Background An effective emergency referral transport system is the link between the home of the pregnant woman and a health facility providing basic or comprehensive emergency obstetric care. This study attempts to explore the role of emergency transport associated with maternal deaths in Unnao district, Uttar Pradesh (UP).   Methods A descriptive study was carried out to assess the causes of a...

BACKGROUND Legionnaires' disease, a severe pneumonia, is typically acquired through inhalation of aerosolized water containing Legionella bacteria. Legionella can grow in the complex water systems of buildings, including health care facilities. Effective water management programs could prevent the growth of Legionella in building water systems. METHODS Using national surveillance data, Legion...

introduction: natural organic matters (noms) existing in water resources led to various problems such as formation of disinfectant by-products (dbps). humic matters like humic acid (ha) are component of noms that should be removed from water. advanced oxidation process (aops) is one of the noms removal methods. the aim of this study was to survey the degradation of humic acid by electron beam i...

introduction: over twenty developed and developing countries have regions with endemic floursis, on the other hand tooth decay as an infectious disease in human societies is reported to occur due to the shortage of fluoride in water. since decayed, missing, and filled teeth dmft is considered a 52 -character indicator in health equity, the present research aims at studying the relationship betw...

background: one of the most important environmental pollutants is industrial wastewaters. discharging of colorful industrial effluents to receptive waters can lead to eutrification and it has the carcinogenic and mutagenic properties. therefore, the aim of this study is evaluation of acid blue 15 dye removal by dried azolla from aqueous solution. material and methods: the azolla biomass was dri...

in this study, nf membrane was used for surface water treatment. the rejection of organic material, measured as total organic carbon (toc), by nanofiltration was examined. the effects of application of pre-ozonation and pre-chlorination on toc removal are discussed and their performances are compared with the performances of nanofiltraion system without pretreatment process. in nf, natural orga...

Sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (SDBS), Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP, MW 10 kDa), and NaCl were obtained from Sigma Aldrich. Microcalorimetry experiments were performed using a MicorCal ITC-VP at the University of Albany Proteomics Facility in Rensselaer, NY. SDBS was added to de-ionized distilled water, and placed into the injection syringe of the microcalorimeter, and added to the sample cell c...

Hydroelectric Pumped Storage (PHS) is the most widely utilised form of large-scale electrical energy storage (EES). The energy is stored as the potential energy of water raised against gravity. Water is pumped from a lower reservoir (1) to a higher reservoir (2), using the energy provided by the pumping unit (3), storing it as potential energy in the water. Figure 1 is a simple scheme of a PHS ...