abstract in this research, four meteorological set of data including maximum temperature, minimum temperature, precipitation and radiation from echo-g, under a1scenario have been used for climate change detection over south khorasan. echo-g is a general circulation model that currently is used in hamburg university and korea meteorological research institute. in this research climate change ass...

Address correspondence to: Margarita Ramírez-Vick, MD, Endocrinology Section, Department of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, PO Box 365067, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00936-5067. E-mail: [email protected] Objective: thyroid cancer has become one of the fastest growing malignancies in several countries worldwide. Few studies have examined thyroid cancer trends in Puerto...

The main objective of this study was to analyze the mortality trends of female breast cancer in Turkey between the years 1987-2008. The rates per 100,000 age-standardized to the European standard population were assessed and time trends presented using joinpoint regression analysis. Average annual percent change (AAPC), anual percent change (APC) and 95% confidence interval (CI) was calculated....

This report proposes a standard method to characterize variability and sensitivity of functional neuroimaging experiments. Most functional neuroimaging analyses result in statistic images of signal-to-noise. However, it is essential to examine both signal and noise individually, to characterize sensitivity and to identify artifacts. Confidence intervals simultaneous convey signal and noise but ...

BACKGROUND Monitoring potential changes in the epidemiology of cystic fibrosis (CF) pathogens furthers our understanding of the potential impact of interventions. METHODS We performed a retrospective analysis using data reported to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Patient Registry (CFFPR) from 2006 to 2012 to determine the annual percent changes in the prevalence and incidence of selected CF pa...

The 2004 NIST interoperability cost study estimated an annual cost burden of $15.8 billion due to inadequate interoperability in the capital facilities segment of the U.S. construction industry. The $15.8 billion estimate is the sum of individual annual cost burdens for four key stakeholder groups: architects and engineers ($1.2 billion); general contractors ($1.8 billion); specialty fabricator...

introduction: in this study, total factor productivity growth components in rough rice production are assisting by econometric approach and stochastic frontier function during 2005-2013 for several provinces (mazandaran province, guilan province, golestan province, fars province, khoozestan province). according to food and agriculture organization statics, iran is the 3rd importer and 20th expo...

The highest risk of imported malaria in Illinois is associated with travel to countries of origin by immigrants to visit family and friends. We used Join point regression to analyze Malaria crude incidence rate (mCIR) trend from 1990 through 2013. We found join point regression a useful way to summarize mCIR trends because it connected the linear line segments over a fixed time interval (annual...