We plan to develop a global benchmark, which assesses and ranks a selection of listed businesses on their preparedness and resilience to the impacts of urban air pollution. The proposed benchmark will define investor expectations of companies involved in urban road transport, drive increased transpare...
Its 2010 report (Table 1) found mixed results when looking at trends in end-of-life cancer care across the country: (1) fewer days hospitalized but increased number in intensive care in the last month of; (2) Increase in hospice days but often beginning in the last three days of life;...
below (Bräuninger et al.2013; Wellmer and Dalheimer2012; Wellmer and Hagelüken2015). The real prices increased very strongly during, for example, the oil crises in the 1970s or more recently during the raw materials boom that was set off by China in 2003. These price jumps are import...
In humans, ATT for plateau pressure can be estimated to be 20%. Torquato et al. [24] showed that placing 5 kg weights on the abdomen of mechanically ventilated critically ill patients increased IAP from 10.5 to 15.6 cmH2O and plateau airway pressures from 22.4 to 23.6 cmH2O). In another ...
In humans, ATT for plateau pressure can be estimated to be 20%. Torquato et al. [24] showed that placing 5 kg weights on the abdomen of mechanically ventilated critically ill patients increased IAP from 10.5 to 15.6 cmH2O and plateau airway pressures from 22.4 to 23.6 cmH2O). In another...
Additionally, they tend to have good self-healing characteristics; when a localized weak spot in the aluminum oxide dielectric layer develops, the increased leakage current flow through the weak point in the dielectric causes a chemical reaction similar to that used during the initial formation of ...
treat because oral magnesium preparations can cause diarrhea and potentially worsen the deficit. Oral preparations should be started at the lowest dose and only gradually increased. Magnesium oxide tends to cause more gastrointestinal intolerance than other oral preparations” states the De Gruyterwebsite...
1 In cases of where this is suspected, ultrasound biomicroscopy will demonstrate an enlarging connection at the level of the remaining lens as the cells make connection with the iris in the absence of ciliary body rotation, iridociliary cysts, iris tumor, plateau iris, dislocation or subluxation...
despite all of our efforts toward increased efficiency. Thus, as time goes on, we need more and more energy growth to produce the same level of GDP growth. This is a rather unfortunate situation that world leaders don’t mention. They tend to focus instead on the fact that the growth in...
Mankind increased its GWP by a factor of 400 since 1800 with massive deforestation, and industrial agriculture, and urbanization, and air pollution, and CO2 emissions due to fossil energy. As an aside: Napoleon went into Russia to prevent Britain from getting wood from Baltic countries ...