The non-parametric Mann-Kendall method and Sliding t-test were applied in this study to analyze the spatial and temporal patterns of trends of the precipitation in the Loess Plateau from 1958 to 2007. The main trends of the precipitation in this region is downward, only four upward time series have not reach the significant level. Most of the abrupt changes happened in northeast of Loess Platea...

In 2015, approximately 6% of persons of all ages (20.1 million) in the United States delayed medical care during the preceding year because of worry about the cost, and 4.5% (14.2 million) did not receive needed medical care because they could not afford it. Persons living in the Northeast were significantly less likely than persons living in the Midwest, South, or West to delay or not receive ...

Introduction: The thick mantle material in the etched unit (Nple) and dissected unit (Npld) of in northeast

We analyze the quarterly average sale prices of new houses sold in the USA as a whole, in the northeast, midwest, south, and west of the USA, in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia of the USA, to determine whether they have grown faster-than-exponential which we take as the diagnostic of a bubble. We find that 22 states (mostly Northeast and West) exhibit clear-cut signatures of ...

For the past three years the Northeast Waste Management Officials’ Association (NEWMOA) and the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management (NESCAUM) have been working cooperatively on a project to incorporate pollution prevention (P2) into compliance with the national emission standards for hazardous air pollution (NESHAP) control requirements of the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA). Th...

João Cabral de Melo Neto's poem "Morte e vida severina" focuses primarily on the satisfaction of human needs and on the condição severina--i.e., the poverty, hunger, joblessness, injustice, and early death that characterizes much of life in Northeast Brazil. In two episodes of the poem, human life is presented as a value ideal: during the dialog between the master carpenter and the protagonist ...

The contents of arsenic and selenium in 33 coals collected from the main coal mines in northeastern, northern and eastern China were determined by flow injection-hydride generation and non-dispersion atomic fluorescence spectrometry (HGAFS). The concentrations of As in the northeast region are relatively higher with the values > 100 microg g(-1); in the east they are lower with values < 100 mic...

taknar polymetal (cu-zn-au-ag-pb) deposit: a new type magnetite-rich vms deposit, northeast of iran

The Northeast Network in Biotechnology (RENORBIO) was established in 2004 by the Federal Government that identified the demand for this type of professional and signalizes a great opportunities them to act on the growing industry of biotechnology in Brazil. It is a network of research, development and innovation, which base is the Post-Graduation Program (PGP-RENORBIO) that have 36 institutions...