... incidence of hepatic decompensation was 16%, the incidence per 100 person years was 3.3 and the mean interval between the time of diagnosis of cirrhosis and the onset of first episode of decompensation ... prevalence of HBsAg as well as incidence of HCC in this age group. 4. Stages of HBV Infection An individual can develop hepatitis B infection that is acute and achieve complete immune clearance of ... Zhang2 1 Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Elmhurst Hospital Center of Mount Sinai Services, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA 2 Division of Gastroenterology, Mount...
... solutions for environmental 4.1. Some concrete solutions for environmental protection of thermal power plantprotection of thermal power plantImplementation ofenvironmental monitoring and environmental ... VietnamCapacity of power plantsSource: EVN 0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%1995 2000 2005 2010Thermal power Hydropower 33. Environmental issues of Vietnam thermal . Environmental issues of ... conducted the environmental monitoring and environmental pollution controlling annually, making Environmental Impact Assessment; In year 2006, there are 11 thermal power plants making Environmental...
... These natives of the Mediterranean region and the Middle East were making honey for millions of years before human hunter-gatherers were Consequencesof the Neolithic 69The origins of food preservation ... were in place. Consequencesof the Neolithic 63and harvesters of crops, as well as caretakers of the home and caregivers to the children. 4Men, previously hunters, were now often herdsmen, ... woman’s work of gather-ing was not as prestigious as the hunting done by males, women became far less equal as their status as gatherers changed to that of planters, tenders, Consequencesof the...
... focus on environmental effectsnot quantified herein, such as the use of water [30], generation of waste water, and toxic emissions [31]. Detailed assessments of the end -of- life fate of vehicles ... tableS5 (available at stacks.iop.org/ERL/4/024008). Discussion of the environmental performance of transit modes often focuseson the ranking of vehicles assuming average occupancy. Thisapproach does ... to consider the effects of biofuels andother non-conventional energy inputs on life-cycle results.LCAs of biofuels are starting to be developed and willprovide the environmental assessments...
... estimates of burden of disease from a much broader range ofenvironmental risk factors, andin terms of the categories of diseases and health conditions affected. Theanalysis makes use of the results ... of more than 100experts worldwide. As such, this analysis represents the result of asystematic process for estimating environmental burden of disease that isT 335 ANALYSIS OF ESTIMATES OF ... burden of all cancers globally, orabout 15% of the burden of all cancers. By far the largest risk factor forlung cancer is smoking, at 66% (WHO, 2002). About 9% of the diseaseburden of lung...
... species of fish. Because ocean-going freight vessels commuteto the Port of Albany, a navigation channel is maintained by the USArmy Corp of Engineers of 10 m (32 ft. to just south of Albany ... much of the val-ley, human uses of the shoreline have effected evengreater changes, as the next set of papers demon-strates (Fig. 3.7). Most of these changes are stronglyrelated to the pull of ... make up the mem-bership of the Hudson River Environmental Soci-ety. This fine book is a collection of essays frompeople who have worked in the trenches, bringinga depth of personal experience,...
... sealed had no signs of closure. Of the three main ethnic groups, 98% of Mandinkas, 4% of Wollofs and 32% of Fulas had signs of genital cutting.The socio-demographic characteristics of cut and uncutFulas ... secondary level education (3% of Mandinkas, 6% of Fulasand 1% of Wollofs).During interviews with a đeldworker 58% (779/1346)reported being circumcised. Three of these women repor-ted being ... in the present study is theparenteral transmission of HIV at the time of the operationbecause of the use of one cutting tool for a cohort of girls(Kun 1997). This merits further research, especially...
... climatic settings of the Lester and Branstetter leases resemble that of much of the major southern mid-continent oil- and gas-producing area of the U.S. The leases are also typical of many depleted ... allowing the flow of high salinity water to the surface and shallow aquifers. Environmental impacts of petroleum production arise primarily from the improper disposal of large volumes of saline ... composition is that of a diluted produced water. Sample 02OS-311, which was collected from the creek to the east of BA-01 well has a salinity of 2,500 mg/L TDS and chemical properties of diluted produced...
... health consequences of smoking have been submitted: 1. The Health Consequencesof Smoking, A Report of the Surgeon General, 1972. 2. The Health Consequencesof Smoking, 1973. 3. The Health Consequences ... M.D., F.R.C.P. - Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, Ml. Hoffmann, Dietrich, Ph.D. - Member, and Chief, Division ofEnvironmental Carcinogenesis, ... L., M.D. - Professor of Medicine; Head, Director of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver, CO. Rall, David P., M.D. - Director, National institute of Environmental...
... Journal ofEnvironmental Biology 22(1): 59-66.Singh, G.; Bhati, M. 2005. Effect of mixed industrial effluent on soil properties and survival of treesseedlings. Journal of the Indian Society of Soil ... variations in the concentration of EC across the seasons are not significantlyhigher than that of the samples of each of the seasons. To understand the spatial variations of salinity,ANOVA have been ... the estimation of the productionfunction and the impacts of pollution on productivity of the crops cannot be estimated for the presentstudy. Therefore, the analysis of the impacts of pollution...
... determine the duration of deposition for each layer and estimate deposition rates for each site on the basis of the number and thickness of layers.In the Authie mudat, a great deal of bioturbation ... framework of the National Program of Ecotoxicology (PNETOX) under the jurisdiction of the French Ministry of Ecology and Sustainable Development, sediments as key compartments for the assessment of ... sustainability of estuarine biodiversity is vital to the ecological and economic health of coastal regions. Environmental monitoring of coastal and estuarine areas is based mainly on the measurement of...
... year end of mandatory IFRS adoption. Paralleling the measurement of our dependent variable, all variables in Eq. (3) are measured either over the post-IFRS period, or as of the end of the mandatory ... log of firm i’s trading volume (expressed in thousands of Euros), calculated over the pre-IFRS period; obtained from Datastream; LogSTD_RETPRE the log of firm i’s standard deviation of stock ... Datastream; LogFFPRE the log of firm i’s percentage of free float shares, measured at the end of the pre-IFRS period; obtained from Datastream; LogANALYSTPRE the log of firm i’s analyst following...