West Nile virus (WNV) is a leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the United States. Annual seasonal outbreaks vary in size and location. Predicting where and when higher than normal WNV transmission will occur can help direct limited public health resources. We developed models for the contiguous United States to identify meteorological anomalies associated with above average incidence of ...

Numerical modeling based on radiative transfer theory and observations of grain growth with depth have indicated that passive microwave brightness temperatures over the polar ice sheets should be a function of accumulation rate. Using accumulationrate time series from nine shallow cores in the dry-snow facies in central Greenland, we find that multi-year averages of mean annual SMMR brightness ...

conventionally, regression and time series analyses have been employed in modeling water demand forecasts. in recent years, the relatively new technique of neural networks (nns) has been proposed as an efficient tool for modeling and forecasting. the objective of this study is to investigate the relatively new technique of gmdh – type neural networks for the use of forecasting long – term urban...

abstract in this research, four meteorological set of data including maximum temperature, minimum temperature, precipitation and radiation from echo-g, under a1scenario have been used for climate change detection over south khorasan. echo-g is a general circulation model that currently is used in hamburg university and korea meteorological research institute. in this research climate change ass...

in this paper, the temperature and annual precipitation data has been applied in 44 years for the synoptical stations northwest zone of iran. among the stations, eight of them, which have the perfect data and coverage, has been considered to analysis applied. in this study transfer function models have been used to analysis time series. in this method, firstly, the stations have been modeled th...

Maytenus ilicifolia and Maytenus aquifolia species are widely used as a cicatrisation agent, an anti-spasmodic, contraceptive, antiulcerogenic, diuretic and analgesic. Considering the importance of these species in popular medicine, this work is focused on the determination of the chemical content of tannins and the triterpenes friedelan-3-one, friedelan-3-ol and friedelin in 15 native populati...