Drinking water at Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp in Beirut, Lebanon is of poor quality and unpredictably intermittent quantity. We aimed to characterize drinking water sources and contamination at Shatila and determine how drinking water can be managed to reduce community health burdens. We interviewed the Popular Committee, well owners, water vendors, water shopkeepers and preschool administ...

BACKGROUND When cooking on a barbecue grill, consumers often use aluminum grill pans. For one, the pan catches the fats and oils that would drip into the embers causing the formation of potentially noxious smoke, and the pan also protects the food from being burned by direct heat from the coals. In addition, new aluminum products for use in ovens and grills are becoming increasingly popular. Du...

a 32-year-old man was attacked by flies while camping around khorram abad, lorestan province, western iran. pruritic dermatitis with marked edema and considerable discomfort appeared mainly on the lower legs. the flies were identified as simulium . simuliids are tiny bloodsucking flies, popularly known as blackflies or buffalo flies, belonging to the dipterous, family simulidae. they are occurr...

Hydrologic responses to earthquakes, including liquefaction, changes in stream and spring discharge, changes in the properties of groundwater such as geochemistry, temperature and turbidity, changes in the water level in wells, and the eruption of mud volcanoes, have been documented for thousands of years. Except for some water-level changes in the near field which can be explained by poroelast...

In the development of deepwater high temperature and pressure gas wells, frequent intervention operations are required. Wellbores near seabed have risk producing massive hydrates plugging wellbore. Based on non-steady state model, a temperature-pressure coupling model well was established, physical simulation experiment hydrate formation under carried out by using self-developed deposition reac...

Abstract Affected by the surrounding injection and production wells, formation near infill adjustment well is in an abnormal pressure state, drilling completion operations are prone to complex situations accidents such as leakage overflow. The conventional shut-in method close all water wells around ensure safety of operation, but at same time reduce oil field production. This paper proposes a ...

Modern GPUs adopt massive multithreading and multi-level cache hierarchies to hide long operation latencies, especially off-chip memory access latencies. However, poor cache indexing and cache line allocation policy as well as a small number of miss-status handling registers (MSHRs) can exacerbate the problem of cache thrashing and cache-missrelated resource congestion. Besides, modulo address ...

BACKGROUND In patients, rapid identification of bacterial species may help to guide treatment at early stages. New protocols for the identification directly from positive blood culture flasks significantly helped in the presented case report. CASE PRESENTATION Two patients (a father and son) presented with diarrhea, malaise, and fever of 3 to 4 days duration. Blood cultures from both patients...