevance of Territory to Congressional Districting and Political Representation in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Rehfeld
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Congressional District ◽  
Congressional Districts ◽  
Communities Of Interest

Every ten years, the United States “constructs” itself politically. On a decennial basis, U.S. Congressional districts are quite literally drawn, physically constructing political representation in the House of Representatives on the basis of where one lives. Why does the United States do it this way? What justifies domicile as the sole criteria of constituency construction? These are the questions raised in this article. Contrary to many contemporary understandings of representation at the founding, I argue that there were no principled reasons for using domicile as the method of organizing for political representation. Even in 1787, the Congressional district was expected to be far too large to map onto existing communities of interest. Instead, territory should be understood as forming a habit of mind for the founders, even while it was necessary to achieve other democratic aims of representative government.

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