The farmers in the Bow River Basin (BRB), Canada, have adopted water conservation strategies to reduce needs. This reduction, however, encouraged expansion of irrigation, which may rebound agricultural demands. paradox requires an understanding human adaptation drought by mapping individual farmers’ decisions dynamics basin-wide demand. We develop agent-based demand (ABAD) model, simulating beh...

Background: Febrile convulsion is one of the most common types of seizure in childhood (9 month to 5 years of age). Its pathogenesis is unknown, so studying its causes is valuable. The purpose of this study was to determine the serum level of magnesium in children with FC (9 months to 5 years of age). Materials and Methods: In this analytical study, serum level of magnesium in 102 children wi...

StudentResearcher:AdamRosen,MiamiPalmettoSeniorHigh,Miami,Florida Mentors: Ishmael Sharpe, MBA; Jeff Rosen, MD; Michelle Doddard, MD; Mary Abad, Center for Haitian Studies, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida Background. Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by high blood sugars and disturbances of carbohydrate and fat metabolism. Haitian...

The problem of incomplete end replication of DNA was originally raised by the Russian scientist Aleksey Olovnikov (Olovnikov, 1971, 1973). The main function of telomeric DNA is the compensation of end degradation. In most eukaryotes, telomeric DNA is maintained by the action of telomerase, which is responsible for the synthesis of short 6-9 nucleotide repeats using an RNA component as a templat...

Y. M A L H I *, M . S I L M A N w , N . S A L I N A S z, M . B U S H § , P. M E I R } and S . S A AT C H I k *Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK, wDepartment of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27106, USA, zUniversidad San Antonio Abad, Cusco, Peru, §School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, ...

1. introduction earthquake is a significant natural disaster which always affects different areas. zirkooh city due to the existence of active faults always faces destructive earthquakes (rajabi, 1384, p. 279). in may 9, 1997 this city was stricken by a severe earthquake with an intensity of 1.7 richter scale, and faced severe physical injuries, financial, and social damages. following the eart...