The intrinsic link between the urban water cycle and climate variables, in particular rainfall, is forcing water supply managers to revise future water plans to incorporate the likely impact of climate change. However, there is great uncertainty surrounding how climate change will affect urban water security due to difficulties in projecting rainfall and the variability in rainfall projections ...

his issue and that of the BMJ (22nd June 2002), are dedicated to neuro-degenerative disorders. We have come a long way in this field over the past two decades or so. Twenty years ago we knew only that Alzheimer's disease (AD) affected many elderly people, segregated in some early onset families, and was predominantly a disorder of cholin-ergic function. Now we have five years of postlicencing e...

We hypothesise that climate change, together with intensive agricultural systems, will increase the transfer of pollutants from land to water and impact on stream health. This study builds, for the first time, an integrated assessment of nutrient transfers, bringing together a) high-frequency data from the outlets of two surface water-dominated, headwater (~10km(2)) agricultural catchments, b) ...

In the last decade we witnessed a large increase in data generated by earth observing satellites. But today Satellite Image Retrieval is a big issue to discuss. There is huge amount of research work focusing on the retrieving of images in the image database. One of the most important steps in earlier stages of satellite image processing is cloud detection. Therefore, the satellite cloud images ...

Improvement of social hygiene and decreased H. pylori prevalence has resulted in the decrease of gastric organic diseases such as gastric ulcers and/or cancers. However, the number of patients with dyspeptic symptoms does not seem to have decreased, probably due to increased life stress and complicated social structures. Accordingly the attention to functional dyspepsia is rapidly increasing, a...

It is incumbent on nanomedicine researchers to understand how to develop their ideas into commercial drugs; success to date has not been as good as funders would have liked. This article attempts to outline, perhaps for the first time, some of the expertise that the pharmaceutical sector has acquired to facilitate translation. It is hoped this explanation will start to improve the planning requ...

Many semantic web applications require selective sharing of ontologies due to copyright, confidentiality, business, security concerns and others. Our motivation is to protect the possibility to infer sensitive information and improperly extract it from the connected knowledge bases represented in ontologies. Supporting the design knowledge bases in order to overcome possible types of attacks. W...