according to statistics released by agricultural insurance fund (aif) less than 4 million acres out of 90 million acres has been covered by pastures insurance. this observation along with several facts motivated authors to study possible barriers which pastures insurance has been encountered in practice. the research population included all the experts in agricultural insurance fund. small popu...

Abstract Sharing the burden of adaptation is key for agricultural sector in developing countries. For countries, losses will go from 3% under 1.5 °C scenario to 7% 2 (Masson-Delmotte et al. 2018). This anticipated information on possible climate change-driven challenges possesses a big load farmers management that might ex-ante stop investing because negative consequences scenarios presented. s...

While there is literature on excess winter mortality, there are few studies examining the evolution of its trend which may be changing in parallel with global warming. This study aimed to examine the trend in the excess mortality in winter as compared to summer among the older population in a sub-tropical city and to explore its association with extreme weather. We used a retrospective study ba...

Simplifications used in regional climate models decrease the accuracy of the regional climate models. To overcome this deficiency, usually a statistical technique of MOS is used to improve the skill of gridded outputs of the Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models. In this paper, an experimental synoptic-climatology based method has been used to calibrate, and decrease amount of errors in GFS...

Performance in two experiments was compared on a list of words of high and low frequency in which familiarity/meaningfulness (FM) was balanced and on a list of high- and low-frequency words in which FM was confounded with frequency (i.e., high frequency--high familiarity vs. low frequency--low familiarity). Both repetition and task (lexical decision and naming) were investigated. In the lexical...

In forced-choice recognition memory, two different testing formats are possible under conditions of high target-foil similarity: Each target can be presented alongside foils similar to itself (forced-choice corresponding; FCC), or alongside foils similar to other targets (forced-choice noncorresponding; FCNC). Recent behavioural and neuropsychological studies suggest that FCC performance can be...