Mycologic Catastrophe

Catastrophe Archetypes

We propose an Integrated Systemic Theory of Catastrophes (ISTC) using System Dynamics to model and to understand common systemic structures and behaviours of catastrophes. Current catastrophe research concentrates on a specific field and does not capture complex multi-field catastrophe scenarios that cannot be reduced to a single scientific field. For example, when looking at famines the elemen...

Electromechanical Catastrophe

A transducer is a system that couples two loads. For example, an electromechanical transducer couples a mechanical force and an electrical voltage. A two-load, nonlinear system can exhibit rich behavior of bifurcation, which can be displayed in a three-dimensional space, with the horizontal plane representing the two loads, and the vertical axis representing the state of the system. In this thr...

Reflections on the approach to treatment of a mycologic disaster.

Clinical and mycologic characteristics of onychomycosis in diabetic patients.

The aim of the study was to examine the relative prevalence of dermatophytic, yeast and non-dermatophytic mould onychomycosis among diabetic patients, and to compare it with nondiabetic patients. The study included 460 consecutive diabetic patients and the same number of nondiabetic age-matched subjects attending dermatology clinics at Farwaniya Hospital, Kuwait, over a period of 4 years. All p...

[Mapping of environmental mycologic hazards using GIS method].

Intensive poultry production is associated with extreme densities of birds crammed into industrial-scale hen houses. Consequently, the bird keepers are exposed to elevated concentrations of dust. Exposure to dust, containing pathogenic mycological agents, may cause exacerbate asthma, allergic alveolitis, as well as organic dust toxic syndrome. Geographic Information System (GIS) allows to view,...