Death after closed adolescent knee injury and popliteal artery occlusion: a case report and clinical review.

A healthy adolescent male soccer player sustained a radiograph-negative, effusion-negative physeal injury of the proximal tibia from a ground-level fall with traumatic occlusion of the popliteal artery. Orthopaedic evaluation and arteriography were delayed for 72 hours after the injury. He arrived at a tertiary referral center in multisystem organ failure secondary to lower extremity ischemic necrosis, septic pulmonary thromboembolism, and systemic shock. Emergent medical evaluation, a high index of suspicion, and a careful neurovascular examination are imperative after every closed knee injury in the young athlete

УДОСКОНАЛЕННЯ ФІНАНСОВОГО НАГЛЯДУ НА ОСНОВІ ВПРОВАДЖЕННЯ МІЖНАРОДНИХ ПРИНЦИПІВ

The article is devoted to the problem of financial supervision system compliance in the countries with the international principles and the best world practices. The main international principles of effective banking supervision, insurance and regulation of the securities market are analyzed. We developed a scientific and methodological approach to assessing the country's financial supervision compliance with international principles, which allows to determine the dynamics of development and improvement of financial supervision in banking, insurance and securities segments of the financial sector. A scale for translating financial supervisory compliance assessments into international principles was developed and statistical tools of arithmetic weighted and geometric mean were used to summarize the implementation of Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision, Insurance Core Principles and Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation. The average level the implementation of each of the principles of Effective Banking Supervision, Insurance Core Principles and Objectives and Principles of Securities Regulation is determined. Banking Supervision has been assessed to international principles in countries such as Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Denmark, United Kingdom, Georgia, Hong Kong, Republic of Korea, Moldova, New Zealand, Russian Federation, Turkey, United States of America, South Africa, Insurance Supervision — Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, Turkey, United States of America, South Africa, securities market surveillance and financial supervision in general — Canada, Hong Kong, United States of America, South Africa. The work identifies key areas of modern and innovative development of the financial supervision system. The paper identifies key areas of modern and innovative development of the financial supervision. Our results showed that increasing the compliance of financial supervision with international standards can be ensured primarily through the introduction of risk-oriented financial supervision, improvement of corporate governance and disclosure of financial reporting by financial intermediaries.Розглянуто питання відповідності системи фінансового нагляду в країнах світу міжнародним принципам фінансового нагляду i найкращим світовим практикам. Проаналізовано основні принципи ефективного банківського нагляду, страхування i регулювання ринку цінних паперів. Розроблено науково-методичний підхід до оцінювання відповідності фінансового нагляду країни міжнародним принципам, що дозволяє визначати динаміку розбудови і поліпшення фінансового нагляду в різних сегментах фінансового сектору — банківському, страховому та цінних паперів. Для узагальненого оцінювання впровадження Основних принципів ефективного банківського нагляду, Ключових принципів страхування та Цілей і принципів регулювання цінних паперів розроблено шкалу переведення оцінок відповідності фінансового нагляду міжнародним принципам у бали та використано статистичний інструментарій середньої арифметичної зваженої та середньої геометричної Визначено середній рівень дотримання кожного з принципів ефективного банківського нагляду, страхування і регулювання ринку цінних паперів. Здійснено оцінювання відповідності банківського нагляду міжнародним принципам у таких країнах, як Австрія, Болгарія, Канада, Німеччина, Данія, Велика Британія, Грузія, Гонконг, Республіка Корея, Молдова, Нова Зеландія, Російська Федерація, Туреччина, Сполучені Штати Америки, Південна Африка, страхового нагляду — Канада, Данія, Гонконг, Ірландія, Нова Зеландія, Туреччина, Сполучені Штати Америки, Південна Африка, нагляду на ринку цінних паперів і фінансового нагляду в цілому — Канада, Гонконг, Сполучені Штати Америки, Південна Африка. Ідентифіковано ключові напрями сучасного та інноваційного розвитку системи фінансового нагляду. Визначено, що підвищення відповідності фінансового нагляду міжнародним стандартам може бути забезпечене передусім за рахунок упровадження ризик-орієнтованого фінансового нагляду, удосконалення корпоративного управління та розкриття фінансової звітності фінансових посередників

Count Distinct Semantic Queries over Multiple Linked Datasets

In this paper, we revise count distinct queries and their semantics over datasets with incomplete knowledge, which is a typical case for the linked data integration scenario where datasets are viewed as ontologies. We focus on counting individuals present in the signature of the ontology. Specifically, we investigate the Certain Epistemic Count (CEC) and the Possible Epistemic Count (PEC) interval based semantics. In the case of CEC semantics, we propose an algorithm for its evaluation and we prove its correctness under a practical constraint of the queried ontology. We conduct and report experiments with the implementation of the proposed algorithm. We also prove decidability of the PEC semantics

OnGIS: Semantic Query Broker for Heterogeneous Geospatial Data Sources

Querying geospatial data from multiple heterogeneous sources backed by different management technologies poses an interesting problem in the data integration and in the subsequent result interpretation. This paper proposes broker techniques for answering a user's complex spatial query: finding relevant data sources (from a catalogue of data sources) capable of answering the query, eventually splitting the query and finding relevant data sources for the query parts, when no single source suffices. For the purpose, we describe each source with a set of prototypical queries that are algorithmically arranged into a lattice, which makes searching efficient. The proposed algorithms leverage GeoSPARQL query containment enhanced with OWL 2 QL semantics. A prototype is implemented in a system called OnGIS

Reframing the land-sparing/land-sharing debate for biodiversity conservation

Conservation biologists are devoting an increasing amount of energy to debating whether land sparing (highyielding agriculture on a small land footprint) or land sharing (low-yielding, wildlife-friendly agriculture on a larger land footprint) will promote better outcomes for local and global biodiversity. In turn, concerns are mounting about how to feed the world, given increasing demands for food. In this review, I evaluate the land-sparing/landsharing framework-does the framework stimulate research and policy that can reconcile agricultural land use with biodiversity conservation, or is a revised framing needed? I review (1) the ecological evidence in favor of sparing versus sharing; (2) the evidence from land-use change studies that assesses whether a relationship exists between agricultural intensification and land sparing; and (3) how that relationship may be affected by socioeconomic and political factors. To address the trade-off between biodiversity conservation and food production, I then ask which forms of agricultural intensification can best feed the world now and in the future. On the basis of my review, I suggest that the dichotomy of the land-sparing/land-sharing framework limits the realm of future possibilities to two, largely undesirable, options for conservation. Both large, protected regions and favorable surrounding matrices are needed to promote biodiversity conservation; they work synergistically and are not mutually exclusive. A "bothand" framing of large protected areas surrounded by a wildlife-friendly matrix suggests different research priorities from the "either-or" framing of sparing versus sharing. Furthermore, wildlife-friendly farming methods such as agroecology may be best adapted to provide food for the world's hungry people

Using citizen science to monitor pollination services

1. Pollination by insects is a vital ecosystem service and the need for its assessment is increasing in recognition and political pressure, but there are currently no large-scale systematic monitoring schemes in place to measure the direct provision of this service. 2. This study tested a protocol for using a citizen science approach to quantify pollination service provision in gardens and allotments, requiring participants to grow Vica faba L. plants and carry out some simple manipulations of the pollination environment (flowers with bees excluded, flowers hand-pollinated, or flowers left for local pollinators to visit). Volunteers assessed yield in the three treatments. 3. Eighty participants from across the U.K. successfully completed all parts of the protocol; a further 93 participants were unsuccessful but actively engaged with the project. 4. Overall, the present results suggest that pollination services for V. faba are currently not limiting in gardens or allotments in the U.K. It is possible and cost-effective to recruit volunteers to collect data on pollination deficits using this protocol. 5. The approach used in this paper, which could readily be extended to incorporate other plant species reliant on different guilds of pollinators, is feasible for adoption as a national monitoring scheme for pollination services. Key words. Bees, bumblebees, crop yield, ecosystem services, pollinator, urban, Viciafab