In Northern Europe, Scandinavia and in mountainous areas elsewhere in Europe, a considerable portion of road accidents has adverse weather (e.g. strong winds, snow and ice) as a primary or a contributing cause. In future climate, wind will probably appear as a more serious and frequent threat to road traffic than in present climate. Another consequence of climate change on road traffic is the n...

This paper presents a moving vehicle detection and tracking system, which comprising of Horizontal Edges method and Local Auto Correlation. Horizontal Edges characteristic can be strengthened and the influence of weather condition is reduced by using Local Auto Correlation, so the detection rate of extracting and tracking moving vehicles with horizontal edge can be raised. Local Auto Correlatio...

This paper introduces predictive framework for asset management risk assessment that utilizes big data. It describes the data analytics required for integrating the big data in time and space. The proposed assets management framework is novel since it implements a dynamic proactive maintenance scheduling. The dynamic maintenance scheduling overpowers the conventional periodic scheduling, by tak...

Performance evaluation for a free space optical (FSO) link with latest wireless optical communications (WOC) vendor’s networks specifications is presented. Analysis is performed for non return to zero (NRZ)-return to zero (RZ) line codes with various operating wavelengths using APD and PIN photodiodes receivers. The study includes the effect of atmospheric attenuation due to scattering effects ...

Bangladesh suffered damage on accounts of the most catastrophic flood during the year of 1988, resulting in untold suffering to the people, crops were lost, lives were lost, infrastructures were damaged, and so on. The flood problem is therefore great important. The present study dealt by using MOS-1, MESSR data with other thematic maps to evaluate the affect and damage area in collaboration wi...

Due to extreme weather conditions, a flock of outwintered Icelandic horses had to manage for several days on snow as the source of free water. They were fed grass silage ad lib, and any change in feed consumption was not observed. After nine days, blood samples were taken and analysed for plasma osmolality, they were subjected to a simple clinical examination, and offered drinking water. Osmola...

Soil moisture can significantly influence atmospheric evolution. However the soil moisture state predicted by land surface models, and subsequently used as the boundary condition in atmospheric models, is often unrealistic. New remote sensing technologies are able to observe surface soil moisture at the scales and coverage required by numerical weather prediction (NWP), and there is potential t...

     Climatic conditions have a major influence in attracting tourists to a city in different months. In this study, the potential of Isfahan and Rasht as arid and humid cities, respectively, was investigated in terms of attracting tourists during a year. For this purpose, the Holiday Climate Index (HCI), which has been designed based on daily climate information, was used. The results showed t...

OBJECTIVE The pattern of medical conditions necessitating admission differs according to the weather condition in that particular year. Previous studies had been conducted during the hot weather, none over the last 10 years, were carried out during, the milder weather we are experiencing. The aim of this study is to establish the pattern of admission during this mild weather and to elucidate th...

introduction: extreme altitude travel has gained popularity globally for adventurous, scientific, and military endeavors. cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (cvst) at extreme altitude is a rare, covert, and emergent condition requiring immediate intervention. case presentation: a case of cvst masqueraded as high altitude cerebral edema (hace) at 6700 m/22000 ft in karakoram himalayas. atypical ol...