A study in New York estimated that the city's respiratory disease burden would increase by $644,069 annually in hospitalisation costs with excessive heat waves in the near future (Shao et al., 2012). Mortality rates across Europe are significantly increased during heat wave periods (Kristie and...
In this Thursday, July 26, 2018 file photo, a structure burns as the Carr fire races along Highway 299 near Redding, Calif. In the last year, fires have devastated neighborhoods in the Northern California wine country city of Santa Rosa, the Southern California beach city of Ventura and, n...
(Rnir + Rred + 1.16). WhereRniris the reflectance value of remotely sensed image in the near infrared band,Rredis the reflectance value of the remotely sensed image in the infra-red band. OSAVI was used to estimate the vegetation cover in August in Qinghai province. The ...
Ralph McGinnis, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Linda Morgan and colleagues perform a genome-wide association study in the offspring of preeclampsia pregnancies and identify variants in the fetal genome near FLT1 that are associated with risk of preeclampsia
Report of Investigation in the Matter of Sinking of Passenger Vessel EXPLORER (O.N. 8495) 23 November 2007 in the Bransfield Strait Near the South Shetland Islands; Bureau of Maritime Affairs: Monrovia, Liberia, 2009. MANICE Manual of Standard Procedures for Observing and Reporting Ice Conditions...
Table 2. The calculated target hazard quotients (THQ) of Pb, Cd, Cr, and As, and hazard index (HI) for adults associated with the tea leaves consumption in the southwest region of Yunnan province, China. The HI is a useful parameter to evaluate overall potential health risk from multiple...
which consists dominantly of high-angle dipping Devonian and Carboniferous sedimentary rocks. Near the city of Eschweiler, it crosses the border from the low mountain ranges of the Eifel to the lowlands of the Lower Rhine Embayment (see Fig.1). In the further course, the underground is dominat...
The risk assessments shall include: Consideration for the potential of objects, as well as personnel, to fall; Selection of appropriate control measures using the hierarchy of controls; The possibility for weather and other environmental conditions to influence the working conditions (e...
Similar to covered types of property, insurance companies will usually give you the option to extend your policy to cover additional causes of loss, which might include falling objects, weight of snow, ice, sleet, or water damage, to name a few. It will also usually be possible to extend ...
with 48 h of continuous monitoring. The monitoring objects at different depths of the wall inside the chamber were recorded with an infrared camera installed at a distance of 2 m from the wall to reduce human errors during the temperature measurements. It was also ensured that the monitoring pe...