OBJECTIVE To determine the national distribution of intensive care unit (ICU)/high care (HC) beds and the implications for ICU bed availability in the envisaged national health insurance (NHI) scheme. METHODS A descriptive, non-interventional, observational study design was used. A desk-top audit of all public and private sector ICUs, including ICU/HC beds, in South Africa was undertaken for ...

Coral reefs and seagrass beds are often located adjacent to one another, but little is known about the degree to which their fish communities are interlinked. To determine whether coral reef fishes on the coral reef are interlinked with or segregated from fishes on adjacent seagrass beds, a 60 m coral reef–seagrass gradient was studied on the island of Zanzibar in the western Indian Ocean. Usin...

Abstract Chineiveem taphoflora from the Krivorechenskaya Formation of Anadyr River left bank (Northeast Asia) is characterized by a relatively low diversity plants represented ginkgoaleans, conifers, and angiosperms. Judging their systematic composition, this younger than Grebenka flora basin. Its closest analog Penzhina Northwestern Kamchatka Yelistratov Peninsula, age which reliably defined a...

We selected four hospitals which draw their patients from urban and rural districts in the Stoke-on-Trent area, and which differ in size and character from the Birmingham hospital. Brief particulars of these institutions are as follows: (i) City General Hospital, Newcastle-under-Lyme (formerly the London Road Institution). A general hospital with 915 beds distributed thus: Beds for the acute si...

An increase in iron ore processing to meet the global demand has resulted generation of billions tons tailings (IOT). Also, construction activities led over exploitation river beds for sand. In this present study, fine aggregates are replaced by M20 grade concrete at varying percentages 20%,30%,40%,50%,60%. The cubes and cylinders were casted their compressive strength split tensile evaluated 7...

Reliable prediction of the erosion rate sediment beds is important for many applications in coastal and river engineering. Theoretical understanding empirically derived scaling relations still lacking. This applies particular anomaly between low high Shields number conditions. In this work, process studied from perspective phase-averaged turbulent kinetic energy (TKE) equations. The multi-phase...

Abstract An important factor in ensuring the maneuvering freedom of land forces lowland areas is ability to overcome water obstacles, especially riverbeds. The complex genesis (polygenesis) river valley sections Polish Lowlands reason for great diversity their geological structure. Polygenesis also determines specificity course evolution system, which driven by climate change and growing human ...

Ross River virus, a mosquitoborne alphavirus, causes epidemic polyarthritis in Australia and the Pacific region. We analyzed serum cytokine, chemokine, and growth factor levels in travelers returning to Germany from Australia. Serum samples showed elevated concentrations in the acute phase of the illness and, more pronounced, in the long-lasting convalescent phase.