Fever is a common complaint in children. In most cases, fevers are due to selflimited viral infections and require no more than symptomatic treatment. Sometimes fever is due to common bacterial infections that are diagnosed by history and physical examination and require antibiotic treatment without laboratory evaluation. In a few clinical situations, the cause of fever is not easily identified...

In this article, we consider a single-phase coupled nonlinear Stefan problem of the water-head and concentration equations with nonlinear source and permeance terms and a Dirichlet boundary condition depending on the free-boundary function. The problem is very important in subsurface contaminant transport and remediation, seawater intrusion and control, and many other applications. While a Land...

Fetal warfarin syndrome (FWS) or warfarin (coumadin) embryopathy is a rare condition as a result of fetal exposure to maternal ingestion of warfarin during pregnancy. A male infant, whose mother was treated with the anticoagulant (warfarin) because of a mechanical heart valve replacement after rheumatic heart disease, presented with signs of warfarin embryopathy. The facial dysmorphism included...

BACKGROUND There is controversy surrounding the management of young children who have a fever without a source (FWS). Several strategies have been designed with the purpose of managing children with FWS. AIMS To assess the applicability of a standardized guideline for children up to 36 months of age with FWS. SETTING Pediatric emergency unit, Al-Adan Hospital, Kuwait City, Kuwait, from May ...

South Africa has numerous thermal springs that represent topographically driven meteoric water migrating along major fracture zones. The temperature (40-70°C) and pH (8-9) of the thermal springs in the Limpopo Province are very similar to those of the low salinity fracture water encountered in the South African mines at depths ranging from 1.0 to 3.1 km. The major cation and anion composition o...

A laboratory study to optimize a low cost technology for small scale drinking water treatment in rural Bangladesh Harmen van der Laan Abstract High concentrations of arsenic in drinking water form a major threat for public health in more than 70 countries worldwide. The situation is Bangladesh is seen as the worst incidence of arsenic poisoning: it is believed that 30 million people in Banglade...

[1] Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) has the potential to image the Martian subsurface to give geological context to drilling targets, investigate stratigraphy, and locate subsurface water. GPR depth of penetration depends strongly on the electromagnetic (EM) properties (complex dielectric permittivity, complex magnetic permeability, and DC resistivity) of the subsurface. These EM properties in t...

The Green’s function is the impulse response of a system and is used to infer the properties of the system from surface measurements. In exploration seismology, imaging algorithms use estimates of the Green’s functions along with surface measurements to image the subsurface, i.e. locate the Earth’s interfaces and its properties, so as to identify valuable energy resources. These conventional im...

Original scientific paper Efficiency of waste water treatment in a subsurface constructed wetland depends on influent water quality, quality water effluent demand, climate conditions, substrate type and plants used. Therefore, the efficiency of the constructed wetlands that are designed and constructed according to the literature design parameters can be different then expected. The results of ...