The United States' waste stream is the most visible example of popular society's disregard for the earth. The environmental movement focused on curbing the array of crises we now face has been steadily growing since the 70's, however; the extent of its progress in many areas is questionable. Specific to mitigating the amount of garbage that plagues our communities and landfills, recycling progr...

Stable carbon isotopes were used to determine the contribution of emergent demersal zooplankton to the diet of the scyphozoan jellyfish, Catostylus mosaicus, at Smiths Lake, New South Wales, Australia. A preliminary study in 2004 indicated that there was no difference in the δC of ectodermal tissue and mesoglea of the medusae. In 2005, medusae and zooplankton present during the day and night we...

Stable carbon isotopes were used to determine the contribution of emergent demersal zooplankton to the diet of the scyphozoan jellyfish Catostylus mosaicus at Smiths Lake, New South Wales, Australia. A preliminary study in 2004 indicated that there was no difference in the dC of ectodermal tissue and mesoglea of the medusae. In 2005, medusae and zooplankton present during the day and night were...

© 2017 Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia | Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow The Editor, A 45‐year‐old female patient presented with the shortness of breath on mild exertion and palpitation for 6 months. Patient’s echocardiographic examination revealed severe mitral stenosis with enlarged left atrium. The patient was also found to have severe tricuspid regurgitation with moderate pulmonary hypert...

BACKGROUND A large number of techniques and devices for cricothyroidotomy have been developed. In this study, the Portex™ Cricothyroidotomy Kit (PCK, Smiths Medical Ltd, Hythe, UK) was compared with the bougie assisted emergency surgical cricothyrotomy technique (BACT). METHODS Twenty air ambulance anaesthesiologists performed emergency cricothyrotomy on a cadaveric porcine airway model using...

BACKGROUND Airway suctioning in mechanically ventilated patients is required to maintain airway patency. Closed suction catheters (CSCs) minimize lung volume loss during suctioning but require cleaning post-suction. Despite their widespread use, there is no published evidence examining lung volumes during CSC cleaning. The study objectives were to quantify lung volume changes during CSC cleanin...

in the framework of non-proliferation treaty (npt) it has been enumerated three objectives as follow: 1) peaceful use of nuclear energy; 2) non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and 3) nuclear disarmament. the writers in this article have studied and analyzed multilateral aspects of the right of peaceful use of nuclear energy, and interpretation of some npt articles (1, 2 and 4).in the conclusio...

study of collective actions is related to some of the most important issues in contemporary sociology such as cooperation, collective decision making, emergence of social norms etc. this paper in four steps presents a framework for studying collective actions. these steps are related to characteristics of collective actions (cooperation and common good), factors effecting the emergence of colle...

Pattern recognition systems are widely used in a host of different fields. Due to some reasons such as lack of knowledge about a method based on which the best classifier is detected for any arbitrary problem, and thanks to significant improvement in accuracy, researchers turn to ensemble methods in almost every task of pattern recognition. Classification as a major task in pattern recognition,...

Divorce is an event affecting couples, children, families, and community. Little is known about the perception of Iranian couples who intended to get divorced with regard to the process of decision making on divorce. The purpose of this study was to build a theory about the process that leads the couples to get divorced. The grounded theory in qualitative paradigm was used. Ten couples were int...