Objective To evaluate the possibility of performing ureterorenoscopy and insitu lithotripsy for upper ureteric and solitary pelvic calculi under spinal anesthesia. Patients and Methods This descriptive study was conducted at POF Hospital, Wah Cant from June 2008 to December 2008. A total of 125 ASA-I patients, 75 male and 50 female, age ranging from 18 to 70 years, having upper ureteric or soli...

The present investigation is an account of soil quality parameters and wheat (Triticum aestivum HD-2285) yield as influenced by insitu incorporation of paddy straw and its subsequent inoculation with two cellulolytic and one lignolytic fungi. Such information may prove useful to farmers as it may provide them with an option to use the undesired crop waste as partial replacements for synthetic f...

The insitu mass spectrometry detection of volatile species during high temperature corrosion processes, exemplified by decarburisation of plain carbon steel, will be presented. Without influencing the thermobalance signal, changes of the gas composition can be measured by introducing a small quartz capillary into the reaction chamber in close proximity to the sample surface. Experiments with th...

Metal-ceramic interfaces are important in applications as diverse as magnetic storage media and supported catalysts. It is very important to understand how the crystallography and microstructure of metallic films deposited onto ceramic substrates depend on growth and/or annealing conditions so that their physical properties (e.g. magnetic, electronic, etc.) can be tailored for specific applicat...

In a context where energy is valued, the use of Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs with low energy consumption (CFL) tends to generalize. However, the radio noise produced by these sources is currently the subject of many discussions, particularly about the issue of human exposure. This paper is dedicated to the characterization of the electric and magnetic fields radiated by various models of lam...

The paper focuses on conservation agriculture (CA), defined as minimal soil disturbance (no-till, NT) and permanent soil cover (mulch) combined with rotations, as a more sustainable cultivation system for the future. Cultivation and tillage play an important role in agriculture. The benefits of tillage in agriculture are explored before introducing conservation tillage (CT), a practice that was...

Transformative learning is highly sought by practitioners and academics in sustainable development, education for adult education, because it involves shifts perspectives which can potentially underpin significant changes worldviews ways of learning. A practice-based design process crystallizing local shared values, called WeValue InSitu, already reported to regularly produce transformative (TL...

Speckle noise caused by interference of electromagnetic waves complicates Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images to be interpreted and further practical application, therefore reducing speckle noise and preserving more detailed information are indispensable tasks in pre-processing. In this paper, a new insitu single-pointed (ISPW) method based on wavelet decomposition to several scales to suppre...