Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) have recently become an important concept for urban development. However, the number of publications on transfer PED to practice is still very limited. This conference paper presents analysis current state art in guidelines regarding planning and implementation PEDs based 25 reported by anonymous contributors, collaborating development IEA EBC Annex 83 activitie...

The concept of Positive Energy Districts (PEDs), introduced in the Strategic Technology Plan, is one fundamental approaches for a successful, clean and sustainable urbanization by 2025. According to European Commission, PED set buildings where community controls energy flows aims at net positive balance over year utilizing renewable sources. There are plethora concepts similar PEDs, such as Com...

Methods to measure shrinkage curves typically either disturb natural aggregate structure or include difficult slow volume measurement techniques. Additionally, most are obtained by serial of a few samples. We collecting rapid, one-off measurements and moisture content for each 200 undisturbed peds extracted from field soil, taking as slowly dried in the laboratory. The large sample size increas...

BACKGROUND Little is known about physicians' adherence to the 2006 Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendation that providers strongly should consider observing vaccine recipients for 15 minutes to prevent injuries from postvaccination syncope. PURPOSE To assess physicians' knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward observing adolescents for 15 minutes postvaccination. ...

OBJECTIVE Young adults with type 1 diabetes transitioning from pediatric to adult care are at risk for adverse outcomes. We developed a survey to evaluate transition experiences in two groups of young adults with type 1 diabetes, before (PEDS) and after (ADULT) transition to adult care. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We fielded an electronic survey to young adults (18 to <30 years) at 60 T1D Exc...

Vascularized retinal pigment epithelium detachments (PEDs) are part of the spectrum of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD). These patients with vascularized PEDs are at a higher risk of experiencing severe vision loss. This case report demonstrates the use of a new spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) algorithm to measure the area and volume of PEDs. When this al...

This article examines the relationship between students’ thinking style and the level of their use of personal electronic devices (PEDs). Also investigated are the educational connotations of PED use and the moderating effect of abstract/concrete reasoning on the relationship between PED use and academic performance. To these ends, 506 Taiwanese college students were surveyed. The results point...

BACKGROUND Two strategies have been proposed for early identification of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD): (1) using a general screening tool followed by an ASD-specific screening tool for those who screen positive on the former or (2) using an ASD-specific tool for all children. The relative yield of these two strategies has not been examined. OBJECTIVES This study compared the ...

Purpose: Since standard microbiological methods (use of solid media) have low sensitivity to detect aetiological agents in vitreous aspirates in infectious endophthalmitis, a comparative study was undertaken to determine sensitivity of BACTEC Peds Plus F broth for isolation of these aetiological agentsMethods: Four hundred and eighty three consecutive vitreous aspirates from clinically diagnose...