The southwestern tropical Atlantic is a region of complex ocean dynamic where originates the strong western boundary current system composed North Brazil and undercurrent. includes variety features including Atoll das Rocas (AR) Fernando de Noronha (FN) ridge that may favour mesoscale eddy dynamics. However, origin, occurrence characteristics eddies were still not described in region. Using sat...

On December 7, 2012, a pair of large Mw 7.2 intraplate earthquakes occurred near the Japan Trench axis off Miyagi, northeast Japan. This doublet consisted of a deep reverse-faulting event followed by a shallow normal-faulting event. Aftershock observations using conventional and newly developed ultra-deep ocean bottom seismographs in the trench axis area showed that the shallow normal-faulting ...

1Department of Embryology; 3Department of Health, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, Gorgan, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to M.J. Golalipour: [email protected]). 2Department of Paediatrics, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Islamic Republic of Iran. ABSTRACT This study recorded the rate of congenital malformations in 10 000 births at a referral hospital in Gorg...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to estimate the prevalence of psychological stress and association between the levels of stress and study variables among Gorgan medical students. MATERIALS AND METHODS All three year medical students (129 basic sciences students) in Gorgan Faculty of Medicine, Golestan University of Medical Sciences, were asked to complete the Kessler 10 questionnaire. RESULTS The...

Roads and cities represent huge sources of degradation for adjacent ecosystems regarding nutrient cycling, energy, water flow and species composition. In this study we test the hypothesis that distance from roads and cities is associated with habitat loss and fragmentation in the caatinga vegetation--a dry forest to scrub vegetation that covers ca. 736,000 km2 of northeast Brazil. The study sit...

This study explored the spatial pattern of heavy metals in Beijing agricultural soils using Moran's I statistic of spatial autocorrelation. The global Moran's I result showed that the spatial dependence of Cr, Ni, Zn, and Hg changed with different spatial weight matrixes, and they had significant and positive global spatial correlations based on distance weight. The spatial dependence of the fo...

This contribution evaluates an approach using an extended Kalman filter (EKF) to estimate the planetary boundary layer height (PBLH) from lidar measurements obtained in the framework of the European Aerosol Research LIdar NETwork (EARLINET) at 12 UTC ± 30-min for a 7-year period (2007-2013) under different synoptic flows over the complex geographical area of Barcelona, Spain. PBLH diagnosed wit...

The southern San Jacinto fault zone is characterized by high seismicity and a complex fault pattern that offers an excellent setting for investigating interactions between distinct fatfits. This fault zone is roughly outlined by two subparallel master fault strands, the Coyote Creek and Clark-San Felipe Hills faults, that are located 2 to 10 km apart and are intersected by a series of secondary...

In the present paper a geospatial analysis is performed to understand the meandering behaviour of Barak River in southern Assam between 1988 and 2010. Landsat images (with Thematic mapper and Enhanced thematic mapper-plus sensors) for years 1988, 1999, and 2010 are considered for the study. River Barak within the study area is digitized as polygons for three years and sinuosity index (SI) are c...