Nationally, the causes and extent of fire on lands administrated by the United States Forest Service varied significantly from 1940 to 2000, with California experiencing the largest relative annual burned areas.The south-east and California experienced the largest relative area burned by fires from human ignitions. No significant differences were detected in the relative area burned by lightnin...

from a village, which strove to combine rustic simplicity with the quality of a fashionable watering-place, into the extensive and populous West-end of the neighbouring city. The Clifton of to-day occupies nearly a square mile of surface, bounded on the east and north-east by Bristol and its northern suburbs; on the south by the floating harbour of Bristol; on the south-west by the Avon in its ...

1Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, South-1 West-17, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-8556, Japan 2Department of Respiratory Medicine, Teine Keijinkai Hospital, 1-40, Maeda 1-12, Teine-ku, Sapporo 006-8555, Japan *Corresponding author Masanori Shiratori, MD Associate Professor Department of Respiratory Medicine and Allergology Sapporo Medical ...

The topic of this paper is the variability of pitch realisation of phrase-initial accent I. In our study we have observed a difference in variability for the varieties investigated. Central Swedish pitch patterns for phrase-initial accent I both to the East (Stockholm) and to the West (Gothenburg) display an apparent constancy, albeit with distinct patterns: East Central Swedish rising and West...

Guilan province is located in south and south-west of the Caspian Sea. Guilan is one of the richest and the most humid region in the country due to suitable climate, ample rainfall and many water sources (springs, rivers, creeks,..),. Despite the prevailing favorable conditions, limnological studies, especially in the mountainous regions of this province are limited. A limnological study was co...

The study analyzed farm management extension services (FMESs) performed by the extension agents of Agricultural Development Projects in South West Nigeria. Study representatives were sampled randomly from Oyo ADP, Osun ADP and Ekiti ADP, making a 50% representation of the South-West. A proportionate sample of 80% of the total of the extension agents in each of the 3 case studies was randomly se...

Cobalt and copper concentrations were measured in 599 lamb livers collected at slaughter from 58 sheep flocks in 6 different parts of Norway in 1993. Information about pasture, additional feeding and mineral supplements in the flocks was obtained through a questionnaire. Average hepatic levels of cobalt in the lamb flocks varied from < 0.003 to 0.22 microg/g ww, and of copper from 5 to 240 micr...

M L Borg ([email protected])1,2, A Modi3, A Tostmann1, M Gobin1, J Cartwright3, C Quigley3, P Crook4, N Boxall4, J Paul4, T Cheasty5, N Gill6, G Hughes6, I Simms6, I Oliver1,7 1. Health Protection Agency, South West Region, United Kingdom 2. European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden 3. Heal...