BACKGROUND Walkability describes the capacity of the built environment to support walking for various purposes. This paper describes the construction and validation of two objective walkability indexes for Sydney, Australia. METHODS Walkability indexes using residential density, intersection density, land use mix, with and without retail floor area ratio were calculated for 5,858 Sydney Censu...

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The high rate of pulmonary TB in working area ​​the Barengkrajan Health Center can be physical conditions house such as type wall, floor, ventilation area, lighting, temperature, humidity, and occupancy density that does not meet requirements 17.9% (2,386 houses). purpose study was to analyze risk factors f...

The crown density is related with the hierarchical structure of the trees and one of the most important factors considering the biological diversity. This study focuses on the advantage of the LiDAR data, and we tried to estimate the crown density of conifers using the 3-dimensional distribution of the LiDAR pulses. The targets were selected from 13 areas of Hinoki and 10 areas of Cedar tree sp...

BACKGROUND Endonasal transsphenoidal microsurgery is often adopted in the resection of pituitary adenoma, and has showed satisfactory treatment and minor injuries. It is important to accurately localize sellar floor and properly incise the bone and dura matter. METHODS Fifty-one patients with pituitary adenoma undergoing endonasal transsphenoidal microsurgery were included in the present stud...

In recent years, there has been a frequent occurrence of extremely cold conditions which has had a serious impact on the life of residents of buildings in various locations around the world. However, there have only been a very limited number of studies on the effects of residential area building layout on the winter wind environments, which led to a lack of quantitative guidance for residentia...

Six hundred 1-d-old male broilers (Ross 308) were assigned to four experimental groups; each was composed of 5 floor pen replications of 30 birds including control (no enalapril), 15, 30 and 60 ppm enalapril in the drinking water. From d 21 to 49, all the chicks were exposed to low ambient temperature to induce ascites. Mortalities were inspected to determine the cause of death and diagnose of ...

re-vegetation of bare soil is believed to increase, or at least maintain the organic matter levels of soil. the aim of this study was to investigate the soil characteristics changes, nutrient pool sizes and their availability under mid canopy, and canopy gap positions of saltbush in an area re-vegetated with atriplex lentiformis. some of the physical and chemical soil characteristics (the parti...