The assessment of natural, cultural and human resources, in the context of the growing importance of environmental studies, creates a large amount of multidisciplinary data. This should be integrated and analysed so as to evaluate and manage the resources, as well as to model their internal and external relationships. Nowadays the necessity of handling, integrating, analysing and updating data ...

The global ocean–climate system has been highly sensitive to the formation and advection of deep overflow water from the Nordic Seas as integral part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) but its evolution over the Pliocene–Pleistocene global cooling is not fully understood. In particular, changes in the sources and mixing of prevailing deep waters that were involved in driv...

In this paper, we study the evolution of the weak emission line central stars of planetary nebula (WELS), which are similar to the H-deficient Wolf-Rayet central stars except for systematically weaker emission lines. Our attempts at finding an evolutionary sequence for the WELS similar to what was established for Wolf-Rayet central stars, were unsuccessful. No correlation was found between any ...

Background Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have many options for biologic therapy both within treatment classes and across differing mechanisms of action, but the lack predictability response failure can be frustrating patients physicians. Rheumatologists longitudinally collect patient physician reported measurements as a part routine clinical care that used prediction outcomes [1] . Ha...

BACKGROUND Abortion has been legal in Nepal since 2002 and the country has made striking progress in rolling out induced abortion services. It led to well-known changes in reproductive behavior, however knowledge about legislation and abortion experience by female youth has been least investigated. This paper is an attempt to examine knowledge about legislation of abortion and abortion experien...

In this article we work on certain aspects of the belief change theory in order to make them suitable for argumentation systems. This approach is based on Defeasible Logic Programming as the argumentation formalism from which we ground the definitions. The objective of our proposal is to define an argument revision operator that inserts a new argument into a defeasible logic program in such a w...

The mechanism of action of T4-induced polynu-cleotide kinase on short single-stranded deoxyoligonucleotideshas been investigated.It was found that the phosphorylationreaction catalyzed by T, polynucleotide kinase could be re-versed. Thus, a 5 ’-3*P-labeleddeoxyoligonucleotide and ADPon incubation with the enzyme formed [Y-~~PJATP.In addi-tion some radioac...

The number of children dying from sepsis in the world has almost doubled in the past 20 years. This is most likely due to the increased number of patients who suffer sepsis. And this may be partly due to the fact that antimicrobial therapy in most developing countries including Ghana is mainly empirical due to a relative lack of appropriate laboratory facilities for culture and sensitivity of b...

Umbilical artery catheters are an essential aid in the treatment of newborn infants who have cardiopulmonary disease. However, it is well-known that umbilical artery catheterization is associated with complications. The most frequent visible problem in an umbilical line is blanching or cyanosis of part or all of a distal extremity or the buttock area resulting from either vasospasm or a thrombo...