Ethiopia is a low-income country, with low electricity access (45%) and an inefficient power transmission network. The government aims to achieve universal become exporter in the region by 2025. This study provides invaluable perspective on different aspects of Ethiopia’s energy transition, focusing achieving covering country’s needs during 2015–2065. We co-developed investigated three scenario...

BACKGROUND Although many climate-sensitive environmental exposures are related to mortality and morbidity, there is a paucity of estimates of the public health burden attributable to climate change. OBJECTIVE We estimated the excess current and future public health impacts related to respiratory hospitalizations attributable to extreme heat in summer in New York State (NYS) overall, its geogr...

The aims of this study were to determine the extent and distribution of an OSPAR priority habitat under current baseline ocean temperatures; to illustrate the prospect for habitat loss under a changing ocean temperature scenario; and to demonstrate the potential application of predictive habitat mapping in "future-proofing" conservation and biodiversity management. Maxent modelling and GIS envi...

BACKGROUND On May 12th 2008, an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.0 on the Richter scale struck China, causing a large number of casualties and significant economic losses. By interviewing 2080 survivors of Wenchuan earthquake, the objective of this study is to estimate the role of different types of social support as possible moderating factors between anxiety and depression. METHODS A strati...

Drug and Alcohol Services, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW. Stephen M Jurd, MB BS, FRANZCP, FAChAM, Medical Director, Area Drug and Alcohol Services, Northern Sydney Health; and Clinical Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney. Reprints: Dr S M Jurd, Drug and Alcohol Services, Royal North Shore Hospital, Herbert St, St Leonards, NSW 2065. [email protected] The Medical Journal of...

Quasi-dynamic Analysis, Design Optimization, and Evaluation of a Two-finger Underactuated Hand M. A. Saliba and C. W. de Silva RIAL–Robotics and Industrial Automation Laboratory, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Malta, Msida, MSD 2080, Malta. E-mail: [email protected]. Corresponding author. bIndustrial Automation Laboratory, Department of Mechanical E...

A comprehensive assessment of the impacts of climate change on agro-ecosystems over this century is developed, up to 2080 and at a global level, albeit with significant regional detail. To this end an integrated ecological-economic modelling framework is employed, encompassing climate scenarios, agro-ecological zoning information, socio-economic drivers, as well as world food trade dynamics. Sp...