BACKGROUND Climate change is increasingly being implicated in species' range shifts throughout the world, including those of important vector and reservoir species for infectious diseases. In North America (México, United States, and Canada), leishmaniasis is a vector-borne disease that is autochthonous in México and Texas and has begun to expand its range northward. Further expansion to the no...

Objectives: This study investigated the prevalence and determinants of the use of dietary supplements and non-prescription medicines by older adults in Taiwan. Methods: Data are from the 1999 Survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan. The survey involved a national random sample of 2360 men and 2080 women, 53 years or older. Results: Overall, 32.4% of elderly men and 42.7% of ...

This article reviews the potential impacts of climate change on food security. It is found that of the four main elements of food security, i.e., availability, stability, utilization, and access, only the first is routinely addressed in simulation studies. To this end, published results indicate that the impacts of climate change are significant, however, with a wide projected range (between 5 ...

We conducted detailed resurveys of a montane mammal, Urocitellus beldingi, to examine the effects of climate change on persistence along the trailing edge of its range. Of 74 California sites where U. beldingi were historically recorded (1902-1966), 42 per cent were extirpated, with no evidence for colonization of previously unoccupied sites. Increases in both precipitation and temperature pred...

[1] Anthropogenic change of the Atlantic meridional ocean heat transport (AOHT) is diagnosed from a large ensemble of climate simulations over the period 1940– 2080, as well as its relation to changes in the Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) and the gyre circulation in the Atlantic. Internal variability in AOHT is closely associated with MOC variability. The anthropogenic change in AOHT,...

The present work describes a simple Reverse Phase HPLC method for the determination of Omeprazole and Domperidone from capsule formulations. The determination was carried out on a Gasco, ODS, C-18 (250× 4.5 mm, 5 micron) column using a mobile phase of Acetonitrile: 0.05M ammonium acetate buffer (pH4) in the ratio of (85:15). The flow rate and runtime were 1 ml/min and 10 min, respectively. The ...

Document Analysis and Understanding Bertin Klein GMD IPSI Dolivostr. 15 D 64293 Darmstadt, Germany [email protected] Andreas Abecker DFKI Postfach 2080 D 67608 Kaiserslautern, Germany [email protected] Abstract Document Analysis and Understanding (DAU) is a complex AI application with high industrial impact. For the increasing demands upon the bandwidth and quality of the analysis it is...

Abstract. We present projections of West Antarctic surface mass balance (SMB) and melt to 2080–2100 under the RCP8.5 scenario based on a regional model at 10 km resolution. Our are built by adding CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5) multi-model-mean seasonal climate-change anomaly present-day boundary conditions. Using an has advantage reduce biases, perfect-model test reveals...

The Lam Phaniang River Basin is one of the areas in Northeast Thailand that experiences persistent drought almost every year. Therefore, this study was focused on assessment severity and vulnerability Basin. evaluation based Drought Hazard Index (DHI), which derived from Standardized Precipitation-Evapotranspiration (SPEI) calculated for 3-month (short-term), 12-month (intermediate-term), 24-mo...