In this contribution we analyze the performance of a monthly river discharge forecasting model with a Support Vector Regression (SVR) technique in a European alpine area. We considered as predictors the discharges of the antecedent months, snow-covered area (SCA), and meteorological and climatic variables for 14 catchments in South Tyrol (Northern Italy), as well as the long-term average discha...

BACKGROUND This study presents data on post-discharge costs of care among patients treated with transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement over a two year period. METHODS Based on a prospective clinical trial, post-discharge utilization of health services and status of assistance were collected for 151 elderly patients via 2250 monthly telephone interviews, valued using standardized u...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the potential role of seasonality in hospitalizations for cryptogenic and noncryptogenic hemoptysis in the French population. DESIGN Retrospective analysis of hospital discharge data from a National Register. SETTING All 29 French university hospitals, between July 1, 1994, and June 30, 1997. PATIENTS Two thousand six hundred seventy-seven and 3,672 adult hosp...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to analyze the types and cost of medications prescribed at discharge for ischemic stroke survivors. METHODS This is a descriptive study of medications prescribed for ischemic stroke survivors admitted to Al-watani hospital during a 6-month period. RESULTS A total of 95 consecutive stroke patients were included in the study period; 78 (82.1%) survivors we...

administer and finance, A State that spends a comparatively large amount per inhabitant for public assistance ordinarily uses a relatively large percent of its income payments to support the program. There is a fairly high correlation between the ranking of States in amount spent per inhabitant for public assistance from State and local funds and percent of income used (chart 1). There is littl...

In this paper, a glacial module based on an enhanced temperature-index approach was successfully introduced into the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model to simulate the glacier runoff and water balance of a glacierized watershed, the mountainous region of the Yarkant River Basin (YRB) in Karakoram. Calibration and validation of the SWAT model were based on comparisons between the simula...

Suspended sediment concentration of a river can provide very important perspective on erosion or soil loss of one river basin ecosystem. The changes of land use and land cover, such as deforestation or afforestation, affect sediment yield process of a catchment through changing the hydrological cycle of the area. A sediment rating curve can describe the average relation between discharge and su...