Extreme rainfall events are a serious concern for regional hydrology and agriculture in the Ebro River Basin. Repeated anomalous rainfall in recent decades has had a devastating impact on this region, both socially and economically. Some studies developed in Italy and USA have shown that there is a change in seasonal patterns and an increasing frequency of extreme rainfall events, whereas other...

BACKGROUND Palliative care is nowadays essential in nursing care, due to the increasing number of patients who require attention in final stages of their life. Nurses need to acquire specific knowledge and abilities to provide quality palliative care. Palliative Care Quiz for Nurses is a questionnaire that evaluates their basic knowledge about palliative care. The Palliative Care Quiz for Nurse...

Maize yield in China accounts for more than one-fourth of the global maize yield, but it is challenged by frequent extreme weather and increasing food demand. Accurate timely estimation great significance to crop management security. Commonly applied vegetation indexes (VIs) are mainly used as they can reflect greenness vegetation. However, environmental pressures growth development difficult m...

This paper describes a set of programs for processing and printing the index for a book or a manual. The input consists of lines containing index terms and page numbers. The programs collect multiple occurrences of the same terms, compress runs of page numbers, create permutations (e.g., ‘index, book’ from ‘book index’), and sort them into proper alphabetic order. The programs can cope with emb...

This paper provides an exposition of the nature, means of estimation and uses of Financial Conditions Indexes (FCIs) and their relationship to the more common Monetary Conditions Indexes (MCIs) that are used by market analysts, international organisations and central banks. Using panel datasets for Western Europe we explore how asset prices, particularly house and stock prices, can provide usef...

We give efficient algorithms and index data structures for range search in general metric spaces. We give a simple methods to make almost any existing algorithm memory adaptive, improving the search the more memory is available. For vector spaces and metric space of strings we show how several distances can be computed in bit-parallelly, in sequential computer, and use the result to improve the...