A person’s weight status can have profound implications on their life, ranging from mental health, to longevity, to financial income. At the societal level, “fat shaming” and other forms of “sizeism” are a growing concern, while increasing obesity rates are linked to ever raising healthcare costs. For these reasons, researchers from a variety of backgrounds are interested in studying obesity fr...

California signed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) into law in 2014. SGMA requires groundwater-dependent regions to halt overdraft and develop plans reach an annual balance of pumping recharge. aquifers can be recharged by flooding agricultural fields when fallow, but this has not been option for perennial crops such as fruit nut trees. While these might possible during dormant...

Groundwater irrigation has been instrumental in enhancing food security and, arguably, in mitigating poverty in developing countries. Groundwater provides timely irrigation, leading to an increase in crop intensity and productivity (Food and Agriculture Organization 2003). But groundwater irrigation also contributes the most to the depletion of groundwater reserves. Countries with significant g...

Individuals engage in status self-enhancement when they form an overly positive perception of their status in a group. We argue that status self-enhancement incurs social costs and, therefore, most individuals perceive their status accurately. In contrast, theories of positive illusions suggest status self-enhancement is beneficial for the individual and that most individuals overestimate their...

Groundwater from the coastal aquifers north of Chennai is being pumped since 1981 to meet the increasing demand. Huge groundwater extracting in the coastal aquifers groundwater causes lowering of groundwater table which led to seawater intrusion. The objective of this study is to assess the behavior of this aquifer to seawater intrusion under different hydrological stresses by groundwater model...

the extent of groundwater arsenic (as) contamination and associated health-risks were studiedin the four villages: chaukia and terahrasiya (vaishali); mamalkha and masharu (bhagalpur) in bihar, india.groundwater samples were tested using the standard silverdiethyledithiocarbamate method at 520nm bythermo uv-1 spectrophotometer. the as levels in both the districts exceeded the who standard of 10...

Hydrological status and water table fluctuations are directly related to land use and/or land cover (LULC) changes in each area. In this research, the impact of LULC changes on groundwater quantity and quality of Khan-Mirza Plain, in the northern Karun watersheds, was investigated. For this purpose, Landsat 5, 7 and 8 satellite images and ETM and OLI sensors were employed to prepare the L...

Metal contamination in groundwater often occurs various industrial processes. Studies have confirmed that polysulfide could reduce hexavalent chromium to trivalent chromium, achieving the effect of situ stabilization. For other metal groundwater, whether also had a stabilizing ability achieve remediation. This research focused on metals addition contaminated including lead, nickel, zinc, copper...

Livestock breeding farms usually distribute in remote areas, with relatively poor condition of disease diagnosis. Generally, it is hard to carry out disease diagnosis rapidly and accurately. But the farms can diagnose animal disease quickly and accurately by the animal disease diagnoses expert system. It could ensure a sound development of the stockbreeding industry. This paper proved the pract...