background: road traffic accident is a worldwide public health issue that has its highest impact on low and middle income countries including malaysia. many previous studies concerned on the causality of the actual accidents and little attention were given to near miss incidents. hence, the current study was designed to determine the prevalence and associated factors for near miss incident amon...

We present an analysis of precipitation in an area of Sardinia (Italy) at high hydrogeological risk. Sardinia is an island located in the Western Mediterranean Sea. Precipitation is here a highly irregular phenomenon due to the variability of extra-tropical cyclones. The latitudinal development of the island (~200 Km) gives a climatic North-South gradient. However, the presence of high and stee...

With climate heating, Aotearoa New Zealand is expected to experience more marine heatwaves (MHW) in the coming decades. These extreme events are already impacting island nation's and coastal environments industries at a variety of scales. There will potentially be substantial benefits developing an early warning system–specifically ocean seasonal forecast tools. This near-term 2,030 horizon sca...

Barrier islands on the north coast of the Gulf of Mexico are an internationally important coastal resource. Each spring hundreds of thousands of Nearctic-Neotropical songbirds crossing the Gulf of Mexico during spring migration use these islands because they provide the first landfall for individuals following a trans-Gulf migratory route. The effects of climate change, particularly sea level r...

Metastatic melanoma is a malignant cancer with generally poor prognosis, with no targeted chemotherapy. To identify epigenetic changes related to melanoma, we have determined genome-wide methylated CpG island distributions by next-generation sequencing. Melanoma chromosomes tend to be differentially methylated over short CpG island tracts. CpG islands in the upstream regulatory regions of many ...

Over short periods of time, extreme storms can significantly alter barrier island morphology, increasing the vulnerability coastal habitats and communities relative to future storms. These impacts are complex result interactions between oceanographic conditions geomorphic, geological, ecological characteristics island. A 2D XBeach model was developed compared observations in order study these a...

PURPOSE To determine the retinal disease expression in the rare form of Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) caused by Lebercilin (LCA5) mutation. METHODS Two young unrelated LCA patients, ages six years (P1) and 25 years (P2) at last visit, both with the same homozygous mutation in the LCA5 gene, were evaluated clinically and with noninvasive studies. En face imaging was performed with near-infr...

Abstract Hydroacoustic signals originating from marine volcanic activity at Kadovar Island (Papua New Guinea), recorded by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) International Monitoring System (IMS) hydroacoustic (HA) station HA11 Wake (USA), are examined herein. Episodes of high were identified on two occasions, separated a period 1 month. The events studied pertain to an initial er...