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Publications, Patents/Invention Disclosures and Thesis/Dissertation out of this project:

Invention Disclosure: 

• Kloot, R.W., De, S., Covington, E, Taduri, H, 2002, AFOPro - A nutrient management decision support system for the United States., Invention disclosure to University of South Carolina Research Foundation (USCRF# 00354)

Peer-reviewed Journal:

• Kloot, R.W., Rickman, J.D., and Evans, W. M., 2004, Predicting the time required for swine CNMP development using statistical methods and real data, Trans of ASAE 47(3) pp.865-870.

• De. S., Kloot, R.W., Covington, E., Bezuglov, A., and Taduri, H., 2003, AFOPro: a nutrient management decision support system for the United States, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 43(1) pp. 69-76.

Conference Proceeding:

• Kloot, R.W. , Owens, W., Covington, E. and De, S., 2001, A GIS-based decision support tool for siting animal feeding operations, Proc. 7th Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference, March 25-29, 2001. Reno Nevada

• Covington, E., Kloot, R.W., Reddy, H., 2001, GIS Decision Support System for Animal Feeding Operations Planning, Proc. ESRI International User’s Conference, July 7-13, 2001, San Diego CA

• Kloot, R.W., Covington, E. , Henry S.T and Atkins, J.B, 2001, A GIS Decision Support Tool for Animal Facility Permitting and Nutrient Management, Proc. Integrated Decision-Making for Watershed Management Symposium: Processes and Tools, January 7-9, 2001. Washington D.C.

• Atkins, J.B. , Covington, E. and Kloot, R.W., 2000, GIS Decision Support System for Animal Feeding Operations Siting and Management, Proc.AWWA Conference June, 2000, Denver, CO.

• Covington, E., Kloot, R.W. and Atkins, J.B., 2000, Tool for Animal Feeding Operations Siting, Proc. ESRI International User’s Conference, July 2000, San Diego, CA.

Popular Magazine:

• Covington, E., Kloot, R.W., and Atkins, J.B., 2000, GIS Decision Support System for Animal Feeding Operations Siting and Management, ArcUser, 3(4), Oct.-Dec., pp. 24-27

Dissertation / Thesis:

• Brantley, D., 2005, Alternative Ecological Assessments on the 303 (d) Listed Bush River Watershed, Master Thesis, School of the Environment, University of South Carolina.

• Kloot, R.W., 2005, Locating Nutrient and Bacterial Pollution in a Rural South Carolina Watershed, Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Environmental Health Sciences, Norman Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina

• Bezuglov, A., 2005, Dynamical System and Synergy Theories Approaches for Identifying Hidden Markov Model (HMM) Dimensionality and HMM Training, Ph.D. Dissertation, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, (Pursuing).

• Radakovich, B., 2002, The effects of land use on phosphorus concentrations in the Pee Dee basin of South Carolina, Master Thesis, School of the Environment, University of South Carolina