Thomas Höfer, Bruno Messerli
There is no statistical evidence that the frequency of flooding in Bangladesh has increased during the 20th century. There is indication however, that the inter-annual variation of floods and the areal extent of big events have increased since 1950. Is it really true that deforestation and land use ...
Susanna Wiegand, Klemens Raile, Thomas Reinehr, Sabine E. Hofer et al.
DESIGN: The purpose of this study was to generate insulin dose (ID) percentiles for children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1) having the opportunity to assess this important parameter in relation to age and sex. METHODS: Daily IDs per weight (ID/kg) were recorded in 22,177 patient...
Ben Crow, G. P. Chapman, M. Thompson
Part 1 Introduction: The Ganges and Brahmaputra Basins, Graham P. Chapman, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Policy-making in the Face of Uncertainty - the Himalayas as Unknowns, Michael Thompson, The Musgrave Institute, London. Part 2 Upstream and highland and lowland int...
Thomas Höfer, Weingartner, Rolf
Thomas Höfer
The study was carried out in the framework of a long research tradition of the Department of Geography of the University of Berne in the overall Himalayan region and is part of the project entitled ,,floods in Bangladesh - processes and impacts". An important focus of the research activities in this...
Rafia Zaman, Christian Hofer, Thomas Brudermann
Anthropogenic climate change necessitates a transformation of the current fossil-based energy systems towards renewable energies. Despite large agreement on the huge costs of (climate) inaction, several developing countries currently see a massive uptake of carbon-intense coal-based power generation...
Nóra Garam, Marcell Cserhalmi, Zoltán Prohászka, Ágnes Szilágyi et al.
<title>Abstract</title> Background: Factor H-related-5 (FHR-5) is a member of the complement Factor H protein family. Due to the homology to Factor H, the main complement regulator of the alternative pathway, it may also be implicated in pathomechanism of kidney diseases where Factor H and alternati...
Martín Grosjean, Thomas Höfer, Rachel Liechti, Bruno Messerli et al.
In this article, we illustrate the Himalaya-Bangladesh inleractions by using the example of sediments and sedimenl transport. Can we find the Himalayan land use degradation signal. in the floodplain of Bangladesh? What controls sedimentation in the floodplain, and where is the material coming from? ...
Martín Grosjean, Thomas Höfer, Bruno Messerli, Rolf Weingartner
Martin F. Price
Bruno Messerli was a pioneering geographer and an exceptional person. Although he spent almost all of his long academic career – more than six decades from student to Professor Emeritus – based at the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern, his impacts have gone far beyond Switzerland and ...
M. Monirul Qader Mirza
Floods in Bangladesh: History, Dynamics and Rethinking the Role of the Himalayas BY THOMAS HOFER AND BRUNO MESSERLI xxx + 468 pp., 23 × 15.5 × 3 cm, ISBN 92 808 1131 5 paperback, US$ 45.00, Tokyo, Japan/New York, USA/London, UK: United Nations University Press, 2006 - Volume 34 Issue 4
Graham Chapman
Thomas Höfer, Rolf Weingartner, Robeen Dutt, Francesca Escher et al.