BACKGROUND House dust mite allergen levels in humid coastal regions of Australia are high, particularly in beds. Because high allergen levels in beds are associated with more severe asthma, reduction of levels may be important for asthma control. OBJECTIVE We tested the effectiveness of an acaricidal treatment of bedding in combination with occlusive mattress and pillow encasings in reducing ...

The use of lithium ceramic pebble beds has been considered in many blanket designs for the fusion reactors. Lithium ceramics have received a significant interest as tritium breeders for the fusion blankets during the last three decades. The thermal performance of the lithium ceramic pebble beds plays a key role for the fusion blankets. In order to study the heat transfer in the blanket, the eff...

Abstract We develop a two-dimensional, plan-view formulation of ice-shelf flow and viscoelastic flexure. This combines, for the first time, shallow-shelf approximation horizontal (and shallow-stream on lubricated beds such as where ice rises rumples form), with treatment thin-plate demonstrate by performing two finite-element simulations: one relict pedestalled lake features that exist some deb...

OBJECTIVE To determine the national distribution of intensive care unit (ICU)/high care (HC) beds and the implications for ICU bed availability in the envisaged national health insurance (NHI) scheme. METHODS A descriptive, non-interventional, observational study design was used. A desk-top audit of all public and private sector ICUs, including ICU/HC beds, in South Africa was undertaken for ...

Coral reefs and seagrass beds are often located adjacent to one another, but little is known about the degree to which their fish communities are interlinked. To determine whether coral reef fishes on the coral reef are interlinked with or segregated from fishes on adjacent seagrass beds, a 60 m coral reef–seagrass gradient was studied on the island of Zanzibar in the western Indian Ocean. Usin...

We selected four hospitals which draw their patients from urban and rural districts in the Stoke-on-Trent area, and which differ in size and character from the Birmingham hospital. Brief particulars of these institutions are as follows: (i) City General Hospital, Newcastle-under-Lyme (formerly the London Road Institution). A general hospital with 915 beds distributed thus: Beds for the acute si...

Successful methods to control the damaging weed mold Chaetomium olivaceum (olive green mold) in mushroom beds are not known. An effective antibiotic (named chaetomacin) against C. olivaceum was isolated from a thermophilic Bacillus sp. This compound was shown to be an extremely potent and stable antibiotic, effective over a wide range of both pH (2 to 10) and temperature (-15 to 150 degrees C)....