The moderate magnitude Chamoli earthquake, which occurred on 29 March, 1999 in the Alkananda river valley region of Garhwal Himalaya, caused considerable loss to human life and property. From a systematic ®eld survey of the damage, conducted for ®ve continuous days immediately after the earthquake, the following could be noted: (i) The consequences of the damage are most pronounced near the Mai...

[1] The formation of photooxidants and aerosols in the Milan area (Po Valley, Italy) has been simulated for 13 May 1998 with an Eulerian model. The high-pressure conditions and the weak synoptic circulation favor the formation of strongly enhanced photooxidants and aerosol levels downwind of the metropolitan area of Milan. The polluted air masses are transported northward where the highest ozon...

We have given designs of a small dispersion fiber with large effective area and small dispersion slope. The fiber has flat modal field over the central part of the core, which provides large mode field diameter (8.3 um at Λ0 = 1550 nm) leading to the relatively large effective area (Aeff = 56.1 um ) required to reduce nonlinear effects. The total dispersion of the proposed fiber is in the range...

We report new data about mayfly diversity from a 85 km area in East Kalimantan (Borneo, Indonesia). More than 40 mayfly genera have been collected in a lowland Dipterocarpaceae forest. They belong to the following families (by decreasing diversity order): Baetidae (12), Leptophlebiidae (7), Caenidae (6), Heptageniidae (5), Ephemerellidae (2), Potamanthidae (2), Teloganodidae (2), Isonychiidae (...

OBJECTIVES Evidence on the association between the adverse socioeconomic characteristics of residential area and mortality is mixed. We examined whether the choice of spatial unit is critical in detecting this association. DESIGN Register-linkage study. SETTING Data were from the Finnish Public Sector study's register cohort. PARTICIPANTS The place of residence of 146 600 cohort participa...

We present a frequency-independent three-dimensional (3-D) compressional wave attenuation model (indicated by the reciprocal of quality factor Qp) for Kı̄lauea Volcano in Hawai‘i. We apply the simul2000 tomographic algorithm to the attenuation operator t∗ values for the inversion of Qp perturbations through a recent 3-D seismic velocity model and earthquake location catalog. The t∗ values are me...

Japanese spotted fever and tsutugamushi disease are tickborne infections that persist in Shimane Prefecture. Their respective causative agents are Rickettsia japonica and Orientia tsutsugamushi. We report here their outbreak characteristics. Since the first report in 1987 (1), Japanese spotted fever has been reported every year, totaling 80 cases at the end of 2005 (Fig. 1). Among 80 cases, it ...

20 The characteristics of a livestock area, including farm density and animal species, influence the 21 spread of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). In this study, the impact of livestock area on FMD 22 epidemics was examined using an FMD transmission model. For this simulation, three major 23 livestock areas were selected: the 2010 FMD epidemic area in Japan as the baseline area (BS), a 24 cattle a...

D. Pesquera, A. Barla, M. Wojcik, E. Jedryka, F. Bondino, E. Magnano, S. Nappini, D. Gutiérrez, G. Radaelli, G. Herranz, F. Sánchez and J. Fontcuberta 1 Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain 2 Istituto di Struttura della Materia, ISM CNR, S.S. 14 km 163.5, Area Science Park Basovizza (Ts), Trieste I34149, Italy 3 Polish Academy of Science,...