Introduction The aim of the study was to determine the most frequent early and late complications in different types of ileal urinary diversions. Patients and methods The study was conducted in a five-year period, on 106 patients who were diagnosed with invasive urinary bladder cancer and who had indication for radical cystectomy with one of the investigated types of urine derivation. They we...

BACKGROUND The objective was to register and analyze data from all passenger injuries reported to the medical centre of a cruise ship with a median passenger load of 719 per day during a three-year period, and to determine high risk areas, equipment, and behaviour. METHODS All reported passenger injuries were registered at first visit. An injury was 'serious' if it led to hospitalization asho...

Moapa dace (Moapa coriacea) is a critically endangered thermophilic minnow native to the Muddy River ecosystem in southeastern Nevada, USA. Restricted to temperatures between 26.0 and 32.0 °C, these fish are constrained to the upper two km of the Muddy River and several small tributaries fed by warm springs. Habitat alterations, nonnative species invasion, and water withdrawals during the 20th ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of the use of the SIP score and the quality of life impairment in patients with ileal conduit and orthotropic ileal derivations by Hautmann and AbolEnein/Ghoneim. METHODS Prospectively evaluated 146 patients in different age groups. In 66 patients ileal conduit derivation was performed, in 20 patients orthotropic derivation using Hautman technique was ...

A new pressure, volume, temperature, and, time (PVTt) primary gas flow standard at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has an expanded uncertainty (k = 2) of between 0.02 % and 0.05 %. The standard spans the flow range of 1 L/min to 2000 L/min using two collection tanks and two diverter valve systems. The standard measures flow by collecting gas in a tank of known volume during a...

In this paper, the flow characteristics induced by a cubic artificial reef with diversions (DCAR) were investigated using computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The results showed that design of DCAR can greatly improve field range compared to typical reefs. upwelling volume was more than 16 times reef. effect produced best when cut-opening ratio (COR) 0.1–0.2 constant flow. parameters and back vo...

Deltaic floodplains are highly vulnerable to relative sea level rise (RSLR) depending on the sediment supply from river channels that provides elevation capital as adaptation mechanism. In where levees have restricted coastal deltaic floodplains, diversions been proposed a restoration strategy increase allowing for marshes establish and cope with RSLR. The response of wetlands surface has well-...

This paper argues that new computer, smartphone, and universal ID technologies are reducing the incentives for political clientelism in delivery of social programmes India, especially by allowing party leaders to bypass local brokers credit-claim better service politicians deliver programmatic much more efficiently than past, with fewer diversions. Politicians responding these changed incentive...

the multi-criteria decision making model is an important tool for decision making in water resource management. in this paper, the topsis model was used to rank seven flood management options in the gorganrood river flood management project, including conservation of natural condition, golestan reservoir management, levee construction, diversions-channel construction, flood forecasting and warn...

Abstract The left must confront the politics of removing carbon from atmosphere – a topic rapidly making its way to top climate agenda. We here examine technology direct air capture, tracing intellectual origins and laying bare political economy current manifestations. find space crowded with ideology-laden metaphors, ample fossil-capital entanglements bold visions for new, ethereal frontier ca...