Das, T., et al. (2011). "Potential increase in floods in California's Sierra Nevada under future climate projections." Climatic Change 109: 71-94. California's mountainous topography, exposure to occasional heavily moisture-laden storm systems, and varied communities and infrastructures in low lying areas make it highly vulnerable to floods. An important question facing the state-in terms of pr...

drought is a normal, recurring feature of climate phenomena; it may occur virtually in all climatic regions. the effects of drought accumulate slowly and its impacts are spread over a larger geographical area than other natural hazards. drought is a natural hazard originating from a deficiency of precipitation that result in a water shortage for some activities or some groups and is often assoc...

Methods In total, 292 lower/southern limit and 310 upper/northern limit sites with available climatic data for all 11 extant beech species were collected by reviewing the literature, and 13 climatic variables were estimated for each site from climate normals at nearby stations. We used principal components analysis (PCA) to detect climatic variables most strongly associated with the distributio...

The present article proposes a climatic approach to the study of the interaction between influenza spreading and climatic and meteorological factors in different climatic domains of the Iberian Peninsula. This association can be used to help in the prevention and mitigation of influenza epidemics. A biometeorological index has been defined and applied to the epidemic periods that took place in ...

conclusions by controlling the modifiable risk factors and modality of treatment in our study, physicians can reach more effective treatment. results at the end of the study, long-term graft failure was seen in 27 (10.2%) cases. one-year and 2-year graft survival after diagnosis of cancer were 93.6% and 91.7%, respectively. the univariate analysis showed that the incidence of chronic graft loss...

background: vegetation (food stuff) is grown in soil that contains many radioactive elements such as 238u (uranium), 232th (thorium) and 40k (potassium), which may get deposited either due to radioactive fallout or/and by absorption from the soil and can pose serious health hazards. materials and methods: natural radioactivity, radiological hazards and annual effective dose assessment was carri...