Marine communities face anthropogenic pressures that degrade ecosystems. Because underwater soundscapes carry information about habitat quality, we explored whether destructive impacts of fishing could be evaluated via the soundscape. Maerl beds are recognized as biodiversity hotspots and they experience major worldwide degradation owing to fishing. We collected field acoustic recordings in mae...

In Switzerland the holiday-home-market is a major pillar in the accommodation sector as there are more holiday apartment beds than hotel beds. While the number of hotel beds decreases for economic reasons a positive trend of holiday apartment beds exists, but only a limited number of second homes are on the market. This study investigates the barriers-to-rent on an economical, social and psycho...

Conservation agriculture in its version of permanent raised bed planting with crop residue retention has been proposed as an alternative wheat production system of western Uttar Pradesh.Therefore the present work was undertaken during 2008-2011 to compare permanent and tilled raised beds with different residue management under irrigated conditions. Permanent beds with residue retention resulted...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to demonstrate loose silk seton actually acts as a slow cutting seton contrary to the idea of simply drainage. Besides, to show the effect of loose seton on patient’s incontinence is mostly proportional to the degree of division of the sphincter muscle. Design: Fifty patients with high transsphincteric fistulas were treated with loose seton technique. We m...

Maerl grounds are formed from loose-lying, normally non-geniculated, coralline red algae (Corallinaceae). Such grounds are found in areas characterized primarily by high water movements in the photic zone. Maerl grounds form shallow marine biotopes of high biodiversity, analogous to kelp forests and sea grass beds, all of which are habitats created by marine phototrophs (Birkett et al., 1998; B...

Growing human population has caused the increase in the tempo of construction activity world wide.Since new techniques are either available or constantly emerging the sites which have been deemed unsuitable are being put to use for the construction of new and challenging structures. The foundations for the residential buildings in paddy fields and marshy land with water table near the ground le...

We have determined the mass function of loose groups of galaxies in the Las Campanas Redshift Survey. Loose groups of galaxies in the LCRS range in mass from M ∼ 10 12 M ⊙ to 10 15 M ⊙. We find that the sample is complete for masses in the interval 8 · 10 13 − 8 · 10 14 M ⊙. In this interval the mass function of LCRS loose groups is close to that found by Girardi et al. (1998). Comparison of th...

Data fragmentation has been proposed as a solution for protecting the confidentiality of sensitive associations when publishing data at external servers. To enrich the utility of the published fragments, a recent approach has put forward the idea of complementing them with loose associations, a sanitized form of the sensitive associations broken by fragmentation. The original proposal considers...

We reviewed 40 cementless Porous Coated Anatomic knee replacements in 34 consecutive patients. The average follow-up was 12.9 months (range 6 to 36 months). At review, loose beads were identified in 23 knees, in 11 on the femoral side and in 16 on the tibial side (in five knees on both sides). One loose bead was adjacent to the patella. In four knees there were intra-articular beads. Radiolucen...

The demand for nursing facility (NF) beds has been growing with the aging of the population and many other factors. As the need for nursing home care grows, the Nation's capacity to provide such care is the subject of increasing concern. This article examines licensed NFs and beds, presenting data on trends from 1978-93. Measures of the adequacy of NF beds in States are examined over time, incl...