Rainfall is considered as one of the major components of the hydrological process; it takes significant part in evaluating drought and flooding events. Therefore, it is important to have an accurate model for rainfall forecasting. Recently, several data-driven modeling approaches have been investigated to perform such forecasting tasks as multilayer perceptron neural networks (MLP-NN). In fact,...

In hydrology, extreme value analysis is normally applied at stationary yearly maxima. However, climate variability can bias the estimation of extremes by partially invalidating assumption. Extreme for sub-yearly data may depart from stationarity (since maxima one month not be exchangeable with another) in terms requiring to include it analysis. Here, we analyse non-stationary structure monthly ...

Background. Epididymo-orchitis is a common infectious disease among men, especially men aged 20 to 39 years. The aim of this study was to analyze possible associations of various meteorological indicators on the incidence of epididymo-orchitis in Taiwan. Methods and Materials. This nationwide population-based study collected data on cases of epididymo-orchitis that were newly diagnosed from 200...

Spatial interpolation methods usually differ in their underlying mathematical concepts. Each has inherent advantages and disadvantages, choosing a method should be based on the type of data to analyzed. This paper, therefore, compares evaluates performances well-established techniques that can used estimate monthly rainfall Thailand. The approaches analyzed include inverse distance weighting (I...

background : zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl), an important public health problem in iran, is sensitive to climate conditions. this study aimed to examine dynamic relations between the climate factors and incidence of zcl in golestan province, northern iran during 2010–2012. methods : data of monthly climatic factors, including temperature variables, relative humidity variables, evaporati...

Increased temperatures provide optimal conditions for pathogen survival, virulence and replication as well as increased opportunities for human-pathogen interaction. This paper examined the relationship between notifications of cryptosporidiosis and temperature in metropolitan and rural areas of Victoria, Australia between 2001 and 2009. A negative binomial regression model was used to analyse ...