Academic literature on the topic 'Apnea Victoria'

Bill’s presentation is on behalf of the NT, Queensland, NSW, Victoria, SA and WA. Some highlights are: • NT: 24 onshore exploration applications were received in 2010 (an increase of 50 % from 2009). About 479,100 sq km of the NT is now under application, including grassroots areas. • Queensland: In 2011, a variety of exploration opportunities are being offered in basins ranging in age from Precambrian to Cretaceous. Targets include conventional oil and gas as well as shale gas. • NSW: There are now more than 800 unallocated petroleum exploration blocks, including the Darling Basin, the Tamworth Moratorium area, and the Oaklands Basin Moratorium area. • Victoria: Acreage release is proposed for the onshore Otway Basin in 2011. • SA: The CO2010 acreage release, comprising three blocks in the Cooper and Eromanga basins, closed on 10 March 2011. • WA: To coincide with the APPEA Conference, acreage has been made available for bidding from the Canning Basin, Northern Carnarvon Basin, Officer Basin and Perth Basin.

The Australian Government formally releases new offshore exploration areas at the annual APPEA conference. This year, 31 areas plus two special areas in five offshore basins are being released for work program bidding. Closing dates for bid submissions are either six or twelve months after the release date (i.e. 3 December 2009 and 29 April 2010), depending on the exploration status in these areas is and on data availability. The 2009 release areas are located in Commonwealth waters offshore Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria, comprising intensively explored areas close to existing production as well as new frontiers. As usual, the North West Shelf features very prominently and is complimented by new areas along the southern margin, including frontier exploration areas in the Ceduna Sub-basin (Bight Basin) and the Otway Basin. The Bonaparte Basin is represented by one release area in the Malita Graben, while five areas are available in the Southern Browse Basin in an under-explored area of the basin. A total of 14 areas are being released in the Carnarvon Basin, with eight areas located in the Dampier Sub-basin, three small blocks in the Rankin Platform and three large blocks on the Northern Exmouth Plateau (these are considered a deep water frontier). In the south, six large areas are on offer in the Ceduna Sub-basin and five areas of varying sizes are being released in the Otway Basin, including a deep water frontier offshore Victoria. The special release areas are located in the Petrel Sub-basin, Bonaparte Basin offshore Northern Territory, and encompass the Turtle/Barnett oil discoveries. The 2009 offshore acreage release offers a wide variety of block sizes in shallow as well as deep water environments. Area selection has been undertaken in consultation with industry, the states and Territory. This year’s acreage release caters for the whole gamut of exploration companies given that many areas are close to existing infrastructure while others are located in frontier offshore regions. As part of Geoscience Australia’s Offshore Energy Security Program, new data has been acquired in offshore frontier regions and have yielded encouraging insights into the hydrocarbon prospectivity of the Ceduna-Sub-basin.

Unitisation is a commercial agreement between the titleholders of a shared petroleum pool that extends across two (or more) title boundaries.In 1998, a working group involving government and industry representatives was formed, with the intent of drafting a guideline on unitisation. However, work on the guideline was put on hold until after resolution of the Perseus Athena unitisation issue. During the intervening period, a number of new unitisation cases have arisen and a further number are on the horizon.A workshop was held in Perth on 22 February 2001 to canvass opinions and options on unitisation. Around 30 representatives from government (Commonwealth, Western Australia, Victoria, Northern Territory and the Timor Gap Joint Authority) and industry (APPEA, Agip, Apache, BHP, ExxonMobil, MIMI, Phillips, Santos, Shell and Woodside) attended and contributed to the Workshop.There is general agreement among industry and government representatives that there is a range of unitisation issues under the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 (PSLA) that need to be clarified. In response, the Commonwealth is examining those parts of the Act that deal with property rights with respect to shared pools and when government should direct unitisation. This could lead to changes to the PSLA depending on consultations with interested parties on these matters.The aim of this paper is to canvas a number of options with regards to property rights and government direction. These options could also help resolve a range of other issues relating to unitisation, including information sharing and secondary taxation of unitised fields.

The Australian Government formally releases new offshore exploration areas at the annual APPEA conference. In 2012, 27 areas in nine offshore basins are being released for work program bidding. Closing dates for bid submissions are either six or twelve months after the release date, i.e. 8 November 2012 or 9 May 2013, depending on the exploration status in these areas and on data availability. As was the case in 2011, this year’s Release again covers a total offshore area of about 200,000 km2. The Release Areas are located in Commonwealth waters offshore Northern Territory, Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania (Fig. 1). Areas on the North West Shelf feature prominently again and include under-explored shallow water areas in the Arafura and Money Shoal basins and rank frontier deep water areas in the outer Browse and Roebuck basins as well as on the outer Exmouth Plateau. Following the recent uptake of exploration permits in the Bight Basin (Ceduna and Duntroon sub-basins), Australia’s southern margin is well represented in the 2012 Acreage Release. Three new areas in the Ceduna Sub-basin, four areas in the Otway Basin, one large area in the Sorell Basin and two areas in the eastern Gippsland Basin are on offer. Multiple industry nominations for this Acreage Release were received, confirming the healthy status of exploration activity in Australia. The Australian government continues to support these activities by providing free access to a wealth of geological and geophysical data.

The Australian Government formally releases new offshore exploration areas at the annual APPEA conference. In 2011, 29 areas in eight offshore basins are being released for work program bidding. Closing dates for bid submissions are either six or 12 months after the release date (i.e. 13 October 2011 and 12 April 2012)–this depends on the exploration status in these areas and on data availability. The 2011 Release is the largest since the year 2000 with all 29 areas located in Commonwealth waters offshore NT, WA, Victoria and Tasmania, covering about 200,000 km2. The producing hydrocarbon provinces of the Carnarvon, Otway and Gippsland basins are represented by gazettal blocks that are located close to existing infrastructure and are supported by extensive open file data-sets. Other areas that are close to known oil and gas discoveries lie in the Caswell Sub-basin (eastern Browse Basin) and on the Ashmore Platform (northwestern Bonaparte Basin). A particular aspect of the 2011 release is provided by 13 areas in under-explored regions offshore NT and WA–all of which range from 100–280 graticular blocks in size. These areas, located in the Money Shoal, outer Browse, Roebuck, northeastern Carnarvon, Southern Carnarvon and North Perth basins, offer new opportunities for data-acquisition and regional exploration. The release of three large areas in the Southern Carnarvon and North Perth basins is supported by new data acquired and interpreted by Geoscience Australia as part of the Offshore Energy Security Program, which selected results are being presented at this year’s conference.

Objectives: Evaluate diagnostic accuracy and feasibility of a mail-out home oximetry kit. Design: Patients were referred for both the tertiary/quaternary-centre hospital-delivered oximetry (HDO) and for the mail-out remotely-delivered oximetry (RDO). Quantitative and qualitative data were collected. The COVID-19 pandemic began during this study; therefore, necessary methodological adjustments were implemented. Setting: Patients were first evaluated in Swan Hill, Victoria. RDO kits were sent to home addresses. For the HDO, patients travelled to the Melbourne city area, received the kit, stayed overnight, and returned the kit the following morning. Participants: All consecutive paediatric patients (aged 2–18), diagnosed by a specialist in Swan Hill with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) on history/examination, and booked for tonsillectomy +/− adenoidectomy, were recruited. Main outcome measures: Diagnostic accuracy (i.e., comparison of RDO to HDO results) and test delivery time (i.e., days from consent signature to oximetry delivery) were recorded. Patient travel distances for HDO collection were calculated using home/delivery address postcodes and Google® Maps data. Qualitative data were collected with two digital follow-up surveys. Results: All 32 patients that had both the HDO and RDO had identical oximetry results. The HDO mean delivery time was 87.7 days, while the RDO mean delivery time was 23.6 days (p value: <0.001). Qualitatively, 3/28 preferred the HDO, while 25/28 preferred the RDO (n = 28). Conclusions: The remote option is as accurate as the hospital option, strongly preferred by patients, more rapidly completed, and also an ideal investigation delivery method during certain emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

Robert Capa y Gerda Taro llegaron a España en agosto de 1936 cargados con sus cámaras fotográficas para cubrir la Guerra Civil. En pocas semanas, la pareja realizó un viaje por todo el territorio leal en busca de impactantes fotografías y victorias republicanas. Su estancia en Toledo es de las menos conocidas. En la ciudad, el coronel Moscardó, junto con un grupo de cadetes y guardias civiles que habían apoyado la sublevación militar, resistía en el interior del Alcázar desde el 22 de julio. En los archivos de la Agencia Magnum y el International Center of Photography se conservan varias fotografías erróneamente catalogadas, en cuanto a fecha y localización, realizadas por Capa y Taro durante su estancia en Toledo. Es objeto de estudio el análisis de las fotografías identificadas en Toledo, sobre las que apena se ha investigado. Como resultado se aportan datos que permiten reconocer espacios y acotar fechas. Entre las imágenes consultadas podemos hacer una distinción entre el primer viaje de los reporteros a finales de agosto y el segundo viaje el 18 de septiembre, incluyendo una diferenciación en los formatos de la película utilizada por Capa y Taro. Por último, se valora el papel de la alemana, quien se inició como fotoperiodista en esta etapa y que fue olvidada tras haber sido principal protagonista en la vida y la trayectoria de Robert Capa.

The Australian Government’s 2018 offshore petroleum exploration acreage release was announced by the Commonwealth Minister for Resources and Northern Australia, Senator the Hon Matthew Canavan at the 2018 APPEA conference. This paper provides insights into the processes that the Australian Government has undertaken to select the final release areas and goes into detail on the ongoing petroleum related activities of the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (the Department). The annual acreage release is a central component of ensuring ongoing, sustainable and responsible investment in Australia’s offshore petroleum sector. The annual acreage release remains the primary mechanism for securing investment in offshore oil and gas exploration in areas of known petroleum potential and new geological frontiers. Continued exploration for oil and gas in Commonwealth waters is a central component of ensuring Australia’s future energy security. Australia’s well established and independent environmental regulator, NOPSEMA (the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority), ensures all petroleum activities in Commonwealth waters are performed safely and in an environmentally responsible manner. Combined with NOPTA’s (National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator) leading practice titles administration, Australia remains an attractive investment destination while offering industry leading environmental protections and ensuring safe working conditions industry-wide. Australia offers investors access to data, secure tenure, a stable economic environment and a well-established transparent regulatory system for offshore petroleum activities. A key driver for sustainable activity in Australia is the acceptance of multiple use access to Australia’s marine resources. Recognising this, the department consults with a range of stakeholders on the areas it proposes to release for petroleum exploration. This consultation process provides an opportunity for all interested parties to provide comments and feedback on the areas proposed and in particular highlight how interested parties or the areas might be impacted by exploration activities. The 21 areas in the 2018 offshore petroleum exploration acreage release are located in the offshore areas of Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and the Ashmore-Cartier Islands. These areas will enable the next wave of investment in the Australian resources sector, and the prospect of new oil, gas and condensate production.

Background: Variability is found about the severity of upper airway obstruction ranging from primary snoring to obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). Adenotonsillectomy (AT) is taken as the primary treatment option. Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of Adenotonsillectomy among children having obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study conducted at Bahawal Victoria Hospital Bahawalpur from January 2017 to January 2018. A total of 52 children of both genders, aged 3 to 10 years, having obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and selected for Adenotonsillectomy (AT) were enrolled. Adenotonsillectomy was performed in all the study participants employing general anesthesia. Preoperative and postoperative characteristics as well as respiratory and sleep parameters were compared adopting chi-square test for qualitative variables while t-test was employed for quantitative variables. Results: Out of a total of 52 children, 32 (61.5%) were male. The majority of the children, 27 (51.9%) were between 3-6 years of age. Statistically significant improvement (p-value < 0.05) was noted at the postoperative interval following AT for obstructive AHI score, respiratory disturbance index, obstructive apnea and hypopnea index, SpO2 nadir, TSpO2<90%, and respiratory arousal index. Obstructive AHI score < 1 episode / hour was seen in 37 (71.2%) children while AHI score < 5 episodes / hour were noted in 47 (90.4%). Conclusion: Adenotonsillectomy for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome improved quality of life and polysomnographic parameters in most of the children.