BACKGROUND Delivery of critical care within a certain window of opportunity is paramount in many disease states, and providing the right care to these patients at the right time in the Emergency Department (ED) can significantly reduce mortality. However, aggressive treatment of these patients often requires endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation either in the pre-hospital or ED pha...

The long-term effects of green cane harvesting with trash retention, compared with burning, on soil fertility were evaluated using data from the long-term trash management trial at Mount Edgecombe (BT 1). Total and potentially mineralisable soil N were greater under green cane harvesting than burning in the surface 0-10cm layer of soil. As expected, fertiliser applications induced increases in ...

Methods 12 volunteers (30±8 years) and 3 patients (41±11 years) were investigated at a 3T whole body MR scanner (Achieva, Philips) with a 32 channel coil. The patients suffer from DCM, asynchrony and/or LBBB. A velocity encoded navigated segmented gradient echo sequence was applied in the apical, equatorial and basal slice. Acquisition parameters: FOV=340mm, in-plane res. =2.5mm, slice thicknes...

The main objective of the project ”Monitoring of mining induced surface deformation” (ALOS-RA-94) is to evaluate multi-temporal PALSAR data for land surface deformation monitoring, using interferometric techniques. Differential interferometry using PALSAR data over several mining sites in Germany, Poland and Czech Republic, as well as over alpine landslides in Switzerland and Italy was used to ...

Methods 11 Volunteers (30±8 years) and 3 patients (41±11 years) were investigated at a 3T whole body MR scanner (Achieva, Philips) with a 32 channel cardiac coil. The patients suffered from DCM, asynchrony and/or LBBB. A velocity encoded (TPM) navigated segmented gradient echo sequence was applied in the apical, equatorial and basal slice. The acquisition parameters were: FOV=340mm, in-plane re...

Topsoil mining associated with informal mud brick making is common in rural villages of South Africa. The impact topsoil on soil quality, however has not been investigated. This study therefore assessed the unfired bricks selected quality indicators two KwaZulu-Natal, Firstly, local miners were interviewed to ascertain information related mining, brickfield site identification and suitability f...

Three typical substropical evergreen broad-leaved forests ( Castanopsis eyrei , Schima superba and Cyclobalanopsis glauca ) in Wuyi Mountain National Nature Reserve of Jiangxi Province were selected to investigate its carbon sequestration capacity. The biomass soil bulk density sample investigation get by setting investigation, field quadrat sampling, indoor making, experimental analysis testin...

Recently, many research studies have focused on labyrinth weirs' hydraulic performance, especially as dependent engineering features. In the current study, properties of flow over triangular weirs models (from upper perspective) with sharp crest been experimentally studied and compare their efficiency suppressed rectangular (conventional weirs). Twelve fiberglass are developed for this reason t...

Abstract The incidence of small bowel obstruction after any abdominal surgery is 9%, whereas it only 0.1% a C-Section. Small secondary to herniation segment the beneath intact rectus sheath and between muscle extremely rare. Reviewing literature revealed that less than five cases were reported. Here we present 39-year-old female six days post caesarean section presented with abdomen pain, diste...