Regions depending on winter snowpack for hydroelectricity generation may be adversely affected if spring temperatures increase. An inverse relationship between spring temperature and summer hydroelectricity generation is complicated by changing statistical properties of the varia...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2013/2669
Aims: Provide a review of key features and several applications of the family of Integrated Water Resources (IWR) models, as the key analytical tools used in evaluation of hydrologic conditions in support of the integrated regional water management (IRWM) programs in California....
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2013/2672
Objectives: The framework is designed to provide (i) for better understanding of factors contributing to urban resilience; and (ii) for comparison of climate change adaptation options. Methodology: Disasters occur at the intersection of hazards and vulnerabilities. As the climate...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2013/2504
Aims: Derivation of a closed-form expression for the duration of the daily insolation on surfaces of arbitrary uniform slope and aspect located anywhere on Earth, anytime of the year. Study Method: It is shown that the sunrise- and sunset-hour angles and the duration of daily ins...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2013/2450
The Haihe River Basin (HRB), located in northern China with a drainage area of 318,200 km2, is one of the most developed regions in China. With rapid population growth and economic development, the combined problems of water shortage and groundwater over-pumping significantly con...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2013/2673
In this paper, the Fuzzy Inference System is used for developing an operation model for the Zayandeh-Rud Dam and for planning downstream agricultural crop farms under different climatic conditions. The model consists of three stages: in the first, the storage volume of the reserv...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2013/2295
Global change is recognized as an additional potential stressor on already over-tapped groundwater systems. Mitigation of impacts due to global change requires planning for sustainable use of groundwater systems. Identifying and developing mitigation plans for sustainable use of...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2013/2505
It is necessary predict the effect of aquifer stresses in surface water and wetlands and consider the mutual effects that are produced by the conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater. This was originally made with very simple idealized analytical methods. The next develop...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2013/2472
Aims: The hypothesis of this research is that it is possible to increase the drip irrigation lateral line length by using a larger spacing between emitters at the beginning of the lateral line and a smaller one after a certain distance, which would allow for a higher pressure var...
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Research Article10.9734/BJECC/2013/2471
Proteomics is a science that facilitates global analysis of protein expression, molecular interactions and functional states of protein in a cell, organ or organism under consideration. Protein at the molecular level represents the biological endpoint and therefore more suitable...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5268
Aims: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, being exposure to estrogens the acknowledged main risk factor. CYP17, CYP19 and NQO1 are enzymes involved in the estrogen metabolism, so their polymorphisms may be involved in breast carcinogenesis. The aim of this...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/4254
Background: Self-assessed eating speed was frequently used to assess an individual’s eating speed in previous clinical studies. However, the relationship between self-assessed eating speed and the duration of eating meals is unknown. Place and Duration of Study: A cross-sectional...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/4303
Aims: To quantify total glycogen synthase kinase (GSK)-3β and GSK-3β phosphorylated at serine 9 in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patients and to assess if GSK-3β could be a biomarker for ALS. Study Design: Cross-sectional observat...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5578
Aims: To describe a new approach to the surgical treatment of the nonseptic olecranon bursitis. Methods: The study included 14 patients (13 men, 1 woman; age range 51-77 years) treated in a 10-year period. Patients with a systemic inflammatory disease were excluded. All patients...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/5302
Nicola Vitulano, Francesco Perna, Graziano Riccioni, Maria Teresa Cardillo, Valentina Coluccia, Ada Francesca Giglio, Massimo Gustapane & Fulvio Bellocci·Journal of Advances in Medicine and Medical Research·2013
The research in the field of sleep medicine has increased during the whole twentieth century, principally for the involvement of sleep-related disordered breathing (SDB) in cardiovascular disease. If sleep encompasses about a third of one’s life, the reasons are mostly linked to...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMMR/2014/4688