Urban flooding is a major social and economic problem of any nation. The implication attributed to loss lives property, unwanted displacement emotional disturbance attached. While that the cost mitigation flood aftermath solution. Thus, storm water drainage part essential modern city infrastructure. need for proper analysis design drainages other road facilities cannot be overemphasized. To ach...

Abstract Successful weather forecasts on subseasonal time‐scales can support societal preparedness and mitigate the impacts of extreme events. Heatwaves in particular can, certain cases, be predicted several weeks advance. Heatwave predictability is commonly assessed terms heatwave intensity. In addition to intensity, we assess onset duration, which are crucial components early‐warning systems ...

BACKGROUND Physical activity (PA) is associated with lower risk for non-communicable diseases and mortality. We aimed to investigate the prospective association between PA and all-cause and cause-specific mortality, and the impact of other potentially contributing factors. METHOD Data from the community-based Hordaland Health Study (HUSK, 1997-99) were linked to the Norwegian Cause of Death R...

this study examines the phonetic properties of lexical stress in english produced by persian speakers learning english as a foreign language. the four most reliable phonetic correlates of english lexical stress, namely fundamental frequency, duration, intensity, and vowel quality were measured across persian speakers’ production of the stressed and unstressed syllables of five english disyllabi...