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This article describes the opportunities, challenges, and results of a vendor-library development project to create an ecommerce' tool as an integrated facet of Innovative's Web OPAC. Westerville Public Library was engaged with the software development process from the outset, communicating administrative, technical, and service issues and needs while also testing the product with its customers. The project culminated in early 2004 with the installation of Innovative's Ecommerce product and resulted in the collection of large payments online and an increase in total fine revenue collected. Most notably, the team found that Ecommerce gathered nearly a quarter of all fines collected in 2004, and almost one-third of fines collected in the first half of 2005. The participants reflect on the nature and history of the partnership, outcomes, best practices, and future plans. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Measures the transpiration of trees in a tropical rainforest in Venezuela. Tritium method; Transpiration rates; Correlation of transpiration rate with the sapwood area of trees; Soil type and transpiration.

Discusses some basic concepts in relation to a mineral-cycling study of a Puerto Rican tropical rain forests. Principles of mineral cycles at the terrestrial ecosystem level; Input-output balance of mineral elements in ecosystem; Relationship between the concentration of mineral elements in ecosystem drainage water and the volume of drainage water; Relative loss of cations from the ecosystem in relation to their replacing power.