Xanthogranulomatous Osteomyelitis and Crohn’s Disease : a possible association?

A 20-year-old male presented with a 10-week history of abdominal pain, bloody diarrhea, and right-sided pelvic pain. Initial blood investigations showed a C-reactive protein level of 87 mg/L (normal <10). Other routine blood investigations were within normal limits. Stool samples for culture, ova, cysts, parasites, and Clostridium difficile were normal. At colonoscopy, there was patchy erythema with loss of vascular pattern and aphthous ulcers from the rectum to the caecum; the terminal ileum was normal.peer-reviewe

MAGIC and H.E.S.S. detect VHE gamma rays from the blazar OT081 for the first time: a deep multiwavelength study

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Vorteile der Kategorisierung der logistischen Zentren

The process of globalization influenced multinational companies' production concentration into fewer locations. Market has demanded a new global logistics strategy. Since the end of 1980s global firms have been steadily reducing their number of national warehouses, consolidating them into regional distribution centres that serve a much wider geographical area. Logistics centers are challenged to otfer market a competitive and high quality categories of functions, enlarge their profitability, and limit environmental interference of their activities. ln this paper it is proposed a division of logistic centers in multiple categories, namely, starting from the realistic situation where the logistic centers stand today, imposes the need to explore the fort and consistent criteria for their categorization. The aim of the research is to determine logistics centres concept pointing at their need for categorization and to point out or to frame the benefits of logistics centre categorization. Conclusion of proposed article will be analysis of logistics centre benefits which will certainly atfect the change in the structure and organization of logistic centres that by improving the quality of operations and services achieve market competitive advantage.Proces globalizace ovlivňuje mnoho nadnárodních společností, jenž mají výrobu koncentrovanou jen do několika málo nejvýhodnějších lokací. Trh si vyžádal vytvořit zcela novou koncepci globální logistiky. Od foku 1980 nadnárodní společnosti přistpupili k dramatickému omezování místních a národních skladů, které nahradili moderními distribučními centry, jenž pokrývají mnohem větší zeměpisnou rozlohu. V uvedeném článku je představena koncepce rozdělení logistických centrer do několika kategorií, dále jsou stanovena a definovanána kritéria členění, která representují současný stav. Účel tohoto výzkumu je nalezení prvků vymezujících jednolivé kategorie logistických center a jejich následné ohodnocení stanovenými kritérii. Význám zkoumání kategorizace a hodnocení logistických center je v nalezení přístupů pro zvýšení kvality operací a poskytovných služeb za účelem zvýšení konkurenceschpnosti.Die multinationale Unternehmen wurden vom Globalisierungsprozess so beeinflusst, dass sie ihre Erzegung in einem kleineren Bereich konzentrierten. Am Ende 80-er Jahre verminderten globale Unternehmen die Zahl ihrer Lager, die sich in regionelle Distributionszentren konsolidierten.So können sie einem breiteren geographischen Bereich dienen. Die Logistikzentren sollen dem Markt konkurenzfähige und hochqualitative Funktionen anbieten, ihren Profit vergrössern und Umweltbeschädiungen, die durch ihre Aktivitäten entstehen können, vermeiden. ln dieser Arbeit wurde eine Verteilung von Logisikzentren in mehreren Kategorien vorgeschlagen, die aus dem realen Zustand hervorgehen. Verschiedene Kriteien zur Kategorisierung von Logistikzentren wurden untersucht und bestimmt. Dieser Untersuchung setzt sich das Ziel Konzept von Logistikzentren zu bestimmen, wobei die Vorteile von Kategorisierung betont werden sollen. Zum Schluss wird der Profit von dieser Kategorisierung, der einen Struktur- und Organisationswandeln beeinflusst, untersucht und definiert, dabei die Arbeit und Dienstleistungsqualität verbessert und die Dienstleistungen konkurenzfähiger auf dem Markt werden

Reducing congestion in urban transport by using intermodal transport solutions

The impact of cargo transport on the economy, society and environment has been defined and recognized as an essential element of the European integrations. The increase in the cargo transport share has raised also the density of traffic on the urban roads, which in turn raised the problem of traffic flows in the cities, congestion, traffic sustainability and environmental pollution. The past research related to solving the congestion problem in the cities was based on the tendencies to improve the entire transport system. One of the ways is to shift a certain volume of cargo from road to other transport branches, which results in the reduction of the number of heavy cargo vehicles on the roads, reduction of the adverse impact, i.e. use of intermodal transport which is more environmentally friendly and influences the increase of longevity and organization of urban and suburban traffic. Arguments supporting the mentioned hypotheses include: Interoperability as the basic precondition for the development of combined transport can be technical, functional, and market-oriented. Interoperability insures the continuous flow of cargo through the entire transport chain, and easier and faster transport of cargo and people through the urban areas (between the starting and end terminal or sender and receiver). Traffic infrastructure has to support the need for different modes of transport ; railtransport, road transport and water transport. Successful operation of combined transport (neutral to the mode of transport) requires the management of the entire transport chain (logistics), cargo control, so that cargo can be tracked at any moment, as well as the cargo safety in the transport chain

International Conference on Heat Transfer

non-peer-reviewedGrinding, like other abrasive processes, may generate high local temperatures along the arc of cut. These can cause various forms of surface damage in the most sensitive finishing phase of the manufacturing cycle. Traditional cooling methods based on large amounts of water-oil emulsions can be both ineffective and environmentally unacceptable. A new approach to this problem has been devised utilizing the high penetrative power of fast air jets combined with a water/soap mist to greatly improve convective cooling and lubrication along the arc of cut. The results obtained offer striking improvements compared to traditional liquid coolants especially if the relative simplicity of the method is considered