High costs are connected with upgrading railway embankments throughout Denmark using the partial factors for geotechnical design calibrated for general application.One way to reduce the costs is reliability-based calibration of the partial factors to a reasonable safety level taking into account the specific design situations and uncertainties rele
Technology use among Indigenous adolescents in remote regions of Australia
Twenty-four Indigenous adolescents (mean age 16.4 years) attending a boarding school in a remote region of Western Australia participated in individual structured interviews that queried current patterns of use for each of: (1) television, (2) video games, (3) computers, (4) the Internet, and (5) mobile phones.Results suggest that television, video
One-stage Pelnac Reconstruction in Full-thickness Skin Defects with Bone or Tendon Exposure
Summary:.Dermal regeneration template, such as Integra and Pelnac, was originally designed for treating large area burn injury by inducing regeneration of dermis.To date, it has been widely applied in various acute and chronic wound sites.The present study demonstrated that application of artificial dermis alone induced 1-stage wound healing for wo
Clinical-epidemiological study of caseous lymphadenitis in goats in the state of Pernambuco
Caseous lymphadenitis (CL), a contagious infectious disease caused by Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis, stands out with great economic relevance for goat breeding in the country because it is one of the main Handbags causes of carcass condemnation and intense depreciation of the leather of small ruminants.The objective was to carry out a descript
Injection and sexual risk among people who use or inject drugs in Kampala, Uganda: An exploratory qualitative study.
BackgroundCountries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have seen rapid increases in injection drug use since 2008.In Uganda, the Global Sate of Harm report and studies conducted by Makerere University Crane Surveys have estimated HIV prevalence among people who inject drugs (PWID) at approximately 17%.The objective of the research was to document injectio