Composition and quantity per person of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) were analyzed in six municipalities with different collection systems. Samples of residual waste were sorted, classified and weighed in 21 categories. Collection data of total waste flow, including sourcesorted recycling materials, in the same area was analyzed. Multivariate data analyses were applied. The main questions to be a...

A collection of Curbside Consultation published in AFP is available at http://www.aafp.org/afp/ curbside. Case Scenario A 23-year-old woman presented to my clinic with an unintended pregnancy. It is her second pregnancy. She has a toddler at home by a different father who is no longer around. The patient works in the same building as the current father. He does not know she is pregnant, and she...

A collection of Curbside Consultation published in AFP is available at http://www.aafp.org/afp/ curbside. Case Scenario A 68-year-old Muslim man who was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus presented for a routine health visit. His initial A1C level was 8.2%, which decreased to 6.7% after dietary changes, exercise, and treatment with metformin (Glucophage). He stated that he wanted ...

A collection of Curbside Consultation published in AFP is available at http://www.aafp.org/afp/ curbside. Case Scenario A 16-year-old girl and her parents presented to my office for her wellness evaluation. The patient has generalized anxiety disorder with comorbid major depression, for which she has been prescribed a serotonergic antidepressant. She is a high school student, lives with her par...

A collection of Curbside Consultation published in AFP is available at http://www.aafp.org/afp/ curbside. Case Scenario At 7.5 months pregnant, my patient found herself increasingly uncomfortable at work. Her varicose veins ached from standing on the job, where she was required to work a cash register and walk prescriptions from the pharmacy to the checkout area. I wrote a note to her boss expl...

hen John Heuser finished medical school at the height of the Vietnam War he was immediately eligible for the draft. Luckily for him, and for cell biology, he fulfilled his military service at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States Public Health Service. It was there that he brought the concept of " membrane recycling " to light. He brought to Thomas Reese's lab at the NIH ...

At first children sent here for treatment were mainly from the poorest homes. This is no longer so. The boys and girls, selected as the result of medical inspection from all the schools in Bradford?including secondary schools?are representative of every artisan class. No child is admitted here with any sort of infectious disease. Most suffer from ansemia and the ills that follow in its train. E...

A collection of Curbside Consultation published in AFP is available at http://www.aafp.org/afp/ curbside. Case Scenario A mother brought her 12-year-old daughter to my clinic for gynecologic concerns. The daughter has a congenitally acquired intellectual disability. Recently, the girl began to menstruate, which appeared to cause her distress. While at school, she repeatedly removed her sanitary...

Open-Air Schools. By Leonard P. Ayres, Ph.D. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1910. As a matter of fact we do not need Dr. Ayres' convincing representation of the splendid work done by open-air schools or the delightful photographs scattered through the volume to arouse our enthusiasm. The very name is sufficient. Open-air Schools! Let him who has never held his aching head in a stuffy sc...

drying is a high energy consuming process. solar drying is one of the most popular methods for dehydration of agricultural products. in the present study, the performance of a forced convection solar dryer equipped with recycling air system and desiccant chamber was investigated. the solar dryer is comprised of solar collector, drying chamber, silica jell desiccant chamber, air ducts, fan and m...