population growth in urban areas is a world-wide phenomenon, particularly in developing countries, urbanization has been rapid in the past two decades, and such rapid urbanization is expected to continue in the coming years. while urbanization has provided opportunities for employment, education and socio-economic development, it has also brought about a number of adverse health problems. these...

objective: there are disparities in mental health services (mhs) utilization within and between populations and several factors are studied as its potential correlates. identifying those correlates would help health policy makers to adjust service provision with characteristics of their community. to evaluate demographic, socioeconomic and system correlates of mhs utilization among married wome...

Web services support the integration and interoperability of Web-based applications and enable machineto-machine interaction. The concepts of web services and open distributed architecture were applied to the development of T-DSS, the prototype customised for web based hydro-information systems. T-DSS provides mapping services, database related services and access to remote components, with spe...

Understanding resource managers' perceptions of climate change, analytic capacity, and current adaptation activities can provide insight into what can help support adaptation processes at the local level. In California, where a major drought currently demonstrates some of the hardships that could be regularly encountered under a changing climate, we present results from a survey of drinking wat...

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Wind power is the fastest growing renewable energy source in the United States. Existing empirical studies on the economic impact of wind power development have primarily relied on case studies and input-output models, which have limitations. This study instead uses a linear fixed effects model to estimate the county level effects of wind power in the Great Plains region of the United States fr...

Web Services for Automated Fault Analysis (WS-AFA) in Electrical Power System are described in this paper. WS-AFA is a new Information Technology solution for automated investigation and analysis of fault and disturbance records obtained from Digital Fault Recorders (DFRs) or other Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) in substations. The paper describes the overall system architecture as well ...