Extreme rainfall and floods have increased in frequency severity recent years, due to climate change urbanization. Consequently, interest estimating the probable maximum precipitation (PMP) has been burgeoning. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recommends two types of methods for calculating PMP: hydrometeorological statistical methods. This study proposes a modified Hershfield’s nomo...

Abstract This study assessed trends in gridded (0.25° × 0.25°) Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) precipitation, potential evapotranspiration (PET), and precipitation minus PET (PMP) across the four water management zones (WMZs) Uganda including Kyoga, Victoria, Albert, Upper Nile. The period considered was 1979–2013. Validation of CFSR datasets conducted using observed at eight meteorol...

The ninth annual report of the South African Renal Registry summarises December 2020 data on kidney replacement therapy (KRT) for patients with failure in Africa. numbers reported here are substantially lower than those recorded previous report. This is likely result several factors, including larger deaths from COVID-19 and other causes, delayed initiation KRT due to pandemic, challenges submi...

The use of Proximity Mobile Payment (PMP) applications with several advantages over traditional payment methods is becoming more common. While a large diffusion PMP already apparent in South Korea, Germany still lagging behind. study examines the acceptance factors regarding intention to mentioned countries understand this divergence. A research model was developed explain behavioral intention,...

Bacterium-platelet interactions at the cardiac valve surface represent an important initial step in the induction of infective endocarditis (IE). This cell-cell interaction may play either a protagonistic role in the induction of IE via bacterial adherence to and aggregation of platelets or an antagonistic role via secretion of platelet-derived microbicidal molecules. We examined the spectrum a...

AIMS Platelets participate in the pathogenesis of arterial thrombosis and it has been demonstrated that enhanced platelet activation occurs in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). Dyslipidaemia is a common feature of diabetes. We investigated the association between certain lipid fractions and plasma platelet-derived microparticle (PMP) levels in patients with type-2 DM. METHODS AND RESULTS ...

We investigate network coding (NC) in access point-to-multipoint (PMP) broadcast networks. Characterized by a shared unicast upstream channel and a time-shared broadcast downstream channel, PMP networks are widely deployed in optical and wireless access networks. We develop a queuing-theoretic model of NC at the medium access control (MAC) sublayer and analyze the impact of NC on packet delay. ...