RESEARCH QUESTIONS Wearing a protective mask is compulsory for those in professions such as fire-fighters, rescue personnel and soldiers. The phobia to wear a protective mask is considered a specific claustrophobia and may become of major concern during military service. To date, no data are available with respect to the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenocortical system activity (HPA SA) for both th...

Two novel hollow-fibre liquid–liquid membrane contactor (HF-LLMC) modules, containing S-type (skin layer with low porosity) and Q-type higher fibres, have been evaluated. Both asymmetric, porous, hydrophobic membranes, made from poly(4-methyl-1-pentene) (PMP), were used as efficient technology for ammonia recovery to produce liquid fertilisers. The ammonia-rich stream was fed into the shell sid...

In recent years, many methods of safe vehicle navigation and partial motion planning (PMP) have been proposed in vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) field. In order to improve the limitation of traditional PMP, this paper presents a novel effective way to plan motion with cooperation of roadside fixed sensors (RFSs). With their cooperation, the vehicles can get the surrounding information quickly ...

Extreme rainfall and floods have increased in frequency severity recent years, due to climate change urbanization. Consequently, interest estimating the probable maximum precipitation (PMP) has been burgeoning. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) recommends two types of methods for calculating PMP: hydrometeorological statistical methods. This study proposes a modified Hershfield’s nomo...

Abstract This study assessed trends in gridded (0.25° × 0.25°) Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) precipitation, potential evapotranspiration (PET), and precipitation minus PET (PMP) across the four water management zones (WMZs) Uganda including Kyoga, Victoria, Albert, Upper Nile. The period considered was 1979–2013. Validation of CFSR datasets conducted using observed at eight meteorol...

The ninth annual report of the South African Renal Registry summarises December 2020 data on kidney replacement therapy (KRT) for patients with failure in Africa. numbers reported here are substantially lower than those recorded previous report. This is likely result several factors, including larger deaths from COVID-19 and other causes, delayed initiation KRT due to pandemic, challenges submi...

The use of Proximity Mobile Payment (PMP) applications with several advantages over traditional payment methods is becoming more common. While a large diffusion PMP already apparent in South Korea, Germany still lagging behind. study examines the acceptance factors regarding intention to mentioned countries understand this divergence. A research model was developed explain behavioral intention,...

Bacterium-platelet interactions at the cardiac valve surface represent an important initial step in the induction of infective endocarditis (IE). This cell-cell interaction may play either a protagonistic role in the induction of IE via bacterial adherence to and aggregation of platelets or an antagonistic role via secretion of platelet-derived microbicidal molecules. We examined the spectrum a...