Pakistan is one of the most highly water-stressed countries in the world and its water resources are greatly vulnerable to changing climatic conditions. The present study investigates the possible impacts of climate change on the water resources of the Kunhar River basin, Pakistan, under A2 and B2 scenarios of HadCM3, a global climate model. After successful development of the hydrological mode...

Pakistan’s economy is significantly reliant on agriculture. However, Pakistan is included in the most water-stressed countries in the world, and its water resources are considerably vulnerable to climate variability and climate change. Therefore, in the present study, the water resources of the Jhelum River basin, which provides water to 6 million hectares of land of Pakistan and hydropower pro...

BACKGROUND Dengue fever is the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral disease worldwide. Dengue transmission is critically dependent on climatic factors and there is much concern as to whether climate change would spread the disease to areas currently unaffected. The occurrence of autochthonous infections in Croatia and France in 2010 has raised concerns about a potential re-emergence of dengue in...

Zusammenfassung Im Beitrag wird die Vision einer Universitätsbibliothek im Jahre 2040 entworfen. Die Aufgaben und Rollen von Bibliotheken in Gesellschaft, zum einen stark digitalisiert unterwegs ist, anderen aber auch großen Bedarf an sozialen Kontakten hat, werden skizziert. Art, wie Medien Information genutzt wird, hat sich radikal verändert. Kernstück ist eine Informationsplattform, auf der ...

Abstract The idealized Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) simulations are conducted to investigate tropical cyclone (TC) size intensity over the Western North Pacific (WNP) past decades, as represented by National Centers for Environmental Prediction/National Center Atmospheric (NCEP/NCAR) R-1, European Medium range (ECMWF) twentieth century (ERA20C) reanalysis, Oceanic Administration Coope...

Evapotranspiration is sensitive to climate change. The main objective of this study was examine the response reference evapotranspiration (ET0) under various change scenarios using artificial neural networks and Canadian Earth System Model Second Generation (CanESM2). Hargreaves method used calculate ET0 for western, central, eastern parts Prince Edward Island their two input parameters: daily ...

BACKGROUND Setting Millennium Development Goals and Sustainable Development Goals for health has largely focused on defining specific targets of mortality and morbidity reduction over given time periods. Yet, less attention has been devoted to setting targets for the systemic determinants of health delivery, such as access and financial risk protection (FRP)-prevention of medical impoverishment...

A fungus-derived compound (OSI-2040) which induces fetal globin expression in the absence of erythroid cell differentiation was identified in a high-throughput drug discovery program. We utilized this compound to isolate gamma-globin regulatory genes that are differentially expressed in OSI-2040-induced and uninduced cells in the human erythroleukemia cell line K562. Representational difference...