An analysis of judicial decisions in NEPA-related litigation reveals that EISs do not appear to be more defensible than environmental assessments in the courts, suggesting that current decisionmaking about NEPA documentation may be misguided, leading to unnecessary project expenditures and delays....
The BLS produces these skill profiles using surveys of actual workers and assessments from BLS analysts. O*NET provides information on required workplace skills for over 750 occupations defined by Standard Occupation Classification (SOC) taxonomy. The BLS uses SOC codes to also report employment ...
The results of CV studies have guided resource regulation and environmental protection, and they have been accepted by Courts in legal cases. Contingent valuation is one of the recognized valuation methods employed in assessments under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability ...
The Southern Forest Outlook is designed to inform forest sector decisionmakers and the interested public about observed trends, anticipated futures, and critical issues based on authoritative synthesis and interpretation of existing science, data, and 50-year projections. The report builds on a rich hi...
A training set of objects with known disturbance type was developed via high-resolution imagery and expert interpretation, ingested into a Random Forest classifier, which was then used to attribute disturbance type to all 15,179,430 forest loss objects across CONUS. Accuracy assessments of the ...
At the same time, numerous large-scale assessments in the US have been used to map fire hazard and risk around the WUI (Dillon, Menakis, & Fay, 2015; WWWRA, 2013) to target investments in hazardous fuel reduction projects (Butler, Monroe, & McCaffrey, 2015; USDA Forest Service, 2015)...
For screening test accuracy (KQ2), studies of test accuracy reporting sensitivity and specificity compared with a structured or semistructured clinical interview, or computer-based versions of structured assessments, were included. For studies of benefits or harms of unhealthy alcohol screening (KQ1 ...
One trial (n=322) found a reduction in illicit drug use at 38 months (eg, cannabis use in the previous month, 10.7% in the intervention group and 15.6% in the control group) but not at earlier follow-up assessments. Across all 29 trials, only 1 trial reported on harms and found no...
13 Two senior reviewers independently developed initial strength-of-evidence assessments for each relevant outcome and comparison across the KQs; disagreements were resolved through discussion and the independent assessment of a third senior reviewer.Results ...
Cradle-to-grave (cradle-to-gate and gate-to-grave) LCA method was used to estimate the environmental impacts and energy usage in the production of redwood lumber (1 m3 of lumber), used in a redwood-deck, and its end-of-life (i.e., the deck was demolished after 25 years of its ...