The best practice for cleansing urinary drainage bags (leg and bed) in a hospital setting can be translated for use by clients for self-care within the home setting. Common household bleach containing 5.25% sodium hypochlorite, diluted in a 1:10 ratio with tap water, is a safe and effective method to reduce colony-forming units per milliliter (CFU/ml) to a study-defined acceptable range of 100 ...

Usually, vertical drains are widely used to improve land reclamation and construction of urban planning, transport road construction, agriculture. Vertical drainage systems that use pumped wells, open dug or tube wells. There calculation methods based on pumping curves the filtration equation hydraulic drainage. In proposed system, jet apparatus is in systems. Jet pumps designed such a way they...

Particle size distribution (size-range 3–900 nm) and PM10 was measured simultaneously at an urban background station in Copenhagen, a near-city background and a rural location during a period in September–November 2002. The study investigates the contribution from urban versus regional sources of particle number and mass concentration. The total particle number (ToN) and NOx are well correlated...

Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is a ubiquitous air pollutant with high concentrations particularly close to main roads. The focus of this study was on possible differences in NO2 concentrations between adult and child heights as a function of different distances from heavily trafficked roads in urban areas. Passive diffusion tubes were used to measure NO2 concentrations at heights of 0.8 m (approximate...

This paper describes a wideband (7 kHz) speech compression scheme operating at a bit rate of 13.0 kbit/s, i.e. 0.8 bit per sample. We apply a split-band (SB) technique, where the 0-6 kHz band is critically subsampled and coded by an ACELP approach. The high frequency signal components (6-7 kHz) are generated by an improved High-FrequencyResynthesis (HFR) at the decoder such that no additional i...

BACKGROUND Autologous blood transfusion drainage (ABTD) has been used for many years to reduce blood loss in total knee arthroplasty (TKA). We evaluate the current evidence concerning the efficiency and safety of ABTD used in TKA compared with conventional suction drainage (CSD). METHODS We performed a systematic literature search of the PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library and four Chinese datab...

In view of the situation that bridge deck drainage cannot be diverted to both ends for centralized collection due longitudinal slope change bridge, or there is no accident pool space at this paper relies on section G8513 Pingliang Mianyang National Highway Wudu Jiuzhaigou (Ganchuan boundary). An intelligent system consisting prefabricated linear ditch, electrically controlled valve and operatio...

Terrain analysis based on digital elevation models is being routinely used in hydrological modelling. However, landscape connectivity enabling the routing of flow and nutrients from upslope landscape units to adjacent downslope landscape units within a sub watershed is not commonly incorporated into catchment scale models. This paper describes a process of generating connected landscape units w...