hurricanes typhoons and tropical cyclones

Tropical Cyclones and Global Climate Change: A Post-IPCC Assessment

Tropical Cyclones and Global Climate Change: A Post-IPCC Assessment

... hyperactive hurricane seasons of 1995 (19 tropical storms, 11 hurricanes, and intense hurricanes) and 1996 (13 tropical cyclones, hurricanes, and intense hurricanes) may be heralding a return to ... Averaged annual total numbers of tropical cyclones (wind at least 17 m s−1) and intense tropical cyclones (wind at least 33 m s−1) and their standard deviations over all tropical cyclone basins (unit: ... dynamics and local oceanic cooling by mixing and upwelling, often prevent tropical cyclones from achieving this theoretical limit (Holland 1997) While the internal dynamics of tropical cyclones and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2016, 13:40

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TYPHOONS AND TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS RECOMMENDED FOR EXISTING AND NEW HOUSES IN THE CYCLONIC REGIONS IN VIETNAM

TYPHOONS AND TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS RECOMMENDED FOR EXISTING AND NEW HOUSES IN THE CYCLONIC REGIONS IN VIETNAM

... between the parallels 16 and 12, from Quang Nam to Khanh Hoa The typhoon season is between September and November, and is the most intense in October and November There are to typhoons hitting the ... density and the percentage of strong typhoons are less than those of the Northern Coastal Region and Middle-part Coastal Region The most severely affected area by typhoons is of Quang Ngai and Binh ... crops and the environment In summary, typhoons and inundation are one of the many factors causing hunger and poverty hindering the socio-economic development of Vietnam Therefore, planning and...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2013, 22:47

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Báo cáo hóa học: " The incidence of acute encephalitis syndrome in Western industrialised and tropical countries" pdf

Báo cáo hóa học: " The incidence of acute encephalitis syndrome in Western industrialised and tropical countries" pdf

... belonging to Europe and North America Nineteen articles discussed AES in Western industrialised countries and the remaining looked at AES in Tropical countries (Tables and 3) and [see Additional ... Encephalitis in Tropical Countries In recent years, the epidemiology and distribution of JE has changed [52] The disease incidence is decreasing in China, Japan and Korea, and Thailand where it ... duplicates) = 32 Pubmed "encephalitis and epidemiology" AND "herpes and Incidence" 1950-autumn 2007 266 43(-27 duplicates) = 16 OVID "Incidence or epidemiology" AND "encephalitis" 1950-autumn 2007...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Photochemical efficiency of photosystem II in rapidly dehydrating leaves of 11 temperate and tropical tree species differing in their tolerance to drought" doc

Báo cáo khoa học: "Photochemical efficiency of photosystem II in rapidly dehydrating leaves of 11 temperate and tropical tree species differing in their tolerance to drought" doc

... a constant basic fluorescence F and a high maximal photochemical efficiency F m /F v (Ögren and Öquist, 1985; Comic et al, 1987; Epron and Dreyer, 1992) Epron and Dreyer (1992) suggested that ... were grown in 5-I pots a mixture of blond peat and sand (50/50 v/v) spring on and fertilized with a slow release fertilizer (Nutricote, N/P/K 13/13/13) and a solution of oligoelements All seedlings ... Mediterranean oaks Q ilex and Q cerris Tropical species showed even higher values than the oaks Turgor loss occurred at very low relative leaf water loss (D between 0.1 ) tl and 0.15, and at relatively...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:22

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: role of individuals and collaborative networks in mobilizing/coordinating societal and professional resources for major disasters" pps

Báo cáo khoa học: "Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: role of individuals and collaborative networks in mobilizing/coordinating societal and professional resources for major disasters" pps

... number and type of medical, social, mental health and related conditions, and the space and personnel required to accomplish this task The planning for these missions took 4–6 hours, and the ... immunizations, and credentialing of volunteer physicians, nurses, and PAs The group also determined to look after the ‘mental health’ of the incident command group and others providing leadership and service ... political, sluggish, and awkward, and often disregard local incident command programs and local resources Top down disaster preparedness concepts have dominated the textbooks and articles on disasters,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

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Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years

Increasing destructiveness of tropical cyclones over the past 30 years

... Ice and SST data set (HadISST)22, is averaged over a box bounded in latitude by 68 N and 188 N, and in longitude by 208 W and 608 W Both quantities have been smoothed twice using equation (3), and ... Landsea, C W., Fernandez, M L & Klein, R Hurricane vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean: Normalized damage and loss potentials Nat Hazards Rev 4, 101–-114 (2003) Pielke, R A J & Landsea, ... multiplied by a factor of 8.3 £ 102 13 and the HadISST (with a constant offset) is averaged over a box bounded in latitude by 58 N and 158 N, and in longitude by 1308 E and 1808 E Both quantities have...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2016, 13:38

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Tài liệu Seasonal variation in the incidence of preeclampsia and eclampsia in tropical climatic conditions ppt

Tài liệu Seasonal variation in the incidence of preeclampsia and eclampsia in tropical climatic conditions ppt

... daily rainfall and morning barometric pressure) were acquired from the Regional Meteorological Centre, Mumbai for the study period The incidence of preeclampsia and eclampsia and the meteorological ... incidence of preeclampsia and eclampsia is much divided in its conclusion [1-13] Preeclampsia and eclampsia are major obstetric complications with unclear aetiologies Understanding the exact association ... RD: Seizure and acute osmotic change: clinical and neurophysiological aspects J Neurol Sci 1991, 101(1):7-18 Pasantes-Morales H, Tuz K: Volume changes in neurons: hyperexcitability and neuronal...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Structural insights into the substrate specificity and activity of ervatamins, the papain-like cysteine proteases from a tropical plant, Ervatamia coronaria ppt

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Structural insights into the substrate specificity and activity of ervatamins, the papain-like cysteine proteases from a tropical plant, Ervatamia coronaria ppt

... papain and actinidin, and on amino acid sequence information for cathepsins B and H, and stem bromelain J Mol Biol 182, 317–329 11 Carter CE, Marriage H & Goodenough PW (2000) Mutagenesis and kinetic ... [27,35] and other members of the papain family, and is made up of two domains, L and R, with a V-shaped active site cleft at the interface of the domains (Fig 1) Substrate specificity and activity ... and activity of ervatamins R Ghosh et al Fig The interdomain cleft of ervatamin-A and ervatamin-C in the same orientation Ribbons colored yellow, blue and green represent domain L, domain R and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 16:20

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Geochemistry of inorganic arsenic and selenium in a tropical soil  effect of reaction time, ph, and comp

Geochemistry of inorganic arsenic and selenium in a tropical soil effect of reaction time, ph, and comp

... in aqueous and subsurface systems, namely )2, 0, +4, and +6 The fate and transport of Se in contaminated sites are very much influenced by its chemical form and speciation Selenite and Se(VI) ... 1994; Carbonell Barrachina et al., 1996; Lo and Chen, 1997; Su and Suarez, 2000; O’Reilly et al., 2001), and oxidation states of As and Se Competitive ions and soil properties are also being emphasized ... (Faust and Aly, 1999) Hence, at pH 4.7, H3 AsO0 and H2 AsOÀ are the respective predominant dissolved As(III) and As(V) species While HSeOÀ and SeO2À are the predominant dissolved Se(IV) and Se(VI)...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:25

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Báo cáo khoa học: Cold exposure and associated metabolic changes in adult tropical beetles exposed to fluctuating thermal regimes ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: Cold exposure and associated metabolic changes in adult tropical beetles exposed to fluctuating thermal regimes ppt

... °Cc, °CF20° and 20 °CF0°) Control beetles exhibited the lowest amounts of Glu and Lys, and the highest levels of Asn ⁄ Ser and Arg ⁄ Thr (Fig 1A,B) Gln was significantly lower in control and °Cc beetles ... reared in darkness at 20 °C and supplied with water and food ad libitum, consisting of moistened bran and dry dog food All the insects used for this study were between and months old at the beginning ... 70% ethanol and Fontainebleau sand, before adding 1.5 mL of 40% ethanol The homogenate was centrifuged for 10 at 4500 g and °C (Sigma 2-16 K, angle rotor 10 · 20, Sigma-Aldrich Co.), and the supernatant...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:20

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ASSESSMENT OF THE BENEFITS OF EXTENDING THE TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE RESEARCH AND OPERATIONS COMMUNITIES doc

ASSESSMENT OF THE BENEFITS OF EXTENDING THE TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE RESEARCH AND OPERATIONS COMMUNITIES doc

... over tropical ocean areas of about 105 km2 and how does this rain and its variability affect the structure and circulation of the tropical oceans? What is the relationship between precipitation and ... comprehensively and better understand risks and benefits associated with deorbiting decision alternatives, and (c) with the reevaluated decision criteria and results of research related to risks and benefits, ... climatological and diagnostic information on tropical rainfall and associated underlying physical processes derived from analysis and diagnosis of the PR and TMI data* (Betts and Jakob, 2002);...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

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Oncogenesis, Inflammatory and Parasitic Tropical Diseases of the Lung Edited by Jean-Marie Kayembe potx

Oncogenesis, Inflammatory and Parasitic Tropical Diseases of the Lung Edited by Jean-Marie Kayembe potx

... Dejan Maglic and Sinan Zhu Chapter Relationship Between Toxicogenomic and Environment and Lung Cancer 61 M Adonis, M Chahuan, A Zambrano, P Avaria, J Díaz, R Miranda, M Campos, H Benítez and L Gil ... other proteins and molecules (Fig 2) Oncogenesis, Inflammatory and Parasitic Tropical Diseases of the Lung Figure The binding of specific ligands to the receptor activates EGFR and generates a ... led to suspend the development of sorafenib in NSCLC 12 Vandetanib Vandetanib is an oral TKI that inhibits VEGFR-2 and -3, RET and EGFR Vandetanib in combination with carboplatin/paclitaxel resulted...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 14:20

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Báo cáo nghiên cứu nông nghiệp " Enhancing Tropical Beef Cattle Genetics, Reproduction and Animal Breeding Skills " pdf

Báo cáo nghiên cứu nông nghiệp " Enhancing Tropical Beef Cattle Genetics, Reproduction and Animal Breeding Skills " pdf

... North and Central Vietnam and visit collaborating institutions and farming community sites to develop practical skills in cattle handling and management and extension skills between R&E staff and ... crossbreeding and marketing and technology transfer strategies were discussed with R&E staff and farming families Bull and female evaluation and selection procedures were demonstrated and a discussion ... visit the tropical beef cattle production region of Central Queensland Australia, and receive specialist training in R&E techniques and strategies in tropical genetics, animal breeding and reproduction...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 13:20

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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "The successional status of tropical rainforest tree species is associated with differences in leaf carbon isotope discrimination and functional traits" pot

Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "The successional status of tropical rainforest tree species is associated with differences in leaf carbon isotope discrimination and functional traits" pot

... dynamic (growth, mortality and recruitment) and morphological and dendrometric (height and maximal diameter of the trees) variables at the adult and sub-adult stage and a PCA analysis leading ... all parameters except ∆ and WUE ∆ was negatively correlated with WUE and gs and positively with N WUE and gs were strongly negatively correlated The relationship between ∆ and WUE was highly significant ... W.J., Maphanga D., Dry mass allocation, water use efficiency and δ13 C in clones of Eucalyptus grandis, E grandis × camaldulensis and E grandis × nitens grown under two irrigation regimes, Tree Physiol...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Comparison of physical and mechanical properties of tension and opposite wood from ten tropical rainforest trees from different species" pptx

Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Comparison of physical and mechanical properties of tension and opposite wood from ten tropical rainforest trees from different species" pptx

... diversity and to measure the physical and mechanical properties in the tension wood sector as compared to the opposite wood sector, on specimen corresponding to the standard methods MATERIAL AND METHODS ... bending and in compression (MPa), Tangential, radial and longitudinal shrinkage (%), tangential/radial shrinkage ratio (TS/RS) and transversal + radial shrinkage for opposite wood (OW) and tension ... better than 20 µm which means 1/1000 for R and T directions and 4/10000 for L direction 2.10 Statistical analysis Results from laboratory measurements within and between individuals were compared...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:21

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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Links between tree structure and functional leaf traits in the tropical forest tree Dicorynia guianensis Amshoff (Caesalpiniaceae)" ppsx

Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Links between tree structure and functional leaf traits in the tropical forest tree Dicorynia guianensis Amshoff (Caesalpiniaceae)" ppsx

... bins between and 50 àmol m2 s1 and in 100 àmol m2 s1 bins between 50 and 2050 àmol m2 s1 PPFD was simultaneously recorded for the individuals in the understorey and in clearing (ASD 1, and 3) by ... The ASD effect was to increase Na and Nm in the understorey and clearing Na and Nm were maximal at ASD and decreased at ASD The comparisons between ASDs at low and medium light revealed a decrease ... (Amaxa, Amaxm, respectively) and mass and area based N content (Nm and Na, respectively) in Dicorynia guianensis at different stages of development (ASD 1, 2, 3, and 5) and in three contrasting light...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp:"Influence of basic density and temperature on mechanical properties perpendicular to grain of ten wood tropical species" pot

Báo cáo lâm nghiệp:"Influence of basic density and temperature on mechanical properties perpendicular to grain of ten wood tropical species" pot

... from compression test (ER, sy and W20%) and x is the basic density The parameters a and b depend on wood species, but the question concerns the dependence between a, b and temperature We tried two ... fracture test (Pf, sf and Gf) and basic density The parameters a and b are calculated to adjust the theoretical law to experimental data (table III) Correlation between Gf and basic density is ... higher values for Tg: GR and sf This difference can be accounted for by a superposition of tension and compression strain during the shearing and fracture tests Both Dq and C0/C1 present an important...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "A fractal root model applied for estimating the root biomass and architecture in two tropical legume tree species" pps

Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "A fractal root model applied for estimating the root biomass and architecture in two tropical legume tree species" pps

... of a tree root system, and predicting root biomass and length We applied the model to two tropical legume trees, Erythrina lanceolata Standley (Papilionaceae: Phaseoleae) and Gliricidia sepium ... observed in the values of α and q (Fig 1) is random, and we decided to use the general average values for the whole root system The α values for E lanceolata and G sepium, 1.15 and 1.14, respectively, ... of E lanceolata and G sepium was tested with respect to link diameter before bifurcation and link order (Fig 1) The differences in the values of α and q between link orders 1, 2, and ≥ were tested...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Effect of endomycorrhizas and nematodes on the growth of seedlings of Dicorynia guianensis Amshoff, a tree species of the tropical rain forest in French Guiana " docx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Effect of endomycorrhizas and nematodes on the growth of seedlings of Dicorynia guianensis Amshoff, a tree species of the tropical rain forest in French Guiana " docx

... Aublet and Recordoxylon speciosum Benoist Norm and Mar) the same in the non-disinfected soils A and B Moreover, the similar mycorrhizal colonization and biomass production recorded with root and ... each 4-5 cm mixed A pieces pooled together and thoroughly random subsample was cut into cm pieces, then cleared and stained (according to Kormanik and McGraw, 1982) for quantifying endomycorrhizal ... (Béreau and Garbaye, 1994) ance The analysis of variance of the data was first performed two-ways (four blocks and four treatments) for detecting general effects, and then one-way (four treatments and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

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