This paper explores the development and application of distributed hydrological models, focusing on the key decisions of how to discretize the landscape, which model structures to use in each landscape element, and how to link model parameters across multiple landscape elements. The case study considers the Attert catchment in Luxembourg—a 300 km mesoscale catchment with 10 nested subcatchments...

Comparing the expressive power of access control models is recognized as a fundamental problem in computer security. While such comparisons are generally based on simulations between different access control schemes, the definitions for simulations that are used in the literature are informal, and make it impossible to put results and claims about the expressive power of access control models i...

Soil water content (SWC) and soil temperature are important hydrologic state variables. Accurate model simulation is critical in regimes cold regions dominated by spring snowmelt. In this study, we developed a combined physically-based energy-balance rain-on-snow (ROS) module for the Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) applied it to South Saskatchewan River Basin (SSRB). We calibrated SWAT base (SWAT-...

Background: Vaccination of Health Care Professionals (HCPs) is great importance for communicable diseases. This study aimed to investigate the views HCPs working in a university hospital about coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccine and evaluate factors affecting vaccination.Materials Methods: cross-sectional was completed with 183 volunteers on 9–12 December 2020. A questionnaire consistin...

Some biological sequences contain subsequences of unusual composition; e.g. some proteins contain DNA binding domains, transmembrane regions and charged regions, and some DNA sequences contain repeats. The linear-time Ruzzo-Tompa (RT) algorithm finds subsequences of unusual composition, using a sequence of scores as input and the corresponding 'maximal segments' as output. In principle, permitt...

Land use and management practice inputs to the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) are critical for evaluating impact of land change best practices on soil erosion water quality in watersheds. We developed an algorithm this study maximize usage records during setup SWAT a small experimental watershed New Brunswick, Canada. In algorithm, hydrologic response units (HRUs) were delineated based field...

The specific gene transcription patterns formed during development of metazoans result from the activity of the cisregulatory modules that control gene promoters. Even when these cis-regulatory modules are responsible for elementary transcription patterns, as for example in a single tissue during a short period of development, they are always composed of multiple target sites for transcription ...