Use of CRRT and Plasmapheresis to Treat Simultaneous Iron and Acetaminophen Overdose

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Rebecca Nye ◽  
Tripti Singh
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Venovenous Hemofiltration ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Acetaminophen Overdose ◽  
Iron Overdose

There is limited information about the prevalence and treatment of concurrent acetaminophen and iron overdose. One case study has suggested that this combination may be lethal. We present a case of fatal intentional acetaminophen and iron overdose and treatment with extracorporeal methods, including continuous venovenous hemofiltration and plasmapheresis, for removal of both toxins.

Challenging the Concept of Infinity Retention of Collections in Selected National Museums in Zimbabwe

2018 ◽  
pp. 408-427
Author(s):  
Nyasha Agnes Gurira
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Storage Space ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Collections Management ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Museums ◽  
Multiple Case

The chapter challenges the concept of undefined, infinity, and indefinite retention periods of collections in Zimbabwe's state museums and underscores the need for each state museum to develop a collections management policy. The concept of indefinitely retaining collections characterizes Zimbabwe's National Museums. In that regard, this chapter interrogates issues surrounding collections management in Zimbabwe's state museums. Museums in Zimbabwe are overburdened with inherited collections from the past with limited supporting information. This coupled with the need to store contemporary collections congests the storage space in museums. A multiple case study approach was employed to examine the state of collections in three selected state museums in Zimbabwe. Findings revealed that collections in these museums have been inherited from the past collectors who amassed collections with limited information about them. There was no formal collections management policy. The chapter proposes a regime to guide museums in dealing with their collections.

scholarly journals Collaborative Barriers Among University - Industry - Policy (U-I-P) Entities on Environmental Matters: A Case Study in Sarawak, Malaysia

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 316-329
Author(s):  
Janice Manyie ◽  
Geoffery James Gerusu ◽  
Roland Kueh Jui Heng
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Private Knowledge ◽  
The Status ◽  
Industry Policy ◽  
University Industry

Realizing the importance of practicing environmental concern, it is needed to understand the tools used to tackle the issues. In this study, university – industry – policy (U-I-P) entities collaboration is a significant approach that was viewed to be the success factor towards the efforts of tackling environmental issues. Collaboration work, which involves different entities benefit in a way that pushes the entities to move towards shared objectives and goals which is to improve the environmental condition. However, although the significance of U-I-P entities collaboration was known and the linkages among U-I-P entities has started, there are still limited information on the practice of collaboration specifically on the U-I-P entities linkage structures on environmental matters in Sarawak. Thus, there is a need to identify the barriers and success factor in order to develop successful collaboration. This study addressed the gap through a mixed method of qualitative and quantitative approaches which the data were collected from 199 respondents based on a face to face interview using structured questionnaires in the major divisions of Sarawak. Drawing from a large scale of study, the study explores the status of collaboration and the barriers of collaboration in Sarawak. Findings indicated that cost, private knowledge and knowledge barrier to be a major hurdle that inhibit the development of collaboration. The assessment suggested that more efforts to increase awareness on collaboration be disseminated.

scholarly journals The Indigenous People’s Innovation Copyright and Legal Consequences: A case study of the plant chopper machine in Mulia Asih Farmer Group, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suriansyah Murhaini ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Crop Production ◽  
Organic Fertilizer ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Central Kalimantan ◽  
The Public ◽  
Tourism Activity ◽  
Legal Consequences

Agrotourism is a tourism activity that combines plantation or agricultural activities by offering unique experiences to visitors. Indonesia, which has natural resources in the plantation and agricultural sectors, provides great opportunities for the community, one of which is implemented by the Mulia Asih Farmer Group in Humbang Raya Village, Central Kalimantan. Agricultural and plantation activities require fertilizer as an important component in increasing crop production, and there are even demands for environmentally friendly use of organic fertilizer or compost as an advantage so that people innovate to create organic fertilizer processing machines from the surrounding environment. This article uses a qualitative approach to discuss the findings of local communities and analyze them with the copyright law which regulates the copyright of photographic works and portraits taken without permission. Article 12 paragraph (1) of the Copyright Law regulates economic rights to portraits, there must be written consent from the person being photographed or their heirs for reproduction, distribution, announcements, commercial use, and/or communications used for billboards, advertisements, banners, pamphlets and more. The results of this study show that the public has not realized unintentional errors due to limited information so that the innovations made are claimed to be their own work even though they have previously been discovered by other communities.

scholarly journals 3D SAFE ROUTING NAVIGATION APPLICATION FOR PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS BASED ON OPEN SOURCE TOOLS

2020 ◽  
Vol VI-4/W2-2020 ◽  
pp. 143-147
Author(s):  
T. Santhanavanich ◽  
P. Wuerstle ◽  
J. Silberer ◽  
V. Loidl ◽  
P. Rodrigues ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Physically Active ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Road ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
2D And 3D ◽  
Safe Routing

Abstract. The recent advancement in Information & Communication Technology (ICT) is seen as a critical enabler to design intelligent smart cities targeting different domains. One such domain is modes of transport in a city. Currently, various cities around the world are envisioning innovative ways to reduce emissions in the cities by increasing physically active mobility. However, there is still limited information about the safety of cyclists and pedestrians within city limits. To address this, we develop a 3D web-based safe routing tool called Vision Zero. Our concept prototype used Augsburg city, Germany, as a case study. The implementation is based on open-source tools. In the back-end, the OGC 3D Portrayal Service standard helps to deliver and integrate various 2D and 3D geospatial contents on a web-based client using CesiumJS. The OGC SensorThings API (STAPI) standard is used to manage historical and real-time open road-incident data from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany. The navigation system is built up based on the routing engine pgRouting, which calculates the safest route based on the mentioned STAPI server and the road-network dataset from OpenStreetMap.

scholarly journals COVID-19: Implications for Food, Water, Hygiene, Sanitation, and Environmental Safety in Africa: A Case Study in Ghana

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courage Kosi Setsoafia Saba
Keyword(s):  
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Population Based ◽  
World Health ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Long Run ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact

Governments all over the world are currently grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic. While some countries were very hard hit, others were only mildly hit but all are still taking measures to mitigate the consequences. The virus emerged in December 2019 in Wuhan, China and spread to most continents by the beginning of March 2020, which led to the World Health Organization declaring it as a pandemic on the 11th of March 2020. Since it was a novel disease, there was limited information on the virus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) belongs to the same family as the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 1 (SARS-CoV-1) and the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV). Researchers all over the world started working simultaneously to understand the virus to provide the necessary treatment regime or vaccine in order to reduce the impact of the virus on its victims. Africa and other developing countries with limited resources and poor planning and management are expected to be among the worst hit in the long run. The implications of the COVID-19 on food, water, hygiene, sanitation, and the environment in Africa have been reviewed in this paper, as well as possible implications they may pose to the population, based on the existing common practices and their immediate impacts. This information can assist policymakers in Africa to adequately plan the management of the COVID-19 in order to lessen its impact on the population.

scholarly journals Motivation and Motivation Profiles of the Employees in a Modern Organization

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-171
Author(s):  
Vera Kharchenko
Keyword(s):  
Personnel Development ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Length Of Service ◽  
Motivation Profiles ◽  
Motivational Profiles ◽  
Financial Company ◽  
Study Format

The article presents the results of an empirical study of staff motivation in a large financial company in a case study format. The technique of V. I. Gerchikov to determine the motivational profiles of employees: instrumental, professional, patriot, boss, lumpen. The experience of research conducted using this technique contains limited information on how to implement such research in organizations, and what results can be obtained. The features of the implemented research are the format of the survey (internally, HR research), the motivation of respondents (the possibility of obtaining a personal report), the format for presenting the results (the report and infographics on the internal portal), the breadth of analysis of the data obtained (analytics for certain categories of employees) and the nature of the research – applied. The test results allowed us to understand various aspects of motivation and motivational profiles of employees by category (position, length of service, gender). In the studied organization, the most common were professional and instrumental motives, but employees of different positions differed in terms of motivation and in motivational profiles. Professional motives are more typical for managers, and instrumental ones for specialists. Seniority in the company affects the change in motivation: if professional and patriotic motives are more typical for newcomers, then over time professional and instrumental ones begin to prevail. The most common employee profiles in an organization are “instrumental” and “professional”. An analysis of the differences in the distribution of employee profiles revealed that there are more “professionals” among managers (56%), and among employees working with clients – “instrumentalists” (60%). Employees with profiles “professional-instrumental” and “instrumental-professional” are widespread in the studied company. The results obtained were taken into account when adjusting the current motivation system and personnel development programs.

scholarly journals Training and Body Composition during Preparation for a 48-Hour Ultra-Marathon Race: A Case Study of a Master Athlete

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pantelis Nikolaidis ◽  
Celina Knechtle ◽  
Rodrigo Ramirez-Campillo ◽  
Rodrigo Vancini ◽  
Thomas Rosemann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Composition ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Body Height ◽  
The Body ◽  
Fat Free Mass ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Master Athlete ◽  
Marathon Race ◽  
Ultra Endurance

Although the acute effects of ultra-endurance exercise on body composition have been well studied, limited information exists about the chronic adaptations of body composition to ultra-endurance training. The aim of the present study was to examine the day-by-day variation of training and body composition of a master athlete during the preparation for a 48-hour ultra-marathon race. For all training sessions (n = 73) before the race, the running distance, duration, and pace were recorded, and body mass, body fat (BF), body water (%), visceral fat, fat-free mass (FFM), four circumferences (i.e., waist, upper arm, thigh and calf), and eight skinfolds (i.e., chest, mid-axilla, triceps, subscapular, abdomen, iliac crest, thigh and calf) were measured accordingly in a 53-year-old experienced ultra-endurance athlete (body mass 80.1 kg, body height 177 cm, body mass index 25.6 kg·m−2). The main findings of the present study were that (a) the training plan of the ultra-endurance master athlete followed a periodization pattern with regard to exercise intensity and training volume, which increased over time, (b) the body mass, BF, and FFM decreased largely during the first 30 training sessions, and (c) the circumferences and skinfolds reflected the respective decrease in BF. The findings of this case study provided useful information about the variation of training and body composition during the preparation for an ultra-marathon race in a male master ultra-marathoner. The preparation for an ultra-endurance race seems to induce pronounced changes in body mass and body composition.

Rapid Operational Access and Maneuver Support platform for military logistics and operation planning in water environments

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-447
Author(s):  
Drew Allan Loney ◽  
Kimberly Collins Pevey ◽  
Jennifer Tate McAlpin ◽  
Benjamin Wright Nelsen ◽  
Brent Harry Hargis
Keyword(s):  
Water Environment ◽  
Environmental Data ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Us Army ◽  
The Us ◽  
Imperfect Knowledge ◽  
Path Search ◽  
Hydraulics Laboratory ◽  
Development Center

Logistical and combat operations in riverine, estuarine, and coastal environments remain a key military focus due to limited maneuverability, imperfect knowledge, and rapidly changing constraints. Vessel operation in water environments can be enhanced by routing algorithms that integrate mission parameters with environmental data and vessel specifications. These algorithms must update predetermined routes in a timely manner as parameters and specifications change. The US Army Engineer Research and Development Center Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory is developing the capability for military planners to rapidly optimize vessel routes in water environments by extending capabilities of the Rapid Operational Access and Maneuver Support (ROAMS) modeling platform. The ROAMS platform allows users to rapidly generate models of a water environment in limited-information conditions, utilizing the Adaptive Hydraulics and STeady-state spectral WAVE computational engines for the base two-dimensional hydrodynamics and waves, respectively. Routing capabilities are built on path search and penalty-barrier optimization to automatically produce routes that account for temporally changing environmental variables and vessel maneuverability. This work outlines the components of the ROAMS routing package and presents a case study using ROAMS in a northeastern American metropolitan area. Benefits and limitations of the ROAMS routing platform are discussed and future improvements are suggested.

Merger and Acquisition and Firm Performance: An Analysis of Proton-Geely

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 484-505
Author(s):  
Edna Gnomblerou
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Merger And Acquisition ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Case Study Analysis ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Cross National

This study draws attention to a merger and acquisition case that involves Geely and Proton respectively, Chinese and Malaysian firms. The article mainly focuses on the financial performance of Geely before and after the acquisition. To achieve this, the paper adopted a qualitative research method by using archival data sources to analyze the single case of the acquisition of Proton by Geely. The sampling area is Asia being China and Malaysia describing a cross-border transaction in emerging markets. The paper performed ratio analysis to investigate the different indicators of Geely’s financial performance before and after the acquisition. After documenting and analyzing this case, the paper argues that Geely performed well before and after the acquisition. The analysis can serve as evidence of a better financial performance of Chinese firms after cross-national M&A transactions. As a qualitative research, this article benefits not only from the bibliometric analysis done through past research and official reports related to the case but also from the quality and validity required for a case study analysis. This study is an original attempt at presenting the case study of Geely’s acquisition of Proton from the lens of the acquiring firm’s performance before and after the acquisition. However, due to the limited information provided by financial ratios, the findings of the paper are not exhaustive.

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