OBJECTIVE Little is known regarding recent changes in glitazone use. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Interrupted time series analyses of nationally representative office-visit data using IMS Health's National Disease and Therapeutic Index. RESULTS From 2003 through 2005, glitazone use increased steadily. From February 2005 to January 2007, rosiglitazone use decreased by 16% (95% CI -20 to -11) ...

The North Shandong Coastal Current (NSCC) is an important transporting route for sediment, drifting algae, and spilled oil from the Bohai Sea to Yellow Sea. This study investigated features formation mechanism of NSCC using observational data current velocity a numerical coastal ocean model. Our results confirmed existence in sense climatological winter when northerly wind prevails magnitude mo...

Previous studies indicated that surface wind speed over China declined during past decades, and several explanations exist in the literature. This study presents long-term (1960–2009) changes of both surface and upper-air wind speeds over China and addresses observed evidence to interpret these changes. It is found that surface wind over China underwent a three-phase change over the past 50 yr:...

Fossil Fuels are always considered as environmental pollutants. On the other hand, the political and economic situations highly affect the price of these fuels. Offshore wind and wave, as renewable energy sources, represent the better alternatives for electricity generation. Therefore, it is necessary that wind speeds effectively be estimated due to the absence of field measurements of the wind...

evaporation is a fundamental parameter in the hydrological cycle. this study examines the performance of m5model tree and artificial neural network (ann) models in estimating potential evapotranspiration calculated bypenman- monteith and hargreaves- samani equations. daily weather data from two meteorological stations in asemi-arid climate of iran, namely kerman and zahedan, were collected duri...

Iran is a country completely dependent on fossil fuel resources. In order to obtain a diversity of energy sources, it requires other resources, especially renewable energy. Utilization of wind energy appears to be one of the most efficient ways of achieving sustainable development. The quantification of wind potential is a pivotal and essential initial step while developing strategies for the de...

introduction climate affects, more than any other factors, the type and form of human life, so that many cities that have made or developed regardless of climatic information are suffering from weather-related problems such as air pollution, water supply and flooding etc. by using the meteorological information in designing new cities as well as developing old cities can reduce the mentioned pr...

as a direct consequence of warmer temperatures, the hydrologic cycle will undergo significant impact with accompanying changes in the rates of precipitation and evaporation. climate change will cause changes in climate variable such as precipitation, temperature, sunshine hours, wind speed and etc. so as a result of climate variable change, the related variable such as potential evapotranspirat...

according to general circulation model (gcm), zonal thermal belts are 1- inter-tropical convergence zones (itcz) around eqator; 2- sub tropical high (sth) belt around 30 degree latitude; 3- sub polar low (spl) belt around high latitudes. the belt of inter-tropical convergence zone (itcz) displaces in meridional path, about 5° over the oceans and up to 40° over continents, during the seasons of ...