Background To date, research on priority-setting for new vaccines has not adequately explored the influence of the global, national and sub-national levels of decision-making or contextual issues such as political pressure and stakeholder influence and power. Using Kapiriri and Martin’s conceptual framework, this paper evaluates priority setting for new vaccines in Uganda at national and sub-na...

Global climate change may become one of the most pressing challenges to Pacific Salmon conservation and management for southeast Alaska in the 21st Century. Predicted hydrologic change associated with climate change will likely challenge the ability of specific stocks to adapt to new flow regimes and resulting shifts in spawning and rearing habitats. Current research suggests egg-to-fry surviva...

In this paper, we present an image re-coloring algorithm for dichromats according to the key color priority. The visibility of the deficient viewers forms a priority order of the key colors and is then used to separate the re-coloring problem into a set of smaller and proper sub-problems in turn. Moreover, our approach can preserve both the color contrast and naturalness efficiently and effecti...

At gauged watersheds, the time of concentration can be estimated using rainfall-runoff data; however, at ungauged empirical methods are used instead. Large errors in application may cause inaccurate modeling floods and unreliable structure design. In this paper, for calculating (Tc) were compared to identify best equation estimating Tc watersheds an arid region. The graphical method, based on m...

in this study, effective criteria on process of tourism areas selection were collected due to macro planning of capable areas to tourism sample regions in khorasan razavi province. then, their priority was carried out based on delphi method. after determining the relative weights and criteria priorities, the map of capable areas to planning tourism sample regions was obtained at the province le...

Many tasks in robotics can be decomposed into sub-tasks that are performed simultaneously. In many cases, these sub-tasks cannot all be achieved jointly and a prioritization of such sub-tasks is required to resolve this issue. In this paper, we discuss a novel learning approach that allows to learn a prioritized control law built on a set of sub-tasks represented by motor primitives. The primit...

The present study deals with the estimation of soil loss from Upper Subarnarekha catchment in Odisha (India) using Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT). Sequential uncertainty fitting (SUFI-2) algorithm SWAT calibration programs (SWAT-CUP) was used for model simulation. calibrated observed data period 1996 to 2008 first 3 years (1996–1998) as warm-up period. Further, validation done 5-year 200...

This study examined the effect of urbanization on stream hydrology in hillslope watersheds. Ten streams (seven in hillslope and three in gentle slope watersheds) around Austin, Texas were selected for analysis. For each stream, we compared parameters of transfer function (TF) models estimated from daily rainfall and streamflow data collected in two study periods (October 1988–September 1992 and...

What would happen in Mediterranean rivers and streams if warming but not drying occurred? We examined whether the delivery of environmental flows within a climate can maintain suitable macroinvertebrate habitats despite warming. A two-dimensional ecohydraulic model was used to (1) simulate influence water temperature flow on macroinvertebrates by calculating habitat suitability for 12 change sc...