This paper assesses the accuracy with which single radar 1.5 km CAPPI imagery and 2 by 2 km resolution can be used to estimate precipitation in the 9-10 June 2000 Montserrat flash flood episode in Catalonia, Spain (Llasat et al., 2002). Results using Z=A·R (Marshal and Palmer Z-R relationship, 1948) with coefficients for stratiform (A=200, B=1.6) and convective (A=800, B=1.6) rain are compared ...

This article is dedicated to the study and analysis of historiography about participation Marshal Davout during Battle Borodino 1812. The analyzes a number sources both personal non-personal nature effect event on art. In work are offered by author professional translations several extracts which have never been translated from Russian, therefore still mostly unknown international scientific co...

This publication consists of a series of reports written mostly by Air Vice-Marshal Sir C. S. Symonds and Wing-Commander D. J. Williams, separately or together, with a few by Squadron-Leader D. D. Reid, together with critical evaluations by Professor A. Bradford Hill and Wing-Commander Williams on the reliability of psychiatric opinion. The wealth of material presented is enormous; the painstak...

Palpable tension continues at the intersection of tobacco control and trade policy. Through consideration of four major tobacco control-related trade disputes, we suggest how to empower public health proponents in the face of entrenched economic policymaking norms. We argue that a more effective pro-tobacco control message should: (a) seek to be broadly consistent with core principles of the wo...

Today information management technology faces two major related challenges. One is to tame the information and options explosion that are upon us. Another is to support the information needs in the ubiquitous environments that are being created. These two challenges have received considerable attention from various segments of information management technology research community. Some of the su...