For many years, average bed occupancy level has been the primary measure that has guided hospital bed capacity decisions at both policy and managerial levels. Even now, the common wisdom that there is an excess of beds nationally has been based on a federal target of 85% occupancy that was developed about 25 years ago. This paper examines data from New York state and uses queueing analysis to e...

Mapping river beds to identify water and sandbars is a crucial task for understanding the morphology hydrodynamics of rivers their ecological conditions. The main difficulties this so far have been limitations conventional approaches, which are generally costly (e.g., equipment, time- human resource-demanding) poor flexibility deal with all Currently, alternative approaches rely on remote sensi...

At the mouth of the Amazon River, a widespread carbonate ecosystem exists below the river plume, generating a hard-bottom reef (∼9500 km2) that includes mainly large sponges but also rhodolith beds. The mesozooplankton associated with the pelagic realm over the reef formation was characterized, considering the estuarine plume and oceanic influence. Vertical hauls were carried out using a standa...

INTRODUCTION Geological evolution of the Amazon Basin. The geological history of lowland Amazonia is still poorly understood, in part because much of the Tertiary stratigraphic history has been removed by erosion and that which remains is difficult to study and access in a rainforest environment. The landscape evolution of Amazonia during the Neogene was influenced mainly by Andean tectonics an...

Pyritic shale horizons of the Newland Formation (Belt Series, Mid-Proterozoic) show striking similarities to Proterozoic pyritic shales elsewhere that are host to major lead-zinc deposits, such as Mt. Isa and McArthur River. However, in contrast to these deposits the pyritic shales of the Newland Formation contain only minute quantities of lead and zinc. Elevated concentrations of lead and zinc...

BACKGROUND House dust mite allergen levels in humid coastal regions of Australia are high, particularly in beds. Because high allergen levels in beds are associated with more severe asthma, reduction of levels may be important for asthma control. OBJECTIVE We tested the effectiveness of an acaricidal treatment of bedding in combination with occlusive mattress and pillow encasings in reducing ...

We assessed the distribution and habitat use of Eurasian otter Lutra lutra on middle course River Segura its tributaries (Murcia, SE Spain) within framework project LIFE13BIO/ES/001407 RIPISILVANATURA (2014–2019). Between April 2016 June 2018, we surveyed for spraints 42 sampling stretches (mean length ± SD = 0.5 0.2 km), covering a 109.8 km long section river. The study time frame coincided wi...

The river beds of the Mekong Delta are some most intensively sand mined places in world. However, mining budgets remain limited to rough and indirect estimates. Here, we provide a first systematic, field-based estimation Delta’s budget. This budget overcomes limitations relying on officially declared statistics bathymetric surveys short channel reaches. We applied Sentinel-1 radar imagery monit...

The use of lithium ceramic pebble beds has been considered in many blanket designs for the fusion reactors. Lithium ceramics have received a significant interest as tritium breeders for the fusion blankets during the last three decades. The thermal performance of the lithium ceramic pebble beds plays a key role for the fusion blankets. In order to study the heat transfer in the blanket, the eff...