Larger versus smaller red blood cell volume per transfusion in hospitalized adults, children, and preterm neonates.

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: The objective of this review is to compare the effectiveness and safety of larger versus smaller RBC volume per transfusion for anemia in hospitalized adults, children, and preterm neonates.

Distinct influence of filter strips on acute and chronic pesticide aquatic environmental exposure assessments across U.S. EPA scenarios.

Vegetative filter strips (VFS) are proposed for protection of receiving water bodies and aquatic organisms from pesticides in runoff, but there is debate regarding the efficiency and filter size requirements. This debate is largely due to the belief that no quantitative methodology exists for predicting runoff buffer efficiency when conducting acute and/or chronic environmental exposure assessments. Previous research has proposed a modeling approach that links the U.

Revised framework for pesticide aquatic environmental exposure assessment that accounts for vegetative filter strips.

For pesticides that do not pass higher-level environmental exposure assessments, vegetated filter strips (VFS) are often mandated for use of the compound. However, VFS physiographic characteristics (i.e.

Parameter importance and uncertainty in predicting runoff pesticide reduction with filter strips.

Vegetative filter strips (VFS) are an environmental management tool used to reduce sediment and pesticide transport from surface runoff. Numerical models of VFS such as the Vegetative Filter Strip Modeling System (VFSMOD-W) are capable of predicting runoff, sediment, and pesticide reduction and can be useful tools to understand the effectiveness of VFS and environmental conditions under which they may be ineffective. However, as part of the modeling process, it is critical to identify input factor importance and quantify uncertainty in predicted runoff, sediment, and pesticide reductions.

Influence of rainfall distribution on simulations of atrazine, metolachlor, and isoxaflutole/metabolite transport in subsurface drained fields.

This research investigated the impact of modeling atrazine, metolachlor, and isoxaflutole/metabolite transport in artificially subsurface drained sites with temporally discrete rainfall data. Differences in considering rainfall distribution are unknown in regard to estimating agrochemical fluxes in the subsurface. The Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM) simulated pesticide fate and transport at three subsurface drained sites: metolachlor/atrazine field experiment in Baton Rouge, LA (1987), and two isoxaflutole/metabolite field experiments in Allen County and Owen County, Indiana (2000).

Uncalibrated modelling of conservative tracer and pesticide leaching to groundwater: comparison of potential Tier II exposure assessment models.

The Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM) and Pesticide Root Zone Model (PRZM) are currently being considered by the Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) in the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) for Tier II screening of pesticide leaching to groundwater (November 2005). The objective of the present research was to compare RZWQM and PRZM based on observed conservative tracer and pesticide pore water and soil concentrations collected in two unique groundwater leaching studies in North Carolina and Georgia. These two sites had been used previously by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Environmental Model Validation Task Force (EMVTF) in the validation of PRZM.

Interrelationship of macropores and subsurface drainage for conservative tracer and pesticide transport.

Macropore flow results in the rapid movement of pesticides to subsurface drains, which may be caused in part by a small portion of macropores directly connected to drains. However, current models fail to account for this direct connection. This research investigated the interrelationship between macropore flow and subsurface drainage on conservative solute and pesticide transport using the Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM).