[email protected] A story is told in China about a peasant who had worked as a maintenance man in a newly established Western missionary hospital. When he retired to his remote home village, he took with him some hypodermic needles and lots of antibiotics. He put up a shingle, and whenever someone came to him with a fever, he injected the patient with the wonder drugs. A remarkable percentag...

Urbanization increases the urban land surface temperature (LST), challenging society and environment. This study measured LST of diverse uses (LU) in Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) using a high-resolution (8 cm) thermal infrared sensor onboard small, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). LUs included park (PA), industrial (IA), residential low-cost (RLC), high-cost (RHC) areas. was collected by UAV at differ...

Sea level rise increases the pressure on many coastlines to retreat landwards which will lead previously held in position through management, being allowed where this is no longer affordable or sustainable. Barrier beaches have historically rolled back response different hydrodynamic events and sea rise, but very little known as how quickly far roll-back going occur once management has ceased. ...

Metal roofs have always been in the focus of stormwater runoff contamination. However, other roofing materials are also suspected releasing metals and inorganic substances with runoff. Hence, this review focuses on impact commonly used non-metal - vegetated non-vegetated quality. Results from 42 studies were compiled assessed to gain an overview nine types a special green roofs. Concentrations ...

Today, physicians are perhaps the most regulated professionals in the United States, but in 1870, almost all of them were unlicensed. In most jurisdictions, anyone could hang up a shingle and practice medicine. Only the Dakota Territory and Ohio required physicians to register with local authorities. Between 1870 and 1900, the practice of medicine changed dramatically, and by 1900, almost every...

The Atlantic coast of Galicia (NW Spain) is a high-energy environment where shingle beaches are currently developing. These coarser sediments alternate with sandy deposits which also considered as typical low-energy environment. physical association both types sediment contrasted sedimentary significance raises problems interpretation. study four outcrops fossil aeolianites on this has allowed ...

This paper is motivated by the problem of how to provide better access to ever enlarging collections of digital images. The paper opens by examining the concept of place in geographic theory and suggests how it might provide a way of providing keywords suitable for indexing of images. The paper then focuses on the specific challenge of how places are described in natural language, drawing on pr...

Coccinella quinquepunctata (the five-spot ladybird), was considered extinct in the UK until 1987. Since this time species is abundant, however, only very specific habitat Wales and Scotland. As a result, it classified as (RDB3) Rare, mainly result of its preferred habitat; exposed riverine sediment. This constant state alteration by natural anthropogenic means with quality being degraded to poi...