Stream benthic macroinvertebrates are useful indicators of the impacts of disturbances on catchment and stream conditions because they integrate many catchment-scale ecological processes. We tested the ability of macroinvertebrate assemblages over a 3-year period to indicate the impacts of a range of disturbances resulting from military training at the Fort Benning Military Installation, Georgi...

AIM The author present a retrospective descriptive study of 60 patients with sleep obstructive ventilatory disturbance who have taken medical advice at the Centro Campinas de Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia de Cabeça e Pescoço during a period of three years. All the patients have been examined after standardized protocol and decisions related to the treatment have been taken after systematic mu...

OBJECTIVE Overnight polysomnography (PSG) is the gold standard diagnostic tool for sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) in children. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the usefulness of diagnostic respiratory polygraphy in children with clinically suspected SAHS referred to our sleep-disordered breathing clinic. PATIENTS AND METHODS We studied 53 children referred with clinical susp...

Word count: 199) Background Obstructive sleep apnea has been related to increased cardiovascular risk. The present study examined the relationships between respiratory parameters and left ventricular abnormalities in obstructive sleep apnea. Patients/Methods One hundred and fifty newly diagnosed OSA patients without any known cardiovascular disease were included (age = 49±11 years, BMI = 27.1±3...

Habitat disturbance affects numerous ecosystem components and processes, but its effect on continuous soybean system is less available. Soybean was seeded following six preceding crops, including grain soybean (Glycine max L. Merill.), wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.), tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.), corn (Zea mays L.) and hemp (Cannabis Satia L.), on a Mollisol ...

This study has investigated the role of average maximum inspiratory effort in excessive daytime sleepiness in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) and upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS). Fifteen patients diagnosed with UARS and 32 patients with OSAS, with >5.5 h total sleep time (TST) during 8 h of nocturnal polygraphic recordings, were included in the study. Demographica...