Unconventional gas drilling (UGD) has enabled extraordinarily rapid growth in the extraction of natural gas. Despite frequently expressed public concern, human health studies have not kept pace. We investigated the association of proximity to UGD in the Marcellus Shale formation and perinatal outcomes in a retrospective cohort study of 15,451 live births in Southwest Pennsylvania from 2007-2010...

◮ We study Scrape-Off Layer (SOL) turbulence through simulations that evolve the plasma dynamics as the interplay of plasma source from the core, perpendicular transport, and losses at the limiter plates ◮ We identify the SOL turbulence regimes, defining the regions of existence of the Ballooning Modes [resistive (RBM) and inertial (IBM)] and the Drift Waves [resistive (RDW) and inertial (IDW)]...

We propose a new adaptive spatio-temporal interpolation method that combines either by a step or a line function existing spatial and temporal interpolation methods. We test the new method using climate data obtained from weather stations in Colorado and Nebraska, for the time period from 1993 to 2003. The experimental results show that in mountainous regions our adaptive spatio-temporal method...

Abstract This study aims to assess the urban air quality, and map NO 2 , SO PM 10 profiles using two widely spatial interpolation methods, ordinary kriging (OK) inverse distance weighting (IDW) by estimating their concentrations at distinct non-monitored locations. Assessment mapping of pollutants in this help with policy formulation decision-making. Kota, industrial educational hub Rajasthan (...

This paper focuses on designing and implementing parallel adaptive inverse distance weighting (AIDW) interpolation algorithms by using the graphics processing unit (GPU). The AIDW is an improved version of the standard IDW, which can adaptively determine the power parameter according to the data points' spatial distribution pattern and achieve more accurate predictions than those predicted by I...