It is well known that lesions affecting the trigeminal nerve may lead to the development ofneurotrophic keratitis (Magendie, I 824), but the incidence and the extent of the keratitis seen by biomicroscopic examination of the cornea, and in particular its effect upon visual acuity, are not well documented. The present study was undertaken to investigate these aspects of keratitis, in corneae ren...

BACKGROUND The role of fixed airflow obstruction (FAO) in asthma is unclear. OBJECTIVE To assess the relationship between FAO and clinical features of asthma and the effect of FAO on treatment response. METHODS Post hoc descriptive analysis of data stratified by FAO category (screening post-albuterol FEV1/FVC <lower limit of normal [LLN] [FAO+] or ≥LLN [FAO-]) from two 12-week, randomized, ...

Evapotranspiration is one of the most important hydrological variables in the context of water resources management. An attempt was made to understand and predict the dynamics of reference evapotranspiration from a nonlinear dynamical perspective in this study. The reference evapotranspiration data was calculated using the FAO Penman-Monteith equation with the observed daily meteorological data...

Scientific investigations about crop water requirements are of fundamental importance to the irrigation process. The main objective of this paper is to analyze and to map water requirements of coffee crop in Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Potential evapotranspiration values (ET0) were estimated by the Penman-Monteith-FAO method, using daily data sets available for 42 National Meteorology Institute...

Hydrological models require accurate precipitation and air temperature inputs in order to adequately depict water fluxes and storages across Arctic regions. Biases such as gauge undercatch, as well as uncertainties in numerical weather prediction reanalysis data that propagate through water budget models, limit the ability to accurately model the terrestrial arctic water cycle. A hydrological m...

The aim of this study is to analyze the characteristics of drought such as intensity, cumulative curves and trends, based on SPEI (Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index) at 8 stations in Korea from 1981 to 2010. The traditional SPEI is based on Thornthwaite equation for estimating evapotranspiration; SPEI_th. However, a standard of agricultural water management in Korea suggests F...

Through the website of International Water Management Institute, the referenced evapotranspiration (ET0) was found which was calculated by the meteorological data during 1961-1999 from 147 stations in Sichuan Province. Further, according to the crop coefficients of rice, maize, wheat, rape, the water requirements (ET) of main crops were estimated by using Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)...

Estimating daily evapotranspiration is challenging when ground observation data are not available or scarce. Remote sensing can be used to estimate the meteorological data necessary for calculating reference evapotranspiration ETo. Here, we assessed the accuracy of daily ETo estimates derived from remote sensing (ETo-RS) compared with those derived from four ground-based stations (ETo-G) in Kur...

The natural language sentence generation program Penman provides computational technology for generating English sentences and paragraphs, starting with input specifications of a non-linguistic kind. The research goals underlying Penman are threefold: to provide a useful and theoretically motivated resource for other research and development groups and the computational community at large, to p...

Abstract One of the significant components hydrological cycle is evapotranspiration. Monthly meteorological parameters 35 years from 19 stations across Northern Region Nigeria (NRN) were obtained and utilized for calibration Hargreaves–Samani (HS) model by comparing between potential evapotranspiration (ET o ) values estimated original HS Penman–Monteith (FAO-56 PM) models. The calibrated equat...