Flooding is one of the most devastating natural disasters occurring annually in the Philippines. A call for a solution for this malady is very challenging as well as crucial to be addressed. Mapping flood hazard is an effective tool in determining the extent and depth of floods associated with hazard level in specified areas that need to be prioritized during flood occurrences. Precedent to the...

ABSTRACT- Overgrazing accelerates soil and vegetation degradation in rangelands. This study aimed to assess livestock pressure on natural resources of Khuzestan province, located in the south western part of Iran, using Geographic Information System (GIS) tools and a model-based procedure. FAO/UNEP Model which uses a ratio of potential carrying capacity of region to current liv...

background: numerous studies have reported prehypertension (pre-htn) as a risk factor for the cardiovascular diseases as hypertension (htn). aim: the present study aimed to evaluate the effects of pre-htn on cardiovascular incidences among the females of isfahan cohort study (ics). materials and methods: healthy female at baseline were followed for a median of 6.7 years. they were divided into ...

objectives : schizophrenia patients often experience relapses once and even more with no limit on number of relapses. the time among relapses are rarely considered in studies. the aim of this study was to identify some risk factors of time to elapses in schizophrenic patients with recurrent events model in survival analysis. methods : in a retrospective longitudinal study, the medical records o...

About 80 percent of Iran is arid and semi-arid and about 35 percent of this area is susceptible to desertification hazard. Therefore desertification assessment and identification of the most important criteria for the assessment of risk and a basis for development of management plans is essential. This research was conducted in the semi-arid region of Agh-Band in the Golestan province, Iran wit...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the incidence and risk factors for significant creatine kinase elevation in HIV-1-infected patients who were prescribed a raltegravir-containing antiretroviral therapy. DESIGN A retrospective analysis of a prospectively collected cohort involving all consecutive patients who were prescribed a raltegravir-containing antiretroviral regimen between June 2005 and December 2...

introduction flood is an inevitable natural phenomenon occurring from time to time in all rivers and natural drainage systems, which not only damages the lives, natural resources and environment, but also causes the loss of economy and health. so estimation and prediction flood hazard is very important spatially in the watersheds without measurement station. there are many models in the water a...

We consider a class of semiparametric normal transformation models for right censored bivariate failure times. Nonparametric hazard rate models are transformed to a standard normal model and a joint normal distribution is assumed for the bivariate vector of transformed variates. A semiparametric maximum likelihood estimation procedure is developed for estimating the marginal survival distributi...

Abstract. Mass movements such as debris flows and landslides differ in behaviour due to their material properties internal forces. Models employ generalized multi-phase flow equations adaptively describe these complex types. Such models commonly assume unstructured fragmented flow, where cohesive strength is insignificant. In this work, existing work on two-phase mass movement are extended incl...