temperature and precipitation are among important atmospheric parameters for watershed planning. assessment of temperature and precipitation trends is very important for future watershed planning. in this paper, trends of atmospheric parameters such as seasonal and annual temperature and precipitation were examined for the synoptic stations of bandar anzali, rasht, ramsar, babolsar and gorgan. ...

conclusions overall, cancer incidence rates had increased in both sexes. many factors were responsible, such as changes in lifestyle, environmental factors, increased life expectancy, improvements in the registration systems, and declining mortality rates due to early detection and treatment. the results of this study provided useful information for the prediction of changes in the incidence an...

background the prevalence of newly-diagnosed cases of chronic hepatitis is decisive for the overall incidence rate of hepatitis b observed in poland. objectives we aimed to determine the chronic hepatitis b incidence trends in poland, taking into consideration the ages, genders, and environments of the patients. methods the study is based on aggregated data from polish descriptive epidemiologic...

background: obesity has become a serious problem for chinese han nationality. this research aimed to evaluate the prevalence of and trends in obesity among chinese korean nationality children and adolescents (1991–2010). methods: we used data from chinese national surveys on students’ constitution and health (cnssch). cnssch was utilized to monitor chinese students’ health condition and release...

abstract climate change and increase the temperature of the environmental importance of human behavior that is considered in recent years many studies have been devoted .objective of this study is to investigate trend and slope trend monthly of hdd with temperature threshold of 18. mean daily temperature of weather during the statistical period of 44 years (1962-2005) was provided from asfe zar...

the aim of this study was to estimate the genetic and phonotypic trends of somatic cell score in iranian holstein cows. also, the environmental factors affecting this trait are investigated. a total of 375351 test day records of somatic cells take from 54374 animals between year 2002 and 2007 were used in this study. the breeding values were estimated by fitting animal model in asreml software....

regarding to the escalating trend of environmental pollutions, especially air pollution in great city of tehran, the perspective and study of the conditions for supply and consumption trends of fuels, with specific to fossil fuels, can lead to formation of significant figures and data. on the other hand, recognition, and if possible, reformation of environmental management schemes in the supply...

Pasture ecosystems may be particularly vulnerable to land degradation due to the high risk of human disturbance (e.g., overgrazing, burning, etc.), especially when compared with natural ecosystems (non-pasture, non-cultivated) where direct human impacts are minimal. Using maximum annual leaf area index (LAImax) as a proxy for standing biomass and peak annual aboveground productivity, we analyze...

Climatological annual and seasonal dewpoint, specific humidity, and relative humidity maps for the United States are presented using hourly data from 188 first-order weather stations for the period 1961–90. Separate climatologies were calculated for daytime (three observations per day between 0800 and 1600 LST), nighttime (three observations per day between 2000 and 0400 LST), and the full day ...