Background.  In August 2012, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) was notified of acute respiratory illness, including 1 fatality, among a group of meeting attendees who stayed at a Chicago hotel during July 30-August 3, 2012. Suspecting Legionnaires' disease (LD), CDPH advised the hotel to close their swimming pool, spa, and decorative lobby fountain and began an investigation. Metho...

inscriptions in calligraphy, hard stone carving and rock reliefs have a long tradition in iranian art. although from the pre-islamic times many important samples of three dimensional sculptures have been found in iran, during the islamic era, because of the religious edicts and beliefs, that they had the sculpting prohibited, the art of sculpture couldn’t be developed in the way of pre-islamic ...

P take the same license as poets and madmen, Paolo Veronese told the Inquisition Tribunal in Venice during an interrogation. Buffoons, drunkards, exotic creatures, and anachronisms in his Last Supper were placed there “so they might be of service because it seemed to me fi tting ...” in creating the scene, not as irreverence (1). The dispute was resolved by changing the name of the painting to ...

The city of Chełm (Kholm in the past; today located on territory Poland) was founded by King Rus` (Ruthenia) Danylo (Daniel) Romanovych middle 13th century. Initially, it a small town with castle, but later Daniel rebuilt and turned into his capital. Unfortunately, buildings from century are preserved here only form archaeological remains foundations lower parts walls. great historical signific...

If the absolute number of poor people goes up, but the fraction of people in poverty comes down, has poverty gone up or gone down? The economist’s instinct, framed by population replication axioms that undergird standard measures of poverty, is to say that in this case poverty has gone down. But this goes against the instinct of those who work directly with the poor, for whom the absolute numbe...

PURPOSE To retrospectively assess the clinical utility in ureteroscopy (URS) planning of cumulative stone diameter (CSD), which does not account for stone width or depth, as a predictor of URS outcome and compare it with stone volume. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients with renal stones treated at a single institute by flexible URS were retrospectively evaluated. To assess the clinical utility of...

Two Iron Age settlements, Tuzusai and Taldy Bulak 2 (ca. 500 BC to 1 CE), located in southeastern Kazakhstan on the Talgar alluvial fan north of Tian Shan range, have yielded a small collection bone, antler/horn, bronze, stone artifacts with an affinity nomadic art first millennium BC. Both settlements date within period late Saka culture. pieces decorative ornamentations zoomorphic imagery: ca...