conventional sand filtration which has become a common wastewater treatment technology to satisfy regulations appointed for effluent reuse, suffers from the disadvantage of high energy for backwashing. the subject of this study is application of downflow floating media prior to coarse sand filtration, which requires less water for backwash. two pilots have been employed in two stages. for the f...

On 20 April 2013, 3 weeks before the fifth anniversary of the devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, another powerful earthquake (7.0 magnitude) stuck Sichuan province, this time in the city of Ya'an. Once again, our fellow countrymen are experiencing serious threats to their lives and health. As rehabilitation workers, we plead with all our colleagues to engage in early rehabilitation for the Y...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether adjuvant temozolomide treatment improved glioblastoma patients` survival in a large Canadian cohort. METHODS We retrospectively studied 364 glioblastoma patients who received different modalities of treatment in 2 Canadian tertiary care centers in Edmonton and Halifax, Canada, between January 2000 and December 2006. The primary outcome was survival following the t...

BACKGROUND The aspects of consultation that are important for psychiatric patients have always remained a less acknowledged area. The aim of this study was to identify these aspects. METHODS A Cross-sectional, questionnaire based study was carried out in a psychiatry outpatient clinic of two tertiary care hospitals in a developing country. The patients were asked to fill out the questionnaire...

Cornual pregnancy traditionally has been treated with laparotomy and either cornual resection or hysterectomy. Recently, more conservative operations have been developed, and operative laparoscopy has provided yet another management option. This report describes the conservative management of a large cornual ectopic pregnancy and reviews the techniques and outcomes of conservative repair that h...

Background. In the absence of standard pediatric prescribing information, clinicians often use medicines in an off-label way. Many studies have been published across the globe reporting different rates of off-label use. There is currently no study based on Indian drug formulary. Methods. The prospective observational study included pediatric patients in ages between 0 and 12 years admitted in a...

BACKGROUND Injuries and deaths among riders of off-road motorized all-terrain vehicles are increasing in the US. We hypothesized that serious injuries in Oregon have increased among riders of both four-wheel and two-wheel vehicles. STUDY DESIGN We analyzed the Oregon Trauma Registry. Seriously injured patients treated in the state's designated urban and rural trauma centers were identified us...