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Microtopographic Controls on Erosion and Deposition of a Rilled Hillslope in Eastern Tennessee, USA
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022-03-09)Topography plays an important role in shaping the patterns of sediment erosion and deposition of different landscapes. Studies have investigated the role of topography at basin scales, whereas little work has been conducted ... -
COVID-19: Evidenced Health Disparity
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021-08-05)Health disparity is an unacceptable, unjust, or inequitable difference in health outcomes among different groups of people that affects access to optimal health care, as well as deterring it. Health disparity adversely ... -
Explore Associations between Subjective Well-Being and Eco-Logical Footprints with Fixed Effects Panel Regressions
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021-09-03)As environmental degradations constantly and directly threaten human well-being, it is imperative to explore the environmental impacts on people’s happy life. This research investigates the association between subjective ... -
Assessment of Ensemble Models for Groundwater Potential Modeling and Prediction in a Karst Watershed
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021-09-16)Due to numerous droughts in recent years, the amount of surface water in arid and semi-arid regions has decreased significantly, so reliance on groundwater to meet local and regional demands has increased. The Kabgian ... -
Predict Health Care Accessibility for Texas Medicaid Gap
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021-09-15)Medicaid is a unique approach in ensuring the below poverty population obtains free insurance coverage under federal and state provisions in the United States. Twelve states without expanded Medicaid caused two million ... -
Using the Change Point Model (CPM) Framework to Identify Windows for Water Resource Management Action in the Lower Colorado River Basin of Texas, USA
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021-12-22)In water-stressed river basins with growing urban populations, conflicts over water resources have emerged between urban and agricultural interests, as managerial interventions occur with little warning and tend to favor ... -
Texas in Transition: Considering the Production of Grapes, Wine, and Place
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022-10-19)Given the state’s growing prominence in the United States wine industry, paired with its relative obscurity, we explore the cultural and environmental transformation of the state of Texas from the perspective of the ... -
Arctic Change and Possible Influence on Mid-Latitude Climate and Weather: A US CLIVAR White Paper
(2018-03)The Arctic has warmed more than twice as fast as the global average since the mid 20th century, a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification (AA). These profound changes to the Arctic system have coincided with a period ...
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Reclaimed Water Use for Irrigation of Texas Golf Courses 2008
(Plant Management Network, 2008-05)Reclaimed water is proving to be a beneficial source of irrigation water for golf courses around the world. To gain a better perspective of issues associated with reclaimed water use, 487 golf course superintendents in ... -
United States Heat Wave Frequency and Arctic Ocean Marginal Sea Ice Variability
(American Geophysical Union, 2019-06-24)Recent studies point to a significant rise in the number of summer extreme weather events that correspond with the presence of amplified, quasistationary midtropospheric planetary waves, weakened atmospheric circulation ... -
Statistical relations of precipitation and stream runoff for El Niño and La Niña periods, Texas Hill Country
(Texas Water Journal, 2011-08)The Texas Hill Country is threatened by devastating long-duration droughts and short-duration floods, either of which can occur at any time. In Central Texas, El Niño and La Niña conditions each occur about one-quarter of ... -
Reviewing Spatial Thinking in Geography Textbooks Questions from The Perspective of Spatial Thinking
(IOP Science, 2019-11)As a science and a subject in school, geography is considered as having a major role to play in fostering spatial thinking. In the context of preparing for an educational reform transferring from content-based to ... -
Potential Stream Density in Mid-Atlantic U.S. Watersheds
(Public Library of Science, 2013-08-30)Stream network density exerts a strong influence on ecohydrologic processes in watersheds, yet existing stream maps fail to capture most headwater streams and therefore underestimate stream density. Furthermore, discrepancies ... -
The ‘Unicorn’ Dinosaur That Wasn’t: A New Reconstruction of the Crest of Tsintaosaurus and the Early Evolution of the Lambeosaurine Crest and Rostrum
(Public Library of Science, 2013-11-22)The lambeosaurine Tsintaosaurus spinorhinus has traditionally been reconstructed with an elevated, hollow, spike-like crest composed entirely of the nasal bones, although this has been disputed. Here, we provide a ... -
Characterizing International Travel Behavior from Geotagged Photos: A Case Study of Flickr
(Public Library of Science, 2016-05-09)Recent advances in multimedia and mobile technologies have facilitated large volumes of travel photos to be created and shared online. Although previous studies have utilized geotagged photos to model travel patterns at ... -
Assessment of the outbreak risk, mapping and infection behavior of COVID-19: Application of the autoregressive integrated-moving average (ARIMA) and polynomial models
(Public Library of Science, 2020-07-28)Infectious disease outbreaks pose a significant threat to human health worldwide. The outbreak of pandemic coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a global health emergency. Thus, identification of regions with high ... -
Partial Correlation Analysis of Association between Subjective Well-Being and Ecological Footprint
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021-01-20)A spatial-temporal panel dataset was collected from 101 countries during 2006–2016. Using partial correlation (PC) and ordinary correlation (OR) analyses, this research examines the relationship between ecological footprint ... -
Im/Mobility at the US–Mexico Border during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021-02-01)In March 2020, the United States government began a series of measures designed to dramatically restrict immigration as part of its response to the global health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. This included ... -
Local- and Regional-Scale Forcing of Glacier Mass Balance Changes in the Swiss Alps
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021-05-17)Glacier mass variations are climate indicators. Therefore, it is essential to examine both winter and summer mass balance variability over a long period of time to address climate-related ice mass fluctuations. In this ... -
Space-Time Cluster’s Detection and Geographical Weighted Regression Analysis of COVID-19 Mortality on Texas Counties
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021-05-22)As COVID-19 run rampant in high-density housing sites, it is important to use real-time data in tracking the virus mobility. Emerging cluster detection analysis is a precise way of blunting the spread of COVID-19 as quickly ...
