The overarching objective of this project is to identify impacts to tropical cyclone structure and intensity throughout the tropical cyclone lifetime. A common factor is the impact of midand upperlevel environmental conditions that affects formation and intensification of a tropical cyclone. It is hypothesized that during the formation process, the environmental interaction has maximum impact o...

Tropical cyclones (TCs) are hazardous natural disasters. Because TC intensification is significantly controlled by atmosphere and ocean environments, changes in these environments may cause changes in TC intensity. Changes in surface and subsurface ocean conditions can both influence a TC's intensification. Regarding global warming, minimal exploration of the subsurface ocean has been undertake...

The problem where a tropical cyclone intensifies dramatically within a short period of time is known as rapid intensification. This has been one of the major challenges for tropical weather forecasting. Recurrent neural networks have been promising for time series problems which makes them appropriate for rapid intensification. In this paper, recurrent neural networks are used to predict rapid ...

To increase understanding of agricultural intensification processes over time and their sustainability, we studied dimensions sustainability in the context ongoing expansion intensive, commercial mono-cropping banana Southwestern Uganda. In our approach considered five sustainability: economic, productivity, environment, social human. We compared farming systems 1998 2018 integrated a gender le...

OBJECTIVE Patient-physician race/ethnicity concordance can improve care for minority patients. However, its effect on cardiovascular disease (CVD) care and prevention is unknown. We examined associations of patient race/ethnicity and patient-physician race/ethnicity concordance on CVD risk factor levels and appropriate modification of treatment in response to high risk factor values (treatment ...

BACKGROUND Hypertension may be poorly controlled because patients do not take their medications (poor adherence) or because providers do not increase medication when appropriate (lack of medication intensification, or "clinical inertia"). We examined the prevalence of and relationship between patient adherence and provider treatment intensification. METHODS AND RESULTS We used a retrospective...

BACKGROUND Multiple uncontrolled medical conditions may act as competing demands for clinical decision making. We hypothesized that multiple uncontrolled cardiovascular risk factors would decrease blood pressure (BP) medication intensification among uncontrolled hypertensive patients. METHODS We observed 946 encounters at two VA primary care clinics from May through August 2006. After each en...

Macroeconomic dynamics is in the focus of attention scientific community due to fact that it characterizes key trends development national economy. The basic indicator system accounts gross domestic product (GDP), which general form aggregate value all goods and services produced within GDP widely used analysis economic growth trends. Economic growth, creating conditions for – most important go...

Hurricane Dolly (2008) exhibited dramatic inner-core structural variability during a 6-h rapid intensification and deepening event just prior to making landfall in southern Texas at 1800 UTC 23 July. In particular, the eyewall was highly asymmetric from 0634–1243 UTC, with azimuthal wavenumber m 5 4–7 patterns in the eyewall radar reflectivity and prominent mesovortex and polygonal eyewall sign...

Production of food and forest products will need to increase to meet the world’s projected demand. This challenge can be met by either extensification or intensification but, with little new land available for agriculture in many regions of rapid population growth, intensification will be pre-eminent. Global, average cereal yields will need to rise from the current 2.9 to 4.2 Mg ha−1 by 2025. T...