Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is one of the three causes of death that has had the highest increase in the last 20 years. The increasing CKD burden occurs in the context of lack of access of most of the world population to adequate healthcare and an incomplete understanding of the pathogenesis of CKD. However, CKD is not homogeneously distributed. CKD hotspots are defined as countries, region, c...

In this thesis, the phenomenon of localized crime hotspots in models capturing the repeat and near-victimization nature of urban crime was studied. Stability, insertion, slow movement of crime hotspots and the effect of police patrol modeled by an extra equation derived from biased random walk were studied by means of matched asymptotic expansions, nonlocal eigenvalue problem (NLEP) stability a...

In this paper we introduce the Smart Tempo-Spatial Hotspots Finder (Smart-TSH-Finder) for smart data crawling in the Second Life (SL) virtual world. Classical methods of crawling data from SL lead to irrelevant data content because of the dynamic nature of avatars and objects in SL. In order to build artificially intelligent expert avatar agents that are able to provide intelligent services for...

For the first time, sulfur dioxide concentration was monitored between 2005 and 2016 over Iran which is among the countries with a high SO2 emission rate in the world. To that end, SO2 column concentration at Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) from Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) was analyzed. OMI is a sensor onboard the Aura satellite which can measure daily SO2 concentration on the global scale...

An updated climatology of EF1+ (Enhanced Fujita category 1 or stronger) tornadoes in Italy (445 events the period 1990–2021) confirms that central Tyrrhenian (CT) and southeastern (SE) regions Italian peninsula represent two areas most affected by Mediterranean. We performed a comparative analysis between these hotspots, examining large-scale atmospheric features associated to tornado occurrenc...

Differential gene expression can play an important role in phenotypic evolution and divergent adaptation. Although differential gene expression can be caused by both local- and distant-regulatory changes, we know little about their relative contribution to transcriptome evolution in natural populations. Here, we conducted expression quantitative trait loci (eQTL) analysis to investigate the gen...