India has experienced dramatic economic growth in the past 2 decades accompanied by a rising burden of noncommunicable diseases, which coexists with the unfinished agenda of undernutrition. Tackling these dual challenges requires strong investment in nutrition research. We compared India's research output with another rapidly developing country (China) and an established developed country (USA)...

Background and purpose - Pediatric fracture incidence may not be stable. We describe recent pediatric fracture epidemiology and etiology and compare this to earlier data. Patients and methods - The city of Malmö (population 271,271 in 2005) in Sweden is served by 1 hospital. Using the hospital diagnosis registry, medical charts, and the radiographic archive, we identified fractures in individua...

Period Covered by the Report: March 1, 2004 to February 28, 2005 Date of Report: July 8, 2005 EPA Agreement Number: R-82867601 Title: Pacific Estuarine Ecosystem Indicator Research (PEEIR) Consortium: Biogeochemistry and Bioavailability Component Principal Investigator: Richard M. Higashi Co-Investigators: Teresa Fan, Patricia Holden, Douglas Nelson, Kate Scow Institutions: UC Davis Bodega Mari...

in the past decades, much effort has been devoted to simulation of the rainfall-runoff process. hydrological models are simplified representations of the natural hydrologic system. in each case, the choice of the model to be applied depends mainly on the objective of the modeling but also on the available information. the relative performances of two lumped conceptual-based hydrology models (ta...

Evaporation is one of the largest water losses from most of the dam lakes in Iran. Estimating the evaporation rate enables us to apply the proper evaporation mitigation technologies. In this study, the feasibility of different evaporation estimation methods was studied to find an optimum method with a fair tradeoff between cost and accuracy. The optimum method may vary depending on the climate....