Transformation of land use-land cover change occurs due to the numbers and activities of people. Urban growth modeling has attracted authentic attention because it helps to comprehend the mechanisms of land use change and thus helps relevant policies made. This study applied logistic regression to model urban growth in the Ahvaz Metropolitan Area of Khuzestan province in IDRISI Selva software a...

nowadays, with population growth in urban areas, providing safe water and health is considered basic needs of human, alongside the various pollutants due to urban activities, agriculture and industrial areas on adjacent ranges into urban water resources around the environment is such that study necessary to prevent the pollution of water resources and identification of pollution sources shows. ...

Urban traffic plans (UTPs) are tactical planning tools for managing urban areas and traffic noise abatement is one of their objectives, explicitly provided for under Italian law. To date, the various models and methods for estimating traffic noise have concerned its estimation in a point (or on a road segment). In this paper we propose a method that is able to evaluate the effects of UTPs on no...

Resumo: Relato de um caso de síndrome de Reiter em paciente jovem, do sexo masculino, com lesões dermatológicas típicas e achado positivo para o antígeno do complexo de histocompatibilidade HLA-B27. O quadro surgiu após infecção intestinal por Salmonella enteritidis, evoluindo com melhora após utilização de tetraciclina, prednisona e indometacina. Episódio recidivante foi tratado com metotrexat...

El cardiólogo se enfrenta a diario con decisiones clínicas que requieren un entendimiento claro, a la vez práctico y sucinto, de conceptos básicos de Epidemiología Clínica. Definida por Sackett y colaboradores,1 como una “ciencia básica para la medicina clínica”, este conocimiento le permite establecer un criterio acerca de la respuesta a ciertas preguntas que sus pacientes le presentan. En los...

Due to the complexity of built environment, urban design patterns considerably affect the microclimate and outdoor thermal comfort in a given urban morphology. Variables such as building heights and orientations, spaces between buildings, plot coverage alter solar access, wind speed and direction at street level. To improve microclimate and comfort conditions urban design elements including veg...

BACKGROUND Information on the distribution of Metabolic syndrome (MetS) and its combinations by urban/rural areas in lower-middle income countries has been limited. It is not clear how the various combinations of MetS components varied by urban/rural population and if particular combinations of MetS are more common. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of MetS and combinations of MetS co...

In densely populated urban areas WiFi routers form a tightly interconnected proximity network that can be exploited as a substrate for the spreading of malware able to launch massive fraudulent attack and affect entire urban areas WiFi networks. In this paper we consider several scenarios for the deployment of malware that spreads solely over the wireless channel of major urban areas in the US....

Biotinidase deficiency is a hereditary metabolic disease with varied phenotypic expression in which there is a defect in the metabolism of biotin. The symptoms of the classic form are often neurological and in the skin, with possible sequelae such as auditory and visual disorders, and motor development and language delay. These manifestations are usually irreversible, even after treatment, whic...

A diagnostic approach for neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation: clinical features, genetics and brain imaging Uma orientação diagnóstica para neurodegeneração com acúmulo cerebral de ferro: aspectos clínicos, genéticos e de neuroimagem Rubens Paulo Araújo Salomão1, José Luiz Pedroso1, Maria Thereza Drumond Gama1, Lívia Almeida Dutra1, Ricardo Horta Maciel2, Clécio Godeiro-Junior3, Hsi...