PURPOSE. This Coastal and Hydraulics Engineering Technical Note (CHETN) provides information about an improved capability to mathematically model overwash caused by elevated water elevation and wave runup. An upgrade to SBEACH (Storm-induced BEAch CHange Model, a numerical model for simulating storm-induced beach profile change) is described to simulate sediment transport and subaerial profile ...

There were 176 culture-confirmed cases of melioidosis in north Queensland over the 10 years, 2000-2009. Most (nearly 80%) occurred in the first 4 months of the year. The overall case fatality was 21%, but was 14% in 2005-2009. Of the 173 adult cases, 45% were in Indigenous adults. Both diabetes and alcohol abuse were more prevalent among Indigenous adults with melioidosis than among non-Indigen...

Starting from the rich historical documentation of the National Archaeological Museum of Aquileia, we provide some examples of crosschecking aerial photography and archival data, especially from cartographic archives: in the immediate Northern outskirts of the city we can assume the existence of residential areas one of which was located right by a production area while evidence obtained by aer...

Northern New England State University (NNESU) is a four-year comprehensive state-supported institution located in a small city near the Canadian border. The university is comprised of three colleges: Arts and Sciences, Business and Finance, and Education and Professional Studies. It is the largest employer in the surrounding community. Enrollment at NNESU is comprised of approximately 6,000 und...

A serosurvey of feline herpesvirus type 1 (FHV-1), feline calicivirus (FCV), and feline parvovirus (FPV) in cats from Ho Chi Minh City area in southern Vietnam was conducted in December 1998, and we compared the results with our previous results in northern Vietnam (Hanoi area). The positive rate of FHV and FCV in domestic cats were 44% and 74%, respectively. They were rather higher than those ...

John Mark Gibson was born, in London, on Easter Sunday, 5 April 1953. His father, John Gibson was Professor of Mental Health at Queen’s University Belfast and his mother Emily, had been a nurse in London during the Blitz. Mark grew up in South Belfast, and attended the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. Excelling academically, his diverse extracurricular activities included playing the doubl...

Abstacts from the Northern Ireland Surgical Trainees Prize Day, which was held on Friday 14 November 2003 and hosted by Altnagelvin Area Hospital at the City Hotel, Londonderry. Thirtynine abstracts were submitted of which eleven were accepted for presentation on the day. There were six in the SHO section and five in the Specialist Registrar section. Winner of the SHO section was Dr Peter Mallo...

The recent decline in fieldwork provision in UK schools has partly been attributed to false perceptions of risk among teachers. This paper examines a case study based on geography teachers’ perceptions from six state secondary schools in a northern English city. The research shows that owing to the inherent subjectivity of risk perception, these teachers’ perceptions of fieldwork risk cannot be...

We determined the prevalence and risk factors for 3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA, "ecstasy") use among college students in Astara, a northern border city of Iran. In a cross-sectional questionnaire survey of 1226 students, the lifetime prevalence of ecstasy use was 5.6%. The lifetime prevalence of use of other drugs, mostly cannabis and opium, was 4.6%. A fifth of students (21.8%) wer...