In soil profiles, special emphasis has been placed on the migration of agricultural chemicals spread intentionally or accidentally into deep soils or groundwater body. To prevent soil water pollution and estimate the magnitude of the hazard caused by these chemicals, it is necessary to know the...

The distractive effects on attentional task performance in different paradigms are analyzed in this paper. I demonstrate how distractors may negatively affect (interference effect), positively (redundancy effect) or neutrally (null effect). Distractor effects described in literature are...

Natural disasters can cause substantial damage to public and private sector infrastructure capital, generating macroeconomic losses through complex channels. These shocks must be managed and accounted for with macrofiscal and monetary policy to minimize their welfare impacts. To support this...