Countywide forecasts of water use available for Illinois, Midwest
...nois counties based on the best available data and forecasting methods. The result is a set of water-demand forec...ment, or other demand drives in each sector. These forecasting methods also could be used to project water use based on locally available data sources." Planners ...More efficient ways of managing patient flow may benefit Los Angeles County/USC hospital
...cedures for operating rooms and nursing staff, and forecasting patient volume for a particular day and time. Routing procedures, which involve sequencing all of the tests and examinations each patient needs, will also be examined in more detail, Dessouky said. The emergency room, which takes in approximately 85...Molecular tailoring of chemotherapy with novel imaging techniques
...ell cultures and mouse models, are aimed at better forecasting early response to chemotherapy so that treatment choices can be adjusted. "Right now in cancer therapy, with the exception of relatively uncommon examples of cancers for which we have tumor markers, we don't have reliable ways of predicting who is g...TIGER Workshop puts focus on space for African water management
...a Hills, while another team seeks to develop flood forecasting and early warning system for the Gash River, shared between Sudan, Eritrea and Ethiopia, and prone to burst its banks once every five years. Major changes that have occurred in wetland environments in Senegal, Chad and Liberia during the last few de...NIA establishes new demography centers to enhance knowledge about older americans
...ts focus on the biodemography of aging, as well as forecasting and analyzing demographic and fiscal characteristics of the aging population, developing behavioral and experimental economics, studying life cycle planning and intergenerational transfers, and monitoring and examining labor supply issues in an aging...ESA gives green light to funding for GMES
...n increasing need for better global monitoring and forecasting capabilities. That is what GMES will provide. I am particularly pleased at this decision, which comes at the end of my term at ESA, where I have worked hard to build the foundations of this programme". Dr Steven Wilson, Chairman of the ESA Programme...Envisat Symposium report day 2: GMES turns science to services
...erational monitoring capability for monitoring and forecasting greenhouse gases, reactive gases such as ozone-destroying chlorine and also aerosols. On a global scale these data products will be used to monitor long-range atmospheric transport of air pollutants, while improved regional forecasts will be used by...Taking apart a hurricane: Multi-sensor Envisat sees through Frances
...ucts are being produced and used operationally for forecasting by the National Hurricane Center", Goni concluded. Altimetry-based wind speed and wave height products are also distributed by the French firm Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), and can reveal sea surface features related to the presence of hur...Envisat witnesses return of the South Polar ozone hole
...ctually serve as the basis of an operational ozone forecasting service. These models predict the ozone hole is in...ear-real time as the basis of an operational ozone forecasting service. This is part of a suite of atmospheric information services provided by a project called TE...Climate-based model to predict West Nile virus activity
...alistic field conditions. DeGaetano will develop a forecasting model based on climate to predict periods of vector and pathogen abundance and human risk. Lois Levitan, a Cornell senior extension associate and Environmental Risk Analysis Program leader, will determine the information needs of public health and v...Cutting-edge sensors and software tests will help protect Pentagon from airborne hazards
...through blend of high-tech instruments and weather forecasting models is being tested at the Pentagon April 15-Ma... a lot of experienced players and advanced weather forecasting systems in order to precisely time the releases." What's in the system Most modern weather forecasts...Cancer markers news backgrounder: Future of cancer diagnosis, treatment lies in tumor 'barcode'
...ents and found the test was 75 percent accurate in forecasting which women would respond to FAC. Now the investigators are testing the gene screen in a larger randomized study at M. D. Anderson. If this study validates the utility of the gene screen, a predictive test may be available for widespread use in two t...Near-real time ozone forecasting made possible by Envisat
... observation and data use, in the same way weather forecasting does. As well as chemical interactions, the model also includes weather data provided by the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, because polar stratospheric clouds transported by winds play a major role in the process of ozone destruc...Nesselroade to receive The Gerontological Society of America's 2003 Distinguished Career Award
... and how it can be used as a predictor variable in forecasting differential long-term outcomes. He holds degrees from Marietta College and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To be eligible for the Career Contribution Award, papers must have been published within the past five years by a GSA member ...Professorial Fellowships announced
...vestigate the predictive failure of macro-economic forecasting and its centrality to modern economic policy. The applications of his research interests are the UK housing market, money demand and consumers' expenditure. Professor Donald MacKenzie, Department of Sociology, University of Edinburgh, will ...First quarter 2002 prescription drug spending: Higher again, but rate of increase drops
...st quarter 2002 trend decrease, Express Scripts is forecasting that 2002 annual spending growth will slow to 15.9 percent. The company, one of the nations leading pharmacy benefit management firms, predicts that the average cost in 2002 will reach $686.19 for an increase of $94.14. We began to see some moderat...Bangladesh flood and drought forecasting could bring farmers, cholera victims relief
...ty of life for millions of people. In addition to forecasting monsoon variability and associated sea rise leadin...ndividual farmers and be able to quantify that our forecasting scheme has a positive impact on subsistence farming. Our goal is to change the concept of minimizin...Air safety, election forecasting lead topics as operations researchers meet in Miami beach
...hers recently developed a new approach to election forecasting based on the financial futures markets. The authors examine how these predictions would have proven in four presidential elections. Monday, November 5, 8:15 - 9:30 AM, Fontainebleau Imperial IGetting the Best Price in an eBay Auction What Factors Dr...Thunderstorms shed light in mystery of epileptic seizures
...prediction. "The idea is to control the seizure by forecasting its arrival andmanipulating it withelectric stimulation in specific neuronal pathways," says Perez-Velazquez, alsoa researcher at the Toronto Western Hospital. The study marks the discovery of the occurrence of a particular dynamic regime-- type III...Forecasting Killer Heat: UD Systems Predict Deadly Weather Worldwide
...n. "Our system saves lives by identifying and then forecasting the specific type ofoppressive air mass known to kill large numbers of people within a given city,"says Kalkstein, lead author of a health chapter in the landmark final report ofthe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1996). "Health authoritie...