The Earth’s water resources are endangered by inconsiderate use, pollution and lack of conservation measures. Temporal monitoring is necessary for the conservation and usage planning of water resources and to make informed decisions. Seyfe Lake and its environs in Turkey is one of the most important water basins in the world, because it is a node on bird migration paths between Europe, Asia and...

primary immunodeficiencies (pid) are a group of disorders, characterized by an unusual susceptibility to infections. delay in diagnosis results in increased morbidity and mortality in affected patients. the purpose of this study was to determine the mortality rate of iranian immunodeficient patients referred to children medical center hospital affiliated to tehran university of medical sciences...

[1] Surface transports into the California Current are calculated from TOPEX/POSEIDON altimeter surface height slopes during the 9.5 year period from October 1992–May 2002. These quantify the anomalous onshore and southward displacements of the water column during the 2000–2002 period, which had been hypothesized by others based on anomalous water properties observed in mid-2002 off Oregon. Ano...

This current developments outline discusses, and provides context to understand the significance of, most important judicial decisions administrative rulings regulations promulgated by Internal Revenue Service Treasury Department during year 2001. Most Regulations, however, are so complex that they cannot be discussed in detail; only basic topic fundamental principles highlighted. Amendments Co...

INTRODUCTION To understand the distribution pattern and time trend of unintentional injury mortalities is crucial in order to develop prevention strategies. METHODS We analyzed vital statistics data from Canada (excluding Quebec) for 2001 to 2007. Mortality rates were age- and sex-standardized to the 2001 Canadian population. An autoregressive model was used for time-series analysis. RESULT...

AIMS To investigate whether changes in clinical characteristics and treatment strategies between 1991 and 2001 have had an impact on the survival of patients hospitalized with congestive heart failure (CHF) and whether those with normal left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF> or =50%) differ in this respect from those with depressed LVEF. METHODS AND RESULTS We studied 1482 patients who had...

BACKGROUND Recent studies have noted widening health inequalities between rich and poor areas in a number of OECD countries. This paper examines whether health in New Zealand has become more geographically polarized during the period 1980-2001, a time of rapid social and economic changes in New Zealand society. METHODS Mortality records for each year between 1980 and 2001 were extracted for c...

OBJECTIVES To show trends in age-standardised hospital admission ratios (SHR) for chronic lower respiratory diseases, estimated for Danish construction workers over three time periods (1981-1990, 1991-2000, 2001-2009). DESIGN Within consecutive cohorts of all male building and construction workers in Denmark, selected occupations: bricklayers, carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers and ...

This paper is concerned with large-gauge needle biopsies of suspicious breast neoplasia performed within a three-year period (22nd June 1999 through 21st December 2001). Within that time 262 large-gauge needle biopsies as well as cytological punctions were performed with the aim of diagnosing benign and malignant neoplasia. In the same three-year period 29 malignant breast tumors were diagnosed...