The authors estimated accuracy and repeatability of commercial geocoding to guide vendor selection in the Life Course Socioeconomic Status, Social Context and Cardiovascular Disease study (2001–2002). They submitted 1,032 participant addresses (97% in Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, or North Carolina) to vendor A twice over 9 months and measured repeatability as agreement between levels of ad...

In cookware industry, interior spray coating process is an important process to protect the cookware product from the corrosion. In this process, the coating material “TEFLON” is used to spray to cover all the part’s surface. If a pot or pan is not too deep, one spray gun is enough to spray to cover all the interior surface. However, for the high side-wall pot, two spray guns must be used to sp...

Twin B, weighing 1200 g, was born at 30 weeks gestation to a 17-year-old gravida 2, para 0 mother. Apgar scores were 7 at 1 min and 8 at 5 min. Apnea and bradycardia were treated by endotracheal intubation. Hyaline membrane disease was present clinically and radiographically. Right pneumothorax present on day 1 and left pneumothorax on day 2 were treated by bilateral chest tube placement. A nec...

TO THE EDITOR—How best to evaluate the effect of quaternary ammonium compound–based products after detection of postflood bacterial and fungal air bioburden remains uncertain. Thammasat University Hospital (Thailand) closed after severe black-water flooding in 2011; significant resources and costs were associated with hospital closure, reparations, and tiered reopening of select units [1]. In a...

BACKGROUND Although from a societal point of view a modal shift from car to bicycle may have beneficial health effects due to decreased air pollution emissions, decreased greenhouse gas emissions, and increased levels of physical activity, shifts in individual adverse health effects such as higher exposure to air pollution and risk of a traffic accident may prevail. OBJECTIVE We describe whet...

Wireless carriers today are faced with creating more efficient distribution channels, increasing customer satisfaction, while also improving margin and profitability. Industry trends are pushing the sale of handsets further into the retail channel. The cost and effort of provisioning handsets, activating users, and updating handset parameters can be greatly reduced by using over-the-air activat...

background: measuring and monitoring of air pollutants are one of environmental and all' pollution controls tools. due to lack of widespread data in iran, this study was performed to estimate the trends of major pollutant emissions to atmosphere in the uk from 1980 to 1996. methods: this investigation is a retrospective study that the data were collected from the departments of environment, tra...