DING WANG,∗†† XIANFENG ZHANG,∗ KEXIONG WANG,∗ ZHUO WEI,∗ BERND WÜRSIG,† GILLIAN T. BRAULIK,‡ AND SUSIE ELLIS§ ∗Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430072, China †Texas A&M University, 4700 Avenue U, Building 303, Galveston, TX 77551, U.S.A. ‡Downstream Research Group, 3950 S. Fletcher Avenue, Amelia Island, FL 32034, U.S.A. §Conservation International, 1919 M Street, S...

In Australia, Ross River virus (RRV) is predominantly identified and managed through passive health surveillance. Here, the proactive use of environmental datasets to improve community-scale public health interventions in southeastern Tasmania is explored. Known environmental drivers (temperature, rainfall, tide) of the RRV vector Aedes camptorhynchus are analysed against cumulative case record...

We consider unsteady undular bores for a pair of coupled equations of Boussinesq-type which contain the familiar fully nonlinear dissipationless shallow-water dynamics and the leading-order fully nonlinear dispersive terms. This system contains one horizontal space dimension and time and can be systematically derived from the full Euler equations for irrotational flows with a free surface using...

Prof D Aubry, France Dr K Baba, Japan A Bozovic, Yugoslavia Prof A K Chopra, USA Prof R W Clough, USA W S Croucamp, South Africa Prof M Fanelli, Italy Prof W D L Finn, Canada Prof J F Hall, USA Prof K Ishihara, Japan Dr G Lombardi, Switzerland Dr D Naylor, UK Dr W Pircher, Austria Prof V E Saouma, USA Prof J Laginha Serafim, Portugal Prof R T Severn, UK Prof Shen Chonggang, China B Tardieu, Fra...

Vessel generated wake wash can lead to erosion of loose bank sediments and the destruction of fragile aquatic habitats. Although various studies have been done to quantify the magnitudes of boat wakes and their associated energy, there is yet to be a single model which can universally predict wave heights across different vessel sizes, boating speeds and hull forms. The goal of this study is th...

AIMS To assess the extent of the problem of nut allergy in schoolchildren within the Severn NHS Trust. To determine how well informed schools are about the condition, their policies and attitudes, and the action that would be taken in the event of an acute reaction. METHODS A questionnaire addressed to the head teacher was sent to 100 randomly selected mainstream schools in the Severn NHS Tru...