Ross River virus (RRV) is the most common mosquitoborne disease notified within Australia and is a significant public health issue for NSW. There have been more than 7500 notifications of RRV in NSW over the past 10 years. Peak seasons occurred in 1996–97 (1547 notified cases) and 2005–06 (1268 notified cases), with an average of 683 notifications for the 11 seasons before this.1 The November 2...

Ross River virus is a common mosquito-borne arbovirus responsible for outbreaks of polyarthritic disease throughout Australia. To better understand climatic factors preceding outbreaks, we compared seasonal and monthly rainfall and temperature trends in outbreak and nonoutbreak years at four epidemic-prone locations. Our analyses showed that rainfall in outbreak years tended to be above average...

1 State Medical Diagnostic Center, Dermatology, Almaty, Kazakhstan; 2 Kazakh Medical University Continuing Education, Dermatology, Manas Street 34, Almaty 050057, Kazakhstan; 3 University G. Marconi of Rome, Dermatology and Venereology, Rome 00192, Italy; 4 Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior, Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatologic Surgery; Onkoderma, private clinic for dermatologi...

Manas Kumar Yogi Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pragati Engineering College(Autonomous) Email: [email protected] Darapu Uma Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pragati Engineering College(Autonomous) Email: [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT-------------------------------------------------------------...

Although several checklists exist of herpetofauna in Bhutan, these are based on citizen science data or report the diversity individual regions and published records lacking for many areas. Like country as a whole, there is no formal checklist Sarpang District despite fact that most this district encompassed within three protected areas namely Royal Manas National Park, Jigme Singye Wangchuck P...

Glacier mass balance can visually indicate the degree of glacier response to climate change. The mountain glaciers are an essential source recharge for rivers in arid regions and play a vital role maintaining regional ecological stability production life. This paper drives spatially distributed degree-day model using multi-source remote sensing data such as MOD11C3 TRMM3B43 simulate Tianshan Mo...

The title of my paper comes from an essay by Václav Havel. In his essay, Havel addressed most evocatively the question of the unique power of words for thinking and to influence, for good or for harm, as well as to inform and to educate. As analysts our medium is the word. I suggest that it is of inestimable importance that we are able to listen deeply to our patients' words and to be aware of ...

In this note we describe the notion of a rectifiable scan and consider some applications [DH1], [DH2] to Plateau-type minimization problems. “Scans” were first introduced in the work [HR1] of Tristan Rivière and the second author to adequately describe certain bubbling phenomena. There, the behavior of certain W 1,3 weakly convergent sequences of smooth maps from 4 dimensional domains into S le...

Conservation attention on charismatic large vertebrates such as dolphins is often supported by the suggestion that these species represent surrogates for wider biodiversity, or act as indicators of ecosystem health. However, their capacity to act as indicators of patterns or trends in regional biodiversity has rarely been tested. An extensive new dataset of >300 last-sighting records for the Ya...