Hailstorms are considered to be among the most devastating weather manifestations. The devastation encouraged operational hail suppression activities to be undertaken in many countries (e.g. Ćurić,1990;Dessens,1998).“Hail suppression project” in Serbia uses the anti-hail rockets to inject the silver iodide agent into the hail clouds (one rocket has 400 g of mixture with 10-20% of AgI agent). Th...

More than 40 million people are now living with HIV infection around the world, and another 20 million have already died from the disease.1 First recognized in developed countries in the early 1980s, HIV is now an unprecedented global pandemic. The burden of disease is felt most severely in sub-Saharan Africa and other economically disadvantaged countries, where more than 7,000 people die each ...

The hazard of impacts by meteoroids, asteroids, and comets ranging in size from meters to kilometers should be a matter of practical concern to policy makers in many nations. At worst, the very unlikely case of a 3 km asteroid striking Earth could send civilization into a new Dark Age; this case – with a potential death toll of a billion or more – has an annualized fatality rate comparable to o...

Mainstream economic thought and practice has resulted in widespread socioeconomic disparity and environmental devastation in all corners of the world, unmitigated by a multi-billion dollar development industry informed by these same economic models. To reverse this trend, the dominant forms of economic thought and practice must be reunited with ethics that are more caring of the human-nature ba...

An operative and manageable network is always required to fulfill the many practical applications ranges from small scale industry to large scale power conserved environment tracking. In case of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), energy devastation of network node is a tremendous confrontation in the context of maximizing the lifetime span of the WSN. It will always be risky, very costly or in so...

Māori land data produced through colonial systems of dispossession lack interoperability, preventing kin-based communities from tracking their land. Our novel approach to repatriate and harmonise historic traces the history 45,500 acre Opuatia Block allocated hapū Ngāti Tiipa in 1866, following confiscation 1.2 million acres Waikato resisted Crown settler pressures for 30 years, but 80% was ali...

Incidents of workplace violence have been of significant concern to health care employers and the public at large. Many employers now find themselves confronted with sentinel events in the workplace, such as assault; property damage; racially, ethnically, or religiously motivated violence; sexual assault; employee suicide; or homicide. Regardless of a health care agency's size or mission, when ...

At this point of time, two decades after intense biological research into dementia began, we need to reassess our perspective on hope, and understand the need for some redirection toward the larger questions of care when no cure is in sight. It does seem appropriate to focus more of our hope and possibly resources on care itself, and on the creation of attitudinal shifts toward the affirmation ...

It is clear from disaster evaluations that communities must be prepared to act independently before government agencies can cope with the early ramifications of disasters. In response to devastation to the borough of Staten Island, New York in the wake of 11 September 2001, the Richmond County Medical Society established a structure to incorporate community needs and institutions to work togeth...

Phytophthora infestans has been a named pathogen for well over 150 years and yet it continues to "emerge", with thousands of articles published each year on it and the late blight disease that it causes. This review explores five attributes of this oomycete pathogen that maintain this constant attention. First, the historical tragedy associated with this disease (Irish potato famine) causes man...