Kirsten R. McDonald, Neva J. Fudge, Janine P. Woodrow, James K. Friel, Ana O. Hoff, Robert F. Gagel, and Christopher S. Kovacs Faculty of Medicine Endocrinology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland A1B 3V6; Department of Biochemistry and Pediatrics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland A1B 3X9, Canada; and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer...

Climate and tourism are strong correlated. Urban areas have a relevance concerning not only to cultural tourism but also for recreation. The high discussed topic of global change is focused in the tourism climatology as well. We analyzed exemplarily the climate potential and its variation of Freiburg. The analysis is based on the simulations of the regional climate models REMO and CLM for the A...

A two-stage methodology is developed to obtain future projections of daily relative humidity in a river basin for climate change scenarios. In the first stage, Support Vector Machine (SVM) models are developed to downscale nine sets of predictor variables (large-scale atmospheric variables) for Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) (A1B, A2, B1, ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the rate of neural tube defects (NTDs) and their relation to gender, maternal age, consanguineous marriage, season, and drug consumption in Birjand, Iran. METHODS This research was carried out on 16,785 live or stillborn newborns in Birjand, Iran from April 1997 to December 2001. RESULTS The rate of NTDs was 2.97 per 1000. This rate was 1.97 per 1000 in males, and 3...

[1] We survey the IPCC AR4 models’ responses to SRES A1B forcing in order to evaluate a prediction of climate change common to all models and testable using GPS radio occultation data over the coming decades. Of the IPCC AR4 models that submitted runs of the SRES A1B forcing scenario, we select twelve because of the timeliness of their submission. Trends in the global average surface air temper...

BACKGROUND Stroke, or cerebrovascular accident (CVA), is the second leading cause of death in the world and based on the World Health Organization (WHO) report in 2006, it is responsible for 9.9% of all deaths in the world which over 85% of these deaths occurred in developing countries. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the data related to the frequency, risk factors, types ...

The structural basis of Ca channel inhibition by G proteins has received considerable attention recently, and multiple regions on Ca channels that interact with G protein subunits have been identified. We have demonstrated previously that a region extending from the N terminus to the I/II loop of the Ca channel is involved in determining the differences between a1B and a1E Ca channels with resp...

The study aimed to find out possible changes in climatic data (temperature and rainfall) from the regional climate model viz. PRECIS(Providing Regional Climates for Impact Studies)under different SRES scenarios (A1B, A2 B2 scenario) by mid (2021-2050) end (2071-2100) century at six locations of Punjab representing agroclimatic zones their impact on maize yield using crop growth simulation model...