We present an after-action report for a large-scale damage assessment project that followed Hurricane Sandy's landfall on the Eastern seaboard of the USA in 2012. The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) took over 35,000 GPS-tagged images of damage-affected areas, as part of their mandate to provide aerial photographs for disaster assessment and response agencies, primarily FEMA, who used the aggregate geolo...

Electrodermal activity (EDA) is a physiological signal which has been considered as one of the best indicators of sympathetic arousal, since it provides an indication of sweat gland activity. For this reason, it can be used to measure the engagement of the audience during a performance. This work exploits the use of wearable EDA sensors to measure the audience engagement during a live performan...

Members of the genus Isospora have a single host. Merogony and gametogony take place within the host cells, and sporogony occurs outside the body. The oocysts contain two sporocysts, each containing four sporozoites (Mehlhorn, 1988). Many species of Isospora were described from lacertilian hosts (Finkelman and Paperna, 2002; Daszak et al., 2009). Regarding genus Acanthodactylus, Isospora acanth...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The diagnosis of spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is based on a polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) exceeding 250/μL in ascitic fluid. The aim of the study was to evaluate serum procalcitonin and ascitic fluid calprotectin as accurate diagnostic markers for detecting SBP. METHODS Seventy-nine patients with cirrhotic ascites were included. They were divided into a SBP gr...

[1] Hurricane Sandy’s track crossed the New Jersey coastline at an angle closer to perpendicular than any previous hurricane in the historic record, one of the factors contributing to recordsetting peak-water levels in parts of New Jersey and New York. To estimate the occurrence rate of Sandy-like tracks, we use a stochastic model built on historical hurricane data from the entire North Atlanti...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether religiousness mediates the relationship between sociodemographic factors, multimorbidity and health-related quality of life of older adults. METHODS This population-based cross-sectional study is part of the Survey on Health, Well-Being, and Aging (SABE). The sample was composed by 911 older adults from Sao Paulo, SP, Southeastern Brazil. Structural equation model...