Over two-thirds of the soils in world suffer from phosphorus shortages (P). Due to being unavailable all but a small portion plants, agricultural productivity diminishes. Phosphorus-deficient have traditionally been fertilized order decrease severity environmental impact. Improving management practices for sustainable crop output, including reduction loss terms runoff, is emphasis this study. I...

The different reactivity of black and white skim after exposure to sodium lauryl sulphate (SLS) has been investigated 9 white and 10 black male volunteers entered the study. The tests were performed on the back at 3 sites: untreated skin, skin pre-treated with occlusion and skin pre-delipidized. Irritant reactions were elicited applying 0.5% and 2.0% SLS via Finn chamber patch tests and monitor...

KEY CLINICAL MESSAGE Retrograde coronary intervention of chronic total coronary occlusion remains challenging. We describe a successful retrograde intervention of chronically occluded right coronary artery ostium via an occluded vein graft. An occluded saphenous vein graft can be a useful means to access the distal coronary bed, enabling delivery of retrograde percutaneous coronary intervention...

To determine the effect of thrombolytic therapy and/or immediate coronary angioplasty (PTCA) on left ventricularfunction. 129 patients with acute transmural myocardial infarction were retrospectively studied. Treatment strategies included thrombolytic therapy alone (n = 29), PTCA alone (n = 41), and combined thrombolytic therapy and PTCA (n = 59). Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and i...

Abstract Inaccurate localization of wildfire boundary will adversely affect the efficiency fire fighting, especially in case limited water for aerial dumping. This paper formulates detection occluded as a shape completion problem and introduces new solution. Different from traditional algorithms which only consider contour geometry, proposed algorithm takes partially visible surface geometry in...