Built environment carbon reduction strategies materialize predominantly in city-level greenhouse gas (GHG) management, where new residential development appears as one of the key instruments. However, city-level assessments are often incapable of producing data at a community or neighborhood level and thus they may heavily underestimate the emissions from new construction. This paper explores t...

An appropriate measure of a just society is how it treats those whom the government harms most severely. As frequent and well-publicized exonerations have been etched into the public consciousness over the last several years, a number of scholars have engaged in the study of compensation for such a group – those wrongly convicted. The general tenor of the resulting articles is one of disappoint...

Intramural hematoma of the esophagus is a rare but well described type of acute injury of the esophageal wall and it is more frequently being recognized throughout the world. Patients usually present with acute retrosternal or epigastric pain, minor hematemesis and dysphagia. The condition is mostly seen in women with abnormal coagulation and it can either occur spontaneous or induced by trauma...

Canada’s innocence compensation framework is inadequate and unjust. To secure for the myriad harms caused to them by miscarriages of justice, wrongfully convicted in Canada can either rely on civil suits adjudicated standards deferential state actors with remote prospects recovery, or must subject themselves entirely discretionary assessments ex gratia payments executive. In this paper, I provi...

BACKGROUND It is a common practice to anesthetize patients before performing a thoracentesis. We postulated that this technique may cause a clinically significant difference in the pH of the pleural fluid. METHODS We compared two methods of determining pleural fluid pH. Fifty patients undergoing diagnostic or therapeutic thoracentesis were enrolled. Two 4-mL aliquots of pleural fluid were ana...

BACKGROUND In 2009 Malawi introduced a new protocol to screen potential blood donors for anaemia, using the WHO Haemoglobin Colour Scale (HCS) for initial screening. Published studies of the accuracy of the HCS to screen potential blood donors show varying levels of accuracy and opinion varies whether this is an appropriate screening test. The aim of the study was to assess the validity of the ...

We investigate the electronic structure of archetypical Mott insulator ${\mathrm{NiS}}_{2}$ by means density functional theory calculations in which we explicitly account for noncollinear antiferromagnetic order, as recently established isoelectronic analog $\mathrm{Ni}{(\mathrm{S},\mathrm{Se})}_{2}$. For metallic under high pressures, our predict a Fermi surface topology and volume are excelle...

Invoice factoring is a very useful tool for developing businesses that face liquidity problems. The main property system needs to fulfill prevent an invoice from being factored twice. In order double factoring, many ecosystems use one or several centralized entities register agreements. However, this puts lot of power in the hands these and makes it difficult users dispute situations which data...