BACKGROUND Malnutrition is common in elderly and is a risk factor for pressure ulcers. AIM The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of malnutrition in geriatric and palliative patients hospitalised in long-term care facility, and to examine the influence of nutritional status on the prevalence of pressure ulcers (PU). MATERIAL AND METHODS Descriptive, observational and c...

Warming temperatures may increase the geographic spread of vector-borne diseases into temperate areas. Although a tropical mosquito-borne viral disease, a dengue outbreak occurred in Madeira, Portugal, in 2012; the first in Europe since 1920s. This outbreak emphasizes the potential for dengue re-emergence in Europe given changing climates. We present estimates of dengue epidemic potential using...

This article describes a climate change and hydrological impact assessment for several basins in Georgia. First, a new statistical technique, Joint Variable Spatial Downscaling (JVSD), is developed to produce high resolution gridded hydrological datasets for the Southeast US from 13 different Global Circulation Models (GCMs). A lumped conceptual watershed model (Georgakakos et al., 2010) is the...

Correspondence to: Dr. Jayme Eduardo Burmeister. Departamento de Clínica Médica e Unidade de Medicina Renal Hospital Universitário Universidade Luterana do Brasil Canoas, RS. Av. Cel. Lucas de Oliveira, no 1270, apto. 30, Bela Vista, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil. CEP: 90440-010. E-mail: [email protected] Introduction: Hypoglycemia can occur during hemodialysis in diabetic chronic renal failure pat...

Today, large-scale modelling tools are needed for anticipating the expected impacts of climate change on hydrosystems and planning mitigation measures. We developed a spatially-distributed model MARTHE (Modélisation d'Aquifères avec un maillage Rectangulaire, Transport et HydrodynamiquE; Modelling Aquifers with Rectangular cells, Hydrodynamics) hydrogeological computer code as preliminary tool ...

Spring snowmelt is the most important contribution of many rivers in western North America. If climate changes, this contribution may change. A shift in the timing of springtime snowmelt towards earlier in the year already is observed during 1948–2000 in many western rivers. Streamflow timing changes for the 1995–2099 period are projected using regression relations between observed streamflow-t...

in order to study the mode of genetic control and heritability of morphological characteristics important for the improvement of root weight, sugar yield and white sugar yield in tropical beet, griffing's diallel cross method along with the biplot display of diallel data were applied. nine sugar beet lines including 7112-36, 7173, 474, 452, 261, 436-104, sb-firoz, rr607 and 436 were crosse...