A majority of the known Colias species (Lepidoptera: Pieridae, Coliadinae) occur in the mountainous regions of Central-Asia, vast areas that are hard to access, rendering the knowledge of many species limited due to the lack of extensive sampling. Two gene regions, the mitochondrial COI 'barcode' region and the nuclear ribosomal protein RpS2 gene region were used for exploring the utility of th...

estimation of evapo-transpiration is necessary in cases such as irrigation planning, determining of evaporation of the water bodies, water balance assessment, estimation of runoff and watershed management and ecological and meteorological studies. evapo-transpiration can be determined precisely using field measurements. however, these methods provide evapo-transpiration just for limited areas f...

The land surface scheme (LSS) plays a very important role in the forecast of meteorological elements Central Asia arid region. Therefore, two LSSs viz. Noah and Noah-MP were evaluated over region January July 2017 using Weather Research Forecasting (WRF) model at 3-km horizontal grid resolution. objective was to assess performance WRF by calculated mean error (ME) root squared (RMSE) simulated ...

This study aims to estimate regional and gender differences in the prevalence of alcohol consumption in Croatia. It is based on the data obtained from the Croatian Adult Health Survey 2003. The highest prevalence of alcohol consumption in men was reported in Eastern Croatia (14.1%). Men living in the Mountainous region had the lowest prevalence of reported alcohol consumption (8.8%). In contras...