A previously healthy 9-year-old boy presented to the emergency department for evaluation of swelling of the right eye, which had been present for 24 hours. His parents reported that he had an antecedent history of nighttime cough, frontal headache, and green nasal discharge for the 10 days prior to admission. Three days before admission, he developed a fever of 103.5°F. One day prior to admissi...

Characteristics of surface runoff from a 0.14-km2 urban catchment with separated sewer in Macau was investigated. Water quality measurements of surface runoff were carried out on five rainfall events during the period of August to November, 2005. Water quality parameters such as pH, turbidity, TSS, COD, TN, Zn, Pb, and Cu were analyzed. The results show that TN and COD are the major pollutants ...

Antecedent increases of corticosteroids can blunt counterregulatory responses to subsequent stress. Our aim was to determine whether prior activation of type I corticosteroid (mineralocorticoid) or type II corticosteroid (glucocorticoid) receptors blunts counterregulatory responses to subsequent hypoglycemia. Healthy volunteers participated in five randomized 2-day protocols. Day 1 involved mor...

The variability of the curve number (CN ) and the retention parameter (S) of the Soil Conservation Service (SCS)-CN method in a small agricultural, lowland watershed (23.4 km2 to the gauging station) in central Poland has been assessed using the probabilistic approach: distribution fitting and confidence intervals (CIs). Empirical CNs and Ss were computed directly from recorded rainfall depths ...

Given the importance of vegetation cover for hydric balance, present paper aimed to analyze pluviometric dynamics net precipitation and interception process, in forested hillslope Tijuca National Park. The influence by a set independents variables given hydrometeorological (rainfall volume intensity drought context) was discussed face temporal modulation precipitation, coupled spatial compariso...