Planning for mass gatherings involves health system preparedness based on an understanding of natural and technological hazards identified through prior risk assessment. We present the expected hazards reported by health administrators of the host cities for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and discuss the hazards considering minimal available public hospital beds in the 12 cities at the time ...

OBJECTIVE To characterize the degree of colonization with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) among patients admitted to a long-term acute care hospital. DESIGN Ecologic study. SETTING A 70-bed long-term acute care hospital (a hospital within a hospital) in the greater Chicago area. METHODS As part of an infection control initiative, specimens were collected from all consecutively admit...

The effect of tillage, crop establishment and weed management was studied on theperformance of wheat grown after soybean at New Delhi, India during 2010-11 to 2011-12.Sixteen treatment combinations involved 2 tillage, viz. conventional tillage (CT) and zero tillage(ZT), two crop establishment practices, viz. raised-bed and flat-bed and four weed management,viz. isoproturon + hand weeding, mesos...

Turbidity currents in the ocean and lakes are driven by suspended sediment. The vertical profiles of velocity and excess density are shaped by interaction between the current and bed as well as between the current and the ambient water. This paper presents 48 series of experiments in which saline gravity currents flow through a laboratory sinuous flume. flume contains three successive bends wit...

background : during the last 3 decades, there were increasing tendency towards angioplasty because of its benefits. but, this procedure has its acute problems like bleeding and formation of hematoma in the removal place of the sheet. based on researchers’ clinical experiences, patients need a time of 8-12 hours for bed rest after coronary angioplasty. recognizing desirable time for bed rest aft...

Groups of starved, virgin adult male or female bed bugs were stimulated to search for a host by the presence of a heated artificial feeder. Some of the bed bug groups were allowed to obtain a blood meal and some were not. After the removal of the feeder, bed bugs were observed throughout the scotophase to record their searching and aggregation behavior. Groups of male and female bed bugs that w...

BACKGROUND Increasing evidence suggests that illnesses and injuries leading to restricted activity have adverse functional consequences, but whether the two components of restricted activity have comparable effects is unknown. We evaluated whether an illness/injury leading to bed rest represents a more potent exposure than one leading to cutting down on one's usual activities without bed rest. ...