Material movement is a significant and costly aspect of gold or general mining projects. This involves the utilization expensive heavy equipment, necessitating careful management to ensure optimal efficiency. Therefore, this study aimed analyze productivity excavators PC-300 PC-400 as well compare theoretical calculation results with actual conditions. The basis was formed by real field data, c...

OBJECTIVE To assess the intergenerational repetition of breastfeeding duration in a cohort of adolescent mothers who had been prospectively followed up since birth. METHODS All hospital births occurred in Pelotas (N=5,914), a Southern Brazilian city, in 1982 were studied prospectively. The cohort was visited in 1984 and 1986, and information on feeding practices was gathered. In 2001, a searc...

While many studies have investigated duration discrimination in human adults and in nonhuman animals, few have investigated this ability in infants. Here, we report findings that 6-month-old infants are able to discriminate brief durations, and, as with other animal species, their discrimination function is characterized by Weber's Law: proportionate difference rather than absolute difference b...

Introduction: Ultrasound cycloplasty (UCP) is commercially available in Europe. It has been shown to have less side effects than its trans-scleral diode laser cyclophotocoagulation counterpart reducing intraocular pressure (IOP) refractory glaucoma patients.
 Case presentation: This retrospective case series followed seven patients treated with UCP for at the Ophthalmology Clinic, Hospital...

Consequent to the ICD-10, schizophrenic patients with illness duration of less than one month will now be diagnosed as acute and transient psychosis. On the basis of the hospital records of 891 first admission patients, the acute schizophrenic patients (n=253) were compared on demographic and clinical characteristics with the rest of the patients (n = 548) under 295 of the ICD-9 diagnosis. Logi...