BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cerebral microbleeds are thought to represent cerebral amyloid angiopathy when in lobar regions of the brain and hypertensive arteriopathy when in deep and infratentorial locations. By studying cerebral microbleeds, their topography, and risk factors, we aimed to gain an insight into the vascular and amyloid pathology of dementia diagnoses and increase the understanding o...

FARSITE is a computer based model of fire spread that utilized spatially resolved data to simulate fires occurring over areas of heterogeneous fuels, topography, and weather (Finney 1996). In as much as changes in fuel characteristics can be reflected both in nature and extent, FARSITE offers a unique opportunity to evaluate the effects of fuel management projects while leaving all other factor...

Purpose. To thoroughly analyze corneal deformation responses curves obtained by Ocular Response Analyzer (ORA) testing in order to improve subclinical keratoconus detection. Methods. Observational case series of 87 control and 73 subclinical keratoconus eyes. Examination included corneal topography, tomography, and biomechanical testing with ORA. Factor analysis, logistic regression, and receiv...

iran is a vast land of geographically specific features and the climate is quite different. each year a number of times, short intense rains caused flooding in various parts of the southern coast of the caspian sea and river flood malicious conduct is falling. the rainfall intensity is greater and more destructive floods caused heavy damage. severe flooding during the brutal summer precipitatio...

The aim of this study is to cross-verify of multiple logistic model at Korea using a Geographic Information System (GIS). Landslide locations were identified in the 3 study areas from interpretation of aerial photographs and satellite image, field surveys, and maps of the topography, soil type, forest cover and land cover were constructed to spatial data-sets. The factors that influence landsli...

at recent year improvement towns of country are considered for reason much accumulation, increase price of field, decrease dimension family and security cheap dwelling, natural structure khorramabad, economical changes accompanied by natural improvement population and change family from spread to nuclear increased necessity to dwelling and finally consider to vertical improvement. the method th...

Elucidating the major drivers of bryophyte distribution is the first step to protecting bryophyte diversity. Topography, forest, substrates (ground, tree trunks, roots, rocks, and rotten wood), and spatial factor, which factors are the major drivers of bryophyte distribution? In this study, 53 plots were set in 400 m2 along the elevation gradient in Xiaoqinling, China. All bryophytes in the plo...

Relationships between composition of secondary vegetation and environment were studied in central North Island, New Zealand. A classification procedure was used to identify broad compositional groups which included forest, broadleaved scrub, shrub-fernland, sclerophyllous scrub and shrubland, and tussock-shrubland. Generalised additive models (GAMs) were used to examine relationships between sp...

The integration between vegetation data, human disturbance factors, and geo-spatial data (Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and image data) is a particular challenge for vegetation mapping in mountainous areas. The present study aimed to incorporate the relationships between species distribution (or vegetation spatial distribution pattern) and topography and human disturbance factors with remote se...