Freshwater systems provide various resources and services. These are often vulnerable to climate change and other pressures. Therefore, enhancing resilience to climate change is important for their long term viability. This paper explores how management options can be evaluated on their resilience implications. The approach included five steps: (1) characterizing the system, (2) characterizing ...

Background Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA) is a systemic inflammatory disease that affects large and medium-sized arteries. It the most common vasculitis in people older than 50 years of age [1]. Temporal artery biopsies (TABs) are routinely performed for diagnosis, giving invaluable opportunity to analyze inflamed tissues. Different histological patterns inflammation can be found TABs: transmural (...

BACKGROUND/AIM The Questionnaire: Children with Difficulties (QCD) is a parent-assessed questionnaire designed to evaluate child's difficulties in functioning during specific periods of the day. This study aimed to evaluate difficulties in daily functioning of children and adolescents with pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) using the QCD. Results were compared with those for a community sam...

Control of jets has been studied for over a century and even today continues to be a significant research topic. It finds applications in various fields especially in aerospace, where enhancement of mixing characteristics of a jet can improve the performance greatly. Review articles by Gutmark et al.;1 Gutmark & Grinstein;2 Seiner et al.;3 Glezer & Amitay;4 Reynolds et al.;5 Ginevsky Vlasov & K...

Direct ground cooling is a method for buildings whereby free provided by circulating water through borehole heat exchangers (BHEs). Since no refrigeration involved, supply temperature to the building’s system dependent mainly on BHE sizing. This study investigates sizing of BHEs direct systems, with particular focus influence terminal unit types and their operating strategies. Experimental resu...

AIMS The aims of this study were to investigate the influence of commercially pure titanium (PTi) and titanium-aluminum-vanadium (Ti-6Al-4V) alloys (TiA) on the final shade of low-fusing porcelain bonded to them and to compare the shade changes with those of three conventional metal-ceramic systems. METHODS AND MATERIALS A titanium casting unit was used to cast PTi and Ti-6Al-4V alloy specime...

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Implant-retained overdenture can improve the stability of dentures and prevent bone loss. Overdenture-wearing patients need special hygiene care. PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of various denture cleansers on the retention of Dio orange O-rings. METHOD AND MATERIALS In this experimental study, 40 Dio orange O-rings were divided into 4 grou...

Despite bacterial culture of platelets, transfusion-associated bacteremia/sepsis (TABS) may occur with a frequency of approximately 1/60,000 platelet transfusions, while an emerging transfusion-transmitted infection (TTI) could reproduce the epidemic of transfusion-transmitted human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the future. As platelet pathogen-reduction (PR) systems licensed in Europe may ev...