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190 Can the qSofa score predict mortality in major trauma?
Abstract Background Major Trauma is the leading cause of death in patients aged between 1 and 39 years and accounts for 8% of deaths worldwide. Several prognostic tools have been developed to predict the outcome of Major Trauma patients that present acutely to hospital. Aims The aim is to assess the prognostic accuracy of the qSOFA score in both the Pre-Hospital and Emergency Department (ED) setting in predicting mortality in Major Trauma patients.
SEC Proposes Offering Reforms for Business Development Cos. And Registered Closed-End Funds | JD Supra
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Raritan River Week
A network of over 130 organizations, governmental entities and businesses in the Raritan River region that work together to balance social, economic and environmental objectives towards the common goal of restoring the Raritan River, its tributaries and its estuary for current and future generations.
Winterfest: Come and Celebrate Communities that Work for All
GC PATCH Candle Lighting Ceremony at Winterfest with President John W. Cronin and Treasurer Tim Martens Winterfest: Come and Celebrate Communities that Work for All By John W. Cronin, President of the Board of Directors Garden City Bird Sanctuary, Inc. On Saturday, January 12, 2019, the Garden City Bird Sanctuary (GCBS) cordially invites you to come out and join us in celebrating our eleventh annual Winterfest.
Isometric training and long‐term adaptations: Effects of muscle length, intensity, and intent: A systematic review
The full text of this article hosted at iucr.org is unavailable due to technical difficulties. REVIEW ARTICLE Isometric training and long‐term adaptations: Effects of muscle length, intensity, and intent: A systematic review Dustin J. Oranchuk Corresponding Author E-mail address: dustinoranchuk@gmail.com http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4489-9022 Sports Performance Research Institute New Zealand, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence Dustin J.
Forearm wearable resistance effects on sprint kinematics and kinetics
Publication HistoryPublished online: August 23, 2018Accepted: August 16, 2018; Received in revised form: July 17, 2018; Received: October 5, 2017;
Application of the Repetitions in Reserve-Based Rating of Perceived Exertion Scale for Resistance Training
A rating of perceived exertion (RPE) scale is a tool used to monitor the perceptual response to training, which has been well established as a method of determining exertion during exercise (21). The original RPE scale was developed by Gunnar Borg over 40 years ago (5) and has been primarily used to monitor aerobic exercise. The original scale rated exertion from 6–20 to roughly match heart rate, and therefore its application to resistance training may have been limited.
In the laboratory where the future of drone flight is being born
One photographer's close look at Imperial College London's Aerial Robotics department where the future of drone flight is being hatched. Amidst rising populations and growing urbanization trends, new and ethical technologies are being investigated to improve how our planet functions. Societal needs mean 360,000 tonnes of goods are moved each day in a city like London, alone, and yet 86 percent of deliveries from e-commerce companies weigh under 2 kg.
Winterfest Celebrates Community
On Saturday, Jan. 13, the board of directors of the Garden City Bird Sanctuary (GCBS) invites everyone to join us for our annual Winterfest celebration. What is Winterfest? As I’ve stated in previous years, it is a holiday we on the GCBS Board of Directors began in 2009 to honor all our members and supporters. It is full of meaningful ceremonies and traditions which reflect the three virtues that any community needs to survive: volunteerism, environmental stewardship and hope.
Use of emergency department point-of-care ultrasound in a case of cholecystitis
A 54-year-old man presented with severe right upper quadrant (RUQ) abdominal pain. He denied any infective symptoms. On clinical examination, he was afebrile and anicteric. His abdomen was soft with tenderness elicited on the RUQ. A point-of-care ultrasound in the emergency department demonstrated a distended gallbladder with a thickened wall and an impacted large gallstone at the neck of the gallbladder.
Coast Guard must do full, public review on Hudson anchorages: View
In a stunning about-face on June 28, the U.S. Coast Guard announced it will “suspend future rulemaking decisions” regarding 10 anchorages, with spaces for 43 oil barges, on the Hudson River, while it conducts a Port and Waterways Safety Assessment, a study of river navigation issues. But that study and much more are required to ensure protection of the Hudson Valley, as the Environmental Policy Clinic of Pace University’s Dyson College warned Coast Guard Commandant Paul F.
Brexit Tracker IV: Keeping you informed
To view this article you need a PDF viewer such as Adobe Reader. If you can't read this PDF, you can view its text here. Go back to the PDF . Commentary: "Calm, clear-eyed and strategic" - is Ireland going to seek a EU state aid holiday?
Students improve even amid evaluation controversy
In 2012, New York education officials and the state’s teachers union announced one of the nation’s most aggressive programs for teacher and principal evaluation — the Annual Professional Performance Review system (APPR) — which required that 40% of an educator’s evaluation be based on student growth, using a combination of the state assessment and locally selected assessments; the other 60% to be based primarily on classroom observations.
Hudson River's abuse continues: View
Federal policies have long worked against the interests of preserving the Hudson; an oil anchorage proposal is the latest example At a time when the federal government should invest generously in the Hudson River’s recovery, it remains the river’s most enduring adversary. Its latest scheme: a U.S. Coast Guard proposal on behalf of the American Waterway Operators to create 43 anchorages between Yonkers and Kingston to park oil-filled barges.
The Clinton Flip on Arctic Drilling Deserved Some Drilling of Its Own
Ed Note: I don’t usually repost from the EarthDesk archive. But following last night’s debate, this deserved it. Out of the gate, CNN’s Anderson Cooper zinged Hillary Clinton about her flip-flops on same-sex marriage, immigration and trade. But her stunning, unexplained flip on Arctic policy went unquestioned — not just by the host and candidates, but by the environmental community at-large when Clinton tweeted her new position August 18.
Pope Francis Points the World’s Attention to Its Largest Environmental Problem: Poverty
Environmentalism should advocate for the human cause with the same ferocity it advocates for nature’s cause. IT IS COMMON IN ENVIRONMENTALISM to assert that it is the poor who suffer most from environmental problems.
Environmental Steward or Cold Warrior? Obama’s Arctic Escalation
Keeping with the environmental theme of the trip, a White House fact sheet couched the proposal in stewardship and safety: The growth of human activity in the Arctic region will require highly engaged stewardship to maintain the open seas necessary for global commerce and scientific research, allow for search and rescue activities, and provide for regional peace and stability It is unlikely that stewardship was first on the president’s mind.
Candidate Clinton Parts Ways with Secretary Clinton on Arctic Oil Drilling
Following President Obama’s final approval of Royal Dutch Shell’s Arctic oil drilling, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton parted ways with her own advocacy of the administration’s long-established Arctic policy. She did so in a 92 character Tweet: But it was Secretary of State Clinton who helped design and vociferously promoted and defended the Arctic policy framework upon which the Shell decision is based.
Will the Agency Apply Its Enforcement Policy to Itself?
Last Wednesday, a team working for EPA Region 8 caused a spill of 3 million gallons of yellow sludge contaminated with toxic metals from the Gold King Mine north of Silverton, Colorado into Cement Creek, a tributary to the Animas River. By Sunday, New Mexico was on high alert as the spill made its way to the state’s border, headed for the San Juan River. The EPA team had been attempting to remediate continuing leaks emanating from the collapsed entry to the long abandoned mine.
Time to Fight Habitats Hostile to the Homeless
The internationally famous, 87-year old Strand Bookstore in New York City’s Greenwich Village calls itself “a community bookstore first and foremost.” In 2013, it installed a sprinkler system that periodically drenched homeless people who slept in its expansive, awning-covered storefront overnight. Manager Eddie Sutton said the system, which operated between 10:30 PM and 9 AM, was installed to clean the sidewalk. New York media mocked Strand. The dousing of homeless New Yorkers was halted.
Out of the Public Eye, the Global Economic Community Plans for Environmental Disruption
The Gen En Campaign is about the pillars of our energy future. Launched by Pace Academy for Applied Environmental Studies it will spend the year examining energy as know it today -- and how to make our lives simpler, our travels swifter, and our technology smarter. We are Gen En because our time is now.
Thomas Merton at 100 and His Still Perfect Ecological Theology
I am a Roman Catholic. Like many, I have struggled with the dilemma of marrying ecological and spiritual principles. It is possible to coax instructive interpretations from the texts of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. But it is a largely unsatisfying effort. This leaves us with the writings of the scholars, philosophers and mystics who followed. I turn to Thomas Merton, who would have been 100 today.
Water Poverty in the New Mexican High Desert
The United Nations reports that more than 800 million people suffer from a lack of safe and adequate water. Its declaration on the human right to water states: The water supply for each person must be sufficient and continuous for personal and domestic uses.
The Water Carriers of Central Malawi and the Trócaire Campaign
The video clip above, of villagers in Central Malawi gathering the day’s water, is part of an extraordinary interactive story published recently on the Irish Times site by Trócaire, a Catholic charity in Kildare, Ireland, that works in over 20 countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. The story invites the reader to make the difficult choices the villagers must make due to the “extreme poverty, . . .
Shad, Fishermen & the Hudson
It is shad season on the Hudson River, but there are no shad fishermen. In 2010, New York State halted commercial fishing of American shad because of a crashing population, bringing to an end a centuries-old tradition, and the reputation of the Hudson River as an environmental success story. There was once a time when every river town was home to commercial shad fishermen. The appearance of their boats and nets along the Hudson shore was a certain sign spring was here to stay.
Which Crow Lover Do You Think Is Breaking the Law?
Keeping a crow as a pet is a crime. Possession of a live crow requires a federal permit, which is difficult to obtain and typically limited to researchers and wildlife rehabilitators. Federal Law permits the hunting and killing of crows by the thousands for sport. The only real limits imposed by the Code of Federal Regulations regarding crow hunting are a ban on hunting during nesting season, and a complete ban in the state of Hawaii.
Ian McKee Assumed Killed by Chevron Fracking Explosion. Pizza Grabs the Headlines.
Ian McKee, a 27 year-old fracking contractor who worked for Cameron International has been missing and is presumed dead following a February 11 explosion at Chevron’s Lanco 7H fracking well in Dunkard Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania.
How Did Your Senators and Representative Rate?
Don’t Presume You Know Your Rep’s Environmental Voting Record. Washington, DC based League of Conservation Voters has released its 2013 National Environmental Scorecard. Said LCV president Gene Karpinski: There is a jarring disconnect between the frightening climate change developments of 2013 and the results of the 2013 National Environmental Scorecard.
The Media Discover There’s Bad Water on the Planet
The image on the left of bad hotel water, tweeted from the Sochi Olympics by Stacy St. Clair of the Chicago Tribune, has been retweeted 3,822 times and favorited 1,395 times, as of this writing. It was reposted in countless blogs and Facebook pages, and reprinted in mainstream media throughout the United States and the world.
“My Life if You Want to Hear of It” by Pete Seeger
This week’s EarthDesk Sunday is our second of three tributes to Pete Seeger, who died on January 27 at 94. Our third will appear next Sunday. In addition to his world renown as a musician, songwriter and performer, Pete was a lifelong activist and defender of civil liberties, and a pioneer environmentalist who devoted much of the second half of his life to the Hudson River.
What We Don’t Know and Why We Should Know It
For five days, 300,000 people of Charleston, West Virginia and the surrounding area lost their regular source of drinking water due to a spill of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol by Freedom Industries into the Elk River. Investigations of the cause are underway. Alarmed and puzzled residents, government officials, and reporters demanded answers. Among the most asked questions: Question 2: Why is a dangerous industrial chemical being used adjacent a public water supply?
A Very Fine Line by Andy Revkin
Appropriately, our first musical guest ever on EarthDesk Sunday is Pace Academy’s own Andy Revkin. Story follows the video. In his 1972 book The Incompleat Folksinger, Pete Seeger recalled setting out on his own in the mid 1950s. His recollection may sound quaint to some today, but not here in New York’s Hudson River Valley, where down home music is a staple of daily life: I was singing pretty regularly on my own; all sorts of people were getting excited about homemade music.
“Antibacterial” Soaps Don’t Work, Are Bad for Humans & the Environment. FDA Gives Industry Another Year to Prove Otherwise
Broken Federal Toxins Law Has 11% Chance of Being Fixed. On December 16, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a proposed rule that allows soap and hygiene product manufacturers one year to prove “antibacterial” additives are safe and effective.
Can Disaster Capitalism Sell Climate Change?
Did climate change cause Typhoon Haiyan? Time Magazine says no. Australia’s Sidney Morning Herald says yes. The UK’s Guardian says maybe. So goes the news media standoff on climate and superstorms. Duracell is less ambivalent. “There will be more powerful storms,” warns actor Jeff Bridges in the company’s Quantum battery campaign.
The Last Voyage of the Bounty
Today is the anniversary of the sinking of the Bounty. As with many tragedies left in the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, the Bounty story instructs us that nature will ever challenge how we choose to live at, and beyond, the wet edges of our continents. She sank in the seas off North Carolina, en route to St. Petersburg, Florida from Boothbay Harbor, Maine. Captain Robin Walbridge was aware of Sandy before he left port. He decided to sail into the storm.
Has EPA Given Up on Clean Water?
A meaningful plan is not likely during the remaining years of Barak Obama’s presidency. Most revealing about the national water strategy announced by recently appointed EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy is its contrast with her “reputation as a straight shooter,” the defining quality President Obama praised at her nomination.
Say No to Big Yellow
Pace Academy’s FoodYou Campaign is about the way that our choices, as individuals and as a society, intersect with the environment. During this 2013-2014 awareness initiative, we will examine some of the many pieces that are set in motion by what we put on our plates. Through events and partnerships, the campaign will broaden the Pace community’s understanding of our global food system. We’ll be talking about the FoodYou engineer, grow, kill, need, take, waste, trade, and share.
Utah Tries to Shutdown Freedom of Speech Challenge to Ag Gag Law
Pace Academy’s FoodYou Campaign is about the way that our choices, as individuals and as a society, intersect with the environment. During this 2013-2014 awareness initiative, we will examine some of the many pieces that are set in motion by what we put on our plates. Through events and partnerships, the campaign will broaden the Pace community’s understanding of our global food system. We’ll be talking about the FoodYou engineer, grow, kill, need, take, waste, trade, and share.
New Website, Unmatched Resource
Our friends at ElephantVoices, Dr. Joyce Poole and Petter Granli, (see also EarthDesk, September 10) have redesigned their already beautiful website, and it is stunning. It contains information on elephant communication, threats to elephants, elephant sense and sociality, and elephants in captivity with abundant multimedia and education resources. ElephantVoices also documents the extraordinary range of work Joyce and Petter have accomplished as researchers, conservationists and advocates.
Climate Wars in the News
It seems most of the climate change debate is waged in the media and the halls of government, where the misinterpreters of science can joyfully, and with impunity, run afoul of facts. Not what one expects of the most pressing scientific issue of any era but our own. Provocative articles in the UK’s Mail on Sunday and Telegraph newspapers have prompted heated response on both sides of the Atlantic.
EarthDesk Interview with Michel Jarraud, Director of UN-Water
Michel Jarraud, director of UN-Water, believes transboundary water cooperation is an avenue to international peace. It is a bold vision given how popular it is to take the opposing view.
A Search for Water Comes to a Close
Today was a sad day for science. NASA formally announced it is ending its search for Earth-like planets with the Kepler Space Telescope, which is to say its search for liquid water outside our solar system. I reported on the ailing craft in the May 13 EarthDesk, and reflected on its profound mission: NASA conducts much groundbreaking research relevant to our relationship to the planet, such as its work on climate change and the atmosphere. I am particularly taken with the Kepler mission.
CAFOs 101
First in a Series about Animals, Agriculture and the Environment. First, let’s parse. A CAFO is a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation. Some call it a Confined Animal Feeding Operation. You are already getting the idea. “Feeding operation” does not paint a pretty picture when defining an animal’s life. A feeding operation for animals concentrated in confined areas is as bad as it sounds. CAFOs are popularly called “factory farms.” It is appropriate.
Saving Washington’s Air and Water
Why aren’t the natural resources of the nation’s capital granted the same status as its monuments and museums? Instead, the Potomac River is still the “national disgrace” President Lyndon Johnson declared it to be in 1965. The eight-mile Anacostia River, a contaminated tributary to the Potomac in the heart of the city, is unsafe for swimming and fishing. And the Capitol Power Plant is a smoky, primitive electric generating facility run on a coal and diesel mixture in the shadow of Capitol Hill.
Transboundary Water Wars: Florida vs. Georgia
by John Cronin | Aug 14, 2013 | Ecology, Law & Policy, Water | Aerial view of Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam, impounding Lake Seminole on the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers. The dam spans the Florida–Georgia border. By U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons In much of the world, conflicts over transboundary waters are international in nature (see EarthDesk July 17, July 13, and June 17).
Chairman Lamar Smith Demands EPA “Secret Science”
Here at EarthDesk we have asserted many times that the House of Representatives would spring into action against President Obama’s June 26 climate plan the moment the administration proposes new rules to support it. (See here, here, here and here.) We were wrong. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX.) had no intention of waiting that long.
10,440 Days Since the Clean Water Act Goal to Eliminate the Discharge of Pollutants by 1985
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Sec. 101 (a) (1) it is the national goal that the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters be eliminated by 1985
Dr. James Hansen and the Nuclear Briar Patch
Over at Dot Earth, my colleague Andrew Revkin has been carefully walking his readers through the nuclear power briar patch ever growing inside the American environmental movement. Looming large is Dr. James Hansen, former NASA climate scientist who used his influential post to become a global voice on climate change. In the video below Hansen makes his case why nuclear is our only fuel option for averting climate disaster.
“Loss of Control” Gas Well Fire in the Gulf of Mexico
A blowout and fire that began Tuesday at 8:45 AM at a gas well in the Gulf of Mexico, 55 miles off the coast of Louisiana in 154 feet of water, has been contained according to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE), an arm of the US Department of the Interior. Damage to the rig was extensive and the nature of the environmental impacts of the fire, rig collapse and spill are not yet known.
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