Chad, in regards to its geographical position is considered as one of the countries world that receives an important annual solar radiation over entire territory. The average sunshine duration about 10 hours North, 8 Center and 7 South. This can be used quantify whole territory evaluate potential. In this paper, some new correlations between have proposed four cities (Abeche, Bitkine, Mongo Ndj...

BACKGROUND Birmingham is the largest UK city after London, and central Birmingham has an annual tuberculosis incidence of 80 per 100,000. We examined seasonality and sunlight as drivers of tuberculosis incidence. Hours of sunshine are seasonal, sunshine exposure is necessary for the production of vitamin D by the body and vitamin D plays a role in the host response to tuberculosis. METHODS We...

This study examined the effect of weather and seasonality on hipfracture incidence in older adults residing in New York City. A total off 66,346 patients aged > or = 65 years who sustained a fracture of the femoralneck or intertrochanteric region from 1985 to 1996 comprised the study population. Hip fractures were more likely to occur in the winter than in any of the other seasons (P<.001). Fac...

OBJECTIVE To review guidance from professional medical associations to physicians on the Sunshine Act, with a focus on industry support for medical publications. METHODS Using 'Sunshine Act' as a search term, we searched PubMed (dates February 2013 to November 2014) and the 'grey literature' using Google and Google Scholar. Online information was extracted from websites of pre-identified prof...

We explore the links between weather variables and residential electricity consumption using high-resolution smart metering data. While factors have been used for grid-level demand estimations, impact of different conditions on individual households has not fully addressed. The deployment meters enables us to analyse effects in periods day hourly panel datasets, which would previously impossibl...

Accurate streamflow simulation is crucial for many applications, such as optimal reservoir operation and irrigation. Conceptual techniques employ physical ideas are suitable representing the physics of hydrologic model, but they might fail in competition with their more advanced counterparts. In contrast, deep learning (DL) approaches provide a great computational capability simulation, rely on...

Recent advances in artificial intelligent techniques embedded into a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) allowed the application of such technologies in real engineering problems (robotic, image and signal processing, control, power electronics, etc.), however, the application of such technologies in the solar energy field is very limited. The embedded intelligent algorithm into FPGA can play ...