It is becoming increasingly clear, at least on a theoretical level, that modelers of the potential impacts of climate change must impose that change upon the world as it will be configured sometime in the future rather than confine their attention to considerations of what would happen to the...

This article describes a study of the costs of a pilot telemedicine chronic wound consultation clinic. Cost minimization analysis is the technique used to examine the costs of the clinic. The components of cost analysis include the fixed costs of personnel and equipment and the indirect costs of...

"In the last 200 yr, more than 80% of the land in the U.S. Corn Belt agro-ecosystem has been converted from natural perennial vegetation to intensive agricultural production of row crops. Despite research showing how re-integration of perennial vegetation, e.g., cover crops, pasture, riparian...