Background Lower-riparian Bangladesh and upper-riparian India share more than 50 international rivers (Adel 2012: 528; Riaz 2011: 106; Islam 1992: 204; Ahmed 2012: 51; Afroz and Rahman 2013: 100).1 Needless to say, historically these rivers are very important, playing a vital part in many ways in people’s lives, such as, in agriculture and fisheries, vegetation and greenery, urban and rural wat...

Focusing on 2-D (2.5D) dimensional geographical phenomena, traditional commercial GISs have limited capability of dealing with 3-D and 4-D environmental data and models. This paper explores the application of real-time,interactive visualization to flood model simulation. The tight integration approach of data, flood model algorithms, computation and visulization is employed in Geovision, a spat...

Mayo Clinic has been involved in an ongoing effort to prevent the diversion of controlled substances from the workplace and to rapidly identify and respond when such diversion is detected. These efforts have found that diversion of controlled substances is not uncommon and can result in substantial risk not only to the individual who is diverting the drugs but also to patients, co-workers, and ...

To address the water-related issues faced by humans, planning and construction of dams, water diversion projects, other infrastructures have been continuously adopted decision makers worldwide. This is especially case for Yalong River Basin (YRB) in China, which expected to be one most regulated rivers due reservoir planned South-to-North Water Diversion project. understand potential impact the...

1.1 Study area and background The Middle Rio Grande (MRG) is located in Central New Mexico (Figure 1 insert). As one of the most historically documented rivers in the United States, MRG is under constant supervision from regulatory agencies such as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) (Albert, 2004). MRG was historically characterized as an aggrading sa...

As part of a large hydroelectric project in northern Québec (Canada), a portion of the flow of the Rupert River was diverted toward the existing La Grande hydroelectric complex. As a result of the partial diversion, the discharge of the Rupert River at its mouth is reduced by an average of 50% annually. This corresponds to an 18% decrease in the total freshwater inflow into the bay and, thus, t...

Many bedrock canyons on Earth and Mars were eroded by upstream propagating headwalls, and a prominent goal in geomorphology and planetary science is to determine formation processes from canyon morphology. A diagnostic link between process and form remains highly controversial, however, and field investigations that isolate controls on canyon morphology are needed. Here we investigate the origi...

CONTEXT Ambulance diversion, a practice in which emergency departments (EDs) are temporarily closed to ambulance traffic, might be problematic for patients experiencing time-sensitive conditions, such as acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, there is little empirical evidence to show whether diversion is associated with worse patient outcomes. OBJECTIVE To analyze whether temporary ED c...

 ABSTRACT Background: The loop colostomy is one of the most popular techniques used as a protective maneuver for a distal anastomosis and/or temporary fecal diversion. We are introducing the use of a full thickness skin bridge under the large bowel instead of a glass rod which alleviates problems such as protrusion of the large bowel, retraction of the bowel into the abdomen after removing the ...