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An exploratory study investigating factors associated with adherence to chest physiotherapy and exercise in adults with cystic fibrosis
Copyright @ 2009 European Cystic Fibrosis Society. This article is available through Elsevier's Open Access Archives and covered by Elsevier's user license: http://www.elsevier.com/about/open-access/open-access-policies/oa-license-policy/elsevier-user-license.This study explored the relationship between psychological and demographic variables relating to chest physiotherapy (CP) and exercise in adults with cystic fibrosis. The main results were that adherence to both treatments was low and analysis of variance indicated that severity and gender were associated with exercise adherence, importance and burden. These results suggest potential areas for interventions to improve exercise adherence
Wetlands and coastal water quality: Should wetland size matter?
Generally, wetlands are thought to perform water purification functions, removing contaminants as water flows
through sediment and vegetation. This paradigm was challenged when Grant et al. (2001) reported that Talbert Salt Marsh (Figure 1.) increased fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) output to coastal waters, contributing to poor coastal water quality. Like most southern California wetlands, Talbert Salt Marsh has been severely degraded. It is a small (10 ha), restored wetland, only 1/100th its original size, and located at the base of a highly urbanized watershed. Is it reasonable to expect that this or any severely altered wetland will perform the same water purification benefits as a natural wetland? To determine how a more pristine southern California coastal wetland attenuated bacterial contaminants, we investigated FIB concentrations entering and exiting Carpinteria Salt Marsh (Figure 2.), a 93 ha, moderate-sized, relatively natural wetland.(PDF contains 4 pages
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A multidisciplinary coastal vulnerability assessment for local government focused on ecosystems, Santa Barbara area, California
Incorporating coastal ecosystems in climate adaptation planning is needed to maintain the well-being of both natural and human systems. Our vulnerability study uses a multidisciplinary approach to evaluate climate change vulnerability of an urbanized coastal community that could serve as a model approach for communities worldwide, particularly in similar Mediterranean climates. We synthesize projected changes in climate, coastal erosion and flooding, watershed runoff and impacts to two important coastal ecosystems, sandy beaches and coastal salt marshes. Using downscaled climate models along with other regional models, we find that temperature, extreme heat events, and sea level are expected to increase in the future, along with more intense rainfall events, despite a negligible change in annual rainfall. Consequently, more droughts are expected but the magnitude of larger flood events will increase. Associated with the continuing rise of mean sea level, extreme coastal water levels will occur with increasingly greater magnitudes and frequency. Severe flooding will occur for both natural (wetlands, beaches) and built environments (airport, harbor, freeway, and residential areas). Adaptation actions can reduce the impact of rising sea level, which will cause losses of sandy beach zones and salt marsh habitats that support the highest biodiversity in these ecosystems, including regionally rare and endangered species, with substantial impacts occurring by 2050. Providing for inland transgression of coastal habitats, effective sediment management, reduced beach grooming and removal of shoreline armoring are adaptations that would help maintain coastal ecosystems and the beneficial services they provide
End sums of irreducible open 3-manifolds
An end sum is a non-compact analogue of a connected sum. Suppose we are given
two connected, oriented -manifolds and . Recall that to form
their connected sum one chooses an -ball in each , removes its
interior, and then glues together the two boundary components thus
created by an orientation reversing homeomorphism. Now suppose that and
are also open, i.e. non-compact with empty boundary. To form an end sum
of and one chooses a halfspace (a manifold \homeo\ to ) embedded in , removes its interior, and then
glues together the two resulting boundary components by an
orientation reversing homeomorphism. In order for this space to be an
-manifold one requires that each be {\bf end-proper} in in the
sense that its intersection with each compact subset of is compact. Note
that one can regard as a regular neighborhood of an end-proper ray (a
1-manifold \homeo\ to ) \ga_i in
CERN Accelerator Strategy
The CERN strategy for future accelerator projects is outlined and the role of
the HE-LHC inside this strategy is described.Comment: 1 page, Contribution given to the EuCARD-AccNet-EuroLumi Workshop:
The High-Energy Large Hadron Collider, Malta, Republic of Malta, 14 - 16 Oct
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