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Paul, K. I., M. K. Conyers, and A. S. Black. "Influence of moist - dry cycles on pH changes in surface soils." Soil Research 37, no. 6 (1999): 1057. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sr98105.
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It is well established that in the moderately acidic soils of southern Australia, the 0–2 cm layer commonly has a higher pH than soil layers between 2 and 10 cm depth. The surface 2 cm of soil is also exposed to much greater fluctuations of moisture content than deeper soil layers. There are contradictory or speculative reports in the literature on how soil moisture fluctuation affects pH and processes which influence pH. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the effect of moist–dry cycles on pH, and on processes involving H+ transformations, in 3 surface soils (0–2 cm) sampled from southern New South Wales. Following a pre-incubation, the 3 surface soils were incubated for 28 days at 30°C and were: (i) maintained continuously dry, (ii) subjected to short (2 days dry, 5 days moist) or long (7 days dry, 7 days moist) moist–dry cycles, or (iii) maintained continuously moist. During the incubation, the pH of continuously dry soil slightly increased by 0.03–0.10 units, while the pH of continuously moist soil decreased by 0.16–0.39 units. In soils subject to both short and long moist–dry cycles, the pH decreased by 0.06–0.34 units. However, relative to soils maintained moist, exposure to moist–dry cycles suppressed acidification by 0.05–0.26 pH units. In dry soils the pH increased, since some of the NH4+-N produced by net N mineralisation was not subsequently nitrified, and there was a net reduction of Mn. In soils which received water, acidification was predominately attributed to nitrification. Relative to soils maintained moist, acidification was suppressed by 1.6–6.5 mmol H+/kg due to the 11–35% decrease of nitrification on exposure to moist–dry cycles. In acidic surface soils (pH <5.5), acidification rates were further suppressed by 0.1–1.0 mmol H+/kg due to the 1.06–2.06 times greater net Mn reduction in moist–dry soils than in continuously moist soils.
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Bhattacharya, Surajit, J. Ravikrishnan, B. S. Satish Rao, H. Divakar Shenoy, S. R. Shetty, and Leo Menezes. "A comparative study of the efficacy of topical negative pressure moist dressings and conventional moist dressings in chronic wounds." Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery 40, no. 02 (July 2007): 133–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1699191.
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ABSTRACT Aim: To assess the efficacy of topical negative pressure moist wound dressing as compared to conventional moist wound dressings in improving the healing process in chronic wounds and to prove that negative pressure dressings can be used as a much better treatment option in the management of chronic wounds. Materials and Methods: This is a prospective comparative study of data from 112 patients with chronic wounds, of which 56 patients underwent topical negative pressure dressings (17 diabetic, 10 pressure sores, nine ischemic, two varicose, 10 post-infective raw areas and eight traumatic - six had bone exposed, two orthopaedic prosthesis exposed). The remaining 56 patients underwent conventional moist dressings (20 diabetic, two ischemic, 15 pressure sores, three varicose, eight post-infective raw areas and eight traumatic - five had bone exposed, three orthopaedic prosthesis exposed). The results were compared after 10 days. The variables compared were, rate of granulation tissue formation as a percentage of ulcer area covered, skin graft take up as the percentage of ulcer surface area and duration of hospital stay. The variables were compared using Unpaired Student′s t test. A " P" value < 0.05 was considered significant. Results: Out of 56 patients who underwent topical negative pressure dressings, six (10.71%) were failures, due to failure in maintaining topical negative pressure due to defective sealing technique; these were included into the study group. After 10 days, the mean rate of granulation tissue formation was 71.43% of ulcer surface area. All these 56 cases underwent split-thickness skin grafting. The mean graft take-up was 79.29%. The mean hospital stay was 32.64 days. In the remaining 56 patients, the mean rate of granulation tissue formation was 52.85% of ulcer surface area. The mean graft take-up was only 60.45% of the total ulcer surface area. The mean hospital stay was 60.45 days. Conclusion: To conclude, topical negative pressure dressings help in faster healing of chronic wounds and better graft take-up and reduce hospital stay of these patients.
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Shi, Andong, and Petra Marschner. "The number of moist days determines respiration in drying and rewetting cycles." Biology and Fertility of Soils 51, no. 1 (August 8, 2014): 33–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00374-014-0947-2.
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Terkla, L. G., A. C. Brown, A. P. Hainisch, and J. C. Mitchem. "Testing Sealing Properties of Restorative Materials Against Moist Dentin." Journal of Dental Research 66, no. 12 (December 1987): 1758–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00220345870660121201.
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The objectives of this investigation were (1) to develop a sensitive laboratory system that simulates the physiological and clinical conditions of a prepared human tooth in order to facilitate the determination of the bonding and sealing efficacies of restorative dental materials and (2) to conduct experiments with two dentin bonding agents, two posterior composite resin restorative materials (hybrid and micro filled), and a glass-ionomer type II filling material. The system functioned well and provided data to indicate that, after margination, the two posterior composite resin restorative materials performed equally and both performed better than the glass-ionomer filling material; none of the materials provided a perfect seal immediately after insertion, although some restorations demonstrated perfect seals from 16 hours to 28 days after placement; the seal of the glass-ionomer material improved after 28 days of storage in buffer solution; each successive step in the respective composite resin procedures improved the seal except in one case for the micro filled resin.
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Moriya, Giovana Abrahão de Araújo, and Kazuko Uchikawa Graziano. "Sterility Maintenance Assessment of Moist/Wet Material After Steam Sterilization and 30-day Storage." Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem 18, no. 4 (August 2010): 786–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0104-11692010000400018.
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Moist/wet materials stored after autoclaving are considered contaminated and not recommended for use. This study evaluates the maintenance of sterility in moist/wet material after being submitted to steam sterilization and stored for a period of 30 days. Aiming to support decision-making in emergency situations, 40 surgical boxes packed in nonwoven cloth covering Spunbound, Metblouwn, Spunbound (SMS): half (the experimental group) were placed in an autoclave but the drying phase was interrupted, yielding moist/wet materials and the other half (the negative control group) underwent the complete cycle. The external parts of each surgical box were deliberately contaminated with Serratia marcescens and subsequently stored for 30 days. After this period, the boxes' contents were submitted to sterility tests and no growth was observed. The presence of moisture inside the surgical boxes did not interfere with maintaining their sterility.
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Wahyuni, Lutfi. "EFFECT MOIST WOUND HEALING TECHNIQUE TOWARD DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS WITH ULKUS DIABETIKUM IN DHOHO ROOM RSUD PROF Dr. SOEKANDAR MOJOSARI." Jurnal Keperawatan 6, no. 1 (May 30, 2017): 63–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.47560/kep.v6i1.161.
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Wound healing of ulkus diabetikum depends on wound treatment given; an appropriate wound treatment technique is able to help the healing process quickly and prevent amputation effectively. It needs wound treatment that is able to prevent advanced complication and increase wound healing process such as moist wound healing. This study aimed to aplicated technique with moist wound healing toward diabetes mellitus patients with ulcer diabetic in dhoho room RSUD Prof Dr. Soekandar Mojosari. Deskriptive explorative research design was used in this study. The number of sample were 20 respondents who were the whole ulcer diabetic patients on January – March 2016. The date were collected from the 1st and 7th wound treatment days of embroider medic and used observation sheets. The findings revealed that 20 respondents were on wound healing degree with regeneration wound; it means that the whole respondents cared by moist wound healing within 7 days got regeneration wound or net amelioration. Moist wound healing technique is able to keep moist of wound itself, so that it can facilitate cell and wound movement as well as expedite the granulation process about 50%. Therefore, after doing wound healing during 7 days, the significant change was on wound granulation development. Besides, it can minimize cell damage while the alteration bandage in order to prevent the new trauma and wound spread.
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Lima, Maria Andrea, and James W. Wilson. "Convective Storm Initiation in a Moist Tropical Environment." Monthly Weather Review 136, no. 6 (June 1, 2008): 1847–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2007mwr2279.1.
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Abstract Radar and satellite data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission–Large-Scale Biosphere–Atmosphere (TRMM–LBA) project have been examined to determine causes for convective storm initiation in the southwest Amazon region. The locations and times of storm initiation were based on the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) S-band dual-polarization Doppler radar (S-Pol). Both the radar and the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-8 (GOES-8) visible data were used to identify cold pools produced by convective precipitation. These data along with high-resolution topographic data were used to determine possible convective storm triggering mechanisms. The terrain elevation varied from 100 to 600 m. Tropical forests cover the area with numerous clear-cut areas used for cattle grazing and farming. This paper presents the results from 5 February 1999. A total of 315 storms were initiated within 130 km of the S-Pol radar. This day was classified as a weak monsoon regime where convection developed in response to the diurnal cycle of solar heating. Scattered shallow cumulus during the morning developed into deep convection by early afternoon. Storm initiation began about 1100 LST and peaked around 1500–1600 LST. The causes of storm initiation were classified into four categories. The most common initiation mechanism was caused by forced lifting by a gust front (GF; 36%). Forcing by terrain (>300 m) without any other triggering mechanism accounted for 21% of the initiations and colliding GFs accounted for 16%. For the remaining 27% a triggering mechanism was not identified. Examination of all days during TRMM–LBA showed that this one detailed study day was representative of many days. A conceptual model of storm initiation and evolution is presented. The results of this study should have implications for other locations when synoptic-scale forcing mechanisms are at a minimum. These results should also have implications for very short-period forecasting techniques in any location where terrain, GFs, and colliding boundaries influence storm evolution.
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Egley, Grant H. "High-Temperature Effects on Germination and Survival of Weed Seeds in Soil." Weed Science 38, no. 4-5 (September 1990): 429–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0043174500056794.
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Seeds of eight weed species were heated for up to 7 days at 40, 50, 60, and 70 C in dry (2% moisture) and moist (19% moisture) Bosket very fine sandy loam to determine temperature-time treatments lethal to weed seeds. Seeds in dry soil were very tolerant to 60 C or less for up to 7 days but most seeds were killed at 70 C after 7 days. In moist soil, a few (1 to 12%) seeds of common purslane, redroot pigweed, johnsongrass, and spurred anoda survived for up to 3 days at 70 C. Some (4 to 30%) seeds of velvetleaf, pitted morningglory, and the above species survived up to 7 days at 60 C. No seeds of prickly sida and common cocklebur survived more than one-half day at 60 C. Three days at 50 C were lethal to all cocklebur seeds. Many of the sublethal treatments promoted germination of prickly sida, velvetleaf, spurred anoda, and pitted morningglory, presumably because high temperature broke dormancy of some hard seeds. The enhanced effect of heat treatments upon seeds in moist soil compared to seeds in dry soil was due to the higher moisture content of seeds, or in fruit tissues of dispersal units in moist soil. Because some seeds survived several days in moist soil at 60 and 70 C, it is unlikely that soil solarization or other natural methods of raising soil temperature will eliminate weed seeds from the field. However, high soil temperatures may reduce weed seed populations by killing heat-susceptible seeds and by breaking dormancy of hard seeds followed by thermal kill of seedlings.
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Davis, Christopher A. "The Formation of Moist Vortices and Tropical Cyclones in Idealized Simulations." Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences 72, no. 9 (September 1, 2015): 3499–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jas-d-15-0027.1.
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Abstract The upscale aggregation of convection is used to understand the emergence of rotating, coherent midtropospheric structures and the subsequent process of tropical cyclone formation. The Cloud Model, version 1 (CM1), is integrated on an f plane with uniform sea surface temperature (SST) and prescribed uniform background flow. Deep convection is maintained by surface fluxes from an ocean with uniform surface temperature. Convection begins to organize simultaneously into moist and dry midtropospheric patches after 10 days. After 20 days, the patches begin to rotate on relatively small scales. Moist cyclonic vortices merge, eventually forming a single dominant vortex that subsequently forms a tropical cyclone on a realistic time scale of about 5 days. Radiation that interacts with clouds and water vapor aids in forming coherent rotating structures. Using the path to genesis provided by the aggregated solution, the relationship between thermodynamic changes within the vortex and changes in the character of convection prior to genesis is explored. Consistent with previous studies, the approach to saturation within the midtropospheric vortex accelerates the genesis process. A novel result is that, prior to genesis, downdrafts become widespread and somewhat stronger. The increased downdraft mass flux leads to stronger and larger surface cold pools. Shear–cold pool dynamics promote the organization of lower-tropospheric updrafts that spin up the surface vortex. It is inferred that the observed inconsistency between convective intensity and thermodynamic stabilization prior to genesis results from sampling limitations of the observations wherein the important cold pool gradients are unresolved.
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., Abhijit J. Pawar. "COMPARISON OF 28 DAYS CONCRETE COMPRESSIVE STRENGTHS BY ACCELERATED CURING AND NORMAL MOIST CURING." International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology 04, no. 25 (December 25, 2015): 219–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0425031.
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Bessong, Moïse. "Paléoenvironnements et diagénèse dans un réservoir gréseux d'âge crétacé du Fossé de la Bénoué au Nord Cameroun : les grès de Garoua." Poitiers, 2012. http://theses.univ-poitiers.fr/16862/2012-Bessong-Moise-These.pdf.
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Le fossé de la Bénoué qui débute au niveau du golfe de Guinée se divise en deux branches dans sa partie septentrionale: la branche de Gongola qui va jusqu’au Niger et la branche de Yola-Garoua qui se prolonge en territoire camerounais et dans laquelle de part et d’autre du fleuve Bénoué se trouvent les buttes de grès dits « grès de Garoua ». En dépit de son importance en termes de réservoir, les travaux antérieurs, très peu nombreux dans la partie camerounaise, n’ont pas souligné les paléoenvironnements, la lithologie, la minéralogie, les événements diagénétiques et les déformations ayant affecté ces grès. Des études faciologiques, pétrographiques, minéralogiques et géochimiques y ont été conduites afin de reconstituer les paléoenvironnements de dépôts à partir des informations tirées de la succession lithologique, de caractériser les différentes sources d’apports, d’évaluer l’intensité les processus d’altération chimique ayant affecté ces grès depuis la sédimentation et enfin de dresser un répertoire des événements et mécanismes des processus majeurs de la diagenèse. Sur le plan faciologique, il s’agit des quartz-wacke pour la plupart associés à une faible proportion d’arkosique wacke et de mudstone, issus de blocs continentaux matures et immatures et de formations orogéniques recyclées. Ces faciès consolidés sont à stratifications entrecroisées et/ou obliques avec une alternance de niveaux grossiers et fins souvent intercalés par des lits de conglomérats plus épais dans les chenaux. Les niveaux argileux laminés de faible épaisseur se retrouvent sous forme de lentilles et de galets mous ou simplement en lits fins intercalés dans les grès grossiers. Les éléments figurés sont pour la plupart constitués de quartz, de feldspath de micas, de minéraux lourds (zircon, rutile …) et des fragments de roche du socle (granite) dans les conglomérats. Les phénocristaux sont pour la plupart sub-émoussés tandis que les cristaux plus petits sont sub anguleux à anguleux. Les quartz et les feldspaths potassiques (microcline avec des reliques de macles polysynthétiques encore conservées dans certains cas) sont ubiquistes dans la plupart des secteurs étudiés. On note l’absence de feldspaths dans les secteurs de Tinguelin, Douli et Mourbeli. La série est traversée par des roches volcaniques et des intrusions plutoniques et repose de façon discordante sur le socle granitique visible à « Hosséré » Tinguelin dans la partie Nord du bassin. Les lithofaciès décrits ici traduisent l’évolution des paléoenvironnements de type fluviatile sous influence tidale. Les évènements diagénétiques recensés en pétrographie intègrent la compaction (contacts entre les grains de quartz), la cimentation (carbonate, silice et hématite), la dissolution des feldspaths, la transformation et la néoformation de certains minéraux argileux (kaolins et illites) et la micro-fracturation. La présence d’oxydes de fer dans les micro- fractures et autour des éléments figurés ainsi que les surcroissances de quartz attestent la circulation des paléofluides dans les sédiments au cours de la diagenèse. L’analyse des éléments majeurs, mineurs et traces montrent que les grès de Garoua ont été alimentés par des produits d’érosion d’un socle granito-gneissique appartenant à une marge passive donc la composition est celle des roches acides ou felsiques et qui ont donné des wackes, des arkoses, des litharénites et de grès ferrugineux parcourus par des fluides chauds au cours de la diagenèse. La porosité primaire est réduite par la calcite, la silice et les minéraux argileux par dissolution des feldspaths. Cette dissolution, ainsi que la corrosion des quartz et la fracturation sont responsables de la mise en place de la porosité secondaire. La présence de la smectite dans les secteurs à activité volcanique a un lien possible avec ce volcanisme. L’illitisation des kaolinites bien que discrète, la dissolution des feldspaths partielle ou totale, les contacts entre les grains de quartz (plans, concavo-convexes plus ou moins stylolithiques) ainsi que la présence de la dickite sont révélateurs d’une diagenèse d’enfouissement. Ceci montre que les grès de Garoua ont atteint probablement un stade avancé de la diagenèse avant de connaître à nouveau une diagenèse d’exhumation avec des phénomènes d’oxydation et de kaolinisation généralisés. Ces observations confortent l’hypothèse d’un taux d’enfouissement relativement important pour un gradient géothermique moyen avec des températures avoisinant les 100° CThe Benue Basin is the northern bifurcated extremity of the Golf of Guinea. The Gongola arm extends into Niger, while the Yola arm prolongs into the Cameroonian Territory aligned with present existing sedimentary buttes (Garoua sandstones) protruding on either side of the Benue River. Little work has previously as been carried out with regards to its reservoir importance. Meanwhile, neither lithological, diagenetic nor deformation of these sandstones been studied. Faciological study, petrography, mineralogy and geochemistry have led on one hand in order to rebuild paleoenvironments of deposits based on information derived from the lithological succession, to characterize the different terrigenous sources with the aim to evaluate the intensity of chemical weathering processes that have affected these sandstones since their sedimentation, and finally, on the other hand to develop an inventory of events and major diagenetic processes. These include well consolidated, planar cross-stratified wacke, arkosic wacke and mudstone coming from mature and immature continental blocks and recycled orogenic formations. These facies are consolidated to cross-bedding and / or oblique with alternating coarse and fine levels often interspersed by thicker beds of conglomerates in channels. Thin argillaceous beds are found interbedded with coarsed-grained sandstones. The most frequent sediment clasts constitute quartz, feldspars and basement fragments within conglomerates. The phenocrysts are quite often sub-rounded, while smaller clasts are often angular to subangular (heteroclastic). Quartz and potassic feldspars (microcline with polysynthetic twins is still visible in some cases) are widespread in some sedimentary butte vestiges, while feldspars in other cases exist as traces. The series is cross-cut by volcanic rocks and magmatic intrusions. These sandstones are deposited unconformably on a granitic basement that is visible at ‘Hossere’ Tinguelin found in the northern part of the basin. The lithofacies described here depict fluviatile-type of palaeoenvironments. The diagenetic events diagnosed from petrographic studies incorporate compaction, cementation (authigenic carbonate and silica), dissolution of feldspars, transformation and neoformation of some clay minerals (Kaolin and Illite) and fracturing. The presence of iron oxy-hydroxides within some facies and along microfractures, quartz overgrowth and hematite attests the circulation of palaeofluids within the sediments during diagenesis. Analysis of major, minor and trace elements show that Garoua sandstones were fueled by acidic or felsic rocks products coming vi from granite and gneissic basement belonging to a passive margin and have given wackes, arkoses, litharénites and ferruginous sandstone passed through by hot fluids during diagenesis The occurrence of interstitial calcite, silica and hematite has greatly contributed in the reduction of primary porosity. The dissolution of feldspars, corrosion of quartz and fractures has enhanced secondary porosity and neo-formation of kaolinite. The occurrence of smectite within the volcanic areas shows a possible link with volcanism. Neoformation of illites from kaolinites and the appearance of dickite reveal a higher diagenetic intensity. More of quartz with planar, convexo-concave to more or less stylolithic grain contacts compared to the absence of feldspars that have totally been dissolved or transformed in some formations shows that the Garoua Sandstones have attained a higher stage of diagenesis prior to a new diagenetic phase of exhumation with the phenomenon of oxidation and generalized kaolintisation. These observations support the hypothesis of a considerable burial depth with an average geothermal gradient at temperatures close to 1000C
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DORAK, BOUATHONG. "Pathologies infectieuses admises dans les services d'urgence : etude sur 2 mois." Nantes, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990NANT133M.
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Féron, Julie. "Habilités numériques du bébé de 5 mois dans la modalité haptique." Paris 5, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA05H014.
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De nombreuses expériences suggerant que le bébé possède une certaine sensibilité numérique ont conduit les chercheurs a un débat concernant la nature de cette capacité : les compétences numériques établies chez le bébé relèvent-elles d'une sensibilité aux caractéristiques perceptives des objets ou d'une représentation plus générale, abstraite de la numerosité? A l'heure actuelle, deux types de modèles sont débattus. Un premier modèle propose que les nombres sont représentés sous forme de grandeurs analogiques, lesquelles sont sujettes à la loi de Weber. D'après le second modèle, le bébé représente chaque entité d'un ensembler donné par un symbole distinct (un fichier). Selon cette perspectiv, le nombre d'entités simultanément maintenues en mémoire ne peut exceder 3 ou 4. Cette thèse a pour objectif de spécifier la nature et le format des représentations numériques du bébé dans la modalité haptique. La méthode du transfert intermodal toucher-vision est utilisée pour tester la capacité des bébés de 5 mois a reconnaître des équivalences numériques independamment de la modalité sensorielle mobilisée. Les expériences 1, 2 et 3 révèlent quant à elle que le bébé est capable de détecter de telles correspondances entre des ensembles haptiques et visuel composés de 2 ou 3 objets. Ces résultats sont cruciaux dans le sens où ils indiquent que le bébé possède une représentation abstraite, amodale de la numérosité. Les expériences 4 et 5 révèlent quant à elles que la réussite des bébés dans ces tâches de transfert intermodal n'est pas déterminée par la loi de Weber mais par la taille des ensembles à comparer. Ainsi, les capacités de transfert intermodal de petites numérosités reposent sur des représentations type fichiers d'objets plutôt que sur des représentations analogiques. Enfin une expérience complémentaire indique que la limite de discrimination précise d'entités se situe à 3 objetsMany experiments have suggested that infants show preverbal numerical capacities. These data have led researchers to a debate abouth whether this ability results from sensitivity to perceptual features or from a more general abstract representation of numerosity. Two classes of models are debated today. One proposal is that infants represent numbers as analog magnitudes, which accords to Weber's law. An alternative is that infants represent each individual in a set by a distinct symbol (a file). According to this view, the number of entities that could be represented in parallel is about 3 or 4. The present research focuses directly on the nature and format of numerical representations by investigating infants' numerical abilities in the haptic mode. Intermodal transfer from touch to vision paradigm is used to test infants' ability to recognize numerical equivalence across sensory modalities. Expeiments 1, 2 and 3 show that 5-month-old infants can detect numerical correspondences between a sequence of haptic stimulation and a visible scene, providing evidence of amodal representation of numerosities. Experiment 4 and 5 reveal that infants's success in intermodal transfer tasks is not determined by Weber's law but by the size of the sets to be compared, providing direct evidence that infants do not rely on analog-magnitude representations but rather on object-files representations. Finally, a complementary experiment indicates that the absolute limit of precise discrimination is 3
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RISS, SEVERY ISABELLE. "Les abces du cerveau dans les trois premiers mois de la vie." Aix-Marseille 2, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988AIX20339.
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MARI, VERONIQUE. "La thrombolyse dans l'infarctus du myocarde : 24 mois d'experience au c.h.g. d'ajaccio." Aix-Marseille 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994AIX20103.
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Harvey, Élizabeth. "Étude des contributions des verbalisations maternelles à 5 mois sur le développement du vocabulaire à 18 mois dans un contexte de naissances gémellaires." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/43475.
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Ce mémoire examine le lien entre les verbalisations qu’une mère adresse à son nourrisson de 5 mois et le développement du langage à 18 mois en contexte de naissances gémellaires. Les verbalisations des mères (N = 63) au cours d’une interaction de 5 minutes avec chacun de ses deux nourrissons ont été codifiées quant à la quantité et quant aux types de verbalisations, soit référentielles, métalinguistiques ou sociales-régulatives. Le vocabulaire des enfants a été évalué à18 mois à l’aide d’une adaptation du MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory(MCDI). Contrairement aux attentes, les résultats indiquent que plus la mère parle à son enfant, moins le score du vocabulaire à 18 mois est élevé. Par contre, lorsque le nombre de verbalisations maternelles est considéré en interaction avec le temps en attention conjointe, on note une contribution positive des verbalisations de la mère. De plus, les verbalisations maternelles de type sociales-régulatives et référentielles sont corrélées négativement avec le vocabulaire à 18 mois. Il n’y a pas de différence significative quant à la quantité et à la qualité des verbalisations maternelles liée au genre des enfants.
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Jullian, Martine. "Formalisme et réalisme dans la sculpture romane en France : les occupations des mois." Paris 10, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA100196.
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Le corpus des calendriers sculptes romans en France qui fait l'objet de la thèse est constituée de 33 cycles, répartis dans 32 monuments. Chaque calendrier fait l'objet d'une notice ou sont exposes les principaux problèmes propres à chacun, et où chaque scène est décrite minutieusement et identifiée (volume II). L'étude de ce corpus (volume I) s'articule en quatre points et a conduit aux conclusions suivantes. La situation tant dans l'espace que dans le temps des calendriers est très groupée : la majeure partie est implantée dans un croissant allant des landes au bourgogne et a été sculptée entre 1140-1160. Dans le monument, la situation privilégiée des calendriers (façade ouest, porte principale, voussure extérieure), qui a permis de dégager une "formule type architecturale", n'est pas sans incidence sur le rôle du thème dans l'église comme facteur d'ordre à la fois spatial et temporel. Sur le plan iconographique, le double phénomène de fixité et de variation a également permis de mettre en évidence une "formule type iconographique", et de faire la part entre les thèmes obliges et les variantes régionales ou individuelles. Enfin, est abordée la question de la valeur documentaire des calendriers sculptes, des œuvres d'art qui n'ont pas été conçues pour rendre témoignage d'une réalité disparue, et dont la dimension esthétique doit absolument être prise en compte par l'historien. L'analyse des formes et des thèmes renvoie à une observation de la réalité à la fois très fine et très sélective. Cette finesse et cette sélectivité du sculpteur confèrent à l'image non seulement une valeur documentaire indéniable sur la civilisation matérielle du XIIe siècle, mais aussi une dimension spirituelle. Détail réaliste et stylisation parfois extrême, combines, servent de révélateur a l'expression d'un idéal : idéal fondamentalement optimiste du bien-être, d'un ordre social et religieux reposant sur un ordre économique et politiqueThe corpus of sculpted Romanesque calendar in France which forms the object of the thesis constitutes 33 cycles, spread over 32 monuments. Each calendar receives an individual notice in which are exposed the principal problems of each, and where every scene is meticulously described and identified (volume II). The study of this corpus revolts around four points (volume I). The situation of the calendar in terms of space as much as time is grouped: the majority is implanted in a crescent spreading from lands region to burgundy and was carved between 1140-1160. In the building, the privileged position of the calendars (west facade, door way, exterior archcurves), which has helped to define a "modal architectural formula" has not been without impact on the role of theme in the church as a factor of order both spatial and in time. From the iconographical point of view, the double phenomenon of steadiness and variation has also helped to reveal a "modal iconographical formula", and mark a difference between obligatory themes and regional or individual variants. Last of all, the question is aborded as to the documentary value of sculpted calendars, works of art which were not conceived in order to capture a reality hitherto disappeared and whose aesthetic aspect must certainly be taken into consideration by the historian. The analysis of forms and themes leads to an observation of reality at the same time very fine and selective. This delicacy and selectivity within the sculptor art gives not only an undeniable documentary value to the image of material twelfth century civilization, but also a spiritual dimension. Realistic detail and at times extreme stylization, when combined at as a revealer to the expression of an ideal: fundamentally optimistic ideal of well-being
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Barthélémy, Lise. "Apport de l'examen sensorimoteur dans le dépistage précoce (9 mois) du syndrome autistique." Montpellier 1, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000MON11114.
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Barriere, Jean Louis. "Pathologie iatrogène d'origine médicamenteuse : enquête prospective (18 mois) dans un service de médecine interne." Montpellier 1, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990MON11271.
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Chang, Hsin-Pei Nicol. "The effect of fabric on the behaviour of gold tailings." Thesis, Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-04072009-184620.
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J'accouche dans un mois. Paris: Marabout, 2004.
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Weil, Ann. The world's most amazing dams. Chicago, Ill: Raintree, 2012.
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The world's most amazing dams. London: Raintree, 2012.
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Nordenskjöld, Otto. Vingt-deux mois dans les glaces. Paris: Paulsen, 2013.
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Hantman, Clea. Holidazed!: Crazy-cool ways to rock, roll, and celebrate all the most fabulous days of the year. New York: HarperTrophy, 2003.
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John, Devaney, ed. Correct the 10 most common golf problems in 10 days. New York, NY: Putnam Pub. Group, 1991.
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Guinness times: My days in the world's most famous brewery. Dublin: Town House, 1999.
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1952-, Mosley Steven R., ed. Things that matter most. Boise, Idaho: Pacific Press, 1997.
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Paul, Whicheloe, ed. Katie Brown's weekends: Making the most of your two treasured days. New York: Bulfinch Press, 2005.
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Lang, J. Stephen. Know the most fascinating people of the Bible in 30 days. New York: Guideposts, 2011.
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Bergen, Kaija. "Most Days I’m Beautiful." In Global Beauty, Local Bodies, 83–88. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137365347_5.
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Alsop, Auldeen, and Susan Ryan. "The first few days." In Making the Most of Fieldwork Education, 101–15. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3148-1_10.
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Lee, John B. "Chapter 5: I Can’t Believe It Myself Most Days …" In Suffering and the Intelligence of Love in the Teaching Life, 59–65. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05958-3_8.
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Heschl, Adolf, and Herbert Loserl. "The survival of the most intelligent." In Das intelligente Genom, 295–314. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58883-9_19.
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Scudder, Thayer. "My Increasing Disillusionment with the Planning, Implementation, Monitoring, and Evaluation of Large Dams, Especially as Illustrated by The World Bank—The Largest and Most Influential Financier of Large Dams." In Large Dams, 217–47. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2550-2_4.
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Iwata, Satoru, Mizuyo Takamatsu, and Caren Tischendorf. "Hybrid Analysis of Nonlinear Time-Varying Circuits Providing DAEs with Index at Most One." In Scientific Computing in Electrical Engineering SCEE 2008, 151–58. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12294-1_20.
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Pfahler, V., J. Adu-Gyamfi, D. O’Connell, and F. Tamburini. "Extraction Protocol." In Oxygen Isotopes of Inorganic Phosphate in Environmental Samples, 17–31. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97497-8_2.
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AbstractStudies showed that the δ18OP is a useful tool to study P in the environment. Adequate extraction protocols for the targeted P pools of the study are a prerequisite for a successful study. Likewise, for most environmental samples, including water, soil, sediment and plant samples, it is crucial that the samples are processed as soon as possible after they have been taken to avoid any alterations of the original δ18OP signature. This is especially true when more bioavailable P pools, like soluble reactive P (SRP) in water samples, are extracted and analysed. Brucite precipitation of water samples should be directly done in the field, fresh soil and sediment samples have to be extracted within 7 days (if microbial P is targeted, on the day of sampling), and plant samples have to be extracted within a few hours of sampling or be frozen. The chapter briefly describes the P cycle in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems and give an overview about extracting the most common P pools for δ18OP analysis: soluble reactive P in water samples, sequentially extracted P pools of soil, sediment, fertilizer and plant samples.
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Balmert, Paul D. "A Guide to the Guide: Getting the Most Out of this Book." In Alive and Well at the End of the Day, 1–6. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470593882.ch1.
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Bingoel, A. S., S. Strauss, and P. M. Vogt. "Clinical Application of wIRA Irradiation in Burn Wounds." In Water-filtered Infrared A (wIRA) Irradiation, 189–94. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92880-3_15.
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AbstractBesides operative procedures (e.g., necrosectomies, skin grafting), conservative treatments of thermal injuries are increasingly important. wIRA as an additional therapy for burns, scalds, and chemically induced injuries and for treating severe skin reactions (e.g., toxic epidermal necrolysis) is used in our clinic on a daily basis. The most successful therapy involves 3–4 irradiations/30 min/day. Therefore, patients with superficial partial-thickness burns are treated with topical polyhexanide ointment and wIRA 2–4 days after the accident. In these cases, we see a quick wound-drying and a rapid re-epithelialization of the skin. The approach in deep partial-thickness burns depends on whether surgical procedures must be postponed due to poor general conditions. In these patients, preservation of the wound perfusion in regions that are not fully damaged is intended, avoiding extensive necrosectomies.Although third-degree burns are dry and do not require wIRA irradiation, it can be used for adjacent regions with minor degree burns. Preliminary in vitro data suggest a wIRA-induced migration of adipose-derived stem cells.Postoperatively, wIRA is used on areas transplanted with split-thickness skin grafts. After removal of the tie-over bolsters, wIRA is applied 3–4 times/20–30 min/day. The grafts exhibit a faster epithelialization of the fenestrated spots, and postoperative infections seem to be less frequent.
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Worster, Donald. "Paths Across the Levee." In Wealth of Nature. Oxford University Press, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195092646.003.0005.
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In 1821 a man came exploring across the prairies and plains of the North American continent. His name was Jacob Fowler, and with his companions he would be the first Euro-American to ascend the whole length of the Arkansas River from what is now Fort Smith, Arkansas, to the Rocky Mountains. After eight days of poling against the current, “we stoped,” he writes in his untutored spelling, “at the mouth of a bold sreem of Watter” emptying into the Arkansas, a tributary about seventy feet wide. They followed that stream north through the sand hills that cover part of present-day Reno and Rice counties in the state of Kansas. Only a few cottonwood trees grew along its banks, affording scant shelter from the big sky, but the bluestem grass was so high one could not see the river ahead as it meandered across the prairie. Beyond the rich moist bottomlands the vegetation became buffalo grass, and the bison grazed there in black, drifting multitudes; the local Indians called the stream after the female bison, a name that became “Cow Creek” in the white man’s tongue. There were pronghorn antelopes in those days, so light and agile, counterpointing the shaggy herds. Fowler and his crew might also have seen deer, elk, coyotes, and dense flocks of ducks and geese. Then, their curiosity satisfied and their senses pleased, they pushed on west. Fowler had no idea that almost three centuries earlier another European, Don Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, had come here from the opposite direction, crossing this very same Cow Creek on his quest for the fabled city of Quivira. Coronado found in the vicinity only the Wichita Indians living in domed huts thatched with grass, but he did remark that . . . the country itself is the best I have ever seen for producing all the products of Spain, for besides the land itself being very fat and black, and being very well watered by the rivulets and springs and rivers, I found prunes like those of Spain and nuts and very good sweet grapes and mulberries. . . .
Conference papers on the topic "Moist days"
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Kazi Aoual-Benslafa, Fatiha, Djemal Kerdal, Belkacem Mekerta, and Abdelaziz Semcha. "Dredged Sediments as Materials in Tunnel Construction." In ASME 2013 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2013-62392.
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The actual shortage of land aggregates and environmental concerns raised by dumping at sea of dredged sediments (DS), more than ever, DS could constitute a new source of building materials. This experimental study investigates the potential of using DS from harbour of Oran in tunnel construction; the first objective is to determine their chemical, physical and mineralogical characteristics. The concept of enhancing building material characteristics based on the component characteristics of DS is considered. Thus, the treatment by the leaching and the natural decantation is used to decrease their salt and water content. Finally, the influence of various percentages of DS (from 20%, to up to 35% of sand mass by DS) in the mechanical behaviour of mortars was analyzed. Compressive strengths of a first set of mortar specimens were determined after 7, 28, 60 and 90 days of moist curing. The second set of mortar specimens, that were submitted to chemical attacks and elevated temperatures, had their residual compressive strengths determined at 118 days and 150 days. So far, laboratory results show that partial replacement of 20% or 25% of sand by DS in mortars give good results.
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Abd El Razek, M., MM Maher, M. Amin, and H. Shabana. "Lymphocytic Colitis is the Most Common Cause of Non- Irritable Bowel Syndrome Chronic Diarrhea." In ESGE Days 2021. Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1724769.
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Moga, T., I. Ratiu, C. Foncea, A. Barbulescu, R. Lupusoru, B. Miutescu, R. Cotrau, et al. "What are the Most Frequent Complications of a Peg Procedure in Daily Practice? a Retrospective Analysis in a Tertiary Center." In ESGE Days 2021. Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1724777.
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Khoshiwal, A. M., N. F. Frei, L. C. Duits, R. E. Pouw, E. Bossart, M. Wilhelm, R. Critchley-Thorne, and J. J. Bergman. "AN OBJECTIVE, FULLY AUTOMATED BARRETT’S RISK PREDICTION ASSAY OUTPERFORMS MOST PATHOLOGISTS IN RISK STRATIFYING BARRETT’S ESOPHAGUS WITH LOW GRADE DYSPLASIA." In ESGE Days 2022. Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1744642.
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Lukanc, Barbara, and Vladimira Erjavec. "Treating Burns in Cats and Dogs Using Medical Honey." In Socratic Lectures 7. University of Lubljana Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.55295/psl.2022.d11.
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Common causes of burns in small animals are household accidents or iatrogenic burns in veterinary clinics (electric heating pads…). Burns are usually treated as open wounds, where honey can be used as a dressing, that creates a moist healing environment, promotes tissue debridement, eliminates infections, has a deodorizing effect, and reduces inflammation, edema, and exudation. Honey also stimulates angiogenesis, promotes granulation tissue and epithelialization, and reduces scarring. It is important to minimise the potential contamination of burns. The high viscosity of honey acts as a physical barrier against external contaminants and the effectiveness of the barrier is enhanced by the antibacterial properties of honey. In general, antibiotics are not necessary but they are indicated in septic animals. In early stages of burn healing excessive exudate occurs, requiring dressings to be changed up to twice daily. In later stages, they are usually changed every 2-3 days. For uneventful healing, the primary layer should not adhere to the wound, which is not achieved by the application of honey. Therefore, after the application of honey we covered wounds with low-adherent absorbent dressing. We describe the treatment of a chemical burn from an iodine dressing in a cat, a thermal burn from spilled boiling soup in a cat, and a thermal burn from a heating pad in a dog with medical honey. All wounds were treated as open wounds and healed completely by second intention healing. Keywords: Burns; Cats; Dogs; Medical honey dressing
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Albrecht, H., M. Raithel, A. Stegmaier, A. Hagel, and C. Schäfer. "ENDOSCOPIC FULL-THICKNESS RESECTION (EFTR) IN THE LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT – WHICH PATIENTS BENEFIT THE MOST?" In ESGE Days 2018 accepted abstracts. Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1637335.
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Michalczyk, Wawrzyniec. "The Dependence Between the Return Rate Volatility and the Trading Volume of the Most Important Cryptocurrencies – a Correlation Analysis." In International Days of Statistics and Economics 2019. Libuše Macáková, MELANDRIUM, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.18267/pr.2019.los.186.108.
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ŽIBIENĖ, Gražina, Alvydas ŽIBAS, and Goda BLAŽAITYTĖ. "ASSESSMENT OF HYDROLOGICAL CHANGES IN THE ŠUŠVĖ RIVER." In Rural Development 2015. Aleksandras Stulginskis University, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.15544/rd.2015.035.
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The construction of dams in rivers negatively affects ecosystems because dams violate the continuity of rivers, transform the biological and physical structure of the river channels, and the most importantly – alter the hydrological regime. The impact on the hydrology of the river can occur through reducing or increasing flows, altering seasonality of flows, changing the frequency, duration and timing of flow events, etc. In order to determine the extent of the mentioned changes, The Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) software was used in this paper. The results showed that after the construction of Angiriai dam, such changes occurred in IHA Parameters group as: the water conditions of April month decreased by 31 %; 1-day, 3-days, 7-days and 30-days maximum flow decreased; the date of minimum flow occurred 21 days later; duration of high and low pulses and the frequency of low pulses decreased, but the frequency of high pulses increased, etc. The analysis of the Environmental Flow Components showed, that the essential differences were recorded in groups of the small and large floods, when, after the establishment of the Šušvė Reservoir, the large floods no longer took place and the probability of frequency of the small floods didn’t exceed 1 time per year.
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Burns, J. W. "Measuring spectrum efficiency - the art of spectrum utilisation metrics." In IEE Two Day Conference. Getting the Most Out of the Radio Spectrum. IEE, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/ic:20020229.
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Barclay, L. "Effective spectrum utilisation and research for spectrum management purposes." In IEE Two Day Conference. Getting the Most Out of the Radio Spectrum. IEE, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/ic:20020230.
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Reuben, Cynthia, Nazik Elgaddal, and Lindsey Black. Data Brief 462: Sleep Medication Use in Adults Aged 18 and Over: United States, 2020. National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), January 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc:123013.
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This report uses 2020 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data to describe the percentage of men and women who used any medication to help fall or stay asleep most days or every day in the past 30 days, by select sociodemographic characteristics.
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Hanna, Rema, Bridget Hoffmann, Paulina Oliva, and Jake Schneider. Research Insights: What will People Pay for SMS Air Quality Alerts and Will They Avoid Air Pollution in Response? Inter-American Development Bank, October 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003731.
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Male, younger, and higher-income respondents as well as those who perceived high pollution in recent days showed greater willingness to pay for SMS air quality alerts. Willingness to pay was uncorrelated with actual recent high pollution. Recipients of SMS alerts indicated having received air pollution information via SMS, along with reporting a high-pollution day in the past week and having stayed indoors on the most recent day they perceived pollution to be high. However, alert recipients were not more accurate in identifying which specific days had high pollution than other respondents. Households that received a free N95 mask were more likely to report utilizing a mask with a filter during the past two weeks but not more likely to report using a mask with a filter on the specific days with high particulate matter.
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Ng, Amanda, Dzifa Adjaye-Gbewonyo, and Lindsey Black. Regular Bedtimes Among Children Aged 5–17 Years: United States, 2020. National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.), June 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc:117490.
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This report uses data from the 2020 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) to describe regular bedtimes, defined as going to sleep at the same time most days or every day in a typical school week, among children aged 5–17 years. Estimates are presented by sociodemographic characteristics, family type, social vulnerability index (SVI), family income, and urbanicity of residence.
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Hanna, Rema, Bridget Hoffmann, Paulina Oliva, and Jake Schneider. The Power of Perception: Limitations of Information in Reducing Air Pollution Exposure. Inter-American Development Bank, July 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003392.
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We conduct a randomized controlled trial in Mexico City to determine willingness to pay (WTP) for SMS air quality alerts and to study the effects of air quality alerts, reminders, and a reusable N95 mask on air pollution information and avoidance behavior. At baseline, we elicit WTP for the alerts service after revealing whether the household will receive an N95 mask and participant compensation, but before revealing whether they will receive alert or reminder services. While we observe no significant impact of mask provision on WTP, higher compensation increases WTP, suggesting a possible cash-on-hand constraint. The perception of high pollution days prior to the survey is positively correlated with WTP, but the presence of actual high pollution days is not correlated with WTP. Follow-up survey data demonstrate that the alerts treatment increases reporting of receiving air pollution information via SMS, a high pollution day in the past week, and staying indoors on the most recent perceived high pollution day. However, we observe no significant effect on the ability to correctly identify which specific days had high pollution. Similarly, households that received an N95 mask are more likely to report utilizing a mask with filter in the past two weeks, but we observe no effect on using a filter mask on the specific days with high particulate matter. Although we nd that air quality alerts increased the salience of air quality and avoidance behavior, these results illustrate the difficulty that information treatments face in overcoming perceptions to effectively reduce exposure to air pollution.
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VanderGheynst, Jean, Michael Raviv, Jim Stapleton, and Dror Minz. Effect of Combined Solarization and in Solum Compost Decomposition on Soil Health. United States Department of Agriculture, October 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2013.7594388.bard.
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In soil solarization, moist soil is covered with a transparent plastic film, resulting in passive solar heating which inactivates soil-borne pathogen/weed propagules. Although solarization is an effective alternative to soil fumigation and chemical pesticide application, it is not widely used due to its long duration, which coincides with the growing season of some crops, thereby causing a loss of income. The basis of this project was that solarization of amended soil would be utilized more widely if growers could adopt the practice without losing production. In this research we examined three factors expected to contribute to greater utilization of solarization: 1) investigation of techniques that increase soil temperature, thereby reducing the time required for solarization; 2) development and validation of predictive soil heating models to enable informed decisions regarding soil and solarization management that accommodate the crop production cycle, and 3) elucidation of the contributions of microbial activity and microbial community structure to soil heating during solarization. Laboratory studies and a field trial were performed to determine heat generation in soil amended with compost during solarization. Respiration was measured in amended soil samples prior to and following solarization as a function of soil depth. Additionally, phytotoxicity was estimated through measurement of germination and early growth of lettuce seedlings in greenhouse assays, and samples were subjected to 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing to characterize microbial communities. Amendment of soil with 10% (g/g) compost containing 16.9 mg CO2/g dry weight organic carbon resulted in soil temperatures that were 2oC to 4oC higher than soil alone. Approximately 85% of total organic carbon within the amended soil was exhausted during 22 days of solarization. There was no significant difference in residual respiration with soil depth down to 17.4 cm. Although freshly amended soil proved highly inhibitory to lettuce seed germination and seedling growth, phytotoxicity was not detected in solarized amended soil after 22 days of field solarization. The sequencing data obtained from field samples revealed similar microbial species richness and evenness in both solarized amended and non-amended soil. However, amendment led to enrichment of a community different from that of non-amended soil after solarization. Moreover, community structure varied by soil depth in solarized soil. Coupled with temperature data from soil during solarization, community data highlighted how thermal gradients in soil influence community structure and indicated microorganisms that may contribute to increased soil heating during solarization. Reliable predictive tools are necessary to characterize the solarization process and to minimize the opportunity cost incurred by farmers due to growing season abbreviation, however, current models do not accurately predict temperatures for soils with internal heat generation associated with the microbial breakdown of the soil amendment. To address the need for a more robust model, a first-order source term was developed to model the internal heat source during amended soil solarization. This source term was then incorporated into an existing “soil only” model and validated against data collected from amended soil field trials. The expanded model outperformed both the existing stable-soil model and a constant source term model, predicting daily peak temperatures to within 0.1°C during the critical first week of solarization. Overall the results suggest that amendment of soil with compost prior to solarization may be of value in agricultural soil disinfestations operations, however additional work is needed to determine the effects of soil type and organic matter source on efficacy. Furthermore, models can be developed to predict soil temperature during solarization, however, additional work is needed to couple heat transfer models with pathogen and weed inactivation models to better estimate solarization duration necessary for disinfestation.
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Brown, Yolanda, Twonia Goyer, and Maragaret Harvey. Heart Failure 30-Day Readmission Frequency, Rates, and HF Classification. University of Tennessee Health Science Center, December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21007/con.dnp.2020.0002.
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30 Day Hospital Readmission Rates, Frequencies, and Heart Failure Classification for Patients with Heart Failure Background Congestive heart failure (CHF) is the leading cause of mortality, morbidity, and disability worldwide among patients. Both the incidence and the prevalence of heart failure are age dependent and are relatively common in individuals 40 years of age and older. CHF is one of the leading causes of inpatient hospitalization readmission in the United States, with readmission rates remaining above the 20% goal within 30 days. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services imposes a 3% reimbursement penalty for excessive readmissions including those who are readmitted within 30 days from prior hospitalization for heart failure. Hospitals risk losing millions of dollars due to poor performance. A reduction in CHF readmission rates not only improves healthcare system expenditures, but also patients’ mortality, morbidity, and quality of life. Purpose The purpose of this DNP project is to determine the 30-day hospital readmission rates, frequencies, and heart failure classification for patients with heart failure. Specific aims include comparing computed annual re-admission rates with national average, determine the number of multiple 30-day re-admissions, provide descriptive data for demographic variables, and correlate age and heart failure classification with the number of multiple re-admissions. Methods A retrospective chart review was used to collect hospital admission and study data. The setting occurred in an urban hospital in Memphis, TN. The study was reviewed by the UTHSC Internal Review Board and deemed exempt. The electronic medical records were queried from July 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019 for heart failure ICD-10 codes beginning with the prefix 150 and a report was generated. Data was cleaned such that each patient admitted had only one heart failure ICD-10 code. The total number of heart failure admissions was computed and compared to national average. Using age ranges 40-80, the number of patients re-admitted withing 30 days was computed and descriptive and inferential statistics were computed using Microsoft Excel and R. Results A total of 3524 patients were admitted for heart failure within the six-month time frame. Of those, 297 were re-admitted within 30 days for heart failure exacerbation (8.39%). An annual estimate was computed (16.86%), well below the national average (21%). Of those re-admitted within 30 days, 50 were re-admitted on multiple occasions sequentially, ranging from 2-8 re-admissions. The median age was 60 and 60% male. Due to the skewed distribution (most re-admitted twice), nonparametric statistics were used for correlation. While graphic display of charts suggested a trend for most multiple re-admissions due to diastolic dysfunction and least number due to systolic heart failure, there was no statistically significant correlation between age and number or multiple re-admissions (Spearman rank, p = 0.6208) or number of multiple re-admissions and heart failure classification (Kruskal Wallis, p =0.2553).
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Lindow, Steven E., Shulamit Manulis, Dan Zutra, and Dan Gaash. Evaluation of Strategies and Implementation of Biological Control of Fire Blight. United States Department of Agriculture, July 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/1993.7568106.bard.
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The main objective of this study was to develop data that would facilitate a consistently effective method of biological control of fire blight disease to be developed and to enable its implementation for disease control by ensuring its compatibility with variations in the biological, environmental, and chemical conditions present in pear orchards. As considerable information on the pathogen and biological control of fire blight was already gathered from studies in California and elsewhere, an emphasis was placed on investigating the genetics and ecology of Erwinia amylovora, the causal agent of fire blight in Israel. Studies of plasmid profile, virulence on several host, serological characteristics, as well as DNA fingerprints with selected primers all revealed E. amylovora strains in Israel to be homogeneous. Strains did vary in their resistance to streptomycin, with those from more northern locations being resistant while those in the southern costal plain were all sensitive to streptomycin. Resistance appeared to be conferred by chromosomal mutations as in streptomycin-resistant strains in California. The biological control agent Pseudomonas fluorescens strain A506 colonized flowers of both the Costia and Spodona pear cultivars in Israel as well as Bartlett pear in California. Flowers that were open at the time of spray inoculation of trees subsequently harbored from 105 to 107 cells of strain A506 per flower, while those that opened subsequent to spraying developed population sizes of about 105 cells/flower within 5 days. The incidence of fire blight infections were reduced about 3-fold in several trials in which moderate amounts of disease occurred in the plot areas; this degree of biological control is similar to that observed in California and elsewhere. On two occasions warm and moist weather that favored disease led to epidemics in which nearly all flowers became infected and which was so severe that neither P. fluorescens strain A506 nor chemical bactericides reduced disease incidence. A novel method for identifying antagonistic microorganisms for biological control of fire blight and other diseases was developed. A bacterial ice nucleation gene was introduced into E. amylovora to confer an Ice+ phenotype and the population sizes of this modified pathogen on flowers that had been pre-treated with potential control agents was estimated by measuring the freezing temperature of colonized flowers. Antagonistic strains that prevented the growth of E. amylovora in flowers were readily detected as those in which flowers froze at a low temperature. The method is both rapid and unbiased and several bacterial strains with substantial biological control potential have been identified using this method.
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Sills, David. Northern Tornadoes Project. Annual Report 2021. Western Libraries, Western University for Northern Tornadoes Project, January 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5206/ntpar1003.
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The Northern Tornado Project’s third year of detecting, assessing and documenting tornadoes and other damaging wind events across Canada saw some interesting extremes – tornadoes in parts of both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts for the first time in decades, an apparent absence of tornadoes on the Prairies over the 60 days with the highest climatological frequency, a record number of significant (EF2+) tornadoes in Ontario, and massive downbursts in NE British Columbia, NW Alberta and SW Northwest Territories associated with an historic ‘heat dome’. On top of this, the COVID-19 pandemic was still spreading across the country in waves. Thankfully, it subsided enough over the summer that NTP teams were able to travel safely to various locations across the country for ground surveys. Some of the most challenging ground surveys investigated high-impact damage from the July 15th EF2 Barrie, Ontario tornado, and others significant tornadoes from that day.
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Brown, Anne, Alice Grossman, and Lucy Noble. Via2G Microtransit Pilot Evaluation. Mineta Transportation Institute, May 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31979/mti.2021.2002.
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Google partnered with Via to launch an on-demand microtransit called Via2G between January and March 2020. The pilot provided employees with free travel to/from two of its offices in suburban, congested Silicon Valley. While the pilot was cut short due to COVID-19, rider participation grew steadily during operation. Of trip requests, 8,636 (87.8%) resulted in a ride offer. Unfulfilled requests were primarily outside of pilot operating times or when rider demand exceeded driver supply. Most users (72%) completed at least two trips, although recurring users were less likely to complete errands on the commute and fewer had a car available for commuting compared to all surveyed Google employees. Prior to Via2G, two-thirds (66%) of survey respondents drove to work at least one day per week, while a plurality (42%) drove five days per week. Compared to non-participants, pilot users were more likely to take ride-hail (14 vs 22 percent) or the Google Bus (24 vs 30 percent) at least once a week prior to the pilot. Recommendations suggest iterations for Google or other centralized employers to consider in future microtransit programs.
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Metzger, Pamela R., Janet C. Hoeffel, Kristin Meeks, and Sandra Sidi. Ending Injustice: Solving the Initial Appearance Crisis. SMU Dedman School of Law, October 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.25172/dc.3.
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Most Americans expect that if they are arrested, they will quickly appear before a judge, learn about the charges, and have an attorney assigned to defend them. The reality is vastly different. After arrest, a person can wait in jail for days, weeks, or even months before seeing a judge or meeting an attorney. This report chronicles the resulting initial appearance crisis and highlights its devastating consequences. More importantly, it provides policymakers and advocates with actionable recommendations.