background: tuberculosis (tb) spread pattern is influenced by geographic and social factors. nowadays geographic information system (gis) is one of the most important epidemiological instrumentation identifying high-risk population groups and geographic areas of tb. the aim of this study was to determine the correlation between climate and geographic distribution of tb in khuzestan province usi...

Temporal fluctuations in the annual and summer precipitation across the Midwest during the 1898-2002 period are defined and described. Precipitation amounts were assessed for 15-year periods to show how patterns of precipitation have shifted spatially over the 20 Century. The early part of the century featured near average precipitation conditions, followed by predominately dry conditions from ...

A new method of calibration of the Australian Water Balance Model (AWBM) daily rainfall-runoff model allows for errors in the estimation of areal rainfall over the catchment. The result of applying the method to a group of gauged catchments is the production of a single set of parameter values for the AWBM that can be used with any catchment in the group, or used to estimate runoff on ungauged ...

India is basically an agricultural country and the success or failure of the harvest and water scarcity in any year is always considered with the greatest concern. The average annual or seasonal rainfall at a place does not give sufficient information regarding its capacity to support crop production. Rainfall distribution pattern is the most important. The rainfall forecasting is scientificall...

Sera collected from 2,564 inhabitants of different areas in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan, were examined for antibody to Toxoplasma gondii by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The overall prevalence rates of male (11.6%) and female populations (7.6%) were significantly different (P < 0.001). The prevalence also depended on age of the population. Of 11 districts three, being far from the sea and occu...

the dominant agricultural land uses are included of wheat farming in the kermanshah providence in the northwest of iran. the objective of this paper is analyzing of topoclimatic zonning of the wheat dry farming areas based on overlying the climatic and topographic character tics. to achieve the exact date of stages of rain-fed wheat growing in different areas of the province, the degree-days te...