1 Tecnologia e Insumos Estratégicos, Secretaria de Ciência, Ministério da Saúde. Esplanada dos Ministérios Edifício Sede/ sala 851, Esplanada. 70070-600 Brasilia DF. [email protected] 2 Centro de Ciência da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia. 3 Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade de Brasília. Brazilian Men’s Integral Health Attention: using indicators for monitoring health’s...

INTRODUCTION / GOAL Using resources efficiently while raising the bar on quality is an ongoing struggle within the healthcare system. Achieving this delicate balance is a key determinant of an organization’s ability to meet its strategic direction. Recognizing that individual physician performance drives both cost and quality of care, Rouge Valley Health System, a twohospital and multi-site org...

Important components of fire weather forecasting are the timing of wind changes due to the changes in fire behaviour that can occur with an abrupt wind direction change (Cheney et al. 2001), and variations in the low-level humidity due to its effect on fine-fuel moisture content. Mills (2005a) described aspects of the very strong easterly change that reached Canberra (Fig. 1 shows the topograph...

There is no conclusive evidence of any nonhuman animal using the sun as part of its predation strategy. Here, we show that the world's largest predatory fish-the white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)-exploits the sun when approaching baits by positioning the sun directly behind them. On sunny days, sharks reversed their direction of approach along an east-west axis from morning to afternoon but ...

We have used the sub-millimeter array to image the molecular envelope around IRC+10420. Our observations reveal a large and clumpy expanding envelope around the star. The molecular envelope shows a clear asymmetry in CO J=2–1 emission in the South-West direction. The elongation of the envelope is found even more pronounced in the emission of CO J=2–1 and SO JK=65–54. A small positional velocity...

In India and elsewhere research on medicinal plant is purely oriented towards developing potential drugs from plants. The cue for its therapeutic activity was taken from hundreds of folklores, Ayurveda, Siddha, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) etc., No effort has been made so far in the main stream for developing a protocol for plant research for medicinal purposes. China which embraced an in...

For geographic applications, it is of great interest to study the geometric properties of the sphere. Spatial models that directly deal with geographic coordinates are able to contemplate such aspects that would be otherwise disregarded by flat 2D models. For example, on the Earth’s surface, a point which is to the East of another point could be reached travelling to West as well. Being situate...

man Island. At the entrance to the bay is a small island (Ross), 2^ miles up the bay is a second island (Chatham), and 2 miles beyond Chatham i* a third island (Viper). These three small islands, with numerous stations along the north and south shores of the bay, form the nucleus of the Settlement, which is year by year widening its area from these starting points and spreading inland into Sout...

frost is one of the atmospheric phenomena which seriously threaten crop production. it also causes numerousaccidents in mountainous roads. in this research the spatial synoptic classification ssc method was employed toclassify the type of air masses. for the classification, such meteorological data as: temperature, dew point, mean sealevel pressure, cloudiness, direction and speed of wind were ...

wind speed is one of the characteristics of wind energy which its data is extracted from meteorological stations. in this study, the data obtained from the weather station in the city eqlid during a ten-year period has been used. weibull distribution was chosen as the best distribution function using fitting tests and estimation of some statistical parameters. the results showed that the averag...