OBJECTIVE To develop a quantitative tool to assess severity of mycosis fungoides. DESIGN Prospective analysis of a cohort. SETTING University department of dermatology-based cutaneous lymphoma clinic. PATIENTS From 1984 to 1995, 1186 visits from 323 referred patients seen in a multidisciplinary cutaneous lymphoma program. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Severity-weighted assessment tool (SWAT) sc...

Estimation of runoff volume and sediment load is a problem that directly affects the performance of dams due to the reduction in the storage capacity of their reservoirs and their effect on dam efficiency and operation schedule. The simulation models can be considered for evaluation of sediment potential if the continuous field measurements are not available. Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWA...

Microscopic peculiarities stemming from a temperature increase in subcutaneous adipose tissue (sWAT) after applying a radio-frequency (RF) current, must be strongly dependent on the type of sWAT. This effect is connected with different electrical conductivities of pathways inside (triglycerides in adipocytes) and outside (extra-cellular matrix) the cells and to the different weighting of these ...

As climate change is projected to impose profound global variations in the freshwater resources, assessing the impacts of the former on the latter is a fundamental task for improving the water management, namely, in arid and semiarid areas, as there a plenty of in countries like Iran. Such is the objective of the present paper, where the impacts of climate change on the water availability in th...

The calibration and execution of large hydrological models, such as SWAT (soil and water assessment tool), developed for large areas, high resolution, and huge input data, need not only quite a long execution time but also high computation resources. SWAT hydrological model supports studies and predictions of the impact of land management practices on water, sediment, and agricultural chemical ...

A clear understanding of a model is important for its appropriate use. In this article, eleven watershed scale hydrologic and nonpoint-source pollution models are reviewed: AGNPS, AnnAGNPS, ANSWERS, ANSWERS-Continuous, CASC2D, DWSM, HSPF, KINEROS, MIKE SHE, PRMS, and SWAT. AnnAGNPS, ANSWERS-Continuous, HSPF, and SWAT are continuous simulation models useful for analyzing long-term effects of hyd...

Reliable estimates of runoff are required as a part of the information sets that help watershed managers make informed decisions on water resources planning and management. This study was carried out in Shafaroud watershed located in the north of Iran. In order to achieve the best runoff simulation in the study area, first rainfall data of four stations during 1998 to 2011 were collected and co...

0022-1694/$ see front matter Published by Elsevier doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2009.06.023 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 301 314 6706; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (X In this paper, the Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) were used to simultaneously conduct calibration and uncertainty analysis for the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). In this combined ...

Soil water content (SWC) and soil temperature are important hydrologic state variables. Accurate model simulation is critical in regimes cold regions dominated by spring snowmelt. In this study, we developed a combined physically-based energy-balance rain-on-snow (ROS) module for the Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) applied it to South Saskatchewan River Basin (SSRB). We calibrated SWAT base (SWAT-...

The objective of this paper was to spatially quantify diffuse pollution sources and estimate the potential efficiency of applying riparian buffer zones as a conservation practice for mitigating chemical pollutant losses. This study was conducted using a semi-distributed Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model that underwent extensive calibration and validation in the Sulejów Reservoir catch...