Background: Adverse health effects have been predicted from a so-called “global warming”. The present study is the second in a series that tests the global warming question at the county level in an individual state using an ecological design. The state studied this time is Alabama. Methods: Two response variables, cancer death rates and heart disease death rates for the counties were compared ...

This study evaluated the influence of 20 annual land applications of Class B biosolids on the soil microbial community. The potential benefits and hazards of land application were evaluated by analysis of surface soil samples collected following the 20th land application of biosolids. The study was initiated in 1986 at the University of Arizona Marana Agricultural Center, 21 miles north of Tucs...

a r t i c l e i n f o Land has been reclaimed along the coastal areas in many parts of the world to meet the growing demand for houses and other land use. Over 15 km 2 of land has been reclaimed around the Shekou peninsula, Shenzhen, China. Land reclamation may have significant influences on groundwater systems but this problem has not been adequately studied. Using FEFLOW (Diersch, 2005), a th...

the telecom services have been recognized the world-over as an important tool for socioeconomic development for a nation and hence telecom infrastructure is treated as a crucial factor to realize the socio-economic objectives in india. accordingly, the department of telecom has been formulating developmental policies for the accelerated growth of the telecommunication services.  bsnl is a wholl...

the purpose of this study is to evaluate financial participation of farmers to reduce the adverse environmental effects of contaminated water by using contingent valuation approach and tobit model by heckman's two stage. to achieve the desired goal, 100 questionnaires collected by a random sampling from farmers of kashaf- rood basin in mashhad city in 2014. results showed that variables of age,...

A simple method that incorporates coupling between bath and system and between individual bath modes is proposed. In Ž . the new locally propagating gaussian LPG approximation, the bath is modeled by Gaussians at each system site that propagate in time. Each site couples to others by the overlap of their Gaussians. In a test case with weak but non-negligible coupling, LPG is nearly as rapid as ...

We present some techniques for planning in temporal domains specified with the recent standard languange PDDL2.1. These techniques are implemented in LPG, a fully-automated system that took part in the third International Planning Competition (Toulouse, 2002) showing excellent performance. The planner is based on a stochastic local search method and on a graph-based representation called “Tempo...

The preponderance of evidence suggests that communities with denser and more connected street networks and a higher degree of mixed land uses results in fewer vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT). However, there is less agreement on the size of the effect. Also, there is no clear understanding of the specific aspects of community design—such as street networks and land use mix—that are most import...

BACKGROUND The geography of where pregnant mothers live is important for understanding outdoor environmental habitat that may result in adverse birth outcomes. We investigated whether more babies were born small for gestational age or low birth weight at term to mothers living in environments with a higher accumulation of outdoor hazards. METHODS Live singleton births from the Alberta Perinat...