Robust assessment of crop water availability requires effective integration soil moisture data within the range field capacity (θFC) to permanent wilting point (θPWP). Emerging needs for spatiotemporally dynamic θFC and θPWP are difficult achieve with lab determinations. Therefore, we used long-term from 182 sites across United States evaluate whether extremes defined by 95th 5th percentiles re...

background: considering that establishment of reference value of nuchal translucency (nt)-related to the crown rump length (crl) during the first trimester will be helpful for determining an appropriate cutoff level for  screening of increased nt thickness-related abnormalities, we determined the nt thickness and investigated its relation with diff erent chromosomal and nonchromosomal abnormali...

This study presents an updated global mangrove forest baseline for 2010: Global Mangrove Watch (GMW) v2.5. The previous GMW maps (v2.0) of the extent are currently considered most comprehensive available products, however areas were identified as missing or poorly mapped. Therefore, this has 2010 map to increase mapping quality and completeness extent. revision resulted in additional 2660 km2 m...

Abstract:Introduction: Racial and environmental differences in communities leading cause of differences in serum lipids. It can be said this study aimed in assessing percentile curves of serum lipid profile about 6-18 years old students of Birjand.Method: The present cross-sectional study was done on 4168 students of Birjand aged 6-18 years. They were classified into three age groups 6-10 and 1...

Background:The aim of this study was to find the prevalence of chronic hypertension and prehypertension conditions among children. Methods:In this cross-sectional study, a total of 1017 students in Kerman schools were examined during a period from 2013 to 2014. The weight, height, body mass index (BMI), systolic and diastolic blood pressure and family his...

Introduction: One of the main risk factors obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is childhood obesity which account for about 60% incidence in obese children. Although polysomnography gold standard, it costly and difficult to be used The objective this study was use a prediction tool called “Modified STOP bang tool” assessment OSA overweight children Southern Sri Lanka. Methods: A descriptive cross-se...