A calibrated radiocarbon database of late Quaternary volcanic eruptions R. U. Bryson, R. A. Bryson, and A. Ruter National Park Service, Mojave National Preserve, 2701 Barstow Road, Barstow, CA 92311, USA Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1225 W. Dayton St., Madison, WI 53706, USA Received: 24 May 2006 – Accepted: 17 July 2006 – Published: 25 July 2006 Correspondence...

1Okinawa International University, Okinawa 901-2701, Japan 2Okinawa Research Center for Longevity Science, Okinawa 901-2114, Japan 3Pacific Health Research and Education Institute, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA 4Department of Research, Kuakini Medical Center, Honolulu, HI 96817, USA 5Department of Research, Planning and Development, The Queen’s Medical Center, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA 6Department of G...

BACKGROUND The impact of the sex of a deceased child on maternal suicide has not been studied. We examined whether the death of a child, especially a son, increased the risk of suicide among parous Taiwanese women. METHODS This matched case-control study was done within a cohort of 1 292 462 Taiwanese women who experienced a first and singleton childbirth between 1 January 1978 and 31 Decembe...

It is unknown if the current size and shape of protected areas (PA) in Costa Rica favors retention of viable populations of wildlife. The western border of Carara National Park (CNP) and its surroundings were characterized at a landscape level in order to consider their implications for biodiversity conservation. 54 400 hectares of Costa Rican Central Pacific tree cover were analyzed (1997, 200...

Grain production is a strategic element of the agricultural and food complex in Russia, which predetermines its fundamental importance security. The task increase level grain yields still urgent, despite full satisfaction needs domestic market Russia due to benefits from exports. authors assess influence intensification processes on yield taking into account elimination scale factor. During res...

Mapping large wildfires (LW) is essential for environmental applications and enhances the understanding of dynamics affected areas. Remote sensing techniques supported by machine learning time series have been increasingly used in studies addressing this issue shown potential type analysis. The main aim article to develop a methodology mapping LW northwestern Portugal using algorithm from Lands...

The accurate discrimination of forest from natural non-forest areas in Greece presents great interest, since nowadays there is an ongoing effort to develop a Forest Cadastre system. We evaluated the possibility to extract forest areas according to the legislation criteria, in a mountainous area in the Northern-central part of Greece, using an object oriented approach and a very high resolution ...

The paper employed Remote sensing data in a multi-decadal assessment of vegetal to urban land cover transition along Lagos-Ibadan expressway. forty-year commenced 1980 and ended 2020. Landsat imageries acquired for the respective periods were subjected supervised classification. Results reveal massive conversion vegetated areas into built-up areas. became pronounced from second decade with 30,2...

BACKGROUND In secondary care the Wells clinical decision rule (CDR) combined with a quantitative D-dimer test can exclude pulmonary embolism (PE) safely. The introduction of point-of-care (POC) D-dimer tests facilitates a similar diagnostic strategy in primary care.We estimated failure-rate and efficiency of a diagnostic strategy using the Wells-CDR combined with a POC-D-dimer test for excludin...