The present results of investigations performed on fresh fecal samples from a healthy adult and subjects with acute leukemia cultured bacteriologically using both aerobic and anaerobic techniques have led to the following conclusions. 1) In studies on the intestinal bacterial flora of the subjects examined, obligate anaerobic bacteria rather than facultative anaerobes accounted for more than 99...

OBJECTIVES This study investigated issues related to the use of environmental control units (ECUs) with persons who have spinal cord injury and disease (SCI/D) to ascertain what, if any, changes are needed to optimize occupational therapy service delivery in this area. METHOD A questionnaire was mailed to 120 occupational therapists employed by facilities nationwide that serve person with SCI...

Nowadays study of the industrial pollutions has become a controversial issue to reduce the risks of them in all of the world. Studding of air, water, and soil pollutions as separately may cause neglect from address to a comprehensive look in industrial pollution issue. In addition, without the exact information about quantity and quality of pollution sources, reduce or eliminate industrial poll...

Studies of human spatial behavior and life spaces are useful because they allow a better understanding of the relationship between people and environment. In an era when there is growing public pressure to understand this relationship, studies of life spaces may provide insight into the environmental sensitivity of different groups of people. In this article, we propose a method for characteriz...

Use of an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) to obtain environmental observations beneath coastal sea ice offshore of Barrow, Alaska is described. The work is motivated by the desire to obtain cross-shore hydrographic transects (temperature, salinity and velocity vs. depth) that would provide estimates of the transport of relatively dense, salty water from the Chukchi Sea to the Arctic Ocean i...