Zinc-α2-glycoprotein (ZAG) plays an important role in the regulation of body weight, body fat, and glucose metabolism. In this study, we first measured ZAG levels in serum and ZAG mRNA levels in subcutaneous white adipose tissue (sWAT) among overweight/obese patients and lean control subjects. Second, we investigated the effects of ZAG administration on the body weight, body fat and glucose met...

This paper evaluates a recently created Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) calibration tool built using the Windows Azure Cloud environment and a parallel version of the Dynamically Dimensioned Search (DDS) calibration method modified to run in Azure. The calibration tool was tested for six model scenarios constructed for three watersheds of increasing size each for a 2 year and 10 year simu...

Abstract This study aims to assess the climate change impacts on hydrological components in Ponnaiyar river basin using Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model. used 13 Global Climate Models (GCM) from Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). Based performance evaluation of CMIP6-GCMs, best GCMs selected for future projections were EC-Earth3, MPI-ESM1-2-LR and MPI-ESM1-2-HR. SWAT...

The soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) is a well-known hydrological modeling that has been applied in various hydrologic environmental simulations. A total of 206 studies over 15-year period (2005–2019) were identified from peer-reviewed scientific journals listed on the SWAT website database, which supported by Centre for Agricultural Rural Development (CARD). These categorized into five ar...

Researchers and trialists face many uncertainties when designing and conducting research. Embedded methodology studies can help to resolve these. However, despite hundreds of thousands of trials, there are probably only a few hundred studies assessing the effects of different methods for doing this research. The concept of the SWAT (Study Within A Trial) programme is to aid the development of s...

The scarcity and uneven distribution of precipitation stations in the inland river basins of the Northeastern Tibetan Plateau restrict the application of the distributed hydrological model and spatial analysis of water balance component characteristics. This study used the upper Heihe River Basin as a case study, and daily gridded precipitation data with 3 km resolution based on the spatial int...