OBJECTIVES To quantify the relationship between meteorological factors and bacillary dysentery incidence. DESIGN Ecological study. SETTING We collected bacillary dysentery incidences and meteorological data of Chaoyang city from the year 1981 to 2010. The climate in this city was a typical northern temperate continental monsoon. All meteorological factors in this study were divided into 4 l...

Plane-trees are widely grown in Spain as ornaments. This taxon releases large amounts of pollen into the air and this pollen type seems to have proved implications on pollinosis. The aim of this study was to analyse airborne Platanus pollen content in the air of C6rdoba (South-western Spain) over the last 10 years, and its distribution in different areas of the city, as well as to consider poss...

ULSTER SOCIETY OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 92nd (Autumn) MEETING Friday 24th October 2014 Mater Hospital, Belfast PROGRAMME: 2.00 pm The genetic, clinical and MRI features of CADASIL in Northern Ireland. McMacken G, McKenna E,McKee S, McConville J. 1. Dept of Neurology RVH, 2. Dept of Genetics BCH and Depts of 3. Neurology and 4. Neuroradiology, UHD. 2.15 pm Unexplained High Anion Gap Metabolic Acidos...

Knowledge of the mesoscale wind systems is very important to understand the dispersion of pollutants, thermal regulation and human comfort in the city. Wind field modifications brought about by the growth of the city of Lisbon and the possible urban environmental impacts are presented. In the last years the city of Lisbon has been growing towards the northern districts and the city center loose...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role public spaces, their transformation in Kosovska Mitrovica city divided southern and northern part importance order overcome fragmentation. It important that development spaces contribute materialization accessible which promote social integration tolerance through an inclusive processes. applied spatial-functional analysis mapped as well observat...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The activities conducted for the improvement of municipal solid waste (MSW) management in Hargeisa City, Somaliland capital city, are described hereafter. CeTAmb has been carrying on a study for the improvement of collection, recycling and disposal of MSW in Northern Somalia since 2005. The study was initially performed in collaboration with UNA Consortium within " Somalia Urb...

Treatment of cancer has improved greatly since the founding of the Belfast Medical Society in 1806. When the society was 100 years old in 1906, the Belfast Fever Hospital opened in the same year at Belvoir Park in Belfast (fig 1). Initially some cancer treatment was carried out in the Abercorn unit in the City Hospital from 1924, and in 1952, with the decline in infections diseases following th...

Measurement of ambient aerosols in northern Mexico City by single particle mass spectrometry R. C. Moffet, B. de Foy, L. T. Molina, M. J. Molina, and A. Prather University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA Molina Center for Energy and the Environment (MCE), La Jolla,d CA, USA Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA R...