OBJECTIVE To assess whether pediatric practices with a system to identify and recall children with high-risk conditions (HRCs) could maintain high influenza vaccination coverage levels among these children during a vaccine shortage year. DESIGN Observational study using data from a computerized billing database and an electronic immunization information system. SETTING Four Denver pediatric...

Seasonal variation on physico-chemical quality of well water at Eloor industrial area, Kerala was studied. A total of 100 samples, 25 each during four different seasons, viz. summer, premonsoon, monsoon and post monsoon were collected during the year 2009 and analyzed for temperature, pH, total hardness, Chemical Oxygen Demand, concentration of nitrate, fluoride, iron, heavy metals like lead, m...

The objective of our study was to simulation of carbon monoxide (CO) dispersion exited from the stacks of a cement industry of Doroud, Iran by Gaussian Model (GM). Four sampling period was conducted to measurement of CO from the factory's three-stack flow during one year. The input parameters for were the rate of CO emission, meteorological data, factors of related to the stack, and factors of ...

iran is facing dust storms every year and frequently. this phenomenon has affected, especially in recent years, various aspects of people's lives. the aim of this research is iran’s seasonal clustering in terms of dust storms frequency with visibility less than 1000 and 500 m for the period of 1987–2008. for this purpose, we used the data of 87 synoptic stations that had suitable spatial d...

Barbus occidentalis is an important commercially exploited fish in Nigeria facing the threat of extinction. A two-year (January, 2002-December, 2003) sampling of the fish from Oyun reservoir revealed a declining population of the species with 25 and 13 species caught in 2002 and 2003 respectively. Various interacting factors between the fish, reservoir and watershed were adduced for the declini...