This work quantifies the agricultural water footprint (WF) of production (WFprod, agr) and consumption (WFcons, agr) and the resulting net virtual water import (netVWi, agr) of 365 European river basins for a reference period (REF, 1996–2005) and two diet scenarios (a healthy diet based upon food-based dietary guidelines (HEALTHY) and a vegetarian (VEG) diet). In addition to total (tot) amounts...

Splash basins are used in arthroplasty cases to wash instruments. Several studies in the literature have shown these basins being a potential source of bacterial infection. This study assesses the risk of contamination of intraoperative splash basins used to wash and store instruments. A total of 46 random clean primary arthroplasty cases (32 hips, 13 knees, and 1 unicondylar knee) were studied...

In the northern suburbs of Chicago, stormwater catch basins are the primary source of vector mosquitoes targeted by the local mosquito abatement district, and therefore effective catch basin larvicides are needed. From June to September 2011, Natular XRT was applied at label rate to a cluster of 20 catch basins and compared to a cluster of 20 untreated basins all within a small 0.21 km2 area of...

the systematics, morphology, distribution, biology, economic importance and conservation of the spiny eel ( mastacembelus mastacembelus ) of iran are described, the species is illustrated, and a bibliography on this fish is provided. the single species is distributed in southern iranian basins, including karkheh, karun, jarrahi and helleh river basins, mostly part of the tigris river and persia...

Coalbed methane (CBM) plays an important role in coal mining safety and natural gas production. In this work, The CBM potential of B2 seam in Parvadeh IV coal deposit, in central Iran, was evaluated using a combination of local regression and geostatistical methods. As there were 30 sparse methane sampling points in the Parvadeh IV coal deposit, no valid variogram was achieved for the methane c...

the response of karoun basin in lumped and semi-distributed simulation were compared. also, the flood intensity of the sub-basins and the effects of physical parameters on flood hydrograph have been investigated. results demonstrated that there was no significant difference between the characteristics of flood hydrograph in lumped and semi-distributed simulation. also, results showed that the f...

many studies have been conducted on the characteristics of hydraulic jumps over horizontal basins. on sloping basins, however, few such studies have been performed so that the issue requires more investigation. a significant number of studies has also been conducted on basins with positive slopes but comparatively few have been carried out on basins with negative slopes. this study was carried ...

according to the importance of obtaining accurate informations on drought conditions and it risk management for water right of major wetlands in iran, in this study climatic coefficients of palmer index for 17 watersheds in country was calibrated and zonation and their range in basins containing international wetlands were investigated. results showed that in wet conditions, in basins such as c...

in the present study, an investigation was carried out on parvadeh coal mine in tabas, iran, to survey the effect of fractures on unusual methane gas emission in coal mines. this coal mine was chosen for investigating because of its high methane gas content in the coal body and available data from sensors in desired locations. gas concentration monitoring programs were carried out at the mine s...