background and objective: obstructive sleep apnea (osa) is the most common type of sleep-disordered breathing. multivariable apnea prediction (map) index consists of three questions about the frequency of osa symptoms plus body mass index (bmi), age and sex that categorizes the patients to low and high risk for osa using a formula. objective map index was calculated by discounting the questions...

Abstruct This paper presents the framework for creating of 3D map. The 3D shape and the textures of a building are acquired by analyzing moving picture taken from a running vehicle. However, in the real city environment, it is difficult to obtain 3D data of buildings accurately, because the slight motion of images due to the vehicle motion cannot be removed completely. This paper describes a ap...

OBJECTIVE We examined the association between climatologic parameters and daily admissions for non-fatal acute coronary syndromes (ACS) to emergency units of hospitals in the greater Athens area, from January 2001 to August 2002. METHODS Daily mean, maximum and minimum temperatures, relative humidity, wind speed, barometric pressure and a thermo-hydrological index (T.H.I.) were measured at th...

Starting in 1971, stream flow and climatologic data have been collected in the Goodwater Creek Experimental Watershed, which is part of the Central Mississippi River Basin (CMRB) Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) site. Since 1992, water quality and socio-economic data have complemented these data sets. Previous modeling efforts highlighted the challenges created by the presence of a clayp...

[1] Climate models often project an increase of rainfall under global warming over the climatologic wet regions from the global zonal-mean perspective. However, this “rich-get-richer” mechanism is not valid on a basin scale. In this study by analyzing climate change experiment outputs from an idealized atmospheric general circulation model with uniform sea surface warming and the Coupled Model ...

Exposure is a key variable in traffic safety research. In the literature, it is noted as the first and primary determinant of traffic safety. In many cases, however, no valid exposure measure is available. In Belgium, we have access to monthly traffic counts for 12 years. This offers the opportunity to investigate the added value of exposure in our models, next to legal, economic and climatolog...

An integrated system named METEOMOHID, developed by MeteoGalicia in the first stage of the Prestige accident in November 2002 was used successfully in an operational form to support decision making and assist in recovering tasks. Afterwards, METEOMOHID has been enhanced with the aim of developing an operational oceanography system to be used in the NW of the Iberian Peninsula. The METEOMOHID sy...

The isotope record of the Danube River water at Vienna station probably is the longest dataset of a large river worldwide: 3H record since 1963, stable isotopes 2H and 18O records since 1968. From the 2H-18O relation (“deuterium excess”) can be concluded that the isotopic composition in the Danube River water reflects mainly the isotopic relations in the precipitation in the catchment area with...