Hydronephrosis Due to Bilateral Tubo-ovarian Abscess

A 27-year-old female presented to the emergency department with fevers, nausea, chills, and non-specific bilateral lower quadrant abdominal pain. A pregnancy test was negative. Computed tomography demonstrated moderate left hydronephrosis secondary to tubo-ovarian abscess. The abscess was so large it distorted local anatomy and compressed the ureters. She was prescribed meropenem and admitted for care by obstetrics/gynecology

Marriage and motherhood are associated with lower testosterone concentrations in women

Testosterone has been hypothesized to modulate the trade-off between mating and parenting effort in males. Indeed, evidence from humans and other pair-bonded species suggests that fathers and men in committed relationships have lower testosterone levels than single men and men with no children. To date, only one published study has examined testosterone in relation to motherhood, finding that mothers of young children have lower testosterone than non-mothers. Here, we examine this question in 195 reproductive-age Norwegian women. Testosterone was measured in morning serum samples taken during the early follicular phase of the menstrual cycle, and marital and maternal status were assessed by questionnaire. Mothers of young children (age ≤ 3) had 14% lower testosterone than childless women and 19% lower testosterone than women who only had children over age 3. Among mothers, age of the youngest child strongly predicted testosterone levels. There was a trend towards lower testosterone among married women compared to unmarried women. All analyses controlled for body mass index (BMI), age, type of testosterone assay, and time of serum sample collection. This is the first study to look at testosterone concentrations in relation to marriage and motherhood in Western women, and it suggests that testosterone may differ with marital and maternal status in women, providing further corroboration of previous findings in both sexes.Anthropolog

Hydronephrosis Due to Bilateral Tubo-ovarian Abscess

A 27-year-old female presented to the emergency department with fevers, nausea, chills, and non-specific bilateral lower quadrant abdominal pain. A pregnancy test was negative. Computed tomography demonstrated moderate left hydronephrosis secondary to tubo-ovarian abscess. The abscess was so large it distorted local anatomy and compressed the ureters. She was prescribed meropenem and admitted for care by obstetrics/gynecology

Evaluation of ultramafic deposits in the Eastern United States and Puerto Rico as sources of magnesium for carbon dioxide sequestration

In this report, the authors evaluate the resource potential of extractable magnesium from ultramafic bodies located in Vermont, the Pennsylvania-Maryland-District-of-Columbia (PA-MD-DC) region, western North Carolina, and southwestern Puerto Rico. The first three regions occur in the Appalachian Mountains and contain the most attractive deposits in the eastern United States. They were formed during prograde metamorphism of serpentinized peridotite fragments originating from an ophiolite protolith. The ultramafic rocks consist of variably serpentinized dunite, harzburgite, and minor iherzolite generally containing antigorite and/or lizardite as the major serpentine minor phases. Chrysotile contents vary from minor to major, depending on occurrence. Most bodies contain an outer sheath of chlorite-talc-tremolite rock. Larger deposits in Vermont and most deposits in North Carolina contain a core of dunite. Magnesite and other carbonates are common accessories. In these deposits, MgO ranges from 36 to 48 wt % with relatively pure dunite having the highest MgO and lowest H{sub 2}O contents. Ultramafic deposits in southwestern Puerto Rico consist of serpentinized dunite and harzburgite thought to be emplaced as large diapirs or as fragments in tectonic melanges. They consist of nearly pure, low-grade serpentinite in which lizardite and chrysotile are the primary serpentine minerals. Chlorite is ubiquitous in trace amounts. Magnesite is a common accessory. Contents of MgO and H{sub 2}O are rather uniform at roughly 36 and 13 wt %. Dissolution experiments show that all serpentinites and dunite-rich rocks are soluble in 1:1 mixtures of 35% HCl and water by volume. The experiments suggest that low-grade serpentinites from Puerto Rico are slightly more reactive than the higher grade, antigorite-bearing serpentinites of the Appalachian Mountains. The experiments also show that the low-grade serpentinites and relatively pure dunites contain the least amounts of undesirable insoluble silicates. Individual ultramafic bodies in the Appalachian Mountains are as great as 7 km{sup 3} although typically they are {le}1 km{sup 3}. In contrast, ultramafic deposits in southwestern Puerto Rico have an estimated volume of roughly 150 km{sup 3}. Based on the few detailed geophysical studies in North Carolina and Puerto Rico, it is evident that volume estimates of any ultramafic deposit would benefit greatly from gravity and magnetic investigations, and from corehole drilling. Nevertheless, the data show that the ultramafic deposits of the eastern United States and southwestern Puerto Rico could potentially sequester many years of annual CO{sub 2} emissions if favorable geotechnical, engineering, and environmental conditions prevail

geoschem/geos-chem: GEOS-Chem 12.9.0

<p>GEOS-Chem 12.9.0 17 July 2020 DOI TBD</p> <p>This version includes the following updates:</p> <ol> <li><a href="https://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/19/3981/2019/">Updated halogen chemistry</a></li> <li><a href="http://acmg.seas.harvard.edu/publications/2020/Shah_2020.pdf">Improved cloudwater pH</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem-unittest/pull/20">Update offline lightning data through Dec 2019</a></li> <li>Convert GEOS-Chem species database to YAML format, includes: a. <a href="https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/110">Defining all species properties in the species database, not just advected species</a> b. <a href="https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/216">Initializing the species database with values read from the YAML file</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/232">Update GEOS-Chem core to apply masking and scaling to HEMCO inputs</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/324">Bug fix: Restore missing photolysis reactions from 12.8.0 and add an extra error check</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/362">Bug fix: Remove inefficient code that was slowing down computation of heterogenous chemistry rates</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/312">Corrected issue in GEOS-Chem dry-run where some files were not being properly marked for download</a></li> <li>Bug fixes for the ObsPack diagnostic: a. <a href="https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/333">Change units of ObsPack specific humidity (Q) field to g/kg</a> b. <a href="https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/337">Restore missing code due to Git merge that caused the OBSPACK MENU of input.geos not to be read</a></li> <li>Fixes for reading meteorology fields in HEMCO: a. <a href="https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/279">Skip reading FLASH_DENS and CONV_DEPTH fields when lightning NOx extension is turned off</a> b. <a href="https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/357">Change time cycle flag for meteorology fields to use exact date</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/geoschem/geos-chem/issues/353">Restore missing metadata for satellite timeseries diagnostics</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/geoschem/gchp/issues/70">Fix bug where non-advected species not updated in restart file</a></li> </ol> <p>Read the GEOS-Chem online manual at: <a href="http://manual.geos-chem.org">http://manual.geos-chem.org</a></p> <p>This release is compatible with GCHP. See the GCHP online manual for more information: <a href="http://wiki.geos-chem.org/Getting_Started_With_GCHP">http://wiki.geos-chem.org/Getting_Started_With_GCHP</a></p> <p>Learn how you can run GEOS-Chem on the Amazon Web Services cloud computing platform: <a href="http://cloud.geos-chem.org">http://cloud.geos-chem.org</a></p&gt

Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX‐AQ)

The NOAA/NASA Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) experiment was a multi-agency, inter-disciplinary research effort to: (a) obtain detailed measurements of trace gas and aerosol emissions from wildfires and prescribed fires using aircraft, satellites and ground-based instruments, (b) make extensive suborbital remote sensing measurements of fire dynamics, (c) assess local, regional, and global modeling of fires, and (d) strengthen connections to observables on the ground such as fuels and fuel consumption and satellite products such as burned area and fire radiative power. From Boise, ID western wildfires were studied with the NASA DC-8 and two NOAA Twin Otter aircraft. The high-altitude NASA ER-2 was deployed from Palmdale, CA to observe some of these fires in conjunction with satellite overpasses and the other aircraft. Further research was conducted on three mobile laboratories and ground sites, and 17 different modeling forecast and analyses products for fire, fuels and air quality and climate implications. From Salina, KS the DC-8 investigated 87 smaller fires in the Southeast with remote and in-situ data collection. Sampling by all platforms was designed to measure emissions of trace gases and aerosols with multiple transects to capture the chemical transformation of these emissions and perform remote sensing observations of fire and smoke plumes under day and night conditions. The emissions were linked to fuels consumed and fire radiative power using orbital and suborbital remote sensing observations collected during overflights of the fires and smoke plumes and ground sampling of fuels