Trend Assessment of Global, UVB, UVA Irradiation and Dry Bulb Temperature at the Lowest Terrestrial Site on Earth: Dead Sea, Israel

Author(s):  
Avraham I Kudish ◽  
Efim G Evseev

Abstract The Dead Sea basin is lowest terrestrial site on the globe. A meteorological station monitoring the global, UVB and UVA irradiation and the dry bulb temperature was established in 1995 in conjunction with a study of bio-climatological properties of the region with regard to photoclimatherapy treatment of dermatological diseases. The availability of such irradiation and dry bulb temperature databases has been utilized to perform a study to determine if any trends regarding either irradiation or dry bulb temperature exist at this unique site. There was no indication of any trends, based upon a p-value analysis, regarding the global, UVB and UVA irradiation. The global irradiation database included the time interval 1995-2020; whereas the corresponding time interval for the UVB and UVA irradiation databases was 1995-2018. The dry bulb temperature database consisted of the time interval 1995-2020 and, once again, no trends were observed throughout the year with the exception of the nocturnal time interval, between 18:00 to 06:00, during the month of October which exhibited a warming trend of 0.78°C/decade

2006 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 129-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avihu Ginzburg ◽  
Moshe Reshef ◽  
Zvi Ben-Avraham ◽  
Uri Schattner

1997 ◽  
Vol 109 (11) ◽  
pp. 1485-1501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Istvan Csato ◽  
Christopher G. St. C. Kendall ◽  
Alan E. M. Nairn ◽  
Gerald R. Baum

2004 ◽  
Vol 141 (5) ◽  
pp. 565-572 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUVAL BARTOV ◽  
AMIR SAGY

A newly discovered active small-scale pull-apart (Mor structure), located in the western part of the Dead Sea Basin, shows recent basin-parallel extension and strike-slip faulting, and offers a rare view of pull-apart internal structure. The Mor structure is bounded by N–S-trending strike-slip faults, and cross-cut by low-angle, E–W-trending normal faults. The geometry of this pull-apart suggests that displacement between the two stepped N–S strike-slip faults of the Mor structure is transferred by the extension associated with the normal faults. The continuing deformation in this structure is evident by the observation of at least three deformation episodes between 50 ka and present. The calculated sinistral slip-rate is 3.5 mm/yr over the last 30 000 years. This slip rate indicates that the Mor structure overlies the currently most active strike-slip fault within the western border of the Dead Sea pull-apart. The Mor structure is an example of a small pull-apart basin developed within a larger pull-apart. This type of hierarchy in pull-apart structures is an indication for their ongoing evolution.


2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 636-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Coianiz ◽  
Uri Schattner ◽  
Guy Lang ◽  
Zvi Ben‐Avraham ◽  
Michael Lazar

Author(s):  
Yin Lu ◽  
Jasper Moernaut ◽  
Revital Bookman ◽  
Nicolas Waldmann ◽  
Nadav Wetzler ◽  
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QJM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 114 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gihan Seif El Nasr Mohamed ◽  
Salwa Omar ElKhattab Amin ◽  
Mohamed Mohamed Kamal ◽  
Sherif Hany Adly Loka

Abstract Background A burn is a thermal injury caused by biological, chemical, electrical and physical agents with local and systemic repercussions. There are several ways of classifying burns: Classification by mechanism or cause, Classification by the degree and depth of a burn, Classification by extent of burn the extent of burn. Objectives The objective of this study was to determine the safety and efficacy of using recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) in the treatment of pediatric burn victims and their ICU length of stay, mortality and morbidity. Patients and Methods This study was an Interventional randomized controlled Double Blind Study in which Patients subdivided randomly into 2 groups: Group A received somatotropine hormone after their 3 days of resuscitation besides their conventional treatment during their stay in the Burn ICU. Group B received the conventional treatment only in the Burn ICU. Results The comparison between the GH group and the control group showed that the mean ICU stay in days in GH group was 10.88 while in the control group 13.59 with P value 0.018 as a significant result as the GH group showed a less ICU stay time than the control group with approximately 20%. Mortality in the GH group was 6.2% from the total number of the group while in control group 18.8% from the total number of the group with P value 0.033 as a significant result yet the mortality may also depend on other factors as the degree of burn and the area of burn and the associated events like inhalational injury or delay post burn or any other co-morbidity. Morbidity results seen was 0% in control group and 4.7% in GH group with P value 0.080 as a non-significant result, morbidity was in the form of hyperglycemia. Conclusion The use of recombinant Growth hormone with a dose of 0.2 mg/Kg SQ 2 days per week with 3 days time interval in pediatric burn patients after their primary resuscitation from the burn injury, shows a marvelous improvement concerning the ICU stay time as the patient received the growth hormone showed an approximately 20% time less ICU stay than the control group this may be accounted for the faster wound healing and readiness for grafting and even faster graft healing, also a decreased mortality in a significant way, although mortality may depend on many factors in burn patients like degree of burn and the area of burn and the associated events like inhalational injury or any other co-morbidity.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 214
Author(s):  
Arindam Banerjee

Over the past few decades, numerous research across the globe has been conducted to examine the impact of firm performance on its stock return. The findings of these studies have been varied. In spite of the long standing research in this area, several attempt towards exploring this relationship has led to limited success owing largely to the existence of volatility across different stock markets. The variance in the volatility in these markets make it extremely difficult to obtain a uniform measure. A volatile stock market makes it difficult for the accounting and financial variables to accurately predict the stock returns (Feris & Erin, 2018).  The primary aim of this paper is aimed to investigate whether financial ratios can be used as a predictor of stock returns in the context of United Arab Emirates (UAE). The sample of the study includes thirty companies from the Dubai Financial Market (DFM) and Abu Dhabi stock exchange (ADX). Data is collected for the period of 2017. This research comprises of five independent variables namely, Earning Per Share ratio (EPS), Price Earning ratio (PE), Return on Equity ratio (ROE), Dividend Yield ratio (DY) and Debt Equity ratio (DE) and stock return is taken as the dependent variable. The study examines which among the given ratios can better predict stock returns both in the short run and the long run. The analysis is based on the regression analysis and correlation matrix. The results of correlation test revealed less multicollinearity between the variables and the regression results showed that Dividend Yield and the Return on Equity are statistically significant to predict the stock returns. However, Earning Per Share, Price Earning and Debt Equity could not predict the stock returns and thus can be safely considered as statistically insignificant. The t-stats test and p-value analysis were key indicators for arriving at the conclusion. The study can significantly benefit investors who can examine closely the dividend yield and return on equity while selecting an optimal portfolio. 


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