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Results of the Patient Safety Authority’s 2018 Process Measures Survey

Patient Safety, 2019
Improving patient safety is an ongoing journey that benefits from periodic assessment to recognize, reward, and redirect efforts. As an independent, nonregulatory state agency, the Patient Safety Authority (PSA) is uniquely positioned to both conduct ...
Michelle Bell, Kim Liberatore
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Leveraging Existing Technology: Developing a Trusted Digital Repository for the U.S. Geological Survey

International Journal of Digital Curation, 2021
As Federal Government agencies in the United States pivot to increase access to scientific data (Sheehan, 2016), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has made substantial progress (Kriesberg et al., 2017).
Vivian B. Hutchison, Tamar Norkin, Maddison L. Langseth, Drew A. Ignizio, Lisa S. Zolly, Ricardo McClees-Funinan, Amanda Liford   +6 more
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Ecological and human health risk assessment of heavy metal(loid)s in agricultural soil in hotbed chives hometown of Tangchang, Southwest China

Scientific Reports, 2022
To determine the heavy metal(loid)s (HMs) contamination of agricultural soil in hotbed chives hometown of Tangchang, 788 topsoil samples were collected and analyzed for their heavy metal(loid)s concentration.
Cang Gong, Shunxiang Wang, Dewei Wang, Haichuan Lu, Hang Dong, Jiufen Liu, Buqing Yan, Liang Wang   +7 more
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Landscape genetics identified conservation priority areas for blue sheep (Pseudois nayaur) in the Indian Trans-Himalayan Region

Scientific Reports, 2023
The trans-Himalayan region of India, although have xeric features, still supports a unique assemblage of biodiversity, including some of the charismatic and endemic species.
Stanzin Dolker, Gul Jabin, Sujeet Kumar Singh, Bheem Dutt Joshi, Vinaya Kumar Singh, Supriyo Dalui, Kailash Chandra, Lalit Kumar Sharma, Mukesh Thakur   +8 more
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A tale of two valleys: endangered species policy and the fate of the giant gartersnake

California Fish and Wildlife Journal, 2021
By the mid-20th Century, giant gartersnakes (Thamnophis gigas) had lost more than 90% of their Central Valley marsh habitat and were extirpated from more than two-thirds of their range.
Brian J. Halstead, Patricia Valcarcel, Richard Kim, Anna C. Jordan, Jonathan P. Rose, Shannon M. Skalos, Gabriel A. Reyes, Julia S. M. Ersan, Michael L. Casazza, Allison M. Essert, Alexandria M. Fulton   +10 more
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Estimation of forest resource stock, biomass and carbon storage characteristics based on measured plot data: A case study of a typical area of Hanjiang River Basin in China [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
There are many methods of forest resource survey, and so are the methods of stock estimation.The forest stock estimation method based on field survey data of sample plots is widely used in the industry because of its characteristics such as accurate data
Wei Zhang, Guanzhong Zeng, Xuanhui Li, Xiaojing Liu, Jiaqi Xu, Zongyue Lu, Kang Sun, Keliang Shi   +7 more
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Discrimination of topsoil environments in a karst landscape: an outcome of a geochemical mapping campaign

Geochemical Transactions, 2020
The study presented in this work emerged as a result of a multiyear regional geochemical survey based on low-density topsoil sampling and the ensuing geochemical atlas of Croatia.
Ozren Hasan, Slobodan Miko, Nikolina Ilijanić, Dea Brunović, Željko Dedić, Martina Šparica Miko, Zoran Peh   +6 more
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3D pseudo-lithologic modeling via iterative weighted k-means++ algorithm from Tengger Desert cover area, China

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023
The bedrock beneath the Tengger Desert is covered by Quaternary deposits, making it difficult to directly observe the underlying geological information using traditional geological methods.
Yulong Dong, Yulong Dong, Yang Liu, Wuxu Peng, Yansi Chen, Junjie Fan, Xiaobing Huang, Huilong Liu, Qiang Sun   +8 more
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Keynote lecture. Forecasting the inundation of postfire debris flows [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2023
In the semi-arid regions of the western United States, postfire debris flows are typically runoff generated. The U.S. Geological Survey has been studying the mechanisms of postfire debris-flow initiation for multiple decades to generate operational ...
Barnhart Katherine R., Jones Ryan P., George David L., Rengers Francis K., Kean Jason W.   +4 more
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Data Report: Molecular and Isotopic Compositions of the Extracted Gas from China’s First Offshore Natural Gas Hydrate Production Test in South China Sea

Energies, 2018
Three hundred gas samples recovered from SHSC-4 during China’s first gas hydrate production test in the South China Sea were examined for gas component and isotopic composition. According to the gas chromatography analysis, all the gas samples from
Jianliang Ye, Xuwen Qin, Haijun Qiu, Wenwei Xie, Hongfeng Lu, Cheng Lu, Jianhou Zhou, Jiyong Liu, Tianbang Yang, Jun Cao, Rina Sa   +10 more
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