Health impact assessment (HIA) on a strategic level focuses on the broad determinants of health. However, the evidence with regard to the health impacts is often necessarily 'soft'. The example of a health impact review on national housing policy in the Netherlands shows that HIA can be effective even in the absence of hard data. Strategies used to overcome the problem of not having hard data a...

OBJECTIVES To examine the damage location distribution of five main body region injuries of maximum abbreviated injury score (MAIS) 3-6 injured occupants for nearside struck vehicle in front-to-side impact crashes. DESIGN AND SETTING MAIS 3-6 injured occupants information was extracted from the US-National Automotive Sampling System/Crashworthiness Data System in the year 2007; it included th...

To address technology impact at the household level, farms were selected in two broad agro-ecological zones, Kampala and Highland. The Kampala zone was delineated as a “new” region with a substantial milkshed that was not delineated with the Kenya agro-ecological extrapolation. Since the “Horticultural” zone and Kenya dominated the landscape where dairying occurred outside of the Kampala milksh...

This study examined the performance and future predictions for the Middle East produced by 18 global climate models participating in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report. Under the Special Report on Emission Scenarios A2 emissions scenario the models predict an overall temperature increase of ∼1.4 K by mid-century, increasing to almost 4 K by late-century for t...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to quantify the length of the axillary nerve that is able to be dissected through a standard anterior (deltopectoral) and posterior approach. The authors hypothesize that a segment of the axillary nerve cannot be reached using both approaches simultaneously. METHODS Axillary nerves of five frozen cadavers were dissected using an anterior and posterior appr...

The coastal zone is the bridge between ocean and mainland, junction of two ecosystems, focus economic development cities gathering place ports. Remote sensing technology uses detector to receive electromagnetic wave from target object. After processing information, it can distinguish attributes It widely used in marine development, aerospace understanding, resource exploration other fields.In t...

The identification of the limits between the cell division, elongation and mature zones in the root apex is still a matter of controversy when methods based on cellular features, molecular markers or kinematics are compared while methods based on cell length profiles have been comparatively underexplored. Segmentation models were developed to identify developmental zones within a root apex on t...

Pretreatment knowledge of crestal and radicular dentoalveolar zones and their associated thicknesses can improve risk assessment to meet esthetic and functional goals, particularly when discrepancies in anterior maxillary and mandibular arches exist and when an anterior protected articulation is to be achieved. This paper discusses a new classification of dentoalveolar bone phenotypes that diff...

We present the analytic calculation of the cross-spectral density tensor of a thermally radiative planar dielectric slab in extreme near-field, intermediate near-field, and far-field zones. We show that the spatial coherence of the thermal field exhibits distinct features in these zones. At a given wavelength lambda , the coherence length is many orders of magnitude smaller than lambda in the e...