Based on the combined use of satellite remote sensing and geographical information systems(GIS), as well as field investigation, the land-use change dynamics and the interaction between these changes are analyzed in the Zuli River Basin located in semi-arid Loess Plateau China during the period of 1987-2005, which with typical farming-pastoral region feature of northern China. The land-use chan...

The study examined the influence of population as proximate cause of wetland dynamics in the lower Ogun river basin of southwestern, Nigeria. Both primary and secondary data were used for the study. The primary data included 100 questionnaires administered and distributed among the fadama users group representing 10% of the estimated population of the group. Satellite images of years 1972, 1984...

We consider the problem of enlarging the basin of attraction for a linear system under saturated linear feedback. An LMI-based approach to this problem is developed. For discrete-time system, this approach is enhanced by the lifting technique, which leads to further enlargement of the basin of attraction. The low convergence rate inherent with the large invariant set (hence, the large basin of ...

This study analyzes the duration and division of the flood season in the Fenhe River Basin over the period of 1957–2014 based on daily precipitation data collected from 14 meteorological stations. The Mann–Kendall detection, the multiscale moving t-test, and the Fisher optimal partition methods are used to evaluate the impact of climate change on flood season duration and division. The results ...

Results from visual sightings of large floating debris are presented, taken in the Ligurian Sea, a sub-basin of the north-western Mediterranean Sea which belongs to the recently stated "Cetacean Sanctuary". Data have been collected during three oceanographic cruises, during the summer of 1997 and 2000. Results for the 1997 data suggest a debris density of the order of 15-25 objects km(-2), whil...

The Miyun Reservoir, the only surface water source for Beijing city, has experienced water supply decline in recent decades. Previous studies suggest that both land use change and climate contribute to the changes of water supply in this critical watershed. However, the specific causes of the decline in the Miyun Reservoir are debatable under a non-stationary climate in the past 4 decades. The ...

Climate change leading to global warming affects the earth through many different ways such as weather (temperature, precipitation, humidity and the other parameters of weather), snow coverage and ice melting, sea level rise, hydrological cycles, quality of water, agriculture, forests, ecosystems and health. One of the most affected areas by climate change is hydrology and water resources. Regi...

De Paoli-Iseppi, R., Johansson, P., Menzies, A., Dias, K., Pupo, G., Kakavand, H., Wilmott, J., Mann, G., Hayward, N., Dinger, M., Long, G., Scolyer, R. (2016). Comparison of whole-exome sequencing of matched fresh and formalin fixed paraffin embedded melanoma tumours: implications for clinical decision making. Pathology, 48(3), 261-266. ...