The present study examines the prevalence of women who continue to have vaginal intercourse (VIC) despite pain, avoid telling the partner, and feign enjoyment. It also considers the reasons for this behavior. A sample of 1566 female senior high school students (aged 18-22 years) completed a questionnaire concerning their experiences and attitudes toward their body and sexuality. Forty-seven per...

OBJECTIVES To determine the proportion of patients with established coronary heart disease (CHD) in two Australian studies (VIC-I in 1996-1998, and VIC-II in 1999-2000) who achieved their risk-factor targets as recommended by the National Heart Foundation of Australia, and to compare this proportion with those in studies from the United Kingdom (ASPIRE), Europe (EUROASPIRE I and II) and the Uni...

A grid network version of the two-layer Variable Infiltration Capacity (VIC-2L) macroscale hydrological model is described. The VIC-2L model is a hydrologically-based SVAT (Soil Vegetation Atmospheric Transfer) scheme designed to represent the land surface in numerical weather prediction and climate models. It is coupled to a linear routing scheme which is optimized with measured precipitation ...

[1] The key question that is asked in this study is ‘‘how are the three independent bias components of satellite rainfall estimation, comprising hit bias, missed, and false precipitation, physically related to the estimation uncertainty of soil moisture and runoff for a physically based hydrologic model?’’ The study also investigated the performance of different satellite rainfall products as a...

a Victorian Marine Science Consortium, PO Box 114, Queenscliff, Vic 3225, Australia b Department of Zoology, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic 3052, Australia c Arthur Rylah Institute, Department of Sustainability and Environment Victoria, PO Box 137, Heidelberg, Vic 3084, Australia d Marine and Freshwater Fisheries Research Institute, DPI Queenscliff Centre, PO Box 114, Queenscliff, ...

8. The Outbreak Investigation Team was (in Alphabetical order): Jenny Barralet (Qld), Robert Bell (Qld), Andrew Black (ACT), Gerard Fitzsimmons (DoHA), Joy Gregory (Vic), Rachel Hanson (Vic), Melissa Irwin (NSW), Martyn Kirk (DoHA), Karin Lalor (Vic), Dot Little (Hunter, New England), Tony Merritt (Hunter New England), Sally Munnoch (Hunter New England), Leonie Neville (NSW), Rhonda Owen (DoHA)...

This research investigates the interannual variability of soil moisture as related to large-scale climate variability and also evaluates the spatial and temporal variability of modeled deep layer (40–140 cm) soil moisture in the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB). A three layers hydrological model VIC-3L (Variable Infiltration Capacity Model – 3 layers) was used to generate soil moisture in the ...

A recently published paper by Roads et al (2003) describing the GCIP Water and Energy Balance Synthesis (WEBS) showed that the Variable Infiltration Capacity model (VIC) model under-simulates “observations” of net solar radiation by an average of 50 w/m in the summer months of 19961999 over the Mississippi basin. The net solar radiation “observations” used by Roads et al (2003) are a GOES-based...