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Economic optimization of wildfire intervention activities

August 1, 2010
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David T. Butry, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Karen L. Abt, Rhonda Sutphen
We describe how two important tools of wildfire management, wildfire prevention education and prescribed fire for fuels management, can be coordinated to minimize the combination of management costs and expected societal losses resulting from wildland fire

Editorial: Editorial re. Associate Editors

August 1, 2010
Author(s)
Dylan F. Williams
Our editing team is key to the success of the Transactions. The Associate Editors who commit to a term of service are dedicated individual who work on a strictly voluntary basis to ensure the high quality of the manuscripts that are published. this is not

Editorial: Special Issue on: "Developing Sustainable Products, Processes and Services"

August 1, 2010
Author(s)
Sudarsan Rachuri, Prabir Sarkar, Dimitris Kiritsis, Masaru Nakano
We are witnessing an increased interest to ensure that future generations have adequate resources to maintain a high standard of living. The World Commission on Environment and Development defines sustainable development as, Sustainable development is

Flow Visualization Techniques for the Evaluation of Non-Contact Trace Contraband Detectors

August 1, 2010
Author(s)
Matthew E. Staymates, Wayne Smith, John G. Gillen, Richard T. Lareau, Robert A. Fletcher
Efforts are underway in the Surface and Microanalysis Science Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology to study trace aerodynamic sampling of explosive particles using walk-through portal-based detection systems. Explosive trace

From the Editor's Desk: Re-Visioning Reviews

August 1, 2010
Author(s)
Catherine A. Remley
This is an Editorial for the August, 2010 issue of IEEE Microwave Magazine. Kate Remley, the Editor-in-Chief, writes about timely topics for the members of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S).

In Vitro and in Vivo Characteristics of Fluorapatite-forming Calcium Phosphate Cements

August 1, 2010
Author(s)
Shozo Takagi, Stanislav A. Frukhtbeyn, Laurence C. Chow, Akiyoshi Sugawara, Kenji Fujikawa, Kidehiro Ogata, Makoto Hayashi, Bunnai Ogiso
This study reports for the first time in vitro and in vivo properties of fluorapatite (FA)-forming calcium phosphate cements (CPCs). The experimental cements contained from (0 to 3.3) mass % of F, corresponding to presence of FA at levels of approximately

Modeling and Monitoring of Construction Supply Chains

August 1, 2010
Author(s)
Jack C. Cheng, Kincho H. Law, Hans Bjornsson, Albert T. Jones, Ram D. Sriram
The planning and management of supply chains require properly specifying the participating members and the relationships among them. Construction supply chains usually consist of numerous participants and are complex in structure. Representing construction
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