It is widely recognized that the hydrological regime of natural flow plays a primary and crucial role in influencing physical condition habitats, which, turn, determines biotic composition sustainability aquatic ecosystems. The current hydro-ecological understanding states all components might be considered as operational targets for water management, starting from base flows (including low flo...

Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, King’s College London British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, National Institute of Health Research Biomedical Research Centre at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, Wellcome Trust and Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Medical Engineering Centre, The Rayne Institute, St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, United Kin...

Cellular fibronectin is deposited on tissue culture polystyrene during the adhesion and spreading of cultured human endothelial cells (HEC). Following the seeding of HEC upon this polymer, larger amounts of fibronectin are deposited as both cell density and incubation time increase. Our results indicate that the ability to deposit cellular fibronectin onto a polymeric surface is a condition for...

The availability, accessibility and quality of data are significant obstacles to hydrological modelling. Estimating the initial values model´’ ’s parameters is a laborious determining task requiring much attention. Geographic information systems (GIS) spatial remote sensing prometting tools for processing collecting data. In this work, we use an innovative approach estimate HEC-HMS model from s...

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...

In general, the Muskingum-Cunge method is used to route floods when observed flood data are not available. this study, applicability of Variable Parameter (VPMC) routing was investigated in a gauged creek reach. The reach between two stream gauging stations. Some physical characteristics reach, such as length, bed slope, cross sections, and Manning’s coefficient (n), were determined by using di...

DATA-BASED MECHANISTIC MODELLING AND VALIDATION OF RAINFALL-FLOW PROCESSES This appears as Young, P. C. (2001). Data-based mechanistic modelling and validation of rainfall-flow processes. In M. G. Anderson and P.D. Bates (Eds.), Model Validation: Perspectives in Hydrological Science. Chichester: J. Wiley, 117-161. Peter Young1 Centre for Research on Environmental Systems and Statistics, Institu...

It is important to prevent nausea and vomiting to maintain both the quality of life of patients with cancer and the efficacy of chemotherapy. The aim of this study was to examine the efficacy of aprepitant for treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) in Japanese patients with gastrointestinal cancer receiving highly or moderately emetogenic chemotherapy (HEC or MEC) regimens...