OBJECTIVE To provide data on herbal medicine (HM) use and safety in patients attending a nephrology clinic at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). METHODS A prospective, 3-month study between June and September 2007, investigated all patients presenting to the Nephrology Clinic of the Sheikh Khalifa Medical center (SKMC) in Abu Dhabi, UAE. A structured qu...

Economic ideas and processes are becoming increasingly integrated with more traditional engineering and hydrologic models of water management problems. Combining economic management concepts and performance indicators with an engineering-level of understanding of a hydrologic system can provide results and insights more directly relevant for water management decisions and policies. When such mo...

Globally, floods are a prevalent type of natural disaster. Simulating is critical component in the successful implementation flood management and mitigation strategies within river basin or catchment area. Selecting appropriate calibration data to establish reliable hydrological model great importance for simulation. Usually, hydrologists select number events used depending on size. Currently, ...

The hydrological response of a medium-sized watershed with both rural and urban characteristics was investigated through event-based modeling. Different meteorological event conditions were examined, such as events high precipitation intensity, double peak, mainly normal to wet antecedent moisture conditions. Analysis the hydrometric features conducted by comparing different rainfall time inter...

assessment of watershed management activities is one of the main subjects for future planning of practical projects and natural resources management. due to the lack of any tool for assessment of watershed processes in many cases, distributed hydrological models can be useful. the purpose of this study was evaluation of watershed management activities in kan watershed by hec-hms (hydrologic mod...

The regional terrestrial water cycle is strongly altered by human activities. Among them, reservoir regulation a way to spatially and temporally allocate resources in basin for multi-purposes. However, it still not sufficiently understood how modifies the terrestrial- subsequently, atmospheric cycle. To address this question, representation of into component fully coupled Earth system models re...

Benjamin W. Wah, A. Ieumwananonthachai, Shu Yao, and Ting Yu Center for Reliable and High Performance Computing Coordinated Science Laboratory University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 1308 West Main Street, Urbana, IL 61801, USA fwah, arthuri, yshu, [email protected] Abstract In this paper, we discuss a new approach to generalize heuristic methods (HMs) to new test cases of an applica...

AFFILIATIONS: MCENERY—Water Resource Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; INGRAM—Office of Hydrologic Development, NOAA’s National Weather Service, Silver Spring, Maryland; DUAN— Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California; ADAMS— Ohio River Forecast Center, NOAA’s National Weather Service, Wilmington, Ohio; ANDERSON—Office of Science and Technology, NOAA’s National ...

Hydrologic simulation employing computer models has advanced rapidly and computerized models have become essential tools for understanding human influences on river flows and designing ecologically sustainable water management approaches. The HEC-HMS is a reliable model developed by the US Army Corps of Engineers that could be used for many hydrological simulations. This model is not calibrated...