The objective of this paper is to exploit the potential application of an evidential belief function model to landslide susceptibility mapping at Kuala Lumpur city and surrounding areas using geographic information system (GIS). At first, a landslide inventory map was prepared using aerial photographs, high resolution satellite images and field survey. A total 220 landslides were mapped and an ...

Satellite remote sensing data has significant potential use in analysis of natural hazards such as landslides. Relying on the recent advances in satellite remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) techniques, this paper aims to map landslide susceptibility over most of the globe using a GIS-based weighted linear combination method. First, six relevant landslide-controlling factors ...

BACKGROUND We studied the transmission of rotavirus infection in households in peri-urban Ecuador in the vaccination era. METHODS Stool samples were collected from household contacts of child rotavirus cases, diarrhea controls and healthy controls following presentation of the index child to health facilities. Rotavirus infection status of contacts was determined by RT-qPCR. We examined facto...

There is a current lack of consensus regarding methods of assessment of vitiligo. Recently, the Vitiligo Area Scoring Index (VASI) and the Vitiligo European Task Force (VETF) were proposed to offer more accurate measures of disease severity indexes and treatment evaluation criteria. It would make sense to combine the VASI with the VETF system. We proposed an original scale for treatment evaluat...

Mapping by admixture linkage disequilibrium (MALD) is an economical and powerful approach for the identification of genomic regions harboring disease susceptibility genes in recently admixed populations. We develop an information-theory-based measure, called expected mutual information (EMI), which computes the impact of a set of markers on the ability to infer ancestry at each chromosomal loca...

introduction: landslides are amongst the most damaging geologic hazards in the world. they pose a threat to the safety of humankind lives as well as the environment, resources and property. compared with other natural hazards such as volcanic eruptions and floods, landslides cause considerable damage to human beings and massive economic losses (guzzetti, 2005). according to preliminary estimates...

Obesity is increasing in the US population and currently affects one-third of adults. The physiology of obesity is complex and predisposition to obesity is influenced by multiple genes and environment. Obesity may be measured by body fat percentage, body mass index (BMI), or visceral adiposity. Life insurance companies generally use height and weight (build) determinations. The purpose of this ...

Fires have increased in northeastern Iran as its semi-arid climate landscape is desiccated by human activities. To combat fire outbreaks any region, susceptibility must be mapped using accurate and efficient models. This research the forests rangelands of Golestan Province new data-mining Fire effective factors, including elevation, slope angle, annual mean rainfall, temperature, wind effect, t...

We investigate the nonlinear susceptibility of noble gas atom interacting with intense laser field. The solution is obtained by solving the time dependent Schrödinger equation. It is shown that the behavior of nonlinear susceptibility strongly depends on the intensity; it increases almost linearly in low intensity regime, then becomes saturated at higher intensity. Furthermore it is also shown ...

In recent decades, floods have been the most common, complex, and destructive natural calamities worldwide. Hence, for inclusive flood risk assessment, creating susceptibility mapping to demarcate flood-vulnerable zones is fundamental decision makers. To assess flood-prone locations in Akre, Iraqi Kurdistan Region, was undertaken using geographic information systems, remote sensing, an analytic...