Its objective is to explore the formation, competition and cooperation of Greater Bay Area urban agglomeration development mode with opportunity integrated Area. Methods: By combing analyzing open government affairs data country cities in Area, present situation future trend are introduced by introducing concept a city group, it concluded that has bright region. The difficult problem group cons...

Abstract Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth, and most of its population concentrated along coastal line. In recent years, extreme climate events such as floods droughts have occurred more frequently. Sydney, largest city in Australia, requires a reliable water supply. Many solutions been conducted to secure This paper focused future supply for Greater Sydney area. The analysis...

applying a balanced diet approach to define poverty line, the extent of poverty of the families in the rural vs. urban areas of the karkheh river basin, iran is investigated in the present study. the main source of data is from the household income and expenditure survey figures for years 1983, 1993 and 2004, as provided by the statistical centre of iran. first, a review of different methods of...

This paper presents data compiled from aerial photography, General Land Office maps (GLOs), and discharge data from the central Platte River in Nebraska that quantify and provide a new understanding of channel evolution and abandonment in a braided stream. Analyses of aerial photographs and GLOs in ArcMapTM show that channel area decreased by an average of 46% from 1938 to 2006 and that channel...

Staphylea L. is a deciduous ornamental shrub that possesses significant cytotoxic and antibacterial activity, although the chemical composition of its extracts and the identity of the structures responsible for these biological activities are not yet known. In this study we have determined the total phenolic content in chloroform and ethyl acetate extracts of four Staphylea species: Staphylea c...

This study examined the climate sensitivity of the growth of riparian Alnus incana ssp. tenuifolia (thinleaf alder), a keystone nitrogen-fixer, on the Tanana River floodplain of interior Alaska. We investigated correlations between alder radial growth and inter-annual variation in monthly meteorology and hydrology, spatial patterns of alder climate sensitivity in relationship to depth of subsur...

Bob Bordoli died peacefully at his home in Wilmslow on Tuesday 24 October 2000 at the age of 47. He had been ill since June as a result of a recurrence of a cancer that first struck him in 1997. During the intervening months he had undergone treatment at Christies Hospital in Manchester but, sadly, this had not been successful. He remained in good spirits throughout this time and was able to re...

Projections of regional changes in seasonal surface-air temperature and precipitation for the eastern and western Zambezi River Basin regions are presented. These projections are cast in a probabilistic context based on a numerical hybridization technique of the MIT Integrated Global System Model. Unconstrained emissions send the majority of outcomes in spring precipitation to a drying by 2050,...

ix CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 Thesis Organization 7 CHAPTER 2: RELATED WORK 8 2.1 Types of Species Distribution Models 8 2.2 The MAXENT Model and Applications 10 CHAPTER 3: METHODS AND DATA 15 3.1 Typical Species Distribution Model Workflow 15 3.2 Presence Data 17 3.3 Explanatory Variables 17 3.4 MAXENT Model Runs 22 3.5 Assessment of Model and Variable Performance 23 CHAPTER 4: RESULTS 25 4...

Limitations on water resources and the high costs of new hydraulic structure construction intensify the need for an optimum operation of Iranian reservoir systems. For appropriate water distribution and management in a 9-reservoir system on the Kalamarz river, Mianeh basin optimizing mathematical models are applied. Considering the stochastic nature of river discharges and the constant amount o...