OBJECTIVES To determine the incidence as well as contributing factors to fatal hypothermia. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective, registry-based analysis. METHODS Cases of fatal hypothermia were identified in the database of the National Board of Forensic Medicine for the 4 northernmost counties of Sweden and for the study period 1992-2008. Police reports, medical records and autopsy protocols were s...

In an attempt to understand the initial stage of seed imbibition-the wetting stage-we have examined water binding in dry soybean cotyledon tissue using water sorption isotherm curves. The sorption isotherms show three levels of water affinity: a region of strongly bound water at moisture contents below 8%, a region of weakly bound water at moisture contents between 8 and 24%, and a region of ve...

Natural polymers such as proteins and polysaccharides though very useful exhibit a limitation in their reactivity and process ability. These shortcomings were overcome by chemical and physical alteration of natural polymers. Among various investigations, the interpenetrating polymer networks (IPNs) for hydro gels have attracted much attention. It is a combination of at least two polymer chains ...

Abstract Spontaneous imbibition is a key mechanism of oil recovery in naturally fractured reservoirs. Many enhanced techniques, such as modified salinity brine injection, have been suggested to improve spontaneous efficiency. To predict by process, scaling equations developed the literature where almost none them include effect two critical aspects. One aspect different ionic composition inject...

Abiotic stress is a major threat to the farming community, biasing crop productivity in arid and semi-arid regions of world. The seed an important component agriculture, contributing significantly booming production food feed crops across different agro-ecological world with constant challenges reference production, storage, quality control. Germination, plant growth, development via non-normal...

Enhanced oil production can maximise yield from depleted reservoirs, and in the face of dwindling global reserves reduce need for exploratory drilling during transition away fossil fuels. A hybrid technique, merging a magnetic field (MF) magnesium oxide (MgO) nanoparticles (NPs), was investigated as potential method enhancing oil-wet carbonate reservoirs. The impact this technique on rock wetta...

The novel coronavirus, COVID-19 pandemic, has caused numerous unprecedented changes recorded globally in all spheres of life especially the work place. This implications and influences on companies human resource management (HRM). Organizations have had to respond speedily by reviewing many operational matters strategies so as be able manage effects pandemic. Human (HRM) plays essential role he...

in oil industry, spontaneous imbibition is an important phenomenon in recovery from fractured reservoirs which can be defined as spontaneous uptake of a wetting fluid into a porous solid. spontaneous imbibition involves both cocurrent and countercurrent flows. when a matrix block is partially covered by water, oil recovery is dominated by cocurrent imbibition i.e. the production of non wetting ...

  In oil industry, spontaneous imbibition is an important phenomenon in recovery from fractured reservoirs which can be defined as spontaneous uptake of a wetting fluid into a porous solid. Spontaneous imbibition involves both cocurrent and countercurrent flows. When a matrix block is partially covered by water, oil recovery is dominated by cocurrent imbibition i.e. the production of non wettin...

Health and hygiene is an essential part of our everyday life. Someone rightly quoted it that ‘Cleanliness next to Godliness’. Cleanliness imperativein all human communities. In fact, a healthy mind resides in body. Entailing the last statement, World Organization (WHO,2006) defined health as “A state complete physical, mental, social well-being not merely absence disease or infirmity. It isan a...