BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to predict the emergency admission of elderly stroke patients in Shanghai by using a multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network. MATERIAL AND METHODS Patients (>60 years) with first-ever stroke registered in the Emergency Center of Neurology Department, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, from January 2012 to June 2014 were enrolled into the present study. D...

OBJECTIVE Numerous published reports have linked various disease states and pregnancy-related conditions with meteorologic factors such as weather, humidity, and temperature. The purpose of this study was to determine if temperature and dew point affect the incidence of pyelonephritis during pregnancy. METHODS A retrospective chart review of a 4-year period from 1989 to 1992 was performed. Th...

because of the scarcity of in situ measurements, estimation of soil temperature by other means is very indispensable, as for irrigation management and scheduling when in different field conditions. so far, many regression models have been developed for an estimation of soil temperature, using meteorological data under bare soil. throughout this study, the performance of coup simulation model an...

Air pollution forecasts in major urban areas are becoming a problem concerning the day to day environmental management for city authorities. This paper describes the development of an application to forecast the peak ozone levels with the aid of meteorological and air quality variables, in the Greater Athens Area. For this purpose, a number of regression models were considered, while the select...

objective of this study is to determine whether there are significant changes in maximum temperature trends between the current (1981-2010) and future (2011-2099) periods. to this end, statistical downscaling is used to project future changes in the maximum temperatures according to a2 and b2 scenarios of hadcm3 in the 7 selected stations of iran. the possibilities of an accelerating trend are ...

Moniliophthora Pod Rot (MPR) caused by the fungus Moniliophthora roreri (Cif.) Evans et al., is one of the main limiting factors of cocoa production in Latin America. Currently insufficient information on the biology and epidemiology of the pathogen limits the development of efficient management options to control MPR. This research aims to elucidate MPR development through the following daily ...

TONKAZ, T., E. DOGAN and R. KOCYIGIT, 2010. Impact of temperature change and elevated carbon dioxide on winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grown under semi-arid conditions. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 16: 565-575 A study was conducted to determine effects of changed daily maximum, minimum, and elevated CO2 levels on winter wheat yield and yield components. Treatments included 0 ± 2, 4, and 60C in da...