Urban heat island (UHI) represents a major anthropogenic modification to the Earth system and its relationship with urban development is poorly understood at a regional scale. Using Aqua MODIS data and Landsat TM/ETM+ images, we examined the spatiotemporal trends of the UHI effect (ΔT, relative to the rural reference) along the urban development intensity (UDI) gradient in 32 major Chinese citi...

OBJECTIVES To present the longitudinal outcomes in an observational cohort of patients who had undergone treatment of stress urinary incontinence with a single incision mid-urethral sling (MUS). METHODS A prospective, observational study of all female patients who had undergone surgical intervention with the MiniArc MUS was performed. The surgical candidates underwent history and physical exami...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effects of vaginal hysterectomy (combined with anterior and/or posterior colporraphy) and abdominal sacro-colpopexy (with preservation of the uterus) on urogenital function. DESIGN Randomised trial. SETTING Three teaching hospitals in The Netherlands. POPULATION Eighty-two patients undergoing surgical correction of uterine prolapse stages II-IV. METHODS Particip...

Effective Models Udi Boker and Nachum Dershowitz School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel {udiboker,nachumd}@tau.ac.il

Background To determine which preoperative factors drive patient-reported quality of life (QoL) after artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) implantation. Methods Men receiving AUS after prostate cancer treatment were identified from a prospectively collected dataset. Preoperative factors were recorded during the initial incontinence consultation. Patients underwent urodynamic testing (UDS) preop...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To estimate the short-term effects of a minimally invasive single vaginal incision technique without passing through the abdomen or groin (ContaSure Needleless System) on the quality of life in women with incontinence. DESIGN Prospective cohort study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2). SETTING Tertiary referral urogynecology clinic. PATIENTS 50 consecutive patients ...

We reconsider dimension–five proton decay operators, making semiquantitative remarks which apply to a large class of supersymmetric GUTs in which the short-distance operators are correlated with the fermion Yukawa couplings. In these GUTs, which include minimal SU(5), the operators (udi ) (djντ ), induced by charged Higgsino dressing, completely dominate for moderate to large tan β. The rate fo...

BACKGROUND The use of CAM by pregnant women is very popular in developed countries. The trend is increasing globally and lack of evidence of safety particularly when used during pregnancy may lead to complications. Pregnancy is a vulnerable period especially during the first trimester. There is scarcity of empirical evidence on CAM use particularly among women in Udi LGA of Enugu State and Sout...

Abstract Urban heat islands (UHIs) are a widely studied phenomenon, while research on urban-rural differences in humidity, the so called urban dry or moisture (UDIs, UMIs), is less common and large-scale quantification of seasonal diurnal patterns UDI still lacking. However, UDI/UMI effect essential to understand impacts humidity outdoor thermal comfort, building energy consumption, ecology cit...

Objective. To assess treatment efficacy and quality of life in women with stress urinary incontinence 3 years after treatment with nonsurgical transurethral radiofrequency collagen denaturation. Methods. This prospective study included 139 women with stress urinary incontinence due to bladder outlet hypermobility. Radiofrequency collagen denaturation was performed using local anesthesia in an o...